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  1. Re:stovepiping on Spinoffs From Spyland: How Some NSA Technology Is Making Its Way Into Industry · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stovepiping was a technique used to arrive at a specific desired answer regardless of the facts. Gaming the system to get it to sign off on the wrong answer.

  2. Go to your room and build a new energy source on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 1

    When you have one, then you can go back to the moon and play. But until you build a decent replacement for oil, I don't want to hear about going outside.

  3. We spend 20 times more than the next largest on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 1

    country. And you say that diverting 1% is going to leave us open to attack?

  4. You think the roads appeared out of thin air? on NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization · · Score: 1

    Where do you think they got the local labor, and how much do you think they payed them. Yeah, Rome may have sent in the engineers to design stuff, but the holes still needed to get dug. And the locals probably didn't get a lot of choice about who had to dig them.

    The victors write the history books. And they never ever admit they were murdering, raping, lying, conniving monsters.

  5. You missed the best one! on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    How bad can adding just one little global variable be? I can be done before lunch!

  6. There should be a private test suite on Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? · · Score: 1

    The parents should be able to administer a test to their children at the end of each year and it should measure the academic level. This level should be independent of whatever crap the school, the Man, or the SATs company is spewing out.
    People are worried about test tampering (See Atlanta Schools) and racial demotivators and various education problems. But no one is giving the Parents an independent test to see if their child needs help or if their school is a sham.

    Lets get the parents a way to independently, privately, determine the aptitude of their children for their age and level of schooling and take the control away from the those who would pervert education for their own twisted ends.

  7. Yeah, its really annoying how expensive they are on Tested: Asus Chromebox Based On Haswell Core i3 · · Score: 1

    It cheeses me off.

  8. Are the encryption keys for rpms and debs safe? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 0

    How do we know that the next update on linux is safe?

  9. Umm, why not have one of the black boxes float? on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 1

    A telemetry buoy would serve to preserve the data and mark where the plane went down.

  10. Costs me a calculator each time I try it on Einstein's Lost Model of the Universe Discovered 'Hiding In Plain Sight' · · Score: 1

    :)

  11. Or instead of going home, they are going to their on Is Traffic Congestion Growing Three Times As Fast As Economy? · · Score: 1

    third job that day, using a car they cannot afford to repair, spewing the most blinding clouds of pollution you can imagine.

  12. So how many BTC does he have? on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the loss of secrecy will affect the price?

  13. So are they going to prevent (re)installs? on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    I have XP media, are they going to prevent me from re-installing and turn off the installation process that requires WindowsUpdate to work? Are they going to produce a final "Gold ISO", that is the final form of the OS?

  14. xubuntu seems to be completely dependent on gnutls on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    Try to remove that library, and you find that most of the critical software depends on it.

  15. Sounds like an attempt at population control on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    High carbohydrate, low nutrient diet is going to boost cancer rates.

  16. So when a weakness like this is found on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    Is everyone racing to change their passwords?

  17. Removing openssl invokes far fewer dependencies on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    xubuntu appears to depend largely on the package that "everybody knows is shit".

    This does not make me happy.

  18. I just "tried" to remove the library libgnutls26 on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    An awful lot of stuff links to it. Browsers, flash, everything that dials out uses it on xubuntu. Are you saying that they are linking to it, but not using it? Or are they linking to it and then its using a wrapper to openssl.

  19. Re:Only if it is connected to a network on The Spy In Our Living Room · · Score: 1

    The device could be listening for a invitation to create an ad-hoc network. That invitation could even come from a hacked access point or device. Could be that they already own your router or appleTV or roku or printer in order to be able to reach out and get your xbox too.

  20. Re:Only if it is connected to a network on The Spy In Our Living Room · · Score: 1

    What makes you think the wireless adapter is really turned off?

  21. The could use a nuke underground on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Drill a long way down....set off a nuke. It creates a huge cavern with fused walls. Then drill down into the cavern and drain the waste into it.

  22. Actually, that happens a great deal on First Outdoor Flocks of Autonomous Flying Robots · · Score: 1

    Eight words that have completely changed their meaning:

    http://writinghood.com/style/g...

  23. What about a business? on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 1

    Do they just have to get the last line at the checkout queue to agree to the search now? Or law offices? Or doctors offices?

  24. Yeah, sounds like another superfund site on Navy Won't Investigate Nuclear Pollution At San Francisco's Treasure Island · · Score: 1

    I found out years later I lived pretty close to a superfund site. Not a happy discovery. Hmm, I wonder if there are any funds available if its govt?

  25. That question really rankles on Amazon To Put Android In Set-top Box To Compete With Apple, Roku · · Score: 1

    The don't allow you to even watch video in a browser on any other Android device.