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

    I once told a room full of users that I needed individual user names and passwords from each of them to configure their network access.

    I received a piece of paper from the manager with all their names on it, and a single password.

    Sadly, this is not uncommon, despite the long speech about why this is a bad idea.

  2. Re:Amended quote on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Yeah probably something really brilliant like: sudo nautilus "`pwd`"

  3. Re:It's a shame, but... on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant To Close In 2014 · · Score: 1

    How many wind turbines will it take to replace this one reactor exactly?

  4. Re:Totally bogus on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    Have you even been on Lockheed's website? Yes, they have pictures -- no reading necessary.

  5. Re:Or save $9,999,000.00 on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    compression not encryption. Sigh @ not previewing.

  6. Re:Or save $9,999,000.00 on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the wavelet encryption modified to run off an ASIC in what sounds like near real-time.

  7. Re:Grande with a shot of poop on Researchers Discover Way To Spot Crappy Coffee · · Score: 1

    The digestive tract is supposedly much better at extracting the bean from its husk than the usual cooking method and gives a purer flavour.

    cf. Wikipedia

  8. Re:TDD on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    As though I gave myself +5 ... jeez.

    The post I responded to was out of touch with how Linux is designed. If you want to know more, go do some reading. Its not hard.

  9. Re:TDD on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    Good job on not paying attention to the last ten years of Linux development.

    So the stuff that isn't a hardware driver attached to the Linux kernel isn't in the kernel ... good job on deducing that.

    Printers aren't in the kernel because (get this) they aren't part of the hardware. The Bluetooth stack isn't hardware, the hardware is hardware. That stuff's in the kernel. The sound system? The hardware support is (again) in the kernel, the stuff that's at a higher level isn't.

    There are some very specific edge cases, but for the most part, all actual hardware support in Linux is in the kernel because that's where it belongs in a monolithic design.

  10. Re:heh on Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World · · Score: 1

    I've used one, I have clients with them, and they're dreadfully slow and bulky by my standards.

  11. Re:Compared to what? on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which would be why you should use an actual distribution kernel and not the compile-it-yourself variety if you need stability and testing.

  12. Re:No on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    The current process didn't result in that at all. Your distro chose that default and could've changed it any time they liked.

    Get involved with your distro if you care so much and help them choose sane defaults.

  13. Re:TDD on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You need to do some more reading on how Linux works.

  14. Re:It was a myth on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    That way, nobody's happy.

    Yup, that sounds right.

  15. Re:It was a myth on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Not to mention because the USSR used those evil hotlines to report your neighbours too ...and secret police, and detension without representation.

  16. Re:It was a myth on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Don't feel bad, they do the same thing with 'blacks' and 'hispanics' as though either of those were succinct categories.

  17. Re:It was a myth on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry the previous canadian made you read that in both our official languages.

  18. Re:Only need to know... on PS4 Launch Date: November 15th · · Score: 2

    The PS4 lacks backward compatibility so keep it.

  19. Re:Great country you have over there on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 1

    Wait, you think we appreciate your interference?

  20. Re:Great country you have over there on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 1

    Youtube for DHS stop.

  21. Re:Great country you have over there on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 1

    Tell me when your country wakes up so I can spend money vacationing there again.

    I still remember when I didn't need a passport to take a trip to NYC for the weekend.

    Oh well ... I've been exploring more of my own country instead, Canada.

  22. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    Voting with a ranked system is incredibly fair and gets shot down as being 'multiple' votes.

    If you want A or C elected but not D and don't care about B, vote A:1, C:2, B:3 and not for D at all.

  23. Re:But to really propel Russia Today to the fore.. on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 2

    Same thought here ... I grew up watching CBC and the french "Le Journal" for news. When I see Fox/NBC/CNN news ads on American networks I don't even register them as 'news' but something akin to Entertainment Tonight (which has better journalism).

  24. Re:Victory for virus writers on Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software · · Score: 0

    You'd be wrong. Virus writers invented self-mutation engines and encryption systems for code long ago and VMs to detect that code became commonplace in AV products. cf. AV test suites where even the best anti-virus software can't detect 100% of known viruses.

  25. Re:Deciphering != Reverse Engineering on Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software · · Score: 1

    Hardware that can't be emulated you mean.

    Even high grade encryption hardware that refuses to allow debugging can be emulated, if slowly, once you have keys.