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  1. Re:I'd feel bad but... on Ongoing Attacks Target Defense, Aerospace Industries · · Score: 1

    That's why you don't put your important info on computers that can be accessed over the Internet or access the Internet, you leave them on a secured LAN with no outside access, this also gives the opportunity to charge any person stealing military secrets with espionage and use the death penalty, quite an effective block to this silliness.

  2. Get back to me on The Science of Human-Robot Love · · Score: 4, Funny

    When they have a device that allows me to slap people over the Internet.

  3. Re:KEW - Kinetic Energy Weapons on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1

    Mean while in reality what seems to be working is 2 guys on a motorcycle with a magnetic bomb.

  4. Re:Stuxnet vs. bomb on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1

    They aren't "problem solvers" they are "job creators".

  5. The scary thing on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 2

    Isn't the bomb it's the video narrators voice because I am sure it's computer generated.

  6. Re:Eye of Newt on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Relax"

  7. Wonderful on SmartCap Reads Brain Waves to Monitor Workers' Fatigue Levels · · Score: 1

    Another brilliant invention from Australia, the nation with the highest alcohol related brain shrinkage in the World.

    So people that read higher on average for fatigue get canned, people that stay sharp longer keep their jobs and the flood gates for all sorts of "brain monitoring" opening, soon there will be a job focus measurement, you get distracted to easily!!! You're fired!!!

  8. And now that you know this on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Consider who is repairing commercial jet liners, companies like Jet Blue have their repairs done in El Salvador, scary huh?

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39383369/ns/travel/t/outsourcing-safety-airplane-repairs-move-unregulated-foreign-shops/#.TygM_aua46k

  9. I wonder on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    If the companies that makes these cards and the banks that back them know they have issues like this then why on Earth would the push them? It can't be that much cheaper to use RFID on a card instead of swiping, why does this smell so funny?

    Are they making money from this?

  10. Re:Yes on Indian Site Offers Reward For Googler Vandal · · Score: 1

    you can get that for free off of pastebin.com

  11. Good idea on Indian Site Offers Reward For Googler Vandal · · Score: 1

    Crowd sourcing a criminal investigation, someone could make a lot of money at this idea if they implement it correctly.

  12. VPN over wireless on Defending Your Cellphone Against Malware · · Score: 1

    If I go to the coffeeshop I use VPN to connect, I do have a paid VPN account but I also have a VPN server set up at home on my NAS so I can use that as well if I don't want to pay.

    Normally WiFi is off as is Bluetooth.

    The only apps that get permission to use my location are TomTom GPS and some camera software both of which are vetted, everything else gets denied as I don't use social sites or any other crapware.

    I only give out my real phone number to a very small group of friends & family, everyone else including businesses and stores get my Google voice number, which then allows me to block if it's spam or that Ex that's stalking me, Gvoice best thing ever as spam filtering is to email Gvoice is to my phone (if you don't mind being recorded)
    Personally I would pay for Google voice it's that useful to me.

  13. In what parallel Universe on Gates Paying Murdoch For System To Track U.S. Kids' School Progress · · Score: 1

    Does Bill Gates pay immoral propagandist Rupert Murdoch to produce software?

  14. Re:Sky Crane on Mars-Bound Probe Serves As Radiation Guinea Pig · · Score: 1

    I agree it seems overly complex and therefore bound to fail.

  15. Any long term trip in space on Mars-Bound Probe Serves As Radiation Guinea Pig · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Needs a lot of water, if you were to locate the water in between hull layers it acts as quite a nice radiation shield.

    And perhaps, though I'm not certain and currently feeling lazy, a micro meteorite shield as well.

  16. Laugh... on Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Copyrights aren't for protecting artist...

  17. This just in on White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aneesh Chopra current lieutenant governor of Virginia has introduced the death penalty for on-line piracy bill (DPOP)

  18. His companion computer crime bill appears to make stealing your neighbors WiFi a felony, that is, if it isn't already.
    "unauthorized computer access in the 3rd degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony." Or if you get online somehow without being "documented" so maybe VPN connections or SSH?
    Another "democrat" has stuck another bill in there with the same wording most likely in case one doesn't make it through the other will, seeing a lot fo this the same bill different names, sneaky.

    This seems thuggish and since the records are open to anyone (except most likely the actual person being documented) it appears to have other uses in mind.

  19. The Judge on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Is quite possibly the recipient of a large sum pf money or quite stupid.
    The photos in question:
    htt^://www.swanturton.com/multimedia/docs/Temple Island v New English photographs.pdf
    Remove the carat!
    I don't see how this can be even remotely contemplated without making literally everyone with a camera a copyright violator.

    So if a room full of journalist take a photo of the queen does only the first photo get to be copyrighted and all others after that one disposed of?

  20. Hmmm on Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After reading that article I get the feeling there will be a law passed about "model aircraft" using cameras soon.

  21. Re:Slavery is great! on Apple Announces Most Profitable Quarter in History · · Score: 1

    Because Apple creates an aura around their products with excellent marketing and design, just watch the way people fondle their iPhones/iPads it's pornographic, and if they're not the type to fondle the seriously pose with it.

  22. Re:What's good for the goose on Apple Announces Most Profitable Quarter in History · · Score: 1

    Nothing Apple makes is necessary, oil is.

  23. So tired on Hackers Manipulated Railway Computers, TSA Memo Says · · Score: 1

    Of important or critical items made accessible through the Inet, what idiot bean counter thought that was a good idea?
    This never would have been possible prior to putting control infrastructure on the Inet and then thinking the incompetent law makers and management would be able to secure it, in addition it's one more incident showing how ineffective the TSA really is, machine gun toting thugs roughing up citizens at the social security office or bus station while train systems get hacked.

    The TSA is useless.
    The law makers are stupid old men.
    The corporations run everything.

  24. Laugh on How Much LTE Spectrum Do Big Carriers Have? · · Score: 2

    The other day I saw a live TV streaming app and I had to think "What about the caps?" You stream a show you're going over your cap and someone makes a lot of money.
    Does anyone really think that the spectrum grab will translate to anything other than slightly faster speeds and higher prices?

  25. Wrong label on Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture · · Score: 2

    They aren't losing to American culture, American media makes "anti-culture" defined by self-interest, reactionary thought, celebration of ignorance, 0-empathy thinking, and vengeance over justice.