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  1. Re:Calling China right now on Supreme Court Refuses To Hear EPIC Challenge To NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Reliable? Have you ever used a pitchfork made in China?

  2. Re:Hmm.. on NJ Gamblers May Be Locked Out By Flaws In Virtual Fence · · Score: 1

    In this case it means no cost effective solution exists.

    Otherwise you know that the additional revenues from increasing the number of potential customers would gleefully be exploited by the state of New Jersey.

  3. Re: The U.S. government is hideously incompetent on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 2

    Healthcare in the US was broken before Obamacare. Below average outcomes, massive numbers of uninsured and world's highest costs. Thank you states and private industry.

    The fact is no country in the world has a working private healthcare system.

    Republican low-grade idiots trying to prevent reform were a large part of the reason Obamacare doesn't go nearly far enough towards fixing it. And of course massive efforts trying to sabotage the limited reform are making it even worse.

  4. Re:The U.S. government is hideously incompetent on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The reason the healthcare system is broken is that private enterprise and the states completely broke it. Any problems that are in progress are due to obstruction by the Republican Party who are actively working to sabotage this bill and this President. Even before Obama took office they said they would oppose everything and anything he tried to do.

    There are several large Federal agencies like the IRS and Medicare don't have problems with collecting personal data.

  5. Hammond is a dangerous criminal. on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    He has a rap sheet as long as your arm, and is a recidivist. This punishment is well deserved.

  6. Re:CFPB on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 2

    Post publication investigations instituted by President T. Roosevelt found that every type incident described by Sinclair except workers falling into rendering vats and being sold as lard had actually occurred.

  7. Re:Bad Headline, and there's more going on. on There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not For Fracking · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    âoewe have some kind of golden age of coal,â says Anne-Sophie Corbeau of the International Energy Agency.

    So you are asking me to take the work of an AC over a representative of the IEA?

    Sorry, you need to at least post some kind of reference backing up your claims.

  8. Search called off due to weather on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 2

    Having lived in Syracuse I'd say forget searching any time other than July and August.

    Damn worst weather in the US.

  9. Re:Forgive My Ignorance on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 2

    Syracuse depends on Canadians to come down to their mall for VAT avoidance spending trips.

  10. Re:So what on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    Not in Syracuse they don't.

  11. Re:Q: what is difference between sharks and lawyer on Chicago State University Lawyers Attack Faculty Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Some species of sharks are endangered.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_threatened_sharks

  12. Re:Problem? on There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not For Fracking · · Score: 1

    This article is complete bullcrap. There is no way the 1-2 million barrels per day that Iran produces is going to flood anything. US oil production is FOUR TIMES that of Iran's most optimistic max. Add in what's going on in Canada as well and the premise is flat out preposterous.

  13. Re:Bad Headline, and there's more going on. on There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not For Fracking · · Score: 1

    The idea that Germany and Denmark can operate without carbon or nukes is far from realized. In fact what the shutdown on nukes in Europe has caused is a boom in coal consumption, construction of new coal burning power plants in Europe and an increase in carbon emissions in Europe.

    http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21569039-europes-energy-policy-delivers-worst-all-possible-worlds-unwelcome-renaissance

  14. Re:Fear and Paranoia... on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only people I have ever met carrying a gun outside a gun club are policemen and criminals.

    I seriously doubt that influences public behavior between civilians in America at all.

    My wife and two of my best friends emigrated to America; one of the reasons they decided to stay is that America is a much more classless society than what they were used to. For example people aren't categorized by what their last name is. And we have a black President. And at the level of local politics anyway it is not a surprise if your neighbor decides to run for office.

    My worry is that this is changing. There are parts of America now where it is very hard to get out of poverty.

    This lack of mobility could become a really serious problem.

  15. If they are overstaffed, just friggen do a layoff of all the people over 40 like the rest of Silicon Valley does. If some people sue just settle.

    Sad to say, but some arbitrary random process like this will piss people off only once, unlike the stupid quarterly arbitrary random review process pissing everyone off 4 times a year.

    I've never met Marisa, but dang her HR ideas are completely insane.

  16. Re:I don't even know what you're talking about on CyanogenMod Powered Oppo N1 Will Be Released In December · · Score: 2

    Oppo also makes kick ass blue ray players.

    http://www.oppodigital.com/?partner=101

  17. Re:Has the NSA done anything? on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of the theories out there is that the downsizing of US SIGINT capability during the 1990's was the reason al-Qa'ida was successful in carrying out 9/11. This has some credibility because even though the FBI was tracking some of the perpetrators of 9/11, the NSA had no information on their intent.

    Then there is the fact that SIGINT played a large role in finding the location of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.

    No, the idea the NSA is not needed is hopelessly naive. What IS needed is getting rid of the Patriot Act and instituting real oversight.

  18. Re:Has the NSA done anything? on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    Sure, just look at history. How about the battle of Midway?

    It's one example where such work was absolutely critical.

    http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/wwii/priceless_advantage.pdf

  19. Re:Hello, future leakers! on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's a very myopic view of the situation.

    People with expertise in data systems have a wide range of opinions and come from a variety of backgrounds. There is no monolithic community that is implied with possession of this knowledge.

    Even if you are in the subset that supports Snowden you don't have to have the opinion that what the NSA does is fundamentally wrong. It may be that all it really needs is more enlightened political leadership and restructured laws. After all even the most ideal free societies have opponents and will have a need to protect themselves to ensure their continuation.

  20. Bubble Soccer on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 1

    No doubt this is due to corporate lobbying from the bubble soccer industrialists.

  21. 75% of respondents think they could drive a car better than a computer.

    Yes, and a similar proportion in a different poll stated they believed they were safer than than average drivers.

    This poll has all sorts of cognitive bias problems.

  22. Re:seems like we have an identifiable pattern. on Oil Recovery May Have Triggered Texas Tremors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    > it's already been proven that in some cases the solutions have found their way into water supplies.

    Citation needed.

    As far as I am aware there has never been a case of fracking fluids contaminating a water supply.

    Senate hearings on the Nat Gas industry earlier this year did not reveal any such cases.

  23. Year old backup on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 1

    Not really that bad if...

    you change your passwords occasionally.

    you don't reuse passwords.

    I mean at least 0.01 % of users do that, right?

  24. Re:Lies! on GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Seriously doubt it. Germany has intelligence treaties and is part of NATO. I am sure it is OBLIGATED as a partner in the North Atlantic alliances to share intelligence.

    It cannot go dark.

  25. Re:Lies! on GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the German agencies don't have the capability to spy on the US government, maybe they do. You certainly don't know.

    However there are plenty of other governments in the world, and I'd bet that the German agencies are spying on a significant number of them.

    Don't put your head in the sand. This is a universal problem.