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Comment Re:Completely off Base (Score 1) 555

So where is yahwey defending these people?
Sorry, Rights are only given to the people by the government to the point that the people force the government to allow it.
What we see here is a populace not informed enough, and too complacent to keep the government in check to keep these rights available.

Comment Re:Too little too late (Score 3, Interesting) 496

It is actually worse than that.
It's a third party program, not intended for corporate use, put on over 10k computers.
That is several dozen if not more different hardware configurations. The program is bound to malfunction on some of them.
This is on top of the fact you still have to somehow 'train' all those 10k+ people on how to use it too.

Comment Re:GM Goodness? (Score 2) 208

Not to mention monsanto has had the courts rule in their favor that patents follow the genes.
So if these weeds are growing on your property, monsanto can now sue you for illegally obtaining their patented product. it doesn't mater nor do the courts care that it got there by means beyond your control.

Comment Re:I can't answer that until I speak to my lawyer (Score 4, Insightful) 321

Worse than that
Under these laws in the uk and the ones they were modeled after in the us. Once you're declared a terrorist you have no rights.
You're now back to the days even before the magna-carta, the foundation for all pro citizen law in the western world. Where the king, or in this case the state, declares you guilty. And you cannot prove yourself otherwise.

Comment There are no absolutes. (Score 1) 1

I find it funny.
It's either altruism or non-altruism that has an advantage, but I don't see anyone claiming that both can be an advantage or disadvantage at the same time depending solely on the environmental conditions an social creature is living in.

Take our early ancestors, we have two main schools of thought.
Either they were always at war with one another, or they were not.
Can no one see that it would be an evolutionary advantage to be preditory and xenophobic to outside groups when you're in a lean year.
And yet welcoming and giving in another when there is an abundance?

Comment Re:point being come out with linux version of MS (Score 1) 180

Actually I could see them doing this.
After the company is mostly in ruins following failed product after failed product and no longer being able to rely on install base anymore.

They could very easily do what apple did, buy a version of the bsd source like the mach bsd. Only tweak the internals a little and focus on a window manager and a select few programs.

Comment Re:This has to end.. (Score 4, Informative) 407

Umm.
No, they were unfounded.
The 'documents' you're referring to are the venona intercepts.
You can read them here. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/intercepts.html
It had nothing to do with undermining the entire U.S. Government as McCarthy was paranoid about.
It was about Our government trying to find soviet spys who were only here for one thing. To get information on the atomic bomb.
If you actually knew the history of the time, there was a short period where the united states was the only actor to have nuclear weaponry and everyone wanted it.

Submission + - Loan Google Glass and Google will brick them remotely (go.com) 1

AK Marc writes: Now, as those lucky enough to be given Explorer status will begin to receive their Explorer Glass devices, some may be surprised to find that, in a possibly un-Google-like manner, the company has written, Do not “resell, loan, or transfer” language in the user agreement.

So what will the penalty be if you fork over the $1,500 and then decide to pass your brand new device on to someone else? The company says they can remotely turn your device into a fancy-looking forehead ornament.

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