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  1. It's a nudge ... on NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers · · Score: 1

    ... to make Tor a mainstream app. What percentage of potential users actually use Tor?

    It's not in the billions.

    If NSA could make Tor viral, how cool would that be?

  2. Re:Yes Google and FB are the ones to protect us? on NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers · · Score: 1

    For reference, see Manning and Snowden.

  3. Re:Do the tests stat ... on Scientists Developing Remote-Control Cyborg Moths · · Score: 1

    I'd mod your comment up if I could ... excellent point.

  4. Do the tests stat ... on Scientists Developing Remote-Control Cyborg Moths · · Score: 1

    ... moths don't live a long time and stuff.

  5. 11 days is pretty fast ... on How Does Tesla Build a Supercharger Charging Site? · · Score: 1

    ... I think the record for a large project is 6.

  6. Give it up ... on FCC Warned Not To Take Actions a Republican-Led FCC Would Dislike · · Score: 1

    We've seen this with water, gas, and electricity.

    Just run the damn wire.

  7. ... accurately predicts .. on Future Hack: New Cybersecurity Tool Predicts Breaches Before They Happen · · Score: 1

    66% = "could happen."

  8. Re:Ooh I Got One! on NASA's Space Launch System Searches For a Mission · · Score: 1

    Congress is kinda like the weather ...

  9. I wish i'd known ... on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    ... that canned packages were going to do all that for me.

  10. I never ... on Metamaterial Superconductor Hints At New Era of High Temperature Superconductors · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... metamaterial I didn't like and stuff.

  11. Re:I have Sharon's phone number if you want it on Book Review: Social Engineering In IT Security Tools, Tactics, and Techniques · · Score: 1

    Spoiler alert ...

    It's O4U812.

  12. Re:More like a fog ... on National Science Foundation Awards $20 Million For Cloud Computing Experiments · · Score: 1

    Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know about it.

    I like this:

    "One way to address this [an expanded cloud] is through Fog Computing. This is a paradigm where cloud computing is extended to the edge of the network. This creates a highly virtualized platform that provides compute, storage, and networking services between end devices and traditional cloud computing data centers."

    Maybe in the next iteration, it will include synergy.

  13. Re:Details? on Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access To Free Software · · Score: 1

    I'm with you on this. TFA should be labeled, "opinion."

  14. Re:Growing pains. on Dramatic Shifts In Manufacturing Costs Are Driving Companies To US, Mexico · · Score: 1

    Not "`1900."

    "1900s."

  15. Re:Growing pains. on Dramatic Shifts In Manufacturing Costs Are Driving Companies To US, Mexico · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good point, and I don't think they will benefit from lessons learned elsewhere. America has had to compensate for lack of a cheap labor force by implementing technology. It took a while, but regulations now protect the workers (and consumers).

    China, on the other hand, has always had plenty of cheap labor. They have solved problems with brute force instead of applying technology.

    As that culture changes for China, they will make the exact same mistakes the other industrialized countries have made. China's water and air conditions are miserable ... a condition that is reminiscent of the 1900s in the US.

  16. More like a fog ... on National Science Foundation Awards $20 Million For Cloud Computing Experiments · · Score: 1

    ... or, more accurately, smog.

    The systems the cloud is running on has been compromised and is available to exploits out the wazoo. Let's patch that first.

  17. Google ain't stupid ... on Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    ... they know acting like they are will achieve their objective to stop the nonsense.

    The best way to get regulators off your back is to over comply.

    That way, the regulators take the fall.

  18. It's not the drone ... it's the camera ... on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    Most assuredly, "drone" will have to be defined. Whoever is responsible for doing that better get it right.

    Maybe I can use a kite?

    I think a workable law will have to leave out "drone" and focus (ha!) on the camera part.

  19. Put some AI out front ... on Nuclear Regulator Hacked 3 Times In 3 Years · · Score: 1

    It's much easier to blame the victim than provide a technical solution?

    Anyone heard of, "AI?"

    How hard is it to emulate a user and take the phishing/spear phishing bait to conclusion inside a sandbox; make a call to the, "Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin," routine when the predicted results are deemed harmful?

    I have to think of everything.

  20. Re: Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Certain industries have expectations of what's normal. For law firms, it's Windows and MS Office.

    Getting people to accept a Mac environment is tough enough. Some workers pass on the job because they know the NEXT job will be looking for Windows and MS Office.

    That's the workers. After you walk off the job, that firm has to find a rare specimen who will be able to administer your fringeness. I took over a Mac shop once and converted it to what the workforce, and admins expect when we went to hire people.

    You didn't do anyone any favors except yourself (if you actually did any of that stuff).

  21. Re:Very subjective on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 1

    You'd think so, but ...

    A pizza place here had a small kitchen fire and, more than the, "Oh No! I hope everyone is OK," comments were the, "The place stinks, I hope it never re-opens," flavor of crap.

    You have to use your Facebook account to post there, and I went to some of the pages and most were PUBLIC.

    OK. So, you work at Bob's roofing, married to Sarah, two kids and I see the school they go to and guess what?

    You are friends with your boss AND the owner of the pizza joint and both of those guys list each other as friends.

    Yikes.

  22. "There are two possible explanations for this ..." on New Cridex Malware Copies Tactics From GameOver Zeus · · Score: 2

    ... plus a third, in that no lessons were learned from those two.

  23. Ummm ... Excuse me? on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Tell me again how I sign up for Facebook?

  24. Re:TOR on Knocking Down the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    TOR is compromised. I wouldn't ride that trail with YOUR horse.

  25. Re:From Limewire to ... on Knocking Down the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    Limewire's legal and economic woes were a .01% concern to IT peeps.

    It was a "virus by permission."

    We who had to deal with its existence pulled a lot of computers out of the ditches and blocked it (and all P-2-P) at the firewalls.

    When I saw the word "trust," in TFA, I just about peed down both legs.