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  1. You Insensitive Clod! on California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates · · Score: 1

    My truck is over 30 years old. It doesn't have a CAN bus. And the fuse feeding the GPS/modem keeps blowing.

  2. This whole shared genetics thing ... on Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA · · Score: 1

    ... had to be posted by someone named Kentucky?

  3. Wow! Just like ... on New Ship Will Remain Stable By Creating Its Own Inner Waves · · Score: 2

    ... lots of high end yachts.

    This has been done for a few years now. Fuel and potable water tanks in the ships sides connected via pipes with computer controlled valves. Some sailboats include pumps to actively move liquid to the windward side tanks to decrease heeling.

  4. So now ... on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 1

    ... the militants know that we are on to them. And they can adjust their command and control procedures to avoid future detection. And for what? Some positive spin on the NSA's antics?

    FFS, this is what they are supposed to be doing. Not screwing around, feeding the DEA the lowdown on pot deals or handing the IRS lists of overseas bank accounts.

  5. Re:Extracting nutrients on Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients · · Score: 2

    From my understanding of the article, more efficient gut bacteria convert food into forms more readily burned and less stored as fat.

  6. Half? on 'Half' of 2012's Extreme Weather Impacted By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    But which half?

    Half of my coin flips are influenced by some mysterious force causing them to come up heads. Or is it tails?

  7. Sounds like ... on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 1

    ... Gundam. The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture have been covering up their involvement in this technology, so that might be a good place to start looking. Why not contact them?

  8. Oblig Dilbert on Survey: Most IT Staff Don't Communicate Security Risks · · Score: 2

    here.

  9. Are you referring to the DSS? I'm sure they are a user of this intelligence product. But they have a limited charter: To conduct investigations related to DoD contractors and personnel. As such, they usually don't get involved with members of the general public unless they fall into one of the above categories. I say 'usually', because its logically the same as you contacting a foreign national. Your communications will be intercepted. Likewise, if you communicate with an employee of the DoD (who has been informed that a condition of their employment will be such monitoring) they get your side of the conversation as well.

  10. Re:A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. on Schneier: The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet, We Need To Take It Back · · Score: 1

    They don't need to break the encryption when they literally own the wires.

    But that's the whole point of encryption. You don't trust the wires, so you secure communications over them.

    They already have back-doors in the certificate infrastructure,

    That's the bigger problem. Hierarchical structures are easy to break if one can attack a few points and get many keys. Peer-to-peer structures are more difficult to crack, as one has to go after a large number of peers. And between two trusted peers, there is no third party that can be subverted. I'm certain this is one reason for the continued propaganda campaign against peer-to-peer protocols. If you are using one, you must be trading ripped CDs, illegal copies of movies, CP, etc. And why the government interferes with operations like Apple's Facetime peer-to-peer operation using NSA fronts.

  11. Re:Just one question? on Schneier: The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet, We Need To Take It Back · · Score: 1

    Terrorists? Who said anything about terrorists?

    This is all about tracking you. To make sure you aren't downloading songs and movies. Or keeping an offshore bank account. Or underbidding one of the government's buddies.

  12. Tough Guys on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    From TFA:

    The secrecy of their capabilities against encryption is closely guarded, with analysts warned: "Do not ask about or speculate on sources or methods."

    Speculate away. What are they going to do? Assassinate you? And how long do you think the public would put up with that nonsense? You TLA boys will get defunded and your toys taken away. Then NSA will truly mean "No Such Agency".

    3000 deaths every dozen years? We can live with that. al Qaida isn't even as dangerous as Detroit.

  13. Re:Ummm what? on Outsourced Manufacturing Plant Maintenance Creates IT Opportunities (Video) · · Score: 2

    The large, sweaty men are all working in the server room.

  14. The pickup truck said ... on Nuclear Trashmen Profit From Unprecedented US Reactor Shutdowns · · Score: 1

    ... Sanford and Son.

  15. Re:Song Order Matters on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 1

    If you don't want users rearranging or skipping tracks, you can record them all as a single track, like Jethro Tull did.

  16. Re:Get Past The Bucks on Team Oracle Penalized For America's Cup Rules Violations · · Score: 1

    I prefer one design racing. Not so dependent on outspending your opponents, since everyone gets the same boats. So it comes down to selecting a team, training, tactics, etc.

  17. Re:Wireless sucks on How Africa Will 'Leapfrog' Wired Networks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With wired, you have a dedicated pipe right to your computer.

    Dedicated from the street into your home. Further out than that, you are sharing the cable or fiber with your entire neighborhood. And if the operator decides they want to reserve more bandwidth for on demand TV or whatever, you get squeezed onto what is left. Along with all the porn downloading, BitTorrenting gamers in town.

    Wireless is great because all the bandwidth hogs hate it and leave it alone.

  18. Re:A common language on Writing Documentation: Teach, Don't Tell · · Score: 2

    peaked before the new developerl.

    Freudian slip much?

  19. Re:This was a prank, but what happens with a subpo on Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail · · Score: 1

    Never mind the DEA. The IRS gets to look at that data as well (thanks to the Patriot Act). And they'll go after a dropped nickel, intelligence security be damned.

    Want to know what the gov't has on you? Short them a few hundred dollars and wait for the audit. They'll bring every scrap of information they can get their hands on to the audit. A bit of social engineering and they'll read your entire life history back to you. So you pay the tax plus penalties and you've got a peek at your dossier that the 10% penalty could never have bought spent elsewhere.

  20. Look into the camera on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    Paste a photo of tits next to the lens.

  21. Re:Naturally, they now DO have that video logged on Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, we have to enable the backup service first? No problem:

    al Qaida, Jihad, Backpack, Pressure Cooker, Fourth Amendment.

    There. That should do.

  22. Actually ... on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 1

    ... Microsoft bought Nokia for its galoshes. The bullshit is going to flow deep and fast in Redmond as Ballmer's successor is selected.

  23. Re:The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894 on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1

    Technology triumphed. Its all been moved on-line.

  24. Re:18650 cells? on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 2

    Um, like Boeing does on the 787?

    There is some logic to the Tesla design. Or Musk stumbled upon the right way to do things accidentally. 18650 cells, being smaller, have fewer thermal issues than larger cells. More surface area per unit volume makes them easier to cool.

  25. Re:Rule of thumb on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 2

    I would think that well written text books and effective materials would make it easier for mediocre faculty to teach. That would (IMO) be a part of their score.