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  1. My company has got another year at least on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 1

    ...On XPSP3. We'll skip Vista and will probably wind up running Win7 or something like it, virtualized. Around 2015 or so.

  2. Re:Been to Chantilly VA recently? on Innocent Or Not, the NSA Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    Point being they have little or no need to be that secretive anymore because there's not much anyone can do about it.

  3. Been to Chantilly VA recently? on Innocent Or Not, the NSA Is Watching You · · Score: 2

    The NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) an agency so far in the black the government did not admit it or any of its massive budget so much as existed until 1995 or so, has a massive campus on the main drag in Chantilly, VA and right there on the main gate and over the front door are big signs that say National Reconnaissance Office). Of course the forest of dish antennas on the roof should tell you something, but the fact is that the government really doesn't have play these black box spy games anymore. Because there's little anyone or any government can do about it, whatever it is. Often things are secret because they need to be secret. But often they're secret because that's just what the government does - labels things secret.

  4. Don't tell the Susan Komen Foundation on Majority of Landmark Cancer Studies Cannot Be Replicated · · Score: 1

    Don't tell them that mortality from breast cancer leveled out almost 20 years ago. There's a shit ton in money coming in.

  5. Re:Pre-existing law on FTC Fines RockYou $250,000 For Storing User Data In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Only if you definitively say something that's not true such as "This pill will cure cancer". If you say "We will protect you" the statement is sufficiently vague that a common sense and legal view of it is not that that vendor will under all circumstances keep you safe from all threats at all times.

  6. Re:Seems like a bizarre conclusion on FTC Fines RockYou $250,000 For Storing User Data In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Which is more or less logically consistent. It's also a good case for having no regulation at all and simply waiting for all the lawsuits after for instance, your food products kill people, etc. A real libertarian view of the world.

  7. Re:Seems like a bizarre conclusion on FTC Fines RockYou $250,000 For Storing User Data In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    It's not a contract, it's not a regulation, it's not a pre existing law, it's not a warranty and they didn't make a specific promise of what or how they would accomplish this. So what's happened effectively is that they've criminalized marketing hype. Well ok let's do that. Be careful what you wish for though.

  8. So can I mine Salon and Huffington Post on Competition To Identify Sexual Predators In Chat Logs · · Score: 1

    For raving hate speech? Oh wait, I don't need a mechanism for that. It's called "reading".

  9. Wait for them to patent it on Microsoft Counted As Key Linux Contributor · · Score: 1

    It's coming. MS will patent parts of Linux that they created and everything that uses it.

  10. So when you optimize your searches... on Smearing Toddler Reputations Via Internet: Free Speech Or Extortion? · · Score: 0

    and you pay for it it's service. But if you do it yourself on your own dime it's a crime. Nice to know.

  11. Seems like a bizarre conclusion on FTC Fines RockYou $250,000 For Storing User Data In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Absent any specific regulation they're making up law on a case by case basis on the fly. In short they've created a new law but only for companies who get caught losing the information. If you're a company and you do exactly the same thing but nothing goes wrong you're excused from this law.

  12. Well that's fine then, boycott the internet on Mitch Altman Parts Ways With Maker Fair Over DARPA Grant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please by all means boycott all civilian technology every developed out of the military such as THE INTERNET.

  13. Cue Theremin! on Samsung Says Their TVs Aren't Really Spying On You · · Score: 1

    The saucers are coming. A remember, they zipped a few hundred light years to personally shove some probe up your butt.

  14. Awesome, simply Awesome on NY District Judge Dismisses Blogger Suit Against Huffington Post · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since the general slant of HuffPo is a self righteous rich white liberal rage against the Cul de Sac smash the capitalist machine but give me a free iPad give me a bailout because I can't afford the school loan for my $250,000 MFA in post modern lesbian Marxist fiction I just love it that they're mad they're not getting paid MONEY for their ravings.

    You can't make this stuff up.

  15. That's what 4.34% of all outlets? on Best Buy Closing 50 Stores · · Score: 1

    Doesn't sound like such a tragedy, unless of course they don't meet the Al Sharpton test, then it's a calamity.

  16. A semi-Marxist state with voter ID? on 1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting · · Score: 0

    I think I just heard Rachel Maddow's head explode.

  17. Current course and speed on CDC Reports 1 In 88 Children Now Affected With Autism In the US · · Score: 1

    Everyone in America will be autistic by 2026.

  18. Let's raise a glass on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    To the cadre of senior execs who ran their company into the ground, walked away from the smoking hole with millions and millions of dollars leaving the workforce 'free to pursue other options!"

  19. I was already excoriated here for on House Kills Effort To Stop Workplace Requests For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Noting that I have no fb account or any other social media account and never have pertaining to what they would do if I told them no because no such thing exists. Some OCD monkeys here of course pointed out I was typing on this site so I'm a wrong remtard derp herp. Given the sense that most people don't actually care about this, ok I quit. I give up. The OCD monkeys are right and herp derp it is. I no longer care which freedoms you surrender.

  20. Speaking of which on Apple May Need To Rethink 4G Claims (and Pay Refunds) In More Countries · · Score: 2

    As a Sprint customer living in Raleigh NC I can attest that for the most part their claims of 3G let alone 4G are a farce. Data network coverage is spotty down to the individual home on the individual street. If you move literally 50 ft your coverage drops out. Speed tests regularly show 1kpbs down and 0.1 kbps up. But since Sprint charges you $10/month for every phone which CAN access 4G whether it actually does or even whether Sprint offers the service where the phone is used, this is how they get around the 'unlimited no caps' issue that the other carriers have. They simply charge everyone for what does not exist and this makes up for the bandwidth hogs.

  21. Dumb kid dumb school on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    They deserve each other. Everyone's got an acceptable use policy. Learn them. On the other hand the school needs to focus on what's relevant to their job and not social engineering everything else. I would hope, and I'm serious here, the school simply pulls the plug on their own network.

  22. Re:sounds great on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    TFA notes an un divulged vulnerability. That would indicate something which does not rely on a password of any length be it 4 or 400 characters.

  23. Re:One thing not to like on What's Not To Like About New iPad? · · Score: 1

    It's kind of transparent how much Apple is spending on PR. It's like watching Entertainment Tonight 'review' movies.

  24. Gee thanks on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    Now car companies have an out when their airbag kills me.

  25. When something wrong eventually happens on Space Junk Forced Astronauts Into ISS Escape Capsules · · Score: 1

    Mankind will collectively decide to Soccer Mom the whole project and abandon manned spaceflight forever.