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  1. scratch my back and I'll scratch yours on First Confirmed Prism Surveillance Target Was Democracy Activist (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours:

    You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
    Fig. You do a favor for me and I'll do a favor for you.; If you do something for me that I cannot do for myself, I will do something for you that you cannot do for yourself. I'll grab the box on the top shelf if you will creep under the table and pick up my pen. You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.

    http://idioms.thefreedictionar...

  2. Re:20 fucking years of this in Edmonton on Local Canadian Police Station Admits To Owning Stingray Surveillance Device (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    secure way with a Certificate Authority not controlled within Canadian or US borders.

    You can always check the fingerprint of the certificate presented to you to insure safe communication. It is much safer than relying on "not controlled within Canadian or US" CAs. CA should never know your private key so there isn't much they can do other than signing your certificate request. You more or less make the certificate yourself and the CA just signs it. At least, this is how it is supposed to be done last time I looked.

    As long as you trust the person who made the certificate request, it doesn't matter if any CA signed it. A cert signed by a known CA doesn't mean that much...

  3. Re:RCMP are also local police on Local Canadian Police Station Admits To Owning Stingray Surveillance Device (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Canada does not have an FBI equivalent"

    Everything that the FBI is capable of doing, the RCMP can do just as well. I'd call it equivalent.

    "We like our policy makers separate from enforcement that you very much"

    You think policy makers and enforcement officials don't talk to each other? Cute.

    Yep!

    A tip from the FBI triggered what Canadian police on Thursday called a “race against time” as police scrambled to identify and locate a balaclava-wearing would-be suicide bomber they feared was on the verge of committing a terror attack in Canada.

    https://nypost.com/2016/08/11/...

  4. Re:Let me save you the trouble on LinkedIn Suffers Huge Bot Attack That Steals Members' Personal Data (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They never ask tricky questions like that. Some, if not most people will be tempted to answer 0 while for a mathematician, the correct answer is 1. So, from a mathematician perspective, it might be fair to say that 99% of the population can't answer this correctly.

  5. "developing and testing deep-space habitats that could be used for future missions to Mars."

    Mars is deep space?

    I guess poster hasn't watched deep space 9.

  6. Re:Dictionary Definition of Autopilot on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Auto Pilot:

    I used to have to do a 60 mile drive to get to work for 6 months. Just about every day, around the same highway exits, I would slowly pass a guy driving an econoline while reading his full size newspaper, widely spread across the steering wheel and windshield.

    I would sometime slow down while passing him to have a good look at him and he wouldn't even react. He would just keep reading his newspaper.

    Maybe that's the kind of concentration needed to drive a Tesla car. I should go hang around those highway exits to see if I can spot the guy, refer him to Elon and profit.

  7. Re:Dictionary Definition of Autopilot on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The tricky problem about this technology is that it is aimed at taking the burden away from what is required to be able to take over. At least, most people perceive it that way at first. Proper training is required and you know what? In the end, it requires more concentration to watch on standby ready to take over than manually driving the car yourself.

  8. Re:Autopilot is a glorified cruise control on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait until the technology has matured before beginning to depend on it. So far, in the mainstream car industry, it could be fair to say that people using said technologies as if they were mature are merely beta testers.

  9. Re:Autopilot is a glorified cruise control on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I never heard about people being that stupid when cruise control was introduced into the mainstream.

    It isn't limited to car drivers. Same thing happened is the airline industry. People naturally tend to rely too much on such technologies. It's amazing that they deploy it without proper training of people using it.

  10. Parse your fucking inputs. on Dota 2 Forum Breach Leaks 2 Million User Accounts (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    " Parse your fucking inputs."

    3,2,1... What? nothing happened yet?

    So, here I go: use parametrized queries.

  11. A smartphone app, seriously? on Popular Sex Toy Caught Sending Intimate Data To Manufacturer (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    "The sex toy uses a smartphone app, "

    Seriously? Might as well build the sex toy right in the smart phone then. Maybe the smart phone is the ancestor of the XQJ-37 Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker envisioned here after all:

    http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/...
    http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/...

    Back on topic: In 2016, I prefer sex toys to be wired anyways. Less chances they will replicate and take control of the world this way.

  12. Re:Actually, in this case... on Luxury Liner SS United States Cannot Be Put Back In Service (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. that made me think of The first Jumbo Jet to be flown commercially and where it ended up, It doesn't have to be floating nor flying:
    http://www.darkroastedblend.co...

  13. Re:Smart key for ignition, not access. on Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps (abc13.com) · · Score: 1

    "and before you accuse me of living in a basement, make sure to note my account number."

    That doesn't prove anything. You might have stolen your father credentials like I used to.

  14. Which are the other spots readable by silent helicopters (and sat...)?

  15. How often were you actually using it?

  16. Are we allowed to agree even if we ain't servicemen?

  17. Re:WHO IS PAYING? on 1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to be Donald.

  18. Of course this is Fiat-Chrysler we're talking about here, so the security is likely to be designed by drunken monkeys.

    Are they related to the 12 monkeys?

  19. Is is all very special grade class 8 hidden advertising. Nobody actually cracked the cypher so far so it is impossible to see them. It supposedly may act on your brain although.

  20. Re:What am I missing here? on Australian Census Stirs Up Storm of Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, I never said it was owned by the Mormons. I even said that anybody can own it. What is your problem?

  21. Re:What am I missing here? on Australian Census Stirs Up Storm of Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah right, just do your own research. Many sources available.

    Start here:

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

    Hum, no mention of the Mormons on that page, so you must be right, right?

    Now search what "Latter-day Saints" and "Brigham Young University" are. Search who Joseph A. Cannon and John Sittner are.

    You will end up realizing that my post was entirely correct. I have never said there was direct or "official" ties between ancestry and the Mormons but as I said, everybody knows what I wrote in my first post.

    Are you trying to hide something? If so why? I vouch for being straight forward and clean.

  22. Re:What am I missing here? on Australian Census Stirs Up Storm of Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows Ancestry.com was started and is mainly staffed by Mormons although it is publicly traded so you can own part of it if you want (or at least it used to be, I can't seem to be able to find ACOM anymore on NASDAQ). Genealogy is important to the Mormons.

  23. Re:In the U.S., why isn't this obsolete by now? on Australian Census Stirs Up Storm of Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    You missed the point: The census is there to find out if you tell the truth. If you lie, you get put on a blacklist of enemies of the country.

  24. Re:Sounds a lot like the "ACS"... on Australian Census Stirs Up Storm of Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    In my city, they even do census for cats and dogs with somebody actually knocking at your door only for that purpose. Next; goldfish census!

  25. Re:They are asking for it on Australian Census Stirs Up Storm of Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep, there was a typo in the summary it should have read:

    "Australian government's response has been to calm fears by promising that it will try to secure the census data"