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  1. Sounds like something Hitler would've loved! on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    60 some odd years later, what Hitler wanted comes back to life -- a chance to spy on the people for the sake of "saving Christianity", "saving Germany", "saving Europe", "saving children", and soon, themselves.

    No, thank you. This world doesn't need this kind of technology to help the modern equivalent of the KGB or the Stassi.

  2. Where were they at when.... on Inside ICS-CERT's War Room · · Score: 0

    Where were they at when the biggest virus to hit the internet - Windows 7 - was released? Sitting on their asses watching all the blinkenlights?

  3. Re:Obviously a scam on Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him · · Score: 1

    Its possible that he's working for the US government to get Assange to the US where he (Assange) can be promptly arrested and per^H^H^Hprosecuted for some crime that hasn't been committed.

  4. I'm amazed no one has said it.... on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    I'll drink to that!!!

  5. Re:This... on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 1

    From a different point of view, this could be the "great equalizer". Voted for Prop 8? Pro-gay marriage ads on your plate! Atheist? Jesus ads! Sex predator? "I'm a sex predator" ad 24/7! The possibilities are endless!

  6. But does it run linux? on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can't believe no one has asked this yet.

  7. There's one thing I learned about flying..... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    All takeoffs are optional. All landings are mandatory.

    If I had a choice between taking off into air heavily polluted with ash from a volcano and staying on terra firma, I'm staying on the ground.

    Branson should stop bitching about the flight ban as his barely profitable Virgin Trains stands to make a very nice profit from this mess.

  8. This is disturbing on Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor · · Score: 1

    I find it disturbing that the "aircraft of the future" will be made of a white tube sock. Worse, it'll have holes in the sock for doors and windows.

  9. Re:Perfect tool... to throw investigators off on Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals · · Score: 1

    Unlike now where the "victim" needs to think to remember what the "suspect" looks like, with this, it'll be easier to describe the "suspect" with an "instant" response (photo); just keep spewing crap till the new picture matches the first picture.

  10. Perfect tool... to throw investigators off on Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals · · Score: 1

    This is the perfect tool to throw someone off.

    Commit a crime but "become a victim". Falsely describe who you saw and bam, they're in jail and you are "free".

    "Yes ossifer, the man that robbed that liquor store was a black man, about 6-1/2 feet tall, dingy yellow/blonde short hair, lots of tattoos on his body, earrings. Just looking at him, I think he plays basketball.". A short time later after the call goes out, some cops arrest Dennis Rodman for a crime he didn't commit.

  11. Re:keep it simple on Network Security While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    What you're asking him to do could land him in a South American possibly never to be seen again. If the cops don't haul him away, they'll ask him for a "gift for the family". Either way, doing this isn't a good thing. Ever.

  12. Witopia on Network Security While Traveling? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Witopia is what you need.

    $40/year. Use it!

    You're welcome.

  13. Pigs will like this on Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler · · Score: -1, Troll

    The perfect weapon for the pigs... fucks with the subject, can be easily denied ("bright lights? You taking drugs again?"), and it leaves no trace of "torture" even when used multiple times.

  14. Re:Well that sounds reasonable on Homeland Security Changes Laptop Search Policy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The DHS has always held the belief (with the Supreme Court's backing) that people and their belongings at customs checkpoints at the airport (or at a border crossing) aren't within the country (yet), consequently, the constitution doesn't apply to "inspections" within those checkpoints. That gives the DHS and their goons all the leeway they want in "confiscating" or "inspecting" all the stuff they want for as long as they want.

    Does this press release change anything? Not really. It just lays some groundwork for more "routine" searches. Anything beyond that they have to give some bullshit reason ("national security") to keep it longer.

    What's to stop this bullshit agency from making a mockery of their press releases? I can guarantee you that the goons they have on the "front lines" haven't been told about this "press release".

  15. Ask an old guy on Getting a Classic PC Working After 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    What you need to do is think old.

    There are some 8 bit ISA network cards and 8 bit SCSI cards. Now to find an old SCSI hard drive (really old Macintosh). As for floppy drives, buy a 3.5" floppy (Fry's Electronics), a 5.25" to 3.5" adapter, and drop it in there.

    Look around Goodwill or Salvation Army, they might have some stuff in there. Same with some older churches; they usually have shit sitting in a dark room gathering dust because some grandma willed it to the church.

    As for the operating system, if you have an MSDN subscription, you can download DOS 6.22, or go FreeDOS.

  16. Its dead Jim on Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser · · Score: 5, Funny

    They must've been using IE to run their web server inside of it

  17. Kermit on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    It's old but highly reliable and can be secured.

  18. Who's gonna code it? on India To Put All Citizen Info In a Central Database · · Score: 1

    We know that the project will be given to the lowest bidder, so that takes Indian coders out of the picture. So who's gonna code it? Africans?

  19. Nice! on Watch TV On Your Satnav · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get shitty drivers and give them mobile phones to talk on so they become even shittier drivers. Now get those bastards to watch TV while talking and texting on their mobile phones and we'll have the shittiest drivers on the road. Hopefully, these bastards will kill themselves without killing others, making the road safer for everyone else.

    Oh well, back to reality.

  20. If Americans are unemployable.... on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Americans are unemployable then why are they the ones paying the Indians to do the job? The money is coming from somewhere, and to make others do the work for you takes some brains. What this guy doesn't answer is why is it that when I have to review code coming from India it is full of bugs, short cuts, and shit that doesn't make a damn bit of sense even to the Indian staff that's stateside?

  21. Just one small problem on Best Handset For Freedom? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So you get it designed and manufactured and all that fun stuff.... you still need it approved by the government to use on a wireless network. How are you going to get around that "roadblock" to freedom? Some backwater country like Iran can say that in order to use it in the country it needs to have an approved "supreme commander shut off switch".

  22. What they didn't mention on The Enemy Within the Firewall · · Score: 0

    How many managers think of themselves as a security threat?

  23. Re:Gee - Slashdot would run another crap about sat on Satellite Radio Subscriptions Rising · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Of course you won't read anything about mad cow here... cows don't have any electronics in them.

    Not to mention, we're all vegetarians here. Pass me another steak..... uh, "tofu" fillet with steak flavoring.

  24. Re:XM .. yeah! on Satellite Radio Subscriptions Rising · · Score: 1

    I live in the black hole of the radio universe, Los Angeles. We have hundreds of the same stations, teenie pop, crap pop, country, classical, shitty rock, and the ever worsening KROQ. All of which play the same damn song with an offset of 5-10 minutes. What the hell does that mean? Station surf the radio and you can be guaranteed that that Celine Dion song you just listened to on one station will be played again on another station within 5-10 minutes. Screw free radio in LA, I'll take Sirius or XM (what I subscribe to) anytime.

  25. Re:good... on Largest Citywide Wi-Fi Deployment · · Score: 1

    Where the 91 and 605 freeways intersect.... right on the edge of LA and Orange Counties.