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  1. Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1
    Worst part:

    "They didn’t confiscate the drone. They gave the drone back to the individuals," he said. "They didn’t take the SIM card out of itbut we’ve gotfive houses here that everyone saw it – they saw what happened, including the neighbors that were sitting in their patio when he flew down low enough to see under the patio."

    IANAL
    Now how is he supposed to prove his reasoning was justified? If they gave the drone back, what's stopping the owners from altering the data on it? His lawyers should move to dismiss, and it will indeed succeed but nothing good will come out of the result, unless he counter sues after winning the case.

  2. The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    "We live in a dangerous world."

    Yes, yes we do. Thanks for the fire and brimstone.

  3. Rocket$ and Space on Scientists Identify Possible New Substance With Highest Melting Point · · Score: 1

    That is pretty cool, so now we can land a missle anywhere on Earth in about 45 minutes instead of 1 hour. I'm sure it'll help with atmosphere re-entry stuff too, but who cares about space stuff.

  4. Re: HORNET vs Tor on Swiss Researchers Describe a Faster, More Secure Tor · · Score: 1

    I really doubt they're going for better service to the consumers here. It should always be impossible to make a large margin of profit from TOR, because TOR "customers" are anonymous, the only reason why they are using TOR in the first place. Sounds to me like they are shooting for scalability here. No thanks, I trust the Navy had anonimity in mind, not performance.

  5. What is this, the Dark Ages? on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 1

    So I remember watching T.V. in Turkey in the early 90s and the interview was about a Turkish lawyer talking about the finer interpretations of a specific law. He said something I'll never forget when he was asked, "The language of the law is nearly Ottoman, how are the average citizens supposed to intelligably read and obey this law?" To which he responded, "It's not the job of every citizen to read and understand our laws, that's the job of lawyers, we need to know." Much like how some important points of law in the US is still in Latin. It makes 0 sense to expect a population to obey laws that aren't readily available and easily consumable.

    Now to be fair, the spirit of the law must also be preserved. But I think that's what the Constitution is for.

  6. Smart Products... on Stanford Starts the 'Secure Internet of Things Project' · · Score: 2

    We all have certain expectancies from products. Like owning what we paid for, and having the reasonable assumption that a random fishing hacker can't hack your gas oven and blow up your house. This all comes down to educated programmers. A programmer who isn't abiding by the ever evolving security standards and practices will leave your product looking like swiss cheese. Real life example being, an educated programmer will avoid SSLv3 in the first place even though it's the latest standard, and uneducated programmer will just go, version 3 is bigger than version 2, so it must be better. I personally prefer the not-so-smart toaster at my house, because one I don't have the time to reverse engineer yet another code base to analyze vulnerabilities, and the other reason being, it makes toast, I'm okay with sacrificing the ability to request a toast via my smart phone.

  7. I wake up in the mo'nin take a look at Shib, SHA-1 on How Computer Science Education Got Practical (Again) · · Score: 1

    Then I stand over the code and whip up assembly like the protocol say. No seriously though, I wonder if you need education to write for the Wall Street Journal.

  8. Re:Boo hoo... on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    It's just a flag... Take the swastika for example. It means different things to many people. For Hindus it's not a hate symbol, but for most of the Western world it has extremely negative connotations. I think it's idiotic and sensationalist what Google is doing here, let whoever wishes to interpret whatever symbol enjoy their freedom to do so.

  9. Re:And still... on Dallas Police Falsely Credit TrapWire System For Arrests · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's an old Turkish saying, I'll be that guy and translate it. "A barking dog won't bite." It basically means that anyone who is serious about a crime (terror category or the normal category, not sure how it falls into which one, but I suspect one has more beards) is not going to advertise it online or otherwise. Take a look at 9/11, there weren't a lot of tweets about it before hand. Yes indeed sacrificing your privacy only buys paranoia on a large scale, bloated budgets, broken citizens, and smug authorities.

  10. How much of language? on How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? · · Score: 1

    How much English should you know for an entry-level translator job? Hmmmm... all of it.?

  11. Best I can do on Charter Strikes $56B Deal For Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    Is to throw a shoe.

  12. Oh wow on Hot Topic To Buy ThinkGeek Parent Company Geeknet · · Score: 2

    This is perfect. I knew there was an emo deep inside every geek :D

  13. Sure, easy to read on The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read · · Score: 1

    But you'd think the fact that it works the same on a Mac, Linux, Android or Windows would have something to do with its popularity as well, no?

  14. Re:Okay, what is it? on Yubikey Neo Teardown and Durability Review · · Score: 1

    It's a great tool for typing in long passwords (provided you keep it physically secure), or working with two factor auth mechanisms. I had reviewed YubiKey Standard a while back, you can find further information on here.

  15. MAME32 on MAME Changing License To Fully Libre One · · Score: 1

    Little known fact: Hats off to one of the original geeks who inspired a generation who is an author of MAME32, Chris Kirmse. Also the author of one of the first MMORPGs ever based on the Doom engine, Meridian 59, and a Virginia Tech alumni. The geek is strong in that one.

  16. Re:Affirmative Action on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    Okay so, 1.5/6th the world is Asian, and 1.5/6th Indian (which is also in Asia but not what you think when I say Asian). That's half of the human race, get used to it.

  17. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    This would only prove that the airline "security" system is in desparate need for better IT staff. Simple encryption implementing a proper trapdoor function (elliptical, or prime number based) can prevent most portable hardware from accessing information it's not supposed to (unless there are backdoors implemented for abuse, legal or otherwise). Frankly it's sad how politics corrupt functioning mathematics.

  18. Re:They made a good argument, though. on GCHQ Officials Given Immunity From Hacking Charges · · Score: 1

    It's a trend. A realization of how cheap surveillance of any kind has become, and the will to be on top of it all. The idea is, "We'll protect you from those evil hackers, if you let us in to all of your personal information". Which kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it? Welcome to the Internet of Things where you should just shut up and not mind your protectors peering into all aspects of your life for your own safety in this dangerous world.

    TLDR; You wouldn't want the "bad guys" to hack your computer right?

  19. Re: Treaty Violations on House Science Committee Approves Changes To Space Law · · Score: 1

    To commensturbate, you can also prove the existence of negative energy. Hell, if we could fold spacetime, vast nothingness means more than just throwing out in orbit a bunch of binoculars no one else can touch doesn't it?

  20. Re: Treaty Violations on House Science Committee Approves Changes To Space Law · · Score: 1

    Or more importantly, how many nations can shoot all those satellites down to oblivion? Oh, just 3? And U.S. is the most effective? I suppose in a reality with a specific constant speed of light and the inability to travel any faster, blowing up lenses of the other kids in the space sandbox matters more huh? Hate God, not America.

  21. Re: The Death of Punishment on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    Indeed, imagine seeing this man in a documentary after a life time in prison contemplating his decisions, or rather living with himself with nothing but himself. That, is a way stronger message than a knee jerk, "Kill'em back".

  22. Re: hardly surprising on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    I'd say fuck the death penalty, he should be forced to live in Alabama making no more than minimum wage and be kept healthy enough to live over 90. That'll teach him.

  23. Re: hardly surprising on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 2

    Yea because best way to protest how wrong murder is, is to kill people.

  24. Boston Pride on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 2

    So all this surveillence, enough to know what every American waxes their carrot to (or ring their bells, not leaving any ladies out), and we still couldn't stop some Balthazar Whateverthefuckyou from blowing up a bunch of strangers in the middle of Boston. But fear not! We did pester a family for Googling "pressure cooker". Don't cha feel safe already? I know I do.

  25. Re: Because Root? on Google Can't Ignore the Android Update Problem Any Longer · · Score: 1

    To commentsturbate, "I don't mean, oh I can get to proc root, I mean that other processor can't send a damn packet to a nearby tower without my strict authorization root."