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  1. Re:ah, scientists on Leaded Gas, CFCs, and the Dark Side of Progress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

  2. Re:Why fast ones are a bad idea on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This why it's bullshit when someone decides to switch words like shall and should. we'll need years of trust and seeing each other take steps before everying will be on board.

    And this is why hiding e-mails about climate research agendas and the details of that research is bullshit as well.

  3. Oh, I've seen beemer drivers. They use that power quite often.

  4. Re:Because Galaxies Operate At Glacial Speeds on Why Haven't the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Wound Up After All This Time? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    A light year is the distance it takes light to travel a year. So it is a measure of time,

    Strangely, it is exactly the same time as a slug-year. Coincidence? I think not!

  5. Because Santa Claus on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... won't bring you any presents. Or Jesus will cry if you are bad. Keep asking questions and your parents will just break down and yell at you, "Because I say so! And I'm bigger than you. So shut up and mind me, you little shit!"

    Keep asking the encryption question and you'll find out how far away from a democracy we've drifted. And when our government gives up with the b.s. stories and lays down the law, they'll do it with armed troops.

  6. Re:Two uses: political satire and something else on Create Your Favorite Actor From Nothing But Photos (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "slightly"?

  7. Nope. It's the spiders.

  8. Boeing takes every new airplane up on a 'shakedown flight'. I know. live right under their flight path (and I used to work there). I have an ADS-B receiver and I can see when they take off and turn right around to land again. Every once in a while, one flies over my house low and slow with the gear stuck down.

    Boeing's problem is that they don't do as much 'unit testing' as they used to. Slap it together, shove the pilot into the cockpit and go. If it comes back, deliver it. They are pretty good at making sure normal systems operations are OK through tight process controls. But passive faults have a tendency to slip through. You can't test the engine fire detection system (for example) by having an in-flight fire on every new airplane.

  9. Re:Tie up the phone line for two and a half hours on SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Millions of third world Internet users are being deprived of HD porn and cat videos.

  10. Re:Tie up the phone line for two and a half hours on SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    So, have the home office* burn a few CDs (or USB sticks) and circulate them around the field offices.

    *Assuming NGO staff can be buggered to stop watching cat videos for as long as this will take.

  11. Towed Sonar? on US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Now maybe there are a few things I don't understand about minesweeping. But it would seem to me that depending on a system which is towed behind a ship to detect things you don't want to run over with the ship isn't going to work very well. It's sort of like driving by looking in your rear view mirror [oblig. bad car analogy].

  12. Re:I don't see this as a problem, except for.... on SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And most of those relief agences are the ones that need it the most and can't afford to upgrade.

    Clicked 'Download Firefox Now'. Total cost: $0.

  13. North of Las Vegas? on Faraday Future Selects Las Vegas As Home For $1B Electric Car Factory (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a good idea. That's where that manhole cover is due to come back down.

  14. Re:ATT Fiber is Late? you're lucky you're getting on AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon stopped rolling out FIOS because they are a cell carrier.

    Fortunately, they ran it in my neighborhood before they figured that out. And then they sold their POTS/Fiber system to Frontier. I held out for a few years with ClearWire WiMax until Sprint went tits up and pulled the plug. So I switched to FIOS. The installation went well, particularly since I pulled a Cat 5 cable to the location of the network interface. The technician was quite happy about not having to crawl through another attic dragging a cable.

    One little complaint: The NID has battery backup. But evidently the fiber network does not. Because I lost my broadband during a 20 hour power outage. Damnit, even our traffic lights have battery backup!

  15. Re: Now combine that with parallel construction on FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with your example is that it is one of revealing related crimes being committed by people that law enforcement already has probable cause to watch. In reality, Stingrays pick up everything in an area. The vary rare major crime, plus a lot of minor stuff, like buying pot, untaxed booze and cigarettes from the reservation, etc. And for every Taliban finance deal, they uncover hundreds of minor incidents. And pretty soon, law enforcement figures that it makes more sense chasing the little stuff and getting good arrest statistics than they would just sitting on their hands, looking for the next San Bernardino. So they miss it.

    The courts can work around revealing law enforcement tactics for major crimes. So parallel construction isn't needed. Law enforcement wasting time and expensive equipment running down small time criminals and then hiding their expenditures from prosecutors is not in the public's best interest.

  16. Re:Too little, too late on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows server installs still outweighs Linux server installs.

    If you are counting processors or rack space occupied, undoubtedly. But if you have some metric that tells you how much work is done on either platform, Linux comes out ahead.

  17. Crikey! on FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    -- Steve Irwin (RIP)

  18. Re: Now combine that with parallel construction on FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    What the opponents of parallel construction seem to be arguing is that anything that results from anonymous tips is fruit of the poison tree and should be inadmissible until proven otherwise.

    Not really. Courts have ruled that evidence gathered in violation of Constitutional protections is fruit of the poisoned tree. Acting on tips is a gray area and resulting evidence may or may not have been collected illegally. That's an issue for the court to decide on a case by case basis. But parallel construction is essentially lying to the court. It impedes the judiciaries ability to properly vet the evidence collected.

  19. How do the native inhabitants of the land that the telescope is proposed to be built on feel about it?

    There's no way of knowing. Polynyesians came over and killed them all.

  20. Re:Yeah that's not going to matter. on NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the pedestrian safety rating is for mandating that a sharp, sheet metal blade be affixed to one's front bumper (a license plate).

  21. Re:You'd be raided too on Alleged Bitcoin Creator Raided By Australian Authorities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine if some pissed off neighbor or asshole co-worker reported to the IRS that you had four hundred million dollars' worth of undeclared capital gains.

    FTFY.

    Even boards like 4chan will respond to random requests to dox or raid someone with "Not your personal army." It's a shame the IRS (and other countries' revenue departments) can't rise to their standards of ethics.

  22. Re:You'd be raided too on Alleged Bitcoin Creator Raided By Australian Authorities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought Bitcoin was a commodity. Capital gains aren't realized until you sell them for actual money.

  23. Re:Great Article....uh... on Cybercriminals Learning To Filter Out Undercover Cops (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps they have blacklisted some Bitcoin based upon its previous seizure by law enforcement.

  24. Re:Interpretation of EPA Rules on The Death of Electronic Surplus (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    never met anyone from OSHA or even heard that such a person was on the premises.

    Well then, your first visit will be quite exciting when they whip out ANSI/ISA S82.02.01.

  25. Re:Doesn't die unless faced with air defense on B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Nothing can outrun modern air defense. That's what they figured out when they tried to design the first replacement for the B-52. The SR-71 had a good survival rate because its tactic for handling SAMs was to turn and run. But that's no good for a bombing mission.

    The solution is to use some sort of stand off weapon or missile. The launch platform doesn't have to be particularly fast or stealthy. It just gets close enough, dumps a load of cruise missiles and heads home. The weapons and mission profiles have changed so that the B-52 can accomplish such a task effectively. So the question isn't why the B-52 has been replaced by the latest high tech supersonic bomber. Why hasn't someone fit bomb and cruise missile racks to a long range military cargo plane (or even a 747) to solve the airframe age and maintainability problems?