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• On the post: India Wants To Take On 'US Hegemony' Over The Internet… By Renaming It The Equinet

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2014 @ 07:04am

  Cortex

  Can we just call it the Cortex (http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Cortex) or would we have to pay Joss Whedon a royalty everytime someone uses the term?

• On the post: Senate Report Shows CIA Agents Used Torture Techniques Not Approved By DOJ Or CIA

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2014 @ 11:56am

  We need a new song

  Instead of "I'm proud to be an American" it should be "I'm ashamed to be an American"

• On the post: Police Chief To Critics Of Controversial Arrest: Hey, At Least My Officers Aren't Sexually Assaulting Arrestees

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2014 @ 02:26pm

  Shootings

  It really is too bad that Austin's police force does seem to have a bad habit of shooting suspects, many from behind.... but hey at least they aren't sexual assaulting suspects, so that's something!

• On the post: Spike Jonze Being Sued For 'Her' Over Generic Plot Similarities

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2014 @ 10:37am

  Short Circuit

  You forgot the best computer interaction movie: Short Circuit. Number 5 is alive!

• On the post: Massive Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Have Been Hijacking Huge Amounts Of Internet Traffic And Almost No One Noticed

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2013 @ 06:00am

  ISPs

  Would it surprise you if the NSA/CIA owned an ISP in Belarus?

• On the post: Online Retailer Says If You Give It A Negative Review It Can Fine You $3,500

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 09:21am

  The Steps

  Step 1: Provide crappy service
  Step 2: Fine those who complain about it
  Step 3: PROFIT!!!!

• On the post: New 'We The People' Petition Demands UK-Style Porn Filtering

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2013 @ 08:07am

  Sorry M.G...

  You can't take away my right to look for Chicken Boobie Soup, no matter how much you may want to!

• On the post: Finnish Doctors Using Video Games To Treat ADHD

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2013 @ 06:20am

  Ender's Game

  Didn't they steal this idea from the Mind Game in Ender's Game?

• On the post: UK Officials Argue That David Miranda Was, In Fact, A Terrorist

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2013 @ 07:43am

  Re: It's worse than that...

  What does this make the lobbyist and people who contribute money to get law changed?

• On the post: Google Is Your Friend, Unless You're A Dumb Criminal; Then It's Your Downfall

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2013 @ 06:07am

  Office Space saw this coming

  I may be off on the exact quote but roughly: "What kind of criminals are we, we are looking up money laundering in the dictionary."

• On the post: Antigua Still Threatening To Launch Its WTO-Endorsed Legal Piracy Site, But We've Heard That Before

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2013 @ 06:16am

  Re:

  TPB nothing. Why not set up the Dark Mail service there? Outside of the NSA and I'm sure the taxes on the service fees would more than cover the lost gambling tax revenue.

• On the post: Watch The Video Of Rep. Mike Rogers Attacking Fellow Reps For Saying They Had No Idea NSA Spied On Foreign Leaders

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2013 @ 08:47am

  Can we hold the NSA to Rogers' Standard?

  The NSA has been given all that information and they haven't been able to stop a terrorist attack that was actually going to happen. They have been given near unfettered access to the communications records of millions of people and have yet failed in their goal of stopping terrorism. They have been given adequate time and materials within the law and their inability to meet the stated goals says they should not be able to make statements to the contrary.

• On the post: Gym Thinks New Member Isn't A Real Person; Drains Nearly $1,000 From Her Checking Account To 'Verify'

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 08:24am

  Re: Silly me .....

  If you do it, its theft. if you have signed a contract with someone to take some money, you have to sue them to prove that taking any money was illegal and not a "mistake"

• On the post: No Surprise: NSA Stores All Metadata It Collects For At Least A Year, Even If It Has Nothing To Do With Anything

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 01:06pm

  Amash Amendment

  So what do we have to do to get the Amash Amendement up for vote again? I bet it would pass easily now.

• On the post: Details Reveal NSA Track Record Of Flagrant Abuse, Failed Audits And Minimal Accountability

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2013 @ 09:30am

  New NSA Meme

  The number of NSA employees seeing foreign nationals is...
  
  ...too damn high

• On the post: Brazilian President Blasts NSA Spying In Front Of World Leaders — Including Obama — At UN

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2013 @ 01:41pm

  Emigrate...

  Anyone know how I can emigrate to Brazil? Sounds like a place I'd like to live...

• On the post: DOJ Scrambles To Try To Explain Why It Never Investigated Systematic Misrepresentations By NSA To FISA Court

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2013 @ 06:14am

  Special Prosecutor

  As a general rule, I find Congress invoking a Special Prosecutor as nothing more than political theather, but maybe in this case it could produce something useful. A true independent prosecutor who could look into the abuses at the NSA and what, if any, action was taken against the bad actors may be helpful. Then again, maybe it will all be classified and nothing will happen. Yeah probably the latter.

• On the post: Underzealous Prosecutor Fails To Press 'Terroristic Threats' Charges Against Professor Who Jokes About Shooting Up His Campus

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2013 @ 05:55am

  Video Games

  He probably didn't get prosecuted because they found no evidence he played video games. As has been shown time and time again, video games are the gateway to everything violent!

• On the post: The Problem With Too Much Data: Mistaking The Signal For The Noise

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2013 @ 08:41am

  Re:

  Pizza Hut, Dominos or Papa Johns?

• On the post: Latest Leak Shows NSA Engaging In Economic Espionage — Not Fighting Terrorism

  

  Mark Harrill ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2013 @ 09:59am

  Financial Crisis

  So according to this quote:
  
  

  for one, it could provide the United States and our allies early warning of international financial crises which could negatively impact the global economy.

  
  
  they have the ability to guess when financial crises may be coming? Yet they failed to do anything during the mortgage bubble when American and allied banks were taking actions that could negatively impact the global economy? Here could have been a chance to justify their budget and save millions, if not billions of dollars, but they missed that as well.

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