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  1. Re:Can't have it both ways on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 1

    People living in Mosul a few years ago could have said the same thing. The same goes for my friends living in Mali.

    Try asking them now.

  2. Re:Can't have it both ways on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 1

    The quote (altered to fit into /. length restrictions) is well known. You should buy an education to learn what it means as your most recent attempt is laughably wrong.

  3. Re:Can't have it both ways on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 1

    The recently converted are often the most zealous. Perhaps tlhIngan is attempting to atone for his past over-imbibing (& the consequences of same).

    No need to worry about me, I don't drink & drive (driving a motorcycle daily would have made me a statistic long ago otherwise).

  4. Re:hypocrisy on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 1

    Pictures or it never happened, dude.

    Hey, two can play at the stupid internet meme game.

  5. Re:Can't have it both ways on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 1

    Why don't you surprise us with an on-topic reply instead of a trite moderator-bait platitude.

    The subject is whether the US should throw away ALL of it's intelligence on terrorist organizations as MatthewCCNA wants, exposing us all to danger because some of it is "ill-gotten".

    Some of us fly regularly on routes that terrorists have attempted to bomb and would like to know how your in-home cameras could prevent another attempt.

  6. Re:hypocrisy on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 1

    Precisely & in addition, spies & traitors in US ranks that forswear their vows should be punished. Snowden, I'm looking right at you.

  7. Re:This is the cost incurred for outsourcing defen on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From whom? Ask those who lived next to the GDR & saw people shot running to freedom in the recent past or more recently people living in eastern Ukraine. Perhaps you would prefer to converse with Boris Nemtsov?

  8. Re:Interesting double edge sword there. on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 2

    As opposed to allowing anyone holding state or indeed any secrets to use them to their own advantage... Best case: the resulting destabilization of the USA only affects people like you. Worst case: it affects us all.

  9. Re:Can't have it both ways on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: -1

    Especially if the any of this ill gotten intelligence serves to save you or your loved ones from dying horribly right?

  10. Re:Who says it's "illegal"? Timothy? on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 1

    Says who? You, the hypocritical anarchist? Yeah, right...

  11. Re:You're not going to get anywhere with this crow on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 1

    Drivel. Utter drivel.

    The NSA, GCHQ, DGSE, etc have all been authorized, even instructed by the elected officials & courts over them to perform the collection they do. That YOU as a basement dwelling AC with no clearance does not have proof of this & believe that your ignorance is proof of anything is just another sign of how ignorant you are.

  12. Re:You're not going to get anywhere with this crow on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 1

    Hear hear! That's the most intelligent comment I have ever read from an AC. So intelligent, that given that you posted it as an AC I'm stealing it for future reuse.

    Some people ask me "why even attempt to argue against Timothy & his ilk". Your post is a great example of why.

  13. Re:Who says it's "illegal"? Timothy? on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 1

    I see that anonymous cowards are still abysmally stupid. If you can look forward to laws that retroactively make some behavior that you dislike illegal then you open the doors to all retroactive laws, like one that I would prefer that would find all the AC's posting dumb comments like yours and neutering them.

  14. Re:Who says it's "illegal"? Timothy? on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 1

    Bull. Court cases against sovereign governments are almost always squashed & most of the exceptions are generally kangaroo political courts. The protestations of Anonymous Cowards far far removed from practical repercussions have absolutely no weight.

  15. Re:Who says it's "illegal"? Timothy? on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 1

    Snort, "corrupt and fascist government". You're either an anarchist opposed to all government or the hypocritical supporter of your own local flavor.

    Every government has it's own spies. Germany's BND in particular having been shown to perform the same mass & targeted data collection that German politicians were claiming that only the NSA & the GCHQ were doing.

  16. Re:Who says it's "illegal"? Timothy? on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 1

    That also depends on treaties signed between the two countries. As for lawsuits brought in country B on the sovereign government of country A, they almost always die a quiet death (Civil suits brought by victims of terrorism upon the Iranian government being an example in which the US State department has been arguing that the suits should be thrown out).

  17. Who says it's "illegal"? Timothy? on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 0

    Something is illegal when there are laws or treaties adopted by the country in question that render the actions illegal. If there is no law or treaty that interdicts the GCHQ from hacking third parties then it cannot be illegal.

    Timothy & the people he likes to promote often use words like "unconstitutional" & "illegal" using their own private definitions of the words -- but all they do is render their utterances meaningless hype.

  18. Re:Yes, that's the claim of the prosecutor. on Swedish Authorities Offer To Question Assange In London · · Score: 1

    The girl has not accused him of rape. She wanted him to have a STD test, and asked the police if they could force him. A Swedish DA decided to take the case and press rape charges, though the girl denies being raped.

    No. She did not initially accuse him of rape. Rape victims are very often in denial and the law allows for people to change their minds. It's how the great majority of child rape cases are prosecuted as children are very reluctant to blame adults. It only becomes rape if in addition to the accusal, conditions & the relevant laws are satisfied.

    That won't stop some of Assange's cheerleaders from continuing to claim that she never accused him of rape as in their eyes, the man can do no wrong.

  19. Re:I hope the Device Protection is optional. on Google Announces Android 5.1 · · Score: 1

    A locked phone is not worthless if it has recoverable pieces. Think Battery and above all that fragile screen that can be recovered from locked phones. Having a non bypassable lock is still a good idea, but it doesn't make it worthless to thieves.

  20. Re:FDE on Android doesn't work as of yet on Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices · · Score: 4, Informative

    What is lame is people posting ignorant comments as Anon Cowards.

    Apple has control of both the hardware & the software & has optimized both to make use of FDE as painless as possible. This is clearly not the case in Android.

    Stealing from Seillac's comments on ARS:
    "Apparently, Google has not merged the various drivers that optimize Qualcomm's QCE module for encryption and decryption into AOSP. The generally-assumed reason is that this code is proprietary. Without these optimizations, the Nexus 6's hardware decryption module on the Snapdragon 805 is essentially hamstrung."

    From: http://www.androidpolice.com/2...

  21. Re:The first? on World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK · · Score: 2

    I don't know about the Netherlands but they have definitely been doing so for almost 50 years at the Rance Tidal Power station and since 2011 in South Korea.

    The major problem with tidal pool generators is that they tend to silt up over the years reducing the potential output.

  22. Re:Who makes a premium phone now then on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 1

    Again, for a twice yearly need, an external battery pack would serve better, but you go ahead & buy the phone compromised by a replaceable battery for the 1% of the time where it would be sleeker.

  23. The Optimistic viewpoint hade a source on Spock and the Legacy of Star Trek · · Score: 4, Informative

    The reason TOS had such an optimistic viewpoint is because it's creator, Gene Roddenberry believed firmly that in the future, Mankind would get beyond the childish violence. You youngsters also need to remember that the TOS was shot at the height of the Hippy/Flower Power movement.

    Gene was still around for TNG but passed in 1991 before DS9 (1993) & it shows in the subject matter & tone. DS9 becoming much darker than the previous series for example.

  24. Re:Who makes a premium phone now then on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 1

    For a twice a year event an external battery pack is a much better fit than the compromises that come with removable internal batteries. This is the same debate where people were hating on Apple for eliminating the slots that almost nobody ever used on. There is a vocal but tiny minority that claims that they MUST have them or the product will be a failure but most people eventually come to the realization that internal is not the only or best way to go.

  25. Re:Let NSA+GCHQ buy Gemalto since their own their on Gemalto: NSA and GCHQ Probably Hacked Us, But Didn't Get SIM Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Of course. When the NSA hacks into german or french targets, c'est un scandale for euro politicians / journalists. When the the DGSE or the BSA is shown to have used the same techniques, well that's just normal.