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  1. Re:we already know about the DNC hacker... on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks like all they have shown is the files were probably copied to a USB drive AT SOME POINT. Didn't really show that the source system was the DNC servers unless I missed that part. When moving files between volumes it's very difficult to preserve time stamps, you end up with times stamps for when the copy between volumes occurred.

  2. Re:IP addresses mean jack shit on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that a non-Russian hacker was able to mask his IP address to an IP address used by Russian intelligence? That's still suspicious as hell. If we are talking IPv4,TCP then you need a good source and destination IP address to set up a session handshake. If I make a connect to your system but put a bad source IP in the IP header there is no TCP connection and we can't talk anything that relies on TCP, HTTP for example. When you say it's easy to mask your IP you are right you can VPN to a different system or NAT to a different IP address. That is not what we are talking about in this case. Russian Intelligence was the last known hop for this traffic. Where the connection went from there is unknown. But the fact that was the last hop is very significant.

  3. Re:Ideology is no way to govern on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks to me like they are picking and choosing which deductions/credits to keep or remove. What was their process for deciding which to remove or keep if it was not ideologically based? I don't think the argument that this credit is mostly used by the rich is wrong. The models of cars where the credit is no available (over 200k have been sold) are in the middle class price range. I would have no problem tapering off the credit at a certain car cost.

  4. Re:The subsidy is a wealth transfer to the well-of on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This can be said about any credit besides the EIC. You actually have to have the liability to use it. There are all sorts of things we subsidize if you earn enough money. I think all credits need to be eliminated or made refundable like the EIC so they are useful to other income levels.

  5. Catch on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    I'll add some error handling to this catch statement later......

  6. Re: Expect conservative meltdown. on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Notice the the statements get closer and closer to the truth. With Trump it's: Thing A is true Thing A is not true Thing A is true Thing A is not true .. This is way worse. But only if you value truth I guess...

  7. Re:Is Uber a big government straw man? on Uber Suspends Australian Transport Inspector Accounts To Block Stings · · Score: 1

    Unless the law says you can have access. Then it doesn't matter what the TOS say.

  8. Re:undocumented immigrant on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    This is not a fair argument. The problem is not with religion as a whole, it is that the religion being talked about or being displayed is a very thin slice of what religion is. The is the very definition of respecting an establishment of religion. If you value the constitution that display must go. Now if you wanted to have a weekly prayer choosing a different religion each week that would satisfy me, even as a rabid atheist. I doubt in the situations you are complaining about you would accept that.

  9. Re: undocumented immigrant on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there are no external standards are defined. A group of people take what they want morality to be codify it and say it came from a creator. It is still just as subjective. Your whole argument fails.

  10. Re:It Remains a Journalism Scandal. Deal With It. on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    Well then maybe the OP being responded to should have provided something better. The OP made some pretty fantastic claims and provided nothing to back them up. I think the response of you are wrong works just fine there. I requires as much support as the OP provided.

  11. Re:Oh great on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 0

    No it's not. One is susceptible to a dictionary attack one is not. This is exactly why correct-horse-battery-staple fails.

  12. Re:Still pretty affordable on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 2

    Is that all you got? During the same time the R's were all in favor of propping up the banks. Why were they not in favor of propping up the auto industry? Was it because the auto industry employed people with low incomes and had unions? You would have to do a lot to convince me otherwise. You can argue all you want the CFC was a wealth transfer but it kept a lot of blue collared works employed during the worst recession of my lifetime. But keep saying that both sides are bad. I know it's not true and I vote.

  13. Re:I find this insulting on FWD.us: GOP Voters To Be Targeted By Data Scientists · · Score: 1

    So are you having a problem with the word "all"? How bout we change it to most? Does that work for you? Because that's what your link seems to show.....

  14. Re:I find this insulting on FWD.us: GOP Voters To Be Targeted By Data Scientists · · Score: 1

    they will have to lie their little tails off about their agenda to get him/her to go along with their so-called "immigration reform". )

    So Fox news.......

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

    The broadcasters no recourse if aereo has a shitty stream and the customer has room to blame ABC for this.

  16. Re:why? on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    The built in tools for debugging web apps in chrome are just as good if not better than firebug these days.

  17. Re:why? on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 2

    I remember the first ActiveX control I wrote. It deleted all the files on the C:\ drive. Good times!

  18. Re:We need easy to use end to end encryption on Snowden NSA Claims Partially Confirmed, Says Rep. Jerrold Nadler · · Score: 1

    I still have to trust that i really do have your public key for this to work. How do I get it? Certificates, yeah that's fucked. DNS? does the NSA have the DNSSEC private key? DH? Well again how do I know I'm really exchanging a key with you?

  19. Re:This will not improve sales. on US ISPs Become 'Copyright Cops' July 12th · · Score: 1

    Actually you could, with MP3s. The music was kept in a directory with the names of the files randomly changed. As long as the files were properly tagged you could just copy them over and load them into whatever media player you wanted to. I don't know about ACC, never bought any of that crap.

  20. Re:I disagree. on X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education · · Score: 1

    Well in the corporate world incompetence is promoted so education is one step ahead!

  21. Re:I disagree. on X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education · · Score: 1

    You're going to have to specify what you mean by "unions" being the problem.

    Easy. You need a way to get rid of bad teachers. This should be obvious. Unions in many states have made that extremely difficult. Unions are there for the teachers, not for the kids.

    Define "Bad Teacher". I pose that any definition you can come up with I can counter a set of circumstances that change that teacher to a "Good Teacher". Now here's a question: why would any intelligent person want to become a teacher? They are going to be evaluated on metrics that are a lot of the time outside of their control. They have to deal with curriculum that is wrong(think Texas). They don't have the support of parents. They have class sizes of 30+ in the good districts (have you ever babysat more that 5 children at a time before?). i think all these problems go away if the children aren't guaranteed a spot in the class, they have to work for it. Put in place a process where the teacher can have the student removed from the class. This allows teachers to have the leverage they need to change all of the above problems. But what do we do with the children who where removed? Let them know it is a privilege to be in those classes not a right and say better luck next time.

  22. Re:I -do- think this order is un-constitutional. on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    So I can't say the truth as long as it hurts your feelings, careful there.

  23. Re:something wrong with TFA on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can right click on any app in XP and choose "Run As". Same as sudo.

  24. Re:"Intellectual Property" hampers economic growth on China Faces Piracy Suit Over Censorship Software · · Score: 1

    That's why you start a business behind a LLC.

  25. Re:also Mac OS X on US FTC Sues Intel For Anti-Competitive Practices · · Score: 1

    But intel doesn't want this. By doing this intel would be telling every software company that if they use an intel compiler they must ignore 20% of the market. It will be very little time before a new compiler is used that can compile for all x86 again.