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901.
by beedogs 13y ago
None of the systems listed are very complex. One or two lines, or a loop of track, with very few level-grade crossings. Most of the ones in the US are just airport shuttles. Sure, that's easy to do. I wouldn't move the subway s
902.
by beedogs 13y ago
> Before the change, "what we've done is we've put people in the loop of transferring data, securing networks and doing things that machines are probably better at doing," Alexander said. Proving once again that the
903.
by beedogs 13y ago
AKA he typed "su". Or whatever the Windows equivalent is. I do this all the time to diagnose problems and no one has ever written an article about me. :/
904.
by beedogs 13y ago
Bush and Cheney and their administration sure were satisfied.
905.
by beedogs 13y ago
I tend to think they were strong-armed into it.
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by beedogs 13y ago
I left. I live in Australia now. It wasn't a simple solution or an easy decision. They just rammed through millimeter-wave machines here, too. And you can't opt out. http://travelsecure.infrastructure.gov.au/bod
907.
by beedogs 13y ago
Absolutely. It shows these systems can be used for anything the analysts or their superiors want.
908.
by beedogs 13y ago
There's an unhealthy mixture of both incompetence and corruption within the TSA.
909.
by beedogs 13y ago
Would be nice if the mining superprofits tax had gone through. Then at least we could be collecting some revenue from these vultures before they pick up shop and leave the place a completely uninhabitable toxic mess in 10 years' time.
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by beedogs 13y ago
> Investigations should certainly be conducted politely and respectfully, but at the same time they need to be persistent enough to deal with the attempts of guilty parties to conceal the truth. Do they really? How often do planes blow
911.
by beedogs 13y ago
> Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the government can't hamfistedly accuse you of a crime. All it says is that they have to charge you or let you go in 24 hours, give you a trial, and punish you in a consistent way. They did
912.
by beedogs 13y ago
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched ever
913.
by beedogs 13y ago
FYI, drivebyacct2: you've been hellbanned for some reason as well. I looked through your comment history and have no idea why. Just thought you might want to know, as it looks like it happened 2 months ago.
914.
by beedogs 13y ago
Your account appears to have been hellbanned for whatever this comment was, which has also apparently been deleted.
915.
by beedogs 13y ago
Replying here because I can't reply to SmokyBorbon directly: your account appears to be hellbanned.
916.
by beedogs 13y ago
Glad it does.
917.
by beedogs 13y ago
> What the fuck is going on in my country? The short answer is that it isn't your country anymore .
918.
by beedogs 13y ago
This is why I donate to the EFF. They fought for years to get this "secret" FISC ruling released.
919.
by beedogs 13y ago
I can make random things up, too.
920.
by beedogs 13y ago
None of the people in that video were armed with AK47s or RPGs. Also, way to completely ignore the van they shot up with two children inside. Which they knew were inside .
921.
by beedogs 13y ago
Another sad day to be an American. There's been a long string of those lately, though, so tragedy fatigue has probably set in up there.
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by beedogs 13y ago
gabifrons: I hope you see this; your account has been hellbanned, apparently for the comment you just made in this thread. I agree with you on the N900 USB charging flakiness; it's what made me give up on mine.
923.
by beedogs 13y ago
Something tells me he won't be working in an Internet-related field in the future, at least as long as this story sits around the top of a Google search for his name.
924.
by beedogs 13y ago
Does the UK actually make anything anymore? I thought they were like the US and had become a "service-based" economy. I guess you could boycott visiting.
925.
by beedogs 13y ago
I'm guessing this is another ham-fisted Surface decision that was forced onto the Windows 8 developers.
926.
by beedogs 13y ago
That's why there aren't any.
927.
by beedogs 13y ago
He's definitely only paying off the interest on all those student loans.
928.
by beedogs 13y ago
Groupon is one good class-action lawsuit away from nonexistence. Here's hoping it comes sooner rather than later if this is the kind of tactic their salesmen need to resort to now.
929.
by beedogs 13y ago
Not sure why but it looks like this comment 45 days ago is what did it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982741 No idea why that merits a hellban if that's the reason why.
930.
by beedogs 13y ago
US -> Australia here; left for personal reasons. I would probably still be in the US otherwise. I miss the memory of the US sometimes, and the people I left behind. Also New Haven pizza.

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