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  1. Re:Despicable traitor on Former Tor Developer Created Malware To Hack Tor Users For The FBI (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they worked it out in Live Free or Die Hard.

  2. They would be fools not to on Former Tor Developer Created Malware To Hack Tor Users For The FBI (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2
    It is a pretty safe assumption that the governors have employed a crap ton of former industry specialists to their advantage in every era, and during every new wave of opportunistic technology.

    In the same vein that you have a right to employ secure encryption, the spooks have a duty to decrypt it. There really is a national security interest in this now that every nation on earth is involved in it or interested in being so.

    The trick is to constantly remind the folks with the unlimited budgets that they work for us.

  3. Re:can be disabled with spraypaint on Chinese Security Robot Draws Dalek, Terminator Comparisons (abc.net.au) · · Score: 0

    I understand your confusion, but actually, our police kill folks of all race, religions, creeds, and inclinations... the black one just get more press.

  4. Re:Poorly written summary on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I read a clever article not long ago regarding a similar school of thought, but there was an interesting dissenting opinion that the plateau hadn't occurred yet... I believe advances are only going to be smaller incrementally until our communicator becomes more sophisticated than even Mr. Roddenberry ever imagined.

  5. Re:what a coincidence on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 0
    Folks, the harbinger of doom has been dropped upon Apple and probably anything standing too close to Apple... Didn't some actress name a child Apple?

    If it's not one thing, it's your mother. These Samsung phone manufucturers have gone too far this time... Apple should sue the ass right off of them.

  6. Re:Use an app instead on City Installs Traffic Lights In Sidewalks For Smartphone Users (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The problem with this sort of conditioning is that it desensitizes the user even further to the world around him.

    When exceptions are made that do not penalize risky behavior, it encourages more risky behavior, perhaps in an environment without any protection.

  7. With Netflix competing with HBO for original programming dominance, I assumed the HBOgo folks would expand first in this direction,

    but this is a respectfully calculated move by Steam to move where the market is headed.

  8. Re:TRUMP 2016 on Symantec: Cruz and Kasich Campaign Apps May Expose Sensitive Data (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither security firm found any issues in the app released by the campaign of Democrat Bernie Sanders. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton do not have campaign apps.

    By this measure alone, the Clinton candidate is your equal, and the Sanders candidate is your superior.

  9. Re:How on New 'Tunneling' State of Water Molecules Discovered by Scientists (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    atoms weren't "observing" each other

    Perhaps it's your observation that affects the outcome.

  10. Like all of us, I only get so many hours a day. Like you, I choose to spend no fraction of them on Facebook.

    Why not? I don't want to be instantly available to everyone I've ever known. I reserve the use of the privilege to segregate my life to the people I want to stay in touch with.

    I figure we're either avant-garde or missing the greatest social linkup ever, and I'm okay with that.

  11. Re:Harsh laws... on U.S. Goverment Shames Texting Drivers on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 2
    Drinking and driving continues relatively unabated in the States, despite ramped up police enforcement in every State, increased awareness and education, and harsher prison sentences for repeat offenders.

    I suspect tweeting and texting while driving will continue unless someone sues and wins a large judgement against cell phone manufacturers and/or automobile manufacturers for not implementing a "kill feature" while driving.

  12. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Schools Are Helping Police Spy On Kids' Social Media Activity (orlandosentinel.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    Hey. That was in Texas, bless our hearts, and I sure don't want to cut the cards over which of us leads the league in embarrassing stories...

    But. The clock/kid/suitcase thing was a setup, and the school allowed the alleged bomb to sit there for the entire class, so even the educators you could normally refer to accurately as mentally stunted didn't actually overreact.

  13. Re:Nothing new on Schools Are Helping Police Spy On Kids' Social Media Activity (orlandosentinel.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    Protip(s): Everyone here already knew that.

    Preview is indeed your edit button.

  14. Funding, you say... on This Battery-Free Computer Sucks Power Out Of Thin Air (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1
    Now that you have your checkbooks out, you may be interested in this energy collection breakthrough we're working on over here at Slow Co Design:

    we are literally pulling energy out of thin air by mimicking plants.

    Using light ray collectors that harness the sun's energy, we hope to transform tomorrow by revolutionizing energy collection today.

  15. Gee wiz Wally... on NASA Hackathon Expected to Draw Over 15,000 Coders (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    ...women "are looking for signals that they will be in a safe space where they feel like they belong," noting that 80% of last year's participants were men.

    (-1)(This is a real concern for me and most of /.)

  16. I don't think he is, but you have to imagine there is great difficulty these days selling Greek economic policy.

    And, yes... clearly, we all profile.

  17. cat tongues are like sandpaper on 'I Hacked Facebook -- and Found Someone Had Beaten Me To It' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the universe is indeed a clever simulation, are you now discovering a hack with a hack in a universe that's been hacked and hacked until it resembles an infinity mirror?

  18. Re:its called crony capitalism, a political realit on The Android Administration: Google's Relationship With the Obama White House (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    economic mobility still happens, but in a very restricted sense. truly poor no longer become billionaires, as once happened, only children of educated upper middle class seems to get to the top. you start your company in your parents ample garage . you no longer start in streets in poorer part of town.

    Interestingly, in attempting to discount this statement, I got a mixed review.

    Warren Buffett, son of a Congressman

    Sam Walton, son of a poor farmer

    Carlos Slim, son of poor Middle eastern immigrants whose father died when he was 13

    Larry Ellison, son of an unwed NY Jewish mother who was given to his aunt/uncle when his pneumonia proved too much for mom

    Mark Zuckerberg, son of a dentist and psychiatrist

    Bill Gates, prominent lawyer father and board member mother

    Amancio Ortega Gaona, son of a railway worker went to work as a teenager

  19. The much maligned founders of these United States imagined the inclusion of Captains of Industry in a temporary role as politicians.

    Government will never be completely free of corporate influence or corruption, so our expectations have to be realistic.

    Keep the graft to the minimum necessary so that personal freedoms are not compromised. Accept that a government of the people will be flawed, like the people.

  20. Re:back to work ? on First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1
    I don't buy that.

    Pass on to the rest of us...

    That is the universal argument of the haves vs. The have-nots.

  21. That is matter from the south end of a northbound bull.

    Perhaps I perceive that anonymity is a right to privacy issue that is constitutionally protected.

  22. Re:Translation on Over 1 Million People Use Tor To Check Facebook Anonymously Each Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Headline: "Over 1 Million People Use Tor To Check Facebook Anonymously Each Month"

    Translation: "NSA Adds Over 1 Million People To Secret Watch List Each Month"

    Amen. More noise to sift through.

    The fear is that the initial outfits will collect and parse all of our information. This is not worth worrying over. The toothpaste is pretty much out of the tube... the collection of everything is efficient and ongoing.

    We are saved from a realistic fruition of the 1984 prophecy not by compassion, plenty of warning, or good governing; but by the endless, insatiable greed of the governors.

  23. Re:Why use Tor at all? on Over 1 Million People Use Tor To Check Facebook Anonymously Each Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
    A walk through memory lane.

    It's slow enough that it satisfies your need to reminisce for the good ole days of dial up.

  24. Re:Guess We'll Never Know... on FBI Paid More Than $1 Million For San Bernardino 'Hack' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
    Relax... nothing valuable was lost here.

    They just purchased the usual $5 wrench at normal government markup.

  25. I don't know, Elon... on Elon Musk Plans To Solve Traffic Congestion With Self-Driving Buses (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Solving traffic congestion with self-driving buses that poor and middle class people need to ride on is a bit presumptive