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  1. Re:Gonna buy a ticket to Star Wars this December? on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    If the outgoing American workers are training them then clearly there are Americans qualified for the jobs. Lack of qualified workers is a requirement for H1B visas. As for risk, I expect Disney knows the government is devoted to increasing the number of H1B visas, as their supporters command.

  2. Re:Lower Receiver? on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 1

    The idiot politicians should have called the barrel the "gun" and not the lower receiver. It's a whole lot harder to make the barrel that's accurate and won't explode than it is to make a spring loaded hammer.

  3. Re:What is your solution? on Why Is It a Crime For Dennis Hastert To Evade Government Scrutiny? · · Score: 2

    The Mob was a small time operation with little influence on society as a whole. Prohibition, and the war on drugs, built the Mob into the huge monster it is today.

  4. Re:Why? on Why Is It a Crime For Dennis Hastert To Evade Government Scrutiny? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason for Human Rights is to protect everyone. Attempts to undermine Human Rights always start with the least popular members of society, and move up until everyone has lost. This is the reason that defending Human Rights usually involves defending the scum of humanity.

  5. Re:Simplistic on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 1

    Politicians are the safest job, they have the direct means to prevent their own replacement. And people really want them replaced, as you could just download the politician and ask them hypothetical questions to find out what they will do after the election.

  6. Re:Stupid on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 1

    The aircraft carrier made of sawdust and ice was to be used in the north atlantic, where it would be subject to u-boat attacks. Not in the tropics.

  7. Re:Computers Kill Trees on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 2

    Most tree farms are on poor soil, often on mountainous terrain where you really can't plant valuable crops or food easily. They often make them on land that was just logged, actually.

  8. Re:This seems foolproof! on Russian Space Agency Misused $1.8 Billion, May Be Replaced · · Score: 1

    They will replace the management layer. Meaning new hands on the money.

  9. Re:Not pointless... on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They appear to have had reasonable cause to call the bomb squad, and driving without a licence is illegal. Nothing to see here.

  10. Re:Let's just say it... on NSA-Reform Bill Fails In US Senate · · Score: 1

    They have secret rooms in the telco switch buildings, giving full access to everything. If all they wanted was meta-data they could just have the telco email the list.

  11. Re:Yes to Brexit on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 2

    Banking (finance) is a fair weather industry. In good times they add large amounts of easy money to the economy (and to the politicians). But in bad times it's the opposite. A country needs to limit the size of the finance industry (percent of economy) in order to limit their risk.

  12. It's amazing how hard people look for the next big thing when their current business model is spiraling down the drain. Most of the stuff in your home should not be on the internet, for any reason. Have a local network (LAN) for the home, with a router and firewall to allow a whitelist of connections outside.

  13. Re:512 Words on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    Use 512 bit code, and change the code after every 512 bits of data sent.

  14. Big Question on 'Logjam' Vulnerability Threatens Encrypted Connections · · Score: 1

    Did this flaw come into existance due to lazy programmers trying to save run time, or did the NSA install this as a back door? How badly has the NSA sabotauged the border defences of the USA?

  15. Re:This is possibly the dumbest things I've seen.. on US Navy Abandons Cloud and Data Center Plans In Favor of New Strategy · · Score: 1

    The NSA let Edward Snowden have unlimited and unmonitored access to their secrets, and bad things happened. If you care about security you don't let your secrets out of your control.

  16. Re: Oh for fucks sake on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    Control (wether by government or corporate) requires the ability to take from others. You can't take from people who have nothing, therefore you can't control them. The purpose of welfare programs is to ensure you can control them.

  17. Re:Markets, not people on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    A well regulated capitalist economy works very well. Unfortunately capitalism percieves regulation as damage and routes around it.

  18. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    The extra radiation you get from the porno-scanners is much less than the extra radiation you get from flying in the upper atmosphere (reduces atmospheric blockage of solar radiation). Flying is a significant source of health risks already: hightened radiation levels, reduced circulation due to cramped seats, poor air quality due to reduced circulation.

  19. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    We should be pushing for high speed rail links anyway. You can't power a jet with solar energy, and at distances below a thousand miles there is no difference in total travel time.

  20. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    No person in their right mind would link the entertainment network with the flight control system. It wouild be criminal negligence. Why risk a blue screen of death?

  21. Re:Politicans who forget who voted for them... on Canadian Prime Minister To Music Lobby: Here's Your Copyright Term Extension · · Score: 3, Funny

    In his defence, a rather large cheque was also in the letter.

  22. Re:Solution to Global Warming? on Planetary Society Wants To Launch a Crowd-Funded Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    Given the tiny size of the sails, i think painting all the roads and parking lots to reflect light would work better.

  23. FAA regulations on House Science Committee Approves Changes To Space Law · · Score: 1

    Any spacecraft operating in the atmosphere should be considered an aircraft, and therefore subject to existing aircraft regulations. So preventing the FAA from passing any new regulations might not stop them from regulating space travel.

  24. Re:Everyone wants to be the loser on Here Comes the Keurig of Everything · · Score: 1

    I want a food replicator. Pick stuff from a recipie, eat without cooking. Dump in bags of ingredients once a week or so to refill. It doesn't need a huge selection so long as it's consistent and gives ok results. Ability to program (or download) your own recipies would be nice.

  25. Re:Voting is a responsibility on Online Voting Should Be Verifiable -- But It's a Hard Problem · · Score: 1

    You could write down your choice after you do the research at home, so you don't forget on the way to vote. That appears to be the only way your comment makes sense.