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  1. Re:Which Encryption Scheme is Safest? Can we tell? on Yahoo Encrypting Data In Wake of NSA Revelations · · Score: 1

    Well I'm sure the 20 or so people who still use Yahoo feel very secure just knowing that Yahoo is trying to do something.

  2. Re:Seems fine with me. on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 2

    Intentionally withholding the key is different from losing the key because when you lose it then you let your employer know right away. Although the analogy used wasn't the greatest either because in this case the city was unable to use the network for a period of time, not just manage it. In this case it would more like he cut off connection to the server room and constructed a barricade inside to keep people out.

  3. Re:How hard can that possibly be? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    In the article I believe it mentions they didn't test any of this filth in the field before implementing it. They just dropped it all with a "have fun" note stuck to the top.

  4. Re:What you're missing... on Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    I believe you misspelled century

  5. Re:Wrong question on "Squishy Joints" May Have Helped Dinosaurs Grow To Giant Sizes · · Score: 1

    Survival of the biggest until that asteroid came along

  6. Re:Sour Grapes on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 2

    Won't someone think if our mone.... err um the consumer's money!!!!

  7. Re:Hmm on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sharkalance, Sharknado, Sharkquake, Sharkquake 2 The After Sharks.

  8. Re:Quantum foam? on Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam · · Score: 0

    They become black holes by eating quantum foam. They become supermassive by eating the superstar's ego.

  9. Re:Oh, really? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Its all a liberal scare tactic to fund those damn hippie communes in the northeast with their trees and drugs n' whatnot

  10. Re:not low enough on Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets · · Score: 5, Funny

    It must be ergonomic

  11. Re:Proctored remote exam? on Big MOOC On Campus: Georgia Tech's $6,600 MS In CS · · Score: 3, Informative

    So they would go to a LOCAL school in their region or country and take it there. Exams can be emailed, faxed, etc. to other places which can proctor the exam.

  12. Re:What's the problem? on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 1

    Well China is known as the land of copycat it seems and I would wager a good 75% or more of those machines are running pirated copies.

  13. Re:That's not news on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Actually, the LA school district employed 45,473 teachers in the 2011 to 2012 school year. That $30 Million would equate to an average of $660 extra per teacher. Now the $30 million is for the first 31,000 only, and in the end they will spend approx. $620 million on all 640,000 ipads. Dividing that out would equate to an extra $13,000 they could give each teacher instead or use it to hire more teachers and rebuild, expand, or build new schools with.

  14. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    You need a supplement of 5000IU of Vitamin N

  15. Re:The theater is dead. on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    As a comic once put it:
    "Excuse me there seems to be some mistake. I bought a movie ticket and some popcorn and now I have no money"

  16. Re:NSA Fiber on Google Fiber Adds 14th City: Lee's Summit · · Score: 2

    No, fiber uses light so they can SEE you!

  17. Re:the trouble with intelligent killing machines on Fear of Thinking War Machines May Push U.S. To Exascale · · Score: 1

    You don't need no confangled off switch to kill them terrerists!

  18. Re:Horrible things? on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    A homemade gun might be harder to trace is about the only thing that could make finding the killer more difficult

  19. Re:Simple explanation on Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    I don't think having different information for different states but a list of MPG per average rate of speed:
    xMPG@60MPH
    xMPG@65MPH
    xMPG@70MPH
    and so on because even though the limit might be xMPH doesn't mean that's what the average driver follows.

  20. Re:Focus all you want... on Kobo CEO Says Not Selling Washing Machines Key To Overtaking Amazon · · Score: 1

    Which is kind of ironic considering their cloud vending came from their retail business. Amazon used to have tons of extra server power set aside which was just used keep the site running smoothly during the insane blitz of online shoppers during the holiday season. Of course that only lasted for a month or so out of the year so they began to lease out that extra server power during all the months it wasn't in use.

  21. Re:The big rush on A Critique of the Boston Bombing News Coverage (Video) · · Score: 1

    I remember a quote from a while back that said "We don't have reporters these days, only stenographers" Which is true more and more each day. Almost nobody fact checks anymore they just spew it out as fast as they can write it down. Sure some of the more local places are better but the bigger news companies its getting rarer and rarer.

  22. Re:AT&Ts model on How Google Fiber Could Do Some National Good, Or At Least Scare the Carriers · · Score: 1

    Just remember, speeds UP TO 1Gbps. So anything above 0bps would technically fit the bill in AT&Ts book

  23. Re:Too bad. on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    So user signs up for a data plan then gets support and cancels the plan. They would still be billed the data plan price for that month OR they have to enter into a 2 year contract data plan. They want to cancel they get to pay that nice hefty fee.

  24. Re:Who cares about the subscription look at the TO on Office 2013: Microsoft Cloud Era Begins In Earnest · · Score: 1

    Just a small heads up, breaking the TOS is not illegal. The only thing that could happen is a possible civil suit.

  25. Re:British Nurse Suicide on After Aaron Swartz's Death, the Focus Now Falls On the Prosecutors · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This was originally posted on ThinkProgress but I will post it here to put that 35 years into perspective for those who don't quite get it. He also was reported to have refused the plea bargain so the full book would have been thrown at him so to speak.

    Manslaughter: Federal law provides that someone who kills another human being “[u]pon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion” faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if subject to federal jurisdiction. The lesser crime of involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of only six years.

    Bank Robbery: A person who “by force and violence, or by intimidation” robs a bank faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. If the criminal “assaults any person, or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon or device,” this sentence is upped to a maximum of 25 years.

    Selling Child Pornography: The maximum prison sentence for a first-time offender who “knowingly sells or possesses with intent to sell” child pornography in interstate commerce is 20 years. Significantly, the only way to produce child porn is to sexually molest a child, which means that such a criminal is literally profiting off of child rape or sexual abuse.

    Knowingly Spreading AIDS: A person who “after testing positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and receiving actual notice of that fact, knowingly donates or sells, or knowingly attempts to donate or sell, blood, semen, tissues, organs, or other bodily fluids for use by another, except as determined necessary for medical research or testing” faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

    Selling Slaves: Under federal law, a person who willfully sells another person “into any condition of involuntary servitude” faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, although the penalty can be much higher if the slaver’s actions involve kidnapping, sexual abuse or an attempt to kill.

    Helping al-Qaeda Develop A Nuclear Weapon: A person who “willfully participates in or knowingly provides material support or resources . . . to a nuclear weapons program or other weapons of mass destruction program of a foreign terrorist power, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be imprisoned for not more than 20 years.”

    Violence At International Airports: Someone who uses a weapon to “perform[] an act of violence against a person at an airport serving international civil aviation that causes or is likely to cause serious bodily injury” faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years if their actions do not result in a death.