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Comment: Re:Too big to fail? (Score 1) 234

by HexaByte (#40100837) Attached to: No Patent Infringement Found In Oracle vs. Google

Not so, there would be a lot of dead cops. Or a couple of dead ones and the rest wise enough to stop it.

People will only take so much before they revolt. In 1776 it was a lousy 6% tax on tea. Of course now taxes at 10 times that are the norm for many people. However, when you start ticking off EVERYBODY, the people will finally stand up.

An Illinois beekeeper links CCD to Monsanto and has hives stolen by IDoA->

Submitted by GabriellaKat
GabriellaKat writes "(NaturalNews) An Illinois beekeeper with more than a decade's worth of expertise about how to successfully raise organic, chemical-free bees is the latest victim of flagrant government tyranny. According to the Prairie Advocate, Terrence "Terry" Ingram of Apple River, Ill., owner of Apple Creek Apiaries, recently had his bees and beehives stolen from him by the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDofA), as well as more than 15 years' worth of research proving Monsanto's Roundup to be the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) destroyed."
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Science

Human water use accounts for 42% of recent sea level rise->

Submitted by scibri
scibri writes "During the latter half of the twentieth century, global sea level rose by about 1.8 millimetres per year. The combined contribution from heating of the oceans, which makes the water expand, along with melting of ice caps and glaciers, is estimated to be 1.1 millimetres per year, which left some 0.7 millimetres per year unaccounted for.

It seems that the effects of human water use on land could fill that gap. Researchers report in Nature Geoscience that land-based water storage could account for 0.77 millimetres per year, or 42%, of the observed sea-level rise between 1961 and 2003. The extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use, with subsequent run-off to rivers and eventually to the oceans, represents the bulk of the contribution.

It would be even worse if we weren't also locking up lots of water from rivers behind dams like the Hoover Dam."
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Comment: Re:Groping Rand Paul (Score 1) 1051

by HexaByte (#39956645) Attached to: Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug

I have seen (and used) assault rifles in action. If in that situation, given close proximity and opportunity, I would take the guy out, albeit I use a metal .40 cal. pistol.. They cannot look and shoot at everything at the same time.

Many a man on the battlefield using an AK, AR or FAL has been taken out with someone with a pistol

Also, having a concealed carry permit does NOT make it easier to get a weapon. You still have to go thru the same instant background check and fill out the same form 4473

Security

Osama Bin Laden didn't encrypt his files->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "If you're running a terrorist organisation, it might make sense to encrypt your files.

Clearly Osama Bin Laden didn't realise that — as some of the documents seized during the raid on his hideout in Pakistan have been made public for the first time.

17 electronic documents, which were found on USB sticks, memory cards and computer hard drives after US Navy Seals killed the terrorist chief in the May 2011 raid, are being released in their original Arabic alongside English translations by the Combating Terrorism Center, reports Sophos."
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Privacy

Maintain privacy by poisoning the privacy well-> 1

Submitted by Boawk
Boawk writes "Can we protect our privacy by flooding the internet with false information about ourselves?

It’s the last approach that really interests me: Pollution. Poisoning the data stream. Putting out enough false information that the real information becomes unreliable. At that point, anyone wishing to know the truth about me has to come to me directly, allowing me to control access. It’s hardly a perfect option — the untrue things can be permanently connected to you, and it does kind of make you hard to trust online — but it’s the one approach to opacity that’s purely social and extremely difficult to stop.

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Comment: Re:for A in a-zA-Z (Score 1) 2

I'm sorry, but I have a copyright on using letters of the alphabet in computer programing, and another in using numerals. You'll have to create unique symbols to use in your programming.

I'm now assigning those rights to the Linux Foundation, and, once substantiated in court, they will own MS and Apple.

Microsoft

Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions in State Taxes-> 2

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reifman writes "Apple's not the only company to save billions in taxes through Nevada as The New York Times reported yesterday. Here's how Microsoft's saved $4.37 billion in tax payments to Washington State and how it's led indirectly to $4 billion in K-12 and Higher Education cuts since 2008. 18% of University of Washington freshman are now foreigners (because they pay more) up from 2% six years ago. Washington State ranks 47th nationally in 18-24 yo college enrollment and 48th in K-12 class size. This hasn't stopped the architect of the company's Nevada tax dodge from writing in The Seattle Times: 'it's [Washington] state's paramount duty to provide for the public education of all children. Unfortunately, steady declines in public resources now threaten our ability to live up to that commitment.' Yes, indeed."
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