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  1. Re:What about Gay Marriage? on Google's Science Fellows Challenge the Company's Fund-Raising For Senator Inhofe · · Score: 1

    What do you think about the term "marriage equality?"

  2. Re:Exfiltrate Africa? on Is China Wiring Africa For Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Huawei employee here (non-chinese, btw).

    But you speak Chinese, right? It seems they always list that as a job requirement.

  3. Re:Bush on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    There's still no evidence that they ever saw megacorporations as a potential threat, were they just incompetent or simply too focused on government tyranny?

  4. Re:When you turn it on... on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 1

    Today the heavy bullshit is piled onto successful democratic leftist South American countries, particularly those in the ALBA group. They're all communist hellholes ruled by brutal dictators dontcha know.

  5. Re:When you turn it on... on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 1

    A little bit of both. NK has built nice-looking dummy villages within sight of the DMZ and also likes to build unused structures in the capital for propaganda purposes (like that big ominous empty hotel tower rumored to be made entirely of cast concrete, with no reinforcement). They even have an amusement park that sits unused until a foreigner wants a visit, then they'll fire it up and bring in a few busloads of random people to surround you so the place doesn't seem desolate.

    And keep in mind that those decent houses in the capital are the pinnacle of NK's real estate. In other places you'll find charming examples of 17th-century-style living and their famous prisons...

  6. Re:TV on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 1

    TFA also says the tablet has YouTube replaced by an NK state substitute on their national intranet. So you can enjoy videos of military parades and lolztastic NK propaganda.

  7. Re:And when are the Hellfire missles coming? on FAA OKs US UAVs · · Score: 1

    They'll accept a small amount of collateral damage, but when it's more collateral than targets they definitely won't take it. Try to confine it to "bad areas" where the middle class will think "they're all a bunch of hoods anyway" and you'll get race riots. There's no way to pull it off.

  8. Perfect role for a darknet site on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Too bad she didn't use one...

  9. The Idle Cycles Fallacy on Cell Phones For Science: BOINC Now Available For Android · · Score: 5, Informative

    This point gives me a chance to bring up the fallacy of "idle cycles" on modern processors.

    There's no such thing any more. There was in the '90s and earlier when CPUs didn't have the power controls they do today, but nowadays your CPU uses exactly what it needs and anything more you give it to do will use extra energy.

    So be aware that you're not putting any wasted resource to good use with these things. You're just using more resources. And on a phone that's the last thing you need.

  10. Re:And when are the Hellfire missles coming? on FAA OKs US UAVs · · Score: 2

    It'll happen right after huge amounts of collateral damage on home soil become acceptable to the public.

    They can't just call all dead adult American males "suspected militants" and Americans won't just say "meh" to their own dead women and children either.

  11. Re:2048 bit encryption. Nice, but... on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 1

    Don't know, but as I've said before, Google seems to have been doing things to make harder work for the NSA over the last few years. This would support the rumors of the NSA being able to efficiently brute-force some lower-length keys used in SSL.

  12. Re:Stupid on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 1

    But when it's so easy and cheap, why not? They have to renew keys anyway...

  13. Re:improperly? on MIT Releases Swartz Report: Instead of Leading, School Was 'Hands-Off' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If anything he was properly releasing information that was improperly withheld.

  14. Re:What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Or full-face helmets (also keeps you from eating pavement).

  15. Re:"Eww it's like a pus explosion in my mouth!" on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another paraphrased quote:

    "When I eat bugs, it always tastes like they get a last bit of revenge on me by taking a dump in my mouth."

  16. Re:Future? on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    And the past. The only question is how successful these people are.

    As you probably saw recently the UK will be getting a their own Great Wall type censorship soon...which you can opt out of. Great way to get the "troublemakers" to identify themselves, I bet the Chinese wish they'd thought of that first.

  17. Blackhat goldmine on Microsoft Expands MAPP, Shares Attack Data With Incident Responders · · Score: 1

    1. Set up multiple front companies and get them in the MAPP program
    2. Use byzantine fault tolerance to thwart canary traps
    3. Become a top "cyber-weapons" dealer
    4. PROFIT!

  18. Re:But that doesn't explain on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 1

    Good point...but for me that would be a win/win either way :D

  19. Re:But that doesn't explain on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 2

    Because contraception has been invented and the poor don't use it so much. The rich still get laid a lot more.

  20. Re:But that doesn't explain on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 1

    We'll never evolve to be better drivers, cars are too safe for that (little relationship between poor driving skill and being kicked from the gene pool) and good drivers can be killed due to others' stupidity.

  21. That was quick on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    I thought it would take at least a decade to go from "porn block" to "Chinese-style net censorship."

    Political change is like a 4x4 trying to climb a muddy hill...it moves much more quickly and easily in the wrong direction.

  22. Re:Making life unpleasant is what the USA govt wan on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 1

    I hope the lesson that other would-be whistleblowers will take home instead is to STAY ANONYMOUS. There is little glory in tying your name to the leaks, and it's certainly not worth the trouble. To some people it will even hurt your cause (accusations of "narcissist" etc.).

  23. Re:Eric Holder's promises ... on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 2

    Eric Holder is a horrible authoritarian shitsack. I remember hearing the news that Obama picked Holder as AG not long after he was first elected, it was the first and strongest sign that Obama's campaign promises were 100% bullshit.

  24. Re:Extraordinary rendition? on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 1

    I can believe their promise not to torture or execute Snowden. After ruining his life, having him spend the rest of it in prison will create a sufficient example for other would-be whistleblowers.

  25. Re:Companies shouldn't have this anyway on Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services · · Score: 1

    Only when you sign up, every time after that it can use a hash challenge. Since the server decides the challenge, assuming all other security is defeated the only way to break in using captured traffic from after the initial signup would be if the same challenge is repeated...and if a timestamp is made part of the challenge, that will never happen.

    Getting the signup done without transmitting the password, I don't know how to do...