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  1. Re:Obama won't veto this... on CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto · · Score: 1

    By all accounts, the fix is in. The veto threat is a nice little good cop, bad cop show for the cameras.

  2. Re:encryption on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    How many times can you run the payload of Keylogger In The Corner Of The Chip before your customers stop trusting your chips. At least this way they can blame the data loss on the Mission Impossible shit.

  3. Re:encryption on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 2

    Sure, not feasible on a glued-together Macbook, but most business-class laptops have easily removed keyboards attached by a ribbon cable. On something like a Dell Latitude, it's easily a 1 minute job. The keylogger hardware isn't isn't exactly off the shelf, but not out of the question for a state-sponsored attack. Still, you have a point. Any target that's worth attacking with such sophisticated equipment is probably paranoid enough not to be traveling around a foreign country with the digital crown jewels, encrypted HDD or not.

  4. Re:encryption on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 5, Informative

    A hardware keylogger inline with the keyboard cable takes care of that. It only means they'll have to break in twice instead of once.

  5. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, I get the feeling Kucinich is allowed to exist to make leftists look stupid. If you want to feel proud and not embarrassed about supporting a leftist, check out Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders. Must be something in the water up in Vermont.

  6. Re:One of the ways to "not balance the books" ... on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    And again, Germany has a public healthcare system, and they're not going broke. They're the ones bailing out the rest of Europe (so far). The original reference to the Euro debt crisis is a strawman.

  7. Re:CA is boring on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    Same here. Biked to polling place at lunchtime (80 deg!). Two people in line. Super fast and easy. No competitive races for offices. Ballot props are where the action is.

  8. Re:Reasonable on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 2

    Sure, in a happy world of rainbows and unicorns where GMO foods with significant market share had real benefits to customers, we could discuss the finer points of GMO in your food, but the seed giants are their own worst enemy. It's a vendor lock-in device used to corner the market on herbicides. If there was ever a market for "good" GMOs, Monsanto killed it.

  9. Monsanto = monopolist on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Regardless of your stance on the health effects of GMOs, if would behoove us to look more closely at the business practices (specifically w.r.t. intellectual property) of the seed giants, i.e. Monsanto: patenting life, monopolizing the seed market, shaking down small farmers with patent infringement suits, and all so they can sell more Roundup, creating a monoculture of herbicides. It's the same corporate playbook we've seen countless times in the tech world.

    We had herbicides before Roundup-ready GMOs. It ain't no huge innovation, aside from being a revenue win for Monsanto.
    http://cenblog.org/cleantech-chemistry/2010/03/what-did-farmers-do-before-roundup/

  10. Re:TWO WORDS on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    Well obviously... Inconvenient to extract data for evidence in a court of law != impervious to government snooping

  11. Re:One word on Could Insurance Coverage Hobble Commercial Space Flights? · · Score: 2

    deregulate just another word for "shit happens"

  12. Re:36,000 employees? Why? on Foxconn Invests $210 Million To Build New Production Line For Apple · · Score: 1

    /. really needs a sarcasm tag

  13. Re:36,000 employees? Why? on Foxconn Invests $210 Million To Build New Production Line For Apple · · Score: 1

    Kick back to a life of leisure while machines do all the work?

  14. Re:Cant stop a moving train on New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA · · Score: 1

    And to further abuse the train metaphor...
    the gravy train for the bread and circuses, i.e. the plunder of the rest of the planet, is quickly running out. But really don't mind me, just go back to your TV and cheez doodles. I'm sure that next shiny thing will make you feel all better.

  15. Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    I vote this one. Yeah, I'm a big /. nerd too, and I'm pretty confident on being able to secure a netbook. I have no freakin' clue on how to secure a mobile platform to the same degree. They're unaccountable black boxes.

  16. Re:USA...we miss you! on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's ok. As long we get to keep our birth control and our gay rights, democracy is safe, right?

  17. Re:Welcome to our world on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 2

    Seriously, you talk about freedom and then you complain about paying market price for fuel? (I'm going to ignore for now how other taxpayers subsidize your roads and utility lines). Every choice has its costs-- if you can afford it and you really like living out there, more power to you. Just own up to it and don't come crying to us when reality smacks you in the face. I've lived in both, and suburbia is just a bigger box. You're no less controlled, taxed or poisoned to death out there. (I find the last one rather ironic in light of suburban cuisine- Walmart, Applebees, all you can eat buffets)

  18. Re:weight and safety on Hybrids Safer In Crashes — Except For Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    So true. My family's mid 80's minivan had *no* head restraints on any of the seats. And yes, it was the passenger model.

  19. Re:I know that's what they're doing... on US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data · · Score: 1

    This will really get interesting when this data mining bot meets a DARPA pro-government sockpuppet bot... or a PR-firm social marketing sockpuppet bot... or any number of DIY real life human sockpuppets.

  20. Re:Cmon on 175 MPH Student-Built EV Smashes Speed Record · · Score: 1

    A '64 Pontiac GTO did 0-60 in 6.6 s and the 1/4 mi in 14.8 s. A V6 Camry can easily match that.

  21. Re:I'll bet he goes for the GOP on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 1

    Big money bets on whoever's going to win. The Republicans do their bidding unabashedly, while the Democrats pay lip service to their base before doing their bidding.

  22. Re:Not convincing on Climate Change Driving War? · · Score: 1

    One possible explanation: Population dieoffs are followed by labor shortages and hence, more egalitarian societies. e.g. Black Death and Renaissance

  23. Re:Thanks, Space Shuttle on SpaceX Reveals Plans For Full Launch System Re-usability · · Score: 1

    For just one example of many, you may want to look up "cross range capability". That was a very expensive requirement to satisfy the Air Force... for something they never used.

  24. Re:Sure on Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws · · Score: 1

    Ok, so they do exist in Australia, but there *must* be fewer of them! We really do have *a lot* in the US.

  25. Re:Sure on Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws · · Score: 0

    There's only one kind of "tort reform" that works: real universal healthcare.
    - Everybody gets their injuries treated.
    - Nobody has to sue each other for medical expenses.
    - Personal injury and workers comp attorneys go out of business.

    It's what the rest of the industrialized world does, and they pay half of what the US pays per capita on healthcare.