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  1. Re:Hope it makes him feel better on 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' · · Score: 1

    MIT want to set an example, the DOJ wanted to slap him on the wrists.

    And more correctly:
    " He BROKE into a communications room in MIT, "

  2. Re:Hope it makes him feel better on 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IT was MIT who insisted on tough ]punishments and wouldn't allow a slap on the wrist.
    If Abelson was anyway involved it that, then he is at fault regardless of his history'.

    NO, he wasn't naive, his punishment was overblown.

    I'f I am going 5 mph over the speed limit, and I get a ticket I am not naive, that's just the risk I took.

    If I get arrested, taken to jail, refuse bail and threatened. IT didn't happen becasue I was naive, it happened because people were abusing power to make a point.

  3. Re:So the guards are still getting paid? :) on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    It would be more correct to say: The scheduled pay date will be delayed.
    They'll get paid.

  4. Re:Zombies. on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    Since they are still working, why shouldn't they get paid? If they weren't working, how could they vote to end it?

  5. Re:vs gasoline cars on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    in almost all of thin it's the fuel system. There are 300,000 car fires a year,but I would love to see that broken down by model year and cost.

  6. Re:vs gasoline cars on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    "Very unsafe!"
    I think you mean:
    Action Packed!

  7. Re:vs gasoline cars on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    300,000 cars a year catch on fire.

  8. It wasn't illegal.

  9. Re:Read-only vs. complete ban on Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    I would imagine getting a refresh every .1 second from thousand of bots could be considered some kind of attack.

  10. Why would they need to add https? To encrypt the text you are posting publicly? What is the impact of a MITM attack for a /. user?

    Not very much, is anything.

  11. Re:Numbers are less sensational on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 1

    Yes yes, you take enough area outside the area it becomes small. If you look at all the deaths that have every been, car accidents would be a tiny percentage. That doesn't mean you should take proper precautions when in a car.

  12. Re:I do admire the Chinese on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 1

    You can't tell when you have run 200 meters?
    If it's downtown, I can tell yo how far I have run to within 1%. Better then that if I can look at my cell phone

  13. Re:656 feet? on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 1

    Because they don't use some backwater measuring system like 'feet'.

    The rest of your post is nonsense.

  14. Re:If you want one right away... on Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire · · Score: 1

    "namely the stove can't be used while someone is charging their phone"
    false.

    " Maybe a better option than either would be to buy a solar panel that attaches to a backpack, a few spare batteries and a second emergency phone."
    ah, so you read nothing, have no experiences.

    HInt: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt -- Abraham Lincoln

  15. Re:Many advantages of FlameStower over BioLite on Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget the BioLite is also your stove. ANd it's designed to use local fuel(sticks and what not)

  16. Re:If you want one right away... on Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire · · Score: 1

    OTOH, I can't quite bring myself to buy something from a site that says:
    "Forget the fuel. " right next to some fire wood.

    Hello?

  17. Re:mmm... on Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire · · Score: 1

    When you do use that firewood, you use it's 'waste' heat. It's not coffee OR charging , its coffee AND charging.

  18. Re:Or just a battery. on Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire · · Score: 0

    Do they? If you actually did climb Everest, you should no that energy is precious and calories are important. A device that requires you to manually crank takes calories. How would you wind that while wearing gloves?

    and Everest is a cake walk today. IT about 1 step removed from just selling tickets and having a guid on hand to take you to the next camp. Yawn.

  19. Re:mmm... on Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire · · Score: 1

    "Kickstarter and not in a t-mobile store"
    it's on Kickstarter becasue they need funding before going into production.
    Do you think their is a production fairy that just waves her wand and you shit it made?

    ". First, if you overheat it, your goose is cooked."
    So? that's true if you misuse pretty much any product

    "Second, it looks like the solution to the overheating problem is to use water."
    Yes, like every other way to generate electricity

    "Third... fire + water + electronics generally end badly. "
    No it doesn't.

    "I'd rather have one of those in my "oh shit" bag than some complex contraption like this..."
    You consider the complicated? seriously?

    This is a device the converts waste heat into electricity. Heat you going to create anyways. The device is light weight.

    "Just buy a solar panel like a normal person;"
    More expensive, heavier and more fragile. And who are you to define normal?

    "; Don't risk it tipping over and killing your (likely) only means of communication in the wilderness."
    Are you really that lame? DO you use paper phone? YOU could dump that little water an pretty much any phone and it will still work.

    You're the sort of person who think everything that can be invented has been invented.
    Stupid short sighted dimwitted hater.

  20. Good news on Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope · · Score: 1

    now fix it.

  21. Re:big surprise on Former NSA Honcho Calls Corporate IT Security "Appalling" · · Score: 1

    "A company is by definition an entity that exists for the sole purpose of making money."
    wrong.

    A company is a group of people. You can have a company of soldier, a company of people to sell products(make money), a company of people trying to feed the homeless.

    You should actually look up the definition of things you say '.. is by definition'

  22. Re:Give me a break. on Former NSA Honcho Calls Corporate IT Security "Appalling" · · Score: 1

    Actually yes. the NSA will work with some corporations with their security.

    I would like to remind you, and others, what the NSA did was legal. Talk to congress about that, it's their fault.

  23. Re:No, really? on Former NSA Honcho Calls Corporate IT Security "Appalling" · · Score: 1

    You can have incorrect answer, but still relevant to what they are looking for.

    For example:
    Mothers Maiden: McDonald -- It's actual smith*
    First Car: Royals Royce

    and so on

    *l, not my moms actual maiden name.

  24. Re:Most offices have normal plate-glass windows, t on Former NSA Honcho Calls Corporate IT Security "Appalling" · · Score: 1

    This is why we need a PE for Computer Engineering. People with professionalism would not allow those issue to happen. The consumer isn't the expert, they rely on experts.

    The industry need to grow up.

  25. Re:But it does improve profit on Former NSA Honcho Calls Corporate IT Security "Appalling" · · Score: 1

    Proper testing procedure, compliance protocols, pay 3rd party to find compromises, experts in each layer of security.