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  1. Re:We can't win without eliminating FISA. on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Where did I accept anything? Acknowledging what is reality does not mean liking or accepting the status quo.

  2. Re:We can't win without eliminating FISA. on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 2

    Very true. What needs to happen is to scale things back and bring in some accountability. Simply eliminating it means you go back to the president using the intelligence services as his own personal army to spy on his political opponents. At least FISA requires some minimal bar of proof to approve something even if after-the-fact.

  3. Re: so now its the..... on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    AOL was an Internet service provider and portal to the WWW. That is nothing like Facebook.

  4. Re:Al Gore wants the Internet back on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 5, Informative

    Introduced a number of bills that provided funding to the development of the Internet. And as said by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn:

    as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication.

    The very pioneers of the Internet have acknowledged his contributions despite all the maligment he gets from the neckbeard crowd.

  5. Re:so now its the..... on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Facebook was started in 2004, brah. You didn't know anything about it in the 90s unless you have a working time machine.

  6. Re:We can't win without eliminating FISA. on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FISA is way to entrenched to be simply eliminated after 35 years. Hell even when NSLs were initially created with the 1978 FISA act they were actually voluntary to respond to and there were no codified penalties for not complying. They were also extremely limited in scope for whom they could be used by and against. It wasn't until the 2001 FISA amendments as part of the Patriot Act that NSLs got especially heinous.

  7. Re:Links? on After Lavabit Shut-Down, Dotcom's Mega Promises Secure Mail · · Score: 2

    Just empty anchors.

  8. Re:Weird! on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 1

    It's for the same reason why you lock your front door and put blinds on your windows.

  9. Re:And this is impressive why? on Mozilla Launches Persona Identity Bridge For Gmail · · Score: 1

    Sure, but the vast majority of web users don't.

  10. Re:Xbox Live on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 2

    How was it "so impossible to cancel"? You:

    1) Navigate to live.xbox.com.
    2) Sign into your account.
    3) Click "My account".
    4) Click "Cancel Auto Payment".

    Now you've canceled your service.

  11. Re:And this is impressive why? on Mozilla Launches Persona Identity Bridge For Gmail · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's meaningless when most sites use Google Analytics and you'll be tracked by Google anyway.

  12. Re:Good luck with that on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    Yeah all 10 people are making Microsoft quake in their boots.

  13. Re:Good luck with that on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't and neither would almost anyone else.

  14. Re:Good luck with that on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    Almost no one is going to spend a couple hundred dollars to crack HDCP. That's before you even get to the fact that almost no average consumer even knows about being able to bypass it or that HDCP exists. Which is my entire point.

  15. Re:Good luck with that on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    HDCP is broken for those willing to go to the effort to circumvent it. That is an extremely tiny amount of people.

  16. Re: Nothing sucks more ... on How To Build a Simple Open Source Server Monitoring Solution With Mobile Support · · Score: 1

    Good thing no one ever lies.

  17. Re:What exactly have they opened? on NVIDIA Open Sources SHIELD's Operating System · · Score: 3, Informative
  18. Re:Why does this compare to the iPad 3? on Google's Second Generation Nexus 7 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    "Over a year and a half old".

  19. Re:Why does this compare to the iPad 3? on Google's Second Generation Nexus 7 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    He said coming up on 2 years old. Something being over a year old is coming up on 2 years old. Either way, the iPad 3 was discontinued 10 months ago. So as the GP said, comparing to the latest model iPad is a much better test than the 10 month old discontinued model. The only reason for using the iPad 3 seems to be to purposefully make the iPad look worse otherwise why not use the current model iPad versus the current model Nexus 7?

  20. Re:Benchmarks were/are incomplete. on Google's Second Generation Nexus 7 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Out of the box iPhone 5 bought any time in the last few months runs 6.1.4. 6.0.1 is from November of last year.

  21. Re:3% velocity on Building a Full-Auto Gauss Gun · · Score: 1

    So either the 3% figure is wrong or the 40m/s figure is wrong.

  22. Re:3% velocity on Building a Full-Auto Gauss Gun · · Score: 1

    The article is wrong. Even the fastest 22 bullet has a velocity of 1640 feet/sec or 500 m/sec. 3% of 500 is only 15 m/sec or around 33 mph.

  23. Re:Nvidia... on IBM Opens Up POWER Architecture For Licensing · · Score: 1

    LOL

  24. Re:Emotions, not facts?! on Interview: Oceanographer David Gallo Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Then maybe not quote mine his words out of context and it will be less troubling for you?

  25. Re:Screw You Obama on Snowden Gave 15,000 Documents to Glenn Greenwald; Obama Cancels Russia Summit · · Score: 2

    Send this communist terrorist to Gitmo! *cocks shotgun*