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  1. Re:Again... on Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry · · Score: 2

    What makes you think they haven't broken the encryption, what makes you think they don't have full access to all certificates, what makes you think you can trust anything.

  2. Re:all this info for what? on Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    #1 financial information
    #2 any idea they want to steal
    #3 retroactive imprisonment, yeah it's not a crime today but tomorrow it is and they have all the evidence.

    Remember who they share this info with.

  3. Again... on Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry · · Score: 1

    I'll point out that SSL is meaningless when the MITM can record it all and decrypt later, or possibly decrypt on the fly.
    And HSTS is meaningless as well, so don't bother bring up that nugget.

    I doubt there is any readily available encryption that can protect you at this point.

  4. Re:Hmm on New Paper Claims Neutrino Is Likely a Faster-Than-Light Particle · · Score: 1

    since/sense of course.

  5. Tough luck on Facebook Apologizes For 'Year In Review' Photos · · Score: 1

    Stop using Facebook.

  6. Re:Hmm on New Paper Claims Neutrino Is Likely a Faster-Than-Light Particle · · Score: 1

    None of the above, but to me it makes more sense than an entire Universe changing everything in existence due to data sent back in time.

    Think of everything that would have to change, it makes more since it would split off to another time line rather than interfere with the current one sending the data.

    We can't change "our" past, but we might be able to change "a" past, and would that really matter to us?

  7. It always was meaningless. on Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    "'Do Not Track' meaningless"

    FFS did anyone think they would honor that?

  8. I got this far...

    Even in a war zone, there's other friendly and civilian aircraft in the skies.

    Don't need to bother with the rest since your entire premise was wrong to start with.
    In a war zone civilian traffic is routed around it, in the case of MH17, which I'm sure you either used or will use as an example.

    this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

    Civilian aircraft are simply not allowed into designated war zones, in addition you entirely discount the ability to distinguish between friend and foe accurately, which is not working so well currently because of...anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Humans.

  9. Tell that to the others that replied with far more information and obviously a far better understanding.

  10. Good information, however:

    A computer isn't trusted to make judgement calls like a human

    I think that's going to change in our lifetime, maybe sooner than we think, and in air combat unleashing a bot is less of a problem than say, unleashing one in a city.

    Only valid targets in the air.

    Besides no one looks to a robot for judgement calls, they are looking at them for kill efficiency.

  11. If they are modular why are the using old tech that they say is sub standard?
    I think you will find that though the optics or radar could be removed, the replacement would have to come from the same company, proprietary no doubt, and the platform its self would limit what the replacement would be.

    Kind of like buying an Apple computer. *smirk*

    Response time, situational awareness, the difficulty is maintaining a connection during electronic warfare, et cetera, ad nauseum.

    Computers respond faster than humans, computers can be more "situational aware" in a variety of environments humans couldn't even function in, and "electronic warfare" would effect a human piloted craft as well, an EMP would shut down the airplane making the human effectively useless.
    All the gear the human depends on to fly the craft would be useless as well.

    My guess is in 10 years this argument will be moot, as autonomous drones will prove they are the better choice for everything.

  12. Expect this here in the US on India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue · · Score: 1

    Between data caps and getting charged for various services imagine how expensive your phone is going to become, especially now that you use it for everything, talking, messaging, banking, shopping, and all the other things people do on their phones.

    They will make you dependent on your phone (they already have) and then they will bleed you.

    Just remember, we had a chance to put an end to this, and posting your nerd rage to Facebook isn't the way to do it.

  13. A telephone to send messages back in time... but sending information back wouldn't change the time we are in now, it would simply cause a split, an alternate time line to occur, and nothing would change at the time we are in now.

    Example: Sending information back to stop the assassination of Kennedy wouldn't change that fact in our time, its already occurred.
    It would create a new time line, one of which we are unaware.

    If multiple Universe, and multiple time lines exist, would changing a time line we could have no knowledge of be meaningful in any way?

  14. Re:Doesn't matter for its primary mission. on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 1

    Check out this "pork distributor" (scroll down)
    http://englishrussia.com/2007/...

  15. Re:That's not the only way it's inferior on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It allows the manufacturers to charge 3 times more for it, and sell "repair subscriptions".

  16. Huh on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why aren't weapon systems modular allowing for easy upgrade? No money in that?
    And why use human pilots for combat craft, a drone could accelerate and turn under massive G forces and still function where a human would black out.

    1st: make a fast, sturdy air frame with a reliable engine, 2nd make all electronics and weapons modular easy to replace and upgrade, 3rd get rid of the human.

  17. It's complete crap on Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview' · · Score: 5, Informative

    Franco's acting was so bad it made Rogen look positively Shakespearean, and Rogen is a complete hack.

    If you have to see it, download it, don't pay a penny for this tripe, it was so bad you would have to have a fake terror attack associated with it just to sell it.

  18. Re:Laugh on Kodak-Branded Smartphones On the Way · · Score: 1

    Sort of, a better implementation would be nice and a larger hard copy, the only thing is these days everyone wants their junk to be small.

  19. Yes on NASA Makes 3-D Printed Wrench Model Available · · Score: 1

    Waste your PLA.

  20. Laugh on Kodak-Branded Smartphones On the Way · · Score: 1

    They should bring back the Polaroid, integrate a digital camera into a Polaroid so you gets your digital and your hard copy.

    But this? A phone? Bah it will fail.

  21. Re:Yes, it's in FB's "ordinary [business] course" on Federal Judge: Facebook Must Face Suit For Scanning Messages · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No the users of Facebook are the dense ones.

  22. retail privacy will be a hot issue in 2015 on How Target's Mobile App Uses Location Tech To Track You · · Score: 2

    Shut your phone off and pay cash... you fucking sheep.

  23. Part of your defection acceptance.. on North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force · · Score: 1

    Will be to tell everyone about the uber elite, super scary NK hacking force, or we are sending you back.

  24. And today is different how? on Startups: the Crazy Ones, the Misfits, the Rebels ... the Dumb · · Score: 1

    It was founded by young investment bankers Joseph Park and Yong Kang in March 1998 in New York City, and was out of business by April 2001. The company is often referred to as an example of the dot-com bubble.[2]

    I wonder if the author knows them.

  25. Re:I'll play the Grinch on The History of the NORAD/Microsoft and Google Santa Trackers · · Score: 1

    Of course as I stated "using lies to encourage imagination" and offered up encouraging imagination via things that are real, like the wonder of nature, science, etc.

    See how soft your brain is? All those lies you were told.