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  1. Re:Oh Lord. on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 1

    What makes people safe drivers:

    Paying attention
    Obeying the traffic signs
    Knowing all/most of the traffic signs (Ex. roundabout)
    Preventing accidents by watching around as well as ahead
    Preventing accidents via reaction timing

    Curious you ask me that, when I was younger ya, we all did its just how it is, its what you take away from it that counts, and between me and you it seems how we reacted is very different, I don't drive on the road in fear with both hands in the position, chin almost touching the steering wheel, the only statistic worth mentioning here is the time you waste in life getting from a to b that could be spent on self improvement, based on malice of the above post, you need it.

  2. Re:Like anything else on Is the Maker Movement Making It Cool For Kids To Be Nerds? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The internet was a better place before the masses, enough said.

  3. Re:Popularity in the single digits on PROTECT-IP Makes Its Way To the Floors of Congress · · Score: 1

    Low enough to bring about the wrath of the community they are oppressing. Did you know the piratebay is actually not the piratebay, but rather 194.71.107.15?

  4. Re:Would you rather? on China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the states have a plan to disable china's internet access physically, no system is impenetrable.

  5. Re:Yeah on China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated · · Score: 1

    You can tell that to the Chinese when they invade.

  6. Re:Yeah on China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated · · Score: 0

    Yes, because obviously you can connect to international IPs from your country over air when your trunk gets bombed for being a fag nation.

  7. Re:Who's paying for it? on Rare-Earth Mineral Supply Getting Boost From California, Australia · · Score: 1

    *shrug*

    This is the future

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon

  8. Re:Wait what on First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel · · Score: 1

    In regards to OP, they probably lock down install rights, the government's giving you a phone to borrower while in service, it's not your phone to do w/e with is the different.

    Mobile: that's security through obscurity as a real world example for you!

  9. Re:Oh Lord. on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 2

    I'll bet you $1000 I can drive faster AND safer in my 2010 impreza than you can in your 89 civic, so why should the statistic for the speed limit for the civic apply to me?

    That's the problem with speed limits, it may not even be safe to go 55 in that civic (fun nevertheless), but nobody cares, it may be safe to go 75 in mine, nobody still cares. That's why the autobahn doesn't suck nearly as much as people think it does and that's why the only point of most speed limit signs is to make money. And WHAT ABOUT SNOW? Nobody can safely go 55 in that on these roads, do they change the speed limit? Safety is second handed at best. In my city we have great paved straight roads the kind that get rated for 55 w 30 mph on them and a speed van everyday what is the average citizen such as myself to think otherwise if you dispute my point?

    You all are missing the real point of cameras and speed limits: to make some fat pigs easy money, fuck catching criminals and persecuting them, they can just harass everyday citizens for driving within the confines of their vehicle and make just as much for themselves and tons more for the city / state / government.

  10. Re:Good on Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Not to point out the obvious, but Android is Linux based, so what that means is on a lot of tablets, Linux is already an option, just not for your average computer newb,
    http://androlinux.com/android-ubuntu-development/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-android/ . I know it's a phone, but same concept. Here's a more direct one...
    http://www.technologyquestions.com/technology/windows-xp-tablet-pc/912-running-linux-tablet-pc.html

    On windows 7 tablets, this is as easy as hooking up a cd drive. I can run backtrack off mine with no problem off the live cd.

    I think what they want to accomplish is to either make the switch not so f'in time consuming / hard or to ship with tablets already pre-packaged with ubuntu. But Linux on a tablet is old news to us sitting in IT.

  11. Re:"Homegrown"? on China Builds 1-Petaflop Homegrown Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    I was a little bit surprised that China had to reverse engineer a chip to make this computer, however it makes sense since they do not have the technology infrastructure set up to make their own. However, outside of ethics, isn't it illegal to copy a copyrighted design? I mean if China reverse engineered sandy bridge and named it sandy bridge - the chinese version, that in the USA is a copyright suite, what about on a global scale though?

  12. Re:Makes sense on Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer · · Score: 1

    Right... kind of, the IT term is web developer and it encompasses a wide range of skills. Your analogy is total fail btw. Almost sounds like you look down on web developers and come from a networking background. So let me ask you this, when port 80 is passing traffic for your web server on your network and somebody passes a sql injection attack wtf do you? exactly, cry in your corner. So while clean user inputs (which have nothing to do with parameters btw but more with typecasting), are not everything there is to securing an application, it's quite essential I assure you.

    Still, lmfao what is a web programmer indeed.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=web+programmer

  13. Re:WTF? on Battlefield 3 Performance: 30+ Graphics Cards Tested · · Score: 1
  14. Re:WTF? on Battlefield 3 Performance: 30+ Graphics Cards Tested · · Score: 1

    Maybe for you, but for somebody who hasn't looked a graphics cards in a while its a great starting point.

  15. Re:Have the drug cartels met their match? on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    By making the identities of the cartel leaders starkly obvious, it draws world attention and thereby pressure on the mexican government from the world, so yes information is worth money and power to anybody.

  16. Re:Have the drug cartels met their match? on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 2

    Yes yes there certainly is, but do understand the computer one is a black box for you based on the context of your post, so you cannot bridge the two. The cartels would have to start an IT department lmfao. Also, the person they have if they have a person might just be a publicity stunt for them or a poser, one thing the cartels actually ARE known for is their indiscretion in their brutality and they might just be killing someone to show that they can and this is what will happen to you. I'd need a full server log and identity trace to believe otherwise, not even close.

  17. Re:One more proof walled garden is better on Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, Relayed URL Data · · Score: 1

    Fuck Apple and their lack of customization. Apple = tool.

    That better?

  18. Re:Meaning... on Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, Relayed URL Data · · Score: 1

    Point 101 for not downloading random software on your computer, phone, ipad w/e. Dolphin is an Android browser that is quite popular, but who has heard of it? This is a company with no rep, no history, etc...

    But they did cover their asses, it's not like anybody outside the company can log into that server, and they say they cache versions of web pages for specific display properties on that server or something along those lines never having used dolphin. Still when i got my android I downloaded firefox, I still wouldn't log into my bank from my phone though, there's just better ways to live life, such as calling them, or using my pc's. I just don't get what people are thinking in terms of security nowadays, all we're doing is setting up for big brother to press a button called "track" with this shit and not have to invest anything into it besides changing the law.

  19. Re:meh on Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer · · Score: 1

    And you are completely right sir.

  20. Re:Makes sense on Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer · · Score: 2

    You can build your muscles a lot faster than you can your mind. Back to the manhole for you!

  21. Re:Makes sense on Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer · · Score: 1

    There are also tiers of programmers, some of the poor fucks we've hired didn't know how to work w SQL parameters (HS knowledge for me when parameters in sql were new and great). Seriously though, article has a point, if I have to refer to that hat, I refer to it by "engineer", or "computer engineer" depending on who I'm talking to. Technically I'm a sys admin though, no go there either. Try meeting girls and say "I do programming | webdesign | code for a living" and watch the light go out of their eyes. Most definitely don't know what a sys admin is.

    Just imagine the learning curve to learning programming for people who don't know what a sys admin is. Then again I can totally emphasize with "who cares" too.

  22. Re:Are people still buying blackberries on RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages · · Score: 1

    Is your argument serious or are you just trolling?

    Either way your completely speaking out of your ass. We're talking about the Indian government here, RIM is not based there, MS is based in the states, I'm still unclear as to whether your head is really that far up your ass to not be able to tell the difference between the two governments.

    Also customers are #1 to an organization, try landing a real job that pays non-monopoly money to learn that or something. No customers, there is no organization for the government to harass.

    Lastly, the login button is in the top right if you want to stand by your *ehm* argument.

  23. Re:Don't glare at RIM on RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages · · Score: 1

    Name one example in context of OP newb. Too scared to login coward?

  24. Re:Don't glare at RIM on RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages · · Score: 1

    No they won't, your tinfoil hat is on too tight.

  25. Re:And the next step? on RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages · · Score: 0

    They would be more secure than this shit lol.

    Identity theft vs a black bag? Ez choice.