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• On the post: Parallel Construction Revealed: How The DEA Is Trained To Launder Classified Surveillance Info

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2014 @ 02:02pm

  They can review my taint.

• On the post: Podcasting Patent Troll Files Bogus Subpoena To Intimidate Donors To EFF's 'Save Podcasting' Campaign

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2014 @ 08:17am

  Thanks, trolls, for reminding me to save podcasting! Save podcasting here:
  
  https://supporters.eff.org/donate/save-podcasting

• On the post: University Yanks Professor's Email Access After He Criticizes School Chancellor, Compares His Statements To School Shootings

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2014 @ 11:53am

  Re: OMG!

  I might agree with you but unfortunately the trend across all universities is to sell out education and all others aspects of their reason to exist to protect and even increase the pay and perks to their top level management.

• On the post: Congressional Moral Panic Over The Fact That Prostitutes Now Use Twitter

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2014 @ 12:07pm

  Prostitutes will be using the Lincoln and Holland tunnels extensively this weekend. We need to crack down on the MTA!

• On the post: University Yanks Professor's Email Access After He Criticizes School Chancellor, Compares His Statements To School Shootings

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2014 @ 07:44am

  Whenever people institute policies like the one at this school, that implement penalties for misuse of electronic communications, they should simultaneously implement penalties for misuse of the policy.

• On the post: Hey Everyone: Stop Freaking Out That Mein Kampf Sells Well As An eBook

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 01:44pm

  If World Jewish Congress wants the profits from sales of Mein Kampf World Jewish Congress should just sell it. By sock puppets of course. They might get some flack for that, even from themselves maybe! But they will know everyone who buys it, which might be useful later.

• On the post: Almost Everything About The Bulk Collection Of Phone Data Is Illegal

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 02:32pm

  Re: Re: Re: Wanna know what's REALLY interesting?

  You accept constructive criticism well!

• On the post: Network Solutions Tries To Auto-Enroll Users Into Its $1,850/Year Domain 'Protection Plan'

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 09:02am

  Maybe those big customers will force Network Solutions to dissolve.

• On the post: DOJ Says Company That Vetted Snowden Faked 665,000 Background Checks

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2014 @ 10:21am

  Re:

  "The problem comes from the complete lack of accountability at basically every level."
  
  There is no accountability because the people who should do the oversight don't do it and then they defend the people they should have been overseeing because to admit they were scammed is to admit they didn't do their job.
  
  I'm talking to you Dianne Feinstein and Mike Rogers!

• On the post: Federal Civil Liberties Board To Issue Scathing Condemnation Of Bulk Metadata Program And The Bogus Defenses Of It

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2014 @ 06:29am

  Re: Re:

  "however, IF you analyze their actions in context of serving the interests of the 1%, then it makes perfect -if sociopathic- 'sense'..."
  
  Gave you first word and a light bulb for that.

• On the post: University Professor: Candy Crush Is Turning Children Into Obsessive Gamblers

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 09:47am

  Re: Re:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_gambling

• On the post: The Fact That The US Intelligence Community So Readily Admits To Fantasies Of Killing Ed Snowden Shows Why They Can't Be Trusted

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 08:36am

  Clearly they feel betrayed. They feel Snowden betrayed America because they feel they are America. They don't realize how far from the true spirit of America they have strayed.

• On the post: Police Chief Publicly Disciplines Officers On Social Media

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2014 @ 09:24am

  Re: Re: The (unfortunate) big difference between public and private employment

  The last thing we need is for civil service rules applied to private employment.

• On the post: Unexpected Things: Guy Capitalizing On The Concept Of Music SEO By Recording 100 Songs A Day

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2014 @ 08:42am

  If this business model takes off we may remember fondly the good old bad old days of RIAA, especially once song creation gets automated. If they can make movies without actors they can make songs without singers easier!

• On the post: University Professor: Candy Crush Is Turning Children Into Obsessive Gamblers

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2014 @ 08:49am

  You could say the same thing about gambling, but there are mountains of evidence that some controls are needed.

• On the post: University Professor: Candy Crush Is Turning Children Into Obsessive Gamblers

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2014 @ 06:33am

  I know a woman, 50 years old, who is addicted to the Candy, and it isn't a pretty thing. I've no doubt the Candy pushers developed the app in ways that scientifically maximize their return using things like operant conditioning, similar to slot machines. So the described study may not quite deserve the level of mockery and scorn that Mr. Geigner levies.

• On the post: Google Plus Invite Results In Man's Arrest For Violating A Restraining Order

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2014 @ 01:32pm

  I hear she's engaged to Sergey now.

• On the post: Posting Of NYPD Officers Around The World Found To Be A Waste, Embarrassment

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2014 @ 09:23am

  Bali, not Mali (3 places).

• On the post: In Memory Of Aaron Swartz, A Day Of Action Against The NSA

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2014 @ 09:22am

  That "Day we Fight Back" website would be better without the picture of John Goodman holding a pistol. I know it's from The Big Lebowski, and you know it, but it's still a bad idea, even if you think that NSA's actions are worthy of revolt.

• On the post: Dow Jones Files Idiotic 'Hot News' Lawsuit Against A Service That Sends News Alerts

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2014 @ 07:33am

  Dow Jones could find whoever is sending their feed to Ransquawk by putting out slightly different feeds to half their base, then repeating in a binary fashion. That would give their lawsuit a lot more punch.

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