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  1. Remove the road signs.... on Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? · · Score: 1

    You might encrypt and steg away, and then use a bit of software to remove the record of said file(s) from the fat/mft and mark those sectors as "bad". Email yourself the backup fat/mft, travel, and reverse the process at your destination.

    Or you might (in a rush) encrypt and steg away on a partition, then mark the partition as unallocated while you go through security. Won't fool a reasonably competent computer tech, which is not going to be a problem in most countries but might be a risk in America, seeing as how we've offshored enough IT that your airport security grunts might just be very "technical", indeed.

  2. Re:Silly nerds... on Google Apps Gets Two-Factor Security · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You refer to a time from before the day Google incentivized the stealing of phones by making them [a] key to business espionage.

  3. Re:Cloud apps more secure? on Google Apps Gets Two-Factor Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The most interesting inference to me is that some third-party vendor who is serving up cloud apps has employees who are inherently more trustworthy than the ones you handpicked are.

  4. Re:The the Feds can read your mail.... on Judge Allows Subpoenas For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    Those of us who are aware of that are heavily outnumbered by those who might just wake up if they get a visual of somebody peeking inside their mail and laughing at their penis pump.

  5. Good time to sell... on GoDaddy Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    The GoDaddy folks may just be reading the tea leaves...when you have judges saying that merely being on the 'net strips you of privacy while simultaneously all kinds of money and power are being brought to bear to strip the 'net of its neutrality, the value of the 'net as a means of discourse and information exchange may be about to plummet.

    How long is America going to want to pay the ever bigger bucks required for 'net access for the privilege of being legally spied upon and the ever increasing probability that they'll be preempted by "higher priority traffic" when all they'll get out of using the 'net is one never-ending stream of political propaganda and commercials?

  6. The the Feds can read your mail.... on Judge Allows Subpoenas For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    Courts have held that Internet subscribers do not have an expectation of privacy once they convey subscriber information to their Internet service providers, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled.

    If all it takes is to give up your name and address, then the government can read your mail, eh? That is how you get mail - by conveying your "subscriber information".

  7. Why aren't the license terms visible on packaging? on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If software publishers are going to demand abhorrent use terms, then shouldn't their terms be on the outside of the package so that the buyer has the ability to make an informed purchasing decision?

  8. Re:It's In the Air on German Military Braces For Peak Oil · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can you document your inference that the vast majority of your generation, on the other hand, are more environmentally responsible? For instance, by providing proof that the fleet mileage of your generation greatly exceeds that of an equivalent random sample of "Baby Boomers"?

  9. Cannot wait for... on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    By clicking "Yes", you agree to submit all public comments about this product to [Enter Corporate Name Here] for review and possible rejection prior to releasing them.

  10. Re:It's In the Air on German Military Braces For Peak Oil · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It wasn't "the Baby Boomers"...we inherited a hydrocarbon-dependent world, and there were powerful forces at work to ensure that we remained dependent. Big Oil and the Republicans, for instance, who blocked all conservation and alternative energy measures that were attempted after the the birth of OPEC sent energy shocks hammering our economy...instead, we were handed voodoo economics by Reagan and others like him, who were hardly "Baby Boomers".

    We did, however, invent the Green Movement, the demand for alternative energy, alternative lifestyles, etc., etc., etc. You should go read the back issues of The Mother Earth News...the attempt to save this planet from the greed of a few has been a way of life for many "Boomers" for a very long time.

    By the way: I hope you didn't ask your "Baby Boomer" parents for a car when you turned 16...

  11. Re:Freedom of the Press on Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On the other hand, your taking the action of pasting "some legal jargon into this post" might be a seen as an indicator that the U.S. legal system has become so seriously flawed that those who wish to abuse it feel no compunction against doing so, while those who take the pasted "legal jargon" seriously may be doing so because they are only too aware that the U.S. legal system has indeed been weaponized.

  12. How very Beatles... on Aging Star System Leaves Strange Death Spiral · · Score: 1

    Wonder how much - if any - of the spiral emanating from that carbon star is in the form of diamonds? Lucy in the sky, indeed.

  13. What? 243 comments, and nobody... on Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? · · Score: 1

    ...suggested Predator drone pilot?

  14. "They were quite successful."???? on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 1

    How they figure that? I didn't see a Wal*Mart in the pictures!

  15. AppleTV? on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 1

    Nothing but Microsoft commercials on it, right?

  16. Wonder who funded this? on Old People Enjoy Reading Negative Stories About Young · · Score: 1

    Those folks that want the young to be mad at the old so that they can get enough support to push the Social Security Trust Fund onto the stock market, where it may be more easily separated from the American people?

  17. A wonderful business opportunity... on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    After reading TFA, it appears that this comes down to "If you have enough money for a gated property, you're safe from this un-Constitutional intrusion".

    So I would suggest that a business opportunity exists here: All you have to do is to make a portable "security fence" with a sign that says "Keep Out! Private Property!" for use around cars.

    Market it as a "Pigpen", perhaps.

  18. Re:This Is Great News ... on Possible Treatment For Ebola · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might want to look at the list of known Ebola outbreaks before you determine where to site your stockpile.

  19. Re:Old trick... on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 1

    I gather you believe that Java is as essential to Windows programming as .NET? I might have chosen to "condemn" Java...if I believed that Windows and the other Microsoft offerings were increasingly Java-based.

  20. Re:To make games I want to play on More Devs Going Indie, To Gamers' Benefit · · Score: 1

    It is my ultimate dream to make a living from games...

    If you have the skills, the imagination, and the ability to keep your finger on the consumer's pulse, that shouldn't be a problem, especially as you'll be operating without the parasitical overhead of the MBAs...

    You know: The CEO, the CFO, and the rest of the "executive team"...and, of course, without the need to generate "shareholder value" even if that means selling vaporware.

  21. Old trick... on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wasn't alone in keeping '286, 386, and '486 boxes around until Pentiums became prolific...and the same goes for dual cores etc...you write code that runs fast on the older generations, and you never hear user-land complaints about your stuff's performance on the new.

    Of course, with the advent of .NET....well, now you're only as good as Microsoft is.

  22. Brain "downtme" is good? on Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime · · Score: 1

    Then what is the point of that Isaac Watts quote "For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do."?

    Me, I half-suspect "they" finance this pre-determinate research 'cuz ya'll are using digital devices on the 'net learning "stuff" in an uncontrolled manner and/or entertaining yourselves cheaply instead of believing - and *buying - more of their "stuff"...

    (*Double entendre...I so proud.)

  23. Re:Unions being Unions on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1
    Your hatred of unions/labor/the American middle class seriously affects your reading comprehension - and your comprehension of the motivation behind offshoring.

    Your assertion:

    First off, the only companies outsourcing are ones where the employees (normally in a union) demand an obscenely high wage for the value of the work they're doing.

    is a perspective, is it not? Prior to the onset of inequitable free trade, those wages were merely comparable to other workers performing the same jobs throughout America (and western Europe; "the Western world", if you will).

    The truth is the few you apparently count yourself a member of (or an heir to...or perhaps you are a beneficiary of offshoring? A manager or owner of an offshore firm? Slashdot should attach the first three octets of your IP address to your nickname, don't you think?) saw an opportunity to divert more wealth to themselves if they could use the rigged currency exchange rates and criminal lack of environmental and worker wage and safety laws offshore to displace American (and European) workers.

    The consequence - and thus the truth behind the motivation - is well-documented in the resultant forced redistribution of wealth away from America's middle class.

    And I apologize for my late response; you see, were I to "get a job" rather than run my own business, I would have more time to respond to those who choose to deliberately misinterpret evidence showing how America's corporations do not spread "goodness and light" but rather tolerate - if not encourage - the abuse of labor (of people ) wherever they can get away with it.

  24. Re:God bless America! on Germany To Roll Out ID Cards With Embedded RFID · · Score: 1

    No problem. We'll just cross-reference that RFID tag inside that CD jewel case in your laptop case (or in the laptop) to the credit or debit card you used at Wal*Mart, and follow you that way.

    Some of the RFID tags I have upstairs are teeeeeny.

  25. Re:NASA tanked a long time ago on Layoff Anxiety Is Top Risk To Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Always the same thing; the same either/or choice: Choose to pay to prepare America for the future, or choose to pay for stupid wars.