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  1. Re:Illusion of privacy on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 2

    if the RNG that the RSA encryption is based on is compromised, the encryption is compromised.

  2. Re:Premium not enough? on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    Its not cheating its call supply and demand and fundamental to capitalism. If there is not enough of something, it becomes more expensive. In this case its labor. Thats exactly what is going on here.

  3. Because Facebook can't throw political protesters in jail.

  4. Re:I find it hilarious... on Tesla Motors May Be Having an iPhone Moment · · Score: 1

    Guess your not an engineer. Internal combustion engines are 30% efficient, Large power plant including transmission are are about 80% efficient, so even if the power plant burned gasoline, which they do not, a car running off the grid would be more then 2x as efficient.

    Your also assuming that in the US we have not reached peak car. The industry is currently concerned we have. The amount of cars on the road is beginning to plateau.

  5. Re:Why hasn't the board fired Ballmer? on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 2

    Ha, then your not a good investor. If you think Ballmer has screwed up MS, and any one could do a better job, one would expect their stock to rise once he is kicked to the curb, making this the good time to buy the stock low.

  6. Re:Congressman? on Congress Proposes Strategy For Fighting Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    He said usually. While it is technically correct, the common use or Congressman for the house Senator for the senate.

  7. Re:10 Gbps copper on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    Yea, for 30ft runs.

  8. Briliant. on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Way to piss off the community you asked to hack your system. I'm sure this will go well.

  9. That doesn't mean it wasnt jammed on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why the network operators didn't get requests to shutdown the network, that doesn't mean it wasn't jammed. The military has jammers it uses where they suspect IEDs to prevent triggering via the cell network. There is no reason why the BPD, DHS or other agency would not have jammers for such an occasion. I would be surprised if they did not with all the money that was thrown around after 9/11

  10. This is a good thing. on Possible Cyber Attack Against South Korean Banks and TV Stations · · Score: 1

    Look at it this way, North Korea just blew its load and showed the world how it has compromised their networks. Now we can better defend our systems going forward, assuming businesses take away a lesson from this.

  11. No on Silicon Valley Presses Obama, Congress On Immigration Reform · · Score: 1

    How about hiring some americans at competitive wages, instead of indentured servants?

  12. Re:He's not the onlyh one on 83-Year-Old Inventor Wins $40,000 3D Printing Competition · · Score: 1

    Just because you don't graduate as an engineer doesn't mean you dont graduate. The failed engineers at PSU frequently become the best business majors.

  13. Re:Reductio Ad Hitlerum? on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    People have a reasonable expectation of privacy, except when they are in public. Also, corporations aren't people. So if your agg business is dumping shit into a stream and I get a picture of it from my drone, its the companies bad, not mine.

  14. Re:An old saying. on Prosecution of Swartz Typical for the "Sick Culture" Pervading the DOJ · · Score: 2

    I wonder, did MIT disclose its terms of service with the users? I suspect not, as thats a contract between JSTOR and MIT.

    Did his actions prevent anyone else from accessing JSTOR? As for as I read, JSTOR never went down, so in that case, not its not a DOS.

  15. Wha? on DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security · · Score: 1

    Cause they regulate their x-ray scanners so well?

  16. Only 14% on AIG Contemplates Joining Stockholder Suit Against US Gov't · · Score: 1

    I wonder what rate Goldman Sacks or any other large bank would have loan money to AIG at. I wait, I know, infinity. Because no one was willing to bet on their retarded bankrupted ass. So 14% sounds like a deal to me. Hell try getting a credit card with that rate when you have bad credit.

  17. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We have separation of powers. Congress writes the budget, appropriates funds, and signs off on debt. Congress also knows that both houses and the President need to sign anything they pass. The President, constitutionally can do none of this. So, if Congress wants to defund things, it can, but they have to do it in a way the President agrees. Also, remember, the House needs to write a bill the Senate will pass. Forget getting it to the President.
    We just re-elected Obama, and the House and Senate, even after reapportionment, lost Rs. Its Congresses job to work with the President at this point, not the other way around.

  18. Re:Any member can introduce a bill but... on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea, I'm sure if Obama is planning to use the only constitutional out, he probably would not sign this bill.

  19. Re:Title VI - CC, Emergency Alerts ETC. on Intel's Attempt At A-La-Carte Television Hits Delays · · Score: 1

    Its been done. Ive seen it work.

  20. Re:Misguided in so many ways... on Intel's Attempt At A-La-Carte Television Hits Delays · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The content industry wont let cable do it, and the vast majority of the operators want ala carte.
    If they wont let cable do it they would never ever let an over the top provider do it. Intel has no understanding of this market.

  21. Re:Misguided in so many ways... on Intel's Attempt At A-La-Carte Television Hits Delays · · Score: 2

    Exactly my thought. They technology has been around to do this for a decade or more. Every tech company with a set top box has been dreaming about and trying to work out an agreement with the content industry to no avail.

  22. Duh on Intel's Attempt At A-La-Carte Television Hits Delays · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Intel managed to make themselves look completely clueless and oblivious to the market. If it were so easy, Apple would have done this 5 years ago with the AppleTV, that was their plan to begin with.
    Ala carte over the top is the holy grail that every tech company has been chasing. Google, MS, Apple, Sony, Netflix, Tivo, Roku, Nitendo, anyone with an box with an internet connection and a tv output.
    All of them have been stymied because it would be the end of big contents business model. Making people pay for content they don't want or need and running adds on it.

  23. Libel on Ask Slashdot: Undoing an Internet Smear Campaign? · · Score: 1

    Many countries like England have extremely strong libel laws. She should hire an english attorney and have him prosecuted in the UK. Its pretty much irrelevant to the UK system where the harm took place.

  24. NIght time on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 1

    This is all fine and good until the power goes out at night. To take for that contingency, its going to get real expensive for home owners buying battery stacks.

  25. Knee Jerk on Altered Immune Cells Help Girl Beat Leukemia · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wow there are a lot of people freaking out they are using HIV for this.

    Um, relax, they didn't give the girl HIV, they re-engineered the virus into something new. The virus doesn't replicate in the to host. T-cells removed from the host are exposed to the engineered HIV. The engineered HIV then changes the DNA in the T-cells to allow it to attack cancerous B-cells. The T-cells are then re-injected and do their work. The T-cells continue to replicate, but the engineered HIV is not actually introduced into the body.