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  1. Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say that my favorite porn star does in fact sleep with every pizza boy with an 11" member and 24" biceps that visits her house.
    You have a good point about Glenn Beck though, as he is on a 24-hour comedy network and has organized massive liberal political rallies.

  2. Re:No True Scotsman. on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    Not all Christians are Trinitarians. Over the long arc of history, non-trinitarian Christianity never flourished in part due to Catholic persecution.
    While most Christians may accept the saints due to the population of Catholics, most Christian denominations do not accept the doctrine of sainthood.
    The reason that there cannot be a polytheistic brand of Christianity, in the eyes of most Christians, is that such a faith would not be Christianity due to violation of Christ's teachings. Many Protestants do not hold Catholics to be Christians at all due to Catholic doctrine that they view in contradiction to Christ's teachings. Just because you view this religion as inconsistent with some internal postulates and what is external or knowable in the system outside the religion does not mean that you can say that any statement about the religion is as inconsistent as any other.
    I am not a Christian, but you are posturing as someone who has reached some rational conclusion about the consistency of these theologies, when your statement is nothing more than an off-hand remark.
    The reason it matters to Christians is the same reason why it matters to many Americans that people they view as irrational, selfish, or hateful do not gain political power. The history of America has been defined in part through injustice, genocide, and racism. That doesn't mean that the constitution and hundreds of years of jurisprudence are worthless or bad on the whole.
    I think you would agree that poor laws should not be enacted or enforced for any length of time, but the legal system in any country is hardly self-consistent in its rationale.

  3. Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    Imagination is like lying to your brain.

  4. Re:The best thing about Postal III... on Postal III, Source Engine Still Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    Especially because those same critics are afraid to face Boll mano a mano IRL.
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/ragingboll.html

  5. Re:Epic said there was going to be a Linux client. on Postal III, Source Engine Still Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    Epic released information for several years on the development of a Linux client for Unreal, which in many gamers eyes meant that any engine games would be easy to port to linux, and open up real tier-one gaming on the OS. This was all a long stream of FUD, however.
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI1OA

  6. Re:I was excited on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    First off, I didn't bring up murder, you did. I didn't assess culpability. Your argument is a straw man. The fault has nothing to do with crime prevention.

  7. Re:I was excited on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Since you can revoke access from the mobile device and roll your account information before the thief can get pass your phone password, what is your point? How is your account going to be compromised in time? Statistically speaking, people rely on the low probability of being mugged to protect them from being mugged. That is not a very good defense once you are actually mugged. Phones are commonly stolen because people are stupid about protecting them. My point, that I thought was pretty clear, is that if you want to transport something of value on your person, don't let someone steal it.

  8. Re:Great...what if you're without your phone? on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    No one is impressed that you carry a phone from the last millenium that does not provide a modern feature set. A burner from wal-mart is dirt cheap too and has modern capabilities. I'm sure you can access your free email from Google for a long time to come, as google will still want to mine your data and serve ads to you.

  9. Re:thermite wipe on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    As long as we're being ridiculous, how about a Direct Current Reverse Polarity Cutter running on dual 400-amp welders and 100PSI air. Guarantee 24 vertical inches of hard disks will be little more than a large glowing pool of metal in about 5 seconds. Or as long as we are doing things that will get us charged for constructing an IED, how about just make a damn EFP and smash those platters into a plastic metal sandwich in 10ms. Or just be smart and properly encrypt your data so this is all unnecessary.

  10. Re:Good idea, bad implementation on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    So the totalitarian government will just imprison everyone in range of the cell tower which routed the sms? If the government knows your phone number to begin with, turning on your phone pinpoints your location anyways. I think it's safe to say that it is unwise, with regards to your personal safety, to make a government as an adversary. If you choose to do so, it would be wise to use something other than GMail for communication. Like SMS or voice with a subliminal channel, the same way that organized crime, terrorists, and everybody with the sense not to possibly get caught with contraband does.

  11. Re:I was excited on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Your wallet and laptop and car could be stolen just as easily. If something is really sensitive or damaging in your email as plaintext, that's your first mistake. Implementing a custom solution to automatically purge the application and data is trivial. Also, how about don't let someone steal your phone. That seems like a good solution to preventing phone theft.

  12. Re:Great...what if you're without your phone? on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey there are plenty of Machine looms still in use all over the country. I think you can find one to go smash rather than attempt to convince the people on a technology forum that the ability to wirelessly communicate outside of your home is for fancypants techno-fiends intent on throwing their money away to "the man."

  13. Re:One more reason to use Google Apps on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Your rambling prose is difficult to parse, but are you saying it is stupid to assume that a web service that authenticates with a password is not hacked? What is the purpose of capping passwords when you own the resources to begin with?

  14. Re:The UNIX crypt tool is not at fault on Amazon Flaw Lets Password Variants Through · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's a much better idea to lock the user's account out than to just conveniently allow them to change it.
    Why not just lock all the accounts?
    What is the point of allowing them to log in once and lock the account?
    Glad you don't develop for any systems I use.

  15. Re:The UNIX crypt tool is not at fault on Amazon Flaw Lets Password Variants Through · · Score: 1

    The stored password hash is of a lower case input string. The original password could have any permutation of upper/lower letters but all of these would map to the same hash. The password system must request the password again, because the number of input strings that will hash properly is > 1. Whose fault it is has nothing to do with his point. You can't just take the password that resulted in successful login and rehash it, because the mapping is not injective.

  16. Re:How wasteful we humans are. on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    The reason the US and Korea have never militarily engaged the North Koreans militarily had nothing to do with nuclear weapons, it's because the major population center of South Korea is within range of North Korean artillery behind the DMZ. If war broke out, Seoul would be flattened before you could evacuate 5% of the population and you would have the greatest loss of life in the shortest amount of time in human history. That would be a good thing to prevent, no? Oh yeah, the North Koreans have 100,000 SOF troops that are trained to infiltrate and conduct broad-spectrum combat operations everywhere in South Korea if war broke out.

  17. Re:Same for coax vs. optical ... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    You are assuming the digital data is transmitted with zero loss or corruption. I've generally heard from enthusiasts that they prefer coax to digital due to degradation of the fiber optic line.

  18. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    It is immediately apparent you haven't actually read the link you posted, which implies multiple times that the results of the testing were neither scientific or statistically valid and that the results from an individual taster would not be duplicated the next day. You've been watching too much Sideways. FTL: "Orley Ashenfelter and Richard E. Quandt analyzed the results of all 11 judges instead of only 9 and proposed a slightly different ranking (see below). They also stated that only the scores of the first two wines in their ranking were statistically valid, and that the seven other wines could not be differentiated statistically.[4]" "Some critics,[who?] who had not been identified as of July of 2009, suggested that wine tastings lacked scientific validity due to the subjectivity of taste in human beings. Indeed, the organizer of the competition, Steven Spurrier, said, "The results of a blind tasting cannot be predicted and will not even be reproduced the next day by the same panel tasting the same wines."[4] In one case it was reported that a "side-by-side chart of best-to-worst rankings of 18 wines by a roster of experienced tasters showed about as much consistency as a table of random numbers."[5][6]"

  19. Re:de facto vs. regs on US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does mean it! This stuff is not buried in some private server on the network. It was openly published on the network in the hope that anyone who could access it would benefit from the information or benefit the GWOT mission. If they wanted to restrict access the slightest bit, the portal would have required authentication or a special viewer to access the database. This was not the case.

  20. Re:That's the regs on US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the de facto NTK community for this type of information is anyone who has access to the network. If you have access to this type of information, you should know what I am talking about, and if you don't, you shouldn't be commenting.

  21. Re:If you have a clearance on US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    If you had a clearance you would know that this is not the enforced policy within DOD for (S) material.

  22. Re:Sounds more like a clarification on US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You clearly have no grasp of how large the cleared SECRET community is within the US military. Enforcing laws out of stupidity harms the sense of integrity that the rank and file has for that law. IDK where you work, but it is harder to get people in the military to follow the rules when they know the rules are counterproductive, born out of stupidity, or issued by stupid people.

  23. Re:"Put your hand in the box." on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ever felt one of those sensory illusion devices that has a stack of parallel tubes with alternating hot and cold lines? The hot lines are not enough to burn you, but when you put your skin across the stack, your heat sensing system interprets the feeling as intense burning. Closest thing I ever felt to the black box.

  24. Re:Bah. on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    The US was doing that. It was called the Human Terrain System, run by JIEDDO to defeat IED's at all levels. Once they ran into intelligence territory, they started stepping on too many toes and favors got called in and shut the whole thing down. Remember when the CIA had to create their own signals intelligence arm to track Osama Bin Laden because the NSA was treating them like mushrooms?

  25. Re:What's the point? on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Because I would rather burn a hundred dollar bill than use it to inflict suffering on myself?