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Take away their journalistic license!

about 17 hours ago on 'The Daily Show' rips fawning Senators at Tim Cook's tax hearing 3 recommends

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Foreign Policy is saying that the count is definitely five and possibly six…

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/22/obama_administration_admits_droning_four_american_citizens?wp_login_redirect=0

2 days ago on Four US citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009, says Attorney General

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The most interesting thing I find about Bitcoins is that they replicate some of the worst aspects of physically mining gold. You’d think smart people would be able to come up with a better system than “gold, but digital”.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-12/virtual-bitcoin-mining-is-a-real-world-environmental-disaster.html

One of the strangest aspects of the Bitcoin frenzy is that the Bitcoin economy replicates some of the most archaic features of the gold standard. Real-world mining of precious metals for currency was a resource-hungry and value-destroying process. Bitcoin mining is too.

3 days ago on Why won’t Bitcoin die?

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Even elements of Windows 8 suffer from this problem. The system tray on the desktop taskbar, for example, is absurdly small and difficult to use even with the touchpad.

But MS doesn’t want you to use the Desktop on Windows 8. It’s your own fault!

11 days ago on Toshiba Kirabook review: finally, a flagship Windows 8 laptop 1 reply 3 recommends

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He’s stated that he totally wouldn’t take that job.

11 days ago on Homeland Security reportedly struggles to replace departing cybersecurity experts

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He said bomb; get him!

11 days ago on Homeland Security reportedly struggles to replace departing cybersecurity experts 1 recommend

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They are obviously dangerous enough to keep off of planes at all costs, but not dangerous enough to actually arrest and charge with anything.

11 days ago on Buried in immigration reform bill, a plan to create a national photo database

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I replied to the guy who said "require citizenship to work, deny social welfare benefits to non-citizens ".

11 days ago on Buried in immigration reform bill, a plan to create a national photo database

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I don’t really trust the government to very much of anything correctly, but I think they are at least competent enough to maintain a list of names and photos

Tell that to all the people who are wrongly on the no fly list. And the people correctly on the no fly list who can still fly because of errors in the database prevets them from getting flagged by the system.

14 days ago on Buried in immigration reform bill, a plan to create a national photo database 1 reply 1 recommend

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Um, there are many people in the US legally who are allowed to work who are not citizens. The path to becoming a citizen usually involves years of being a legal imagrant/resident alien.

14 days ago on Buried in immigration reform bill, a plan to create a national photo database 1 reply

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Of the people I text, a few have Android phones, two or three have dumbphones, and my sister is using my old Palm (todlers are good at breaking smartphones, it seems). A handful are on Facebook, one person sometimes uses GTalk, no one I know uses iMessage. There isn’t a single (or even two) chat apps that would cover the majority of those people. SMS just works and I don’t have to think about what the other person is using. If I have to install an app AND convince the other person to do the same, then it’s a non-starter.

22 days ago on Alone together: will one messaging app rule them all? 2 recommends

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I haven’t paid more than $35/month for a cell phone plan in … years? Since 2006 at least. And I have always had unlimited texting included in that. Yes, that includes data and smartphones. I don’t understand how someone could justify paying $20/month just for texting.

22 days ago on Alone together: will one messaging app rule them all? 1 reply

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You’ll get your chance when Obama deploys the drones to take our guns!

/s

22 days ago on Learn to love your gun with 'Receiver' 2 recommends

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Can’t you bootleg it?

24 days ago on Microsoft targets Android users with Switch to Windows Phone app