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  1. Re:Disappear on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    So, you get the "actionable data"? What are you going to do with it? Obama is already taking heat for not shutting down Guatanamo. If you pick the guys up, knowing damn well how dangerous they are, what are you going to do? Drag them to New York for a civilian trial?

    Remember all the intelligence and military equipment the Taliban left behind when the US drove them out of Afghanistan? I would hope for the same response. If we pick you up, you become a lightening rod or martyr. If we let you scatter like the cockroaches your are, you eventually die an ignoble death while sweating in some Afghan rat hole. I'd chose B for them.

  2. Re:Umm on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Despite all the evidence to the contrary, WHY do you believe the guy would use a technically advanced, even though freely available, tool like encryption?

  3. Re:Wikileaks on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    You keep saying that. Those are baby goats. Osama was into kiddie porn.

  4. Re:Truecrypt on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Unless you don't have much actionable data. Then you jump in the room to yell, "Boo!!", and watch the culprits as they scatter. Hoping to pick up more info that they leave behind, or just hope they scatter so they'll be less effective, or even go home and stay. There is value is being able to say, "I've got my eye on you."

  5. Re:Truecrypt on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Haven't priced military grade ammunition lately, have you?

  6. Re:Truecrypt on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    You're comparing the covert intelligence capabilities of The Brazilian National Institute of Criminology and the FBI? While I'm sure the people that work there are smarter than the average 5th grader, I don't think you can really compare them to a black-ops organization.

    The old saying from black-ops operatives is "If you know about it, it is obsolete."

  7. Re:Truecrypt on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Either that, or it is a commentary on the value of a college degree.

    Just sayin'.

  8. Re:Truecrypt on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    "smart terrorists"? I'm not so sure you understand one or the other of those terms.

  9. Re:My bet on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't send 40 Navy SEALs after "goat porn".

    Baby goat porn, ie kidd porn. Now that is actionable.

  10. Re:But the positive side is on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    Which immediately raises the question of whether YOUR mother had any children that lived.

  11. Re:kind of like the police on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    With examples of commentary such as [paraphrase] "a thrill goes up my leg every time he talks" [/paraphrase], coupled with a political campaign that seemed designed to be a capitulation (McCain's), it is not difficult to make the jump that some things were covered up.

  12. Re:kind of like the police on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 1

    And the an anchorman on one of the vanguard news networks presents "evidence" in the form of a letter late in a campaign in an obvious attempt to throw an election the way he wants it to go had nothing to do with it?

    Do you ever pull your head from Ed Shultz's oversize butt in order to breath fresh air? Obama IS a socialist. The words "spread the wealth" came out of his mouth, and he meant them, as evidenced by every action he's taken and the people he has staffed his administration with.

  13. Re:Call me Crazy... on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    They've got that one covered already. The reports are that they took the time to remove hard drives from computers on the compound.

  14. Re:Call me Crazy... on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    I hear some of those people buried under the Twin Towers got ripped up pretty badly, too.

  15. Re:Call me Crazy... on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    Heh, don't blame me buddy. I just like the nice smell I get from cleaning my gun with bacon grease.

  16. Re:This is good to know on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming by "scum" you're referring to the radicals. The reports are that one used a woman as a human shield, so I'd tend to agree with you.

  17. Re:Avoided heat on More Data Centers Using On-Site Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Yes, but unless the panels are attached directly to the building, there will be a cooling air gap to keep the heat away from the building. Besides, most roofs are already black.

  18. Re:A Perfect Match on More Data Centers Using On-Site Solar Power · · Score: 1

    The first one was done without taxes. The real developments that made them useful commercial tools were mostly done in support of....get this....military operations. That was the federal government doing what it was supposed to be doing.

  19. Re:They are loosely related on 80% Improvement In Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    The roof is going to have some pitch, unless you want either drainage problems or some funky looking house from the 70's. That is going to effectively cut your roof area in half.

  20. Re:Boosted the efficiency of LOUSY solar cells on 80% Improvement In Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Or, they're a low budget research facility, the same percentage increase would be seen across any cell type, and the cheap cells were cheap.

  21. Re:Yawn on 80% Improvement In Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    You're doing it wrong.

    Them: "Are we there yet?"
    Me: "Yes."

  22. Re:Wow ... on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    I don't. They will still be able to vote.

  23. Re:1.6 Trillion Dollar Deficit on US Funding Five Game-Changing Energy Projects · · Score: 1

    You know what would save you all that paperwork? Single Payer Government health care. No paperwork at all, you just get service when you get the sniffles. And it would be cheaper per capita than paying yourself.

    Because bureaucracies around the world are known for their lack of paperwork.

    And how the hell could it possibly be cheaper when you have the added friction for administrators and paper-pushers of the single-payer system?

  24. Re:1.6 Trillion Dollar Deficit on US Funding Five Game-Changing Energy Projects · · Score: 1

    If you'd pull your head out of Rachel Maddow's ass for a few minutes, some air could get to that vestigal appendage you call a brain and maybe you'd come to realize that Bill "I didn't have sex with that woman" Clinton making a claim isn't proof of anything. He yanked some money out of the Social Security 'trust fund' and claimed to have a surplus. A clear explanation is at http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16, though I doubt you could understand the article with all the multiple syllable words that are used in it.

  25. Re:surely smartphones with apps are the end of thi on Does Wiretapping Require Cell Company Cooperation? · · Score: 1

    What do you do when you're driving through Michigan, minding your own business, and you get stopped, because a policeman 'suspects' that you might be driving drunk or participating in prostitution? He can use the excuse that you drove to close to the center line, or your car doesn't look like it fits in the area that you're driving in.* While you're stopped, the policeman takes your phone and copies all the data off of it. It takes him about 90 seconds.

    * This is not far-fetched. I have been stopped for the former. My wife has been stopped for the latter.