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  1. Unsupervised? on Most Parents Allow Unsupervised Internet Access To Children At Age 8 · · Score: 1

    People forgot about NSA quickly I see.

  2. Presses a button on Schneier Has Something Good To Say About Airport Security · · Score: 1

    If hands are cold -> passenger must be nervous -> must have something to hide -> red light.

  3. Re:A day late, but... on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 2

    You don't revoke passports. Once you arrested someone, the judge may decide to retain the travel documents to avoid that person fleeing justice. But the passport is not revoked, it is confiscated. And that is done once the person is arrested, not while the person is sitting somewhere in the world in a transit area.

    Revoking a passport is quite extreme and I have never heard of such action. It is not the usual way to pursue international criminals. Thus it is a different treatment.

    Passport Canada (US must have something similar) has a description of actions that may get your passport revoked. At this point I think he does fall in there.

  4. Re:A day late, but... on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 5, Informative

    Revoking Snowden's passport also violates this from what I can see as by removing his passport they're removing his right to travel and hence to leave Russia.

    Or in other words the US has pretty much now completely thrown the de-facto document on basic levels of standards of human rights entirely out the window.

    Owning a passport/travelling between countries is a privilege not a right. When someone is suspected of a crime and there is a good chance this person may seek to leave the country to evade prosecution, the passport will be revoked. Snowden is not a special snowflake to warrant a different treatment.

  5. Getting desperate? on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently he withdrew his asylum request after Putin asked him to stop leaking more secrets. Funny he would consider it in the first place knowing that Russians are likely much worst when it comes to surveillance of their own citizens. Can't see many nations wanting him at this time.

  6. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Before he got recruited, he was a long time volunteer of Wikileaks which means he was probably in trouble with the law. I think he was fortunate to get any money at all from this deal as he had not much leverage. Risk going to jail with nothing or cut a deal for some pocket change and a jail free card - he made the smart move.

  7. Re:Fighting the good fight on Google Aims To Cull Child Porn By Algorithm, Not Human Review · · Score: 1

    Google already has employees who, when notified, investigate and remove obscene content which means they are already exposed to the worst of what Internet has to offer. When CP is reported, there is a legal requirement to act and remove such content within 24 hours or so. If Google can pull a decent solution, they will have a more proactive approach to dealing with this problem and will potentially save money as less human intervention will be required.

  8. Re:I dislike M$ as much as the next guy.... on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 3

    He disclosed the bug way back in March then provided an update in May and now a fully functional (have not tested) exploit. While he could have been more discrete, seems to me like this is more than enough time for the vendor.

  9. Re:facebook is an american company on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 2

    I don't know Italian law but in some (most?) countries online intimidation/harassment is illegal. In addition of posting the video, they also posted insults/bullying messages which sounds to me like it fits the definition and they could be criminally liable for what happened. Now how can you criminally blame Facebook for what happened I don't know. Under normal circumstances I'd expect a civil case as an attempt to get some $$$ from someone with deep pockets but we are not talking about US here.

  10. Re:WTH does tax-free have to do with the subject o on Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods · · Score: 1

    Indeed, you could have 1 large empty bottle + 2 small bottles as if it was impossible to fill the large bottle with the small one once you cross the checkpoint. But we know this is done to give an impression of security and not really provide much security.

  11. I know B-2 are cool toys... on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1, Insightful

    but why is this news for nerds? Looks to me like this will another political debate.

  12. Could it come from on Astronomers Probe Mysterious Gas In Titan's Atmosphere · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uranus?

    Someone had to do it.

  13. That is what you get on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 0

    when you send Dennis Rodman as your CIA agent/ambassador to NK.

  14. Re:Spread em' on Cellphone Privacy In Canada: Encryption Triggers Need For Warrant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So if I put locks on my pockets, Police won't be allowed to search them?

  15. Intercepted by Russian air defence forces? on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1, Funny

    Some not so credible newspapers report unconfirmed military sources stating that Russian air defence shot down this bad boy.

  16. Cyber warriors face real risks on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Just look at the health warning at the back of your keyboard.

  17. Google, MS etc. do not ignore DNT on Do Not Track Ineffective and Dangerous, Says Researcher · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They use it as yet another indicator of your personality to better target ads.

  18. Re:Why would the Java exploits be related? on IE Patch To Fix 57 Vulnerabilities · · Score: -1, Troll

    But IE does not bundle Java - why would the IE bugfixes be related to the Java bugfixes?

    IE is so slow, it was probably written in java.

  19. Microsoft is advising users to stick with other.. on IE Patch To Fix 57 Vulnerabilities · · Score: 5, Insightful

    browsers. Where did you got this information? MS bulletin does not state that and I doubt MS would ever make such recommendation no matter how serious the bug was.

  20. You mean a politician is a cheater and liar? on German Science Minister Stripped of Her PhD · · Score: 1

    Looks to me like she is now better than ever qualified for the job.

  21. Re:Purpose is to monetize spam on Facebook Testing $100 Fee To Mail Mark Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    Once this is deployed for everyone, will a normal user who is being targeted receive a % of the fee? Obviously in this case Zuck gets indirectly the money but what about the average folk?

  22. Re:Apparently, someone just told them about proxie on British MPs Warn of 'Fatal' Cyber Warfare Strategy · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they were so happy when they successfully traced the latest attack to user "goatse" at fbi.gov.

    You mean Goatse was able to expose their gaping hole?

  23. Re:they seem to go crazy on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 3, Funny

    My wife works at a rehabilitation/nursing home and there are so many college professors in there that have gone Looney. Some think they are aliens and others have gone Looney in other ways

    As the saying goes, there is a fine line between the genius and insanity.

  24. Comes down to metrics used on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I appreciate all of the comments and encourage you to read them. My intention here was to relay an intriguing list put together by a career and job listing site, CareerCast, that surveyed data on 200 jobs and drew up a list of professions it deemed least stressful, according to metrics I describe above, which are weighted toward categories like physical demands, environmental conditions and risking one’s life. CareerCast didn’t measure things like hours worked and the stresses that come from trying to get papers published in a competitive environment or writing grants to fund research. Does not look like any reputable source was used to elaborate this study. No wonder it turned out botched.

  25. Why not make it orbit Earth? on NASA Considers Putting an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon · · Score: 1

    So why not have it orbit Earth? Is it the risk of crashing on Earth or into other orbiting space objects or is there some other explanation?