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  1. Re:This was my question on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 1

    Pretty much any bodega that sells GSM prepaid phones.

  2. Re:TEMPEST on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    The CRT was a lot stronger source than just the VGA port but yes either of them (HDMI for that matter) are vulnerable to vanEck phreaking.

  3. Re:Tax, not ban on Incandescent Bulbs Get a Reprieve · · Score: 1

    The only way dedicated tax work is a constitutional amendment.

  4. Re:Z-Wave on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Analog TV camera work fine on cat5. IP camera's with pan tilt heads are under 100 at this point.

  5. Re:conduit in anticipation on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Coax really? Sure it's cheap but not much still uses it. Even live TV switches over to IP packets once it hits the house. Maybe if your stuck with satellite as your only option.

  6. Re:Yeah, like the present school system is working on How Good Are Charter Schools For the Public School System? · · Score: 1

    No no Hell's no. Teachers are effectively representatives of the state and you want them to supersede the parents? Remember children are required by law to go to a public school, or if you can afford it out of pocket a private or home school. Public school already indoctrinate students. Worse yet they are managed by the board of ed.

  7. Re:Responsible disclosure, anyone? on Australian Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability, Company Calls Police · · Score: 2

    Seems very responsible he contact one third party with a good track record. Or do you expect people to wait months/years? SQL injection is pretty low end who is the PCI auditor who missed this?

  8. Re:Inverted T works for me on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Run in that configuration for years with 28 inch monitors 4 computers stitched together with synergy. Windows laptop drives the left one with all the core road apps. Primary work pc center, an OSX box right, and a linux box at the above monitor displaying operational stuff.

    The only thing I'm not happy with is audio, been using a mix of spdif and analog to the work PC. Would like to slightly positionally shift the audio to confer what machine it's coming out of but the added latency was far to much. Would also like to ditch the analog.

  9. Rhel 5 on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    Still ships with 2.4

    Rhel 6 not much newer.

    Lot of us with lots of production boxes want stable and fight to keep it that way. There is also the library issue many have not ported to 3.x or made major we broke things changes to do so.

  10. Re:Efficiency. on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Time efficient, vs cost. I can not get more time, I can get more money thus I value my time far more than money. By your charts paying 33-50% more to get someplace 2x as fast is well worth it. If your time is cheap but your money dear stay in the slow lane.

  11. Re:Efficiency. on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 2

    Cant wait till they update all those dedicated bus/carpool lanes. Self driving cars no speed limit max safe speed determined by the cars, cars slower automatically pull over and let faster cars pass. Hell leave the buses in as long as they stop obstructing the flow of traffic.

  12. Re:Good to have around on Ford Will Demo Solar-Charged Car At CES · · Score: 1

    Would it not be simpler to stop installing street lights outside of high pedestrian areas and intersections? Streetlights cost significant amounts of money while hurting drivers night vision and directly polluting the night sky.

  13. Re:The Antarctic successfully defends itself on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1

    Oh there eco tourism trip will be fairly rough so much that the leader took along his wife and young children 4 scientists 26 paid tourists it's PR trip not science to go redo a century old expedition Awareness/PR is not science (unless it's quantifying it or otherwise studying it) these guys were a bunch of prats taking a vacation under the guise of science. The expedition is lead by Chris Turney a UNSW prof who happens to also to be pimping a carbon reclamation start up he help found any science would be tainted by his conflict of interest. Sure there were reporters paying to go along it should have had a lot of great photo's and heart and minds sort of fluff and drivel but little of that ya know hard science stuff.

    Real scientists are pissed about this boondoggle, it pulled an icebreaker away from unloading supplies for the station only unloading about 1/3 of the supplies, some of the new research gear and all the people to go rescue these guys. Effectively cutting down the time they have to do there work that not photogenic science stuff.

  14. Re:The Antarctic successfully defends itself on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1

    It's now political not scientific people buy the results they want, cheery pick for talking points, remove data that does not support there pet theory. It's more a a religious war that a scientific one at this point.

    PS the scientists were on a vacation, retracing the steps of Douglas Mawson's trip 100ish years ago. It's a PR tour not a scientific endeavor.

  15. Re:How much does it cost? on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    16 million is only one 16 millionth of macs (24 bits of 48) not that much it's also the minimum they can reserve.

  16. Re:The Antarctic successfully defends itself on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1

    PS I understand global warming, the amount of doom and gloom is excessive. The amount of bad science that gets funded is insane. At this point we really need to get past the it's going to happen bits and stop frothing at the mouth.

  17. The Antarctic successfully defends itself on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 0

    Glad everybody is safe. Cue the impending doom guys to work more ice into it's getting warmer paper WTB more grant and endowment funding for fun vacation trips.

  18. Re:At 50 years old I know, law not for you on The New York Times Pushes For Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 1

    You mean those 40k new laws that became active Jan 1 were not all needed? We have forgotten that we need the bare min number of laws so that we can live together.

  19. Re:Land of the Free! on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 0

    Your forgetting the police do not have to follow the rules. Of course they will have there surveillance drones out with there fake cell phone towers, laser mic's and whatever other gadgets they can strap on them.

  20. Re:Sorry Sir, your license has no drone tag. on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 0

    No limit on drones and reporter jumping fences to "interview" kids.

  21. Re:Good! on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    Heart/lung is a fairly clean kill and leaves most of the meat, When your subsistence hunting you go for the most probable kill that leave a usable carcass ammo and time are not free. Now that it's not critical to bag one and it's as much about curbing pop growth and keeping the skill set primarily head shots at a distance, but I've never taken a trophy either.

  22. Re:Fuck religion. on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    It's ok they have a long history of making other people pay for the wars they want.

  23. So you get to spend some quality time with a rubber hose until you tell them your passwords?

  24. Shove your data into the cloud on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unencypted personal data should never be stored in the cloud. If you need a revision control system use one, If you need backups use one. Neither is particularly hard, hell windows built in backup works pretty well. But encrypt anything leaving your possession (not a bad idea for stuff not leaving your possession either) but basic bits like bios HD passwords work pretty well without any performance penalty.

  25. Call for him to he arrested and tried on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 1

    Since many of these atrocities started on his watch. He is responsible for untold abuse of power.