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Re:New Snowden by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-14 22:33 · Score: 1 · on German NSA Committee May Turn To Typewriters To Stop Leaks

Boring troll. Since you're just posting as the Slashdot Dunce, I'll just reply to your "unfounded" claim, the remainder of your post is uninformed drivel.

Source is Spiegel Online:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/expulsion-of-cia-head-a-sign-of-tougher-german-response-to-spying-a-980912.html

Finally, police arrested Markus R. on Wednesday of the week before last. In his nine-hour interrogation, he apparently told the astonished investigators he had already been working for an American intelligence agency for two years. That relationship had also begun with an email, which he had sent to the US Embassy in Berlin, he explained. R. talked about clandestine meetings in Austria, at which he had allegedly been paid a total of €25,000 ($34,000).

He was paid 25,000 euros.

Four paragraphs down:

Markus R. is suspected of having handed over five files of material to the Americans. As the person in charge of filing and cryptography in his department, he had access to highly classified documents. It is believed that Markus R. smuggled hard copies of at least 218 documents out of his office, scanned them at home and edited them to conceal the source.

Have a nice day, Dunce.

Re:Not really a surprise.... by cold+fjord · 2014-07-10 15:59 · Score: 1 · on After NSA Spying Flap, Germany Asks CIA Station Chief to Depart

Actually, Germany has a problem with spying on their own citizens, as this was declared illegal by the European Court of Justice.

Did anyone tell the Germans?

The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too

I found this article to be more informative by TubeSteak · 2014-07-10 08:28 · Score: 3, Interesting · on After NSA Spying Flap, Germany Asks CIA Station Chief to Depart

Retaliation for Spying: Germany Asks CIA Official to Leave Country

Initially, there had been talk of a formal expulsion of the CIA employee, who is officially accredited as the so-called chief of station and is responsible for the US intelligence service's activities in Germany. A short time later, the government backpedalled and said it had only recommended that he leave. Although it cannot be compared with a formal explusion, it remains an unfriendly gesture.

On a diplomatic level, it is no less than an earthquake and represents a measure that until Thursday would have only been implemented against pariah states like North Korea or Iran. It also underscores just how deep tensions have grown between Berlin and Washington over the spying affair.

The USA's response has been something along the lines of "you expected us not to conducting traditional spying activities?"

Re:I don't blame them for being mad. by Desler · 2014-07-10 08:21 · Score: 5, Informative · on After NSA Spying Flap, Germany Asks CIA Station Chief to Depart

And yet their own intelligence agencies have no issue with sharing and working with the NSA.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://rt.com/news/germany-nsa...

Germany's government was perfectly fine with the NSA's surveillance until they found out they were being spied on too. It's faux outrage meant to deflect people's attention from them being in bed with the NSA for years.

Re:I don't blame them for being mad. by Desler · 2014-07-10 08:21 · Score: 5, Informative · on After NSA Spying Flap, Germany Asks CIA Station Chief to Depart

And yet their own intelligence agencies have no issue with sharing and working with the NSA.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://rt.com/news/germany-nsa...

Germany's government was perfectly fine with the NSA's surveillance until they found out they were being spied on too. It's faux outrage meant to deflect people's attention from them being in bed with the NSA for years.

Re:Slashdot has drunk the KoolAid by dunkelfalke · 2014-06-29 19:44 · Score: 2 · on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year

Well, sort of.
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Re:Aluminium by durrr · 2014-06-27 22:19 · Score: 1 · on Germany's Glut of Electricity Causing Prices To Plummet

Doesn't work very well:
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
In short, the aluminium plants can't work on unstable grid power.

How is Verizon involved? by MobyDisk · 2014-06-26 09:55 · Score: 0 · on Germany Scores First: Ends Verizon Contract Over NSA Concerns

I'm confused.

At first I thought this was retaliation for the wiretapping of Angela Merkel. But DER SPIEGEL says that the wiretap was setup by CIA and NSA employees from the roof of the US embassy, and had nothing to do with Verizon.

So are they saying that because Verizon let the US Government spy on Americans in America, they won't let Verizon operate in Germany? That seems odd to me. Verizon in Germany should be operated by German employees and is subject to German law. What Verizon did in the US seems unrelated.

Personally, I welcome them sanctioning multinational companies for bad behavior. But it is surprising.

Filter for EU searches. by MadMaverick9 · 2014-05-31 16:09 · Score: 1 · on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten'

The links are not actually deleted from Google, but only filtered for searches done from the EU.

So searches done from outside the EU can still see these links.

So this is actually worse than what we had before. Now Google is filtering ... uh ... censoring search results for some countries.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt...

From the internet this content but do not disappear with it. Also just Google users should get displayed the filtered results in the European Union. Users outside the Member States, ie approximately in the United States should continue to get displayed the complete hit list. In this case, Google will note the language setting of the user.

Google Translate is bad, but you get the gist.

Re:Oblig frosty by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2014-05-19 05:28 · Score: 4, Insightful · on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking

US?

What a bunch of arrogant, hypocritical pricks. The whole NSA SHITHOUSE comes down around their ears, with backdoored network devices and eavesdropping on world leaders - then these paragons of fucking virtue blame "cyber war" on individuals in a foreign government?

Why the fuck don't they haul meglomaniac Keith Alexander off of his fucking starship and drag his sorry arse, along with Elmer Fudd^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Michael Hayden, into the dock?

China has a developed diplomatic culture. This type of International behavior from the US is pure "play at home" propaganda, with the diplomatic effect of a bull in a china-shop, so to speak. Offensive, ignorant, unnecessary, and duplicitous.

Re:Stupid gimmick, and I even don't care about gun by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-09 19:54 · Score: 0 · on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention

I'll see your reference and raise you one:

http://www.spiegel.de/internat... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05...

So what's your point? Both situations are possible. And unlikely. Oh and for the love of god, please strip out the "m." in your website reference.

Re:Buggy whips? by Luckyo · 2014-04-28 03:46 · Score: 1 · on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy

Where do you get that drivel? German politicians disagree with you, German media disagrees with you. Even German power generation industry as a whole disagrees with you, and they are currently building more new coal plants than they have in decades, as well as firing up all the dirty ones that were mothballed. Because shutting down nukes requires base power, wind on which they bet isn't base power so they have to restart all the old plants to keep up with the production.

At the same time, consumers are bearing the brunt of the costs, because most of the heavy industry got an exemption from having to pay surcharges that are paying for the Energiewende. Which does in fact mean that people in the lowest strata of society can no longer pay their electric bills, and in Germany, they can turn your electricity off if you do not.

Spiegel, one of the most respected neutral and trustworthy investigative media sources in Germany (they were, for example, granted access to source material by Assange and Snowden) have a very good article on the issue dating less than a year ago here:
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Re:Ad hominem. It doesn't matter who says it. by Illserve · 2014-04-28 03:43 · Score: 1 · on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy

I don't know where the GP got the 3-times figure, (which seems way too high), but there is little doubt that Germany's renewable energy policy has caused significant problems for consumers, and ironically, may end up increasing overall CO2 emissions now that new coal-plants are being brought online to patch the inadequacies of the renewables.

Here is a link:
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Re:is this seriously by Luckyo · 2014-04-15 05:59 · Score: 2 · on Is Crimea In Russia? Internet Companies Have Different Answers

And I would agree. Which is why it's relieving that it in fact we have not seen those numbers in Crimea.

In fact, some of the more reliable and neutral press in the West, such as Der Spiegel (you'll know them from the fact that people like Snowden and Assange trusted them enough to give them the source materials for redaction) posts stories like these today:

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Juicy quote: "Nevertheless, the situation here is not as unambiguous as it was on the Crimean Peninsula" when talking about situation in Eastern Ukraine. In other words, they agree that situation in Crimea has had little ambiguity - people by far and large wanted to join Russia and they got their wish.

Considering that euronews mentioned in the a footnote of their story on pullout of Ukrainian troops from Crimea after the annexation that "2/3 to 3/4 of the ukrainian soldiers are actually staying behind because they deserted before or during the conflict in Crimea", we can see that desperate attempts to claim that Crimea's vote wasn't geniunely democratic have little merit.

About the only argument you can make is that situation was orchestrated to manipulate public opinion. But if we call that an offence that makes referendums and political decisions invalid, shouldn't we have already put other people who have been proven to have used massive disinformation to get the outcome they wanted in prison, such as former US president G.W. Bush? And can we really argue that Russia is in this alone, and West has not been the prime instigator of current situation with Russia being the massive loser who's merely reacting? They lost entire country of Ukraine after all, with all its industrial base. This isn't some crappy third world oil producer - they make things like engine parts for space rockets. And they are historically ally of Russia throughout several centuries against threats like Ottoman slaver empire or Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, not to even mention being the birthplace of modern Russian culture.

Re:One side of the story by gweihir · 2014-03-17 16:32 · Score: 1 · on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/...

and here are two more:

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama...
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama...

These are German, but google translater should do a good enough job to verify. I was mistaken on the first case, the guy was "only" 5 years in prison.

This is just from the last few months. Seems women falsely claiming rape is a rather common occurrence, and prosecutors are already filtering out the obvious cases. Personally, I think a woman claiming rape when no such thing happened should go away for rape herself.

Re:One side of the story by gweihir · 2014-03-17 16:32 · Score: 1 · on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/...

and here are two more:

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama...
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama...

These are German, but google translater should do a good enough job to verify. I was mistaken on the first case, the guy was "only" 5 years in prison.

This is just from the last few months. Seems women falsely claiming rape is a rather common occurrence, and prosecutors are already filtering out the obvious cases. Personally, I think a woman claiming rape when no such thing happened should go away for rape herself.

Re:One side of the story by gweihir · 2014-03-17 16:32 · Score: 1 · on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/...

and here are two more:

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama...
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama...

These are German, but google translater should do a good enough job to verify. I was mistaken on the first case, the guy was "only" 5 years in prison.

This is just from the last few months. Seems women falsely claiming rape is a rather common occurrence, and prosecutors are already filtering out the obvious cases. Personally, I think a woman claiming rape when no such thing happened should go away for rape herself.

Re:Sowhere will the electricity come from? by Tom · 2014-03-12 19:56 · Score: 2 · on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down

I guess we'll be building a lot more nuclear power plants, then?

I, for one, maintain that a mix of renewable and nuclear power is the future. Coal really is the absolute worst thing you could do. Its environmental impact is crazy, a coal plant actually leaks more radiation than a nuclear plant, and depending on how you get the coal, the impact on the landscape and lives of people nearby can be utterly insane.

This is the realty of coal:
http://www.gegenstrom13.de/wp-...
http://www.allmystery.de/i/tf6...

Some of these are so large, they are clearly visible on satellite images:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissensc...

The worst part is that their land use in general directly compete with forests, which means their CO2 impact is even higher, because forests are great in storing CO2.

Sorry, anyone who in 2014 seriously contemplates burning coal is a freaking lunatic who should be locked up and receive therapy.

NSA_backdoor_trojan into America by strstr · 2014-03-12 14:24 · Score: 1, Funny · on Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices

NSA_backdoor_trojan:

AMD processors were found to have similar vulnerabilities.

Mascarading as a debug mode, all hardware and thus software security features can be bypassed. Essentially allowing both stealth software operation, bypassing root and administrator authentication restrictions, and more. Intel is known to have similar functionality, but its not publically disclosed yet.. http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...

NSA compiled and uses all these exploits whether it was installed there for them or not.

Windows also has NSAKEY installed and all vulnerabilities and the source code of Windows is turned over to the NSA before the things can be patched, allowing NSA to locate and exploit vulnerabilities for hacking us and everyone else. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

RSA also put in exploits so SSL / Etc would be vulnerable to their attack, as the leaks indicated. http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...

Stuxnet virus was created by NSA. http://rt.com/news/snowden-nsa...

NSA and GCHQ are recording us masturbating. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

FBI records us even when our devices are powered off. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

NSA is ceiling cat watching us masturbate with space capability and electron imaging/radar systems. They are recording all calls and saving the content, not just metadata. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb... and http://youtu.be/d6m1XbWOfVk

NSA has Thought Amplifier and Mind Interface (patented by Robert Malech in 1974, deployed in all radar in 1976), aka Remote Neural Monitoring first disclosed in Nexus Magazine in 1996 by John St Claire Akwei. Backed up today by Dr. Robert Duncan who helped invented these weapons, being used to attack and control us. http://www.oregonstatehospital... http://www.oregonstatehospital...

TAO hacking unit, NSA: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Obama is raping and murdering and torturing thousands of his own citizens, committing acts of Genocide worse than any dictator ever before. He has killed his own people and covered it up. http://www.obamasweapon.com/

Re:Okay... so you've killed the coal industry... by Karmashock · 2014-03-12 11:31 · Score: 1 · on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down

1.
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

There are lots of articles on the issue. Not only is it not nonsense but its a well known situation. So extreme is the problem that the German government is trying to reverse the program while saving face. The only person that will be surprised by this will be you.

2. Anyone with any experience with solar power and wind power knows this is false. Power output fluctuates from day to day with cloud cover, season, etc. And one has to remember that these systems produce no power at night. Which means you need a redundant power system for the night or you need to store the power which is currently impractical.

Lets say I need ten megawatts of generation at all times and I want to supply that power with solar. I must build a ten megawatt solar farm AND a ten megawatt coal, hydroelectric, or nuclear power plant to cover the system EVERY night. What is more, the solar system as pointed out will not produce as much some times which means the complimentary system must handle generation during the day as well sometimes.

Wind is different in that it isn't effected by the sun in the same way. But equally you must provide a complimentary reliable system if you want reliable power. Which means every wind farm's product must be backstopped by back up power plants with reliable on demand generation.

This further increases the cost of renewable power systems especially when they are taken to extremes.

3. As to choices, you are claiming wind and solar are as reliable as nuclear and coal which is idiotic. Then you presume to claim you are more informed then I am.

Well, I might not know everything. But you effectively failed to add 1+1 together so you're the last person that gets to presume superiority.

Kindly justify your reliability comment or I will accept your surrender to my argument now.

A few more good articles on the topic by yurik · 2014-03-11 11:44 · Score: 1 · on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery

Current:
* http://online.wsj.com/news/art...

Older (after AirFrance disaster)
* http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
* http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07...

Like totaly unseen before by Plumpaquatsch · 2014-03-04 00:27 · Score: 1 · on Walmart Unveils Turbine-Powered WAVE Concept Truck

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/lkw-aerodynamik-feilen-am-garagentor-fotostrecke-70165.html

http://www.myheimat.de/neustadt-am-ruebenberge/event-truck-d64042.html

Re:That's all the proof I need .. by cold+fjord · 2014-03-03 13:45 · Score: 1 · on Russians Suspected of Uroburos Spy Malware

Except that GP was not talking about copying the US' computer-based espionage operations, but the US' various illegal wars.

The story is about Russian hacking. Naturally the subject won't turn to Russian hacking, or even Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but to false allegations of "illegal" wars by the US. Typical, and a diversion.

So, which "illegal wars" is the US uniquely "guilty" of?

You know, there is a bit of a mess unfolding in Ukraine. There are pro-russian and pro-european factions and the russians are obviously supporting the former -- with a completely illegal show of force.

I've heard.

Less well known is that the pro-european factions supported by the West are largely far-right nationalists. Neonazis, pretty much. See, e.g. this piece by Max Blumenthal.

Yes, I'm familiar with Russian charges that they are going to fight fascists in another smaller neighboring country. That was the excuse to invade Finland. The charge is recycled to invade and take territory from Ukraine.

During the Stalin era, Soviet propaganda painted Finland's leadership as a "vicious and reactionary Fascist clique". Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim and Väinö Tanner, the leader of the Finnish Social Democratic Party, were targeted for particular scorn.[52] With Joseph Stalin gaining near-absolute power through the Great Purge of 1938, the Soviet Union changed its foreign policy toward Finland in the late 1930s. The Soviet Union began pursuing the reconquest of the provinces of Tsarist Russia lost during the chaos of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War. The Soviet leadership believed that the old empire had ideal security and territorial possessions, and wanted the newly christened city of Leningrad to enjoy a similar security. -- Winter War

Yes, that is all too familiar.

As for Max Blumenthal, I'm aware of his work. I don't consider his views useful given their crank fringe attributes.

Are Mainstream Liberals Embracing Max Blumenthal’s ‘I Hate Israel Handbook’?

You can see the nonsense in his piece that you link to. As part of the "proof" he mentions "white supremacist banners and Confederate flags," but somehow passes over the British, French, Canadian, and other flags present. Does that mean that the Ukrainians are also secretly French, British, and Canadian too, or just crypto-Confederates? It contains no small bit of rubbish. He is a useful idiot making excuses for Russia's invasion.

Besides, if it the concern that prompted the invasion really was fighting "fascism," why didn't Russia take care of their own neo-Nazi and fascist problems at home first? It isn't a small problem, and they have been letting it bleed into Ukraine.

Russian Neo-Nazis Are Now Beating Up Gays in Ukraine
Russia neo-Nazis jailed for life over 27 race murders
Russia: Far-Right Nationalists And Neo-Nazis March In Moscow
Viral Vigilantism: Russian Neo-Nazis Take Gay Bashing Online
Russian Neo-Nazis Made These Horrifying Videos of Anti-LGBT Attacks

The Russians seem to be good at finding fascism and fighting it in all their neighbors, not

Re:Repeat the mantra by bunratty · 2014-02-18 13:07 · Score: 1 · on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming

A little bit of warming may be good, but there's widespread agreement that we want to avoid a warming of over 2 degrees Celsius due to the negative consequences. It now looks as though we won't even be able to meet that modest goal.

Lest anyone forget by cold+fjord · 2014-02-18 01:53 · Score: 4, Insightful · on French, German Leaders: Keep European Email Off US Servers

The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too
French officials can monitor internet users in real time under new law

And some of the reports of "NSA spying" were in fact NSA being given phone data from European agencies.

Re:Thanks, Edward Snowden by cold+fjord · 2014-02-15 17:16 · Score: -1, Flamebait · on NSA Ally Spied on US Law Firm

If you think that US foreign policy has anything to do with al Qaida's existence then you are wholly ignorant of their motivation.

What has NSA spying achieved? Here are some hints:

NSA helped foil terror plot in Belgium, documents, officials say

In a New History of NSA, Its Spies' Successes Are [Redacted]

Re:Wow by wiggles · 2014-02-14 03:27 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Star Trek Economics

Overpopulation is only a problem in India and China. The rest of the civilized world, especially Japan, is having severe problems due to negative population growth. Population is predicted to plateau and start shrinking after around 2060. I am not worried about overpopulation.

As far as limited resources, we are only limited by the amount of energy it takes to extract those resources, and those sources of energy can and will transition to renewable sources as consumables become expensive. Indeed, we are already seeing that transition come into play with wind and solar electricity, electric cars, and efficiency drives. At the same time, we're seeing new sources of consumables come online as prices increase - see shale oil - and as technology advances to the point that we are able to extract more cheaply, effectively, and efficiently - see natural gas.

Overpopulation and resource limitations will work themselves out naturally.

Re:Prediction by Ex-MislTech · 2014-02-13 04:24 · Score: 1 · on 11-Year UK Study Reports No Health Danger From Mobile Phone Transmissions

As long as we can get the "better" vaccine that is reserved for the "special" ppl.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Re:It doesn't matter. by Ex-MislTech · 2014-02-13 03:53 · Score: 1 · on 11-Year UK Study Reports No Health Danger From Mobile Phone Transmissions

:I'd just want better quality vaccines. Not just herbal teas."

Become one of the important ppl and you can get the "better" vaccine.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Re:Slashdot will hate me for saying this. by cold+fjord · 2014-02-10 15:19 · Score: 1, Interesting · on Death By Metadata: The NSA's Secret Role In the US Drone Strike Program

You don't get it, do you? It isn't what I believe, it is what they say. Why don't you start educating yourself?

The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaida Really Wants
Alarm in Spain over al-Qaeda call for its “reconquest”
HAMAS Targets Spain

I can't believe that people are still ignorant of this sort of thing after all this time. It is almost unbelievable.

Re:How Many More NSA Employees? by cold+fjord · 2014-02-10 02:36 · Score: 1 · on Snowden Used Software Scraper, Say NSA Officials

Many European countries have significant numbers of extremists in them that are either involved in terrorism or support it, including France, the UK, and Germany. One of the terrorist cells that conducted the 9/11 attacks came out of Hamburg. Germany has seen a rise of neo-Nazi violence, including a string of murders, and there have been concerns that the government was looking the other way to allow it. At the same time Germany has been a key supplier of sophisticated weapons to various countries, including Israel. It was also a country that did a lot of business with Saddam. There are growing tensions among countries in the EU over a number of issues, including the financial and economic problems, and some old hatreds seem to be stirring in many places. These sort of tensions have previously led to war and genocide. Russia, China, and probably Iran, all have many spies in Germany. Chancellor Merkel's phone was being monitored by five (5) different countries, not just the US. Russia especially would like to neutralize Germany, and see NATO fall apart, and who knows what with the EU. The potential for the Euro to fall apart in a meaningful concern, and the German central bank plays a key part there. There is certainly more beyond that to be concerned about. If you can't figure out some reasons why the US may be interested in the domestic affairs of not only Germany, but other nations to varying degrees, you don't really have much useful to say on the matter.

Re:The weapons are on chips, firmware or in the OS by deconfliction · 2014-02-01 09:52 · Score: 2 · on In an Age of Cyber War, Where Are the Cyber Weapons?

Wow, parent god modded to -1 ...

http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/nsa-hacking-catalogue/

Economics and Nazi Germany -- a complex topic by Paul+Fernhout · 2014-01-28 02:14 · Score: 1 · on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

My satirical take on it all:
https://groups.google.com/foru...
-----
Dialog of alternatively a military officer and Hitler:
"It looks like there are now local digital fabrication facilities here, here, and here."
"But we still have the rockets we need to take them out?"
"The rockets have all been used to launch seed automated machine shops for self-replicating space habitats for more living space in space."
"What about the nuclear bombs?"
"All turned into battery-style nuclear power plants for island cities in the oceans."
"What about the tanks?"
"The diesel engines have been remade to run biodiesel and are powering the internet hubs supplying technical education to the rest of the world."
"I can't believe this. What about the weaponized plagues?"
"The gene engineers turned them into antidotes for most major diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, and river blindness."
"Well, send in the Daleks."
"The Daleks have been re-outfitted to terraform Mars. There all gone with the rockets."
"Well, use the 3D printers to print out some more grenades."
"We tried that, but they only are printing toys, food, clothes, shelters, solar panels, and more 3D printers, for some reason."
"But what about the Samsung automated machine guns?"
"They were all reprogrammed into automated bird watching platforms. The guns were taken out and melted down into parts for agricultural robots."
"I just can't believe this. We've developed the most amazing technology the world has ever known in order to create artificial scarcity so we could rule the world through managing scarcity. Where is the scarcity?"
"Gone, Mein Fuhrer, all gone. All the technologies we developed for weapons to enforce scarcity have all been used to make abundance."
"How can we rule without scarcity? Where did it all go so wrong? ...
Everyone with an engineering degree leave the room ... now!"
[Cue long tirade on the general incompetence of engineers. :-) Then cue long tirade on how could engineers seriously wanted to help the German workers to not have to work so hard when the whole Nazi party platform was based on providing full employment using fiat dollars. Then cue long tirade on how could engineers have taken the socialism part seriously and shared the wealth of nature and technology with everyone globally.]
"So how are the common people paying for all this?"
"Much is free, and there is a basic income given to everyone for the rest. There is so much to go around with the robots and 3D printers and solar panels and so on, that most of the old work no longer needs to be done."
"You mean people get money without working at jobs? But nobody would work?"
"Everyone does what they love. And they are producing so much just as gifts."
"Oh, so you mean people are producing so much for free that the economic system has failed?"
"Yes, the old pyramid scheme one, anyway. There is a new post-scarcity economy, where between automation and a a gift economy the income-through-jobs link is almost completely broken. Everyone also gets income as a right of citizenship as a share of all our resources for the few things that still need to be rationed. Even you."
"Really? How much is this basic income?"
"Two thousand a month."
"Two thousand a month? Just for bein

Re:Uh? by Em+Adespoton · 2014-01-23 08:35 · Score: 1 · on Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete?

The best one I've seen so far is putting solar capture into roadbeds, which contain their own capacitance. Of course, this would still have to be connected to the grid, as there would be too many problems with individuals tapping directly into the "free" power generated.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://buildipedia.com/aec-pro...
http://www.wpi.edu/news/20089/...

Re:Germany by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-20 06:08 · Score: 0 · on Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service With His Own Album

No. They had to issue a "voluntary regulation" to prevent stripping of benefits for refusing to be a prostitute. But brothel owners still send out offers and girls still receive them. Sometimes these incidents get in the news.

Who knows how many girls just comply and go to the brothel because the offer showed up in the government system?

Re:Education, not laws by cold+fjord · 2014-01-19 18:11 · Score: 5, Informative · on In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page

Excellent post and as far as I'm aware you're quite right, Neo-Nazism simply hasn't become a real problem in Western democracies.

As you say, "awareness" is part of the problem. You aren't aware, and neo-Nazism is a problem in Europe.

'Like 1930s Germany': Greek Far Right Gains Ground

Nowhere else in Europe are neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists profiting as greatly from the financial crisis as in Athens. As they terrorize the country with violence, the police stand back and prosecutors are powerless.

Marian Kotleba: Slovakia’s New Neo-Nazi Governor Only Latest of Right-Wing Extremists Emerging In Eastern Europe

Kotleba, whose organization has long agitated against Slovakia’s Roma (Gypsy) minority, branding them as “parasites,” once belonged to the now-outlawed Neo-Nazi Slovenská Pospolitos (Slovak Community) movement that praised the Nazi puppet government that ruled the country during World War II. Bloomberg reported that Kotleba openly admires praised Jozef Tiso, president of the Nazi satellite state in Slovakia during World War II, which dispatched thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps. Kotleba, a 36-year-old former high school teacher, has been notorious for sporting Nazi-style uniforms in public, and also repeatedly arrested and sued for spreading racism and hate (no such charges have ever stuck, however).

Russia: Far-Right Nationalists And Neo-Nazis March In Moscow

Neo-Nazis form expanding networks beyond national borders

The cooperation between right-wing extremists from different countries is gaining strength. Experts warn that this phenomenon could have dangerous consequences.

Neo-Nazi parties on the rise in Europe, Jewish group warns

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- The World Jewish Congress said Tuesday it is greatly concerned about the emergence of what it called neo-Nazi parties in Europe, singling out Greece's Golden Dawn, Hungary's Jobbik, and Germany's National Democratic Party.

A study presented at the congress's assembly in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, highlighted the links among the growing strength of such extremist groups, the European economic crisis and latent Nazi-type tendencies in Europe.

Re:What would be sweet... by pcwhalen · 2014-01-15 13:35 · Score: 1 · on TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification

It seems they have the key to all the locks as soon as the lock gets built.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html

I think nothing is safe. Unless you're in a Faraday cage with a computer plugged into a UPS running a virtualized OS and ...

Fuck it. The NSA can have my data. Jack booted pricks.

Actual exploits by gmuslera · 2014-01-15 12:38 · Score: 1 · on TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification

That probably counts as accesible any truecrypt volume you have in AWS and other cloud servers. Regarding your PC and laptops, there is anything in the NSA catalog targetting specifically this? They could had put it in when you bought it. If well a backdoor installation could make things simpler, this hardware approach could survive OS reinstalls/replacements.

Re:Where are they? by mspohr · 2014-01-15 05:13 · Score: 4, Informative · on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-941262.html
Pics of the devices from the NSA catalog.

Re:Where are they? by gmuslera · 2014-01-15 03:21 · Score: 1 · on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs

Maybe some of them were bought online and then intercepted by NSA to install that hardware. There is plenty of evidence that they are doing that kind of things, including a catalog, but not a lot of reports that show how they are actually doing it.

Now, that the actual number of devices with those radios is around 100000 could be an outdated number (50k in 2008 and 85k in 2012 according to Snowden documents, and maybe 100k by now according to other sources), and anyway, seems that be considered by them an obsolete technology, and targetting mainly offline computers and closed networks. Probably the kind of installations that won't disclose that they were intruded even if they found what happened. Landline phones and faraday cages could become very popular in some installations.

Probably there aren't used in US because may have other ways to get in, even in offline networks (maybe embedded 3g radios?) without needing to have that kind of reach.