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  1. Re:You want to cheat on your wife? on Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet that definition is inherently unfair to those couples who WANT to be married AND have an open relationship. Most of the "successful" open relationships I know of (success being defined as everyone is aware, it doesn't cause drama / jealousy, etc) is within the boundaries of a legal marriage. The marriage actually adds quite a bit of stability to their lives, keeps the partners from totally going off the rails, and gives them a foundation to return to. This isn't cheating; they don't hide anything from each other. They have various reasons for it...but for it to be a felony is ridiculous. As for breaking a contract, if the two married people choose to make their own vows and PURPOSELY leave out "forsaking all others" etc, should they still face the legal ramifications of a court system that legislates what morality behind closed doors is supposed to be like?

    On a side note, anyone who calls themselves a Libertarian and yet is still pushing for governmental intrusion into bedroom activities is a hypocrite on the highest level.

  2. "Data can be formatted to backup almost any claim" Too true...

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Mark Twain

  3. Re:People freaking out on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL. I agree, I think it will be quite successful. Amazon's biggest issue is going to be the quagmire of different laws in different areas; something the FAA is running into now. But after reading TFA, their not even talking about anything outside the US yet.

  4. Re: Jah booty on A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War · · Score: 1

    See my above post, the "data" says your absolutely wrong Anonymous Coward.

  5. Re:Jah booty on A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, recent studies show that the remote pilots do have PTSD issues....they don't just fly a drone in, launch a missile from 20 miles, and leave. The pilots often work 10-12 hour shifts 6 days a week, and they often follow their targets for weeks if not months before any attacks. After the attack, the drone has to hang out and continue watching, doing an assessment of the damage; ie a body count. The drone team (usually three people) has to count and catalog each dead body. It's highly stressful; these soldiers know damn well it's NOT a video game, they know they are actually killing people. And when they do go home from the office, they can't talk to anyone about the burning bodies of the children they had to tally up that day.

    Here's more articles on this, if you don't believe me.

  6. Re:People freaking out on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You must not know very many pre-teen and teen-age boys...they are pretty destructive. I know I was; I almost burned my house down a few times, we would shoot each other with BB guns, make our own "melee weapons" our of random metal pieces and fight in the back yard, toilet paper / egg people's houses, and other assorted madness. If drones had been flying around we most certainly have taken shots at them.

  7. Drone laws on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The FAA should just ask Amazon to write the laws on commercial drone delivery and save us taxpayers the time and money. Honestly, I trust Amazon to write better rules for this (and take far less time to do so) than the FAA will ever be able to do. They took over a decade to come up with their current "register your drone" website that doesn't do anything but give the feds another list.

  8. Re:We did this in 1975 on a Burroughs B5500 Timesh on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah. I did something similar in the early 90's when my high school got their first LAN. You could control-break out of the login script and get dropped into a prompt that had read access to the login paths. Re-wrote the script to "error out" and prompt for the teachers login again and wrote it to the local drive...it was only a matter of time before we had multiple credentials. We found the software they had bought also came with an internal BBS / posting board that they never implemented...much fun was had and the faculty never noticed it at all.

  9. Re:We did this in 1975 on a Burroughs B5500 Timesh on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    " but seems as an industry as a whole, we never learn and the old tricks still work" too true; I blame the PHB who want stock dividends and profits over long-term security and see IT as a money sink that the newest buzz words will magically fix.

  10. Re:Brutus on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sometimes it does feel that way. I did check on the status of the 3rd party vote here in Oklahoma, the Libertarians have raised enough money that they hope to now be able to get the 24,475 signatures needed to get on the ballot. I am currently awaiting my voter registration card to come in so I can legally sign the petition to get 3rd parties on the ballot...been waiting almost six months now. I am registering as an Independent; the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that is the reason it still hasn't arrived.

    If the vote comes down to Hillary vs Trump, I'm going with Trump. Not because I support his views, but because he's not a career politician. But your totally right; he won't back down...and neither will Putin which could quickly turn VERY BAD.

  11. Re: There was no before on Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I think we have a Mexicali standoff here.

  12. Anything beyond our "light cone" is unknowable, simply because of the speed of light. Yet we can never say "absolutely yes", because we don't know what technologies we will develop in the future. Someday we may have tech that can map branes, use gravitational waves for sensors, or something else so far beyond our current imagination that this question is a bit ridiculous.

  13. Re:We did this in 1975 on a Burroughs B5500 Timesh on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    If you have physical access to the terminal, eventually you can come up with a system to defeat almost all security.

  14. Re:Israel won't like it on Iran Complies With Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Lifted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    " no sane investor on the free market would ever give the state of Israel" unless your loan is going to a cybersecurity program. Israel's cyberwar tech is some of the best on the planet; any investment in that should have a huge return.

  15. Google already does this anyway on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    It's an established fact that Google already does this for child pornography. This became public back in 2014. So it's not much of a stretch to move into scanning for this. Some would call it a "slippery slope", but that's the world we find ourselves in.

  16. Re:And what about false positives? on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    I'll second that; a friend of mine bought a copy at a gun show back in the late 80's. When even THAT book says "be careful", what it really means is "this substance is so unstable if you sneeze near it it will go off, your amazingly lucky that you managed to finish this without blowing yourself up".

  17. Re:Brutus on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    I do know what it means. Sanders was, before announcing his run for POTUS in 2015, an Independent for around 40 years. Trump has been registered as a Democrat before, and is pretty far from the GOP party line as one can get. In my state it is IMPOSSIBLE to vote for anyone that's not on the ballot for POTUS, our ballot is one of the seven that do not allow it. So, thanks for being a jackass and all; I hope you got to work out some of your anger on me by suggesting something that is impossible were I live. I do agree that the current crop of "candidates" are pretty crappy...so my vote is going to whichever will throw the system into the most turmoil; most likely either Trump or Sanders depending if either actually get the candidacy.

  18. Re:Brutus on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Sanders or Trump is about as close as your getting to a 3rd party in this election.

  19. France must take the initiative on French Conservatives Push Law To Ban Strong Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    to help identity thieves gain access to everyone's phones. Because there aren't any criminal organizations that will EVER find these back doors as well, and everyone on the planet is far too moral to exploit mandatory security holes.

  20. Re:Making fun of Trump is easy - HAIR! POMP! LOL! on Space Entrepreneur Opines Donald Trump Could Do an Inspirational Space Program (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    "“I am supportive of NASA not only because of the excitement of space exploration, but because of all the additional side benefits we receive from research in that area. " - Bernie Sanders

  21. Re:flooride on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    What's an "ascid"? Fluoride (not flooride) has really cut the amount of tooth decay, especially in kids (around a 35% cut in fluoridated water) It's only at 0.7 to 1.2 parts per million, which is probably millions of times less than you used to etch glass. You could also use hexafluorosilicic or hydrofluoric acid.

  22. I use Enterprise, which doesn't do any of this crap.

  23. Re:We COULD get by working 10-20 hours a week on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 2

    Your taxes actually do go to the 1% via mass, multi-billion dollar tax breaks, refunds, pre-tax exemptions, etc. JPMorgan, 1.3 billion tax refund in 2013, American Airlines, $22 million refund, Boeing $82 million tax refund in 2013. These numbers took 10 seconds on a Google search of "tax breaks and refunds for corporations". My stats come from The Nation, and in general these "tax breaks" cost the US economy over $150 billion last year. Corporate inversions are transferring money out of the US into foreign firms.

  24. Re:not scarequotes needed on FTC Fines Software Vendor Over False Data Encryption Claims (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And yet they won't; per HIPAA encryption is "Addressable" and not "Required". 45 CFR 164.312 is actually really short and is completely tech agnostic.

  25. Re:Does Rust ensure HIPAA-compliant software? on FTC Fines Software Vendor Over False Data Encryption Claims (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, because HIPAA is totally tech agnostic. The security protocols in HIPAA are only a few pages; encryption is "Addressable" yet not "Required" unlike "Unique User Identification". They are designed so a normal "office manager" can do a checklist; they are in no way "security protocols" like an actual IT compsec person would design.

    "Encryption and decryption (Addressable). Implement a mechanism to encrypt and decrypt electronic protected health information."
    "Encryption (Addressable). Implement a mechanism to encrypt electronic protected health information whenever deemed appropriate."

    That's pretty much the tech level of the entire document, there are no actual technologies referenced in it. Technically you could indeed use Pig Latin as your "encryption", but actually don't need to have any encryption at all.