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  1. Since when... on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...did having the legal right matter to the NSA? Or recent governments, for that matter...

  2. No battlebots tag on Robot SmackDowns Wants To Bring Robot Death Matches To an Arena Near You · · Score: 1

    Or, Battletech.

  3. Re:lack of interest on Aaron's Law Is Doomed and the CFAA Is Still Broken · · Score: 1

    There are a thousand laws where "lack of interest amongst the general population" was no obstacle to getting them passed.

    Not when there are buckets of lobbyist cash propelling them...

  4. Um... on CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair · · Score: 1

    Seriously, who gives a shit? Our country looses far too many qualified people based on the standards of the prudish... It seems that an affair is an issue between an individual and their spouse, not the individual and their work.

  5. Re:I wouldn't say that on Trion Worlds' Rift Account Database Compromised · · Score: 1

    All companies are concerned with preventing attacks, but often the business is not interested in investing in security. In my experience, it's always hard to internally "sell" risk, until it becomes a reality and the brand is damaged.

  6. Magna-Tiles on Thought-Provoking Gifts For Young Kids? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Unseen 'Mechs? on New MechWarrior Announced, MechWarrior4 To Be Distributed Free · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, Catalyst Games Labs (who now have the rights for the Battletech game) have secured the rights for the Unseen again. The classic "Robotech" mechs are all available again in Battletech. http://catalystgamelabs.com/2009/06/24/catalyst-game-labs-brings-back-unseen/

  8. Re:Insert standard replies here... on A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology · · Score: 5, Informative

    Advanced Placement. It's a program offered by the College Board that allows high school students to receive college credit for courses completed in high school, teaching college-level curriculum, and evaluated by a test (that the College Board administers and scores). The number of credits and exact course translation toward your university is usually determined by your AP test score (on a scale of 1-5). Shaved close to a year off college with these puppies :)

  9. Re:Maybe you should have done a fucking search of on 1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh good! A member of the Fry's customer service team has joined the discussion!

  10. Re:The decline of ethics????? on Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn · · Score: 1

    That's a terribly classist thing to say. Why do you assume that poor people have a lower standard of moral fiber? Ken Lay told me so?
  11. Re:Don't use tape! on Digital Media Archiving Challenges Hollywood · · Score: 1

    Capacity of hard disks is nothing like capacity of magnetic tape. At Fermilab, we use tape because it'd be a real PITA to put dozens of petabytes on hard disks. CERN will soon have an even bigger problem in this regard.

    This is the reason why tape will be some component of a digital archive until a new technology emerges that offers this economy of scale. I work in the media asset management field, and we're talking about archive quality, uncompressed bitrates which can yield up to 6TB/hr of data for 4k DCI (that's video alone). Sun Microsystems and a post-production company, Elektrofilm announced a partnership and pending product at NAB (Daily Variety) and seem to be pouring a lot of money and development into the technical and operational issues associated with this type of archive.

    Systems like this will have to manage hundreds of thousands of hours of content at the same quality that existing film and video tape technologies are capable of, while maintaining the same diversity or workflows, and timeframes. Nothing of this scale has existed outside of the government space, and it's a much more complex issue than simple raw storage capacity. A single studio's library can represent hundreds of petabytes of data depending on the bitrate, and nothing outside of a tiered storage system with an HSM is capable of doing this economically, while still managing data integrity, the extreme throughput needed to move that volume of data in real-time, and the tools to manage the metadata.

  12. Re:TI-89 Platinum on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 4, Informative

    For programs on the HP calcs, look no further than www.hpcalc.org.

  13. Re:Next Stop: Mandatroy Information Pollution on Googling for CIA Agents · · Score: 1, Troll

    They already do. It's called Fox News...

  14. That's impossible! on China Plans Deep Impact Mission · · Score: 4, Funny

    After all, nudging a comet with enough accuracy to hit a point on the earth would take unheard of mathematical precision, requiring millions of skilled... oh, wait, never mind...

  15. Obligatory Simpsons on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    "Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best thing...block it out!"

  16. What gets scanned... on Give Your DVD Player The Finger · · Score: 1

    to unlock p0rn?