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  1. Re:Valve vs NSA on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 1

    I trust Valve more than the NSA.

    Of course, becaues Valve has no actual power over me to get me sent to guantanimo.

    But still: LOW BAR!

  2. Re:"comprehensive access" on Australia and NSA Gain Comprehensive Access To Indonesian Phone System · · Score: 1

    I'm betting if Indonesia's phone system was only secured using a WEP encypted 802.11b router, we might be singing different praises.

  3. Re:Lifers? on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    If you were able to take off $50,000-250,000 per doctor per year in this country, the health-care costs would quickly fall in line.
    But people are too fucking greedy.

    Look into who makes money in the US health care system. It isn't the average doctors and nurses. It is the hospital administrators, and certain specializations.

  4. Re:D'oh! on NSA: Others Implicated in Making Snowden Data Leaks Possible · · Score: 1

    Just a tip, if a cute person leaves you a sticky note saying, "meetMeAfterWork!"...that might NOT be their password"

  5. Re:Irony on 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty · · Score: 2

    Usually trade marks are by business area. So a just as a candy company couldn't sue a software company...unless that candy company also made software.
    IANAL, that is the simplified version.

  6. Re:What has GPS got to do with it? on Australian Police Deploy 3D Crime Scene Scanner · · Score: 2

    Differential GPS has an accuracy about 10cm. Simply taking the location info on any thing of note might have been good enough for mapping basic crime scenes. Clearly, this is better, but also, more expensive.

  7. Re:Resolution on Google Earth's New Satellites · · Score: 1

    Just a guess, It might be more of a vertical integration answer than a quality of your local pictures one.

    If they have to get their map data from someone else, at what ever most-recent time is available, at what ever resolution is available-- it might be nicer to get more regular dumps data you have more control over from the same satellite.

  8. Re:Protecting businesses again? on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 2

    It's not the first time politics try to protect businesses, but it's hardly been THIS blatant before.

    Just after the civil war the big traincompanies lobbies the US federal goverment and recieved shit tons of money to build a transcontinental rail road. The companies convinced the enough people that it was in the best interest of the country to connect it together.

    What you'll see, if you look closer is a set of laws passed to ensure the train companies made money, mostly at the expense of tax payers. They manipulated stock prices. They used the power of where the railroad would go exactly to extract favorable land grands from localities. They pushed natives off the land. The term "Robber Barron" applies...

    There is a boring book that explains this in excruciating detail. "Railroaded" is like 700+ pages and has over 100 pages of citation if you are wondering where he got any of his information from.

    It also is that last time anyone in my office took a book recommendation from me.

  9. Re:Sponsored Firefox on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    They give the software away for free. Do you want to be paid to use it?

  10. Motors? on Tiny Motors Controlled Inside Human Cells · · Score: 1

    How are they motors? the derive all of their motive power from energy outside the cell ( ultrasonics and magenetic field). There are more like selective energy receivers.

    Oh. The original paper calls them, "Very active gold nanorods...". That makes much more [honest] sense.

  11. Re:What are they going to ban next? on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It doest seem stupid, but what other recorse is there when we're surrounded by the discourteous ? I fly all the time and I'm tired of getting into confrontatins with people who I'd like to turn their smart phone/laptop movie down or use earphones. I've had ass holes look me in the eye and just say, " It's not mine ".

    Part of the problem is me, I have some ADD, and I choose not to take medication, and I have a hard time tuning things out pretty much all the time. In 99% of my life I can avoid it by personal choice, my own earphones, etc. But when I'm stuck on public transportation, I don't have that luxary.

    Part of the problem is that this technology didn't exist when their parents were teaching them how to behave. So, we have problem where technology has outpaced common coutesy and politeness, and it is going to be a while before society catches up.

  12. Re:Reflective cockpit windows on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For which wavelength?

  13. Re:It's about time. on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    You haven't lived

  14. Re:Aer Lingus in flight entertainment on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    Same here! Except, somehow only _I_ locked up the in-flight entertainment machine trying to search for other people to play poker with and failsafe timer eventually rebooted the thing (just mine, not the whole plane).

  15. Re:Saw an interesting windows install once on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    I love a good random windows BSOD story as long as the next /. and linux geek; but it is a special kind non-sequitor to slam windows in discussion titled (and I'm paraphrasing here) "where have you seen linux? [ for funzies discussion only! ]"

  16. Relevent personal story on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 1

    When I was young, I went to visit NYC. I parked in the farthest location one could get on a Subway car to get there. The ticket machines were broken, but someone was there selling the day passes for basically the same price. Except they weren't selling the passes either, they were swiping you in. Of course, even though I was young and stupid, I realized after the hustle what had happened, and how it basically only works well because in NYC they didn't require a pass to get out of they system [ just to get into it]. -- they bought a whole bunch of passes that work multiple times (with some sort of lock-out period), and then broke the machines so anyone trying to get on at that entrance had to go through them.

  17. Re:redundancy on DDoS Larger Than the Spamhaus Attack Strikes US and Europe · · Score: 1

    The connection teaming/bonding firewall code should be able to mangle the source ip to match the outgoing connection's expected source IP. There should be no requirement to spoof the ip to go across a different network.

  18. Re:About beta. on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 0

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  19. Re:Excuse me... Excuse me?!!! on Many Lasers Become One In Lockheed Martin's 30 kW Laser Weapon · · Score: 1

    it get's even harder as the power goes up if your medium is atmospheric. There are multiple effects when pushing a shit ton of energy through air that disrupt the coherence of the bream.

  20. Re:As an Australian, on Australia OKs Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As an average American, I understand.

  21. Re:Dreaming of code? on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 1

    I agree, but I put it like this. 1 Million is enough for me to retire* 10-20 years earlier.

    *retire= take a pay cut for the job that I like better, as opposed to the job I have because it is the best choice for career advancement and I want to be able to send my kid to collage which I don't really know how much is going to cost.

  22. Re:I'm somewhat disturbed... on Federal Agency Data-Mining Hundreds of Millions of Credit Card Accounts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think a lot of people have credit cards they no longer use, forgot about, and haven't completly canceled. It wasn't until I got my first house, and so got a long form credit report, that I realized I had a credit card still open that I got in college....for a free t-shirt and CD.

  23. Re:This sentence no verb on Flying Snake Mysteries Revealed · · Score: 1

    Actually the verb of that sentence is "need".
    The subjects are the snakes. And they don't need.
    What don't they need ? "to be on the plane".

  24. Re:Sounds legit on Predicting the Risk of Suicide By Analyzing the Text of Clinical Notes · · Score: 1

    Clever and true, but...here is the difference between statistics and engineers who need statistics.

    Now all your mistakes are in the wrong direction. For different applications you will err on the side of False Alarm or Missed Detection. In this case, a false detection means you stages an unnecessary intervention (slightly costly / embarrassing, but at least they know you care); but, a missed detection literally means someone died.

    Basically this is the application of risk/reward to probability.

  25. Re:Hmm on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doesn't that kind of depend on your work?