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  1. LiDAR solves for vegetation on Laser Imaging Drone To Hunt Out Unexploded Bombs In War-Torn Nations · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Which class of laser are they using which can penetrate the canopy of a jungle? There are many sensors more appropriate for the searching: Ground penetrating radar. Multispectral or hyperspectral camera sensors to check the leaf patterns for varied chemicals. Also for the larger areas covered it seems like a fixed wing design might be more appropriate.

  2. Re:Injecting memories on Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse · · Score: 1

    link.. dammit

  3. Re:Injecting memories on Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse · · Score: 1

    Pav.. Thanks for the kink.

  4. They just jumped the shark on New Crypto-Ransomware Encrypts Video Game Files · · Score: 1

    Nobody is going to pay to get their saved game data back. Plus gamers have no money,.

  5. Re:Kaspersky Lab on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 1

    Lets hear for the pulling shit out of our collective asses system! The same goes for any software made by any company in the world... Unless you can see the source and it is open you can't but hope. Why not say it is Snowden who did this so he can sell botnets to Putin. If you have a shred of evidence that Putin has backdoored kaspersky then bring it to light.

  6. Re:No Clinton No Bush on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    When people like you don't demand accountability on things like this you get what you deserve. She should be brought to trial, and made accountable for taking affairs of state off the grid, and off the record. This intentional effort to take government activity off record is despicable. So now we know that she is willing to hide all of her efforts from the appropriate scrutiny. It is unforgivable, especially when considering her as a potential candidate.

  7. Re:The Clintons on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    They are in the same agency/branch. Which assumption would be made here, when every person emailing her notices it is in an entirely different domain? The fact that no one acted implies, there is no openness and they are all hosting their own emails to break the law, or that they are afraid to bring to light the fact that she alone was breaking her oath to office and the law.

     

  8. Re:B is the new F? on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    The tool here is email. The problem is that Hillary knowingly circumvented the law. Her intentions can be as honorable as she claims, but the simple fact is she knowingly broke the law, and it isn't OK, whichever politician did this.

  9. Injecting memories on Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse · · Score: 2

    Things like this will never get exploited by opportunistic Intelligence Agencies.

    Let's sit back and watch them scramble over themselves to justify why they need this tech.

    Yes slightly offtopic, but I bet they are funding the research.

  10. Re:Yeah but..... on Google Announces Android 5.1 · · Score: 1

    Which US carrier lets you make all these changes? The phones are locked by the Carrier. The Carrier has way too much power in the current ISP relationship. They are the ones that won't let you be an admin. You can always buy a reference device (Nexus and unlock), or make your own.

  11. Re:Blackberry on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I switched to a $200 Blackberry Z10 a few months ago after getting tired of Google's attitude w/ regard to my Nexus 4. Without any bloatware installed by the carrier, it still comes with about 10 different Google Apps that cannot be uninstalled.

    Furthermore, it seems like Google has gone out of their way to give app developers the necessary permissions to basically know everything about me. Does an app 'really' need to see all of my contacts, SMS, and call history just so it knows when a call is incoming?

    Even if I uninstalled every app on my phone, I'd still have Google's keyboard phoning home everything I type. And of course Android Lollipop is as much of a dud as was Windows 8.

    My Z10 blows Android out of the water when it comes to actually dealing with emails, texts, messages, calendars, etc. On Android, I had to use three different mail apps to do the same thing. The browser always shows a full screen web page, while Chrome needs a root hack to do the same.

    Why did you buy a Nexus 4? It seems like you changed more than the phone did.

  12. Re:MS can't give up decades old practice on Microsoft Finally Allows Customers To Legally Download Windows 7 ISOs · · Score: 0

    The financial costs are only a part of the total cost of ownership when you get in bed with Windows.

  13. Re:So much for the 2nd Amendment on FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting those who wrote the federalists papers were not involved with the writing of the Bill of rights or the Constitution, and that they were therefor incapable of stating what their intent was in framing them as such?

  14. Re:Dear Michael Rogers, on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    Under which administration did all of the domestic surveillance get started? The NSA was not started under Bush, and you might want to ask yourself what was it that the Church Committee was intended to accomplish.

  15. Re:Dear Michael Rogers, on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 2

    Woodrow Wilson already did that when he was leaving office. It was quite direct and regretful of what he had done.

  16. Re:lawyers are not geeks; geeks are not lawyers. on FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    Which state is that? Seems insane to me.

  17. Re:So much for the 2nd Amendment on FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    You might want to actually read the Federalists papers before you spew this nonsense. The writers are quite explicit in the reasoning and intent. The comment you made is one bandied about by those wanting to misrepresent the truth.

  18. Re:Hard To Imagine... on Microsoft Trademarks "Windows 365" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well if Windows becomes a rental system, then wouldn't that spell the immediate removal of the MS tax, and that the base OS can't essentially be pirated any longer? Meaning All hardware companies can freely put any OS or none on there without fear of reproach?

  19. Re:Where did they get the COA for the ingredients? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    I too used to work for the Herbal supplement industry. What you are saying is true to my experiences as well. The barrels originating in China always required extra scrutiny. It was not uncommon to find things wholly foreign to the ingredient list in the shipped packages. It was disturbingly common to find Chinese/Indian suppliers being less that honest in their COA's.

    My theory is China/India or another manufacturer/supplier failed to send what they claimed (ripped them off). The fact that the ingredients went to manufacturing none the less is a scary thought. I guess it is possible the manufacturing occurred over seas as well.

  20. Re:Where did they get the COA for the ingredients? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    Edit: Every ingredient in an herbal supplement needs a COA... Should have written that more clearly.

  21. Where did they get the COA for the ingredients? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 2

    Every herbal supplement that is going to be ingested in America needs a COA (Certificate of Authenticity) to verify their legitimacy. Disclosure: I used to work in the herbal supplement industry. This is not wholly uncommon. The biggest issue here is that the suppliers/manufacturers were ripping off the GNC etc. Someone along the way faile dto check the authenticity, and they got burned.

  22. Re:I'm sorry ... on Tech Companies Worried Over China's New Rules For Selling To Banks · · Score: 1

    I'd be equally worried that a US made device would have the NSA back doors allowing my government to spy. I think the saddest part is that I am now more threatened of my own government (and their refusal to allow privacy) than I am of foreign powers...

  23. Re:But does it matter any more? on Windows 10 IE With Spartan Engine Performance Vs. Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    It depends how you define success. Enterprise agreements hold that in order to install Win 7 you need downgrade rights, made available by purchasing Win 8 licenses.
    How exactly are you defining success? Success in sales? Success in giving them a presence in mobile? Success in unifying two disparate paradigms of interface? Win 8 failed on many fronts as well.

  24. hypocrtical bastards on Blackberry CEO: Net Neutrality Means Mandating Cross-Platform Apps · · Score: 2

    BBM was made for Blackberry only and served precisely to keep people locked into the platform by not allowing other platforms to access the service. It wasn't until they had lost their user base that they cared about such things. It was as wrong when they did it, as when Apple does it now.

  25. Re:Inconceivable! on Forget Stuxnet: Banking Trojans Attacking Power Plants · · Score: 1

    Not everyone who uses a SCADA/Siemens system has internal staff to maintain the system levels. I was asked this week to connect a SIEMENS /SCADA system for Rail delivery to be connected for remote access for support/trouble shooting. The saddest part was the lack of network and security knowledge that the deploying entity had in their possession. It was uncomfortable to discuss networking with them. We were paying them to listen to why their solution was insecure, and would not be set up in the manner they wanted. They got it eventually. But I'll say this..There are many many many SCADA systems which are online for no reason other than simplicity's sake. Don't get me started about the ones left with default settings by the VAR during deployments. Scary world.