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  1. They've never been interested in the what's on the phone because they know nothing is there. Many of the people involved in the investigation have admitted as such. This case was entirely about precedent and remains so. If the FBI can cement a court victory in this case requiring a private company to build something for the FBI then the FBI can request that of any company or person under threat of imprisonment for contempt of court (you can't appeal contempt of court). A win would grant them basically a gold plated weapon to request anything they want in a criminal case. They could compel any company to develop devices or software to let them do things they couldn't normally do.

    And this is a perfect test case for the FBI, they've got a known terrorist here, a phone he didn't own and a bunch of dead civilians. They likely couldn't find a more sympathetic case and they know it, that's why they are using it to try to get the golden bullet. The FBI win's and anyone could be pressed into service of the FBI developing things for their use in investigations of any kind.

  2. Yes, what we need is more Stasi, there is just not enough Stasi in the world.

  3. You don't because you can't. Public key Encryption requires the exchange of encryption keys, the only other kind of crypto is the kind that requires that a secure encryption key be swapped. Neither method is conducive to blindly sending email to a random person.

    To do what you want you need a closed system with strict exchange profiles, a large keyring that's replicated to every device and you absolutely can't let any Jack and Jill run servers. It needs to be highly centralized to work. In every regard this is not how email works. For what you want to happen you need something other than email. Trying to shoehorn email into this role is stupid.

  4. Re:More Wayland & Vulkan: GOOD on NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    In 99% of cases X is using a remote framebuffer scheme as well, it just does so in a way that most people don't know it's happening.

  5. Re:Just in time for Ubuntu? on NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mir is a joke NIH solution to a problem that's already solved with Wayland. And just like all their other NIH solutions to problems they will abandon in a year when it's clear how much it's going to cost them to support it. It's the same story at Canonical over and over again.

  6. Re:well, Kim Dumb-Ass on N. Korea Launches Ballistic Missile · · Score: 1

    NK claimed to have nukes small enough to fit on a missile. That is not mini-me nukes, that's volkswagon bug sized nukes. A modern nuclear weapon is pretty good sized, even though they are relatively compact they are not light weight.

  7. Re:Oops... on N. Korea Launches Ballistic Missile · · Score: 1

    BMD is a very fucking hard problem. You've got objects that are moving at hypersonic speeds, if you don't catch them during the initial boost. It's like trying to shoot a .50 bullet out of air with a .22. And the best thing about it is even if you can solve it the other side can simply shoot more "bullets" then you have guns to shoot them down.

    This is also the reason I think trying to use hyper-sonic missiles against moving targets (such as ships) is such a joke. The missile is moving so fast it can't really steer, it's going to stay on the trajectory it was fired with and absolutely forget trying to avoid incoming objects as you couldn't steer fast enough to avoid anything.

    But I'll tell you one thing BMD is good for, that is throwing billions of dollars of tax payer money to defense contractors. That's the slush fund to end all slush funds because there is no way in hell the military would ever admit it doesn't work.

  8. Re:American people should have a voice on Obama Nominates Merrick Garland For Supreme Court (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are right, the founders didn't require Congress to act. They didn't think they needed to for rather obvious reasons. There is also no constitutional obligation that the President defend the country or that congress people actually go to Washington or any other myriad things because they didn't think they needed to spell out explicitly that when someone was elected to congress or any other elected position that they were supposed to follow through on that job.

    You might as well argue that because there is no obligation for the President to actually defend the US that it would be OK for him to let China invade and forbid the military to take action. Because quite frankly it's just as stupid. If the founders had wrote the Constitution to spell out every damn thing elected officials "were obligated" to do it would be a 500 page novel. Your argument is a straw man.

  9. Interested in Nvidia's version of Linux on Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Would I be interested in nvidia's version of Linux?

    No.

  10. Ah I see your mistake. You clicked later rather than the close X on the window. You did have the choice to decline, by closing the window but 99.9999% of users won't realize that and will click the later button which is passive acceptance of the upgrade. Once you click later you've given permission to install and it will install at it's first opportunity, later just like you told it.

  11. Re:Persuasion is outside of their role on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 2

    You are apparently unaware of how the FBI was founded and who ran it for his entire lifetime and why that happened. The ghost that roams the halls of the FBI is Hoover and the organization still suffers from the overreach and law breaking that marked not only his creation of the FBI but his running of the organization and picking of all the agents that still run the department. The ghost of Hoover and the abuses he perpetrated will haunt the halls of Quantico until the FBI is disbanded. Even today the FBI operates as it's own branch of government, a branch that should not exist.

    The FBI should have been broken up after Hoover died. The crime labs and research departments turned over to other agencies or spun out into their own departments and the law enforcement duties should have been abolished and the responsibilities turned over to the marshals service.

  12. Re:What is that in REAL wattage? on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you live in Washington or Oregon where your power rates are 5.35 cents a kwh and you think your ridiculously subsidized power rates are comparable to the rest of the country? Because let me tell ya, a 10kwh system isn't going to save $1,500 bucks where I live! Hell I pay $300 a month for nearly 6 months during the summer and I have a power rate that tiers to three separate prices depending on use.

  13. Re:What is it per person? on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No it isn't, it still isn't even 1% of our total power. All the easy, low hanging fruit is being done, at some point it will run into issues of scale, cost, and system stability.

    Solar in 2015 was 0.95% of total US generation in 2015 (it exceeded 1% in the 1st quarter of 2016) of the 11% that is renewable, wind was at 4.1%. In the first quarter of 2016 Wind accounted for 30% of all new generation, Solar accounted for another 30% (it's total percentage of generation has been doubling every year since 2012). Installed per watt costs currently are at $3 a watt for commercial installation and falling at about 20% a year. With the government tax credits which are no different than the same credits given to coal and significantly smaller than the credits given to nuclear the most recently completed solar plants were generating electricity at an amortized rate of 5 cents per kwh on 20 year purchase agreements. At current growth rates Solar is projected to be 5% of the power grid by 2020 and nearly 15% by 2030. Provided costs keep falling at the rate they are currently those are low estimates as the estimates assume constant pricing relative to inflation. These are all current numbers as of 2015.

    Wind, on the other hand, is "for real" and a decent chunk of power, but it still is under 5% and while we might get it to 10%, I have a hard time seeing it much higher than that, due to the need for system stability and 24/7 power.

    Both are real, and your assumption about stability is straight out wrong. Solar comprises 30% of the power grid in Hawaii right now. They've limited to 30% while they test some stuff but last I saw HECO believes they can push total solar to 50% with only minor grid improvements but would need some significant grid upgrades to handle more (due to the separate power grids on each Island). Storage is a reality as this point, California is in the process of installing nearly 100MW of storage. But the solution is easy regardless, you simply drop power rates to zero when there is excess generation. There are significant portions of Texas where power after 9pm is free due to the excess wind production. With periods of free power there will be lots of companies that spring up and use that power to generate hydrogen that they reconvert to power with a fuel cell to fill in the lows. BTW recent German studies have shown that a mix of wind and solar can reach 80% of grid baseload generation with only a little bit of overbuilding and mandated storage.

    I have more idea of it than you think I do. And it has nothing to do with defense, those are two different things. And should solar take off "for real", then those amounts would add a few zeros and become a big issue. But without those tax dollars, solar makes no sense.

    Your idea of what the costs of solar are and the grids ability to handle it are so out of date they don't even come close to reality. The numbers and assumptions you've put forward are at best 5 years old, hell your assumption about maximum solar percentage is more than 10 years old and already been proven wrong. Solar makes perfect sense, the accelerated depreciate it receives is less than other forms of power and by 2020 it's going to be competitive without that accelerated depreciation. ROI rates are so high most of the companies investing in solar are turning down investment money because they can't possibly spend it. Last round of construction bonding Solar city went after they turned down over $200 million. You would know this if you followed the market as it's been the talk of the market energy discussions for 4 years now.

    I never said $5 billion would buy a nuclear plant, I said it would help pay for it, much like they are helping pay for solar. Give Nuclear a 30% government tax credit and see them become interesting again.

    The insurance nuclear receives cost free from the government already far exceeds all solar "

  14. Re:What is that in REAL wattage? on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure you did, why don't you put down the actual numbers because every time I've done it the ROI is less than 10 years unsubsidized and 3 years with the subsidy. A 3 year ROI beats nearly every single investment you can make. Also the panels themselves are warrantied for 25 years. You have a guaranteed 25 years of power, how long they last after that is an unknown, but the panels Carter put on the White house were still generating power when GW Bush took them off. In fact the vast majority of the panels installed in the 70's are still generating power.

  15. Re:What is it per person? on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    While that is true, it is worth noting that the spending on defense is in fact the primary purpose of our federal government, it is right in the Constitution.

    Defense of the country yes. Defense and security of oil travel around the world, not so much. Better than 1/4 of defense spending goes to securing the movement of oil around the world.

    Spending on solar panels is not. It also isn't a few tens of millions a year, it is closer to a few tens of BILLIONS a year.

    Not even close. There is almost no direct subsidy, all the subsidies are tax credits that defer otherwise payable taxes. These tax credits are about 1/10th the credits allocated to oil alone and 1/10th that given to coal.

    The REAL point is that if solar ever takes off for real, it'll have to do so on its own.

    It has taken off "for real" and the tax credits fade each year starting in 2018 and will be gone by 2022. Costs have fallen so significantly that if trends are retained solar will be cheaper than coal without subsidy on the solar and with coals subsidies remaining. Wind is already cheaper.

    The current government support for solar could never last if it started to get deployed in a serious way, because then it would start to cost what the defense budget costs.

    You have no concept of the scale of the credits, they are insignificant in the comparison to the defense budget, not even 1% of the budget.

    The next question is: "Is this the best way to replace coal, oil, and natural gas power?" I would submit that we could outright give away a free nuclear power planet each year for the cost of all this solar, and in reality, if we simply provided $5 billion towards the cost of each plant, we might get 3 a year built.

    Your pricing on nuclear is also WAY off. The plant nearest to completion in the most recent building cycle has cost $9 Billion and isn't finished yet. The only way nuclear can be built is if the government forces the local rate payers to pay for it. And that's a subsidy any way you look at it.

  16. Re:Morons Just Don't Understand on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    ~25% of this country is not "old white people and white supremacists".

    Actually it is, haven't read up on your demographic data have you? Besides he's not got 25% of the vote. He's got about 40-50% of the registered republican vote, which is about 30% of the electorate. In other words he has at best about 15% of the electorate. He gets the nomination and there is NO guarantee that all those people voting for Cruz will even bother voting. Think he can with the general election with 15% of the vote? Blind supporters like you fail to realize the independents are near 50% of the electorate alone and democratic numbers are growing with every election just like they have for the last 12 years.

    These statements stand in stark contradiction.

    No they don't. He's not a centrist candidate unless he stands up and proclaims everything he said before hand is garbage. That's a political death sentence. All the crap he said as part of the primary is going be used against him later and he can't walk any of it back without being a flip-flopper and that's a death sentence in the general election. Besides he flip flops and the conservative voters stay home, that's all the fucking people voting for Cruz, 30-40% of the republican party.

  17. Re:Words mean more than actions to Anonymous... on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Say what you will but Obama put in place some strict restrictions on strikes and he took the fight to the leadership, not the foot soldiers. His campaign effectively neutered Al Queda because the leadership had to stay in such strict hiding. Most of the Bush strikes targeted low/mid ranking fighters often in their homes with kids and relatives present.

    Under Bush one of the first drone strikes targeted a man for being tall. Seriously, they shot a hellfire at a guy for being tall. They also routinely hit houses full of women and kids to get one guy. Under Obama the rules of engagement changed dramatically, the rules now require that there be no known civilian casualties. Most of the time now they watch people for days and wait for them to get isolated in a car with other fighters on some lonely highway before they hit them. The number of civilians killed in strikes has dramatically decreased. The Islamist routinely kill far more Muslims than the US now. In fact this was one of Bin Ladin's greatest fears and why he tried to stop Al Qaeda in Iraq was because they were routinely killing hundreds of Muslims including lots of women and children while the US was occasionally killing 4 or 5 fighters and no women and kids. ISIS has done more damage to the Jihadies sympathies with Muslims than the US could ever undue.Obama deserves credit for halting the indiscriminate killings with bombs and missiles and focusing his fight on the leadership. Something that Clinton had focused on and Bush had thrown to the wayside.

  18. Re:Free speech...publicizing contacts on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I dislike protest zones, I think they are illegal, but using a hecklers Veto is about as anti speech as you can get. You have a right to protest, but trying to stop someone else from speaking is a hecklers Veto and it's wrong and it should be illegal.

  19. Re:Morons Just Don't Understand on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's working because he's tapped into two demographics Angry at Obama. Old white people who watch Fox News and think Obama is the second coming of Satan, and white supremacists. He's been endorsed by nearly every white supremacist political party. His rallies are FULL of white supremacist supporters. People yelling the N word and other racial slanders.

    They like him because when an Asian American born and raised in the US with no accent asks him a question his first response is either "are you American" or "your English is very good". Or his proclamations against Mexican "rapists" or Muslims, these are all hate group staples and could be taken right of the KKK newsletter. He treats all people of color or of different races as non American and that's a direct appeal to White nationalism and white supremacists. This basis though probably derives from his silver spoon private school upbringing. I could bet money there wasn't a single non white person in his prep school.

    Yea there are some normal people in there, mostly older people like the guy that sucker punched that black guy. Mid 60's to 80's hates almost everything is a demographic he is strong in. He gets the nomination and he's going to get absolutely stomped in the general election. What's funny is he's about as RINO as they come, he's always advocated NE liberal policies. He's flipped position on so many issues for this campaign it's hard to believe people are falling for all his BS. But he's manipulating all that Faux news propaganda to his advantage and bringing home to roost all the stuff the Republican party has cultivated during the Obama years. It's going to absolutely explode on the party with Trump and the party will likely fragment afterwards.

  20. Most of the people crossing the Mexican Border aren't Mexican, they are from central America. Most of the Mexicans immigrated 20 years ago and are already citizens, either that or being repeatedly deported for drug crimes. The vast majority of current immigrants are fleeing drug gang crime in central America. They aren't coming because they want to, they are coming because they don't' have a choice.

  21. Seriously? Trump is the one that would start WWIII over some slight he perceived, just look at his rallies for god's sake. He's a hot head and would follow right in Bush's footsteps of using the military to exact personal revenge.

  22. Retroactive classification of material doesn't make the prior non classified handling of it illegal. It's called ex post facto, you can't be charged for a crime when something wasn't a crime when you did it.

  23. So to clarify you are calling Colin Powell corrupt as shit and saying he lies through his teeth?

    I'd ask the same thing about Condeleeza but I actually believe that about her, after all she was in the NSA. There is nothing Clinton has done that everyone else that had that job didn't do. You might think she's slimy and such but that's because she's a politician. Personally I think Trump is about a million times worse, there is no slimier person in the world than property developers, they are about 10 times worse than used car salesmen and Trump is a property developer. Flesh eating bacteria might be slimier than property developers but it could be a tossup.

    Frankly if you wanna dislike the Clinton's there is far more to dislike that anything that she did as Secretary of State. People dragging up this stupid email thing up are doing so for political reasons, either that or they've been brainwashed by the propaganda campaign being executed by the super PAC's. Clinton did nothing wrong as SoS. You want to hate her, hate her for the legitimate shit, such as what she did to retaliate against people and pay back friends. Stop bringing up the stupid email or lets go back and go after all the Bush people that did the same thing.

  24. Re:I hope they consulted a lawyer first. on Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry · · Score: 1

    At least in the US such criminal conduct would automatically exclude you from any work with the law enforcement agencies. Your previous criminal conduct would be an issue in every trial of every investigation you'd worked on. I dare say your very involvement with law enforcement with computer crime convictions would jeopardize any case you touched. Now the spy agencies might be interested but there is no way the law enforcement groups would touch you with a 10 foot pole. And even the spy agencies probably won't be interested if you've got a felony conviction as that would basically bar you from getting security clearance.

    Your only real chance with a computer crime criminal conviction is in the private sector doing white hat hacking. That's where your skills have real monetary value and a criminal conviction though damaging isn't nearly as severe. But even then you will need to be famous to pull a job because the company will have to audit every single thing you do.

  25. Re:Silly Americans. on Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day · · Score: 1

    March 14, 3pm and 9 minutes. 3/14 Hour 15, 9 Minutes.