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• On the post: Newspapers Say: Shut Up And Get Scanned And Groped

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2010 @ 09:53pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Exactly!

  I'd be happy to.
  
  The plane in question is a DC-10. Reference photos [1][2] clearly show what the video describes as "nozzles" are actually flap track fairings.
  
  Here is some information on the design and purpose of flap track fairings.
  
  Here's a video of a perfectly innocuous Airbus A380 contrail, also shot from the cockpit of another plane. Note the similarities.

• On the post: Obama Comes Out Against Censoring The Internet; Will He Veto Leahy/Hatch Censorship Bill?

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2010 @ 01:33am

  Re: Context much?

  Exactly. They're all for open internet in Iran or China, but in the US... how many websites has the DHS shut down now?

• On the post: Newspapers Say: Shut Up And Get Scanned And Groped

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2010 @ 10:20pm

  Re: TSA Crap

  Don't worry, the plans are to extend these scanners well beyond airports. The scared, braying fools who like the idea of these scanners yet have never encountered them will, soon enough.

• On the post: Newspapers Say: Shut Up And Get Scanned And Groped

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2010 @ 10:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Exactly!

  Please don't linke to infowars and call it facts.
  
  Actual facts.

• On the post: Newspapers Say: Shut Up And Get Scanned And Groped

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2010 @ 09:58pm

  Re: I wonder...

  Why do I suspect that will fall under the banner of 'national security'?

• On the post: Looks Like Visa Program For Science & Tech Grads Isn't Really Being Used For The Best & Brightest

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2010 @ 09:56pm

  Re: Well-educated

  Obama is wrong about "everything"? I think a better example would be George W. Bush... a graduate from both Yale and Harvard Business School yet still not the brightest tool in the shed.
  
  But you're spot on about the Ivy League attitude.

• On the post: Looks Like Visa Program For Science & Tech Grads Isn't Really Being Used For The Best & Brightest

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2010 @ 04:30am

  That name keeps popping up...

  Michael Chertoff? Again?
  
  This guy has his greasy fingerprints all over government programs.

• On the post: TSA Agents Absolutely Hate New Pat Downs, Find Them Disgusting And Morale Breaking

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2010 @ 06:59pm

  Re: 9/11

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOh-rpvjYg

• On the post: Guy Sues Wikipedia & Craigslist For $1 Billion Because (He Claims) He Found Nudity On Both

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2010 @ 06:40pm

  Better add Google to the list too.
  
  Hell, why not just sue "the internet"?

• On the post: TSA Agents Absolutely Hate New Pat Downs, Find Them Disgusting And Morale Breaking

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2010 @ 06:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ...and I want Bacon Cheeseburgers without the fat.

  But in all fairness, he had a little help.

• On the post: Transportation Secretary Expects To Use Technology To Block All Mobile Phone Usage In Cars [Updated]

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2010 @ 04:45pm

  Just wondering... when was the last piece of legislation passed which increased civil liberties and freedoms?
  
  Now, it could just be that all the coverage goes to rights restrictions (especially in my particular blend of information sources), and there's a heap of good legislation being passed in the background, but I don't think that's the case.

• On the post: TSA Defending Its Groin Grabbing Or Naked Image Security Techniques

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2010 @ 07:26am

  Re: Tactical blind spot...

  "The biggest problem is that the government is assuming that the terrorists are idiots and are going to use the same tactic again."
  
  The biggest problem is that the government is using terrorism as a means to their own ends. As has already been mentioned, the 'underwear bomber' seems to have been set up in order to push through these invasive new 'security' measures.
  
  "People forget the terrorist idea is to make us feel unsafe and destabilize society to make way for their revolution. Unless you understand the objective of their tactics, you'll never understand their tactics at all."
  
  That statement seems more applicable to the government at the moment.

• On the post: Hollywood's Strategy For The Future: Pretending The Government Can Save Them

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2010 @ 09:38am

  Re: Re: COICA

  Yeah, the judiciary is well known for making impartial decisions based solely on reason, not politics.

• On the post: Remix Artist Pogo Expecting To Be Sued By Disney For Releasing Latest Remix (Created For Disney)

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2010 @ 09:30am

  Re: Really?!?

  Exactly. If that was contracted work to Disney, then Disney can do what they like with it.
  
  As much as Pogo may be proud of their work, it's not their call.
  
  At least they're expecting the law suit.

• On the post: Hollywood's Strategy For The Future: Pretending The Government Can Save Them

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2010 @ 06:59am

  It's difficult to understand why the US government -- and Homeland Security specifically -- is helping protect a single industry's obsolete business model

  Control of the media is vital in a police state. This is why some of the more oppressive three letter agencies are interested in protecting it.

  Physical muscle is vital to enforce unfair laws. This is why the industry is so keen to involve the state law enforcement apparatus.

  As an illustration of the cozy arrangement the media and the government have in the "land of the free", compare the difference in coverage of the Wikileaks Iraq war docs leak between the New York Times and the rest of the world.

• On the post: FBI Apparently Investigating Anonymous' 'Operation Payback' Denial Of Service Attacks

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2010 @ 08:19pm

  Re: Criminal Act - - And Dumb Act -

  "[...] the loss of life could happen due to a DDoS".
  
  Your lack of hyperbole is a credit to your credibility, good sir.

• On the post: Once Again, Security Company Suggests Microsoft Making Its Own Software Secure Is An Antitrust Violation

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2010 @ 07:58pm

  Re:

  Beat me to it.

• On the post: If Only Newspapers Put As Much Effort Into Correcting Errors That Didn't Involve Captain Kirk & Captain Picard

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2010 @ 06:10pm

  What do you expect from the Murdoch media?
  
  Formal recognition of (and a substantive apology for) the hatchet job they did (and continue to do) to objective journalism?
  
  If it comes from that network and it's not partisan, it's fluff.

• On the post: Oh Look, More Cord Cutters: Time Warner Cable Loses 155,000 TV Subscribers

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2010 @ 07:07pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Not a fan of Billy Madison?

• On the post: Belgian Court Rules That Violating Creative Commons License Subjects You To Copyright Infringement Charge

  

  RandomGuy ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2010 @ 05:50pm

  Mike, I'm interested to know what questions you have about which aspects of CC licenses?
  
  I was always under the opinion that if those are the terms a content creator wanted to license their content under, then fair enough. End of story.

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