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  1. Re: Not terrorism ? on Attempted Breach of NSA HQ Checkpoint; One Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    Of course it wasn't terrorism. The FBI didn't plan it.

  2. WWJD? on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably strongly and vocally oppose this bill.

  3. Re: Not everyone on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    That would be blissfully ignorant. But ignorance alone does not bring bliss. Otherwise there would be a lot more happy people.

  4. Re:Yes, why stop at fucking up a company... on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    ...when you can fuck up the world? Yes, let's put an MBA with a BA in philosophy and medieval history in charge of the USA. I mean, wouldn't *you* give the nuclear codes to the MBAs in your company? What could possibly go wrong?

    What do you mean? Surely the nuclear codes are an underutilized asset that money can be made on. There are several highly motivated buyers mostly in the middle-east. You know those new HP servers that the government is going to buy aren't going to buy themselves. (Odd, for some reason HP is the only manufacturer that is able to meet new purchase requirements. And they are a mere 5000% markup over retail).

  5. Re:Echo chamber on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a slogan for them:

    Fiorina/Palin 2016: Making Hillary the sensible choice.

  6. Re: Wait a sec on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    That's the most common protocol on Apples.

  7. Re: That is a wrap then... on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Dropping something from Comcast? Good luck with that.

  8. Re: How many minutes until this is mandatory? on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    My Garmin from 3-4 years ago costs $120 and came with lifetime updates.
    About the time I got it my boss got a new car and he told me that the Dodge dealer quoted him $150/yr for map updates.

  9. Re: How many minutes until this is mandatory? on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    Correction: Car manufacturers and/or dealers still try to gouge their customers by charging more for a 1 year update subscription than a decent standalone GPS unit that includes lifetime updates.

  10. Re: "quantum comuting" on Steve Wozniak Now Afraid of AI Too, Just Like Elon Musk · · Score: 2

    When you get pulled over and the cop asks if you know how fast you were going you say "No, but I know my direction exactly. "

  11. Re: Teenagers shouldn't be driving NEW cars anyway on Chevy Malibu 'Teen Driver' Tech Will Snitch If You Speed · · Score: 1

    So instead of being hit by a teen too busy texting in a Civic I'll be hit by a teen texting in a Suburban.

  12. Re:Godaddy are thieving wankers dot com on GoDaddy Accounts Vulnerable To Social Engineering (and Photoshop) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a good way to get back at them is to write a script to constantly search for bogus domain names so that they keep buying them up.

  13. Re: A turd by any other name on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 2, Funny

    It won't be good until Spartan 3.00, at which time it will be able to fight off an entire army of Persian malware.

  14. Re: Managerial on MIT Launches Three-pronged Effort To Thwart Cyber Attacks · · Score: 1

    Is the managerial approach "give the security team the budget and authority to do their jobs"? If not i can't see this working.

  15. Re: Following instructions? on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 1

    I had some of that once. Never could figure out what to add.

  16. Re: The opposite of current movie adaptations on Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Novels Are Fix-Ups · · Score: 1

    Now it sometimes seems every other movie in a series is a reboot or remake so they just end up making the same movie over and over.

  17. Re:Overblown Hyperbole on Lawsuit Claims Major Automakers Have Failed To Guard Against Hackers · · Score: 1

    In a 2013 study that was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), two researchers demonstrated their ability to connect a laptop to two different vehiclesâ(TM) computer systems using a cable, send commands to different ECUs through the CAN, and thereby control the engine, brakes, steering and other critical vehicle components

    So you're telling me that if you have direct physical access to a car's ECU, you can issue commands to it? No shit sherlock. That is THE WHOLE POINT of the CAN bus. The only alternative would be to close down the bus and only allow "authorized" accessories to be connected to it - hello sky-high diagnostic fees and goodbye to useful bluetooth OBD connectors.

    Call me when this can be done wirelessly. Oh and yes I did read the "What the companies failed to note is that the DARPA study built on prior research that demonstrated that one could remotely and wirelessly access a vehicleâ(TM)s CAN bus through Bluetooth connections, OnStar systems, malware in a synced Android smartphone, or a malicious file on a CD in the stereo" blurb - which still failed to materialize an actual working example of exploiting a CAN wirelessly.

    Obviously you aren't a lawyer. You never let facts get in the way of a good lawsuit. I'm surprised I haven't seen an add on TV for a class action suit against a company for having dangerous Dihydrogen Monoxide in their products.

  18. Re: The moan of sour grapes on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 1

    The point of a Rolex is to advertise to the world that you are made of money. Personally I wouldn't want anything on my wrist that is worth more than my hand.

  19. Re: There are! on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 1

    Sure the hourly pay is low, but they make it up by working you almost 24/7!

  20. There are! on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 1

    Just most are in other countries, or they are fake openings purposefully designed not to be filled to justify bringing in H1Bs.

  21. So we're now at the stage of "banning it"?

    Best way for the denialists to win. Make it illegal. Beats hell out of the cherry picking. Now if we can just get rid of science classes and replace them with bible studies.

    In the past they have legislated that the Earth is flat, or that it is the center of the solar system, or that pi=3.00. See how well those have worked out?
    If it turns out that global warming is true, what are they going to do? Arrest Mother Nature? Good luck with that. By then most of Florida will be underwater anyway.

  22. It's a browser... on Hands-On With the Vivaldi Browser · · Score: 1

    For all Four Seasons!

  23. Re:That's not exactly new on Musician Releases Album of Music To Code By · · Score: 1

    Yep. This just screams publicity stunt and at $20 it's a fucking rip-off.

    So, no thanks Carl-boy, I already have my collection of ambient, downtempo, jazz noir and classical to do my work with.

    Personally I like to code to Heavy Metal. I wonder what that says about my code?

  24. Re: Halt! on New Wolfenstein Game Announced: The Old Blood · · Score: 2

    Well you did shoot them in the stomach.

  25. Re: In a parallel world. on Linux 4.0 Getting No-Reboot Patching · · Score: 0

    If the hatered of systemd was channeled into something positive we would have world peace, a cure for cancer, a dirt cheap environmentaly friendly energy source, AND the mos kick-ass operating system the world has ever seen.