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  1. Re:Easier method: drive a manual on Your Brain Waves Are a Password: How Your Next Car Will Check You're Not a Thief · · Score: 1

    Better yet: A knob on the dashboard labeled "Choke". Figure that one out, kids.

  2. Al Gore on Cisco Can't Shield Customers From Patent Suits, Court Rules · · Score: 1

    It sounds like TR has patented something that is a basic property of the Internet (routing protocols) and its predecessor, the ARPAnet. So doesn't Al Gore hold the patent rights to all this stuff?

    Seriously, one of the design principles of IP routing is that it 'routes around damage' (or censorship). So what novel innovation has TR contributed to this?

  3. Re:Hard work is the best teacher on Study Shows Professors With Tenure Are Worse Teachers · · Score: 1

    One of the "best" instructors I had in college was a professor who was absolutely worthless. He'd spend the entire class scribbling equations on the blackboard, rarely turn around to address the class and never allow an interruption, either for a question or to point out where he'd fucked something up 10 minutes ago. So anyone that wanted to get anything out of the class (a 400 level requirement for my major) had to take the textbook home and figure it all out for themselves.

  4. Re:Are they responsible for the content, then? on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 1

    Criminal law is not subject to private arbitration. Wiretapping is not a civil dispute.

  5. Re:3 weeks on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    I've got an EeePC with an SSD. Bought back in 2008. Still runs fine.

  6. Re:No Such Agency on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    And how do you know who is from the NSA and who is working for the FSB or some other foreign agency? Do they have badges? And what do they look like? Is there a number I can call to verify whether someone claiming to be an NSA employee actually is? As far as I know, the NSA has no status as a law enforcement agency.

    Until then, I'm just going to shoot any seedy looking people sneaking around our data center.

  7. Re:Are they responsible for the content, then? on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 1

    Verizon possesses editorial discretion only over the content it creates. Not over the communications I engage in over its network with a third party. Eavesdrop on that communications and Verizon will find itself in criminal violation of federal wiretapping law.

  8. Re:WTF? on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1

    Right. But that's easy to fix. Just lock the HF trader out following such an aborted transaction. Give them a phone number to call. This will connect them with an individual* at the SEC, who will take the elevator down to the server room, log in to thee system and manually reset their account. That will happen a couple of times and then the entire HFT game will be over.

    *Some old guy who doesn't move very fast.

  9. Re:Increasing friction can increase fairness on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1

    Driving with your left foot on the brake.

  10. Bad Analogy on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity? · · Score: 1

    I equate it to not needing a college degree to work at Walmart.

    Somebody at Walmart has a college degree. Perhaps not you, but then that's why you are a greeter and they are somewhere higher up the management chain making big bucks. Is this person a 'rock star'? I don't know, but I imagine that a few of them might be. These would be the sorts of people who cook up innovative marketing deals or supplier contracts. They are the ones that keep customers walking in your doors, where you work.

    If you think your business doesn't have anything greater then a 6 or 7 level of complexity, perhaps there is a competitor out there with a level 10 idea who will take your market away from you.

  11. Re:and like many Italian sports cars on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 2

    All you people can think about is speed. I'm waiting for a nice, economical hybrid. At 78 mpg, this beats a Prius (in more ways than one).

  12. Re:My Mazerati does 185 on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 1

    The real joy is that once you are above about 150 feet, you don't have to worry so much about running into stuff

    The 500 kV power line towers out behind my place are taller than that. You'd make a nice plasma arc.

  13. Re:What about on TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lasers not in the company of sharks appear to be OK.

  14. Re:To see who rules over you... on NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel · · Score: 1

    Yes, dear.

  15. Re:NSL delivery on How To Foil NSA Sabotage: Use a Dead Man's Switch · · Score: 1

    But if the sender isn't whitelisted, it gets decrypted in the /pub folder. Disabling this function triggers the net warrant canary.

  16. Meanwhile ... on NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... Jonathan Pollard is sitting in his cell saying, "Guys? WTF?!"

  17. Re:What do you have to hide? on NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel · · Score: 1

    What do you have to hide!?

    Posted AC.

  18. Re:Weather? Really? on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 0

    Right. Weather is a day-to-day phenomenon which could be hot, cool, trend up or down. Climate is something entirely different and unrelated to weather. Its a thing we have to take on faith that we are damaging beyond repair even when weather trends the other way.

  19. Re:NIST required by statute to consult with NSA on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    NIST is also required by statute to consult with the NSA.

    NIST: "Here's what we are going to do."
    NSA: "But, but, but......."
    NIST: "Now fuck off and die. You have been consulted with."

    Its either that or NIST should be out of the encryption standards loop.

  20. Re:NSL delivery on How To Foil NSA Sabotage: Use a Dead Man's Switch · · Score: 1

    I can give my friends a public key with which they can securely communicate with me. The government has to do so in plain text.

  21. Re:Betteridge's law on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Use metalized tape. Like the aluminum film stuff you are supposed to use on ducts instead of duct tape.

  22. NSL delivery on How To Foil NSA Sabotage: Use a Dead Man's Switch · · Score: 1

    Make the only method of contact with your organization a public drop box. Put a note on your web page: "Place all correspondence in /pub". If anyone wants to see what you've been served with, there it is.

    I don't have to provide anyone with a confidential channel over which to contact me. I'm part of The Public". If you speak to me, you have already made your disclosure a matter of public record.

  23. Re:Whey do they need real-time results? on New X Prize Quest: Sensors To Probe Oceanic Acid Levels · · Score: 2

    So set up an autonomous buoy with standard instrumentation and a sampling tube/pump system suspended to the depths of interest. One could either use a series of tubes set to fixed depths or one with inlet valves at various points. Solar powered on the surface with a satellite uplink.

    Send my $2 mill. to the local pub. I'll be running a tab.

  24. Re:Your Global Warming Conspiracy on New X Prize Quest: Sensors To Probe Oceanic Acid Levels · · Score: 3, Funny

    And are they hiring?

  25. Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a copyright attorney!