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  1. You do realize that Aaron Barr is the real winner on HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Book and movies deals. Made for tv movies about his now public divorce. Paid interviews. Perversely a paid consultant about what NOT to do.... The dude is going to be a millionaire.

    I posted this as anon coward a few times, nobody seemed to notice.

    This whole shabby experience will set up this sleaze bag for life.

  2. So much for WBC's nightly Hamster Dance on Anonymous Goes After GodHatesFags.com · · Score: 1

    I don't think these folks have much exposure to the net, but their email WOULD be fascinating to a psychologist I am sure,

  3. One B-2 Bomber on Science Programs Hit Hard By Proposed Budget · · Score: 1

    Eliminate ONE of those and you can eliminate the cuts to NASA, NOAA, as well as some of the smaller cuts.

    Hell, the USAF doesn't even want them for crying out loud.

  4. Re:Is anybody really surprised? on Science Programs Hit Hard By Proposed Budget · · Score: 1

    IIRC the DoD budget is not discretionary, so it is very hard to cut.

  5. 150 kilos on Tethered, Water-Powered Jetpack Provides Two Hours of Flight Time · · Score: 0

    Guess they wont be selling many in America.

  6. Doesn't MS have mad cash reserves? on The Microsoft High-Profile Exodus Continues · · Score: 1

    As in they could coast for years without bringing in a dime?

    I wouldn't count them out any time soon.

  7. Re:YES! on The Microsoft High-Profile Exodus Continues · · Score: 1

    Wont happen in your life time. MS or the US. Both are way too rich... and if it comes to that MS has mice, US has nukes.

    Besides absolutely nothing is stopping MS from reinventing themselves and releasing a Linux distro.

  8. Actually punish drunk drivers on Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Can we try that first?

  9. Re:Space camp and amusement park on NASA's Commercial Plans for Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    What we can't afford are two wars, one utterly baseless, and the other having been dragged on way too long.

    NASA's total budget is less than Northrup Grumman's (the THIRD largest US defense contractor).

  10. Just like TV will ruin your eyes? on 3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will · · Score: 1

    Whatever, Mom.

  11. Tank Wars, Scorched Earth, a multitude of others on Angry Birds and Parabolic Instinct In Humans · · Score: 1

    Angry Birds is fun and cute, but hardly anything more. It isn't even original.

  12. 1553 to NEW-HIP adapters.... on Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear · · Score: 2

    Seems like a huge market out there.

    Because they sure as hell aren't going to redesign existing avionics.

  13. Tom didn't mention this on Facebook on MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees · · Score: 1

    I guess he still has a glimmer of pride left after all.

    I am sure he is laughing at this post... all the way to the bank.

  14. I mourn for the lost child. on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A 9 year old child lost to this.

    So senseless.

  15. $1,000,000,000 in R&D vs.... on First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter · · Score: -1, Troll

    $60 for a subscription to Aviation Week.

    Sounds like the Chinks made out.

  16. Too much mayhem on the roads on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    Alcohol is more of a threat to our well being and safety than any terrorist ever could be.

    If Osama Bin Laden wants to kill Americans... he should move here and open a bar.

  17. Re:Are you guys really loosing it in the U.S? on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 1

    It must the the fluoridation.

  18. Anything you can do... on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    ...I (meaning the government funded Russian counterfeiter) can do better....

  19. This is good on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 1

    Any reason to move away from established loan sharks such as MC and Visa is a great thing.

  20. ssh is the hero here, not NX on NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source · · Score: 0

    I am not busting on NX - I like their software - but the real star of the show is ssh... without which NX is nothing.

    And ssh remains open.

  21. Re:Fast remote X connection... on NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source · · Score: 0

    Maybe ssh X11 forwarding with compression would help?

  22. Re:Fast remote X connection... on NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Ha!

    In practice, NX doesn't provide more than PuTTy and XMing.

    But is is impressive software.

  23. Re:Fast remote X connection... on NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Your kidding I hope.

    On my CentOS box it entailed the following gruelling sequence of steps:

    $ sudo yum install nx freenx

    Then, install a client, connect to your server, pretend you are working on your server.

    This is useless for the runlevel 3 crowd (however my box is at 3 and it runs quite nicely).

  24. Re:True, but there is always a countermeasure on The Clock Is Ticking On Encryption · · Score: 1

    I cite (as one example):

    http://www.google.com/patents?id=daEsAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

    Straight forward, way over most peoples heads (but not all people a BS in math should be able to follow this), and.... cracked.

    They all fall down.

    As far as suppressed math, how many mathemeticians work for NSA - won't see their work published anytime soon - and if some clever body comes along and invents and patents something similar NSA comes along and invokes very unique patent powers, and squelches the invention.

    Citation:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Patents

  25. Re:True, but there is always a countermeasure on The Clock Is Ticking On Encryption · · Score: 1

    But it is all true. Everyone knows this.

    Why do organizations like NSA put such an emphasis on secrecy? Because they have to in order to delay the inevitable day when their crypto is cracked like so many egg shells... hopefully by which time they are on to something better... which they keep secret... to delay they inevitable... repeat.