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  1. Re:"only a national intelligence agency" on Iran Arrests Alleged Spies Over Stuxnet Worm · · Score: 1

    "Stealing" two CA (root?) keys isn't exactly in the realm of available geek hours though is it.
    Or are we saying that SSL is now properly just a pure illusion of security.

    In fact, there's no software "so sophisticated" that it can't be produced by a bunch of sufficiently dedicated geeks.

  2. Re:Sony should have lost this already. on Sony Lawsuits Target PS3 Jailbreak Authors · · Score: 1

    erm.
    OtherOS?

  3. Re:Happy day... sort of on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    small victories....
    ->or that we needed to "protect" the police from video cameras.......
    http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1644048/jail-photographing-police

    Sigh,
    These days I'm beginning to wish Al Queda was real, and that they would actually come along and nuke these arseholes for me.

  4. Re:Beware? on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 1

    Personally I tend to hide absolutely anything of value, since the world is full of thieving scum. Why do you want to know? Are you said thieving scum?

  5. Re:Two Wrongs. . . on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Two Wrongs. . . on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 1

    Complete Fallacy. Absolute Complete Fallacy.
    Income tax pays for non of those things in the UK, they are either paid for by local councils or specific tax (e.g. road tax).
    In the UK about 90% of all tax is paid to individuals who earn more than £60k, meanwhile the "poor" are left with £55 per week, about the only exception to this is the NHS, ands that's just because it is cheaper to keep people healthy and have them pay tax to the rich, than have them off work "cos they are ill".

  7. Re:Can you hear that? on UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

  8. Re:Way cool on U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks · · Score: 2, Funny

    still no match for airsoft i suspect:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HGmoxotBi8

  9. Re:ohhh on In Canada, Criminal Libel Charges Laid For Criticizing Police · · Score: 1

    ->A Calgary man is facing criminal charges of libel for claiming on his website that Calgary police officers engaged in perjury, corruption, and obstruction of justice.
    And in doing this they hope to show they aren't corrupt lying scum?
    Oh the irony.
    ___
    Next up, proof the Canadian Court system is even more corrupt.

  10. Re:Blurb totally misleading. on Pentagon Aims To Buy Up Book · · Score: 1

    So this topic is part of:
    a) An advertising scheme.
    rather than:
    b) A genuine report on a scheme to suppress information.

  11. Re:Oh, crap on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    Not just software vendors.
    I assume this also applies to selling all contracts.
    Like, for example, debt.

  12. Re:I hope this dies on the vine. on Sony Breathes New Life Into Library Books · · Score: 1

    Hmmm,
    That was my first reaction.
    But I'm not sure I agree. mostly because it seems infinitely better than current library ebook schemes (which are awful). Libraries are all about providing quality information to people who can't otherwise afford it, they also can't go pirating books since they are too visible and exposed. So unless you can think can of a better way, problems aside, I'm all for it.

  13. Re:Ridiculous submission on Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War · · Score: 1

    ->And you certainly don't have any way to stop Sony from doing mandatory upgrades
    Actually, I thought the upgrade proxy hack (fooling the ps3 into thinking it was running the latest firmware) had been knocking around since before geohotz, lots of people were talking about using it to keep Linux/OtherOS working and still letting them play online, but the web seems short of legit info these days (to many take down notices I guess :(.)

  14. Re:Politricks & Bureaucracy on India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else think the upper cast Indians just discovered the Netocracy and are trying desperately to prove they haven't been demoted to LFoLs (Lower Forms of Life)

  15. Re:Why BIS is bad on RIM Reaches Temporary Agreement With India · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think you'll find its precisely the opposite of this. Previously RIM phones encryption was managed solely by the corporate infrastructure, which is why RIM had been saying its technically impossible to give the government what they wanted. Then Nokia went and installed a single point of failure (server to allow decryption outside of the corporate infrastructure) and it sounds like rim is doing the same. Intelligence agencies across the world have had this MiM set up for HTTPS and SSL for some time now.
    Its not about protecting people from terrorists, its about allowing governments access to trade secrets. aka Industrial Espionage.

  16. Publication Bias on Possible Issues With the P != NP Proof · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like I said last time. The trouble is, every time someone proves P=NP, the NSA arranges them a little accident.

  17. Publication Bias on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    The trouble is, every time someone actually proves P=NP, the NSA arranges them a little accident and the paperwork all gets "lost in the post".

  18. Re:More Info & Dashboard on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    ROFL, they posted the picture of the polar bears. Way to discredit anything you have to say!!
    which is a shame because in:
    Global Warming re-visted I came to quite similar conclusions using the exact same methods - 0.5'Cish warming on average- i.e. absolutely nothing to worry about given its nowhere near the realm of statistical significance.

  19. Re:US abuse on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 1

    You mean the US should be afraid of invading North Korea and Iran?
    Cos it's not like the MSM is trying to convince everyone invading North Korea and Iran is a good idea is it?

  20. Re:Photos from the same spot but not the same seas on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 0

    BBC in Ice melts in summer shocker

  21. Re:Yay for common sense on Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers · · Score: 1

    Not exactly, this is all somewhat misleading. A "PHD" is not some "qualification". its recognition for increasing the sum of human knowledge.
    That TFT/LCD monitor you are reading this on is the product of innumerable PHD projects, everything from the chemical processes that make the pixels, through computer vision and the electronics that make it tick. So yeah, I guess your right, Business doesn't need PHDs just like they don't need the computers they use to do their day to day business. Why don't we all go back to using abacus's, they are far cheaper.
    The only people who lose out by employers not giving their employees certification are the employees who get paid f'all wages and will find it impossible to get another job. That doesn't mean businesses will ever not choose experience over qualifications, but without the qualifications you aint gonna get the experience, unless you waste a significant portion of your life in a company that wants you for nothing other than reinventing the wheel every other day.

  22. Re:Live TV is so passe on BBC To Create Internet Protocol TV Standard · · Score: 1

    No No No No NOOoooooo.
    You don't understand.
    This is state television we are talking about, they don't want you to have a choice. They want to decide what you watch so they can forward and manage public perception of the government agendas.

  23. Re:Piracy clarification on Ofcom Unveils Anti-Piracy Policy For UK ISPs · · Score: 1

    Its ok, don't worry about it. UK law courts have no moral standing anyway. Its all a money making scam. So just tell them to go f' themselves.

  24. Re:But it has a basis in the business model. on Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics · · Score: 1

    Does it run on linux?

  25. Re:My personal favorite on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    ? Because T-X goo is inanimate ?