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  1. Re:Really? on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 1

    This is the secret service. They want to shoot drones with a 50mm Howitzer that uses 00 buckshot rounds.

  2. So it was the 1950's PATRIOT ACT on Plan C: The Cold War Plan Which Would Have Brought the US Under Martial Law · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because short of the martial law of troops in the streets with body armor and M16's..... Oh wait... Our COPS have those now.
    Well they dont have assult vehicles...... Wait....
    Nor do they have grenade launchers...... Welll.....

    So basically they have been planning on the shit we have today for decades?

  3. Re:Dear NCTA..... on Verizon, Cable Lobby Oppose Spec-Bump For Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    You are correct. Angry mob with tazers is the way.

  4. Re:Well, what did you expect? on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    I want the penis drones from germany to come to the USA and end up in congressional debates...

  5. They also are investigating other things... on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 4, Funny

    They also found some very high tech surveillance drones made from some high tech composites made to look like common folded notebook paper. It seems that these high tech spy planes also use a printed circuitry that looks like words on the surface.

    The secret service is still researching these severe breaches of security. While they let a crazy guy run across the lawn and enter the white house in broad day light.

  6. Dear NCTA..... on Verizon, Cable Lobby Oppose Spec-Bump For Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    Go fuck yourself.

    25 Down 5 up should be the bare minimum allowed. Hell they should also slap on a requirement that it should not cost more than $9.95 a month and "contracts" are now illegal.

    If the FCC had any balls at all and was working for the people, they would do this right away.

  7. Re:There is no anonymity on Barrett Brown, Formerly of Anonymous, Sentenced To 63 Months · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A lot of these guys get caught because they open their yaps. A lot of us old timers from the early days never got caught. When the 414's were taken down I know several people that avoided it simply because they actually listened to the "trust no one" mantra. Just like how the guys that took over WTTW never got caught because they did NOT open their big fat mouths.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    So a tip from someone old..... earning "cred" is for noobs. Keep your mouth shut and you really reduce the risk of getting caught.

  8. Re: This is so stupid. on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen a car? Tires are silent? that is completely insane.

  9. Re:HondaKarts? on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    only if the engine is designed for back pressure. you can get all you need from a sharp transition from head exhaust port to header.

    There is a reason that top fuel dragsters have almost zero back pressure and open short straight pipes.

  10. Ecoboost. on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    It sounds like crap. nobody wants to buy a Mustang or a F150 that sounds like a honda civic.

  11. Re:Because it sucks on Tracking Down How Many (Or How Few) People Actively Use Google+ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It only sucks to the inane people. There are several huge technical communities over that they have a massively lower noise to signal ratio. If you want to talk tech and not cat photos, G+ is where it's at.

    The Sport Touring community on G+ destroys the one on FB.

  12. Re:reinstalls on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    You get to run their web installer for free for the first year, after that get out the credit card.

  13. Re:No on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    "It's free for 1 year. If you wait more than a year to upgrade, you have to pay."

    Translation

    It's free for 1 year. If you have to reinstall after that year because you had to replace or upgrade your hard drive or it crapped it's self because of an update, you have to pay.

  14. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    But if you need to do a re-install.... well then you can buy a full retail price copy.

  15. Not all. on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    Metalized low-E glass really limits that stuff as well as aluminum siding. The magnetic paint sold for kids rooms also will create a very high reflective barrier to significantly hamper this tech.

  16. Re:instant disqualification on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 2

    Very true. Old VB6 was useful. The current VB is a convuluted horrid mess that is only there because Microsoft wanted everyone to hate it so much they migrated to C#

  17. Re:One OS to rule them alll ... on Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Problem is nobody cares. All anyone cares about is the apps and when the app you want or need to run is a traditional PC UI it will not translate to a touch UI automatically.

    So windows will suck on touch devices like it always has, because of the apps that we want and need to run.

  18. Only if they cleaned house. on Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a Surface Pro and while it's nice it's still clunky as hell, Windows 10 will not fix this because honestly Windows is 100% crap for a touch interface. The software and OS are not designed for touch and therefore will be clunky.

    Windows 10 for laptops.
    Windows Touch for touch devices.

    Stop trying to unify the two because IT WILL NOT WORK. windows 8 sucks horribly on a laptop but works nice on a tablet. windows 10 is awesome on a laptop but SUCKS on a tablet. (Yes I tried living with it on my surface pro for 4 weeks. it sucks as much as windows 7 does and windows 8.1 does when using non touch apps)

    So unless they fire all their management and design teams and start over with people that understand that the two ecosystems are different and need to remain separate nothing will change.

    Proof that your touch UI and OS is crap when your users of your flagship device use a mouse and keyboard with it most of the time.

  19. Re:Stop, just stop on Scientists Discover Compound In Baby Diapers Can Enlarge Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Di Hydrogen Monoxide is in EVERY pesticide and Chemical solution out there. IT MUST BE BANNED!
    People die from Over exposure to it constantly!

  20. Re:Time for the Ransomware on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 1

    Older cars the Spark and fuel tables WERE a part of the firmware, in fact every time I flashed a new EEPROM for the 7730 ECM I rewrote the whole thing. I even went as far as used a larger EEPROM and tied the highest Address line to a switch so I could write multiple copies with different tables in the single EEPROM and flip a switch on the fly to go from street driving for smooth and decent gas mileage, to racing with aggressive spark tables and dumping in fuel like a banshee. the CPU in the 7730 did not even know I switched anything if done at idle. I even added features like intercooler spray activation that the ECM never supported.

    Todays cars, the software is written horribly so they need to do updates. BMW updated the entire firmware package to my Transmission twice.

  21. Re:Time for the Ransomware on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 1

    It's not as filtered as you think. A single shorted sensor can and does cause other problems in car ECM's. BMW E30 ECM if the oil level sensor shorts out will cause other sensors to read as failures as well as power brown outs tot he processor causing major issues.

    Car electronics are only built a step up from consumer electronics nowdays. It's quite a joke as to how crappy the engineering in all the electronics in a car are.

  22. Dont trust these at all. on Shanghai Company 3D Prints 6-Story Apartment Building and Villa · · Score: 3, Informative

    it's not 3d printed concrete. it's 3d printed mortar. It's not strong stuff. I have seen some of the US based building prints and I am not impressed at all. On top of this nobody has done any seismic testing or other stability testing on any of the builds.

    I believe it has potential, but not yet, and honestly building plywood forms and doing a pour over a welded reinforcement rod system is far far stronger than this. Plus they need a way to set in electrical and plumbing during the build process.

  23. Re:Time for the Ransomware on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 1

    I can rewrite the OS in my ECM and BCM at any time they are EEPROMS and FLASH not PROMS.

    Maybe back in 1988 they were PROMS, today's cars are field programmable, Hell BMW's have been field programmable since the 90's.

      I've been hacking on cars for hotrodding for 20 years and ALL OF THEM have been easily modified for decades. Up to 1998 you had solidified chips but the Advent of ODB-II had field programmability very VERY common.

  24. Re:Spoofing! on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 1

    you can buy a bottle that you add to your gas tank that will pass a tailpipe test.

  25. Re:Spoofing! on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 2

    It is trivial. I can build one with an arduino in 10 minutes. Build one that sits in between so that all the good data is there but it limits the data to acceptable levels so it all looks legit.