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  1. Re:divorce on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Here's the best idea, stop using facebook, and stop posting anything potentially incriminating or even marginally controversial under your real name.

  2. Re:divorce on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    That's what should happen instead of a password swap anyways. The minute you swap password is the minute the data is no longer reliable, as a vengeful ex-to-be could give it to anyone that wanted to.

  3. Re:Terms of Service on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 2

    I'd bet Facebook already has a method to export data to LEO's. The judge should just issue a subpoena for Facebook to send a copy of the data to the court.

  4. Re:Think scientifically about this please on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes, but albedo modification is plausible and cheap (a few billion, vs the many trillions necessarily for alternative energy) C02 alone will raise temperatures by about 1.2 degC. Feedbacks in the main models seem to have been overstated though. Even though C02 has increased at a rate greater than previous predictions, warming is occurring more slowly than previous predictions. The increased column height of warm wet air over equatorial oceans, one of the first proposed feedback mechanisms has not been observed. Many of these models when run with historical data produce results that vary wildly from the actual historically record patterns. We know a lot about any individual factor in the climate, but we still have a lot of trouble putting is all together. The software that does is closed source as well, making it difficult to verify and question the assumptions buried within.

  5. Re:This is one of those on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 1

    What it produces is money now, at the cost of more money later. More precisely it provides a service. The service it provides is to act as a clearinghouse between people how have money and are willing to forego consuming it for particular period for a particular price, and those who do not and are looking to buy something which has a larger future discount for them, such as a house, or capital that they believe will produce more than the particular price demanded for the money. Ideally this is all a bank does, however as it is now, there exists an unspoken deal with the government. The government protects their inherently risky and unstable fractional scheme by protecting them from obligations in various ways, and in return the banks acquiesce to whatever fiscal policy serves the government interests of the moment. What makes sense is to balance the budget and stop supporting a system which has inherent systematic risks like the fractional reserve system.

  6. Re:True to every corporation on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 1

    What he says is common knowledge and is undisputed. Pickup any book on the history of the american corporation.

  7. Re:Lack of Cash on B&N Sought DoJ Inquiry Over Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    ", it suggests that the patents are decidedly _NOT_ frivolous" No it means that interval of damages plus costs over the probability curve for this and potential further issues in the future is greater than the cost of settling. Say there is a !% chance of a reward of $100 dollars per device and a 2.5% chance of $50 per device, either which outweighs the licencing cost.

  8. Re:Time to buy a Nook on B&N Sought DoJ Inquiry Over Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Which is quite crazy, however I've seen a driver hacks where it is treated like a compact flash hard drive.

  9. Forking the government. on Could Crowd-Sourced Direct Democracy Work? · · Score: 1

    Sure, as long as you can make a fork.

  10. Re:Criminals were captured on Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? · · Score: 1

    No government usually doesn't mean no law, it usually means a polycentric and customary legal system. Just think about it about, how many friends might I have, will they all believe you or want thier own vengance? What if you found out later that is wasn't actually me but just someone you thought was me? If you even thought about it for half a minute you would figure out there would be reason seek the aid of those with experience in investigation, a knowledge of social norms, and a reputation of impartiality and wisdom.

    The real danger to humanity is blind obience. Government have killed nearly a quarter billion people in the twentieth century alone. There is only about half of one percent that are natural killers (sociopaths, or those without empathy), compared to about three-quarters that without extensive training to override instincts will not shoot back at those whom they have every reason to believe are trying the kill them. ESR has a good essay on the topic. http://catb.org/~esr/writings/killer-myth.html

  11. Re:I did on Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day' · · Score: 1

    Go to wal-mart, three dollar fee for less than a thousand dollars, six dollars for more, but less than five thousand.

  12. Re:Criminals were captured on Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? · · Score: 1

    Maybe I don't understand the concept, correct me if i'm wrong, but I thought true anarchy was "he who has the biggest guns makes the rules' ala Somalia? I bet if you rape a warlord's daughter predictable or not he will hang you by your intestines from the nearest bridge.

    Somalia is comprise of eight tribal clans, the warlords are in the employ of the clans. The fighting was because none of the tribes trusted any of the others enough to have a central government. Also there exists a sophisticated customary law system called the Xeer, so it is likely the warlord would ask the familily of the offender for compensation. If they refuse he will take it to an elder of that family. If the elder refused he would go speak to the elder of his own family, and both elders would agree to a judge and a trial would be held. (Cliff notes version)

    The purest example of a western anarchy, would be some of the early New England colonies. Rhode island had an anarchist faction that split off for a small time. Both Pennsylvania and New Jersey had a peaceful period with no government or taxation.

    Anarchy is a social condition in which there is no state ( institution with a monopoly over judicial proceedings that is funded through forced extractions or money, goods, or labor)

  13. Re:Criminals were captured on Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? · · Score: 1
    For our own safety's sake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nJR15e0F4

    Plus it's a principle of good police work. If you don't have probable cause you are wasting valuable resources by just randomly searching people.

  14. Re:No, that's not a solution on No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux · · Score: 1

    You're confusing it with TPM. Secure Boot is just meant to validate the boot-chain.

  15. Re:They want a GOOD security feature off? B.S.! on No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux · · Score: 1

    "Guys, listen - they ALL need work on the security front, every OS there is! However, the Penguins saying to turn the secure boot feature off? It's NEGATING a good security feature, one hacker/cracker types take advantage of!" Have you actually read the Linux foundations recommendations? If actually followed it would allow every operating system to use Secure boot in a sane way. One interesting recomendation was to have a CA that would KEK public-private pair to validate a wide variety of things including periphrial devices and open source distributions. Secure boot is set up in such a way that it doesn't require any changes to the underlying OS at all so long as platform owners can modify the keys during the firmware setup or have a say to resetting to the initial mode on the hardware. Thus there is nothing that can be done to the Linux kernel to make it adapt, because the compatibly concerns aren't within the behavior of the kernel, but within the behavior of the firmware. Turning it off is just the minimally acceptable option.

  16. Re:Quite sad how bloated everything is on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 1

    When I think back to playing vast adventure games, like Below the Root, that amazingly fit on two sides of a 5.25" floppy, but the same game now would probably be written to take up a CD-ROM, even using the same graphics. Programmers have lost the NEED to optimize.

    FTFY

  17. Keyring and give a layer the key. on Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Use a keyring, make a copy with a strong master password every so often, and give your lawyer a copy along with a copy of your will, and since any communication with a lawyer is also considered privileged, it was the side effect that no court order can ever disclose the password before you die.

  18. Re:Or just maybe... on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    In soviet Russia, Unity runs you! (Oh wait, with the lack of config options, it does that everywhere)

  19. Re:Why can't the US just give them a bad Concorde? on China Builds 1-Petaflop Homegrown Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    No not completely, just for what you'd want in a desktop system. If you just wan't to crunch a lot of numbers, it's not a bad choice.

  20. Re:Loongson is a licensed MIPs processor on China Builds 1-Petaflop Homegrown Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    This processor mentioned is not a loongson.

  21. Re:Why can't the US just give them a bad Concorde? on China Builds 1-Petaflop Homegrown Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Probably not, lacks the single thread performance, and isn't an x86 architechtrure. OTOH, it may be used to design some of the weapon systems to be seen in WWIII.

  22. Re:Waiting for MS to underbid on Schools In Portugal Moving To OSS · · Score: 1

    sudo apt-get install xfce4

    sudo apt-get install xfce4-extras

    You'll be a lot happier.

  23. Re:Why? on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    If you never convert formats that's true enough, but since I have no clue of what kind of format I might want in the future, I like to hold onto the a loseless copy when I can.

  24. Re:Excellent idea for overclocking on Cutting Open a Heatsink Heatpipe To See Inside · · Score: 1

    The boundary effect will foil your evil plan.

  25. Re:Shred? on DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD · · Score: 1

    Unless it's only seemingly confidential and is really a stream of false information.