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  1. Re:That won't make any difference. on Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat · · Score: 2

    Again, a voter for wikileaks would have to be pretty savvy about the voting system so I would be surprised they vote above the line. I never have. Its a pain but I would rather have control over who I vote for.

  2. Re:Why wasn't this leaked by Wikileaks? on Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat · · Score: 1

    He would make a dive for Ecuador and we would never hear from him again.

  3. Re:Why wasn't this leaked by Wikileaks? on Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat · · Score: 1

    Maybe if he is elected to the Senate he gets some diplomatic status which will enable him to leave the UK.

  4. Re:All minor parties are teaming together on Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat · · Score: 1

    You'd think that Julian Assange's party would be a natural fit with the Sex party.

  5. That won't make any difference. on Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am an Australian voter and I can't imagine a wikileaks voter following a how to vote card. If they have somebody handing them out in East Brunswick I might pick one up for the lulz, but thats all.

  6. Re:Amazing on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 1

    Yeah my copy of the Australian constitution is amazingly short on detail beyond "The Queen may allow...".

  7. Re:Pxe boot? on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 1

    PXE only works across ethernet. There are ways to book remotely off a WAN but another way to work is to use a remote desktop or just an ssh session. You would want to have multiple copies of the data in places like Iceland (hmmm can I work on them in Eve?) and just connect when you want access to bits of it.

  8. This guy on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 4, Funny
  9. Re:Encrypt their data on Why the NSA Can't Replace 90% of Its System Administrators · · Score: 1

    Sorry I don't follow you. If the NSA has a team which needs access to a particular dataset, the data could be stored on a virtual encrypted volume on a file server. Key distribution would be used to control access and there is a need for an administrator (probably non technical) to manage keys. Managers might have access to the data but there is no need for the people who operate the file servers to have access to the decrypted data.

  10. Encrypt their data on Why the NSA Can't Replace 90% of Its System Administrators · · Score: 1

    The NSA could certainly prevent 90% of their systems administrators from seeing the data though. All data should be encrypted when it is not displayed. Everything on file servers should be encrypted and most of the admins won't need the keys.

  11. Re:This may work........ on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    Sorry its from Cloud Atlas. That part of the film depicts a future totalitarian South Korea where cloned humans are used as slaves. The female character is called Sonmi 451, a reference to Fahrenheit 451. She is about to be nabbed by one of the Government bad guys.

  12. Re:Play it their way on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think David Miranda should travel with a suitcase full of interesting and time consuming devices. How about core memory, punch cards, paper tape, files-11 formatter shadow sets on SCSI-1 disks, RL02 disks and zip disks, just for a start?

    Also I forgot 300 baud FSK data on audio cassettes.

  13. How about coding better on How One Programmer Is Coding Faster By Voice Than Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Rather than coding more?

  14. Re:Update the constitution on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    Update the constitution (Score:2)
    by fey000 (1374173) Alter Relationship on 2013-08-18 16:10 (#44602353)

    Land of the Free(*).

    *Conditions may apply.

    I've never heard the UK called the "Land of the Free..

    Yeah its the Queen's backyard and supply of labour. I have a copy of the Australian constitution right here and thats pretty much what it says.

  15. Thats a lot of electronics on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    He travelled with a laptop, phone and games consoles? What did he have ? A Wii and a PS2 to use on the plane?

  16. Re:People don't understand People on Why Computers Still Don't Understand People · · Score: 1

    Fair enough but thats the only criteria we know.

  17. People don't understand People on Why Computers Still Don't Understand People · · Score: 1

    As long as computers are programmed by People, that will be a problem.

  18. Re:This may work........ on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    Land is going to be what kills this project

    Yeah thats why I think Musk should look for a way to build the tubes under the surface of the ocean. Tether them from weights with cables, just deep enough to avoid surface movement. Build a standard, modular tube segments. Float them and sink them.

  20. Run it through the ocean on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    That way land is free and the tube can be made totally standard and mass produced. Anchor it to the sea floor at a depth of 50 meters. That would make it easy to run between LA and SF, and many other routes would become easy too.

  21. Re:I get the reference but... on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    How about 233 Celsius?

  22. Re:Reference to... on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    I wonder what temperature a kindle burns at. Also what error code does a kindle return if you try to read a book which has been redacted by Amazon?

  23. Re:I get the reference but... on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    client screwed up

    ...at the ballot box.

  24. Re:woosh on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    I thought TOR was rooted by the security services?

  25. Re:Gravity pulls toward the Earth on The Grasshopper Can Fly Sideways · · Score: 1

    The moon could be used to give you a horizontal push into orbit, also you start with the Earth's rotational velocity, so if you go high enough that will be enough to orbit.