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  1. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Appeal? They will phone this judge and inform him about some interesting stuff they happen to have on file. A week from now this judge will be making public apologies to the NSA.

  2. Re:PSU's too on Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage · · Score: 1

    only if you are retarded, Dell server 3KW psu is about $40 on ebay.

  3. NSA is the biggest Ettus customer. on NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto · · Score: 1

    NSA and its subcontractors are the biggest Ettus customers, they love USRP SRD platform.

  4. ..and women wonder why they earn ~20% less on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1, Troll

    Reading comments on Hacker News made me even less likely to ever hire a woman in IT.

  5. Re:They have the money to do this on Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    You mean like importing craploads of gold?

  6. Re:Sounds like it worked on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. A poorly coded app that needs to use the GPS and crashes if you deny the permission

    Who said anything about denying? Just let users define template defaults. Empty contact list, GPS locked at White House coordinates, IMEI: BEAFBEABEAF and so on

  7. Re:easy way to deal with this on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 1

    Why 14? if 14 is fine then 28 will be fine too, if 28 is fi... and so on.

  8. Re:Other Motives on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even if it cost more (and it didnt) all the money would go directly into local economy (IT staff wages) instead of offshore M$ Tax heaven.

  9. Zambia did it in 1964 on Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race · · Score: 1
  10. USRP mentioned few time - more interesting. on NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking · · Score: 1

    USRP
    https://www.ettus.com/product

    Software Defined Radio used to spoof Cell towers. Looks like NSA is deploying SDRs everywhere. This is more interesting than some google cookie.

  11. Re:Now 2 good reasons not to allow cookie tracking on NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking · · Score: 1

    Cookie tracking is old school and ineffective. Nowadays you fingerprint users.

    OWASP AppSec EU 2013: Web Fingerprinting: How, Who, and Why?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSfh0efL7rs

  12. Re:Expect Nexus phones to have SD cards... on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    Please explain what is a difference between SDcard slot accepting FAT/NTFS formated cards and USB OTG slot accepting FAT/NTFS formatted USB HDD/pendrive/memory card reader.

  13. Pathetic write endurance. on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 3, Informative

    P3500 = 374TB for 2TB model = 2 days of continuous writing and drive dies = mlc
    P3700 = 50 days of continuous writing = slc

    while old Samsung 830 routinely did >1PB with 256GB model.

    No, you wont write 20GB per day, those are not home use drives, they go into servers and get killed by bcache.

  14. Re:Expect Nexus phones to have SD cards... on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Haha, you really think it was about patents and not about forcing users into uploading everything into Google cloud.

  15. Re:Obesity is curable on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    Imagine the money to be made between society's push to make being fat "normal,"

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1368440/reference

  16. Re:smart on After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information · · Score: 1

    How did they plan on making people live longer if they did not have anyone analyze the results? Or was their entire business plan to get people to pay top dollar for information they cannot understand?

    Doh, In a true and tested spirit of google they replaced humans with an algorithm. PGM PGM on the wall, tell me who will live the longest of them all?

  17. Re:CHDK=much better quality for same or slightly m on Create Your Own Bullet Time Camera Rig With Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    You could, in fact Stanford did it ~10 years ago
    https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/highspeedarray/

  18. Re:Taunt the seasteaders. on World's Largest Ship Floated For the First Time · · Score: 1

    dont worry, it will be used as a commodity market instrument by people that never really worked they entire life
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/04/1071052/-About-those-offshore-tankers-that-Koch-Industries-use-to-to-cash-in-when-the-Price-is-Right

  19. Re:NSA backdoors Heaven on 270 Million Android Users In China · · Score: 1

    Why would you think so? Not a lot of Americans in China at the moment. NSA is mostly interested in spying on US citizens.

  20. Android 2.3 on A 'Smart' Bathroom Mirror Powered by Android (Video) · · Score: 1

    Japan used to be on the forefront of innovation. WTF happened? Did it all move to China?

  21. Re:It served its purpose on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    Sure, all those 1 Billion people with ARM powered Android device agree with you.
    If anything Surface convinced people that Microsoft's place is only on the desktop (and that is still debatable).

  22. Re:I wonder what will happen to PC Power and Cooli on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    afaik they rebadged Fortrons, just like Corsair, gamerXstreme and others.

  23. Re:Thanks "Free" Markets on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I still have one of their still shrink wrapped and unpacked OCZ Vertex 1 40GB drives that nobody wanted to buy on eBay twice it was listed

    No, you simply didnt want to sell it at correct price and decided to keep it in spite of everyone, in effect getting nothing instead of real market value.

  24. Re:Warranties on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Unless Toshiba actually agrees to assume the liabilities of OCZ (and WHY would they do that?)

    Only one reason comes to mind - in order to preserve OCZ brand name. This brand is still associated with crazy fast drives. People in the industry know this is due to OCZ blatantly lying to customers and advertising compressed data speed, but perception of unwashed masses remains.
    Of course OCZ is also associated woth total lack of RMA support, and most people that had to go thru RMA never bought OCZ again.

  25. Re:...and on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    There are three industry standards of ssd failures:
    one is samsung drives, >33% of the market and hardly any failures
    second one is the rest except Sandforce users
    third one is Sandforce and all OCZ drives.