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  1. Re:"cloud" vs "remote server" on Department of Defense May Give Private Cloud Vendors Access To Top Secret Data · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah you own the data. Any public cloud service provider will tell you that. You're also responsible for backup/duplication unless then bundle that in as part of the offering. You still have the same data management requirements you'd have in your own data center. The difference being now you can spread that information across multiple AZs cheaply to provide data resiliency in case of outage or disaster.

  2. Re:"cloud" vs "remote server" on Department of Defense May Give Private Cloud Vendors Access To Top Secret Data · · Score: 1

    rent-a-car or zipcar or lyft or uber are similar paradigms. Cloud is just a term but the concepts go beyond a remove server. What IT doesn't like is the fact that now the business side of the house can go get this themselves, when they want and how they want it. Oh and your data doesn't have to "sit there" unless you want it to. From a pure data service perspective yes you can let it sit there but I wouldn't unless it's encrypted.

  3. Re:"cloud" vs "remote server" on Department of Defense May Give Private Cloud Vendors Access To Top Secret Data · · Score: 1

    Actually no. It involves a whole stack of services including self provisioning, scaling and resource allocation that can include long or short term utilization. It can also include software licensing as part of the deal. The remote server is one piece of the puzzle. It's commoditization of compute resources which can help to drive down costs and you can keep it long term or dispose of it as soon as you use it. It appears that the DoD is looking to reduce costs in one particular area, storage. Anybody who's priced a SAN infrastructure in the PetaByte range will tell you it's not cheap.

  4. Give it a couple of months on Test Version Windows 10 Includes Keylogger · · Score: 1

    In a couple of months somebody will be able to disable it. Microsoft's Achilles's heel is that there are hackers out there who try to break and investigate things all the time. There is no piece of "perfect code" that can't be hacked and I'm sure there'll be a registry file posted oh github that will disable all this shit.

  5. Sad but good riddance on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I was growing up cartoons meant something. Like Daffy Duck getting his head blown off or the Rabbit outwitting the dumb hunter. Saturdays were filled with the Coyote and the limitless bounty afforded him by ACME for any device necessary to attempt at catching the Roadrunner. I always wondered who delivered out in the middle of the desert and why he got it so fast? Shit now most of what I've seen from the 70s and up were warmed over commercials that were more about marketing to kids than really having fun. Sure there were the "educational" shows that came along but those were few and far between; the rest being tripe not worth even the electricity used to watch them, much less the brain drain.

    When I saw Daffy's head getting blown off "censored" now it made me sad really because you can't blow up a cartoon duck anymore? Where has my country gone. So goodbye Saturday Morning cartoons full of marketing shit and hello Hentai Anime.

  6. Re:Nixon getting credit for starting Apollo? on How President Nixon Saved/Wrecked the American Space Program · · Score: 1

    It's funny how people look back at Kennedy and his "we choose to go to the moon" speech which ultimately led to Apollo but as others have pointed out it was Johnson who pushed for NASA and continued pushing the funding until he was out of office. From a timeline perspective it was politically expedient to push for more investment in the space race because of the Bay of Pigs Invasion which was a huge embarrassment for Kennedy. One month separated those epochs in time.

  7. Is there any place where storing documents would be considered safe at least from spying eyes?

  8. Re:There goes HIPAA on Facebook Ready To Get Into Healthcare · · Score: 1

    That's ship has sailed a long time ago.

  9. Re:Perjury on Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story · · Score: 1

    Well there's a difference between seizure and forfeiture and regrettably the 6th amendment is inadequate in allowing you to use your assets wholly to defend yourself. Thus you're right, you'll get the public defender who often opts for a plea deal rather than a rigorous defense.

  10. Re:Perjury on Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes but there still has to be the right to defend yourself. If you take away the means by which I can pay lawyers, my funds, then I can't get the best legal representation. Therefore the prosecution is already convicting you before the trial even commences. This was already addressed by SCOTUS earlier this year and it's sad that it went the way it did. It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty and I could see seizing them after trial but not before or at least the judge allowing the guy to pay for his defense. In this case the judge already allowed the bitcoins to be auctioned but there's the sense here of convicting before any adjudication has actually been done. That really needs to be fixed in the legal system.

  11. Re:Perjury on Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, they're the government's witness. If agents committed perjury themselves on the stand that's a different matter. That's why we have judges and ultimately they can exclude testimony/evidence based on the credibility of the witnesses or evidence that they affirm is true. What frosts my cornflakes is that the Prosecutors have a conflict of interest here in seizing and selling assets that were DPR's, the bitcoins, before the trial even commenced. The proceeds of which wound up in the government coffers supporting the prosecution. That alone should have been prohibited by the judge in the case so it remains to be seen how these holes in the evidence trail will be handled. IMO this guy is still fucked.

  12. Lazy Astronauts on Robot Arm Will Install New Earth-Facing Cameras On Space Station · · Score: 1

    Get your lazy butts out there and put those cameras up! And while you're at it clean up your room, it looks like a pig stye!

  13. Re:I call BS on this one.... on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    "All people are colored. Red, white, yellow, brown and black. There's no color Negro in the Crayola box" - Redd Foxx

  14. Re:We must nuke Texas from orbit, on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Yeah RIP Marge Schott and Jimmy the Greek..

  15. Re:We must nuke Texas from orbit, on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 0

    Counterpoint: people who have the most to gain from racist propaganda and muckraking are black "leaders." See: Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and Jesse Jackson.

  16. Re:Lone star... on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Actually there's a lot of people who want to get out of the US. The Southwest seems to have the most so it's not just a Texas thing.

  17. Re:We must nuke Texas from orbit, on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 0

    Wow the 1950s called, they want their racist rhetoric back. You must be an Eric Holder nutswinger.

  18. Re:Lone star... on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    I'd go for that as long as we put one along the entire eastern seaboard from DC North and California as well.

  19. WooHoo Texas we're #1 we're #1 on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    We're first bitches! Shit if you're sick, Dallas has like a billion hospitals and new ones going up where we don't need any. The Healthcare economy is going to love Ebola!

  20. Re:Sounds great... on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    Do you warn people in your conversations that they are being recorded? Do you include a recording notification, a beep, while the conversation is going on? No? Then you'll probably have a knock on the door by the feds if you live in the US for violating wiretapping laws.

  21. Re:Copyright Infringement? on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    If they developed it it's owned by the US public presumably. If they bought it from one of the trustworthy vendors out there then they probably just have a license.

  22. Re:What about legitimate uses? on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 2

    If you don't trust your kids then you have a more serious issue. You can see if there's a problem just by looking at the phone bill. Kids will be kids but you have to lead by example so they don't get themselves into a situation that could compromise their privacy or security.

  23. Re:Case on Shaky Ground on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 2

    Uh Law enforcement wouldn't use this, they have their own tools. Parents monitoring their kids? Plausible but it's also probably used by suspicious spouses to catch their partner in the act. It's an inevitable fact that since smart phones have become so ubiquitous now that this tool didn't show up on the radar sooner. What seems hypocritical to me in the case is that this guy sells a product that covers quite a bit of what Apple and Google do to a large extent already; track you. Of course their purposes are for "system quality" and "targeted ads" but there's still a substantial amount of metadata collected and cataloged. This guy just goes one step further and enables some features that obviously the government doesn't want you to have so they can monopolize the nefarious practices.

  24. Re:Oh Geeez on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    How about finding all of those guns that went south of the border first? This kind of case is just noise to distract us from the other shit the DoJ has fucked up for nearly 6 years.

  25. you forgot "mushroom mushroom" and "snake snake" FTFY.