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  1. Europe spies on US on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 1

    US spies on them. Why are people shocked by this?

  2. The code that runs an airliners avionics... on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    ...is probably complex as hell.

    But I bet there is very little spaghetti in that massive and complex code base.

  3. Re:so you want medical information in the clear? on FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    1) Hell yes

    2) they are using the wrong mode of communication for such a message

  4. NASA is full of old guys on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately they get really pissy over the degrees. Two masters degrees (Math and CS) and they still call me undereducated because I don't have a doctorate. Whatever.

  5. Re:Start your own on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1

    I started getting gray hair in my 30's. My father was completely gray by the time he was 45, so this does not bode well.

    Good thing I shave my head.

  6. Re:Do any of you actually eat Twinkies? on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    I ate one when they went out of business. No gastrodistress, other than the somewhat unsavory taste.

  7. Re:hope it was worth it on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Fame/infamy does odd things to people. Serial killers in prison have entire harems of women corresponding with them, marrying them, etc. Bizarre.

  8. Re:Required: Facebook page, and friend the corp. p on Ask Slashdot: Is an Online Identity Important When Searching For Technical Jobs? · · Score: 1

    >> They told me I had to stop posting in the sci-fi discussion group I was a member of.

    I many states, that is illegal. YMMV.

  9. Re:Do you need a clearance? on Ask Slashdot: Is an Online Identity Important When Searching For Technical Jobs? · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as above TS. It is all TS simply with caveats, compartments, what not. The link you provide even says as much.

  10. Re:Once again... on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    You also should realize that being polite, cutting back on the f bombs, and not coming off as a smug holier/more intelligent/hipper-than-thou asshat also helps when dealing with police.

  11. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    HFT is many things.. gambling is not one of them.

  12. Re:NSA Insider Trading on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    Where do you think many founders of HFT programs came from? Let's just say I know more than a few folks who commute regularly from Baltimore to New York.

  13. Re:Does anyone day trade anymore? on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    From what I gather, it has basically been outsourced to China (seriously).

  14. Re:Anything you say or do. on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    Then let them use your silence. But keep in mind that if they brought you in, they think you are guilty, and they are simply building a case against you. They are not trying to exonerate you. You will not talk your way out. You are not smarter than them and they have the luxury of fucking up: you don't.

  15. Re:wtf on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    Brilliant. If they can prove that you do in fact remember, then they caught you lying, which is a crime, and you are now fucked on two counts.

  16. Exoskin aging on Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator · · Score: 1

    Say a T-101 was accidentally sent back to 1950. Would its skin age as it waited for Sarah/John Connor to be born?

  17. Three words: "Booz" "Allen" "Hamilton" on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 2

    I hear they even have an opening in Hawaii.

  18. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    Physicists have strong math. No other reason.

  19. Re:SneakerNet on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    Nobody said MICR was OCR (at least I didn't). Just that financial (and other) institutions could scan your check while it is still inside the envelope back in 1975, which greatly aids in presorting the incoming mail.

    However this is still ripe for intel exploitation: easy to tell that you sent a check to so and so on such and such a date just by scanning the mail for MICR (then OCR the recipient) as the envelope flashes by. Don't know how much the check was for, but they can get that by other means.

    Ever get a piece of mail with a hand written address - that the USPS printed a Intelligent mail barcode on? Perhaps this would interest you....

  20. Re: did snowden's ideals overcome his 6 figure inc on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the park ranger who rescues your granola ass from the side of a mountain.

  21. Re:Ways to help on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1

    Who died and made you Bear Jew?

  22. Re:scheiner didnt name what law was broken on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1

    Considering that he admitted to it, I would say it is not at all presumptuous.

    Presuming guilt however, IS presumptuous... not to mention unconstitutional.

  23. And just what if they only used this for good? on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1

    Seriously - playing devils advocate here - just what if they are indeed not abusing this capability?

  24. Re:Only travels so far on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that using current technology we would be able to detect some very powerful military radars (like used in antiballistic missile systems) from over 100 light years away... if it was pointed at us.

  25. Stupid idea on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 1

    1) No idea if they will be nice. Simply no way to tell.

    2) What makes them think they can speak for me, or for the rest of humanity for that matter?