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  1. Re:Alternative title - people are conservative! on AAA: 75% Of Drivers Say They Wouldn't Feel Safe In An Autonomous Vehicle (consumerist.com) · · Score: 2

    Its someone with an agenda manufacturing news.

  2. Re: pretending that back doors dont exist on Apple Lawyer Ted Olson: Creating Unlock Tool Would Lead To 'Orwellian' Society (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct, Constitution doesn't grant the right to privacy. In fact, it doesn't grant any rights. Govt doesn't grant rights. The Constitution defines the limits to govt, and enumerates its duties.

    Where in the Constitution is the enumerated duty to force Apple to fabricate software?

  3. Re:Of course on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Why insulin resistance develops:

    http://faculty.bennington.edu/...

  4. Democrat = big govt, authoritarian
    Republican = (supposed to be for) smaller govt

    The libertarian wing of the Republican party is non-authoritarian, the neo conservative is authoritarian.

    I've often thought the neo conservatives share more with the Democrats than the right wing. I think they just want the big govt but without the taxes.

  5. Re:No honor among thieves on Obama Administration Set To Expand Sharing of Data That NSA Intercepts (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Police say NDA prevents them from getting a warrant for stingray use.

    What if I sign an NDA with my recipient, that would prevent the police from getting a warrant, right?

  6. Most people want bigger govt. They like regulation- if its regulating the other guy. When the big guns of govt turn towards their hobbies or interests, then they get a taste of their own medicine (and usually carve out exemptions).

  7. Can you spot the similarities? on Obama Administration Set To Expand Sharing of Data That NSA Intercepts (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From Wiki

    1984 is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime."

    The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality but who may not even exist. The Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake. It is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power." The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party, who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue in Newspeak), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to rewrite past newspaper articles, so that the historical record always supports the party line. The instructions that the workers receive specify the corrections as fixing misquotations and never as what they really are: forgeries and falsifications. A large part of the ministry also actively destroys all documents that have been edited and do not contain the revisions; in this way, no proof exists that the government is lying. Smith is a diligent and skillful worker but secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother.

    As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common use since its publication in 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state.

  8. Re:Fearmongering on Carnegie Mellon University Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed By Feds (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    So the DOD is having Carnegie attack TOR to improve its security?

    And the community will be notified of found vulnerabilities, right?

  9. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupidCauseTheSubjectIsTFA on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    "Typing anything into the search bar will, regardless of settings, initiate an HTTPS session to www.bing.com. "

    How is that vague?

  10. Re:It's not the weight of the drone on Drones Under 2kg May Be Set Free Under Forthcoming FAA Rules (suasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these

  11. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupidCauseTheSubjectIsTFA on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    So if he disabled search suggestions, you still expect it to communicate the search to MS? Your logic is puzzling.

  12. http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

    FTA

    "Death statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coupled with crime statistics from the FBI show that bicycle and falling deaths far exceed deaths from “mass shootings.”

    For example, on September 24 the FBI released a study showing there were 64 incidents of “mass killings” (mass shootings) for the years 2000 through 2013. The gunmen in these incidents took the lives of 418 people."

  13. Get away from guns? That's as easy as going to a gun-free zone. Duh.

  14. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupidCauseTheSubjectIsTFA on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I see you missed the "regardless of setting" part

  15. Quite the imagination you have

  16. Bicycles kill more in 1 year than mass shootings in 15 years.

  17. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupidCauseTheSubjectIsTFA on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Found this on reddit:

    I've seen theres a lot of speculation on whether the observed network connections from Windows 10 with privacy options on are actually spying or not, and figured some actual evidence would be in order.

    Anyone can recreate this for themselves:

                    Fresh install of Windows 10.
                    Set all privacy options to off, disable cortana, disable web search
                    Ensure all updates are done. Close all programs.
                    Install Fiddler, and enable HTTPS sniffing. (If you use wireshark, you wont be able to view the HTTPS)
                    Press stream in fiddler.
                    Click the windows search bar, type any letter, watch the HTTPS session to bing.com appear.

    Im still trying to figure out exactly what it is that it is transmitting, but its for sure sending a user-agent string that identifies itself as Cortana.

    Some observed behaviors:

                    Clicking on a link from an application (in this case, a download link from within Fiddler) submits the URL you are visiting to urs.microsoft.com.
                    Opening applications-- even with SmartScreen disabled-- opens sessions to apprep.smartscreen.microsoft.com and, among other things, submits the hash of the application. EDIT: Apparently you must also disable smartscreen in edge. Even so, it will initiate a connection to w.apprep.smartscreen.microsoft.com
                    Typing anything into the search bar will, regardless of settings, initiate an HTTPS session to www.bing.com. It will transmit a cookie, though so far I have not seen anything in there that looks like keystroke monitoring, as the only thing that appears to change between attempts is an HV section of the cookie. It appears to be downloading javascript, and submitting identifying data (screen resolution, install date, SID). The URL it uses is https://www.bing.com/manifest/... [bing.com]
                    Opening the settings app and going into account options sometimes opens a session to public-family.api.account.microsoft.com:443. I suppose this would be expected.

  18. Re:Quality problems not specific to a single distr on Linux Mint Hack Is an Indicator of a Larger Problem (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    Look into Slackware

  19. Re:Crome on Baidu Browser Acts Like a Mildly Tempered Infostealer Virus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Found this on reddit:

    've seen theres a lot of speculation on whether the observed network connections from Windows 10 with privacy options on are actually spying or not, and figured some actual evidence would be in order.

    Anyone can recreate this for themselves:

            Fresh install of Windows 10.
            Set all privacy options to off, disable cortana, disable web search
            Ensure all updates are done. Close all programs.
            Install Fiddler, and enable HTTPS sniffing. (If you use wireshark, you wont be able to view the HTTPS)
            Press stream in fiddler.
            Click the windows search bar, type any letter, watch the HTTPS session to bing.com appear.

    Im still trying to figure out exactly what it is that it is transmitting, but its for sure sending a user-agent string that identifies itself as Cortana.

    Some observed behaviors:

            Clicking on a link from an application (in this case, a download link from within Fiddler) submits the URL you are visiting to urs.microsoft.com.
            Opening applications-- even with SmartScreen disabled-- opens sessions to apprep.smartscreen.microsoft.com and, among other things, submits the hash of the application. EDIT: Apparently you must also disable smartscreen in edge. Even so, it will initiate a connection to w.apprep.smartscreen.microsoft.com
            Typing anything into the search bar will, regardless of settings, initiate an HTTPS session to www.bing.com. It will transmit a cookie, though so far I have not seen anything in there that looks like keystroke monitoring, as the only thing that appears to change between attempts is an HV section of the cookie. It appears to be downloading javascript, and submitting identifying data (screen resolution, install date, SID). The URL it uses is https://www.bing.com/manifest/...
            Opening the settings app and going into account options sometimes opens a session to public-family.api.account.microsoft.com:443. I suppose this would be expected.

  20. Re:Its a free service, stop whining on New GitHub Upgrades Respond To Recent Complaints (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    That was the last part of the complaint, github itself is not open source and thus they couldn't not fork it.

  21. Re:The duck quacked on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    "How would a government agency "own" Congresspeople"

    Skeletons in the closet.

  22. Re: The duck quacked on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    They also might imprison Americans in China working for Apple to get them to comply. My old boss wouldn't travel to China out of fear he'd be abducted by the govt as he once worked on classified projects for the military.

  23. Re:Kilo-gram on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. After I clicked submit I realized my example was a little goofy

  24. Re:The duck quacked on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks Whiplash for listening and responding.

  25. Kilo-gram on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    So it'll be 999.000000001 grams or something?

    Maybe they'll redefine gram one of these days