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Comment Re:Money (Score 1) 728

by qw(name) (#34476516) Attached to: A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy
I think you have it backwards. Winning elections is all about making more and more money while in office and when returning to "civilian" life as a highly paid consultant, VP or board of director. The process by which this is accomplished is what we're seeing in the media (fear mongoring, reduction in liberties, etc).

Comment Nothing New (Score 1) 1055

by qw(name) (#26443877) Attached to: How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out?
My company's been doing this for years and it works just fine (Fortune 500 company with 86k employees). And all these people who say that it will just increase goofing off and laziness don't know what they're talking about. Those who will be lazy and work the system will do so no matter what the work schedule. But for those of us who actually put in the required time really appreciate having a 3 day weekend every other week.
Government

Journal SPAM: Cash Starved Forest Service Spends $600,000 to Buy Tasers 8

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

After an intense fire season, the US Forest Service is saddled with more than a quarter-billion dollar deficit and cuting core programs. Nonetheless, the Service has bought $600,000 worth of Tasers without any training program, rules for use or even a written explanation as to why the devices are needed, according to agency records obtained under a FOIA request by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The Tasers are sitting
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Star Wars Holiday Special In 5 Minutes (sfrobots.com)

Submitted by
WDancer
WDancer writes: "Here is a video clip showing highlights (arguable) from the Star Wars Holiday Special. This is a masterwork; Jefferson Starship, Mark Hamil in a hairpiece, Carrie Fisher singing, and Harrison Ford looking for a way out of his contract."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft files 52 lawsuits against global pirates

Submitted by Stony Stevenson
Stony Stevenson writes: As part of its effort to crackdown on the use of illegally copied software, Microsoft has filed 52 lawsuits against businesses and individuals around the world for using illegitimate versions of its Windows, Office, and other products. The company also referred 22 additional cases to local law enforcement authorities in foreign countries, Microsoft said Monday. Of the lawsuits filed, 15 involved software that's been traced to a Chinese syndicate that Microsoft said is the world's largest ring of counterfeiters. The gang was busted earlier this year through a joint effort involving Chinese authorities, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Microsoft. Microsoft estimates that counterfeiting costs the software industry about $40 billion per year worldwide.
Education

Submission + - Free Yale College Courses Debut Online (yale.edu)

Submitted by
gyokuro
gyokuro writes: "Today, Yale University is making some of its most popular undergraduate courses freely available to anyone in the world with access to the Internet. The project, called 'Open Yale Courses,' presents unique access to the full content of a selection of courses and makes them available in various formats, including video."
Social Networks

Submission + - Facebook's Beacon Possibly Illegal (laboratorium.net)

Submitted by drwxrxrx
drwxrxrx writes: An associate professor at New York Law School has published a look at Facebook's Beacon service through the eyes of the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which prohibits "wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records". From the article: "I dug a bit into the legalities of the issue, and this is roughly what I came up with: Facebook and Blockbuster should hunker down and prepare for the lawsuits."
The Internet

Submission + - Rogers Defacing Websites? (torontoist.com)

Submitted by simpoleca
simpoleca writes: Google has always been known for its clean, lightweight, ad-free search page, but Canada's largest provider of broadband internet is under fire today for messing with it. Toronto-based Rogers has begun testing a controversial technique that allows the media empire to insert its own content into another entity's web page, angering net neutrality proponents......
The Military

Submission + - Millions flowing to develop non-lethal weapons (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "The development of bigger, better and more effective weapons that won't kill people but rather stun, immobilize or scare them half to death is one of the hottest fields in science. For example today The Pennsylvania State University's Institute of Non-Lethal Defense Technologies (INLDT) was warded $3.2 million by the US Department of Justice to develop non-lethal weapons technology. While the law enforcement community is obviously interested in such non-lethal technologies, many non-lethal weapons are being developed for military use. For example the US Navy is looking at what it calls "directed energy weapons. " Penn State's Web site says non-lethal technologies include a broad range of technologies designed to modify an individual's motivation or behavior (e.g., single aggressors and barricaded suspects), manage crowds, support custody/corrections operations (e.g., prisoner disorder and prison riots), and conduct specialized operations (e.g., vehicle pursuit and hostage rescue). http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20757"

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