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  1. Re:He isn't selling the rock :( on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    Yes did he not understand when he signed the Official secrets act (the equivalent in the USA) what he was doing?

  2. Old tech on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    MI6 tried that and it was discovered back in 2006

  3. Re: What is the point? on How Engineers and Scientists Cluster In the U.S. · · Score: 0

    you know that (milatery rnd) is how SV got started?

  4. Um Re:Encryption IS unfortuately too hard on The Register: 4 Ways the Guardian Could Have Protected Snowden · · Score: 1

    You have an over inflated idea of the technical chops of those in the media the uk especially (cp snows two society is still relevant) most journalists dont have much knowledge of IT and security. I doubt that Duncan Campbell would have made such silly mistakes though.

  5. Re: To the surprise of no one on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 1

    And Phone company employees, banks, those with access to medical records and ISP employees Google fired some one for doing this a while back.

    I recall our internal security team at BT sent round a briefing about looking up peoples details on our systems as some one had found the new of address of an estranged wife for a mate - who then killed her.

    And then there was an unholy shit storm when a journalist posing as a temp employee looked up the queens private number in Scotland a few years back.

  6. Re:This is A Distraction From the NSA Scandal on Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years · · Score: 1

    Tell that to a 5 year old who's lost his mum/dad. what woudl you suggest the USA do invade Kenya because its last elections where corrupt? Or use diplomacy behind the scenes or just blurt it out like an incontinent spaniel and wash your hands of the consequences.

  7. Re:This isn't a "twist", it's PR on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 1

    and The NSA looks at the press and goes yeah right we believe you that classy count down you did for charlote church counting down the days until she was "legal" to fuck is just so moral.

  8. Re:Most of the KNOWN incidents were self-reported on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 1

    Why its just as likely that the incidence is low than high

  9. Re:So ladies... on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 2

    lol or as Smiley says re control at controls funeral "he went to his grave with his wife believing he was mid ranking official at the coal board" or in Spooks (MI5) Sir harry piece commented "oh i told my ex wife when we signed the bans in church"

  10. Re:For once Bill Gates is right on Internet.org: Altruistic, Or the Ultimate In Cynicism? · · Score: 1

    Oops I got the figure assback wards ie 20 % die before they are 5 That is for mortality in the first year not up to age 5 well which is what Oxfam thinks (i was involved in some campaigns for them)

  11. Re:This is A Distraction From the NSA Scandal on Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years · · Score: 2

    And there where riots in Kenya where people where killed as a result of the leaks can you imagine having to explain to your young child that mommy or daddy did not come back from the market because the accidentally got caught up in a riot.

  12. Re:It could be a good thing or a bad thing. on Internet.org: Altruistic, Or the Ultimate In Cynicism? · · Score: 1

    Let them Google cake recipes as Marie Antoinette would say :-)

  13. Re:For once Bill Gates is right on Internet.org: Altruistic, Or the Ultimate In Cynicism? · · Score: 1

    Many people do live like that and not just in Africa, South America has massive problems with access to clean water there are plenty of places in the world where only 20% of kids make it too their 5th birthday!

  14. Re:White countries for everyone. on Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat · · Score: 1

    Julian from his statements about blowback from wikileaks releases is following rule #2 from the University of Woolamaloo

    "No member of the faculty is to maltreat the "Abos" in any way whatsoever—if there's anyone watching."

  15. Re:In thr '60's on Amazon Angling For Same-Day Delivery Beyond Groceries · · Score: 1

    His name was Ernie and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west :-) Though i always preferd Norman Pitkin

  16. Re:Not offensive at all, in fact it's a great idea on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    You said " Drones have autonomy" did you not understand what you wrote there? That you said that the drone had full rational control of its mission?

  17. Re:Not offensive at all, in fact it's a great idea on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Where this true AI your claiming exists that runs the drones? A human operator is in the loop.

  18. Re:Journalists licking Obamas boots on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Would you rather he took a leaf out of Curtis Le Mays book and reactivated a couple of squadrons of B52s and carpet bombed entire town to get a target? people in SE Asia are still living with the side efects of the massive bombing campaigns the USA did in the Vietnamese war.

  19. Re:Nanoparticles? Pshaw, son: on The World's First CPU Liquid Cooler Using Nanofluids · · Score: 0

    Yesss....Ignore the general point I was making of course i wasn't suggesting Hg as a coolant for a pc The organization was on the campus of a university that thought that top universities (ox-bridge Stanford Harvard etc) where all right for your "first degree" I think you will find that organizations genuinely ranked 1 or 2 do look down on the hoi poli certainly some of the guys doing their PHD would have been far more blunt with you than I was.

  20. Re:I love Slashdort! on The World's First CPU Liquid Cooler Using Nanofluids · · Score: 1

    well you didn't graduate in thermofluids did you or even plumbing trade school hint look up specific heat on wikipedia

  21. Re:Nanoparticles? Pshaw, son: on The World's First CPU Liquid Cooler Using Nanofluids · · Score: -1

    Um you obviously haven't much knowledge of thermofluids - there are plenty of fluids (hg and Sodium for example) that transfer heat much more effectively than water - btw my first job was at the worlds premier rnd organization for thermofluids so no taking the piss with modding me down.

  22. Re:Seriously? on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    yes a state wide alert should be for dangers like "incoming tsunami run for the hills"

  23. Re:Terrified, I'm sure... on Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA · · Score: 1

    No No Mr Finch invented face book to provide information for the "machine"

  24. Re:Terrified, I'm sure... on Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA · · Score: 1

    quite right payday loans and ambulance chasing scummy firms like PPI or whiplash claims is the only hard nos I have one my list

  25. Re:Maybe on Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA · · Score: 1

    what with the week protections the usa has for workers I doubt that