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  1. Re:"...need to be prepared..." on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    I call headlines of
    "3 inch sea level rises a serious problem"

    BS

    When London, for example, sees sea levels rise 6 Meters

    A DAY!

    Kinda akin to a "Mr Evil" plan to stop the moon circling the earth.

    Just the joke is very old and boring now.

  2. Re:"...need to be prepared..." on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    And it still wont be at the level it was 1000 years ago.

    or be anything like the DAILY change in tidal waters (14 meters in some places).

    So, Mr Canute,

    Why exactly should we care?

  3. Re:clueless management on Most Healthcare Managers Admit Their IT Systems Have Been Compromised · · Score: 1

    NSA spent so much money making the systems insecure, and 20% of systems still not weak enough.

  4. Re: "...need to be prepared..." on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1, Insightful

    what's been accounted for in the studies?

    I'm just asking why anyone would care about 9 more centimeters after the 12,500 we already had.

  5. Re:"...need to be prepared..." on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sea levels rose 125m in the last 10,000 years or so

    fell 10m in the last 1,000 or so

    We care about 3 inches because??????

    Seriously, isn't everyone tired of this BS by now?

  6. Re: Nothing new on How an Obscure Acronym Helped Link AT&T To NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    the problem is that now a lot more people have access to all the kit the NSA and at&t built over the last couple of decades.

    Russians and the Chinese for starters.

  7. Re: _NSAKEY on How an Obscure Acronym Helped Link AT&T To NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Microsoft and Google chrome provide the nsa (and all the hackers who got the username and passwords during the last leak) with remote administration to all their installations.

    who cares?

  8. Re: Is "Snowden document" a new English word now? on How an Obscure Acronym Helped Link AT&T To NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Mr snowden didn't even collect the data for the leaks.

    his girlfriend did.

    he just stood in front of the bullets for her.

  9. Re:sigh on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    I think the problem is filthy WOMEN politicians stealing all the tax money instead of using it to fund public toilets.

    If they don't want people peeing in the street they should give them somewhere else to do it.

  10. Re: He stole, he got arrested on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    I waited till early thirties. long after most of my peer group. no hope for that place. it's a sunken ship.

  11. Re:He stole, he got arrested on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    I think his point was quite clear in the very first sentance.

    Funny or not there wasn't anything untrue in his post.

    "It's funny cos it's true"

    He just put more effort into describing why.

  12. Re:He stole, he got arrested on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: -1, Troll

    most of the airports and stations I use have free charging points.

    The story here is someone was stupid enough to go to London then act surprised when it turned out to be a shit hole.

    I mean, we're talking about the country that wants to make secure online shopping and banking illegal. The place is an international joke.

  13. Re: The end of on-line banking and shopping on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 1

    exactly.

    and everything that's left will be known to be vulnerable and hacked to death.

  14. Re:The end of on-line banking and shopping on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the assumption I'm working on now.

    We put a very large sum of money through the UK from customers in Europe and the US.

    If this bill passes I'll have to relocate the infrastructure. which will be a ball ache. but cheaper than installing backdoors securely and the loss of business from customers not willing to give their secrets to the UK government.

  15. Re:The end of on-line banking and shopping on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 1

    And, who, exactly is going to pay me to install such back doors in my applications?

  16. Re:Farther-reaching implications on Bitcoin Snafu Causes Miners To Generate Invalid Blocks · · Score: 1

    Because the is no link between the transaction history and an actual person or persons.

    Like serial numbers on a gun but no central registry of who owns what gun.

    You can tell if a gun fired a bullet.
    But you can't tell from the bullet who was holding the gun at the time it was fired.

  17. Re: if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    that's not the only protection in that zone.
    if they try that they are isolated from the entire network until the username/pass is entered for the network.

    point is. if you aren't in the whitest you can connect to a low quality Internet access an file box for sharing movies and music. but anything "personal" is on a seperate network.

    a bit like the cable companies do on their routers. only with file sharing.

    lots of ways to do it. but my point is people should already be running at least two networks anyway. one for them and their devices and one for guests.

  18. Re:if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Much better plan imho is to just use a MAC address whitelist to "opt out"

    I've been doing this for some time. "my" wifi, high bandwidth, load balancing, access to filesharing has the one whitelist.

    If you aren't on that whitelist you get dropped into a virtual lan, with shared 150kBs max up/down bandwidth and a piratebox.

  19. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    If it was just a case of the Gs being "artificially limited", it would just be a case of limiting them less so they aren't out manoeuvred by the now ancient F16.

    This sounds more like the widely reported fundamental problem with the engines and aerodynamics.

    This is especially a problem when Russia has already overcome the engine problems on its already highly manoeuvrable airframe.

  20. Re:That last sentence makes no sense on Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    It makes recruitment easier because no one else will employ them. Making them cheap and dedicated.

  21. Re: Nope, but actual evidence exists for PRC & on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 1

    was definately the nsa

    http://www.theguardian.com/boo...

    it's why the rest of the world stopped buying electronic goods from the us almost overnight.

  22. Re: China denies denying the denial on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 1

    wasn't the nsa installing hardware back doors in all the Cisco kit.

    don't see how they can then go onto to complain someone actually worked out how to use them.

  23. Re: MS confuses GUI design with functionality on What Might Have Happened To Windows Media Center · · Score: 1

    that was possibly partially my fault.

    the spec said it had to be Microsoft Excel so Microsoft Excel is what they got.

    of course I didn't use excel to build it in the first place.

  24. Re: Stop calling it AI. on AI Experts In High Demand · · Score: 1

    I find it best to just call everything I do Ai.
    that way all the idea thieves have no idea how I do what I do.

  25. Re:I read it on Declassified Report From 2009 Questions Effectiveness of NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Wow.

    my take.
    killer blow is around page 443.
    Some "Yoo" memorandum declares it legal.
    There is then a chain of new people who come in thinking its not legal.

    Then on page 443, Philbin goes into full legal explanation of why it was illegal. (mostly blacked out in the public release afaics)