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  1. Re:also on First Phase of TrueCrypt Audit Turns Up No Backdoors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh hell, they'll just sneak into your home in the middle of the night and plant a hardware bug or key logger into your computer.

    One of their favorite tactics used by law enforcement is to install cameras in your residence facing where you normally use your computer. They got a child pornographer like this, his use of true crypt didn't help because they had video of him entering the password and simply entered the password once they seized the computer.

    True Crypt cannot reasonably protect you from law enforcement nor state sponsored spying like the NSA. It might protect you from some non-tech police agency in some shit hole country being able to access it but then they just use the standard non-tech password extraction method.

    Obligatory XKCD. http://xkcd.com/538/

  2. Re:You can get autism from measles. on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    I've wondered that as well. Though I'd certainly rather have autism than the murder and violence they've tied to environmental lead. The steep drop in violence since the 70's isn't a coincidence.

  3. Re:Stop calling it 'blood moon'! on The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight · · Score: 1

    Blood moon, red moon, and dozens of various synonyms and such exist in almost every culture on earth since recorded history and likely long before. Like most rare celestial events it was a sign of great events about to happen (what the event was varied per culture).

  4. Re:You can get autism from measles. on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 2

    the symptoms can be indistinguishable from "true" autism (which is mostly genetic).

    Please don't spread misinformation. The cause of, or relationship of Autism spectrum disorder to genetics is unknown at this time. The real research on the cause of Autism which started several years ago is just starting to come in. We won't know even speculatively what the relationship of autism with anything is until some point in the future and depending on the complexity of the relationship with genetics it could be far longer.

    The two most recent autism studies which I'm aware of have shown a link between increased autism rates and traffic induced smog which is definitely not genetic. I must caution those of you that like to play jump to conclusions that these are simply preliminary studies and unless confirmed by secondary followup studies should be treated as little more than slightly substantiated rumor at this point.

    Keep in mind these studies take a couple years to setup and acquire funding and typically have 5+ years of data collection/processing. It could be as much as two decades before we know what the cause of Autism is. My personal bet is on a chemical that began being used heavily in industry in the 70/80's.

  5. Re:I believe Kate on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    You don't even need full sentences like your example. Properly recorded you can cut half sentences together and fully change their meaning to something which was never ever read or said in the original script.

    As was already pointed out this is pretty much what happened in Innocence of Muslims. The director shot the film with the script mostly in place as he intended. He then had the actors come back in and say words and partial phrases that without context was meaningless to the actors then dubbed the audio to completely change the main character.

    This could have just as easily happened to Kate where she went in and read several hours of script and then in editing the sentences, their order and possibly even parts of phrases were re-cut into different orders completely changing the meaning. This is very easy to do with modern equipment and with a knowledge of the re-cutting that will take place you can even get the actor's tone, phrasing and structure to match so that's its not apparent that it's been re-cut to the lay listener.

    Or Kate could just be an idiot and didn't pay attention to what she was reading. Only Kate and film crew actually know. If she sues we'll probably get to find out.

  6. Re:Not the first time this has happened on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of those actresses recently won a lawsuit against the director for doing so. These people have a legitimate claim IMO that the deception damages their career and should require remuneration along with bans on distribution of the fraudulently produced picture. I wonder if this same situation doesn't apply to this ridiculous movie.

  7. Re:Futile? on LA Police Officers Suspected of Tampering With Their Monitoring Systems · · Score: 1

    The problem is proving it was the officers and not someone else. Because there is always a reasonable doubt unless you catch them in the act or make the documentation requirements so thorough that you can catch them lying. By making them fill out paperwork at the start and end of every shift they made it easy to catch them doing it so all but one stopped doing it.

  8. Re:They do. on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    And the new carriers being designed with energy weapons in mind have TWO reactors. They have twice the energy capacity of the current carriers.

  9. The simple solution is make them document it on LA Police Officers Suspected of Tampering With Their Monitoring Systems · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is possible people are vandalizing the cars (in general and though the public would vandalize ALL the antennas, not just one). The simple solution is make the officers report any damage and fill out paperwork indicating the cause. If they go a day with broken equipment unreported they're suspended without pay for day the first time with a day added per occurrence and fired after 5. If it's a repeated occurrence with an officer they should be monitored in secret by IA to observe if the officer is doing the damage themselves and if they are they should be fired and prosecuted for damaging government property. If the cars are being vandalized by the public they need better antennas that are vandal resistant.

  10. Re:Giga market play on Tesla: A Carmaker Or Grid-Storage Company? · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen isn't even close to petroleum's last gasp. 99% of that hydrogen is going to be made by reforming natural gas and other fossil fuel feed stocks.

    Why do you think the Bush admin pushed hydrogen so hard?

  11. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Because the market operates on lots. A Lot is 100 shares. Say you want to buy 28 shares of a stock, you put in your order and it shows up on the trading boards. Joe blow investors wants to sell 8 shares, Jane wants sell 15 and Loki wants sell 10. The market maker (just a broker that trades in the stock), buys all three for sale lots then sells you the 28 shares, he plays a spread on each and takes roughly 3-5% of the transaction buy executing the trades at higher or lower prices to net his spread. The remainder shares he holds until the next transaction.

    If you trade is clean even lots and do so nice even numbers you can probably net a transaction with another investor that eliminates the middle man. If you don't you get fucked by the market maker. Who doesn't trade in even lots? Small investors.

    HFT has eliminated the market maker. The systems are buying and selling across dozens of different exchanges and driving the spread down to fractional percents. 10 year ago if you made a market order for stocks it would execute 3% less than the market was when you put the order in. If you put a limit on it the stock would execute at the price you set but miraculously there would still be 1-3% premium lost. I've had this happen to me a dozen times. It doesn't happen since HFT has taken over the market. Billions of shares are being traded daily now as the HFTs each try to beat each other for that 0.00001% margin between stock exchanges and markets.

  12. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Without HFT we go back to the bad old days of Market makers. It's a world I'd prefer not to see again. This is a fact, HFT is providing the volume and market, without it there isn't the market available in anything but blue chips to drive buy and sell during the day. You might not understand this but if you buy or sell any volume that isn't a whole lot (100 shares) you went through a market maker. HFT has eliminated that, even with small partial lots the HFT moves in and buys and sells on the spread between markets. It's creating markets in almost every stock (even pink sheets) that didn't exist 10 year ago.

    Only idiots who've never traded in their lives and think they are experts on this think HFT is always bad. Those of us that have been investing for long enough know that what existed before HFT was significantly worse.

  13. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    HFT, through the very nature of what it is and that there are dozens of competing HFT firms, has been driving buy/sell spreads down to micro percent spreads. You can execute a market order these days and actually get the price on the ticker. 10 years ago that wasn't the case and that is because of HFT. The firms buy and sell so rapidly that the spread has decreased from the 3-5% normal to fractional percents that often don't even add a penny to the price.

    All the opposition to HFT I see is people who've never traded stocks in their life. How many trades do you make per year?

  14. Re:Alternatives on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    Yea welcome to the club, there are 700K of us.

  15. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    And then we go back to the grand old days of the market where a broker (called market maker) skims 3-5% off every trade because he's the buyer and seller of last resort.

    Personally I'll take the HFT.

  16. Re:Alternatives on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Considering Dyn bought several promised "free for life" DNS services then promptly killed them you need to realize they'll probably do it again. They've apparently decided the best business model is buy out their free competitors and put them out business.

  17. Re:maybe the internet should be put in space on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    At $2Billion or so per launch for the satellite and the launch it gets real expensive real quick. And if you put them in geostationary orbit you can count on ping times counted in the seconds. We're not going to be getting reliable internet from satellites any time soon.

  18. Re:Shorewall on Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? · · Score: 1

    With our without poop throwing?

  19. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 2

    Revenge porn is 99% of the time pictures taken by a significant other during a relationship and then spread after the breakup or taken by the victim themselves and distributed to the significant other for their (ahem) personal use.

    Voyeurism and hidden camera shots are illegal in almost every jurisdiction, in fact one of the few that wasn't just changed their law after a guy was acquitted. You are building a straw man talking about these already illegal actions. Much like all the other strawmen in this thread such as child porn and bestiality.

    The fact is if the victim took the pictures themselves (or participated in taking them) they own the copyright and can DMCA the pictures and if they are not removed they can sue the pants off the website. If the victim's significant other took the images then they are frankly SOL and should be. They still have the right to sue the website for commercial use of their image and they can still go after the ex-significant other for the action. What they are proposing is using the power of the state and force of the truncheon to enforce what is a civil complaint brought on by their own actions.

    The very idea that you could sue Google for someone linking to some website distributing images for which they have the legal right from the copyright holder is absurd on the face. Putting loopholes like this into the first amendment is going to lead to more loopholes like anti-bullying and hate speech exceptions and pretty soon you won't have free speech anymore. These revenge porn sites can already be prosecuted (in most cases) for blatant fraud and blackmail. In fact many of them already are.

    The simple answer here is that if you don't want naked pictures of you on the internet don't take naked pictures.

  20. Did that include Voyagers command software? on NASA To Catalog and Release Source Code For Over 1,000 Projects · · Score: 1

    Did that include Voyagers command software?

    After all, VGER's command and communication software could be essential.

  21. Re:I think this is bullshit on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    People comparing this to McCarthy show more lack of understanding about the issue than the fools that are raking Eich over the coals.

    McCarthy was government and he was using the direct threat of government power for oppression. There is no comparison here. Your free speech rights don't extend to me having to be tolerant of them, they prevent the use of government force, not social retribution. If you equate the two you are no different than the jackasses that want to put a hate speech exception into the 1st. It's lunacy of the highest order.

  22. Re:Wise criminals stay in the shadows... on Social Media Becomes the New Front In Mexico's Drug War · · Score: 1

    They won't be the next Rockefeller, Kennedy or Bush. The multinationals will run them out of business overnight. As soon as pot is legal Philip Morris is going to start selling machine rolled joints in handy cellophane wrapped packs and cartons just like they do cigarettes and in the process nearly every boutique pot grower/seller will be out business overnight. The cartels don't have the expertise, nor will they wind their organizations down quickly enough that the existing profits won't be eaten alive.

    Unlike alcohol prohibition I fully expect governments to keep going after their assets long after prohibition ends. In the end there will be a small trust fund, for future generations that will likely be mostly wiped out in one or two generations of their families. That is if interfamily war doesn't destroy the whole thing. These cartel families are nothing like the mob.

  23. Re:Wise criminals stay in the shadows... on Social Media Becomes the New Front In Mexico's Drug War · · Score: 1

    The templars make more money selling Iron Ore to China than they do moving drugs. Problem is the drug side of the operation is what keeps things going, most cartel members use drugs heavily so it's questionable whether they would be able to control their muscle without the drug trade because that muscle is essential to running the Iron ore portion of the business.

  24. Re:Doesn't matter... on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 2

    I feel bad, I should've sourced where I got the saying from. To quote wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_proof) which more eloquently describes the origin of the saying I used to post in my cubicle which is a quote of Douglas Adams from Mostly Harmless.

    Along those lines, Douglas Adams wrote in Mostly Harmless, "a common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

  25. Re:Doesn't matter... on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 1

    There is a saying I used to hang in my cubicle.

    Never underestimate the ingenuity of complete idiots.