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• On the post: Publishing Company Admits That Anonymous' UDID Data Leak Was Actually Taken From Their Database

  

  slander ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2012 @ 12:52pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: What do App developers need UDID's for?

  The FBI is a governmental agency tasked with the duty of upholding the law and serving the public.

  And a pretty piss-poor job they've been doing, at that. Unless you consider siding with corporate and media interests over the people "serving the public." Oh, wait - judging by your history, you do.
  
  

  Anonymous is a bunch of hackers who engage in criminal behavior.

  And the FBI would never stoop to criminal behavior. They would never manufacture evidence. They would never lie in court. They would never wiretap without warrant.
  
  

  Who do you think has more to lose from getting caught lying?

  
  Given the FBI's storied history of lying through their proverbial teeth and not giving and apparent rat's ass about how it affects their public image, I would have to say that Anonymous would.

• On the post: Publishing Company Admits That Anonymous' UDID Data Leak Was Actually Taken From Their Database

  

  slander ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2012 @ 12:07pm

  Re: Re: What do App developers need UDID's for?

  Right. Because the FBI's word is so credible.

• On the post: Far Beyond Filtering: Is The GOP Looking To Shut Down Porn Producers?

  

  slander ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2012 @ 04:06am

  Re: Re:

  The other of the most blatantly hypocritical political parties being, of course, the Democrats...

• On the post: French Publishers Want In On German Plan To Force Everyone To Pay To Link To News

  

  slander ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2012 @ 04:02am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Don't worry. They're safe and sound in their garden, protected by the wall...

• On the post: Big Banks Finally Punishing Employees For Fraud… Like The Call Center Guy Who Used A Fake Dime 50 Years Ago

  

  slander ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2012 @ 04:57am

  Re:

  Apparently, we the people are watching "Dancing With the Stars" and "American Idol" instead.

• On the post: 2012 Democrats: Remember That Civil Liberties Thing From 2008? Um, Nevermind

  

  slander ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2012 @ 04:51am

  Re: Re: Principled politician?

  Wait - who was this allegedly principled San Diego politician? I have not met a single one who wasn't in somebody's pocket.

• On the post: Hall & Oates Convince Super PAC Named After Them To Shut Down

  

  slander ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 02:23pm

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  BJ and the Bear No More Monkeyshines Political Fecal-Matter-Flinging Consortium for the Betterment of the Political Process.

• On the post: Apple's Argument: Samsung Could Have Made Its Phone Large, Thick, Bumpy, Sharp-Edged & Hexagonal

  

  slander ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2012 @ 11:33am

  Re: Re: I don't see the problem with Apple's arguments

  Er, whoosh?

• On the post: Jimmy Wales Confident That UK Gov't Won't Ignore 200,000+ Signatures Against O'Dwyer Extradition

  

  slander ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2012 @ 01:30pm

  Re: White House Petition

  Because all that any of those petitions do is give the White House staff the opportunity to use their weasel words in order to blow us off.

• On the post: The Oatmeal v. Funnyjunk: How The Court Of Public Opinion Beats The Court Of Baseless Legal Threats

  

  slander ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2012 @ 03:52am

  Re: Re: Re: Funnyjunk isn't entirely wrong

  Er, why are you bringing me into this?

• On the post: No Record Label, But Amanda Palmer Raises Over $100k In Just Six Hours On Kickstarter

  

  slander ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2012 @ 09:34pm

  Re: Home Concert/Dinner with AFP Backers

  If she were to throw in Evelyn Evelyn as an opening act, I'd gladly give $30,000 (in the alternate reality that I could afford it, that is... le sigh).

• On the post: Is Getting Sued For Patent Infringement The Equivalent Of Frat Hazing For A Growing Tech Company?

  

  slander ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 04:37pm

  getting sued on your way to an IPO is like a Silicon Valley fraternity hazing ritual

  
  
  He used that as an example, instead of a car analogy? Oh, how the mighty have fallen...

• On the post: Did DOJ Provoke Anonymous On Purpose?

  

  slander ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2012 @ 09:04am

  Re: Re: Riddle me this

  its

• On the post: More People Waking Up To The Troubling Implications Of The Gov't Taking $500 Million From Google

  

  slander ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2011 @ 05:25am

  Re: Re:

  Funny, it seems like it's the Democrats' Justice Department that is trying to make the live-or-die decision.
  
  Whoopsie. Did your partisan cover get blown?

• On the post: Kevin Smith Explains Why He Had To Waste $9,316 On Movie Ads That He Didn't Want Or Need

  

  slander ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2011 @ 05:07am

  Re: Kevin Smith is so awesome...

  As long as his writing continues to hold up...

  
  
  Clerks 2

• On the post: This Post Is Not About Steve Jobs

  

  slander ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2011 @ 05:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: CmdrTaco

  Has enough underwear to last a week without needing to do laundry.

• On the post: Can Health And Human Services Copyright New Smoking Package Warnings?

  

  slander ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 09:55pm

  Re:

  That's nothing. Last Thursday, some Thai chick beat me at ping-pong... and she wasn't using a paddle.

• On the post: Official Geolocation Privacy Bill Introduced: Say No To Unauthorized GPS Tracking

  

  slander ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2011 @ 12:46am

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  Well, if final revision of the bill contains provisions for warrantless tracking by Big Media, then you can be assured that Franken was involved.

• On the post: Are There More Hacks & Breaches This Year… Or Is It Just Shark Attack Week?

  

  slander ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 05:43pm

  Am I the only one who is beginning to think that LulzSec is really a PsyOp?

• On the post: Mexican Senator Drafts Resolution Asking Government To Reject ACTA

  

  slander ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 05:37pm

  Unfortunately, I don't see it succeeding.
  
  
  1. Big Media lets it be known that if this passes, they will refuse to buy any more cocaine from Mexico.
  
  2. Mexican drug cartels pressure the government to approve ACTA.
  
  3. ACTA passes.
  
  4. ???
  
  5. PROFIT!

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