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  1. Re:Chrome? on Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser · · Score: 1

    Ready to wet your pants? Think about this:

    How do you know that Intel and AMD haven't included back doors in their processors that elevate a running thread to ring 0? (or -1?)

  2. Re:I've got really good encryption on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    Whatever. I've got a write only disk. Doesn't need encrypting.

  3. Re:SSH? on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A) The NSA probably directly runs half of the CAs and thus own the root keys that come configured in your browser.
    B) Absent some fancy crypto skills, having the CA root key only allows them to MITM connections. Doesn't help with decrypting a captured stream.

  4. Re:How much RAM? on Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux · · Score: 1

    Not a cabinet like a kitchen cabinet, a cabinet like circuit breaker box mounted in the garage. It needs to be ruggedized so that it can deal with high dust, high humidity, occasional bumps, not ruggedized such that I can throw it off the rim of the Grand Canyon to be found in perfect working order by whoever comes next after humans are extinct.

    I want people who are building small, moderate power computers to be thinking that I want a cloud in my home. I want to walk over to it periodically and replace some kind of failed storage device. But other than that I'd like the damned thing to be mostly hands off and not something I have to fit into the decor of my house.

  5. Re:How much RAM? on Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux · · Score: 0

    1 GB.

    But more importantly is what exactly is the use case for this device? It'd be nice if the people who are designing these all-in-ones would stop thinking of a piece of bric-a-brac that is sitting on a shelf and start thinking in terms of sitting inside a cabinet built into the wall of my home. I don't need a cutesy little cube. I need a remotely managed, ruggedized unit.

  6. Re:of course they are retrievable on Software Developer Says Mega Master Keys Are Retrievable · · Score: 2

    If the developer just decides to push down an update that logs your keys, you're fucked.

    Well, there's your problem... Why are you letting people you don't know install and run software on your computer?

    Fundamentally though, like all security, you need to make a cost benefit analysis. If you have data of a life and death nature, you shouldn't be entrusting it to anyone you can't kill. Or a little less extreme, you shouldn't be putting information in the hands of someone you can't successfully sue. That is, if you have a $50 liability limit plus $200 worth of time to "clean up" someone using your credit card without authorization, you shouldn't share that card number with anyone who wouldn't be willing to pay the $250 if they leak your card number. In the event that you don't expect to be able to sue someone, you shouldn't entrust them with any important or private data.

    Another thing to consider, if your vendor (of your computer, your OS, your phone) includes a liability limitation in their agreement with you then they don't believe their shit is secure. If they don't believe that their product is secure, why should you?

  7. Re:Coincidentally... on US Electrical Grid On the Edge of Failure · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is: I don't demand that they do it right. Then they instead install it to code (not right apparently.) And in doing so they have installed an electrical system that will last 100 years?

    If they do it right what do I get?

  8. Re:Seriously? on Only One US City Makes "Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide" List · · Score: 1

    You're mixing the definitions of the word state. There are major differences between the individual states within the United States and the nations that make up the European Union. EU members have their own foreign policy, they have their own embassies, they have their own currencies (though most of them have adopted the Euro), they have their own militaries and can declare war, they can enter into treaties with other nations, they are recognized as distinct sovereigns by other nations, and they can leave the EU if they so desire. When was the last time you visited the Utah Embassy? Held a Colorado dollar? Signed a treaty with Louisiana? Fought a conflict against the Delaware army? When was the last time France, England and Spain went to war against Germany, Portugal, Greece and Italy in order to sever political bonds?

  9. Re:Seriously? on Only One US City Makes "Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide" List · · Score: 1

    What is your basis for stating that the US is not the world's biggest economy? What divisions constitute an economy in your list? I know on wikipedia, for example, that the only thing bigger than the United States' GDP is the European Union. Comparing the United States to the EU seems a bit apples and oranges. If you are comparing supranational economies, then a more valid comparison would be the EU and the NAFTA countries. Which when combining the GDP of Canada, United States and Mexico, the total is several trillion dollars ahead of the EU.

  10. Re:Why worry about Category 5 or 6? on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1

    $20 and a convenient alley will get New York City on its knees.

  11. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    Three letters: NSA

    Not that that has a lot to do with your post, but for me the idea that cars will be connected to any kind of network and have any kind of remote capability is a deal breaker for me. I realize that I'm likely to lose this particular issue, but that's my worry. We need less central planning, not more. Given me a fully autonomous self driving car and I'll be happy. But if it in any way is "on the grid", then I'll stick with my dumb-car.

  12. Re:I've been in the grocery business.. on Amazon Angling For Same-Day Delivery Beyond Groceries · · Score: 1

    Why not? They would just need to have a Butcher division in the warehouse that takes in the meat portion of the order, cuts and packages the meat and then sends it out to join the rest of the order from the other division. Wouldn't be hard to implement at all.

    I'm curious where you get your cows, because here on Earth they have a particular anatomy and you can't pick and choose once you've begun. That is, you have a side of beef, you cut it into primals and then you're pretty much committed. Can't put half a cow back out to pasture.

  13. Re:I'd be sorry on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 0

    I'm saying that among the major cable news networks, MSNBC spends 85% of it's programming on opinion and commentary, while Fox schedules 55% opinion and commentary and CNN schedules 46%. If one is trying to find an example of a propaganda outlet, it makes more sense to identify the network that is primarily opinion with a tiny bit of reporting rather than one that is basically half and half, fully in line with all the other networks.

    It was in the link I provided. I guess it's clear that you are partisan rather than well informed?

  14. Re:I'd be sorry on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're honestly looking for a propaganda outlet to use as an example, you should probably be focusing on msnbc rather than fox.

    On the other hand, if you're just being a dishonest partisan hack, carry on.

  15. Re:An even more elegant solution on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    Oh how right you are. Of course I'm an idiot, because no one has ever made a window with multiple panes. Not to mention the insanity of putting windows in one's walls. That's just crazy talk.

    Sorry. Sometimes the sarcasm just gets away from me.

  16. Re:Check out these on Amateur Astronomer Bruce Berger Talks About Meteors and Telescopes (Video) · · Score: 1

    If you were getting "discs" from stars I want that telescope. Please tell me where I can find it.

  17. Re:An even more elegant solution on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    Well, they could cut the tops and bottoms off their 1 liter bottles, then slice down the side and unroll. Bam. Nice little 8x8 plastic window.

  18. Re: Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, the conversation oh_my_080980980 is having right now is:

    Mom: Barry-proxy-oh_my_080980980, did you take a cookie after you were told not to?
    Barry-proxy-oh_my_080980980: But Georgie took one too!

    Any adult knows the problem with that.

  19. SUSTAINED BLACKOUT!!! OH NOES!!!! on Hacking Lightbulbs To Cause a Sustained Blackout · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Turning off a single or set of light bulbs is not a "sustained blackout." Shutdown all electrical systems in a city (or at least a neighborhood) and maybe you can start talking blackout. But turning off a couple of light bulbs isn't even inconvenient. What kind of hyperbolic dipshittery headline writing is this?

  20. Re:Obligitory Reagan quote... on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 1

    Sweet. Thanks for the info.

  21. Re:I question their research. on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    A) it says access, not store.
    B) they are saying that in any given day the normal desktop needs 9.58 GB of data from the hard drive.

    This is a cache. What they are saying is if they put 8 GB of flash on the HDD and use something like an MFU replacement policy, then the majority of accesses to the HDD will be served from flash rather than the disk platter.

    Personally I hate caching solutions.

  22. Re:Obligitory Reagan quote... on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 4, Informative

    The purpose of the AMT is to make "rich" people pay more not less. And "rich" in this case is merely middle class because the criteria for the AMT don't change automatically with inflation. The last few years a lot of people have found themselves liable for paying it.

  23. Re:Touch screen fanboys on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 2

    Really? Then do this: Click the left button and hold it down. Now click the right button and hold it down. Release the left button. Then release the right button.

    I have one of these, it came with my iMac. I have a MacBook Pro. I bought the magic touch pad for the iMac. I have some fucking idea what I'm talking about.

  24. Re:The Romans found out about lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    I didn't suggest or even imply that gun shop owners are not impacted by NRA activities. I was commenting on these two sentences, an particular the bolded portions:

    According to Wikipedia, blood poisoning has been measured at levels of "109–139 g/dL in indoor shooting range instructors". I find it a bit ironic that the NRA doesn't even mention lead poisoning their own membership.

    If you don't like having your fallacies pointed out, don't present inconsistent arguments.

  25. Re:The Romans found out about lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 2

    Indoor shooting range instructors are not automatically NRA members. In fact lots of gun enthusiasts are not NRA members. It's absurd for you to draw any connections or conclusions based on common interests.

    Regardless, most municipalities require exhaust ventilation in shooting ranges near the firing line to reduce exposure.