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  1. Re:yeah, right on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 1

    "Social" engineering is control too. Who knows how much adherents and plan of actions got al qaeda with all the US drones over innocent citizens.

    And they don't have to deny if they aren't catch. How they didn't got catched last time? not becuase Germany detected them, but because Snowden's leaks. They could keep doing their scheduled industrial spying as long as they don't get discovered.

  2. At least for winter on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    A jacket or coat with large interior pockets is usually enough for carrying 7" tablets, kindles and so on.

  3. Google Glass on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Med-School Note-Taking? · · Score: 1

    Or a camera, or better yet, that your class have a camera that takes everything and publish it later in youtube or a students portal for everyone there. You can take the notes later, don't mess your attention fiddling with a touchscreen keyboard, a bulky notebook or switching apps.

    Also, getting an antivirus warning in a medical class will be pretty embarrasing.

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

    There had been enough hints in his previous mandate to know that the trend was just growing. And while voting for the other was been no change of direction, expressely voting no option, or choosing a third party, just to show that you don't approve what the main 2 are, would be a way. If a big enough percent of people didn't like (and expressed to be that way) any of the options, they would had at least a hint.

    If you think this is already bad, there are still a few years for things getting even worse, and enough people that think just like you (that if is not one is the other), so the next election won't change trends at all, no matter if is elected the other party. Things will get so bad that 1984 will look like utopia, not distopia.

  5. American version of Hanlon's Razor on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 4, Informative

    You explain everything with malice in the government, and idiocy in the voters

  6. Re:Full retard on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 1

    No,you just are not the target of that campaign, there are enough retards that will buy that claim. To put an example Now Windows 8.1 will use what is in your local disk to give you targetted ads. Remember Microsoft campaign of don't get scroogled? Probably the people that will install Windows 8.1 but complained about google's invasion of privacy fits pretty well into that category.

  7. Re:Analogy needs one fix on Photocopying Michelle Obama's Diary, Just In Case · · Score: 1

    Considering that the NSA is not just passive snooping, but that intrudes into private networks/computers, the analogy is incomplete. In this case, is more like the diary was put in a locked box, and Obama asked the manufacturer to make him another key to access that box whenever he wants, and from time to time go there and checks whats new in the diary. And the same with their children's diary, the maid's diary, and every single (or married, or whatever) person a mile away from the white house. mm ok, is too much people, so ask that friendly person that meet the other day, that in no way could had been accused of child molesting or rape ever, to recolect most that information, and only report to him when found something interesting.

  8. Re:Don't panic on Losing the War Data For Iraq and Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    History is written by the victors, and rewritten, and erased when is not convenient. Data too.

  9. Re:One question that is never asked: on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Considering that the main targets of this surveillance are countries like Germany, France, Brazil, Japan and others (that don't seem to be Al-Qaeda training countries) is clear that the target is not citizens protection, but probably intellectual property stealing (and this is proper stealing, as could end with a patent over that, not like people that just copy leaving you with the original). Wonder if countries will start to repeal IP treaties with US over this.

  10. Re:Hunger diet on Book Review: The Healthy Programmer · · Score: 1

    Exercise should be mandatory too, even if is just walking for half an hour or things like that. Not just for weight control, also helps in general health and brain function.

  11. Re:Newsflash... on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    And somehow you are just your genes/body, a body grown from your cells with an empty brain worths the same as you. Internet is not just an empty building (that anyway, the US government didn't create alone, a lot of what makes it work was created elsewhere), most what makes it worth is the content on it. And we all created it.

  12. Re:I'll hold out on Unlocked Firefox OS ZTE Open Is Now Available On eBay For For $80 · · Score: 1

    What part of "harder" is so, er, hard, to understand? Is not like having a backdoor.c included in the front of the code that could others do, not impossible, just harder. And Mozilla plans to do somewhat frequent updates to the OS, if those phones enables the update to the latest version directly is again "harder" to put something in the middle. My main concern (as can't take out the carrier, and maybe can't take binary blobs like probably drivers, and can't take out whatever is in hardware) was more about stored files (like private certificates/keys/whatever), and anything that makes it harder (again, not impossible) to be taken by a rogue app or whatever else that is running there is a good thing.

  13. Re:Depends of the source of materials on Could Humanity Really Build 'Elysium'? · · Score: 1

    Moving an asteroid to orbit, making it rotate and build a colony inside it should be the "cheap" (and probably technologically feasible) way to build it. But won't look like Elysium, will be more frontier than a deluxe mansion for the top 0.1%. The good thing is that if it becomes self sustaining the approach could scale and use that kind of habitats for space exploration and resource gathering.

    But probably will be cheaper to manage to build ocean habitats (floating, submerged, whatever) than space stations, less hard problems need to be solved (food, radiation, etc)

  14. Re:I'll hold out on Unlocked Firefox OS ZTE Open Is Now Available On eBay For For $80 · · Score: 1

    Is harder to hide a backdoor when the code of the OS is open source and the apps are in html5. That don't take out the tracking that could do your phone company, or that your data traffic gets intercepted or not, but for what you have running and stored on it you have more guarantees than the ones that you have with iPhones, WinPhones and android phones (specially with heavy modifications by the manufacturers).

  15. Future? on Chain Reaction Shattered Antarctica's Larson B Ice Shelf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, this happened some years ago. Is useful to predict what will happen maybe soon if there are big ice shelves in similar conditions? Are we walking in thin ice, and could happen from a week to the next that a very huge amount of water is added to the oceans? I don't think nothing of this scale will be enough to make the ocean level rise in a noticeable way, but if we are in that scenario will be pretty bad, maybe we can adapt to the oceans rising a meter in a whole century, but no that that kind of change is so fast.

  16. Good news Pakistan on Microsoft Is Working On a Cloud Operating System For the US Government · · Score: 4, Funny

    US will start to replace rones with chairs.

  17. How to build a better world on One-Way Ticket: Mars One Project Applicants Top 100,000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reject all those applications and send to Mars the 100.000 that are in the top 0.1%. Uh, and later send a second batch with lawyers.

  18. Re:Its a start on Chaos Computer Club, Others Scoff At German Email Security Move As "Marketing" · · Score: 2

    In fact, the start is that is hosted in Germany, the host don't have to blindly give everything to the US government (what must do if the users are german for US based internet services). That the content, going to another server outside Europe could be intercepted and decrypted or not (or done on target as the mail comes from a non US citizen), is a different problem.

  19. Re:KGB better than NSA? on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So far the countries that i've seen to do indiscriminated killing in other, not in war, countries because "there are hidden terrorists" are US and Israel. Maybe they manage to kill the suspicious people (with no certain that they were guilty, but they redefine them as plain terrorist after all), but they kill also everyone around. US sent drones to schools, funerals, weddings, games and so on because "there are a suspicious meeting there". I don't know what Russia is or may be doing, but i know what US is doing, and is bad enough.

  20. Re:Not really. on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 2

    That targets 1 person assumed traitor, terrorist, criminal or whatever, they don't thow a nuke into a populated city to kill just one person, or very few ones. What about US policy, where 50 civilians are killed for every terrorist?

  21. Re:hushmail.com on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 1

    This Hushmail? They already gave customers emails to US authorities, and we are talking about 6 years ago. Not sure how or if things changed, but i would avoid them, or at the very least their web interface.

  22. Re:KGB better than NSA? on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The KGB still don't send drones to kill innocents to other countries, things that happen with the NSA if you are not in US, and maybe in a short time, even if you are.

  23. Re:Will it run Linux? on Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface · · Score: 1

    The goal of Nvidia should not be selling a microsoft product, is to sell an nvidia product. Whatever helps to sell it more should be promoted. Who wants to waste money in something that could have no future, like all those nokia windows 7.8 phones, with no way to give it another life? Part of what made the HP Touchpad so successful was not just the price, but also the potential of being able to run android too.

  24. Will it run Linux? on Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They should focus in making hardware and drivers for everything, if people don't like the included OS, should be able to change it for something else (android, ubuntu touch, plasma active, whatever). If its only for Microsoft, their are tying their ship to the Titanic, just after it hit the iceberg.

  25. Good start on Deutsche Telekom Moves Email Traffic In-Country In Wake of PRISM · · Score: 1

    Next make sure that all citizens have a public IP, can put a server there, and even provide an SSL certificate and generic dns name so they can put their own secure servers if they want. Teach to trust noone, and they will be free.