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  1. Re:Days of anti-aircraft missiles numbered on Pentagon Office Planning 'Avatar' Fighters and Fighter-Launched Drone Swarms (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The low-frequency radar is NOT for targeting - it's for the initial warning that someone is there. Then you light up the skies with targeting radar. I made that clear. Also, it's kind of hard to take out 10 different radar sites at one time - word gets out, and they're cheap to build.

  2. Re:my-pntbtr-add(list_eria) on Major Browsers Add Experimental Support For WebAssembly (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I can write java code that will run on *nix and not Windows - doesn't prove that it is os-independent, just that you can get around that feature, so as you said. there you go.

  3. Re:If it must be done Apple morally obliged to do on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Locksmiths should be taught the exact opposite - willful ignorance is not an excuse for aiding the commission of a crime, so saying "I didn't look" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

  4. Re:Snowflakes on Biometric Tech Uses Sound To Distinguish Ear Cavity Shape · · Score: 1
    They said they manually then matched the print, which makes it clear that they didn't use the technique to originally determine the match - in other words, points of match weren't used in the manual verification. The final match was between the suspect's actual fingerprint when they were 17 and the actual print of the plastic bag - not an AFIS "points of identification". Otherwise they would have said that the other investigators also found x number of points of identification, when they did not.

    "The affidavit further alleges that the fingerprint identification was verified by an FBI fingerprint supervisor, and a retired FBI fingerprint examiner with 30 years of experience on contract with the lab’s Latent Fingerprint Section" - they compared the whole print. And it's doubtful that they actually did compare the prints - they just rubber-stamped it without even a cursory examination, as the evidence from Spain proves.

  5. Re:No Constitutional Issue -- It's employer's phon on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the FBI has permission. What they can't do is force a third party to do something for them. They can ask, but that's about it. And since this is an order to perform something, as opposed to not doing something, the penalty for contempt is civil. Destroy the key and have everyone pull the mafia hit in a restaurant stunt - 100 witnesses, and nobody saw anything.

  6. Re:Goverrnment on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    You would have to ensure that there are multiple copies in various (not all) jurisdictions, or it makes it possible for any one entity to hold the source hostage.

    Easier to just move to Ireland and take the tax $$$ with them.

  7. Re:If it must be done Apple morally obliged to do on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    It is everyone's constitutional right to be a conscientious objector. The government can't force you to do that which you object to for reasons of conscience, and must provide alternatives for you to perform any service for them. This is definitely a matter of conscience.

    Since the key is not evidence, just destroy the damn thing. Or send it to Snowden to destroy. Or me. Or anyone else who thinks the government is way in the wrong. There is no obstruction of justice at this point because there is no proof that there is any evidence on the phone. As for disobeying a court order to hand over the key, what's the worst the government can do to someone not under the jurisdiction of a US court?

  8. Re:Oh God, Why Hath Thou Forsaken Us on Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no study that shows that rape is an act of power. To the contrary. Rape is about sex. Ask the rapists. Psychologists have. Lay off the politically correct sjw crap - it's destroying your ability to make rational decisions.

  9. Re:If it must be done Apple morally obliged to do on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1
    The court can order police, not ordinary citizens, to go through other people's crap. To order ordinary people to do so would also violate their right to refuse as a conscientious objector.

    Now, the key is not itself evidence, so worst case scenario, Apple destroys it. End of problem. Then they offer a rebate on the next, unbreakable, iphone.

  10. Re:So, uh, LEAVE on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Don't be stupid. I would never vote republican or democrat. I am fortunate enough to live elsewhere. So, how's the FBI's latest end-run around the constitution, with presidential ascent, and bipartisan support, working out for you?

  11. Re:The Tepublican machine tells us on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The primary results are irrelevant. Clinton's delegate count includes superdelegates, who can drop her like a stone because they can vote any way they want on the first ballot, unlike regular delegates. Trump still may end up running as an independent. Nothing can be counted on. An indictment of Hillary or a brokered republican convention can change everything.

  12. Re:After reading this, i started wondering... on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Learn to read. It's not one in 21 every year, but one in 21 over the course of their lifetime. Oh wait - an anonymous coward - you post AC so nobody can know just how stupid you are. Your opinion is worth nothing, same as your reading skills. So, kindly fuck off . Or if you can't do it kindly, fuck off anyway.

  13. Re:my-pntbtr-add(list_eria) on Major Browsers Add Experimental Support For WebAssembly (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who has to buy a PS4 because the game won't play on a PS2 or PS3 is in the same situation. Big deal. You can't achieve the same performance from one-size-fits-all code, so gaming is going to continue to require code adapted to each platform.

    Most devs are smart enough to understand that one-size-fits-all means going with the lowest common denominator for functionality. And let's ber honest - web platforms are the sh*t. They always have been. They always will be. Just one more layer to be compromised and p0wn you.

  14. Re:Check your FUCKING Privilige! on NASA Begins Planning the First Human Mission To Cislunar Space (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And your OPINIONS are more valid why? Oh, because you said so. Fuck off, asswipe.

  15. Re:Funny thing on RBS Cuts Hundreds of Jobs As FCA Approves 'Robo-Advisers' (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The human advisers have no skin in the game - they make money whether you do or not. At least with a robo-adviser, you'll pay less in fees.

  16. Re:After reading this, i started wondering... on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Black men in the US have a 1-in-21 chance of being murdered over their lifetime. That's a heck of a lot more likely than your lifetime risk of dying from a car accident. So no, not insignificant.

  17. Re:Goverrnment on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    And it's time to end that. The US never will, but ...

  18. Re:DOJ fails to understand global networking... on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe other governments, unlike the US, will do more than pay lip service to privacy rights. The US doesn't even bother to do that any more.

  19. Re:my-pntbtr-add(list_eria) on Major Browsers Add Experimental Support For WebAssembly (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange how that hasn't worked out too well ... and mathematically it's the inferior approach. Not to mention that a single point of failure hoses everything.

  20. Let them delay it - in the final election, this will be a huge point of how "the establishment" looks after its' own, even if it's not true. Politics is perception, not reality.

  21. Re:my-pntbtr-add(list_eria) on Major Browsers Add Experimental Support For WebAssembly (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Java is os-independant, and actually has fewer security flaws than web browsers. Solved problem, but people are too lazy to learn "real programming", even simplified as much as Java is. Web script monkeys are their desire.

  22. Re:my-pntbtr-add(list_eria) on Major Browsers Add Experimental Support For WebAssembly (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    The consumers aren't asking for this. They're quite happy using different environments, even ones that don't share the same software pool. Apple vs Windows is a good example of that. For everything else, there's java.

  23. Re:Check your FUCKING Privilige! on NASA Begins Planning the First Human Mission To Cislunar Space (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    First, the gender binary is a reality for most. Biologically ingrained. Transsexuals, with different brain patterns, etc., show that the binary is most definitely a reality. The only thing socially directed is the expression of that binary. Transsexuals don't as much transition (our brains do not change) as get their body parts in alignment with their brain. Why? Because we can't change the brain - that is our sole tool that we use to evaluate ourselves and everything around us. We don't change how we see ourselves. Just how we interact with the rest of the world.

    Transsexualism is a binary - either you are or you aren't. A drag queen saying they're a transsexual doesn't pass the smell test. A transvestite is someone who gets erotic satisfaction from cross-dressing. It's classified as a paraphilia. Wanting a sex change because the idea is sexually exciting is a bar to surgery, so those who obtain it do so by lying.

    You certainly don't speak for us. Many of us are totally done with the LGB. The fact that you don't see it illustrates your disconnect. So sit on it and rotate.

  24. Re:The Tepublican machine tells us on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    And the current results are meaningless, because they don't include that huge pool of people who actually determine the outcome of elections because they are not committed to one party or the other.

  25. Re:So, uh, LEAVE on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Just goes to show how seriously f*cked up the US is. Your current election race is a symptom, not a cause. Nothing will change unless the system is given a really catastrophic boot in the arse - maybe Trump, as bad as he is, will deliver that much. Clinton sure as hell won't deliver any real change, and the DNC has been doing everything they can to screw over The Bern.