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  1. Re:Data Disconnect on Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations · · Score: 1

    Because if he is telling a lie, then he is not revealing classified info.

  2. store near Redmond on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 1
    Well, of course it had a decent crowd.

    Where else can the employees use their coupons for their dog food?

  3. Re:TFA does not even list the sponsors on New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions · · Score: 1

    No, you have two senators right now. William "Mo" Cowan may be an interim senator, but he is still a senator for at least 12 more days.

  4. Re:they were sent down here to pacify us on New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions · · Score: 1

    Every three months they have to renew the warrants. That is 'hard work'. Ask GWB.

  5. Re:Snowden is fucked on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1
    You need to read the article at Link

    Snowden said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland since 2009. None of the documents revealed any information about Chinese military systems, he said.

    One of the targets in the SAR, according to Snowden, was Chinese University and public officials, businesses and students in the city. The documents also point to hacking activity by the NSA against mainland targets.

    Snowden believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the mainland.

    “We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said.

    That is way more than "doing it to foil terrorist attacks".

  6. Re:Words echo in my head on Intelligence Director Claims NSA Surveillance Reports Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    He has not announced that he will be running for Vice President yet.

  7. Re:Intentionally on Intelligence Director Claims NSA Surveillance Reports Inaccurate · · Score: 2

    They are storing the data. It is that they are just not intentionally looking at all of it. When they have a target, then they do the google on the data. There is too much data to look at all of it every day.

  8. Re: no conspiracy - they're just doing it legally on Intelligence Director Claims NSA Surveillance Reports Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    So, he was lying when he said the reports are inaccurate. That makes everything as clear as mud.

  9. Re:I'm Okay With It on US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the NSA farm that that that out to the Department of Redundancy Department?

  10. Go back to sleep Pythagoras on Banker Offers $1M To Solve Beal Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Exponents must be greater than 2.

  11. Re:Have solution. Alas, subject line = too small on Banker Offers $1M To Solve Beal Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Fermat was completely correct. This is a superset problem.

  12. Re:Effectiveness on Judge Orders Google To Comply With FBI's Warrantless NSL Requests · · Score: 1
    Why would they bother preventing suspected terrorists from an attack when it gives them an excuse for additional control?

    Who do *you* really believe was behind 9-11?

    Hint: It was not OBL.

  13. Root usage - A lot, but never browser on Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, your point is spot on.

  14. Re:Lemme get this straight on Nasdaq Fined $10M Over Facebook IPO Failures · · Score: 1

    There was no price uncertainty whatsoever. Only the clueless thought it would go up. The naked short selling led to the problems. If the IPO had started around $28, there would not have been a problem. But, $38 was way too much, and it was an obvious short play before it started. When most of the trades where shorts, and there were few buyers, hell yeah, you are not going to get confirmation of a short sale until some buyer comes in, otherwise they would all be naked short sales.

  15. I have observed this article on Schrödinger's Cat and RCU (Well, Structured Procrastination, Actually) · · Score: 1

    And still have not determined it's state.

  16. Re:Helpful hint. on Aurora Attackers Were Looking For Google's Surveillance Database · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless the eavesdropper is Rocky or Bullwinkle.

  17. It is a huge problem (for free software) on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Think secure boot. If the 'bridge chip' has a key, that only the trusted driver can supply, then with UEFI and "secure boot", they have just locked down the machine to windows only.

  18. Hot Springs on Weird Geological Features Spied On Mars · · Score: 1

    Circular edges are precipitate.

  19. Re:After the fact... on Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety · · Score: 1
    Actually, the fascists really don't give a damn about any efficiency as long as they can run the world.

    The MIC creates "programs" (Bush mentioned that many times), which in reality are the creation of haystacks so that taxpayer money can be spent on these MIC "programs" looking for the needles in the created haystacks that contain no needles. But the MIC gets the money anyway. And since there are no needles in the fabricated haystacks, (damn, that "program" was not funded enough, we need more money, we know there are needles there, we just did not have enough funds to do the proper searches), they create more haystacks, and convince the Congress that more money must be spent chasing the invisible non-existent bogeyman that the MIC has created.

  20. Re:Fraud is fraud on Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges · · Score: 1

    You are hell-bent on this story. You are also full of crap. There is no implicit contract involved here. There is no transaction. There are no goods or services being purchased that can be returned or be made good if there is a defect. To wit: I see a slot machine. It has a slot that accepts tokens, and in return for accepting that token, some wheels may rotate and some lights may flash, and noise, oh boy, plenty of noise I hear. I.E., it is a shiny object that provides entertainment if you find that rotating wheel, flashing lights, and noise is entertainment. Rumor has it, that said machine sometimes also regurgitates stuff that may have value, and one can pocket said regurgitation. I put a token into this shiny object that may regurgitate stuff. At this point, I have a decision to make. Do I really want to see this "entertainment". Let's say I do, because I am curious. Now, I have another decision to make. Do I pull the handle or do I press the button. Decision, decisions. Oh, wait, maybe I decide that I am not curious after all, and maybe I want to hit the payout button and get my token back. Man, this is all so fucking confusing. No wonder they call slots a skill game. Now, let's say I decide that I am going to push the button, and just as I do, I get distracted, and have to turn away. When I turn back to the shiny machine, there is no credit, no regurgitation to be found. Tell me, how do I know that the shiny machine did not malfunction?? I want my token back. Yeah, if I bitch enough and make a scene, the house will give me my token back, and also tell me to hit the road. But, how do I know the machine is working properly, as intended, as programmed? There is abolutely no way. And if the customer can NOT know that there is no malfunction, there can not be any implicit contract because there are no goods that could be returned or a service that can be corrected. But, you in the Gambling Industry don't really care, because there is a sucker born every minute.

  21. Re:Fraud is fraud on Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges · · Score: 1

    Well, they can't call themselves the "Gambling Industry", because they are not gambling at all, they know they will make a profit.

  22. Re:After RTFA on Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges · · Score: 1

    Exactly. They should pay him that much for finding the bug, as obviously they could have lost that much or more if not found. In fact, they may have already lost more than that because other people may have found it also, but they just did not play enough to make it obvious.

  23. A 'solution' in search of a problem on CAPTCHA Using Ad-Based Verification · · Score: 1
    How often do you personally deal with a captcha?

    This is a waste of time, and another vector for ad-servers to throw malicious javascript and flash attacks at you.

  24. An improvement from 90's on Update — Sensors Do Not Pick Up North Korean Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    When they had their accident above ground.

  25. Is $DEITY really benovolent? on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    There is plenty of evidence that evolution does occur over time, but that does not prove that you exist because of evolution. You may just be part of a herd, ready to be harvested someday. A herd that has expanded so much that it is now having problems with sustaining itself. But just because they want to push Intelligent Design, does not neccessarily mean what they have convinced themselves it means. The Intelligent Designer (to some their $DEITY), may in fact be extremely intelligent, so intelligent in fact that those designers had to make you intelligent enough to grow the herd, but not too intelligent as to question why you are following a genetic program, and naively fulfilling the Intelligent Designers evil goals.