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  1. Fix what? on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    Pwds will always be an easy security bad idea, because by the time a new pwd sec-theme is common cracks have been emplace for about five years.

    We need to get pass crazy/silly pwds to non-human dependent security. It will cost a little more, but increased productivity and better security will save oodles.

    Pwds are in the trench of the Maginot-line of security, stop wasting time and money, get to bio-PKI and beyond. Easy (to manage/implement or cheap) security is bad security physically/virtually.

  2. The rats .... on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 1

    The rats that can afford the cheese will come out of the woodwork, congress will pass a law to make it all illegal in the USA, and life with death will go on for US and EU.

  3. Re:Why I Hate All Programming Languages on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I was wondering how it would be handled. Dilemma resolved. No weight to the repercussion/outcome of death or serious harm.

    I would make a decision quickly as well, but the repercussion/outcome .... A human, I suspect will be less predictable than any artificial intelligence, it could be close. Also, I suspect the AI outcome would be better on a per-test, but the AI species maybe would go extinct prior to the other dinosaurs/humans.

    Resolving dilemmas is easy, obtaining a preferred outcome with the resolution is a gamble, I think?

  4. Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    OptOut, DMCA ... Congress (for a few decades now) has passed good oppression laws to invade privacy and manage the general public; While protecting the private sectors rights of wealthy corporate and elitist plutocrats. So, more of the same, what's the problem? More USA citizens (I suspect) will vote for more bigoted, fear mongering, platitude spewing, bull-shitting faux-patriots than will vote for someone intelligent and reasonable that looks to build a future, rather then wallow in the quagmire of the long past good old boys' days.

    What's the difference between a death-panel and no national health care law? I DONOT know, but the impact is (I suspect) the same. Same for education, hate, and lies it all has a nice political ring for the noses of fools and Plutocrat-Kings.

  5. Re:Why I Hate All Programming Languages on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    How would a any CS or Turing model handle a decision dilemma?

    Two illogical or unique conditions/environments requiring a specific 0 or 1 outcome for further evolution, progress, processing ....

    Survival requires a decision, but none of the directions, paths to be taken are true or false. The decision result is 50/50 life/death, still a human makes the best possible decision for the desired outcome life/death. A decision dilemma is more telling, than a sense of humor, for sentience.

    HOLDIT, what the hell am I talking about ... ForGetIt.

  6. Re:Mr. Wall, please sit down... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    The global software industry needs corporate-welfare to survive these hard economic times.

    Owning API a/o the Roman-Greek alphabet by copyright would be a tremendous corporate-welfare economic boost.

    Down with capitalist meritocracies ... Up yours, EU, and US with corporate-welfare ... Support a plutocrat republic economy; buy a politician, buy a law, buy a cleric, buy a BJ and hand-relief ... exterminate worker-bees, pack-mules, and aging retired curmudgeons and enslave the survivors.

  7. Re:Cruise Ship Terror Plot! on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 1

    Shoe bomber, we take our shoes off for TSA.
    Underwear bomber, we don't take our underwear off for TSA.

    That's the problem there is no consistency, TSA is always asymmetric-reactive.

  8. So dumb-dumb, who would look at porn in detail? on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 1

    Those poor dumb fellas, they just don't understand.
    Infidels will always look at porn admiring the human figure or the great complexity of face and body contortion achieved by masturbators and fornicators.

    They could have been far better at keeping their secrets; Only, if they had used a picture of UBL or Muhammad Ibn `Abd Allh Ibn `Abd al-Muttalib.
    No one but a Muslim would have looked, scrutinized, or been offended by those pictures and no secrets would globally known.

  9. Can we save our bacon? on Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat · · Score: 1

    bacon cracklins chicharrones ... at 60yo, I really miss ....

  10. Re:Good answer, as I recall on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 1

    "I promise to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth" "as best I recollect" "as best I can" "to the best of my ability"

    For humans, "Reality is self-induced hallucination." "Give me the uncorrupted and unbiased forensic facts, mam."

    Believable humans never tell the truth, but typical politicians and clergy always lie.

    So, what is justice to do, hopefully remain blind.

  11. Re:Constituants are greed interest only on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 1

    The religious and corporate welfare US is a plutocrat republic.
    IOW: Forget freedom, capitalism, democracy ... for US.

    The religious welfare US will call out their minions to strike fear into the masses and (when needed) kill any patriots.
    The corporate welfare US will call out their lawyers and politicians to economically strangle and torture small business and individuals into submission.

    When the entitled fools like Rush, Ted, Glenn ... and congressional politicians got your back, you're more than likely royally fycked.

  12. Re:Uh oh, not fycken likely on IEEE Vet: Carriers Capping LTE Services To Avoid Fixed-line Cannibalization · · Score: 0

    US customers rights, values ... ain't likely in a religious and corporate welfare state.

    Only religious and corporate rights to screw US is unlimited.

  13. Improved security or more BS laws on Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked · · Score: 2

    Improving security cost more and does more than a BS laws, but Bad Security (BS) laws only cost a few politicians and will exempt TV makers and Cable/Sat providers from all liability. Corporate-Welfare is best for the Plutocrat Republic, never good for US.

    Hack2Secure

  14. Fuck U and Fuck S on Congress' Gulf Oil Spill Response Given a 'D' By Commissioners · · Score: 0

    Provides more Fuck US; So, nothing new and all change is bad?

  15. High Altitude Mobile Platforms with global reach on Why Drones Could Be the Future of Missile Defense · · Score: 1
  16. My parochial view of the BS (Bit-Stream) on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Internet Access Provider (IAP), Internet Service Provider (ISP), Content Services provider (CSP).

    IAP = Global/National telecommunications infrastructure Access, the unknown true home of all bandwidth
    ISP = Internet Infrastructure Access, the perpetually disappointing source of all desires (more bandwidth)
    CSP = Our World Wide Web (W3) of services, the source of all self-vetted believable realities (Ask the gods)

    IAP = Who owns the bandwidth path to the ISPs?
    ISP = Who owns the bandwidth path to the CSPs and me (EU or US).

    The CSPs and me cannot practically access the IAPs bandwidth without an egress through the ISPs backyard (top-level IPv4/IPv6 sub-domains). The IAPs lobby law-makers to keep the ISPs out of their house and the ISPs lobby law-makers to keep CSPs, EU, and US from direct affordable and competitive bandwidth access.

    From my parochial view we need to stop paying law-makers for nothing, or pay law-makers far more than their corporate-welfare clients. Then again, we can accept the bandwidth status-quoi and pay whatever the cost set by ISPs.

    A Corporate-Welfare economy is not capitalism, but may be a plutocratic economy.
    A Drug-Underground is not capitalism, but may be a draconian economy.

    Real capitalism and good governance are just hypotheses espoused by our nations' founding parents; So, live with it or hack something different, because the law is the law is the law ....

  17. Re:WAY TO GO, MIT! Prescience on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    "No one ever saw them coming." This is wrong, many see the troubles coming, but seldom are the short-term-interest of the greedy/god-blind fools seeking to prevent the pandemic, catastrophe, collapse, and their own friends and families horribly violent deaths. The fools (hitler, stalin, madoff ...) surrounded by sycophants believe up until their last days/hours that they will profit from the tragedies and tribulations of all others.

  18. Re:WAY TO GO, MIT! on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    As stated above: "Nothing is going to change significantly."

    The godma/agenda of greed and gods is always right for that person.

    "Reality is self-induced hallucination." Unless you're the person actually being beaten, starved, tortured, killed.

    FR=PeasantsRevolt, RU=PeasantsRevolt, NorthAfrica/Arabia=PeasantsRevolt ... US and EU 2020 PeasantsRevolt. Killing off the foolish, inbreed, stupid ruling classes (as history shows) never makes the bad situations any worse.

  19. Re:wikipedia on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 1

    I agree, Wikipedia is far better that most textbooks (frequently the same for undergraduate college).

  20. School book publishers' business models are OoB/B on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Locking up common human knowledge in print media is more corporate welfare.

    The present Out-of-Business/Bankrupt (OoB/B) book publishers' models need a refresh. Copyright of common human knowledge is equivalent to patenting a math equation. IOW: More stupid/silly demands for corporate welfare, real capitalism says change your business model. Collecting court ordered and government mandated welfare from the public (just another form of taxes for failures).

    Competition among school book publishers is close to non-existent and dominated by one or two states biased curriculum. Open education textbooks must directly compete, because textbook publishers' mediocre products are religious and revisionist history biased.

  21. Re:whoa, Just more BS MS Marketeers on Microsoft Counted As Key Linux Contributor · · Score: 1

    BS MS Marketeers on /. ,,, W3 are funded and rampant.

    MS advertising has gone 607-viral

  22. Linux should beware of Microsoft barring gifts! on Microsoft Counted As Key Linux Contributor · · Score: 1

    Linux and all L/FOSS should beware of those (monoliths of bad software) barring gifts!

    Oracle, Microsoft ... are not there for fun; So, suspect (unintentional) damage to Linux and all L/FOSS is probable.

    I must use MS Vista and Office at work. MS products following XP have been problematic to say the least and have not gotten any better.

    Making Linux and all L/FOSS look bad is a marketing method that would make MS products look more secure and much better.

    ACCEPT -BUT- VERIFY everything.

  23. A high horse "We don’t do that. ..." on Richard Clarke: All Major U.S. Firms Hacked By China · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The EU, US, and others need to get off our high Pre-WWI moralistic espionage horse. Cyber-espionage is a pre-WWIII essential to national security and may be the only way to prevent WWIII nation-devastation.

    A tit-4-tat cyber-cold-war is the best way to keep the government of CN from perceiving US, EU, and RU as virtual-tigers, and/or having foolish corporate interest politicians enter into a vintage pre-WWII "Appeasement Peace Conference" with CN.

    We need to start state cyber-espionage to obtain all domestic, diplomatic, economic, corporate, and military information and appropriately share with US, EU, and RU ... countries and companies.

    As they have exploited US and EU, so must we exploit CN. Do it now or regret it later.

  24. Re:something about reservoirs on Hoover Dams For Lilliput: Does Small Hydroelectric Power Have a Future? · · Score: 1

    after the last century and the start of this century, when do we now worry about environmental effects?

  25. Pseudo-scientist make .... on Dysfunction In Modern Science? · · Score: 1

    The primary work of pseudo-scientist is to make faux-science for personal, religious, corporate, and government purposes.
    Sort of like the Iran-science of tits-&-earthquake relativity, USA proof of poof Iraq-WMDs, EU ..., RU ..., CN ....

    Highly certified people accept lies as personally essential. Highly qualified people accept proof/truth as life critical.