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  1. For the record. on George R. R. Martin's "The Winds of Winter" Wiill Not Be Published In 2015 · · Score: 1

    I just hope it's not full of penises and contrived dragons that will show up eventually. I'm not sure why people think his shit doesn't stink because this guy is a hack.

  2. If only... on Scientists Float Soap Bubbles As a More Effective Drug Delivery Method · · Score: 1

    Lawrence Welk were still alive, he'd be at the forefront of big pharma. He cornered bubbles for years. "A wunnerful A wunnerful"

  3. One-Way street on Tech Companies Worried Over China's New Rules For Selling To Banks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    doing business with the PRC is a One-Way street, they'll absorb your technology, your techniques and your skills and will saturate your markets to kill off your own industries. We're in a war folks, it's time people woke up to that fact and stopped treating the Chinese Government as friendly.

  4. Re:OMG the Horror! on Reverse Engineering the Nike+ FuelBand's Communications Protocol · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking. Another "researcher" looking for publication.

  5. Re:Not Great on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    unless it's bundled in the office suite it's not there, only OWA https://play.google.com/store/... As I indicated I'll go back and look again but the Office package for Android wants you to create a fucking account to use it. So it's back to the mantra of tying you to another fucking service account, which is not what I want to begin with. Microsoft should me talk to Exchange, IMAP, SMTP and POP3 like other Android mail clients without all the bullshit.

  6. Re:Always Check the Source on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    no.. My question relates to who decides where the proceeds go. This is a public auction, licensing public airwaves. Who makes the determination where the proceeds go. The money should go to the Treasury and it's dispensation determined by congress.

    All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.”
    — U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 7, clause 1

    “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
    — U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 9, clause 7

    So who in the government approved funding for this new national response network from these proceeds?

  7. Re:Majority leaders home district on Safety Review Finds Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site Was Technically Sound · · Score: 2

    Like Radio Free Europe or Voice of America? Yeah we spend a lot of money putting out our message but they do the same thing. It's still a Spy v. Spy world and they have their propaganda engines and we have ours. There's also feet on the street, right now there's a trial going on in NYC and it really sheds some light into the low budget approach on how Russia pursues it's goals. One of my favorite quotes so far in talking about American Women:

    "I have lots of ideas about such girls, but these ideas are not actionable because they don't allow (you) to get close enough. And in order to be close you either need to (have sex with) them or use other levers to influence them to execute my requests."

    If you take a look at Russia Today, they spew a ton of propaganda, daily, all with English speaking ex-pats or well groomed English speaking Russians. It makes for hilarious viewing sometimes.

  8. Re:Not Great on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    I'll go back and look in the package, both are Microsoft so go figure. More confusion.

  9. Just curious who decides.. on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 2

    Who decides where the proceeds go for public airwave auctions? I would have thought it would go to the treasury to contribute paying all the bills of the government, not just an isolated project?

  10. Re:Majority leaders home district on Safety Review Finds Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site Was Technically Sound · · Score: 2

    Money.

  11. Re:Won't be enough on Safety Review Finds Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site Was Technically Sound · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were the shiznit! I won't listen to accusations of bad acting. Hurumph!

  12. You've been playing Radiant Defense too much.

  13. WTF, Why aren't we doing this already? on FDA Wants To Release Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Florida · · Score: 1

    Mosquitoes and the diseases they carry kill over one million people a year. Why the fuck aren't we doing this more to get rid of all Mosquitoes or at least greatly reduce their numbers?

  14. Not Great on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    First, OWA only lets you link up with Exchange or Office365 accounts, no support for POP3/IMAP/SMTP.
    The Office apps want you to create an account.

    Just let me have the apps without all the fucking caveats, I'm already licensed for Office/Outlook/Visio/Project on multiple systems and shouldn't have to jump through these hurdles!

  15. Won't be enough on Safety Review Finds Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site Was Technically Sound · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if the Nuclear Waste Repository was located on the Moon it would be too close for some people. This was an opportunity lost.

  16. Why we have RAID and Spares on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    Calculating the the System MTBF of 77 drives at 100,000 hours as a subsystem we'd expect to have a drive failure approximately every 1300 hours. That's not the reality of most observations/environments but it's enough to have a least a couple of spares on hand and why we have things like Raid 6 and ZFS. It also doesn't necessitate you having tons of spares onsite either.

  17. Re:Not enough on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    dedicated POTS line

    You realize that's not really feasible in most places anymore, right? Also, hate to burst your bubble but LPOPs and COs are being phased out as well. It's something to do with this newfangled network switching technology. Pretty soon circuit switched connections will be a thing of the past. ;-)

  18. Re:Clear and present danger on Drone Maker Enforces No-Fly Zone Over DC, Hijacking Malware Demonstrated · · Score: 2

    50 Years? Try much longer than that, try the 1930s. The problem has been that now you have much easier flight control systems including advanced computer controls to help you fly, especially in a sub $500 range for something that represents an attack vector. Nothing prohibits an R/C airplane enthusiast from becoming a nutjob and attaching a grenade to his plane either and ruining somebody's day. Trust me, there's people in DC who've thought out these scenarios but now oh my gosh something landed on the white house lawn. Probably with a camera so somebody could get a birds eye view of the place. Most likely somebody with a little too much time on their hands looking for a little fun. I'm sure at one time a lawn dart landed on the grass there or even a paper airplane but I don't hear the press raving about a possible attack from a paper airplane with Ricin or Anthrax. What that now means is endless droning (word use intention) from every media outlet about them based on FUD.

  19. Re:Welcome to the party on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's all about style. Writing software is very creative and it needs to have the authors fingerprints on it somewhere. If corporations don't like that they can suck the source code into a parser and spit out perfectly mundane crap that loses the intonation and the thoughts the original developer had for it.

  20. so quantum entanglement is like a beard? on New Micro-Ring Resonator Creates Quantum Entanglement On a Silicon Chip · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I have to use my beard like a food filter. I guess you could consider it a quantum entanglement device in large scale.

  21. I think it went downhill with Teddy Roosevelt.

  22. Dear DOJ on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too Fucking Bad! Your entire administration and the one before it has demonstrated that you have absolutely no intent of defending the constitution especially where privacy and due process are concerned. To make this kind of statement while new stories of how you're tracking people's everyday movements even more you still complain that you don't get access because people and companies are defending themselves. Lawlessness? Fuck! Where have you been? There's already instances where evidence has been forged in cases to keep secrets of how information was obtained illegally and the DOJ has sanctioned it! Ms Cadwell, you're not the person who should be in the DOJ and you should resign immediately because you have your head right up your ass.

  23. Re:Fermi's Paradox.. wait on Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    So then we have a Universe full of Hulks waiting for us out there.

  24. Fermi's Paradox.. wait on Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    I thought gamma rays explained The Incredible Hulk?

  25. Re:found in a keylogger called QWERTY on Researchers Tie Regin Malware To NSA, Five Eyes Intel Agencies · · Score: 1

    I worked with a guy who brought one of those one day to the office. It was very funny couple of days watching him try and use that thing. Of course his retorts of "oh it's better!" "more efficient!" "easier to use!" all went by the wayside when he eventually threw it away.