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Comment Re:Major /. faux pas (Score 1, Informative) 55

What is the point of linking to the "GizMag" article which is only a regurgitation of the NASA article? Oh, that's right, page views on some Dice website.

If one looks at the top article posters, many (though certainly not all - Hugh Pickens for example, though perhaps a closer look at his links is due as well) are Dice shills. The relationship between articl posters and Slashdot is very incestuous.

Comment Re:Good grief... (Score 4, Insightful) 59

"Something" in this case isn't an old Camaro on blocks, it's a piece of historical construction with the blood of citizens on it.

None the less, it didn't come with the purchase of the building. Thus, Google is correct in asserting that a proper home not in Google's building is appropriate.

This has exactly nothing to do with if or not Google has, as a company, any opinion about this valuable and note-worthy artifact.

By the way, I own a "vintage" and pristine Trabant (really!) ... May I store it in your garage for an undetermined amount of time rent free? You don't really need that space, right?

Comment Hokey (Score 4, Insightful) 235

What is...

used commercial, nonattributable spyware thatâ(TM)s proprietary to a government agency

There are just so many things that are hokey about this story.

The spyware included programs that Attkisson says monitored her every keystroke and gave the snoops access to all her e-mails and the passwords to her financial accounts.

Happens all the time to people that open random emails and follow unknown linkys.

Attkisson says her source â" identified only as âoeNumber One"...

Good grief. In other news, let's talk about "chemtrails"!

Comment Re:Needs better proof (Score 1) 235

I don't doubt this kind of thing is happening.

Nor do I, but the mere existence of spyware on someone's computer even a "journalist" is not evidence of Three Letter Agency spying. I'm *not* saying it didn't happen, but both stories referenced in the write-up sound very paranoid without a lot of (any?) hard evidence of government involvement.

Comment Re:Where's Bennett? (Score 0, Flamebait) 175

I will not believe these claims until he has written a lengthy blog post on how this feat relates to Burning Man ice queues and distributed social networks.

Haselton earned a master's degree in mathematics from Vanderbilt University, and created and operates a significant First Amendment website. I'm sure you have similar credentials? Why don't you tell us about it?

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