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  1. Re:Poor Design... on Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not apple's fault, it's 1500 bad developers that did not instantly compile with the updated library and submit for update to the store.

    100% of the blame sits at the feet of the developers of those apps.

  2. Re:SATA Slots. on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    It's not. Raid is high availability not backup.

  3. Re:No, the focus need to be on agriculture on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just two large nuclear plants will do it just fine. We dont have to go all hippy huggy green for the power source.

    Plus sell the salt to Trader Joes for the rich people to buy.

  4. Re: Why not? on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    I prefer the farmers move out. Those assholes use 60% of the water.

  5. Re:Define "affordable" on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the Bay area anyone making under $350,000 is considered low income.

    It's so bad they have bread lines at Panera Bread stores.

  6. Awesome! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now rich fuckers get to enjoy meth labs in their neighborhood like the rest of us!

  7. translation... on Comcast and TWC Will Negotiate With Officials To Save Their Merger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really rich guys are getting upset that their plan to become even more rich is being held up.

  8. Re:Me personally? no.. on Does Lack of FM Support On Phones Increase Your Chances of Dying In a Disaster? · · Score: 1

    More hams on 20meter and 10 meter with PSK31 than cb'ers.

  9. Re:Me personally? no.. on Does Lack of FM Support On Phones Increase Your Chances of Dying In a Disaster? · · Score: 1

    It depends. a dipole in your apartment/condo is just fine at QRP power levels. if you plan on transmitting at 1000 watts, well things will get really exciting for you.

    I have a 10 Meter dipole ran at the peak of my house in the attic, works great for the directions I want to talk.

    Everything else I use a current Loop antenna that is smaller and easily turned. or if I am portable when camping I use a BuddiPole/BuddiStick setup. Those also work indoors, but again, if you are at 100 watts or higher, RF feedback and RF exposure to yourself get's really wacky. I have seen guys fry their own gear when running 500 watts on an antenna that was only 30 feet away from themselves due to induction.

    A lot of hams claim that more power is good. It's not. 5 Watts QRP you can easily talk around the world on. and it's a lot easier to do in an apartment/condo setting.

    Add PSK31 digital mode into the mix and suddenly you are talking to people barely above the noise floor 1500 miles away.

  10. It's a good start. on D-Link Apologizes For Router Security · · Score: 1

    No apologise for D-link router hardware quality.

  11. Me personally? no.. on Does Lack of FM Support On Phones Increase Your Chances of Dying In a Disaster? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am a ham radio operator, I have a significantly higher chance of survival than the rest.

    If people really cared about safety they would take the time to learn CPR, basic First Aid, and things like ham radio or gain knowlege in how to increase their odds.

    Dancing with the stars and Americas got Talent are far more important to the general population.

  12. Re:Kangaroo Court! on DIA Polygraph Countermeasure Case Files Leaked · · Score: 2

    No people want to feel like they are safe at the revocation of all freedoms.

    Feeling safe is the most important thing to them. Help me feel safe Government! Bad people are allowed to buy electronics without a license! Bad people can build things! They must be TERRORISTS!

    Save us from the people that have an IQ above 100 oh holy government!

    Dumb people want security Smart people want freedom.

    Sadly the smart are outnumbered by the dumb 3 to 1

  13. Good luck. on US Military To Recruit Civilian Cybersecurity Experts · · Score: 2

    All Cybersecurity guys I know will not tolerate testosterone fueled chain of command bullshit that is the backbone of the US military.

    Exactly how do they think they will control and indoctrinate these people? Most are smart enough to know that most of the problems are CAUSED by the United States, and when ordered to do something unethical, they will say "go to hell"

    So I am guessing threats of imprisonment is their motivator?

  14. Re:Stupid NAT. on Google To Propose QUIC As IETF Standard · · Score: 1

    I send custom Transport protocols as well as the "wrong" protocols over port 80 that traverse NAT just fine.

    Routers dont care about the content just the port, the firewall may freak out, but that has nothing to do with routing.

  15. Skip these on Recon Instruments' Sports-Oriented Smart Glasses Now Shipping · · Score: 1

    If they are anything like their previous product, very limited, and not useable.

    We tried to use the goggle setup they have sold for years. They sucked, the Dev kit was horrid, and the goggle device was buggy as hell.

    Maybe by the 5th generation they will get them right and not so small use but open so that anything can be installed.

  16. they were pretty scummy. on MakerBot Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Employees · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They patented things that other people in the community designed and claimed them as their own. Makerbot may have been one of the first, but they ended up as scumbags.

    Now there are a ton of other companies out there doing it better, Good luck to the new CEO, he's captain of a sinking ship.

  17. Since when.... on FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    do we call assholes "researchers"? This guy is nothing but a grandstanding asshole. You dont make comments like that and you dont do the FUD slinging that he does after getting denied.

    Researchers do real work and publish their findings for peer review, not act like a street cred seeking HAx0r trolling for Lulz.

  18. So this means..... on StarTalk TV Show With Neil DeGrasse Tyson Starts Monday · · Score: 1

    That sounds like "Cosmos" is cancelled then.

    Too bad, as it was the best thing on TV.

  19. Re:Kind of a dup, but here's a link that explains on Calling Out a GAO Report That Says In-Flight Wi-Fi Lets Hackers Access Avionics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hackers have a better chance of deorbiting a satellite and hitting the aircraft while it is in flight than they do taking it over from the in flight wifi.

  20. Re:Kind of a dup, but here's a link that explains on Calling Out a GAO Report That Says In-Flight Wi-Fi Lets Hackers Access Avionics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's the same for all the hype over car systems. EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE they have to install hardware to get access to the data interface.

    So yes Terrorists can take over the airplane from their cellphones if the flight crew let them into the maintenance areas and help them install several specialized devices that give them access.

    The terrorists need to make appointments so they can make sure that avionics technicians are on hand to help them

  21. Re:Smaller Is Better on US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target · · Score: 2

    Motorcycles are faster than dogs, yet many people get injured by dogs intercepting a motorcycle.

    I am thinking you did not take physics and algebra classes to learn about trajectories and interception.

  22. Re:Smaller Is Better on US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target · · Score: 1

    Which would make flak guns way more effective. Start shooting flak that is nothing more than simple drones that look for large objects, get close to them and explode.

    Flak shells are already 50% there as they have the proximity fuse, all we need to do is add a system to let them steer themselves to big objects.

  23. Re:Smaller Is Better on US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target · · Score: 1

    titanium? just the baseball will take out the turbine of a jet engine. all you need to do is break one or two turbine vanes and the engine will destroy it's self.

    Jet engines are pretty darn flimsy in regards to objects entering the intake.

  24. Re:Too late; already sold my EVO's on eBay on New Samsung SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Fix Coming Later This Month · · Score: 1

    No I skipped Samsung as they are pricey compared to the Crucial... Yet the Crucial outperforms the Samsung over and over again.

    The problem is Samsung screwed up and shipped drives that cant live up to the claims.

  25. Re:why must human ancestors be involved on World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered In Kenya · · Score: 1

    Mostly because Humans are the only ones that love killing each other.

    Dont see prides of lions killing the pride next door just for shits and giggles or because a magical invisible sky lion tells them to do so.