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  1. Re:Any cell phone is a security risk. on Apple Refutes Report On iPhone Threat To China's National Security · · Score: 1

    Here in the US, my wife gave up on using Skype because the quality was extremely unreliable. At one point, the call kept getting dropped every 5 second. She would try again, and like clockwork, get dropped again. So she had her parents use FaceTime on the iPad. Flawless connectivity with relative low latency (going over fiber in the Pacific no doubt) when communicating to Shanghai. If I had to guess, blocking FaceTime would also be blocking other Apple services for iOS devices. Secondly, Skype packets were probably forged as a means of denial of service.

  2. Re:Now that's what I call... on Walter Munk's Astonishing Wave-Tracking Experiment · · Score: 2

    What, that we should embrace our animalistic underpinning nature (like going after someone's mom and the other accepting it)?! Uh..no. Freewill to transcend conflict inducting behavior from the beginning is what we should be striving for.

  3. Re:Chicken or egg? on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 1

    The locust voter.

  4. Re:Buy Surge Protectors on Insurance Claims Reveal Hidden Electronic Damage From Geomagnetic Storms · · Score: 1

    I have seen lightning blow up electronics that were unplugged and sitting in the cardboard box. getting a hard strike 8 feet from the south wall where all the gear was going to be installed. Every single device was fried when we opened the boxes and hooked it up.

    I'm guessing from the resultant EMP frying the gates on the chip? Or was there visible damage from stray lightning forking from the original bolt?

  5. Re:I hate to imagine it on Child Thought To Be Cured of HIV Relapses, Tests Positive Again · · Score: 2

    Meaning the virus can never be eliminated, but only reduced asymptotically; thus the symptoms are asymptomatic.

  6. I'm pretty sure the impact would effect the entire DC area if not the world. I'm not sure if that's a bad thing however.

  7. Re:So what happens... on Hair-Raising Technique Detects Drugs, Explosives On Human Body · · Score: 2

    It's mainly targets and not a single target. Bombing on a bus, mall, disco, market, etc all involve densely packed people to inflict maximum casualties. Please see Boston bombings for example here in America.

  8. So, there are these consoles called the SNES (Super Famicom), and the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive). Back in those days, we didn't have any of that shit to deal with. Oh, except for the long lines of picking up our copies of Street Fighter and Mortal Combat. Oh the simple days of bliss. All you poor bastards, why do you even bother?

  9. Re:Terror on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    Who doesn't troll on Facebook? The entire existence of Facebook serves as an outlet for trolling. It's therapeutic.

  10. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 4, Insightful

    http://xkcd.com/538/

    Brings new meaning to "brute force" hacking. Or is that whacking?

  11. Re:Modern Day Anti-Evolutionists on Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages To UVA, Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    The real policy question is how we now radically reduce the population without war, pestilence, famine and death.

    You DON'T!!!

    Trying to force AGW change by stymying the global economy is a sure way of ending WW3 (which is happening now) with nuclear fallout. So when a nuclear winter comes about, you might be wishing we had more CO2 thrown in to offset the bitter man-made cold. God forbid it happen, it would still be pretty fucking ironic; being a self-fulfilling prophecy and all. But hey, at least the population is now reduced. Right? Right??!

  12. Re:30m on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    Yeah, not counting the existing line length inside the walls too. How just how do they plan on powering the fiber-to-POTS line converters? I'm guessing the fiber transceiver feeds off voltage from the existing POTS line running in parallel to box out in the easement someplace?

  13. Re:Hormones screw up women's bodies to much. on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 1

    Then why aren't you finding new people to surround yourself with?

    Sorry, I'm stuck on this rock with no means of escape to sanity.

  14. Re: Any Memory?? what judge will go on just that? on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1

    Right, and pedophiles aren't ranked the lowest of the low in prison, am I right?! There's a reasons victims of child pedophilia become fucked in the head as they get older.

  15. Re:they don't want to destory it on A Box of Forgotten Smallpox Vials Was Just Found In an FDA Closet · · Score: 2

    Why not destroy it? You and I along with the rest of us damn well know the virus has been sequenced and stored on file someplace. Not sure how trivial is it for a superpower's military complex, but pull the file and synthesize the virus again as a bioweapon with extra bonus features coded in. So again, why keep it physically around? Are we trying to usher in one of the four horseman or what?!

  16. Re:Hormones screw up women's bodies to much. on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 1

    Be a Nun, get none. You could start out by closing your legs. Get religion, get self-control; whatever, not my fucking problem!!! Deal with it yourself and don't ask others to pay for it. Otherwise, it IS my business so long as I'm paying for YOUR elected activities with MY tax dollars. Same goes for the men. You guys want to fuck around, get a vasectomy and pay for it your damn self!

    Morons. I'm surrounded by fucking morons; literally!!!

  17. Re:Hmm on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 0

    Votes. Hispanic children under 18 and mothers are both dependent groups that will vote Democrat for the government cheese. Fact! This is about a one party rule in play. Democrat party in power in perpetuity. Obama's legacy is dependent on solidifying power for the party. Democrats are no different in this regard than the CCP is in China. Absolute power, pure and simple!!!

  18. Re:No airgap? on Western Energy Companies Under Sabotage Threat · · Score: 2

    but I think a lot of engineers have an "I'm an engineer" mentality which makes them they're good at everything

    I got news for you. A lot of professionals are arrogant enough to to think they're qualified to perform another craft. Same thing goes for Doctors, Lawyers, and well, IT folk as well.

  19. Re:Not bad on Samsung Release First SSD With 3D NAND · · Score: 1

    Most importantly, the faster IO will shrink backup job runtime between daily delta changes. Winning! =)

  20. Re:Not the same. on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    I know it's fun to ejaculate inside or near women, but that three seconds of orgasmic joy isn't worth the 18 years of pain it costs.

    Not according to nature. You're living proof of that. We all are.

  21. Re:Legal Precedent? on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 1

    That, and they're typically dynamic. Fuck-a-duck! Anyone know of a free dynamic DNS alternative? Or is NoIP still preferred after DynDNS dropped their free legacy accounts? Perhaps free is gone and I should just pony-up and pay for an account.

  22. Re: One non-disturbing theory on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    UV light doesn't crack the molecules?

  23. Re:Obama on White House May Name Patent Reform Opponent As New Head of Patent Office · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He hates America. This isn't about left vs. right. This is Obama hating America! To him, America must be broken so it can be repaired is whatever sick and twisted vision he sees it; if at all. They guy is a narcissistic, sycophantic, psychopathic. pathological liar!

    Yeah, elections have consequences.

  24. Re:Specs On Paper & Buyer Mindset on Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing · · Score: 1

    Considering how many Android users tend to be the "build your own PC" crowd who are hardcore gadget people, the specs bloat appeals to them.

    I'm a PC builder, and have been for over 20+ years. My current rig is tuned and tweaked as needed or desired to maximize as much performance as I can without sacrificing stability. That said, I leave all that to the PC. For my cell, I stick with iPhone. First and foremost, I want a phone to be a phone with the smart function secondary. I don't want to trace battery usage issues, app crashes, compatibility, or other odd issues. My phone is tantamount to my lifeline to the world. The Android platform is a motley lump of specs, custom OS GUIs, apps, and quality that I'm DONE with it. Android is DEAD TO ME. If iPhone goes to shit, well, fuck it, I might as well get a flip phone at that point.

  25. Re:Embarrasment on Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing · · Score: 1

    2560x1600 small screen = Occcculus!! Ok, not really (response time is important), but the potential is enticing :)