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  1. Re: Who cares about Brazil? on In Brazil, Police Overstep Court Order To Sieze Former President's Email · · Score: 1

    Kind of like the National Socialists.

  2. Re:Why is it an overstep on In Brazil, Police Overstep Court Order To Sieze Former President's Email · · Score: 0

    I would like to add to all that, Hillary would be far worse. The only reason she isn't already answering for her crimes committed on her personal email server is because she has a D next to her name, just like the current president. Anyone rooting for Hillary should really look at Brazil and consider what a criminal in the presidency could do to our country.

  3. Re:author cannot tell human from robots on Contradictory Understandings of "Robot" Sow Confusion In US Law (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds like something out of an Asimov book.

  4. Re:More importantly... on Contradictory Understandings of "Robot" Sow Confusion In US Law (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    We will have plenty of qualified robotech lawyers when the Zentradi invade...

    Talk about illegal aliens taking your jobs, these guys kill you and take everything you have.

  5. Re:More importantly... on Contradictory Understandings of "Robot" Sow Confusion In US Law (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  6. Re:Loss of line of sight? on Laser System Set To Revolutionize Future Aircraft, Satellite Data Links (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Sunshine...
    High Altitude Clouds...
    Thunderstorms...
    Pulling into a hanger...

    I am sure there are more, those are just off the top of my head.

  7. Re:Before anyone asks the relavent question.. on Laser System Set To Revolutionize Future Aircraft, Satellite Data Links (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    5 meters? I think 10Gbit can do better...

  8. Re:Could there be... on Laser System Set To Revolutionize Future Aircraft, Satellite Data Links (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know that I want any technology that comes from Hyperion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:Solved Problem?!?!?? on Thanks For the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Glass doesn't have magnetic domains. It still has iron, which is the main component of rust.

  10. Well, to the east of Tenerife is water, which could be called the Atlantic ocean, and if you fly west in a aircraft like the concorde, you would eventually get to the coast of Africa...

  11. Not doing so is one of the fastest ways to lose the protection that IP law grants you.

    Citation Needed.

    Trademark law works that way, but I have never heard of a company losing a copyright due to lack of enforcement.

  12. The product keys "known to have been stolen" from Microsoft's supply chain were used to activate Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008.

    The physical stickers were stolen from the distribution chain. This is actual honest to goodness theft. There was actually something stolen here, though it was a fancy piece of paper.

  13. Re:ARE we talking about mass theft? on Microsoft To Court: Make Comcast Give Us Windows-Pirating Subscriber's Info (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, yes, the license keys physically printed on the OEM stickers were stolen, so yes, something was physically stolen.

    The product keys "known to have been stolen" from Microsoft's supply chain were used to activate Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008.

    There was actual real theft involved here.

  14. Because it is what I am reading in technical articles on the subject:

    http://searchmobilecomputing.t...

    Please, correct me with some citations to information about how it works.

  15. Re:All boils down to evidence on Snowden: FBI's Claim It Can't Unlock The San Bernardino iPhone Is 'Bullshit' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/SB-Sho...

    Is that accurate? It doesn't appear to be what I am reading in the court order.

    "The SIF will be coded by Apple with a unique identifier of the phone so that the SIF would only load and execute on the SUBJECT DEVICE"

    Not exactly the same as "give us a tool we can use on thousands of phones". Also, I would say that exactly defines a one off tool, as it is signed by Apple's signing key, it isn't like the FBI could take that file and change the unique identifier to any phone they like.

  16. Re:All boils down to evidence on Snowden: FBI's Claim It Can't Unlock The San Bernardino iPhone Is 'Bullshit' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Um...my Tundra, which is pretty much as big as those "loud SUV's" gets 15.4 mpg. You might want to look into gas milage figures again...

  17. https://www.reddit.com/r/theyd...

    Good luck breaking into the encryption...

  18. Re:Critical mass on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Click on Parent until you get to the top of the thread, then try to tell me I am wrong that renewable is less reliable than nuclear/hydro/fossil power. You are the one hopping into the middle of a thread and claiming things that weren't in the earlier discussion. Also, arguing in a sibling of this post that we are talking about home renewables when the whole thread was about grid scale, now you are claiming that grid is more reliable because a cloud can't cover large sections of the grid.

    Anyways, yes, cloud cover can cover large sections of the grid. When storms roll through the US, they can cover whole regions, and so your point is that we can have enough spare solar/wind to back up a quarter of the country at a time? You seem to not understand how power grids work. You are also arguing that cloud cover and losing all your solar power generation at night isn't an issue, as that is the thread you are replying to, so how can you argue that point?

    If solar is more reliable, while still going out every night, and having cloud cover negatively effect it, but nuclear is extremely unreliable in comparison (the argument at the very beginning of this thread), then I would love to know what world you are living in.

    http://www.weather.gov/satelli...

    So, how will you backup that half the map that is covered with clouds right now? Solar power is nearly useless when it is cloudy, so, please enlighten me on how wrong I am that this is somehow more reliable than nuclear/hydro/fossil.

  19. Re:Critical mass on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Solar/wind/etc uses transformers too, usually called inverters in that context. They also have the same failure modes, though are generally less exposed.

    But, no, we were not talking about small distributed units, but the reliability of grid power run completely on renewables vs having nuclear/hydro/natural gas power backing up the solar and wind power. This whole thread was about the reliability of grid scale renewables, not your home power system.

  20. Re:Reliability? on There's No End In Sight For Data Storage Capacity (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So, your single point of data is more important than tests that have actually been run?

    http://techreport.com/review/2...

    I would love to see the spinning disk that can handle 2.1 petabytes being written to it. But of course you have run the thousands of tests for years on end needed to identify the unreliability of SSDs vs HDD.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/re...

  21. When the encryption key is stored in a TPM chip, yes you do.

    When the TPM erases the key after X failed attempts, you don't just get to replace the disk with a bit level image, as the encryption key is what is missing, not the data.

  22. Really? Prove it. It seems there are many people speculating about how easy it would be that don't seem to understand how the encryption works. When the phone wipes, it doesn't wipe the flash, but the encryption key that is inside of a hardened chip. It isn't something that you can just retrieve and replace. So, since you KNOW how to do this, you should offer your services to the FBI, I am sure they would pay you very well to demonstrate the ability on a dummy phone.

  23. For example, they could back up the flash memory, make 10 attempts, the phone wipes it and they restore it and try the next 10 numbers.

    Except that wouldn't work. The thing that wipes is not the data but the key. The key is kept in Apple's equivalent of a TPM chip, so cannot be retrieved or replaced after the wipe.

    http://searchmobilecomputing.t...

  24. Re:Now the next step on MIT Creates Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time By 34% (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just give them their own temporary/guest account on your computer and not worry about what they do? You could even use a read only VM, or boot off a CD and let them use that.

    You don't give people access to your main account on your computer do you? That would be a terrible thing for privacy and security.

  25. Re:Reliability? on There's No End In Sight For Data Storage Capacity (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    So you prefer SSD than? SSD reliability already far outstrips spinning disks, so you should be happy with the move to solid state.