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  1. Re:Well, there you go America on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Mexico has enough problems to deal with without you adding to them.

  2. Re:Killing two birds with one stone? on US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD · · Score: 1

    Looking at bitcoinwatch.com's list of exchanges, the total volume for all exchanges in the last 24 hours is 40.8k bitcoin, which is about $32.6 million USD at the current exchange rate.

  3. Re:Good news !! GCHQ couldnt crack the password on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    Or they don't consider these cases important enough to reveal that they can break it.

  4. Re:He who fails to learn from history... on Canadian Government Trucking Generations of Scientific Data To the Dump · · Score: 2

    Yup. We didn't learn from electing conservatives last time (Lyin' Brian), so we gave them a majority again. Maybe it'll stick this time.

  5. Re:The FCC is screwed-up on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 2

    So, the FCC will remove their exemption from treatment as common carriers, reenact the regulations, and there's nothing to see here

    With Thomas Wheeler running the FCC? Good luck with that.

  6. Re:I'm torn... on Supreme Court To Hear Aereo Case · · Score: 1

    Unbroken line of rulings in cases vs. Aereo. Other courts have ruled otherwise in cases against similar services, hence why it's going to the Supreme Court.

  7. Re:U.S. courts 'extradited' Canadian bank records? on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    Canadian banks have no obligation to comply with US law

    They do if they operate in the USA. I know RBC does.

  8. Re:Not Meaningless on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    Take a wild guess which country the Internet's root DNS servers are located?

    Sweden? Netherlands? Japan?

    While the USA has a bunch of the root name servers, there's many of them elsewhere. Here's a lovely map of where they are, or at least where they were in 2007. Assuming it's still accurate, there's 4 root nameserver instances in Canada, two each of the F and J nameservers, located in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City.

  9. Re:Cool, so can I use it yet? on New Oculus Rift Prototype Features Head Tracking, Reduced Motion Blur, HD AMOLED · · Score: 1

    No next day delivery available, but it does ship in 3-5 days.

    Though it's not the new prototype design this story is about.

  10. Re:Age and the constitution on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MADD is a laughable remnant of yesteryear puritanism. They're nothing more than the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in a different dress. Lightner herself left the group not long after it started because they just tilted straight into prohibitionism.

  11. Re:Gun control on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Zero. Gun control measures at anything but the federal level are utterly worthless, as there's no border control between states. The most lax controls of anywhere in the country are the de facto controls for the entire country.

  12. Re:geezer on the deck. on AT&T Introduces "Sponsored Data" Allowing Services to Bypass 4G Data Caps · · Score: 1

    Municipal projects? You mean the ones AT&T, et al are bribing state governments to shut down?

  13. Re:No thanks on The First Prescription-Only App · · Score: 1

    Great. You've been dealing with it for how many years to acquire that "know when to test" and "feel when things are off"?

    This app is for newly-diagnosed people so they don't have to go through that "learning experience" and the likely damage that builds up while they're figuring things out.

  14. Re:Quantum computers arn't magic on NSA Trying To Build Quantum Computer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Symmetric key encryption with sufficiently large keys is perfectly safe from a quantum computer.

    But current public-key encryption (e.g. RSA) and key exchange (e.g. DHM) isn't.

    Unbreakable symmetric key encryption isn't worth a damn if you have no secure means of exchanging keys.

  15. Re:hacks against contactless? on How to Avoid a Target-Style Credit Card Security Breach (Video) · · Score: 1

    Probably in Canada they are still in the change-over period, where they have to be able to handle both types of cards.

    Yes. I think the swipe-only capability is supposed to go away entirely by 2016.

  16. Re:hacks against contactless? on How to Avoid a Target-Style Credit Card Security Breach (Video) · · Score: 1

    My American family spent about a week in Canada and never once had our card merely swiped - every single terminal was a push-click chip-n-pin setup. They looked at us funny when we said nobody in America uses them yet. But it still worked with our non-chip cards. So apparently while all the terminals are chip-n-pin, they don'all have to ACT like it all the time.

    Yeah, backwards comparability. The strip will only work if the card doesn't have a chip (e.g. American cards) or the terminal isn't capable of using a chip (usually very new businesses that don't have chip capability set up yet).

    I think I've swipped my card maybe twice in the past year.

  17. Re:How wonderful on Ford Will Demo Solar-Charged Car At CES · · Score: 1

    On the earth, its about 1366 watts per square metre....Lets assume day is 12 hours and night is 12 hours, so we get 1024 watts for 12 hours

    That's 1366W/square meter at the top of the atmosphere (i.e. in orbit). Isolation at ground level is considerably less.

    Also, the 1366W/m^2 figure is the mean isolation of the entire planet. It already accounts for it being night in half the world.

  18. Re:Fuck religion. on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why the religious people are so up in arms about this

    Because they think cuius regio, eius religio was a really awesome idea and they want to bring it back.

  19. Re:He's a sicko on NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Tested, Fastest Android 4.3 Slate Under $200 · · Score: 1

    What kind of bastard is this guy?

    The blah-blah-states'-rights-blah-blah kind if I remember them explaining sometime.

  20. Re:These people would all go into a snit if they k on 53% More Book Banning Incidents In US Schools This Year · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure a non-trivial percentage of the dominionist evangelical protestants would consider a catholic anything l to be fairly subversive.

  21. Re:Would it matter? on Public Domain Day 2014 · · Score: 1
  22. Re:This just in, spy wants spy rules to stay on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Besides that, regardless of what the NSA does or doesn't do, your average American is about 15 times more likely to be killed by a drunk driver than a terrorist.

    Hell, on the roads, every month is September, 2001. Roughly a 9/11 worth of people die every single month in vehicle accidents.

  23. Re:What about lava lamps? on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 2

    Go buy some 40W actual (Think that's 60W equivalent) halogen bulbs. Same heat to melt the wax, but more light.

  24. Re:bullshit on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 3, Informative

    It needs to be big not so much because of the amount of heat, but because the LEDs themselves are rather intolerant of excessive heat.

  25. Re:Come on Canada on Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the fucker have a term limit or something?

    No such thing in Canada, at least on the federal level. The House of Commons has to stand for election at least once every 5 years (an election is typically called after about 4 years under majorities), but there's no legal limit on how long someone can stay in an MP's seat or the PM's office.

    Also, Harper only first formed government in 2006 (minority), with reelections in 2008 (minority again) and 2011 (the current majority government). It have to be a pretty short term limit to kick in already.