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• On the post: DOJ Refuses To Let Tech Companies See Legal Arguments It's Making Against Them

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2013 @ 09:23am

  Done with due process

  "Basically, the DOJ is saying that it can make legal arguments that only the court can see, but which the tech companies suing it cannot see. That goes against every basic concept of due process."
  
  Well, that just goes hand in hand with one of their reasons for blanket surveillance, that due process takes too long.

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

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2013 @ 12:32pm

  Right back at you

  Can't we just start another petition asking to make porn mandatory for 21+ year olds?

• On the post: Keith Alexander Sarcastically Blames Ambassadors For NSA's Foreign Spying

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2013 @ 02:35pm

  Not the priority

  Let me guess, they're going to eliminate foreign spying before they do anything about domestic spying.

• On the post: Yelp Reviewers Launch Class Action Lawsuit Claiming They're 'Unpaid Employees'

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2013 @ 11:17am

  Re:

  If that's what it takes to get a job.

• On the post: Wikipedia Fights Back Against Socking

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 05:04pm

  Socking?

  Who shortened the term to just "socking"? Simple "puppetry" says it all, and is more direct. I don't think anybody particularly cares whether or not it involves hosiery enough to be the defining characteristic.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Hacking Your Car

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2013 @ 03:11pm

  Too bad you can't use your phone while driving.

• On the post: Two Bad Launches: Why Rockstar Is Succeeding Where EA Failed

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2013 @ 10:13am

  Re:

  Sure, they're just pretending, but the point is that EA's pretense is thinner than an iPad5.

• On the post: PA School Being Sued For Suspending 7-Year-Old Student 'Armed' With A Novelty Buzzing Pen

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2013 @ 06:36am

  Re:

  I'm starting to think Americans are born in full tactics gear holding assault guns.
  
  Only on Tuesdays.

• On the post: When Twitter Promotions Go Wrong: IL Pizzeria Offers Food For Flashing

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 10:21pm

  Re:

  It was a just a ploy by bead manufactures? Doh.

• On the post: Declassified Documents Prove NSA's Bulk Metadata Collections Completely Unnecessary

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2013 @ 11:37pm

  Re: Much easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

  Mom says it's nothing new. Govt always been spying.

• On the post: DailyDirt: If Only We Didn't Need To Sleep…

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2013 @ 09:49pm

  Why Are You in My Room, Big Brother?

  ...to attach sensors to people sleeping in order to collect real-time data for a million people.
  
  Just what the NSA needs.

• On the post: Feds Had Court Reverse Ban On Warrantless Searches On Americans Because 'We Wanted To Be Able To Do It'

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2013 @ 08:52am

  Re: Wait.....

  Mike actually said that it was surprising that he called it, not that they did it.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Food Shortages

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2013 @ 11:53am

  Re:

  I have no problem paying about as much for gas as for milk, and the milk is subsidized. Gas is cheap.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Tools For Animation

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2013 @ 06:35am

  Re:

  It better look cool if it's going to make up for the horrible audio.

• On the post: NSA Overreach May Have Contributed To UK's Unwillingness To Help With Syria

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2013 @ 07:57am

  No, not WMD redeux anyone?

  I don't see much similarity tho. The gulf wars were U.S. interest. Stopped the first because U.N. said so. So the U.S. lied to get U.N. sanction for the second.
  
  Syria seems to be more of a U.N. ordeal not focused on U.S. interests. The U.S. doesn't have any reason to lie in order to invade.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Playing With Asteroids

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2013 @ 07:12pm

  The real Asteroids

  Why no gratuitous mention of Atari?

• On the post: Confirmed: There Is No Real Oversight Of The NSA's Surveillance

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2013 @ 11:52pm

  Not vigilent?!?

  I have 3 cellphones, 2 tablets, and gizmos that I don't even know what they are for...
  
  ...Ooh! Bunnies!

• On the post: Did The NSA Think The Public Can't Do Math? Attempt To Downplay Data Collection Fails Miserably

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2013 @ 09:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: Yes, it was a stupid statement.

  Point is that percentage of traffic is completely the wrong metric.
  
  Part of my premise is that of "all the data transmitted on the Internet", most of it is public: such as typical videos.
  
  My example even excluded the fact that said YouTube video is subject to thousands times more transmissions than the single transmission of an e-mail to a single recipient.

• On the post: Did The NSA Think The Public Can't Do Math? Attempt To Downplay Data Collection Fails Miserably

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2013 @ 09:18pm

  Re: Re: Yes, it was a stupid statement.

  I was shooting for 200 bytes.

• On the post: Germany And US Government's Agree Not To Spy On Each Other… But What About Their Citizens?

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2013 @ 04:54pm

  Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren: Welcome to the club.

  That means the U.S. said "Yes, Germany, we will help you improve your own domestic spying program, so we can exchange relevant information between our great nations."

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