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  1. Re:OMG enough on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 · · Score: 1

    Okay,you say should. what does the GCC source code say about that? is there an equally evil bug there, too?

    And... has the other kernel source server ever been compiled off the CVS source?

  2. Re: Maybe there is hope on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not a troll. My great grandfather was killed by having a spleen burst in a fight for a prime spot. He was a vegetable-cart salesman in Chicago.

    He came home, said " tomorrow there'll be one less Greek in Illinois, went to bed, and died two (not one) days later.

    My grandfather grew up fatherless.

    But people can't imagine living in the Land of the free(*)(tm). My fellow Americans, Let me give you a clue. Any country that speaks of freedom hasn't got it, and any country that calls terrorism, tends to be run exclusively by terrorists. Terrorism means using terror as a tool to rule.

  3. Re:Charles Darwin Wrote on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 1

    No, there was a recent study that showed that certain human glions could improve rat intelligence: that the glions are even more critical than the number of connections. View it as our synapses being like 14.4k modems, the neurons being like microcontrollers and routers, and the glions being pentium-iv systems. Not that the picture is correct, but just demonstrates the point.

  4. Re:JIT Education on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 1

    All lingo aside, GIT is right. We don't have functional unions, any more than the USSR did.

    And yes, weare slaves. And no, the majority of the debt wasn't chosen by us, but applied onto us in back-room corruption.

    And no, we don't have the freedom to leave. Just because it is the second of a pair of double doors in a foyer that is locked, doesn't make it any less locked.

    And yes, predawn to post dusk is normal.

    This by a 43-year old engineer who makes less than the state - defined poverty wage, never had debt, never could afford more than a trailer home on rented property, no substance ever, and recently had to give up his car because of the expense. Who also commonly hears from employers less educated than he, "well, virginia is a right to work state; if people want decent pay, they have to improve themselves."

  5. Re:Internet costs in Australia on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 1

    No,no. Greed scales.

  6. Re:And it never occured to anyone ... on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the easiest and best way to thwart the nsa is to put all your files on a usb, and put it in a dead drop at

    NSA
    9800 Savage Rd
    Fort Meade, MD

    Yeah, it might seem pointless. But if ALL 6 billion of us did it...

  7. Re:This is news? on Security Researchers Rewarded With $12.50 Voucher To Buy Yahoo T-Shirt · · Score: 1

    Quote from Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder): "Keep you nickle; I can't make change."

  8. Re:Why do we even go to these orgs anymore... on Did NIST Cripple SHA-3? · · Score: 1

    I think we can get a volunteer to do almost that. But they are insisting on calling the suito of routines the âoeNew Scheneier Algorithms" for some reason.

    Seriously, one of the major problems to be surmounted is not just availability, but getting it accepted as a standard. The NSA is going to have Microsoft distributing their brand of protection: Microsoft is organized in the US, and will. Use the oS national standard.

    But there are other countries out there. China, while a big producer of goods, is going to want back doors to everything. For all Russia's stance, I am also going to believe that the NSA is doing Putin's bidding before I'll believe that russia wants encryption without back doors.

    So that leads to an interesting question: how are you going to get your suite standardized when the big players are corrupt and want back doors?

  9. Re:TARDIS on New Zealand Converting Old Phone Booths Into National WiFi Network · · Score: 1

    The plural of Tardis would have to be Tardiai. so that would be "fleet of Tardiai", not fleet of Tardis.

    No offense: that post was good, but needed to be retarded.

  10. Re:massless photons vs black hole on Scientists Create New "Lightsaber-Like" Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    Photons have no rest mass. They do have mass, though. In line with that, I should also note that photons do not exist in their own system, when in transit through high vacuum. That is, within their own system, the time - dilated length of time that they experience (while travelling at the speed of light) approaches zero.

    Of course, photons seldom travel at the speed of light. And their own existence seems to use non-photons as their space.

  11. Re:/mourn Groklaw on Judge Orders Patent Troll To Explain Its 'Mr. Sham' To Jury · · Score: 1

    In that case, SHE has standing against the NSA. *SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE WHO REGULARLY USED GROKLAW, ESPECIALLY PROFESSIONALLY*, or am I wrong? Weren't we all concerned that there was nobody who the courts would determine had standing, who could sue the NSA for their abuses and continual violation of the US constitution?

  12. Re:They might have only barely had enough time. on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    Or view HD video of the moments leading up to the annoucement. See if you can see someone's notebook, or speech notes.

  13. Another possibility on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Another possibility is that it was a big player like Buffet or Sachs, counting on profiting one of two ways: a) precede the market b) bet wrong but cause the market to reverse, triggering massive losses to those who told their broker to trade according to the news, with a stop-loss protection.

    To carry out B, you have to be able to place a second bid greater in magnitude but opposite sign to the first, about ten minutes after the news breaks. You also have the liquid assets to do it. since the bailouts doubled the national debt and gave it to banks in interest free loans with no set date of repayment, then yes, itmay be possible that investment banks did it.

  14. Re:Easy! on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but latex milk can be had out of any dandelion stem.

  15. Re:Non tool specifics. on Ask Slashdot: Prioritizing Saleable Used Computer Books? · · Score: 1

    There's a programming language for foo?!? Surely that's overkill. I mean, C++ does some overkill, but foo was a variable for K&R. The other is worse, though: bar is an engineer's variable modifier, kindof like a subscript. To devote a whole pogramming language to it just seems a little grandiose and wasteful.

  16. Re:Hmmm on Software Glitch Means Loss of NASA's Deep Impact Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    Oh, the name of the evil entity? Enlil, like the name of the satellite that looks at the far side ove the sun.

  17. Re:Hmmm on Software Glitch Means Loss of NASA's Deep Impact Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    I doubt it. But if you want real paranoia, consider if they are again trying to do what they tried once before: the story of the Epic of Gilgamesh, where something went up into the heavens to "bring down wheat and loaves, and what came down was wheat (meteors) and loaves (asteroid/ comet) and one really huge fragment into the Indian ocean.

    And when the person who had done it saw No's ark, he flew into a rage "they were ALL supposed to be dead!" And Ya, the clever prince said âoefor mercy's cake, this was bad that you have done... to try to kill them all."

  18. Re:if Linux was asked, the MS were asked on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 1

    One goto guy for this one is Steve Gibson (GRC.com) of "click of death" fame. And yes, he has in the past found backdoors in Windows. Probably not intentional, but -- one of the backdoors would allow a malformed URL to delete whole directories.

    Minor inconvenience, that. Unless it's major.

    But he's big into the security scene.

  19. Re:hmmm.... on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1
  20. Re:price vs. taste on Molecule In Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose · · Score: 1

    I think it's the Hatteras Red; no Catawba, just Muscadine.

  21. Re:So stop using corks on Molecule In Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose · · Score: 1

    With a Pic-16 and a speaker, boxes can make that cool popping noise when you unfold the top.

  22. Re:price vs. taste on Molecule In Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose · · Score: 1

    Right now, my favorite is a dark red muscadine from Duplin, the North carolina winery. But then, I was walking in the rte 17 walking park in Chesapeake, and saw and tasted one of the red muscadines, and was extremely impressed with the skin.

    French winemakers may like the muscadine for its hardy rootstock; I like it for its grapes.

  23. Re:Obama needs to pardon Snowden on FISA Court Will Release More Opinions Because of Snowden · · Score: 1

    (1) sorry, running off memory.
    (2) You are correct; not *every* candidate is a member. Look up how many of them were, though. But though I said Yale, there is also a university in Virginia, maybe Longwood IIRC.
    (3) Please wait on sources... I have to look up something in a book I *may* have around (it may be a couple hundred miles away, too): Roy Schoeman. Regarding it being an outgrowth, I don't know that the original club was, but I do remember seeing sources that I considered reputable that indicated that the modern club *was* an outgrowth. Right now, googling doesn't get me close to any reputable sources. The quality of google isn't what it was five, ten years ago.

  24. Re:Obama needs to pardon Snowden on FISA Court Will Release More Opinions Because of Snowden · · Score: 0

    Okay, first, we are never given a choice. Usually, our "choice" is between a member of the Skull and Crossbones club, and a member of the Skull and Crossbones club. Our Yale club Skull and Crossbones, whose members also occupy most of the high appointed positions by now, was an outgrowth of Nazi Germany; more specifically it seems to tie to the occult pagan rituals that were associated with high ranking nazis who appeared, well, posessed.

    In any case, if any one club has a majority of the power, unelected, then that is an indicatiu that Democrac no longer functions. Google the club, and see how many of the recent presidential "approve candidates" were NOT members. Recent being the last twenty years.

    I, for one, wrote in names, or voted for third party candidates. But it has no bearing on reality.

    You say you fought your Nazis--very well and good. Did you fight them when they were strong, in 1938? Or when they were weak, and known, andless harmful, in 2010?

  25. Re:Really? on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 1

    I suspect that more common than being thrown in jail for sniffing glue, is being thrown into a heart attack.