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  1. Damn you, Snowden!!! on Researchers Design Bot To Conduct National Security Clearance Interviews · · Score: 1

    See what you've done? No more contractor vetting. All those jobs ...

  2. Welcome to Hack-A-Job ... on Researchers Design Bot To Conduct National Security Clearance Interviews · · Score: 1

    ... I could be pre-approved for head of the NSA.

  3. Parallel argument ... on Privacy Lawsuit Against Google Rests On Battery Drain Claims · · Score: 1

    Defendants are griping about the battery in hopes of addressing privacy issues.

    Google will focus on the battery. Google has lots of opportunities to improve battery life ranging from educating the customer on how to do that for themselves, to providing a beefier battery that offsets the increase abuse by ad data.

    Or, Google may offer one free app (with attendant tattle tale stream) as compensation.

    In any case, Google will focus on the battery and will avoid proprietary business practices as irrelevant.

  4. I was British once ... on UK Users Overwhelmingly Spurn Broadband Filters · · Score: 0

    ... before my ancestors decided to revolt, but I think there could be some wiggle room for litigation here. (Appreciate that I don't know British law, so I'm applying some American stuff here).

    It's sorta like the signs in the parking lot. "Surveillance Cameras In Use," and then a lawyer files a request for footage in a case, and danged if the cameras don't work.

    In the matter we have here, what if a kid navigates to a porn site and momma finds out?

    Will the ISP be held accountable?

  5. Re: Privacy while crossing the boarder? on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 1

    You've as much as admitted you don't know. I do. Do your homework. I am not your home-schooler.

  6. Re: Privacy while crossing the boarder? on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 1

    " ... you moron."

    By way of example.

  7. Warnings are discoverable ... on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... in litigation.

    In court, a person could not use the, "Gee ... I didn't know," defense.

  8. Re:Privacy while crossing the boarder? on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 1

    As you mature in your effort to become a credible member of the debate team, you will learn the maxim, "Attack the post and not the poster."

    I wish you godspeed in that regard.

  9. Re:No Decent Solution on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 1

    Let's do a thought experiment, OK?

    Let's look at the criteria that qualifies a person for welfare.

    Are you imagining the list with me?

    Further, let's imagine an individual who has met that criteria and is on welfare.

    Continuing, let's mentally disqualify that person for some reason or other.

    So now, the individual is in worse shape than before.

    They were on welfare because they qualified, right?

    Don't they qualify MORE now?

    The only sensible reason to deny welfare or to reduce benefits is if the individual no longer meets some or all the criteria for being on welfare.

  10. Re: Privacy while crossing the boarder? on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 1

    This one, in my post:

    "At least for the first crossing."

  11. Re:Privacy while crossing the boarder? on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 1

    Did you know that undocumented people who come to America are not "illegals?"

    At least for the first crossing.

    A clue is to look at the punishment: A free ride back to point of origin.

    A person who crosses the border again AFTER deportation is:

    1.) Doing so illegally
    2.) Documented (else how do we know?)

  12. Re:No Decent Solution on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 2

    Precisely.

    Apparently, some people prefer not to think things through.

    If we kicked people off of welfare, they would have fewer resources than they have now.

    Those people would then qualify for ... wait for it ... welfare.

  13. I was a kid once ... on New Toyota Helps You Yell At the Kids · · Score: 1

    ... before I was let go.

    Amplified parenting is trumped by ear buds.

  14. Re:How narrow is the search? on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 1

    Good point, because this is a slippery slope.

    The scary thought is that the government could get a warrant to confiscate ALL of a suspect's stuff on the grounds that evidence may exist in the defendant's truck, house, place of business, in the form of data that exists anywhere ...

    To me, the government is saying, "We don't have enough on this guy, so give us everything he's got and maybe we can make a case."

    And maybe not.

    You are correct that it's a fishing expedition.

  15. Stop Snowden first ... on Snowden Seeks To Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies · · Score: 1

    Hell, he walked in and got the stash and fled the country. Manning had already done a similar heist before this.

    So, we've got minions with access to sensitive data and can't stop them. The government needs to audit itself ... again.

    It does no good to wrap this stuff up in a cloaking device if space cadets can glomp and run.

  16. Make it embedded XP ... on Critroni Crypto Ransomware Seen Using Tor for Command and Control · · Score: 1

    There's a registry hack that I've applied to Windows XP and I'm getting security updates ...

  17. War of words ... on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 0

    Meanwhile, those with an IQ higher than asphalt fault no one yet because it's just too early.

  18. Don't operate any heavy machinery ... on Drone Search and Rescue Operation Wins Fight Against FAA · · Score: 1

    Especially a Xerox 7775 copier, printer, fax, email and scan-to-network multifunction.

  19. It's science, for god's sake ... on White House Approves Sonic Cannons For Atlantic Energy Exploration · · Score: 1

    WHY don't they know the impact?

    When I was in this man's Navy (US) out on the Big Pond, we used practice depth charges all the time, and that was way back when Moby Dick was a minnow.

    We killed 30,000 shrimp one time and, I'm sorry ... they deserved it for doing performance art where their echo pattern looked like a submarine. They weren't "a" submarine, but they were submarine.

    Anyway, if we can construct punny remarks that amuse the author, I'm certain we could test this idea with small underwater sonic booms and do a surface body count charted against Db to see if we can eliminate, " [Scientists] ...aren't sure how the cannons will affect fish and other sea creatures or how any physiological effects on them may impact the fishing industries of the U.S."

  20. Nah ... It's Programming ... on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 2

    ... and that's it.

    If you're programming litigation, you'll have to pick up some legal knowledge. If it's banking, then finance. If it's science, you'll have to be exposed.

    But ... you don't have to be an expert at anything but programming. The experts do all that stuff. They can spec, but they can't code.

  21. Good news for ... on MIT May Have Just Solved All Your Data Center Network Lag Issues · · Score: 1

    ... my Candy Crush Saga.

  22. Re:Too long on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 1

    Kinda like Tobias' Managing Your Money.

  23. Don't ask; I'm not telling ... on Microsoft CEO To Slash 18,000 Jobs, 12,500 From Nokia To Go · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, my company escorted me out the gate because I was a network jockey and they didn't want me to sabotage the system.

    Two days later they're calling me with, "How do we ...," and "What's the passwords for ...," and "Where are the ..."

    I offered to respond by email:

    "The Firm has made the decision to "right-size" its IT department to better align with strategies going forward. In support of that decision, I know the Firm has retained the very best-of-breed systems analysts and I think we should rely on those superior personnel to figure out what knowledge I departed with. I know you will agree that Firm policy prohibits sensitive communication with non-employees and it is with a spirit of cooperation that I decline to ever speak to any of you ever again."

  24. Re:They should block these 11 IP addresses on Committee Formed To Scrutinize Australia's Web Censorship Law · · Score: 1

    And an example would be ...

  25. Re:It's about time ... on Two Big Dark Matter Experiments Gain US Support · · Score: 1

    While your statements are correct, for fair comparison I think we should grant growth predictions to SSC that happened at LHC.