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  1. Re:FTC is dissembling on FTC Warns Android App Developers About Use of Audio-Tracking Code · · Score: 1

    Yep. The basis of most settlements with the FTC. Consumer, by the way, includes employees.

  2. block all things mcafee - I like it!

  3. McAfee really? on McAfee Uses Web Beacons That Can Be Used To Track Users, Serve Advertising · · Score: 1

    Who uses that crap?

  4. Re:why? on US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    tv or radio signals work as well, anything reflected.

  5. why? on US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    why would you announce such a thing?

  6. "like, like" on Facebook's 'Closed Silos' Pose Challenges To Open Web · · Score: 1

    anyone who thinks facebook is the internet is ... well you know what I'm saying..."...you got a like..."

  7. ALL the awards are paid for, how do you think ICSA Labs survives?

  8. Baa Baa as in the sound sheep (since I don't know what sound lemmings make).

  9. HD's business suffered not one iota...

  10. they also announced that your furnace filter will now cost $.03 more to pay for it. so it goes.

  11. that part of the FBI that does regular crime, which this is vice that part of the FBI that does cyber...

  12. how long are records... on This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    the earth is what, 5 billion years old, we've been keeping records since ~1800s. Doh.

  13. not that I'm in favor of government intervention, but those were all implementation errors. anything designed and built by humans has them.

  14. id10t on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    as in what an idiot. only a reporter would suggest we dumb down education. if they are bound for trades or humanities then they shouldn't take math beyond the algebra that is required. in any case one cannot understand statistics without understanding algebra. it's supposed to be hard. solving problems is hard. welcome to life.

  15. what idiot would put their kid's info here?

  16. Who knew? on Microsoft To Release Educational Version of Minecraft (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    There's an educational version of a game? Wow!

  17. Re:Still Struggling To Understand on Cyberespionage Group Adds Disk Wiper and SSH Backdoor To Its Arsenal (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    cost. it's cheaper to manage multiple sites over the Internet than to send a tech each time. Utility Commissions don't or won't authorize the additional cost.

  18. Re:Let's not on Cisco Systems Will Be Auditing Their Code For Backdoors (cisco.com) · · Score: 0

    and that's one of the problems today

  19. Re:Webmail != replacement on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    you must be doing something wrong, GPG is very easy to use on gmail or any webmail client.

  20. Re:gmail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    okay, you can go back to sleep now

  21. Re:gmail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    okay, if you say so

  22. Re:gmail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    you must be doing something wrong. GPG is very easy.

  23. Re:You're not really explaining why you use T-Bird on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    each semester I ask my students to use my public key to send me an encrypted email, and to send me their public key so I can respond. the diversity always surprises me and someone always finds a new way and anew combination of email and encryption. short version - there is no such thing as one way.

  24. Re:gmail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 2

    as if there's something wrong with that

  25. Re:gmail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    since you forward what gmail won't import