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  1. Re:Former USAF Intel Analyst here on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 1

    Well I would expect anything that they do to be labeled TS w/ some other acronym indicating who has access to that information. Even if no one officially knows what that acronym means they should know they don't have access to that document.

    If I came across a document at work labeled "Above Top Secret" I'd probably have a laugh and show it to all my coworkers. If I found a document labeled TS/ATS I would of course immediately call my security officer and made sure that the document was properly secured.

  2. Re:Former USAF Intel Analyst here on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a serious question. I want to know what an above top secret clearance is and what one has to do to qualify. Why is there no public record of any clearance higher than top secret?

  3. Re:Former USAF Intel Analyst here on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 0, Troll

    How do you have an above TS clearance? Do you mean to say that you had TS clearance with additional classifications? Because there is nothing above TS and of course at all levels there is the "need to know" rule.

  4. Re:Oh yeah, great idea on Deposit Checks To Your Bank By Taking a Photo · · Score: 4, Informative

    USAA Bank app for the iPhone already lets you do this. You don't actually save the image to your phone, it is stored in RAM and then immediately transmitted over the air to the bank servers (hopefully encrypted but who knows?).

  5. Re:I'm not clear on what their case is... on JPL Background Check Case Reaches Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Their sexual orientation DOES Matter and let me tell you why. Suppose they are closet heterosexual but are in a committed homosexual relationship. If some foreign power was able to determine that they're having an illicit love affair they could be blackmailed into giving out secrets. Imagine the shame and horror they would feel to have to tell everyone that they were really heterosexual when they haven't come out of the closet yet.

    I've gone through background checks and they look for ANYTHING that could be used to coerce you or indicate that you're a security risk. It has nothing to do with discrimination.

    And yes, I did intentionally make it look like heterosexuality would be something kept secret to make the example more extreme.

  6. Re:Browser sensitive! on FCC Asks You To Test Your Broadband Speeds · · Score: 1

    I tried to run it as well and it required Flash 9 or higher to run. I refuse to install Flash so I guess I can't help them out any.

  7. Re:Pictures and more info on Farewell To the South Pole Dome · · Score: 1

    For anyone interested here is the link on the NSF page showing the old site and the new facility.

    I don't know about you but I really think they should change their URL to nsfw.gov

  8. Re:It's probably for the best on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    My professor posts the Powerpoints provided by the book's publisher but I like to write down key points the teacher brings up. But yes, if the teacher uses slides its VERY nice when the teacher provides those.

  9. Re:It's probably for the best on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm going back to school for a masters and I cant STAND the students taking notes on paper. The teacher has to repeat an important definition 5 times while they slowly scribble it down and I've typed it word for word on the first go.

    People will pay attention if they want and preventing me from being able to quickly take notes so that I can spend time actually thinking about what the teacher has to say isn't going to make my learning experience better.

  10. Re:Why is it illegal? on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 1

    The reason that scalping is illegal is NOT because the act of selling tickets at the highest possible price is illegal. It's because its very hard for the purchaser to know whether the ticket is legitimate or not. Add to that the fact that the scalper is almost impossible to track down and that makes it very easy for someone to be dishonest. Not to mention that as a cash business its very easy for them to avoid paying proper taxes.

    Scalping is illegal for your protection and the protection of tax revenues more than anything else.

  11. Re:Offtopic national ramblings... on Web Heritage Could Be Lost · · Score: 1

    I've been to Scotland. Edinburgh at least. I thought it was great there, though a little too cold for my tastes. I went to the park near the train station (I forget its name) and all of the locals were enjoying a nice sunny day in May and I (grew up in California) was freezing.

    I still think you're being a little too sensitive though. Despite what you see in Hollywood, most Americans love the various accents used in the UK and are perhaps a bit jealous that they don't speak that way themselves.

    What really gets me is calling people from the US Americans as if we were the only country in North or South America. Most people I know call themselves an American and I just don't like to do it.

  12. Re:what will the Brits panic about next? on Web Heritage Could Be Lost · · Score: 1

    Haha I thought about mentioning a specific regions accent but didn't feel like going through the trouble. I've been to just about every corner of England, and I like it there. I'm not even remotely serious (I think the animated Chicken Little had a typical Hollywood type accent), but I think you're a little sensitive. :P

  13. Re:Flatscreen TV on Game Testing ATI's Six-Screen Eyefinity System · · Score: 5, Informative

    They do make such monitors. They're just really expensive. I used to work in the digital surveillance industry and we made monitor walls out of bezel-less displays.

  14. Re:what will the Brits panic about next? on Web Heritage Could Be Lost · · Score: 1

    Well Chicken Little did have a British accent... I'm just saying.

  15. Re:Secret courts, secret orders, ... on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    I think everyone can agree that its okay for some investigations/actions to happen in secret so long as a neutral judge is authorizing such activity within the constraints of the law. After all, I don't see the courts sending out telegrams when they authorize things like wire taps.

    In general judges like to keep things transparent and in the open but they're wise enough to see that there are times to keep things secret for a short time. I didn't RTFA but its possible that Microsoft went through possible law enforcement agencies to handle this. After all, running a botnet would be a criminal matter, not civil.

  16. Re:the gun on How Packing a Gun Protects Valuables From Airline Theft · · Score: 1

    Looks pretty real to me. Why don't you just look down the end of the barrel and tell me if you can see a bullet in the chamber?

  17. Re:What is "more random"? on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a random number generator, only a psuedo-random number generator. Therefore these numbers appear to be more random than for instance software based techniques to generate a psuedo-random number.

  18. Re:I recommend... on Fingerprint Requirement For a Work-Study Job? · · Score: 1

    No, but it does link the OP to all those dorm room panty raids he's trying to keep hidden from the university...

  19. Re:Anandtech 'Bench' compares ALL recent CPUs... on Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have my Xeon X3220 quad-core on there at all. :( So the only info I have on it is that it scores a 7.2 out of 7.9 possible on the windows experience index. Would be nice to compare it to an i7. Maybe I should overclock...

  20. Re:Games don't use multiple cores? on Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work on flight simulators and we DEPEND on multiple core processors to get everything done at once. What used to take multiple racks of computers can now be done on a single computer with dual quad-core CPUs.

    You think IPC is slow on a single machine? Try using reflective memory across multiple computers. Of course we have to handle a bit more than your typical video game since we have to handle hundreds of buttons and switches from multiple crew member stations, night vision, FLIR and day TV cameras, as well as out the window displays.

  21. Re:Major details wrong on The Worst Apple Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    The guy was complaining that you can't use the iPhone as a USB storage device. When it comes up as "iPhone" in Windows it's coming up as a camera. You can't copy anything TO the device. Plus, it comes up on other versions of Windows also. You just have to have a driver installed for that to happen on XP.

    Not to mention the fact that the iPhone 3G is perfectly capable of recording video but Apple doesn't let you. They had to save that little feature for the 3Gs.

    To top it all off, we all know why there is no SD card on any iPod, iPhone or any other Apple portable. They want to limit your capacity so that you decide you need an upgrade later. All while they claim to be the greenest manufacturer on the planet. Forced obsolescence is NOT green.

    And yes, I like a lot of things about OS X and yes I own an iPhone.

  22. Re:At my state school... on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 1

    Did you go to CSU Fresno? Although it was usually people speaking Punjabi... and they would actually cheat verbally on the tests in this language. My teacher got so pissed that he wrote an impossibly hard final for that section of the class. Everyone who took it failed it. Lucky for me, I had two finals at the same time and I took my final with the other section.

  23. Re:Answers on The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer · · Score: 1

    Link me one application for the iPhone that lets you transfer files to and from your phone via USB (NOT wifi) and makes it available to any app on the phone. I beg you. I'd love to have something like that.

    Unfortunately, all of the ones I see require WiFi, don't work with regular Mac or Windows file sharing protocols, and are only available inside that application, thanks to sandboxing.

  24. Re:Answers on The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer · · Score: 1

    VPN capabilities on the iPhone are terrible, if you ask me. You either have to be running Cisco VPN or Microsoft VPN services. Where is the OpenVPN support?

    Also, I seriously doubt you'll be able to transfer files to and from the iPad with anything other than email. They don't like to give people access to the internal storage because it makes it easier to find exploits

  25. Re:Duh on SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking · · Score: 1

    I think the issue at hand is that Sourceforge's corporate overlord is based out of the US. I'm pretty sure if they break any of the rules in ITAR (I believe encryption is considered to be a weapon) then they could be held liable. Even if they host everything out of the US.