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  1. They're only calling it social engineering... on Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...because the politicians aren't behind it. The rest of the time its just called a campaign.

  2. Re: Sounds like a psycopath. on Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Out of a cannon, into the sun!

  3. Re:Swirls of electricity? on Functioning Hoverboard Unveiled (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Google "Mechanical Maglev" a guy named Bill Beaty has you covered.

  4. Re:Don't Forget Pokki on Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs · · Score: 1

    Dear sweet merciful crap. Someone bought an acer for work that had "Pokki" on it, everyone else thought it looked like a perfectly legit bit of software to have on a new computer...

  5. I do not, they have some serious naming problems there at MS.

  6. My Zune still works fine and I'm typing this on a first gen SurfacePro, some products that do their job well just don't sell (in this case because of the worlds worst marketing).

  7. Re: Fee Fees Hurt? on Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand · · Score: 1

    Good luck with your VPN. I've been in Australia for the past 2 months and VPN connections have been blocked nearly everywhere I have gone. NZ is the Canada of Australia, I have no doubt that they try to follow the leader and prevent the use of VPNs as well.

  8. Roll 1 2 3 4 5 on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    Word was 'apathy"

  9. Re:But please .... on Museum's Adults-Only Nights Show That Alcohol and Science Are a Good Mix · · Score: 4, Funny

    But you should always know your limit!

  10. Re:$349 million can get us ... on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    The US army bought 10 Nimitz aircraft carriers at $4.5 billion each, how many wars have they won lately?

  11. Re:Stimulation via Content? on Brain Stimulation For Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    If the result is the same electrical and chemical activity what's the difference.

  12. Re:Taking the Human out of Human Resources on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 1

    Shhh, don't give away the trick before we get to use it.

  13. Re:Our metrics indicate... on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 1

    Almost, they are saying "we're smart, but you're stupid, get to work."

  14. Re:Ought to bring down ... on Ford Develops a Way To Monitor Police Driving · · Score: 2

    Knowing where speed traps are would make them 100% effective. The point is to reduce speeding and no one will speed if they know there is a trap on the road, no one gets a ticket and the road becomes safer. The only way in which the trap is ineffective is that it doesn't generate any cash for the department.

  15. Re:Meh. on From the Maker of Arduboy: Tetris On a Bracelet · · Score: 1

    It's more interesting than anything else this week and it would make a cool DIY dev platform.

  16. Re:Not sure I like 30 ghz to 300 ghz frequencies on Scientists Twist Radio Beams To Send Data At 32 Gigabits Per Second · · Score: 4, Informative

    Along with IR and Visible light, unless you are pumping watts into a very small volume you're not going to boil your guts with wifi.

  17. Re:Really? on Tinba Trojan Targets Major US Banks · · Score: 2

    Most people have no idea that their browser can be used as a bot.

  18. That guy is gonna be rich on Is Dong Nguyen Trolling Gamers With "Swing Copters"? · · Score: 1

    Regardless of how "trolled" any one feels by this he gets an ad hit every time the user looses a round in the game. So do they pay him with a bucket of cash or just Apple store credit?

  19. Neither on Which Is Better, Adblock Or Adblock Plus? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the ads on a site are so obstructive or malicious that you want to block them then stop using that site. Blocking ads only encourages site operators to use more aggressive ad serving tactics and resorting to that kind of subsidized assault on the user is usually an indicator that the site doesn't have anything useful on it in the first place.

  20. Re:Astrobiology on Enceladus's 101 Geysers Blast From Hidden Ocean · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to find earth life on one of the solar system's icy moons. We have moon and Mars meteors falling to earth, what are the odds that a rock carrying hearty earth life made it out there?

  21. Re:Molten? on Chemists Build First "Buckyball" Made of Boron · · Score: 1

    I'm glad some one else thought of this too.

  22. Re:News for nerds? on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 1

    Ads supply the money that runs the web. As much as Dice blows, they need to make money to keep the site up. With the readership they are hanging on to they need all the hits they can get.

  23. Re:News for nerds? on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 1, Insightful

    More alarmingly, I just got a god damned auto playing overlay video ad.

  24. Re:Not exactly needed on A Seriously High Speed Video Camera (Video) · · Score: 1

    This is not a security camera, this is a diagnostic tool, a high speed camera is the micrometer of video analysis, when you need to trouble shoot a high speed, complicated process this is the only way. This camera gives decent performance at an order of magnitude cheaper than all of it's competitors. Having a double digit resolution at 18,000fps sounds crappy but when you have a 3cm x 5cm area of interest it only takes a few more seconds of setup to make sure you get the data you need. High speed cameras are to security cameras what an oscilloscope is to a multi-meter, they are for completely different jobs.

  25. Re:FYI: remove from Youtube not from 'Google' on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 0

    If the video is on another service and not on YouTube it will appear as the top search result.