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  1. If you point the camera on a politician.. on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you point the camera on a politician you won't have to wait a month to watch a crime to happen.

  2. Would they ban a game based on Gov surveillance? on Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women · · Score: 1

    I bet if they came out with a game where you are an NSA agent snooping on other players to make them do things would be banned, too.

  3. Re:About time on Windows 10 To Feature Native Support For MKV and FLAC · · Score: 0

    I'm more worried about MS EEE'ing FLAC/MKV.

  4. Re:Won't existing CAs complain? on Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web · · Score: 1

    Yes they will. Just like cable companies, they will get the best laws that money can buy.

    I predict in 10 years: money is privacy
    No money == no Certs == No privacy

    After all, money is speech (Thanks, you corrupt USSC!)
    No money == STFU

  5. Replace Cisco, and Akamai and then maybe.. on Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Replace Cisco, and Akamai and then maybe I'll be convinced it's better than the current situation. But it's still oxymoronic service: A central authority that *REQUIRES* trust for people who don't trust anybody.

    And what do you do for countries with draconian Cert laws like England? (They want a copy of your root cert)

    The resulting entity would have to be incorporated in Iceland or something. FAR away from 5-eye's dragnets.

  6. It's called "Country Pricing" on Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA · · Score: 1

    In Australia, however, "Country Pricing" has gone "full retard"
    https://www.google.com/search?...

  7. Re:I thought rare earths were not that rare on Interviews: Ask CMI Director Alex King About Rare Earth Mineral Supplies · · Score: 1

    LFTR will sit on the shelf in the US.

    That's OK.
    We'll just buy LFTRs from China and India in 10-20 years.

  8. Re:I thought rare earths were not that rare on Interviews: Ask CMI Director Alex King About Rare Earth Mineral Supplies · · Score: 1

    "Newer designs usually avoid the Pa removal[2] and send less salt to reprocessing, which reduces the required size and costs for the chemical separation.It also avoids proliferation concerns due to high purity U-233 that might be available from the decay of the chemical separated Pa."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  9. Re:I thought rare earths were not that rare on Interviews: Ask CMI Director Alex King About Rare Earth Mineral Supplies · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are plenty of Rare Earth mines in the US but they are "Polluted" with Thorium.

    In China, they would process the Rare Earth minerals and stockpile the Thorium on the side until they could find a use for it. In the US, that is illegal.

    Now China is thinking about using the stockpile of Thorium in LFTR reactors. And guess what, LFTR reactors are illegal too because they are considered "Breeder Reactors".

    So why is all this stuff still illegal in the US? The Old-School Nuke industry wants to keep their Dyno-Reactors until they blow up, Literally. It's WAAAY too profitable to be the sole-source for solid reactor fuel.

  10. Imagine the punishment it it killed millions on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine any.

  11. Re:April Fools? on Tetris To Be Made Into a Live Action Film · · Score: 1

    And the parodies of the film will be called ... UPS.

    The scene will involve a UPS driver putting boxes in the truck in a neat manner all to the tune of the Russian classic "The Peddlers" (aka "ÐsоÑобÐÐнÐÐÐ")

  12. Re: Surprising on Canon Printer Hacked To Run Doom Video Game · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it being used to detect if you are scanning currency.

  13. http://batsh.org/

    No this IS.

    "Batsh is a simple programming language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch. It enables you to write your script once runs on all platforms without any additional dependency."

  14. FYI: Video is not viewable in Canada on Death Valley's Sailing Stones Caught In the Act · · Score: 1

    can someone post it someplace else?

  15. Oh look, Protesters.. on DoT Proposes Mandating Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications · · Score: 1

    Oh look, Protesters. Let's brick their car with V2V.

    I'm sorry. I have ZERO confidence that V2V will not have a back door for abuse by authorities, never mind the hacker/crook people.

    It would have to be passive and have an OFF switch.

  16. Re:Just wait until they become hackable on A Better Way To Make Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Limbs · · Score: 1

    It is a legitimate concern not brought up in the most tactful way. Anybody in their 20s should push for this because they will have one in 30 years or so. It might even be a job requirement ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) (yup, it still gets hacked in the series)

    Just look at what they can do with a CAN-bus in cars today:
    https://www.google.ca/search?q...

    Now imagine people instead of car. Yup, that's coming. Nothing's off limits.

    If it's doable, some asshole will go for it.
    Whether it's for kicks or cash.

  17. Just wait until they become hackable on A Better Way To Make Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Limbs · · Score: 1

    Imagine:
    your limb(s) hitting you.
    your hand(s) crushing everything.
    Your brain getting zapped by the interface.

    "good times" are coming.

  18. Re:One word... on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 1

    But it doesn't make bombs easily like the other reactors designs.

    That's why they didn't choose Thorium for fuel.

  19. Re:Not about leverage or influence on Snowden Granted 3 More Years of Russian Residency · · Score: 1

    For years the US portrayed Russia/USSR as an evil empire.
    Russia would respond with "but the US is no better".

    Snowden is the poster child proving Russia right all along.
    Where ever he goes, Snowden will always do that.

  20. Looks like WALL-E was a prediction on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 1

    We'll need to break through the space junk to get to the moon or Mars:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. Re:Wrong decision on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the ruling also make cable boxes illegal, too?

    The cable network is a public network in the sense that hundreds or thousands of people are on that network.

  22. $324.5 million / 64000 workers = $507.03

    These tech workers are getting fuck either way.

  23. Re: See... on Security Researchers Threatened With US Cybercrime Laws · · Score: 1

    And we have a proper analogy.

    Somebody give this guy some points.

  24. Re:OpenSSL and what else. Umm...LibreSSL on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 3

    FYI: LibreSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that started over a month ago.
    http://www.libressl.org/ [libressl.org]

  25. Re:Real Reasons Thorium is Being Held Up on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    RE: 2) The salt 'plug' that is often cited as a major safety asset for the LFTR has some major engineering obstacles that have been be able to be addressed yet

    Can you list a few of these "some major engineering obstacles" ?
    The only salt plug I've read about are "Freeze plugs" that melt upon "a bad thing" happening.