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  1. oh. Its about forced disclosure on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that sucks. Well, a paper envelope and a stamp still works.

  2. What about email is vital to groklaw? on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Why cant they just have their own comment page? I think they already have one, so why is SMTP vital?

  3. posted too soon on Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB & 1TB TLC NAND Drives Tested · · Score: 1

    from your kind link, it looks to be doing lazy writes.

  4. Re:Was the RAPID sw used throughout the test on Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB & 1TB TLC NAND Drives Tested · · Score: 1

    I keep hearing these drives are doing compression. Maybe the driver offloads the compression onto the cpu.

  5. I think the theory is that the money comes back on Dishwasher-Size, 25kW Fuel Cell In Development · · Score: 1

    In the form of corporate/private taxes and exports. I think there is a net gain if we funded a technology and then sold a bunch of them overseas.

    If you want to get down on the government, do it in an organized manner: get a bunch of people together to chip in and hire an external auditor. Audit Congress. That would be fun to watch.

  6. How can lyme cause dna damage in mitochondria? on Effects of Parkinson's-Disease Mutation Reversed In Cells · · Score: 1

    How can lyme disease be at all related to Parkinsons? Are they saying that advanced stage lyme disease has similar symptoms to parkinsons?

  7. Was the RAPID sw used throughout the test on Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB & 1TB TLC NAND Drives Tested · · Score: 1

    One assumes this is windows software. Did the competing drives have their drivers installed too? I would want to see its performance without drivers installed and used as a plain SATA drive. And I would like to see with and without RAPID numbers.

    Is RAPID a sophisticated buffer cache that is doing lazy writes to the SSD?

  8. But why does it have to be federal? on NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds · · Score: 1

    The states all have laws which kind of mirror the federal laws for wiretapping and such. What is to stop a states attorney general from getting convictions? Why does the federal government have to do everything?

  9. If the area is really desolate on Ask Slashdot: Printing Options For Low-Resource Environments? · · Score: 1

    You might research human powered chargers: bicycles or other means to generate power without fuel.

  10. Re:Tractor feed green bar 132 column paper printer on Ask Slashdot: Printing Options For Low-Resource Environments? · · Score: 1

    They may have been chain printers or other technology. Probably even more reliable than dotmatrix.

  11. Tractor feed green bar 132 column paper printers on Ask Slashdot: Printing Options For Low-Resource Environments? · · Score: 1

    They were ridiculously reliable.
    They are dot matrix, but large scale and able to print fast and well. As noted elsewhere, ribbon printing is very reliable and serviceable.
    And since the paper is self folding, it keeps itself from flying apart. Box-fed paper should be among the cheapest to purchase.

    In order to keep your printout and your electronic records in sync, you will need to version the data. Your printouts should come from the
    Electronic record and should show the latest update of the electronic record they reflect. Then you can append forms on the end of your
    printout to allow nurses to manually add new data. The folded record can then be taken back to a electronic station and the data added
    into the system. Everything stays attached. You might not even need to print the whole thing out again if you can print just the appended
    data and attach it to the folded report. Green-bar paper is not great to write on, but it will work.

  12. They have defiled the Internet on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 2

    Basically if you are offering any products or services over the Internet now you are baiting your customers into being spied upon. Every email you send is inviting the recipient to reply and be spied upon. Its not just about what you do. Its about what others on the net do in response. Every action you take condoning the use of this medium is tricking other people to use it too.

    They havent just usurped the Internet. They have contaminated it. They have defiled it.

  13. How about a daemon which turns it off w/o AP on Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans · · Score: 1

    If its not associated with an access point, the wifi chip gets switched off. You have to turn it on to associate and it stays on until you go out of range, and then it flicks off again. I dont want it on unless I ask. And I dont want to have to remember to turn it off. So when it loses its AP, it goes down.

  14. Never happen on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Your hardcover would enter the used bookstore market and your ebook would remain with you. It would cut their sales.

  15. Is the destination secure? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    You havent said if you expect the decryption on the other side to be safe! Is this security only for in-transit? If they are just going to decrypt the data on the other side and plop it in a company share that you are just as much at risk.

  16. Use simple password based encryption on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    And in your email ask them to call you for the password.

  17. Oh, and my nook read is key bouncing me all over on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    The dang books. So much for convenient when it skips 20 pages somewhere else.

  18. I wanted to read an old scifi again. 6 bucks. on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    6 bucks if I buy the ebook now.

    The paperback was 3.50 at the time it was released.

    They better rebuild all those used bookstores because we are going to need them. Heck, even
    a used bookstore tried to sell the used paperback for more than the face value.
    Gimme a break.

  19. Build a micro-itx motherboard with one soldered on on IBM Opens Up POWER Architecture For Licensing · · Score: 1

    You want to start a revolution, make the damn equipment simple and available.

    Build it and they will come.

  20. Does that matter for just doing key exchange? on Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I thought the bulk of encryption was usually done with some streaming cipher.

  21. Lets not straw man this, and stay on topic on Comcast Working On 'Helpful' Copyright Violation Pop-ups · · Score: 1

    Lets not magically assume that we know the mistakes they will make before they make them. I doubt that p2p will be an issue. I am curious as to how they plan to allow movie-previews and other stuff that generally benefits the copyright holders. There is a lot of stuff on the websites like rottentomatoes and whatnot that might get flagged. Is there going to be a magic handshake from the website that says we are entitled to broadcast this? Or is the allowed content going to be watermarked.

    I am certainly not adverse to going to the other carrier and paying half of what I am paying comcast right now. Esp if comcast breaks the web.

  22. Police are robbing and raping people on the street on DEA Program "More Troubling" Than NSA · · Score: 1

    Arresting them, forcing them to sign over their assets to be released. Cavity searching women on the streets in front of everyone.

    The spying. The seizures. The threats of a 1000 yrs in prison if you dont plead guilty.

    The mere idea that drugs are a problem is ludicrous compared to our society dissolving in front of us.

  23. The Internet seems defiled now on Snowden and the Fate of the Internet As a Global Network · · Score: 1

    I mean, you have to figure they have been into everything about everyone at this point. All the code, all the passwords are now compromised. What part of if can you trust at this point?

    If feels like someone took a big shit on the technical world.

  24. The banks make money laundering the money on DEA Program "More Troubling" Than NSA · · Score: 2

    And the banks own the capitol. Check-out HSBC deferred prosecution.

  25. Well, the cops may be aghast at the new tactics on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    But if there are no other jobs in sight, they will do what they have to do to put food on the table for their kids.