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  1. Ha ha ha on Engineers: Traffic Studies Use Simulation Software, Not Lane Closings · · Score: 2

    Cristie would be even more toast than he is anyhow.
    Seems goons like that are attracted to offices he got in which brings to mind why perhaps the NSA gets it's way because they have so much stuff to smear anyone and use that as leverage to get to play their little boys power games.

  2. Why the hell on Hackers Gain "Full Control" of Critical SCADA Systems · · Score: 1

    are those systems connected to the Internet?

    Plain stupidity or folks managing those don't know what this Internet stuff is?

  3. Gut feeling on Counterpoint: Why Edward Snowden May Not Deserve Clemency · · Score: 1

    of sensible people is they are taken for a ride, that Snowden did the right thing and now, as expected, the bean counter mentalities bribed by mental cool-aid are trying to countersteer the sailboat which already left the harbor.

    How the show continues will be seen and the true outcome may never be known.

    Just one hell of a said affair going on.....

  4. Wanna bet? on Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NSA: No
    Reality: "censored" (reducted) due to harming security
    People's thoughts: 50% true, 50% BS
    Result: Nothing happens, business as usual

  5. Re:There must be a very good reason... on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    To have the municipality own and operate the electrical supply/grid and be disconnected from multi-state/country/continent power corporations and their business plans, financial goals and all what comes with it - future trading, lobbying, PAC and other democracy amendments active these days.

    Municipalities are not fully isolated because they have to buy their supply on the existing market but sure work more in the interest of smaller folks and the big corps are hell-of afraid of municipalities changing towards independence.

  6. And she apologizes, on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 1

    playing along with this idiocy?
    Great company to have worked for, standing behind me like a rock and thanks a lot all you Twitter-Hyppocrites blowing up your egos showing your true face yet again!

  7. Trying to make a buck... on Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn · · Score: 1

    Seems it is a lawyer outfit or company trying to squeeze money from people by trying to embarrass them by maybe disclosing their name, address etc.
    There was one case apparently where a person got a court order to stop it for her.

    There are a lot of open questions - court seemed to mix up downloads with streaming and how the IP/name info etc. got created is another good question.
    What also seems to happen is that other crooks are sending fake cease and desist emails (or something like that) to catch a ride on this..

  8. Re:Exponential growth ended in 1970s in academia on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 1

    The Big Crunch by David Goodstein: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

    Depends how you look - if any capital gain of an investment is reinvested, it's exponential growth. Maybe that's one reason why all the wealth is "bubbling up" and look what a role money plays....

  9. Re:The workers are upset on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 1

    You are not getting it - if it would not feel good or "right" to do "bad" things, there would no "bad things" happening - ha?

    Who says the NSA people were feeling bad doing their numbers? After some things were disclosed the other side - public - is perceiving "bad" things are happening for them and that turns the table.

    What's bad anyway - on which level is something bad, ultimately?
    Millions of people ripped off - deprived of something they own, worked for or deserve, by "culprit" - depends whom you ask...

  10. Re:The workers are upset on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 1

    Don't do bad shit, so you don't have to feel bad about it.

    Yawn....
    Ever heard about "framing somebody" with concocted evidence?

    And - doing some bad shit feels good sometimes.

  11. Re:Why are you spying on your ex-girlfriend? on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 1

    ... that's serious on a governmental level....

    Just consider blackmail in general with some information picked up. I mean, they are going after porn-watching folks somewhere to supposedly discredit them. On searches like that, other results come up and...

    Aren't "they" doing industrial espionage overseas, which does not have much to do with security? Who gets the results - most-paying or best-connected...

  12. In a system on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 1

    where money is the main criteria for any action, many things can and do go wrong. In particular when continuing exponential growth processes run by humans happen in a closed system with limited non-renewable resources.

  13. Absolutely! on After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information · · Score: 1

    "It would be great to see a secondary market in this kind of analysis emerge"

    Health/Life insurance Co's need to increase profit margins, employers figure out whom to fire first, police departments preventative arrests, - Minority Report-Style, paradise for extortionists getting their hand on those data worth a fortune.

  14. hmmm... on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    I wonder, in your car, having some properly shielded container looking precious with that kind of stuff in it would take care of car thieves for good?

  15. Better solution: on Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump · · Score: 1

    Have the individuals with those ideas eat it!

  16. Hmpffff on Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Studying doesn't reduce it. Looks like a runaway process to me. Mars-like surface to come at the end - thanx a lot. Probably not the only idiotic failure in the universe.

  17. Same stupid thing on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1, Funny

    as all those stop signs on crossings where one can see traffic 1/2 mile each side.

    Which leads to the question how much fuel is wasted bringing all those huge masses of big cars to a full stop, then accelerating again - all just satisfying the rules....

  18. Who knows... on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 1

    Looking at the history of this whole health care thing:

    - the single payer version did not fly at all - why

    - the "solution" was severely attacked from ground up - why

    - at the start date the project fails...

    Goal achieved - Americans continue to get severely milked at health care coverage filling coffers of others living on a different planet.
    Good luck with it!

  19. Re:Establishe fact: on Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    ...TT is probably tattling all my financial details back to Intuit ...

    You can configure a firewall to block what you don't like. Block everything, then open what is trusted. A lot of work but worth it. One problem is software updates. Snoopers may be in those processes, MSoft one big suspect.

  20. Establishe fact: on Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    One version of TurboTax a couple of years ago transmitted every entry I did on my machine in this software package to some outside entity.
    Add a number - firewall comes up asking for permission to connect. Move around - same thing.
    May have been some debugging feature but who the hell needs to see every move I do in some debug-log, if this was the case.

    Do I trust the Co? Sure no, their attempts to tie you in and milk $$'s out of you are disgusting.

  21. An yet... on How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    Just another veil of secrecy, big company internals - The NSA++ sub-state in a state supposedly in cahoots with big companies - or the other way around..

    No one on the outside is getting the real story.
    The defense against anything is common: First total denial, then admit something and at the same time issue counter-info. What was it? Ah, it defends against terrorism, how many actual cases - 57 as one number came out. The number is not getting into many people's brains, the terrorism-defense does, world OK again...

    Anything really changing, with this paid puppet-government?

  22. Yeah! on Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents · · Score: 1

    "would earmark a classified sum of money" .... again this classified BS - what do they have to hide? The crap tax-$$'s burnt on all this pipe dream?

    This whole pandora box gets never cleaned out. Needs the method how the gordian knot was solved...

  23. Shows the frame of mind on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 1

    of the people implementing this kind of restriction on kids. Maybe they are passing on their own childhood traumatizition?

    Heee touched me!! No, I did not! Yes you did! No..... Yes ... N

  24. Same on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    In Switzerland - IE dominates, reasons unknown 2 me...

  25. Re:Face it, folks on One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet · · Score: 1

    Biomass of humans on this planet is neglectible despite Fox news products.