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  1. Value on Would Linus Torvalds Please Collect His Bitcoin Tips? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    $136 is an insult. I'd ignore it, too.

  2. Re:This is more of authentication than encryption. on Building Deception Into Encryption Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would an attacker be using the enemy-provided 'honey' program to try to brute force the decryption?

    Surely he'd use a program that isn't known for serving up fake results.

  3. Re:Roll on! on The Human Body May Not Be Cut Out For Space · · Score: 1

    So long as they're pressurized. I'd hate to have to put on a space suit every time I needed something.

    Maybe the other end could be stuff that people don't need to access very often. One food run every couple of weeks would be acceptable (and maybe could be done by a robot).

  4. Re:Roll on! on The Human Body May Not Be Cut Out For Space · · Score: 1

    Today I learned that rats can't burp either.

    Here's me thinking they could...but no.

  5. Re:Yea. So? on US Forces Coursera To Ban Students From Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria · · Score: 1

    I never said they were.

    Do you think that the world's bad people who are in any way disadvantaged by blocking Coursera? Seems to me like all the bomb-making information is on *other* websites.

    Maybe the children in those countries could grow up seeing the USA as an ally if they had access to a good education? If anything it should be the countries themselves blocking this sort of web site (like North Korea and China do).

  6. Re:Have you been up to Coursera? on US Forces Coursera To Ban Students From Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria · · Score: 1

    This. It's not as if Coursera has a monopoly on knowledge on the Internet.

  7. Re:"Social engineering" on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Hi, I wanted to confirm which card I have associated with this account. Are the last four digits 1234?

    "Our policy is to never give out that sort of information on the 'phone. Why don't you log into your account and check?"

  8. Re:"Social engineering" on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course, the customer support rep wants to be helpful, and the person already knows the other account identifiers... so the idea of fraud never crosses their mind.

    Um, they don't have to make a fraud/non fraud. The policy should be to never give out details. Ever.

  9. Re:Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    And Twitter as well....

    I would have called Twitter and said "Somebody's going to change my account in the next hour, it's a thief!". Even if they didn't pay any attention, he'd have a bit more evidence.

    Paypal is the real evil though. Why would Paypal *ever* give out a credit card number over the phone?

    (And what could you possibly say to them to make them give out that information? The mind boggles....the only explanation is that they need to fire somebody)

  10. Re:Space or Lack of Gravity? on The Human Body May Not Be Cut Out For Space · · Score: 1

    That would need far too much fuel to ever be practical.

  11. Re:Space or Lack of Gravity? on The Human Body May Not Be Cut Out For Space · · Score: 1

    Of course, a few hundred meters of cable would weigh a couple of tons at least, but for a spacecraft that weighs 20 times that much, it could still be a worthwhile tradeoff.

    Not if it's made of nanotubes.

  12. Re:Roll on! on The Human Body May Not Be Cut Out For Space · · Score: 5, Informative
  13. Re:Roll on! on The Human Body May Not Be Cut Out For Space · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure a 'cable' is the right thing, but yes, that's the way to do it.

    (Some sort of 'tube' that people can use to go from one side to the other is much more sensible)

  14. Re:Yea. So? on US Forces Coursera To Ban Students From Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria · · Score: 1

    I meant "Iraq", obviously. The USA hasn't started on Iran and Syria yet.

  15. Re:Yea. So? on US Forces Coursera To Ban Students From Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems perfectly reasonable to me that the United States not share its knowledge and higher education with its enemies.

    Why? A good general education program in Iran/Afghanistan would do a lot more to help fight the Taliban then the $4,000,000,000,000 they just wasted.

  16. Re:education on US Forces Coursera To Ban Students From Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Obviously you don't want your *own* voters to be educated. They might vote you out of office.

    Your enemies? I'd say education (with associated atheism + lower birth rates) is a good thing.

  17. Re:Multiple Choice's Apostrophe abuse's on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    But it's only a *guess* and you you had to alter the punctuation to get there...

  18. Re:Pretty low bar... on AMD Announces First ARM Processor · · Score: 1

    But much more important, what is the benefit of using ARM over x86 here?

    I don't know much about servers but ARM chips are currently outselling x86 ships. It makes sense for chip manufacturers to get into the ARM market (unless you're Intel).

  19. Re:To Quote Anonymous Coward... on Anti-Polygraph Instructor Who Was Targeted By Feds Goes Public · · Score: 1

    "Those who would quote Ben Franklin, to seem insightful, need to find some new fucking quotes."

    Or at least put in an attribution to show that you know who said it...

  20. Re:First rule of passing a Lie Detector test on Anti-Polygraph Instructor Who Was Targeted By Feds Goes Public · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't talk about passing a lie detector test.

    You jest, but that actually *is* the first rule of passing a lie detector test.

    In the 'informal' pre-polygraph chat they'll usually fish for how much you know about polygraphs.

  21. Re:So... on U.S. Border Patrol Drone Goes Down, Rest of Fleet Grounded · · Score: 1

    Freedom is truth, citizen.

  22. Re:units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    What does any of this have to do with Mr. Tesla, and what is he charging at?

    Surely he's dead.

  23. Re:Defamation on FileZilla Has an Evil Twin That Steals FTP Logins · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You really think the NSA is sending their data to Russian servers? That's where the article says it's going.

    That's exactly what the NSA wants you to think...

  24. Re:Sure, but what about on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    You don't see F1 teams doing it because there's no point;

    No, you don't see F1 teams doing it because they're only allowed to change an engine every 2,000km during the season (raised to 4,000km this year)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Re:Samzenpus headline on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to know, besides the price tag, is how realistic is that weight? Is that with fluids? Front end accessories? Does it include the weight of the turbo?

    You could always read the article and find out...