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  1. Re:Brilliant? on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    >> there is an entire class of sysadmins that the NSA has no good way of keeping track of, and worse, they don't even necessarily know who they all are

    So based on the downsizing, you are saying they do?

    >> cat "Please report to HR" | mail -s "You're fired" root@nsa.niprnet

  2. Re:Translation: Groklaw has been gagged on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    It is time for everyone to put a "I have not received a gag order from the NSA, FBI, [list], or any other government agency, or other private agency" on their website or other public disclosure.

    And then if they do receive one, the person would remove the entity from the list that sent them the gag.

    This could even be updated to "I have not ... this month".

  3. Math, fuckers on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    >> China executes thousands of prisoners a year
    >> Prisoners used to account for two-thirds of transplant organs

    Based on the math, organs are donated by volunteers five-hundreds of times per year. I think this low voluntary number speaks more to the social problems in China.

  4. Re:seems like it would be easier on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it just be easier to download on pirate bay.

  5. Read contracts on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 2

    My prior company's employment contract mentions that benefits stop immediately when you give notice and they do not have to pay your accumulated vacation days. During their last restructuring people complained of these provisions being actually used.

    I gave 2 days' notice after using up vacation days and getting health care started with the new company. That's to cover my ass. Fuck if I want some insurance company 30 years from now to claim my car accident was caused by a pre-existing condition on the day I was switching jobs. Of course, I wrapped up all my projects and "cross-trained" others in all my work before leaving. That's being professional. Got three public, positive references after quitting and they are brining me back as a consultant.

  6. Re: As always... on The Pirate Bay Launches Browser To Evade ISP Blockades · · Score: 1

    ............and this will leave behind immediate and provable evidence of foul play

  7. Re:As always... on The Pirate Bay Launches Browser To Evade ISP Blockades · · Score: 1
  8. Re:The Truth, More Lies, It's Irrelevant. on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    If only there were a "part 2" 30 years after Apple's original "1984" commercial.

  9. Re:Still many unanswered questions on GPS Spoofing With $3000 Worth of Equipment and a Laptop · · Score: 1

    Or, put a battery powered system in a container on that ship. And control it like any other long-distance remote-controlled system.

  10. Re:How is this news? on Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs · · Score: 1

    The company needs to pay $X in 75 years. To meet that obligation, the law (TLDR, assumed from parent) says that $X is needed in the bank today.

    Well looking at me as a private citizen, if I plan on retiring in 75 years and put $Y in the bank today with an interest rate of dick% it will still be $Y by then. (And of course purchasing power will halve).

    So... what's the problem?

  11. Re:Self signed? on Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services · · Score: 1

    This is the attack most people are afraid of. But just one commission of this act by anyone anywhere will produce irrevocable evidence of foul play.

  12. Re:Let me ask this question: on Google Now Serves 25% of North American Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    >>I have never been a CEO, an probably will never be, but what I wanted to know is what exactly goes on in a CEO's mind (say Steve Ballmer), once a statistic/detail like this is outed.
    >> What really goes on in a mind like his?

    The same thing you're thinking... "I'll never be a normal consumer, but I just want to know... what exactly goes on in a normal consumer's mind once a detail like this is outed"

  13. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 2

    > since when did diets have sides

    Ha!

  14. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 2

    >> Food today, even freshly grown food, isn't the same ... as it was 50 years ago
    > Citation needed.

    Basic reasons (coming from US culture):
      * Anthropomorphic plant breeding to optimize for sweetness or other "short term" benefit versus mother natures "long term" successful tinkering
      * Reduced local farming
      * Increased pesticides use
      * Increased food transit times and shelf time
      * Consumers that are too lazy to go to the market and buy food everyday (ask your grandparents)
      * Consumers that demand berries in the winder and other non-seasonal food (related to above points)
      * Increased air polution

    Reference: Primal Blueprint
    Citation: Extensive science references in the notes section

  15. Re:Address randomization - security through obscur on Microsoft Bug Bounties Flow To Googlers · · Score: 1

    And Apache has a mechanism where it it spawns extra children and kills them periodically because it knows somehow or another one of them is going to leak memory.

    So what's your point?

  16. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? on Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder · · Score: 1

    >> The "horror" is that the sick and twisted website operator thought the footage "entertaining" and tried to make a profit off it by posting it.

    This pretty much describes ANY website.

  17. Re:Encryption? What Encryption? on How To Compete With NSA By Hacking a Verizon Network Extender · · Score: 1

    > no one vampire taps a fiber line

    sure about that?

  18. Re:Use it via Tor hodden service on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    Tor fails against an adversary that has access to the transport of all traffic

  19. Of course... you need to override CA. I do that too using Charles Proxy to inspect HTTPS traffic locally.

    But the big unsubstantiated thought out there is "governments have backdoors in to CAs". This is very easy to prove with evidence, but with no evidence we should probably assume the null hypothesis.

  20. OT

    Is there a list of CAs that have been compromised, including evidence. I.E. it would post two signed and valid certificates for google.com for the same time period but one of them with obviously the wrong IP address?

  21. So... on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I am missing something. Obviously something would be leaked from Wikileaks. Isn't their system (technology and processes) designed with this type of attack in mind.

    Some details on the processes are at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks

  22. Re:Example screenshots of the abuse... on FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results · · Score: 1

    Still great work on your part.

    I don't see WCAG 2.0 ratified on section508.gov. Also WCAG only has standards on contrast for text-on-background, not adjacent backgrounds/images. The only language referring to adjacent colors that does not specifically mention text-on-background is this (still does not provide a compliance metric):

    >> Note 6: WCAG conformance should be evaluated for color pairs specified in the content that an author would expect to appear adjacent in typical presentation. Authors need not consider unusual presentations, such as color changes made by the user agent, except where caused by authors' code.

    Practically, of course, 1.1:1 on adjacent boxes is not noticeable for people that need 4:1 to read text!

  23. Re:Really on YouTube Removes Video of Reactions To Being Videoed · · Score: 2

    I have the legal right to ask for the video from a video camera that is owned and operated by the public sector, I have no legal right to do so from someone with Google glass.

    I have the legal right to ask for the video from a video camera that is owned and operated by the public sector, I have no legal right to do so from someone with Google glass.

    I have the legal right to ask for the video from a video camera that is owned and operated by the public sector, I have no legal right to do so from someone with Google glass.

    Sir, you have the legal right to ask anyone for anything.

  24. Re:Example screenshots of the abuse... on FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results · · Score: 1

    Also, where is this alleged 508 contrast predicate?

  25. Re:Example screenshots of the abuse... on FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results · · Score: 1

    Wow, another f.lux user. Cheers.