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  1. waiving my consultancy fee today on DARPA Delving Into the Black Art of Super Secure Software Obfuscation · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pro tip for DARPA: use perl, hand out the source. Same end result but probably a few reverser suicides along the way.

  2. Re:Not just iPhone on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    But to release a high end phone with this obvious engineering deficiency is like a smack in the face to loyal Apple consumers.

    Loyal apple customers needed a smack in the face anyway.

  3. With a lighter gov't and no IRS maybe the thumb on the scale wouldn't be necessary. Then if you eliminate the graft and pork from fighting scores of bogus wars, including the phony "war" on drugs, it's a huge net economic win that could put America back in the black.

    Newsflash: it's not sustainable to employ the entire country in federal government. Didn't you guys learn anything from Greece?

  4. Re:Thus the problem with the TEA party on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 2

    You're right amigo. Gotta prop up that industrial-military complex or everything falls apart like Detroit. Can you imagine the utter FAIL if the USA became more peaceful like Canada or productive like China but hopefully without all the forced labor and communism...

  5. Re:Simplify Taxes on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 1

    I hope you're being sarcastic about simplification. Obviously the IRS is too quick, responsive and slim for its own good or there wouldn't be this problem. Fighting identity theft, as we've learned from TFA, requires a bloated bureaucratic behemoth barely capable of sustaining its own weight, sort of the lovechild of an aging tug-of-warrior with a flaccid former sumo star. More weight to throw behind this fight against fraud wouldn't hurt.

  6. Well, it's for a good cause... TFS did mention DDOS against the entertainment industry. Good news is news worth reading.

  7. Re:Wow on China Pulls Plug On Genetically Modified Rice and Corn · · Score: 1

    People aren't much concerned about the natural pesticides which we've evolved to tolerate/enjoy over millions of years - it's the ignorant approach of engineering food to produce glyphosate-dependent staple foods or force crops to produce toxins and then letting it loose on the world. You can't prevent cross-pollination with natural crops. 20-50 years later when we find out it's toxic after all, who pays that bill?

  8. Re:$230 on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    Ghostery is my new convenient friend. Blocks the adwhores & leaves js-heavy websites functional without the NoScript whitelisting nuisance. With AdBlock Plus it's nearly perfect.

  9. Belly Fat on Researchers Find Security Flaws In Backscatter X-ray Scanners · · Score: 1

    As demonstrated here using a small dog?
    Gary Larsen ahead of his time as usual.

  10. Re:Google play services required on Android Wear Is Here · · Score: 1

    Install apps from f-droid or via saved apk. I regularly backup all my Play apps on a sacrificial phone (no privacy, never gets used) for use on EDC devices that do not have Play installed. It's a win-win: privacy while having the ability to purchase apps as needed, like Swiftkey/Minuum/Fleksy (no dodgy warez thx) and Lucky Patcher takes care of the shitty "licensing" garbage. If/when you become ready to unplug from the matrix there are red pills everywhere.

  11. Re:the real question is... on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 2

    Careful now, you'll confuse the 'Murricans with that Centigrade technology. And to answer your question, anybody who likes black & blue steak is liable to want a high temperature oven.

  12. Re:Only $15/hour? on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    Let the Fed keep printing, the bankers keep on bailing out, the party will never end! Oh, and inflation is years away, IF EVER. No need to adjust prices or wages to account for millions of deficit dollars per American, soon to be billions. Thank the military contracts and foodstamps for preserving this country from the commies.

  13. Re:USA == Central Bureaucracy on Google To Close Its American Moto X Factory · · Score: 1

    I'll donate an old bath tub for this mission. Keeping my towel tho.

  14. Re:Dumb reasoning? on TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker · · Score: 0

    Recommending Bitlocker is a blatant admission that the NSA has gotten its filthy mitts all over the project and instead of Lavabiting TC, forced TC to produce a compromised product. Good move on TC's part, as anybody with enough brain cells to read can grok whatever's between lines that big.

  15. Re:Commodity of the future on Dump World's Nuclear Waste In Australia, Says Ex-PM Hawke · · Score: 0

    Give it to Africa. Huge desert land, they could use some fertile material.

  16. Re:Only the great Master of Paper can save AMD on AMD Preparing To Give Intel a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    The best thing AMD got right was the upgrade path, S939 kept my machine current for years before the glorious AM3 socket. Every Intel we've built OTOH only has one good CPU per socket and no upgrade path after that.

  17. Re:Friends don't... on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Friends don't let friend iMessage.

    ...but when they do, nothing of value is ever lost.

  18. IRS is above the law on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    Seeing as the US govt has spent itself into an event horizon of the current magnitude while trying to prosecute 64 simultaneous, one-sided "wars" against brown folk the world over, all you Americans have just got to tighten your belts a little bit. Priorities like fattening the Republicrat fatcats and sponsoring automated killing machines to further the War on Drugs/Terror/Arabs/Commies/Mexicans are there for a reason. Of course the IRS needs your money more than you do! That's why they're above the law. If you don't like it file suit in a secret court.

  19. Re:Read your lease... on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    So renters are breaking the contract and whinging when the eviction notice arrives? These twits ranting about it can sftu, gtfo and find another place to live. The issue isn't how much rent costs, it's basic contract/rent/lease law. And respect. And common sense. San Francisco isn't special and/or unique unless you're counting hipsters per square meter.

  20. Re:It wasn't just private opinion. on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 1

    Taking rights away from others? Rubbish. It's not a right to obtain governmental approval of your cohabitation strategy or sexual preferences.

  21. Re:Sure on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    If it succeeds in public a secret court will secretly undo it and back to business as usual for the Stasi^WNSA. Hitler's wet dream made real by a half-American POTUS & protected by secret courts in the "Land of the Free". What precious irony.

  22. Re:Another possibility on WSJ: Americans' Phone Bills Are Going Up · · Score: 1

    Go shopping. If that doesn't convince you then forget you ever read this comment. The war with Oceania will be over soon anyway.

  23. Re:Another possibility on WSJ: Americans' Phone Bills Are Going Up · · Score: 1

    no, it's because inflation is out of control. American phone bills are in line with all the other inflation taking place, even if Minitrue says otherwise.

  24. Re:Elephants in the mist on Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors · · Score: 1

    intelligence agencies may be trying to plant backdoors or weaken security in a way or another, you should start with the main country by far engaged in such activities

    So start with the USA then?

  25. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points, this is the right answer to any questions the Keurig might provoke. Aeropresses are more versatile too, you can make half a cup if you want.