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  1. Re:How they were detected on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    "Lady, if your ass burns, stick it out the window and cool it off."

  2. Re:How they were detected on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 4, Funny

    Canada certainly DOES deserve some better jokes, however I don't think the case for new and funnier jokes should come at the expense of any of the other 50 states. North Dakota and Missouri are also candidates for better representation.

  3. Re:How they were detected on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 0

    In Toronto, a woman leaves a pharmacy counter, forgetting the purchase of a bottle of aspirin in her haste to catch her bus ride home.

    After boarding the bus, which was promptly on schedule, the woman realised that her purchase was missing.

    "Oh!" she exclaimed aloud, "My aspirins! My aspirins!"

    "Perhaps," offered the bus driver, "you left them on the pharmacy counter."

  4. Re:How they were detected on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Big bad counterfeiters! 200 Mil!

    I guess they're right. The best way to illegally make money is to own a bank.

    HSBC alone, payed out 2 BILLION in just fines, for laundering drug cartel money. And were glad to do it! 2 Bil was only 5 weeks of it's annual profits. Heck, the man responsible at HSBC, Gulliver, got a personal windfall 2 Million in BONUS!

    So, if there are "BIG PENALTIES" for these Canadian operators, it's only to keep the ankle-biters off of the big banks' turf.

  5. Re:rebranded? on Obama Nominates Vice Admiral Michael Rogers New NSA Chief · · Score: 5, Interesting

    NSA Reputation Is Dirt

    Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:30:39 -0500

    From: William Allen Simpson
    <william.allen.simpson[at]gmail.com>

    To: Jerry Leichter <leichter[at]lrw.com>, John Kelsey
    <crypto.jmk[at]gmail.com>

    Subject: Re: [Cryptography] RSA is dead.

    I'm surprised at the sudden interest in my month old December 23 post.

    On 1/20/14 2:39 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:

    On Jan 20, 2014, at 12:49 PM, John Kelsey <crypto.jmk[at]gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps this is the result of living in a government bubble for awhile, but
    I certainly saw and heard a lot of the bigger community who thought NSA's
    involvement in domestic crypto standards and companies was intended to improve
    security. That's why NSA people were and are openly members of a bunch of
    standards committees, why people invited NSA guys to give talks and take
    part in competitions, why people were using stuff like SE Linux. People have
    been using DSA, the NIST curves, SHA1, and SHA2 for many years, believing
    them secure--because the assumption was that NSA wasn't putting backdoored
    stuff out there.

    Absolutely. And it's not just a matter of living inside the government bubble.

    NSA has had a surprisingly good reputation pretty much until Snodownia. Before
    their involvement with DES, no one really knew anything about them - but
    every interaction I've ever heard of with NSA people left the impression
    that they were extremely bright and extremely competent. (A friend who, many
    years ago interviewed with both CIA and NSA, thought the interviewers for
    the former were a bunch of bumbling idiots, while he was very impressed with
    the latter. He never took a govern

  6. Re:rebranded? on Obama Nominates Vice Admiral Michael Rogers New NSA Chief · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes. But what Bommy wants, Bommy GETS!

  7. No. He's a F*cking Hero on Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance · · Score: 2

    Otherwise, take the label from Paul Revere.

    Saying "there are shades of grey" is a way to undermine the importance of the revelation and the incredible personal risk, undertaken to ensure this was revealed. The SecurityState will never back down from domination of everything - which is the chiefest learning of the Snowden revelation.

  8. Re:Let them eat cake! on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    You ever driven a BMW or Jag down 280, when the road is clear?

    It's worth leaving the City at 6:30 for that!

  9. Deserve? on Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve? · · Score: 0

    Congressional Medal of Honor
    Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, Grand-Croix

    The Knight Commander of the British Empire is a slave collar. I'd avoid the Brit gongs.

  10. Re:First post. on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think Perkins is mistaking Versailles in 1789 for Berlin in 1933.

  11. Re:The plow is technology too on Ask Slashdot: Educating Kids About Older Technologies? · · Score: 1

    Weren't even "Britons". Those were "Brythons" a Celtic people related to inhabitants of Roman-era Gaul, with modern descendants in Wales, Brittany and Basque country.

    Stonehenge is pre-Celtic.

  12. Re:The plow is technology too on Ask Slashdot: Educating Kids About Older Technologies? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Invented in Central Asia, most of it. By proto Indo-Iranian peoples, often on territory subsumed into modern China, because of historical conquests of the Mongols.

    Sinologists always have a China first and central bias - with plenty of "evidence". They always need to distort the meaning of the term "China" to do so.

    It's like claiming that Stonehenge is a feat that demonstrates the long history of English engineering prowess.

  13. "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" on K-12 CS Education Funding: Taxes, H-1B Fees, Donations? · · Score: 1

    It's one of those funny, old-fashioned words, living on like a museum piece! You know, like "Steam Packet" and "Record Album" and "Wedding Dress".

  14. Walter Plume? My High School Geometry Teacher? on Water Plume Detected At Dwarf Planet Ceres · · Score: 1

    That guy was detected on what planet?! With a dwarf?

    He seemed weird, but not like "Douglas Adams" type weird!

    Oh., wait...

    I see. (blush).

  15. Put "the entire health insurance industry at risk" on Accenture Faces Mid-March Healthcare.gov Deadline Or 'Disaster' · · Score: 2

    The article says this, like it's a bad thing.

  16. Re:Not the sun on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    We are stardust, man.

    Well, then can I roam beside you?
    I have come to lose the smog.
    And I feel myself a cog
    In something turning.
    And maybe it's the time of year,
    Yes, said maybe it's the time of man
    And I don't know who I am but life is for learning.
    We are stardust, we are golden,
    We are billion year old carbon,
    And we got to get ourselves
    Back to the garden.

  17. Re:I know what this is!!!! on Mystery Rock 'Appears' In Front of Mars Rover · · Score: 2

    I bet it's a rock.

    "Deliberately buried..."

  18. Re:I know what this is!!!! on Mystery Rock 'Appears' In Front of Mars Rover · · Score: 2

    Many of the newest buildings are not just utilitarian offices but also edifices "on the order of the pyramids," in the words of one senior military intelligence officer.

  19. Re:CHINKOS? on China's Government Unveils 'China Operating System' To Great Skepticism · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is restricted for US distribution as too secure, without NIST weak crypto or NSA backdoors.

  20. Re:BETTER! on Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What a homo. Replying to a "First Post!" jackass, just to get to the top. Your enormity of your gayness is surpassed only by your egotism.

    Ewe mast bee knew hear.

    "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." -- George Bernard Shaw

  21. Re:BETTER! on Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms · · Score: 2

    Or a crafty bastard that knows his constituency will fall for the "I didn't know they were doing this" act, again.

    When you sign the bills to grease pigs, you ought to figure they can slip the pen.

  22. Re:What? on Building an Open Source Nest · · Score: 4, Funny

    https://nest.com/ ...and their blog post about being acquired by google: https://nest.com/blog/2014/01/13/welcome-home/

    Let's build a NEST clone, and spy on OURSELVES!

    This message was brought to you Through a Scanner, Darkly...

  23. Re:So the hell what? on Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms · · Score: 2

    I believe that the solution will involve dividing the nation into precincts on the lines established by state and local voting. Each precinct will have have their own FISA judge assigned.

    What a safer country, will America be, than it was in former days, when known as land of free.

  24. BETTER! on Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There! I feel the hot breath of reform already. Big brother is a subcontract.

    Now the secret courts will have to examine secret accusations with extra secrecy. The NSA building data centers will be reversed, so that the commercial sector can occupy this function. And send the bill for "services".

     

  25. RELEVANT SIMPSONS on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1, Funny