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  1. Re:Viral Marketing Campaign. Literally. on Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? · · Score: 1

    this is corporation-grade penetration testing software.

    The website makes it look like a mild-moderate joke.

  2. Re:He's clearly joking around... on Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? · · Score: 1

    The site is advertising more about what it can do after the machines are infected than what kind of real testing it can do. It kinda seems more oriented towards criminals.

  3. In other news: on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares.

  4. The real contention while formulating a response. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 2

    Russia, for example, does not dispute that chemical weapons were used, or that it was bad. They do dispute that there is any credible evidence linking the chemical weapons to the Syrian government. The attacks might also have been terrorist in nature, or even worse been perpetrated in a false flag manner to intentionally start a war. What is truly newsworthy about these events is how fast the US wants to move on Syria.

  5. Re: More government! on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Hm, I was trying to make the point that the company should have hired a competent engineer in the first place, and that no amount of thought by committee would substitute for that. For the most part, that is exactly what railroads do in the United States. Becoming an engineer is an exceedingly rigorous process, and remaining one is the same. There is a federal license involved, but only having one of those is about like applying to the job and just calling yourself an engineer. Railroads have a huge monetary interest in trains never crashing, and staff is hired accordingly, before accidents happen.

    You should really read a bit more text on the difference between liberty and oppression than Ayn Rand. Your ignorance is chilling. Arguments based on such ignorance typically appear to be straw man at best (present a mindless Objectivist as characteristic Libertarian, lambaste Libertarianisim, rinse, repeat), but I suspect that you consider this argument to be in earnest. Would you like to change somebody's mind instead of preaching to your proverbial choir? Spend some time learning the difference between Objectivisim and Libertarianisim, and how they overlap in some trivial areas, but mostly are totally different things. Then you can criticize each philosophy separately, in an honest way.

  6. Re: More government! on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Our anonymous friend would propose then that we need a third person to watch the first two, and then a committee of three or four more to supervise the supervisor. When an accident inevitably happens, it will be everybody's fault, and in that regard it will be nobody's fault. The train would crash, and not a single person would have done anything wrong.

  7. The real reason for the patent. on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 1

    They are probably patenting Scroogling so that they can start doing it to people themselves.

  8. Re:I am shocked shocked I tell you on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The whole vote for Republicans and they will make everything OK notion died for me when G.W. Bush had Republicans in both houses of the US Congress, at that time we saw what the party's policy goals were.

    Our system now is to vote for two flavors of the same thing. We get one party who supposedly cares about one dimension of liberty, who forwards it mostly by not abridging it any further, while at the same time relentlessly usurping some other freedom. Then the other guys get in there, and by god they are going to not make what the previous party did any worse! Of note, they are not going to reverse the damage, merely not make it any worse. Then they will proceed to usurp the liberties that the other party held so dear.

    What to do about it is a harder question. Casting votes into the wind probably wont actually change anything. Perhaps the power of change is not really in the Congress and White House, but instead in selecting local governors and leaders that do advocate principles of freedom. In our day, we will probably see another constitutional convention.

  9. Re:I have a fix on Meet the Programmer Behind Social Fixer · · Score: 1

    Don't effing use fbook et al.

    I am pretty sure nobody cares.

  10. Re:Stop it already on Meet the Programmer Behind Social Fixer · · Score: 1

    I wish companies would just grow some fucking balls and ditch Facebook. And I'm not suggesting moving to the next fucking fad either (MySpace, LinkedIn, etc).

    MySpace was the fad before Facebook.

  11. Re:I am shocked shocked I tell you on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 1

    http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3vl7k0/

    Yes, that is what I had in mind.

  12. Re:I am shocked shocked I tell you on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but this is bullshit.

    Where were you racist idiots when these programs were being started by President Bush? Seems to me that it was only when we got a black President that suddenly these things became a problem. And none of you folks ever bother to mention that these policies were started by the GOP. Most of us on the left never wanted these policies in the first place, but it's not like voting GOP would have offered a better situation. So, we mostly voted for somebody that was going to fix something. Which he did, DOMA is over, DADT is over, ACA passed and he hasn't started any pointless wars.

    But, unfortunately, he's staying the course on things that I would rather he not stayed the course on. But, you're a naive moron if you think that Romney or McCain wouldn't have. And in all likelihood they would be abusing it even worse.

    Yo dawg, I'm sorry, your, "I'm sorry, this is bullshit", is bullshit.

    Trying to paint everyone who does not like Obama as bigoted big establishment Republicans is a false dichotomy. Open your mind to this possibility, there are people that did not like Bush or McCain, do not like Obama, and would rather not have voted for Romney.

  13. Re:For once Bill Gates is right on Internet.org: Altruistic, Or the Ultimate In Cynicism? · · Score: 1

    Because it is demonstrably false

    The way to deal with a post that is demonstrably false is to post a rebuttal that demonstrates the original post is false.

    Doing that would awaken the trolls. If you are really curious about whether what was said about the Bill Gates Foundation, try doing some research to enhance your own knowledge. It is not ShanghaiBill's job to alleviate your ignorance, only you can do that.

  14. Re:Obama's Take on Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the Obama administration will continue to state a glass of milk has more radiation in it than what is escaping from Japan. Oh yes, and that nobody has died from nuclear poisoning. Then he will take off his jacket and bring out a napkin in each hand to wipe the imaginary sweat from his face and say we need more nuclear power to fight global warming. (While sending coal to the rest of the world and subsidizing their coal plants.)

    After all this hard work, maybe take Air Force One for a spin to Hawaii. Well, not Hawaii, that is closer to the radiation.

  15. Re:It's like this on Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts · · Score: 1

    Thank you for this, it was very interesting.

  16. Re:Wrong approach on Transportation Designs For a Future That Never Came · · Score: 1

    Close your eyes. Pretend you're surrounded by pretentious rich assholes. Bingo, you're in LA. Total cost: $0. Total time: 15 seconds.

    HALEP! I ended up in a conference room at Oracle with Larry Ellison! :'(

    Lucky you.

  17. Re:And the peices fall into place on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    I agree with you wholeheartedly. Supreme power only attracts the supremely corruptible.

    It is hard for someone to catch you in a debate when you have taken every position on every issue at some point. There is always a sound byte of the correct answer available.

  18. Re:And the peices fall into place on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    Obama delivered on the Transparency though, can see right through him

    I think this statement was trying to say that he has obvious motives, or is ineffective at concealing his attempts at deception.

  19. Re:Taking Notes on a Facebook Machine... on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 1

    I have yet to find a tablet that you could write on with a pen as well as paper.

  20. Re:It's free. C'mon. on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    Isn't the price of free usually a huge waste of your personal time too?

  21. Re:It's free. C'mon. on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    The only people that can reasonably be complained to, are those that you are paying.

  22. Re:DCIM on How the Leap Second Bug Led Facebook To Build DCIM Tools · · Score: 1

    "Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is an emerging (2012) form of data center management which extends the more traditional systems and network management approaches to now include the physical and asset-level components. DCIM leverages the integration of information technology (IT) and facility management disciplines to centralize monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of a data center's critical systems. Essentially it provides a significantly more comprehensive view of ALL of the resources within the data center."

    Data centers predate digital cameras. That particular business buzzword acronym, for that particular business buzzword phrase, does not. I envision some manager looking at a DCIM dashboard somewhere with gauge images and stuff. It just seems like pretty blatant namespace pollution, even in a different domain.

  23. Re:a very big IF. Not Walmart blanks on MIT Students Release Code To 3D-Print High Security Keys · · Score: 1

    Are you attempting a buffer overflow on my brain? Good grief.

  24. Re:DCIM on How the Leap Second Bug Led Facebook To Build DCIM Tools · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point is, make up a different acronym than one which is used ubiquitously in almost every computer related field.

  25. Re:a very big IF. Not Walmart blanks on MIT Students Release Code To 3D-Print High Security Keys · · Score: 1
    Yeah, you strongly implied someone was a moron for claiming that DND keys were hard to copy because by god you did it once (again, good for you). The only problem is that everyone else in the thread was talking about hard to obtain, source restricted blanks, and most certainly not the low security SC1 style key that you describe copying. Now you feel kinda silly, and have digressed to belittling peoples education and intelligence. Completely ignoring the context and content of your comments to feel correct should be embarrassing.

    You literally said this:

    The only thing the specific "high security" keys OP wrote about brought to the table is the difficulty of cutting a copy

    It is not true, the Primus blanks are source controlled. At least admit to yourself that you were wrong, and move on.