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  1. Re:It is jsut so that they can re-create Peru on AutoCAD Worm Medre.A Stealing Designs, Blueprints · · Score: 1

    More likely that it is a fishing expedition and they really are after engineering documentation and technical drawings of a more secret kind. Building plans might have some useful bits to copy nut are likely to attract the kind of skills to create the worm. This could very well be just the first version. M$ windows and the applications running on top of it seem to have become the vector for wide ranging worms, viruses and trojans released by government espionage agencies running Linux ie they are safe screw everyone else. In wide ranging global fishing expeditions just to see what they can get, with no regard for unintended consequences. US lead the way into what is likely to cause M$ a lot of security based fiscal harm.

  2. Re:Age on Two UK Lulzsec Suspects Plead Guilty To DDoS Charges · · Score: 1, Troll

    For many months it was the FBI running the show and were actively enticing minors into committing criminal acts, which were carried. Note, the FBI also did criminally fail to charge Hector Xavier Monsegur with the serious charge of child abuse for recruiting and leading minors in criminal acts, making those FBI agents guilty of being accessories after the fact and conspiring to obstruct the course of justice, the FBI even lied in court about Hector Xavier Monsegur role, reducing his lead role of child abusing leader to just some abstract 'participant'. Serious crimes for which the FBI has yet to be challenged. Should the UK now force the extradition of Hector Xavier Monsegur and charge him with child abuse for recruiting and leading minors in criminal acts, the law is clear in this matter and UK police are just as guilty, charging at the time minors who where victims of Hector Xavier Monsegur with the criminal acts that Hector Xavier Monsegur, researched, lead and provided the tools to commit.

  3. Re:Playing the Devil's advocate here... on State Media Rushing Into Coverage Void Left By Dying Newspapers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am sorry but, I want to choose what news I want for what ever interests me at the moment even backwater God-forsaken parts of the world like the Southern United States. Sometimes it's interesting and sometimes it's not, the parts that aren't interesting at the time I simply don't read. Internet news it's about being a global news provider, about competing supplying the 'TRUTH' globally.

    Truth is important as the internet really does bite back when you lie, sometimes it takes longer than other times but unlike old world media rules when lies were forgotten, new internet rules means you get caught out for the lies eventually and lose readers as a result, no likes to be lied to except US Republican voters.

    So give me it all, in full detail about the whole globe, and let me choose at the time which parts I find interesting and which I will skip by. Give me good head stories with variety to see if they spark my interest, every country in the world, in full detail and I will choose what I am interested in when. Often picking up on something occurring in another part of the world no matter how obscure or God forsaken like Southern USA, 'BEFORE' it occurs at home is truly beneficial.

    Corporations making record profits, unemployment, never ending pollution incidents, police out of control, political corruption, advertising as news, endless celebrity crap, no matter how repetitious US news has become the clown show is still fascinating 'at times'.

  4. Re:this is new how? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    I think I was pretty clear about being a non-tourist to the US and irradiating and grouping minors, well, that pretty much guarantee that it will never occur, there are just so many better places to travel too. China, Russia, Cuba, most of South America (excluding Columbia too much US influence) are all preferable, let alone most of Europe, Japan, Australia and even Canada (although it is getting a little too close). USA as a travel destination is getting worse and worse by the month, Barack Obama has managed to make it even worse than The Shrub and Darth Cheney, quite an achievement for The Betrayer.

  5. Re:Extradition? WTF? on Jimmy Wales Calls UK Government To Halt O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1

    The crazy UK extradition extends beyond the US to many other other countries. What the purpose was of such a ludicrous extradition one way extradition treaty where basically any request and pretty much any poor person is immediately handed over, leaving it to the government of the day being the only body that can limit extradition.

  6. Re:There's no WAR here on How the Militarization of the Internet is Changing Warfare · · Score: 1

    It will also be the excuse for the licensing of access to the internet, for introduction broad restriction of use for 'national security reasons', for creating the new term 'internet terrorists' and, for the creating of no internet access lists for national security reasons. It all starts now.

  7. Re:this is new how? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you are a tourist you are screwed. The US government itself recommends you leave your passport in the hotel safe rather than risk losing it and the problem and time required to obtain a replacement. The obvious problem is as a foreign tourist in Arizona if you get robbed and your passport is stolen, should you attempt to report it you will immediately be arrested placed in privatised for profit prison for lack of identification, forcing you to leave the state prior to reporting the crime or simply avoiding the state along with the rest of the US just to be safe.

  8. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    Only in wildly looney tunes crazy crap land do export restrictions apply to imported products from countries that have no export restriction to suspected targeted import countries in question, especially when it comes to tech toys. Just to be clear Farsi is spoken in the following countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farsi.

  9. Re:Not necessarily weaponizable.... on Laser Treatment For Earth-Bound Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Untraceable crop fires, bush fires, wild fires, would be sufficient and it can keep them up. What happens when the bulk of a countries wheat goes up in flames as a result of well scattered spot fires, the cause of which can not be found. Basically no government can be trusted with weapons in space especially not the missile firing drones government of the US targeting sounds like, looks like and even when actually evidence of the results proves that it wasn't, terrorists (which the US then lies about because it looks better, fuck justice). Would the US government use the technology to target ground targets when it suits insane narcissistic ideology of one President with a kill list like Obama, absolutely.

  10. Re:That pay is just for the first few months on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the point of working if you are not earning a living wage, seriously, why? Who would you be fooling working eight hours a day five days a week basically pointlessly, can't afford health insurance, can't afford a reasonable place to live, can barely afford to sustain yourself only sufficiently to be able to turn up for work. Why work within that system when logically your only hope of a future is to rebel against it, especially when you see all those cheats, liars and thieves wallowing around at the top of it.

  11. Re:Translation on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    I think you misspelled greed as malice. Lawyers like that a quite simply totally and utterly indifferent to the harm they cause and are only interested in their own bonuses. The whole world can burn as long as they get paid, once they get paid then they'll worry how to get out of the way of the flames. Worthless individuals who infest all political parties whose only concern is how much money they can make by being involved in politics, from Obama on down, the Democrats have become infested with narcissistic lawyers whose only concerns are their egos and bonuses. They all need to be tarred and feathered and run out on a rail, figuratively speaking of course.

  12. Re:BSG Defense on Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies · · Score: 1

    In this case simply stop using M$ Windows, problems largely over. Hidden faults and bugs in windows become somebody else's problem in fact, it enables the alteration and re-release of those programs to attack American corporations and institutions, at least those running M$ Windows.

  13. Re:Shocking... on Older Means Wiser To Computer Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's be a bit more honest about it, one bitten twice shy and for many older people involved in security, twice and even thrice bitten. Security consciousness is more unfortunately largely driven by security failures. Even when an individual is more security conscious the rest of the company bucks and baulks at the security requirements, routinely finding ways to get around them, until of course the company network is compromised a few times as a result. Security reduces productivity and is an inconvenience but it does not reduce productivity as much as a security failure.

  14. Re:Why would anyone care? on Bryson Crash Reveals Threat of Headless Government · · Score: 2

    Should an unelected public official even be in line for an elected position. Shouldn't all those positions in the administration be filled by elected representatives drawn from the senate and congress.

  15. Re:Link, please? on The World's First Supercavitating Boat? · · Score: 1

    So spend millions and millions more at the behest of lobbyists and corrupt politicians and you will achieve this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle except it will be slower, clumsier and waste a whole lot more fuel. So useful for breaking technical water speed records but beyond that pretty much pointless.

  16. Re:Zune or Xbox? on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    As it happens I have seen the surface TV ad, makes absolutely no sense something to do with bubbles of mercury? conforming to a surface, a real WTF, then a screen that can stand up and a detachable keyboard, typical Uncle Fester has no idea what he is selling no how to sell it. They better go bakc to the marketing drawing board, if not they are in for a major FU.

    Here's a hint M$ numb nuts, ensure surface is water proof and show people playing with it all kinds of locations, at the beach, in the park, out hiking, camping and then at home showing it's control capabilities, TV, air-conditioning, power monitoring, security system and placing grocery orders.

  17. Re:Too lazy to do more research on The Ineffectiveness of TSA Body Scanners - Now With Surveillance Camera Footage · · Score: 2

    Highly profitable. Failure also helps profitability, just ask Gates and Ballmer, it's called upgrades.

  18. Re:for artists? on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    Copy restriction is of course a completely artificial construct. You are not denying anyone any 'thing'. The only way you can steal in reality via copying is to force some one to do the copying for you, to steal the effort of copying. The completely artificial construct of copying completely denies the societal knowledge required to generate the initial version.

    No human being is capable of producing content separate from the input, knowledge and understanding provided by the rest of human society apart from pretty much apart from shit smears of leaves. They have no language to draw from, no kernel of understanding from which creativity can sprout, basically they have nothing to communicate to no one.

    The public domain, the creative commons provides them the critical input they need to create, also and never to be forgotten. When it comes to society providing the economic support to content creation, to creating artificial value to something that does not support society and parasitically draws value off society, how much value, how much economic activity content creation can draw from the actual necessities of human societies needs to be controlled.

    Much like all other parasites, if artificial value assigned content creation 'copying' becomes too great it starves the society and everyone suffers including the parasite. Extending copyright, attempting criminal penalties, pushing the cost of civil infringements upon the rest of society is bad enough by far worse is pretending advertising is news, corrupting democracy, disrupting human morality for profit, psychologically damaging and manipulative marketing and of course the continuous active promotion and distribution of lies.

    Based upon it's current behaviour there is substantial reason to purposefully bankrupt all content creation, have free slather of copying for say a decade and then allow a new much reduced model to emerge.

  19. Re:Obvious solution on NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about if you are targeting specific people and their families for illicit references to be used in blackmail and extortion to ensure you get your political way. So searches to references to drug terms, prostitution, bribery, even comments that reflect their true beliefs rather than the masquerade. So who are the NSA protecting what secrets are they keeping secret because they can use them to their advantage, not only to keep say the CIA and NSA in control but when those people leave, to enrich them as private contractors.

    This is a case of one thing leading to another. How many peoples privacy did they invade ie not all, then how where those people selected, what pattern was used for the targeted invasion of privacy. What information was gathered and who had access to that information and what information was destroyed including records of who had access to that information.

    Should there not be an audit to substantiate that it all wasn't a huge blackmail and extortion intelligence gathering campaign.

  20. Re:Parallel world. on How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The main reason G+ 'appears' to be stumbling is because it is Google, people expect it to win overnight. Google didn't beat Alta Vista and MSN overnight, it took some years and all G+ has to do is continue, refine and improve in favour of the customer, while Facebook is forced to continue to squeeze the screws on the customers to increase revenue and the result will be inevitable, it wont happen overnight and Google can still screw it up but if they or someone else work solidly and carefully at it, just like Myspace, Facebook will die as a fad.

  21. Re:Stupid on Hacked Companies Fight Back With Controversial Steps · · Score: 2

    More accurately "What are you going to do, DDOS some script-kiddie's rotating IPv4 address" and attack some innocent bystander who has a capped download limit and must pay excess charges for downloads and uploads, not only blocking them from using the internet but also having to pay for excess usage charges.

    There is only one active response to be considered, gather all the evidence, reduce the risk of the attack but allow it to continue, contact the appropriate authorities supply the evidence and demonstrate the continuing attack isolated to a safe zone. Consult with the police as necessary to resolve the issue.

    Consider if those make an error in a retaliatory strike only to take on an innocent party who takes the appropriate legal active response, once the idiots who launched a retaliatory strike have been busted, it will be interesting to see how indulgent the judge will be to the excuse of "but I was only seeking revenge" when assigning an appropriate prison sentence.

  22. Re:I don't see the outrage on Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers · · Score: 1

    The laws must have changed because I had to pay GST to have DVD's from Amazon US released from bond warehouse prior to completion of delivery in Adelaide. So perhaps in your case they might have missed the 'purchase' and simply taken it as a personal delivery and only applied GST beyond a perceived $1000 dollar value, either the laws changed or 'umm' you cheated the tax man.

  23. Re:Future of Education on The $100 Masters Degree From Udacity · · Score: 1

    First up marketing lie "$100 degrees" is a lie, note "Pearson VUE which will offer a secure testing environment so that, if a student chooses, they can be certified as having taken Udacity classes". No certification, no degree and no details on cost of certifications let's guess many thousands of dollars (each and every course over a four year period, including repeat charges for failures, come in suckers).

    Basically online courses are pretty empty and should be largely free. Online tutorial, with webcams, where you interact with other students and an experienced tutors should be paid for. Certification costs that part that means you actually get a degree should be declared up front, in total, none of this bullshit snark $100 degrees (where each failure in certification means they make more, retesting).

  24. Re:Sad... on Nokia Seeks More Leverage In the Forever Mobile Patent War · · Score: 1

    Take a deep breath and consider that the commenter did that detailed layout of faults for 'FREE'. How much effort do you demand they do. Obviously two things are going on here M$ has had to cripple the OS to squeeze it in due to infamous Windows bloat and you can just imagine Uncle Fester screaming upgrades, upgrades, upgrades, features left out on purpose to be sold in the next upgrade.

    I remember when people said all these bullshit patents were defensive patents. Well guess what, douche bag lawyers are douche bag lawyers and they ain't making any money without patent wars, hence, we now have patent wars and the only winners are lawyers. The USPTO wins again as managed by corrupt US administrations, largely run by lawyers for lawyers.

    Nokia seems to be in it's death throws as seemingly done on purpose by it's current executive team, being turned into a cheap patent sell off company likely to create a worthless bidding war, big bonus for psychopathic executive team and everyone else is looking at being fired over the long run.

  25. Re:I don't see the outrage on Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers · · Score: 1

    Seems rather clumsy with a Goods and Services tax requirements, Centrelink simply needs to keep track of that. The Tax Department can simply set up a team to specifically monitor online auctions to ensure GST is being paid, EBay has zero rights to privacy with regards to ensuring payment of appropriate taxes. It will be fairly easy to track lack of GST payments (very likely) or GST payments and link that to social welfare payment fraud and Centrelink already has ties to the taxation department. Paypal and any other online payment schemes also need to be tracked, Paypal also has no right to privacy when it comes to payment of appropriate taxes.

    Easiest way to stitch them up and force compliance, when in doubt with regards to paying Goods and Services taxes, make the enabler to Goods and Services tax avoidance schemes pay the tax or point the finger at whom should be paying the tax. Corporate greed will soon have those executives naming and shaming, bless their greedy little hearts.