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  1. Re:How long would it take NSA to decrypt one messa on Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just check the status of the evil bit:

    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc35...

  2. Re:Yeah, that's the problem on A Post-Antibiotic Future Is Looming (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    You can't even claim "general welfare" because for the majority of people it hurts them.

    You also cannot claim "general welfare" because it is a condition and not an enumerated power just like "necessary and proper".

    Of course with "interstate" meaning the same thing as "intrastate" in the commerce clause and "private" meaning the same thing as "public" in the 5th amendment, "general welfare" means anything they want it to mean.

  3. Re:more than one plot element this time on Netflix Remaking Lost In Space (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    I have difficulty imagining Lennier requiring help to do homework.

  4. Re:NYC taxi system could DESTROY uber on Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    They have the power and guns of the government at their disposal. Why should they spend money to directly compete when the return is ten times greater lobbying?

  5. Re:Parade of the Pedants! on Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I had to resist jumping up and cheering when the Reaver ship in Firefly flipped 180 degrees and did a burn facing backwards to lower its orbit to enter the atmosphere.

    "Forward takes you out, out takes you back, back takes you in, and in takes you forward."

  6. Re:Parade of the Pedants! on Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you could put pilot's seat or environment on gimbles so that the main engines can be used for maximum efficiency rather than being wasted for comfort of the pilot like the Rangers do in Interstellar.

  7. Re:Parade of the Pedants! on Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Next? It has already been done:

    http://www.projectrho.com/publ...

  8. Re:On this I side with facebook on Facebook Can Block Content Without Explanation, Says US Court (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook was the only web site site to survive the Web Wars. Now all web sites are Facebook.

  9. Re:darknet? on After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Click OK. You are now on the darknet. It is like a second kind of Internet. This functionality is not publicized to much and more or less kept secret to protect the children.

    So like IPv6?

  10. I do not understand what you mean by this.

    People installing solar systems which would allow completely off-grid self sufficiency have had this problem; they cannot forgo a grid connection and still legally live in their house. The same applies to other utilities.

  11. I would add the Madrid train bombings to that list.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. More recently France has been directly involved in supporting Iraq against ISIS and fighting ISIS directly including in Syria.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Why are they attacking France? What do they hope to achieve?

    The 2004 Madrid train bombings had the effect of altering the Spanish elections so that the party which does not support the war in Iraq won. Isis might hope to accomplish the same thing in France.

  14. France got directly involved in Syria with military operations a little more than a year ago.

  15. Re:Can you liberals please wake the fuck up? on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Fighting in a war zone is one thing, going into restaurants in the middle of Paris and opening up with automatic AK-47s into civilians eating dinner is quite another.

    People who would do such things are animals and aren't worth dealing with on an even level. If they wish to behave this way, then they should be treated that way.

    What distinguishes this from deliberately bombing civilian populations during World War 2?

    "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal." - Curtis LeMay

  16. Re:Implied content filtering? on Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 1

    I would assume that to comply with this law most ISPs would choose to just block by IP using a DNSBL.

    That wouldn't require much, if any, extra hardware and would work with HTTPS.

    But what if IPs are shared or change often?

    I hope they try this. How long will it take for the gambling sites being blocked to realize that they can now add IPs to the block list?

  17. Re:Not justified on Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and wait until one of the DNS addresses listed on the ban list changes their IP to various Quebec's government sites or anybody else they do not like. Allowing someone else to modify your drop rules is always a good idea.

  18. Re:Not justified on Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 1

    Substantial resources? Seriously? That's a basic shell script to run a bunch of DNS resolutions and then add the addresses into an existing Firewall drop policy.

    Nobody needed to access the other web sites on those shared IPs anyway.

  19. Then again, the water company and the power company are going to pull the same shit, so I guess if you like living in a dark, cold home drinking bottled water and not showering sure, you have a choice of not providing your SSN.

    The state will not approve you home for residency if it lacks basic services so problem solved.

  20. Re:SDR Hardware on Getting Started With GNU Radio (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Crystals designed for operation inside of an oven use a different cut, usually SC, to move their zero temperature coefficient point to a higher temperature. Common AT cut crystals are optimized to operate at 25C so they are not ideal for this. It might be fun though to use a peltier element for both heating and cooling to maintain a 25C temperature.

    When I have hacked together this kind of circuit in the past, I used a TO-220 style transistor as both the heater and sense element with an analog sampled control loop.

  21. Re:probably, detects superheterodyne stage on Getting Started With GNU Radio (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the techniques I used when transmitter hunting was to look for the local oscillator frequency when the transmitter was not active. This was especially useful for low duty cycle transmitters but it was tricky because one antenna and receiver usually will not cover both frequencies well and finding the local oscillator frequency may be difficult.

    Superheterodyne receivers usually include an RF amplifier before the first mixer stage just to attenuate leakage of the local oscillator; without it, meeting part 15 regulations is more difficult. For cost reasons in the past, speed radars and radar detectors lack this RF amplifier and exposed the first mixer directly however monolithic microwave integrated circuit amplifiers and transmit/receive switches are cheap enough now to use in these applications.

  22. Re:In line with current US thinking on Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    They are, in fact, very much in favor of well regulated militias (or as we call them today, "police forces").

    Law enforcement at best is a select militia distinct from the people. The 2nd amendment recognizes a right of the people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:News At Eleven on Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users · · Score: 1

    Pardon me, but is there a law in the US that the government can't break people's encryption (for any reason)?

    If the data was lawfully seized, then there is nothing to prevent attempting decryption. Further, encryption does *not* create an expectation of privacy under US law.

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa...

  24. Re:News At Eleven on Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users · · Score: 2

    If you find a way to break the anonymizing network by creating your own fake relays to do it, as far as my judgement goes, the data was yours to play with, because it passed through your relays, and the research was legitimate, because you did find a flaw on the network.

    So using Stingrays to capture data and voice content is fair game?

  25. The NSA has only handed over data on American persons when compelled by a warrant.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...