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  1. Re:the problem is it on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    Didn't even mention China, wow.

  2. Re:Dating service to come? on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    Nope never applied, it just seems silly. It's like a Club of Certified Badasses. What kind of badass needs to join that to feel validated?

  3. Re:Hello Gattaca! on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 2

    Yeah, good thing we don't live in a hyper-capitalist hellhole with a massively top-heavy income distribution

    OH WAIT

  4. Re:Sperm bank on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    Why not fetch sperm from handsome, smart people only ?

    Women can do that without any help - well, maybe not the "smart" part :-P

  5. Re:They will own the children on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    You have no chance to reproduce, make your time.

  6. Re:Dating service to come? on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    Too bad there aren't people in it who are intelligent enough to realize that joining Mensa is silly and pointless, or I might sign up!

  7. Re:vs gasoline cars on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    Especially gasoline cars with fuel tanks in the nose of the car.

    It looks like he ran over a fire hydrant which tore open the front battery pack.

  8. I meant that the constants for this algorithm should be checked since the NSA has their hands in every standards body out there. It may not be a problem in this case but it's a theoretically sound issue:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4296175&cid=45025631

  9. Re:Where else should he go? on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    Ramnicu Valcea AKA "Hackerville" in Romania is definitely safe.

    There are plenty of places where you can enjoy the same standard of living if you have lots of money, a lower standard of living in other places is for the little people. There's probably a shorter list of places you can't.

  10. Re:Open source browsers? on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 2

    It's worse because it's an idological loss - DRM has no place where technical competency and/or openness exist - and because it could accelerate the adoption of DRM by providing a standard.

    It's also worse because it adds to the complexity of a system for no gain - unless you count the aforementioned DRM standard a gain. I don't, I'd rather have the DRM stay where it belongs, in shitty plugins that have to be installed one user at a time.

  11. No I'm saying that the NSA may have influenced the constants used:

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance

    (Point 5 near the bottom)

  12. No, but you should check where the constants used in this algorithm came from...I don't know but I bet if you check, it'll trace back to an NSA-influenced organization...

  13. Luckily there's a simple technical fix for this: perfect forward secrecy in HTTPS, using RSA DiffieHellman or ECDH key exchange.

    Did you know that ECDH stands for Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman? Yeah it would solve the problem of the NSA's request alright...

  14. Re:WTF was he doing in the US? on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    Because he was facilitating drug trading directly, it's not like he worked at HSBC. A few million is nothing compared to the War on Drugs.

  15. Re:bitcoin value on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 4, Funny

    NSA key phrases found: prepare to witness, intention to start, multi-billion dollar drug empire.

    Looking up Slashdot user NettiWelho...alias of global user ID #2968137598

    Data stored.

  16. WTF was he doing in the US? on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    Why would a millionaire drug dealer - a type of criminal that is highly unwelcome in the US, continue to reside there?

  17. Re:Do hitmen even exist? on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    They do exist, but there are a lot more undercover agents.

  18. Re:Red Storm Rising on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    Eco-terrorists are certainly a real thing (disclaimer: I haven't read any Tom Clancy books) but that article is silly, keep in mind "forbes.com/sites" is roughly equivalent in a URL to ".wordpress.com" - any loon can write things there at a whim.

  19. Re:Innovation on Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Yes but innovation in weapons isn't terribly useful. A government R&D department that releases its inventions to the public domain would be a better recipient of frivolously spent assloads of cash than a "defense" company.

  20. Re:Surprise? on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    How long is the countdown for TPB?

  21. Re:Got nailed by USING Silk Road, not RUNNING it on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    The house of some dumb sucker who will be the fall guy if the packages are searched. Pay him in cash or drugs. Arrange scheduled exchanges and only speak face-to-face.

  22. Re:strange summary FTA on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    Bring in the logic probe!

  23. It's sort of like what happens if MERS-COV breaks out while the CDC is shut down I guess...

  24. Re:finally! the internet can be used as intended on Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites · · Score: 1

    This just in: Tennis elbow pandemic sweeps the US!

  25. Re:Oh no! on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    If you count living out the remainder of your days in old age on a miserable pension as not much trouble.

    I would. Especially by today's standards.

    Were there any formerly high ranking ex-Stasi who made it into cushy executive or high-ranking government jobs? I suppose that it's possible, but it seems improbable given the infamous nature of their former employer.

    The revolving door forgives all transgressions:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Stasi_officers_after_the_reunification