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  1. Gay Girl Blogger from Syria? on What LulzSec Logins Reveal About Bookworms, and Passwords · · Score: 2

    Do we need to change "her" password? Right now it's "Lezcyclopedia".

  2. Re:Zero to Godwin on IBM Turns 100 · · Score: 1

    Right. This is from the same ADL that spawned Adam Gadahn.

  3. Re:First post. on Sunlight Foundation Announces 'Sarah's Inbox' · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you are referring to "sarahsbox.com"

    An honest mistake...

  4. Re:Damn on British Tax System Uses Web Robots To Find Cheats · · Score: 1

    Look!

    We've turned up these Windsor and Mountbatten scoundrels! Seem to have many thousand millions, off-the-books in property and investments. Pay nary a thing!

  5. Re:Anonymous payments on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    HI my name is Leon Trotsky. You may know me from such films as "Dr. Zhivago", "Bad Day at Black Rock", "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and "The Iceman Cometh"..

    I just dropped in to say the parent is right. Your bodyguard doesn't even need a gun!

  6. Re:Zero to Godwin on IBM Turns 100 · · Score: 1

    Prescott Bush.

    Convicted war profiteer, indicted for trading with the enemy.

  7. Re:Well, it only took them 75 years to find Titani on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    "Gee,

    I searched the whole ocean, down to the square centimetre.

    But? Nothing!

    Do you think they cooked the whole story up?"

  8. Re:Mmmm on Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage · · Score: 1

    Look at the 'Fridge shot: It says "Shit Burger".

  9. Re:Balls of steel on LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard · · Score: 1

    Now they crashed Twitter.

  10. Re:Balls of steel on LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard · · Score: 1

    Honore? Touche!

  11. Re:You can't trust the Chinese on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    I don't mod my own posts. ;-)

  12. Re:You can't trust the Chinese on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    Eat Satire, you fool!

  13. Re:You can't trust the Chinese on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or the USians.

    Evil.

  14. Re:tineye.com on Google Launches Search By Image · · Score: 2

    Commenting on the assertion:
    "can only be transmitted by sender and received by intended receiver"

    That is a statement that almost implies SSL in mutual authenticated mode, which is between static entities. Outside of that context, the statement still represents SSL in a way that is misleading. It encourages a greater level of trust in the technology than warranted - which tends to result in a user's relaxed vigilance.

    Wifi was barely conceived of, when SSL was first proposed by Netscape - let alone public access points! I can sit in Starbucks and broker SSL sessions all day long, with a couple of pieces of open-source kit.

  15. Re:Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.... on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 0

    Voice recognition software.

  16. Re:tineye.com on Google Launches Search By Image · · Score: 2

    That's a beautiful story.

    Too bad that it depends on the fairy-story of well-vetted certificate authorities and/or DNS integrity, etc.

    Have fun!

  17. Re:tineye.com on Google Launches Search By Image · · Score: 1

    Both are good for?

    PR0N. Stalking.

  18. Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.... on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot.

    Say I'm working at N.S.A. and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hidin'- fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with get killed.

    Now the politicians are sayin', oh, "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot, just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there, takin' shrapnel in the ass; he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from, and the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks.

    Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price, and of course the oil companies use the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices- a cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, o' course, maybe they even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis an' fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs; it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic.

    So now my buddy's outta work, he can't afford to drive, so he's walkin' to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids, and meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.

    So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.

  19. Re:Article source writer is WRONG on Devs Worried Microsoft Will Dump .NET · · Score: 1

    Heh...

    TurboPascal.

  20. Squeal of the Wounded fanboi on Devs Worried Microsoft Will Dump .NET · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is there nothing so shrill, so piercing? When they finally realize that they directed enthusiasm - even affection - and invested personal identity in a corporation, they are still so enthralled that they feel betrayed instead of enlightened.

    Look. Microsoft, Apple, Google? You are just a bit of tissue and they will wad you up, when finished wiping. Apple wipes their nose, while Microsoft wipes somewhere lower in the anatomical procession... Small comfort to reflect upon, as you trace an arc through the air, upon disposal.

  21. Not a Flaw on EG8 Publishes Report In Noninteractive, Nonquotable Format · · Score: 2

    But a feature, from the POV of the creator.

    Are you still living in the squalid ghetto of the "reality-based community"?

  22. Re:The fools... on Apple Sued Over Use of iCloud Name · · Score: 1

    Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
    -- Book of Chao

  23. Re:America = world terrorist on International Monetary Fund Hit By Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    You again, mistake effect for cause - and demonstrate that state propaganda has displaced investigation and observation as the basis from which you derive your exalted opinions.

    The entire cause of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990's was engineered by external political and financial entities: "The West" as a part of the program to re-orient the profitable engines of conflict, after the Cold War.

    First, several NATO states supported nationalist secessionist movements within Yugoslavia, especially Croatian separatism. A war in Croatia followed - incidentally diverting attention from the successful Slovenian secession. The war spread to Bosnia, and the NATO powers encouraged atrocities, to justify NATO intervention there. A political coalition for an anti-Serbian intervention was formed in the NATO states, and an occupation force was stationed in Bosnia: first IFOR, then SFOR. Bosnia became a de facto protectorate. Nevertheless Serbia itself was not targeted at that time , and the Republika Srpska (Bosnia Serbs) got half of Bosnia. In the subsequent Kosovo war, Serbia was attacked: the regime collapsed under internal and external pressure. And what was the purpose of this all? The World Bank later explained:

    "...greater emphasis must be placed on establishing a viable institutional structure for effective and countrywide governance, as outlined in the Dayton Agreement, and on undertaking the key structural reforms for transforming the old socialist economic structure into a new, market-based economy."
    (World Bank 1997, p. xii)

    In historical perspective, that is the moral crusade which underlies the whole episode: the crusade of the liberal market-democracies, to remake the world in their own image.

    http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/bosnia.html

    Why? Yugoslavia was under Tito, a relatively successful non-aligned state, which had a good standard of living and was neither beholden to massive Western capital interests for its continuing future success, nor dependent on Soviet military subsidization.

    After the Soviet stalemate faded, it could not be allowed to continue. Yugoslavia was like the small but successful corner-shop, which "owed" back-rent to the protection racket.

    Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analyses are the economic and social causes of the conflict. The deep-seated economic crisis which preceded the civil war had long been forgotten. The strategic interests of Germany and the US in laying the groundwork for the disintegration of Yugoslavia go unmentioned, as does the role of external creditors and international financial institutions. In the eyes of the global media, Western powers bear no responsibility for the impoverishment and destruction of a nation of 24 million people.

    But through their domination of the global financial system, the Western powers, in pursuit of national and collective strategic interests, helped bring the Yugoslav economy to its knees and stirred its simmering ethnic and social conflicts. Now it is the turn of Yugoslavia's war-ravaged successor states to feel the tender mercies of the international financial community.

    As the world focused on troop movements and cease-fires, the international financial institutions were busily collecting former Yugoslavia's external debt from its remnant states, while transforming the Balkans into a safe-haven for free enterprise. With a Bosnian peace settlement holding under NATO guns, the West had in late 1995 unveiled a "reconstruction" program that stripped that brutalized country of sovereignty to a degree not seen in Europe since the end of World War II. It consisted largely of making Bosnia a divided territory under NATO military occupation and Western administration.

    http://www.glo

  24. Re:Anonymous on International Monetary Fund Hit By Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    Oh. I agree with you.

    Technology as a control will never trump every unexpected or incompetent use of any system.

    That's the difference in InfoSec between the POV of a Security Technologist and a Security Practitioner. ;-)

  25. Re:America = world terrorist on International Monetary Fund Hit By Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. You ate the neo-lib propaganda about "humanitarian war" - hook, line and sinker.

    "Humanitarian war" was designed to get comfortable, right-thinking and educated people to support wars of aggression and domination. The Clinton's were used as the messengers in the states, to sell this as "progressive" policy in the "post-Cold War" era. If you need to look deeper into any "hints", try examining the "accidental" bombing of the PRC Embassy in Belgrade. "Whoops".

    GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD:

    There are NO "humanitarian" BOMBS. The people killed are like your Mother and Son - not "monsters" that need rough justice.

    'A humanitarian operation is not a militant operation, and to attach any political objective or connotation to it would undoubtedly impair its credibility for all concerned in a conflict situation, and consequently its acceptability and efficacy."
    -- Yves Sandoz, excerpt from 'Implementation of International Humanitarian Law: Challenges and New Approaches', Third International Security Forum, Zurich, October 1998.

    "Humanitarian action is designed not to resolve conflicts but to protect human dignity and save lives. To maintain its neutral and impartial character and, consequently, the trust of all the parties to the conflict, it must be clearly dissociated from political and military measures the international community may take in search for conflict resolution. Only by strictly respecting the specificity of each other's mandates can military and humanitarian actors work 'separately together'..."
    -- Jacques Forster, Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, presented at the Ninth Annual Seminar on International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 8-9 March 2000

    "Since the Nato airstrikes began on March 24 Serb officials say more than 2,000 civilians have been killed and more than 7,500 wounded. Nato has owned up to bombing raids and missile attacks that have killed 460 civilians, according to a tally by Agence France-Presse. By all accounts, the bombing was indiscriminate, killing farmers, suburbanites, city dwellers, factory workers, reporters, diplomats, people in cars, busses and trains, hospital patients, the elderly and children. Indeed, by our count, Nato bombing raids have killed more than 200 children. Hundreds more will almost certainly perish in the coming months, through environmental factors, such as poisoned water supplies and lack of electrical power to run vital hospital equipment. The following list of civilian casualties is far from comprehensive. We compiled it from daily reports by the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry and wire services, including Agence France Presse, Reuters and AP."
    -- Andrew Cockburn, Counterpunch: Who NATO KIlled