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  1. Re:So he admits it. on 3D-Printed Gun Bought and Displayed By London Art Museum · · Score: 2

    The third option is that I don't want legally-required DRM on 3D printers.

  2. OH NOES NOT THE NSA on NSA Spies On International Payments · · Score: 1

    Many more three-letter agencies are known to monitor international payments. I would have been surprised if the NSA wasn't monitoring them.

    The company my dad works at has a very generic, uninspired name and it happens to be the same as one of the front companies used by the Iranian nuclear programme. Equipment purchases are often blocked and won't be allowed through until someone has a chat with US authorities to remind them that they're still not smuggling parts for Iran's reactors.

  3. So he admits it. on 3D-Printed Gun Bought and Displayed By London Art Museum · · Score: 3, Interesting

    'It will now be this curated, permanent cultural provocation.'"

    So he admits that he's a shit-disturbing troll. I liked it better when they stuck to the Internet and didn't fuck things up for us IRL. Things are a lot harder to ignore or fix there.

  4. Drunk with power on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 2

    An "Information Dominance Center" arranged more like a throne room than a functional working environment...I guess when a human gets a taste of 2 of the 3 aspects of godhood, it goes to their head a bit.

  5. Re:I don't understand on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right, nature doesn't give a shit how hard you work or how honest you are (other than the ways it would hurt you) or how smart you are (unless you can use those smarts to gather more resources for yourself). This is how it's always been, nature doesn't give a fuck. Work ethic, the value of honesty and intellectualism are artificial human constructs and the only way to make things better is to create more artificial constructs within the biggest artificial construct, human society, to reward them. Good luck doing that while those who are in control of these constructs are enjoying the status quo so much though.

  6. Positive for the humankind? Is this real? on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It is significant because it points to the very real possibility that, over the next several generations, the overall effect of climate change will be positive for humankind and the planet.

    Is this "leaked report" real or some kind of fabrication? Because the idea of "net positive change" AGW flies directly in the face of all previous knowledge and recently observed phenomena.

  7. Re:That's awesome on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1

    That article's idiotic. He's arguing that we're not overreacting to terrorists because the damage caused by our overreaction warrants an overreaction so that it won't happen again and cause us to overreact. The only way to break the cycle of this chicken-and-egg problem is to STOP OVERREACTING. Leading back to the point he's arguing against.

  8. Re:Independence of the courts ? on The Man Who Created the Pencil Eraser and How Patents Have Changed · · Score: 2

    I have an Amazon account and the first thing I did when I saw that One Click button is turn the fucking thing off. Some things have good reasons to require more than one click.

  9. Re:Independence of the courts ? on The Man Who Created the Pencil Eraser and How Patents Have Changed · · Score: 2

    Much like the rise of curated computing, nobody did it for so long because it was seen as a business suicide plan. But Apple proved that you just need to have an army of die-hard fanboys first.

  10. Only slightly useful for junk devices on USB "Condom" Allows You To Practice Safe Charging · · Score: 1

    My N900 requires confirmation on the screen to grant data access to USB host devices, so this thing isn't useful for it or any device which has this important feature (like even a Blackberry). What it will do is prevent the charging power from being negotiated.

  11. Re:Nokia? on Time For a Hobbyist Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Interesting! I'll upgrade mine for sure once the kit is for sale.

    Also came in to post about the N900; beaten.

  12. Re:Treason.. or... on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    Legally, treason; morally, patriotism.

  13. Re:How long before... on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 2

    About negative one decade. I was doing this with my Treo 180 and OmniRemote. Worked great for university AC systems where they kept the remotes in a central office.

  14. Re:I wonder on Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if they also considered that the NIST random number test suite might also be compromised by the NSA...

  15. Re:A very good reason on Study Shows Professors With Tenure Are Worse Teachers · · Score: 2

    At the university I went to there was a professor who was known to be excellent at research but a crappy teacher. He taught an advanced calculus course in the same way a hardcore uber-geek might teach "introduction to computers" to a bunch of barely-computer-literate old folks...he was trying to teach us the right way with a good understanding of all the principles behind the calculations, but it was going over most of our heads, as the course's pass rate showed.

    This went on until a rich guy's daughter took the course and failed. Said rich guy was also the BFF of the dean at the time...only research work for that professor from then on.

    The professor died a few years back, only in his late 50s/early 60s.

    Me and some friends have a great memory of him. We were waiting for class to start and I was messing around with my Treo 180, showing them the new ringtones I loaded on. I played the Star Wars Imperial March and just as it was finishing, he walked up to the podium with perfect timing, we all cracked up. I wonder if he heard the tune and did it on purpose XD

  16. Re:B effing S on First Gear Mechanism Discovered In Nature · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some open minds that folks have here...

    Not open enough for our brains to fall out.

  17. Re:Full text as PDF on First Gear Mechanism Discovered In Nature · · Score: 1

    Thanks pdfbuddy!

  18. Re:Bullshit! on First Gear Mechanism Discovered In Nature · · Score: 2

    I thought about quoting the relevant part of TFA on this in the summary, but didn't....what a mistake.

    Anyway you can read it to find out why you're wrong in the case of this insect.

  19. Re:B effing S on First Gear Mechanism Discovered In Nature · · Score: 2

    You're joking right? I could see quite easily how a gear mechanism could have evolved from a simple pair of spurs.

  20. Re:blame equality on Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures · · Score: 1

    Please explain how profiling is not a horrible crime.

    "You deserve this for being of the same ethnicity that's statistically most likely to cause us trouble! Spread those legs, hands over your head!"

  21. Re:voyager has left the solar system. on It's Official: Voyager 1 Is an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 5, Funny

    They use the same math behind the Vista file copying progress bar to judge its distance.

  22. Re:I'm gonna strike it rich on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it could still be fooled with a 2D printout of a scan from a similar sensor? It's not a stereoscopic sensor is it?

  23. I'm gonna strike it rich on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    I want to be the first to show how you can use the same old fingerprint reader defeating techniques on an iPhone. Internet fame, security researcher fortune, all will be mine! MUAHAHAHAHA!

  24. Re:So...are we done with Syria then? on Satellite Images Suggest N. Korea Has Restarted Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    They sure are. That's what they wanted at least from the point that it became an openly sectarian conflict with AQ-affiliated organizations fighting alongside the rebels. That's when the window of opportunity closed and the gates of clusterfuck hell opened. I wonder why there was no quick & decisive Libya-style action?

  25. What a shocker on Facebook Deletes Social Fixer Community Page Without Explanation · · Score: 1

    Who could have seen this as the outcome of standing in the crosshairs of corporate power while flipping the double deuce?