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  1. Re:How Will He Get There on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It was a test to see how they would react if they want to get Snowden to safety. Leak false information and see if the plane would get into trouble.

    I to have to wonder if Snowden pulled a counter-intel move, knowing that the NSA was listening in on some conversations and deliberately fed them misinformation to provoke a reaction.

    Whether Snowden simply pulled their chain or they are so bumbling incompetent that with their $50B/year budget the NSA can't figure out if a guy has boarded a plane in the Moscow airport - it sure makes them look massively incompetent.

  2. Re:No reason to light up snipers these days... on Why Protesters In Cairo Use Laser Pointers · · Score: 1

    How many countries actually have a military that would do this sort of thing?

    I think Turkey has done it a couple of times over the last century.

  3. Re:look at the Guardian photo on NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong · · Score: 1

    Tell you what, how about you explain how it is an endorsement of Obama? Huih?

    Exactly does putting his "logo" on a picture of the guy he's persecuting endorse him?

    Crickets....

  4. Re:look at the Guardian photo on NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong · · Score: 2

    a sign of Snowden, write "HERO" across it, and then use the Obama logo for the "O"? How stupid and partisan can you get?

    I dunno, how stupid and partisan can you get?

    It is so obviously a dig at Obama that I would have thought it impossible to misunderstand. How much of a rabid Obama hater do you have to be to see it as endorsement of Obama's policies? Even the love child of Glenn Beck and Michael Savage would still be able to figure it out.

  5. Re:come on on NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These are people doing a job.

    So were the Stasi.

  6. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    When someone else keeps dragging you into the conversation you aren't a troll.

  7. Re:Contients? on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    And moronoxyd takes the lead for the daily pedants award.
    But the race is still early, who will knock the front-runner out of place?
    Stay tuned!

  8. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    Well, those links do back his observations.

    Along with saying a whole bunch of other shit. Note also they all come from the same site, a site with an overt bias.

    I have a suggestion here. How about you change your mind from "barely give a fuck" to "don't give a fuck" and leave this debate to the grown-ups?

    Don't want me to respond? Go have your debate as a response to someone else's posting.

  9. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    Simple question, did I, or did I not write this?: "The police call transcript and map are helpful, as is various aspects of the other material.

    If you think a couple of lines followed by, what, 10+ links, is meaningful, you are living in a bubble. The fact that you keep going on and on about this to someone who clearly barely gives a fuck shows you are a zealot.

  10. Re:of course... on In a Security Test, 3-D Printed Gun Smuggled Into Israeli Parliament · · Score: 2

    An Israeli style system will NEVER be implemented in the US because it runs totally contrary to the politically-correct postmodernist identity politics narrative that drives our current political monologue (no, not dialogue).

    Maybe, but unlikely. The real reason it won't happen is because it would cost 1000x what the TSA costs now. The TSA is only useful today because there is effectively no threat, so all their incompetencies don't matter.

    If the US ever finds itself in a situation like Israeli, the war will already have been lost.

  11. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    Dumping a buttload of random citations is just as bad. Really, you see it all the time with scams like super-foods - they have a million citations, but they don't tell you what the citation is supposed to support about their claims, and in the rare case of when they do make specific claims about a specific citation, it often turns out that their citation is contradictory, or at least orthogonal I see the same sort of mode here with your two responses.

    What is even more damning is that you responded to my original post with something that was only mildly related to what I wrote, it certainly didn't contradict it - a statement that was made to point out the irony of the original post. You've got vibe of a zealot.

  12. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    At least half what you claimed happened is not even mentioned in those links. In fact, some of it seems to be contradicted by those links. I don't really know what happened, but when someone starts in with the citations that don't support their claims, I generally start to think their bias is an insurmountable barrier for them to find out the truth,

  13. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could argue that Martin felt threatened when Zimmerman reached into his pocket to get his cellphone.

    Seems to me that would qualify under the "stand your ground" law - Martin had a reasonable belief of an unlawful threat and that he did not have an obligation to retreat. Cops shoot people all the time for exactly the same reason, Martin would be justified in hitting Zimmerman first if the thought Zimmerman was in the process of drawing a weapon.

  14. Re:Refactor? APU? on LibreOffice Calc Set To Get GPU Powered Boost From AMD · · Score: 1

    If the refactor is done properly I don't think the OpenCL acceleration would be necessary.

    They are going to need it for the flight simulator function.

  15. Re:God it feels good to be an American!!!!!!! on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do you think that they are helping the US? They want to show their own prospective leakers that they had better not get any ideas.

    They might think they are intimidating prospective leakers, but what they are really doing is encouraging them. Snowden saw what the US did to people like Bradley Manning and the NSA leakers who came before him and he STILL decided to go ahead.

    It was apparent from the first mention of his name that he was motivated by patriotism and idealogy - all this bootlicking by EU members is only going to push their own leakers that much closer to a similar breaking point as Obama's 180 on warrantless wiretaps pushed Snowden.

  16. Re:Oh, look! Just what the economy needs! on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 5, Informative

    Having gone up about 20% since obama care passed.

    And how much did it go up in the years before obamacare was passed?
    Sounds like we were seeing double-digit inflation in health care insurance costs most years in the decade prior to obamacare's passage.

    http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

    Seems like the rate of inflation in health care insurance is slowing to a historically low level of 4.5%:
    http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2013/07/02/5-easy-ways-to-reduce-your-health-care-costs/

    YMMV, but nationwide the trend is getting better not worse.

  17. Re:No specs? on MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay · · Score: 1

    That doesn't appear to document the protocol on the wire, just individual functions and their arguments.

  18. PIck Your Hospital? on Farm Workers Carry Drug-Resistant Staph Despite Partial FDA Antibiotics Ban · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So, if you don't want to get MRSA while in the hospital, you should pick one that does not have many farm hands as patients?

  19. Re:http://xkcd.com/386/ on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    You can't simultaniously argue that an attack vector only accessible by javascript is a javascript exploit

    I never said that, not even once. What I said is that javascript is a dependency for the exploits,

  20. Re:No specs? on MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are obviously interested in documentation of this project.

    Yes, I wanted to know how many channels, what resolutions, what formats and what sorts of latencies "maigcplay" could handle. So I went looking for documentation and found no answers.

    Go fucking write the fucking specification then!

    If the developers don't care enough to document their own protocols, I sure as fuck ain't going to do for them. Chances are its full of holes anyways, anyone who codes without a plan ends up with crap.

  21. Re:Specifications vs Code on MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I and I suspect most here are in the camp of understanding *code*(especially if its well designed) over a *formal specification*, and had a working implementation.

    That's a little hard to parse - are you trying to rationalize standardization without a formal spec? Code is full of bugs and idiosyncrasies - it is in no way a reasonable basis for a standard.

  22. No specs? on MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The docs directory on github is essentially empty. If they can't even provide a formal specification they are no better than reverse engineered versions of airplay. What a fucking joke.

  23. Re:Nevada and solar on Apple Powering Nevada Datacenter With Solar Farm · · Score: 2

    I wish other states were as forward-looking. At this point the benefits (to the state) of encouraging the infrastructure probably outweigh the costs.

    They aren't so forward looking. The subsidies are for very large installations, effectively eliminating residential installations - keeping us beholden to corporate central generation. In fact, the dollars available for residential solar are so small that only about 70 installs per year get any money at all.

    http://solarpowerrocks.com/nevada/

    At least you don't have to pay property tax on your solar equipment, but Nevada's got one of the lowest property tax rates in the country anyway so it ain't all that big a deal.

  24. Re:Hasn't this ship sailed? on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    Chromeframe is a plugin for ie. Are you suggesting that if an IE user is exploited directly through it's own javascript interpreter it counts as a browser exploit, but if the same exploit happens through the chromeframe interpreter it isn't a browser exploit?

    It is indeed a browser exploit ... with CHROME. If you have to resort to such obviously specious examples to support your position, you've already admitted to being wrong.

  25. Re:An Important Inaccuracy on FWD.us Remixes the Statue of Liberty Greeting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Guest workers" is such a euphemism, we should use something more accurate:

    out-sourcing trainees
    skill exporters
    wage reducers
    foreign vulnerables

    Don't get me wrong, I welcome actual immigrants. I don't even have a problem with individuals who come here for temporary jobs of any sort. I just think that a system where the top 10 h1b employers - accounting for half of all h1b visa holders are outsourcers is in any way good for americans citizens or immigrants. If anything it discourages the next generation from even considering the idea of going to school to learn how to be an engineer which just makes things even worse for us down the road.