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  1. First, be Evil on Yahoo Offers Non-Denial Denial of Bombshell Spy Report (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    oh wait, that's Google.

    At yahoo, it's the second thing.

  2. I thought their job WAS to steal? on NSA Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't he doing his job to lie, cheat, and steal?

    And ignore the US Constitution and spy on American citizens without a specific court order and warrant?

  3. Re:Where are Cheney's and Bush's emails? on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty certain that G.W. Bush didn't even use email at all. 100% certain GHW Bush didn't use email.

    So...maybe the Bush's were a lot smarter than people give them credit for!

    Email started many decades before you think it did.

  4. Re:Where are Cheney's and Bush's emails? on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You incorrectly presume that I'm bound by that statute.

    But, nice try.

  5. Re:Where are Cheney's and Bush's emails? on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of us aren't supposed to admit they were destroyed.

    But they were.

  6. Where are Cheney's and Bush's emails? on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Chances are they could find them, and the smoking gun that shows Big Oil and Big Coal subverted our Democracy for their Saudi masters gain

  7. Nothing wrong, just a few dead pets and toddlers on A Self-Driving Uber Car Went the Wrong Way On a One-Way Street in Pittsburgh (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    As expected, the car was undamaged and only collateral damage was a few kids and kittens crushed in the process

  8. Nobody cares about the dam emails on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

    Get a fracking life.

  9. Re:the unbearable whiteness of the far north on In Canada's North, a Single Satellite Outage Means Losing Basic Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Regardless their race, if some morons want to live in the middle of the wildness it's not everyone else's job to spend a ton of resources getting them reliable internet.

    Um.

    They've been living there for tens of thousands of years.

    Literally.

    Meanwhile, you're the johnny come lately in this scenario

  10. DNA is the way to go on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Here at the UW, we encode data into DNA. It's a great, and compact, method of storing information, especially when you have a G CAT.

  11. I for one welcome our paper book overlords on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And if only I hadn't committed my instruction manuals to soluble bubble film, would be the first to the barricades.

    Ooh, a shiny penny!

  12. Re:Symptoms not Cause on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    See, this is the problem with you Yes/No people.

    Look, it's fairly easy to cut your carbon emissions in half, without radical change. You're just to lazy to accept change.

    For example, the future is presented as: We Must All Ride Bikes.

    But, to cut carbon emissions from cars in half, it's fairly easy. In a typical family, have one plug-in electric car, charged from green solar/wind/hydro, used for commuting. And have a combo of bike plus transit for the kids. This way, fewer fat kids, you save tons of money, and it's the way we used to live just a few decades ago.

    Easy peasy. You can replace inefficient applicances with efficient ones, LEDs are now 94 percent cheaper than they were in 2010 and way brighter than old incandescents. You CUT YOUR ELECTRIC BILL.

    Easy.

    Stop whining, grandpa. Adapt. The world doesn't care what your excuses are.

  13. Symptoms not Cause on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    One of the first things we learn in medical science is that if you are treating the symptoms, but not the cause, you have not treated the patient.

    The same applies to pollution.

    We need to fix the underlying source process. Band-aids will only put off the cold hard fact that you are not addressing the cause, which is the pollution caused by the use of coal and other fossil fuels.

    Can you use ion scrubbers or water scrubbers on the existing plants as you replace them with other energy sources?

    Sure.

    But it won't deal with the cold hard explosion of coal plants.

    Co-generation can cut the growth factor of those.

    But they need to be replaced. Period.

  14. And trucks on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, the bizarre thing is many firms manufacture more efficient and less polluting planes, trains, and vehicles, including trucks.

    End the tax exemptions for business use of fossil fuels: as fuel, in depreciation for vehicles, in deductions for business miles travelled in fossil fuel vehicles of any type.

    The Invisible Hand of Capitalism will then crush fossil fuels, which are massively subsidized, and eat up large segment of national and state and county and municipal budgets.

    This includes any lanes for fossil fuel vehicle usage, by passenger mile traveled.

    Capitalism cares nothing about fossil fuels. It will crush these buggy whip manufacturers and kerosene users like it did before, if you give it the proper signals.

  15. Re:Age is used to discrimante in hiring women on California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb To Remove Actor Ages On Request (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    It's obvious you don't come from a family with actors. It is mostly sexist in the film and TV industry.

    The fact you don't know that is the astonishing thing.

  16. Age is used to discrimante in hiring women on California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb To Remove Actor Ages On Request (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    To a lesser extent, men.

    This is a wise method of using data.

    Now, where this will next become an issue is when 62 yo women actresses with long IMDB film and TV credits, start asking their early roles be removed, as that can also tell you how old they are.

  17. Re:Boy or the unbearable diffing of files on Sad Reality: It's Cheaper To Get Hacked Than Build Strong IT Defenses (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    if only we had these things like diff or record comparisons, that would allow us to write back transactions over multiple file generations, and if only these had been created in the 1970s ....

    oh

    wait

  18. Cable is just a way to subsidize the NFL on You're Paying 40% More For TV Than You Were 5 Years Ago (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Know this and get rid of it.

  19. Just realize half of all penetrations are as a result of social engineering or tokens that get passed out beyond your control.

    Patch: keep your servers and workstations and laptops and mobile devices patched to the latest fix. Realize the latter two have a high chance of not being, due to their nature.

    Backup: keep both daily and periodic backups. Have periodic full backups offsite. Always assume people will corrupt and mess with your key files. Keep offline offsite versions of those.

    Rotate: don't always do the exact same thing. If someone hacks one machine in one place, you may notice differences if you switch it up a bit.

    trust: never ever ever trust senior execs.

    validate: never ever ever trust senior execs. they will give away access always.

    confirm: never ever ever ever trust senior execs. they will order people to let the bad guys get access to your key data always.

    (i'm starting to sense a pattern here)

  20. Wait: we're supposed to watch those? on Facebook Inflated Video Viewing Stats For Two Years (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh.

    I just ignore them. And if I hear a company name, I put it in my Boycott list.

  21. Can be extrapolated from Pokemon Go images on Taiwan Asks Google To Blur Its Military Facilities In South China Sea (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Kind of a waste of time.

    Mind you, that game is NSA, so I suppose it's ok, but they can crowdsource the images Pokefans post on social media.

  22. Rookie epic fail

    Next time, remember: there is no such thing as a secure cloud service. Ever.

  23. Verizon can stuff it on Verizon Says It Knows You Don't Need Unlimited Data (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm only level 23 and I need those pokemon NOW!

  24. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's more the thrill of the chase, or the other reason we travel to exotic locations ... the one that involves tentacles?

  25. Likely cover story on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    We all know that "Mr. Hawking" is in fact an alien, residing on our planet to observe us.