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  1. Set up Clinton's Server: "Just Do It!" on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 0

    I can imagine the demands and the lack of discussion, as Hillary doesn't get into pedantic stuff like data security.

  2. Motion Detectors & Camera Outside! on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 2

    Sounds a lot better to me.

  3. Re:Filed under... on Make Those Brown Eyes Blue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And people with blue eyes get more eye damage from bright sunlight.

    Messing with my eyes is not my idea of being safe.

  4. Re:Not a U-Turn at ALL on EU Free Data Roaming, Net Neutrality Plans In Jeopardy · · Score: -1

    Ur modded "0", but it is true. Take a look at Obama's new "Net Neutrality." Over 300 hundred pages. You know we are going to pay and pay.

  5. Re:no doubt living in Russia sucks on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    Seems like Snowden could have a good chance of negotiating while in Russia. Negotiate for what is the issue.

    Snowden might as well play hardball and negotiate for employment back at the NSA. He obviously knew a lot more than his bosses.

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    Hang up now; it's over.

  6. All of HIllary's recipients knew ... on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But NONE of the government recipients or people who used to be in government notified any authorities in the US Government that Hillary was violating the rules that they had to follow. So are they all complicit in breaking the law?

    Given that private email accounts are not likely secure, how is it that other government official would send sensitive and sometimes secret materials to a private email account of Hillary's. That would also make any government official who sent official emails to Hillary guilty for not following the law.

    Just another example of the fact we must follow the law or get hammered by government departments, but when the Clinton's violate law, it's just time for another spin job from Bill & Hillary: "What difference does it make?" with arms raised and screeching. God help the US.

  7. Attention Seekers, too. on Blackphone 2 Caters To the Enterprise, the Security-Minded and the Paranoid · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not just for "Security minded & paranoid."

    "Security minded" people either don't carry cell phones or use plain burner phones housed in tin boxes when not in use and throw them away quickly.

  8. Notify CTO, CFO & CEO offices on How Do You Handle the Discovery of a Web Site Disclosing Private Data? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those people will definitely take your info and get it acted upon.

  9. Re:Star Wars! on 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit · · Score: 1

    People forget that these satellites have thrusters to adjust orbit & that typically have combustible propulsion fluids.

  10. Re:Skewed Results on Research Suggests That Saunas Help You Live Longer · · Score: 1

    Indeed, candidate selection has as much to do with outcomes as anything else when you select only 2000 people for your study. What is the mix or city dwellers, office workers, those having outdoor activities, daily walks or not, healthy diets & drugs or not? It can get iffy real quick.

    I can believe the researchers tried to get a mixed profile, but it would be good to read the participant selection survey results.

  11. Re:And no one cares on Google Taking Over New TLDs · · Score: 1

    And half those sort of "new generation" searchers won't know half the time if they are redirected to a phony site.

  12. Monopolistic: Do no evil? on Google Taking Over New TLDs · · Score: 1

    Google is just trying to bully the world for its own interest; not unusual at all. Now will ICANN put its foot down or will every other Fortune 500 company do the same thing and subvert the intention of the creation of new TLDs?

  13. Living Positively on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    Kids need to understand how to be able to accomplish to the limit of their ability for themselves, their family and profession. To do that they need to have the knowledge & self-control to stay healthy in all ways, in spite of peer pressures today.

    Kids also need to understand how to deal with loss as it is a part of life and that is difficult to comprehend when young. Maybe it can be stated in a positive light, "Now we both know we have a limited time together, we can focus on important things so you can get the most out of your life."

    Helping a child to accomplish something significant really does stick with kids. Steve Jobs told how much he appreciated what he learned from his step-dad in understanding how to build things and why they had to be done "right." Each kid is different.

  14. Re:Refuse to decrypt your "image" & Jail on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    Accidental loss of PGP keys and then what?

    Once you have keys the law will no doubt say you have to turn them over. But what if your hard drive blew up or you lost your computer or worse, the NSA stole your computer to frame you?

    "Guilty and sentenced to jail until the victim, er uh defendant gives up his keys!"

  15. Refuse to decrypt your "image" & Jail on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    The NSA says your photo has a hidden message done by Steganography. You say no and they LOCK YOU UP.

    This is a guaranteed way to silence &/or stop anyone in society who the government disagrees with.

  16. Re:Dear Michael Rogers, Putin will have the keys on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once a back door exists, all power hungry countries will find the keys.

  17. Re:Sensational headline on Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You · · Score: 2

    Fix: use library computers for sensitive searches.

  18. Re:As in, Lung Cancer? on Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You · · Score: 1

    So you wondered, as a long time smoker, why you were denied a Life Insurance policy or maybe a job?

  19. Re:Take your space, except in Santa Ana on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    Knock down a homie and you could visit the morgue.

  20. Re: Umm... Lulz.Markets will Rule on Will Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Support Cryptocurrency In Greece? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Prediction is Greece will exit the EU because of inefficient use of all forms of resources. They have been pseudo-socialist giveaway state for so long w/1 in 3 workers working for the state's institutions, they've collectively forgotten market economics is what runs countries effectively.

    Venezuela is the prime example of wasteful redistribution policies by a government which collapse a society (military takeover is next.)

    Greece will change fairly soon and it will be somewhat painful or they will deteriorate toward Venezuela's position, in which case it will impoverish Greece's working class.

  21. The younger generation will eventually rule! on Iran Allows VPNs To Make Millions In Profit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Christian Amanpour, a journalist, who visited her young relatives in Iran when journalists could finally return to Iran, talked with young relatives. She noted those young people just wanted to finish their education and get jobs, homes and families just like their relative who were in Europe; who they communicate with using VPNs, of course.

    The young people in Iran are generally sharp and educated (more on VPNs than US kids) and they will eventually change Iran. Even the top leader recently noted they need to break up the monopolies in Iran (read controlled by the Republican Guard) so more innovation and business activity can grow & create more jobs.

    Right now, many women in Iran, given half a chance, escape to Europe and never come back. Iran will change whether the Mullahs like it or not.

  22. Re:One of these days Mother Nature is going to dec on Drug-Resistant Malaria May Pose Major Threat · · Score: 2

    Agree with your 3-5% mortality. I find it astonishing that 1 in 3 people were estimated to have contracted the flu. Virtually all people were exposed, so that means they must have had prior antibodies.

  23. Re:One of these days Mother Nature is going to dec on Drug-Resistant Malaria May Pose Major Threat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed, major pandemics have been documented throughout the last 2000 years. Air travel today, just means they happen much faster.

    The average person thinks modern medicine and hospitals can "take care of everything" but plans can't be made when a pandemic strikes 20 or 25% of the population who all want to go to the hospital in the same time period.

    The WWI-1918 "Spanish Flu" was perhaps the last major pandemic, infecting 1 out of 3 people in the world and killing 10% of the world's population in about 18 months.

  24. Consumers need to walk on Homeland Security Urges Lenovo Customers To Remove Superfish · · Score: 1

    or Run away from companies that literally attempt to cause consumers security problems and consumers should never come back. That's the only way companies are going to learn to be buyer/customer oriented.

  25. Reality Flip Switch on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 2

    ALL bubbles end badly as they are doomed to burst from day one.

    Booms work on psychology of crowds until some unseen actor "flips the switch."