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Comment Re:Troubling quote from the article (Score 1) 432

At a previous place I lived, the neighbors across the alley had cars pulling up 18 hours a day. Garage door up, guy comes out to window goes back inside comes back out, makes another exchange with driver and driver pulls away. Garage door down. All day, every day.

If you hadn't had any luck with the cops, I suspect a report to the IRS might have worked. There must have been a lot of unexplained income somewhere, if they were doing as much business as you suggest.

Yeah, he should have called the IRS and reported his observations along with something to the effect of "Yeah, they seem to be big supporters of the Tea Party..."

Comment Re:Wireshark (Score 1) 923

Uhhh...I thought it was common knowledge that the search engines and the feds are all buddy buddy? Not that it would have really mattered since we now know about the wiretap they have on the AT&T trunks which everything goes through at one time or another.

What I find ironic about all this is if they EVER catch a single terrorist thanks to all this big brother crap? It'll be the kind too fucking dumb to have been any good at being a terrorist, your Richard Reid "useful idiot" kind of Muslim extremist. Any terrorist that could actually do any damage, your Abu Nidal mean motorscooter types aren't gonna be so damned retarded as to Google for instructions with zero obfuscation, not when you have multiple free anonymizing services and search engines that don't log like DuckDuckGo and Scroogle.

So once again we have the government wasting huge piles of money and infringing the rights and privacy of everyone for a program that won't work...must be Thursday.

This. Mod parent up.

I find it personally amusing when before congress the NSA says that it stopped over 30+ terrorist attacks due to their snooping efforts. Then it was reclarified to "about a dozen." How many attacks prevented (or so they say) is worth using the 4th amendment as toilet paper and violating the rights of millions? I would say "zero".

"Those who wish to give up liberty for security deserve neither, and will lose both."

Comment Re:I don't know, has he? (Score 1) 365

This typo-filled summary is nothing more than a lame "nerd-baiting" attempt to rile up the Linux supporters because Microsoft released software dedicated to run on Linux. This is supposed to be chalked up at a "win" for Linus? Yeah I'm sure he really doesn't give two shits. Woo-hoo, I guess we are all supposed to run in the street with penguin costumes now and burn Surface tablets.

The fact is that the world rarely cares what makes the hardware run...the majority of end users just care they can use XYZ app on their device and it works. This entire summary should be modded "-1 flamebait" for trying to rile up the Linux community over nothing.

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