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  1. Re:This is embarrassing for Apple on Apple: You Must Be 17+ To Use Opera · · Score: 1

    For now you can "still get Opera the old fashioned way."
    Soon Apple will be http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/editorial-its-apples-post-pc-world-were-all-just-living/
    "Apple doesn't just want to own the market -- it wants to own the idea of the market." ie a big tamperproof vending machine?

  2. Re:Moderately obscure question: on Blade Runner Sequels and Prequels Happening · · Score: 1

    for Martix/GitS try http://www.mig81.com/matrixgits/ pages of info.

  3. Re:Moderately obscure question: on Blade Runner Sequels and Prequels Happening · · Score: 1

    They could always use music from Basic Pleasure Model, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psykosonik

  4. Re:Argument from ignorance fallacy on SCO Found No Source Code In 2004 · · Score: 1

    A legal app? Take a pic of the text, OCR it and let it do the word math. A map of the USA pops up with green for starting legal action ... and a list of local legal experts waiting to help.

  5. Re:What is up with Android malware? on Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market · · Score: 1

    Can we try the reverse of the Apple/Windows malware for the OS X desktop market share idea?
    Android users are wealthy, creative, smart, well connected ect. and its 'worth' the code effort?
    Or is it "Windows" easy to make a "wide-open backdoor"?
    If this can be done in the wild, what can your gov do or contract to have done to your phone?

  6. Won't someone think of the homes with solar panels on Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data · · Score: 1

    If this had failed, think of all the people who bought solar panels and had done the ROI math based on state and federal credits, rebates, incentives.
    Without the CO2 issue, this could have looked bad. With the expected rush over carbon reduction schemes, wow :)

  7. Re:Kids shouldnt even have SSI numbers on Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN · · Score: 1

    If SB 222 (2/10/2011) passes in Missouri http://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?BillID=4124271&SessionType=R with "eliminates the prohibition on employment of children under age fourteen" they will be working.

  8. Selective Service for the next generation on Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN · · Score: 2

    You would think the post Vietnam generation recalls where data like this can end up in bulk, for profit and in a very uniquely identified way for the US gov.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrell's_Ice_Cream_Parlour
    But dont worry, Google only has links with the NSA and they only like data outside the USA...

  9. Re:i think it's a good idea on Air Force Wants Hundreds of Fake Online Identities · · Score: 2

    Would you risk your best and brightest with some .com effort?
    They look after expensive spooks. This seems for pure psyops aimed at the US public.

  10. Re:Umm . . .. on Air Force Wants Hundreds of Fake Online Identities · · Score: 1

    The NSA would watch your site, you would get a lot of hits from strange bots, front .coms, networks, contractors.
    Other more clean teams would then jump in and try and shape, misdirect, milk, discredit or form long term friendships.

  11. Re:Not fake IDs, corporate IDs on Air Force Wants Hundreds of Fake Online Identities · · Score: 3, Informative
  12. Re:Gov't enforced net neutrality will suck on House Passes Amendment To Block Funds For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Thank your neighborhood republican on House Passes Amendment To Block Funds For Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Informative

    Re Please find an example of an ISP trying to charge content providers for "preferential" access.
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/huge-isps-want-per-gb-payments-from-netflix-youtube.ars
    Pay up or risk an "internet brownout"...

  14. Re:How about this? on Data Retention Should Last One Year, US Gov't Tells Australia · · Score: 2

    From 5 years in the EU to 1 year is still a one year as the retention period. So its not a troll.

  15. Re:Is anyone else disturbed? on US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites · · Score: 1

    With ideas like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center its all in the mix. FBI is the DHS and they chat with the NSA, Army ect.
    Next up is "Satellite Surveillance: Domestic Issues" http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL34421.pdf

  16. Re:Why even connect sensitive computers to the net on Foreign Hackers Attack Canadian Government · · Score: 1

    It just doesn't make sense to me...
    They like to look up Ford car parts, bathroom repair, fantasy football and correct wikipedia ect ... all from their day jobs ip

  17. Re:I'll drop my webapp sec researcher hat... on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    Classic MS like group think? With the US and UK .gov..edu .com crypto circles they lived in/sold to ... whats to worry about?
    A very MS focused team to offer deep MS related solutions?

  18. Re:If a malicious hacker DoS's your servers... on US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites · · Score: 1

    Free van ride home :)

  19. Re:Libby and Cheiney on Lawmaker Reintroduces WikiLeaks Prosecution Bill · · Score: 4, Informative

    The US informers involved with "that company" where left in Iraq. Many where systematically 'lost' in the fog of war, like they where on some list.
    The movie Fair Game hints at the details http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0977855/
    As for US law, this will be very chilling on the press. From the 1920's and 30's books on US ww1 code breaking to the Pentagon papers, NSA books ect. US law has been clear about the freedom to publish. What has been published is mostly collected from the press, been cleared or hints at deep crime, useless hardware/software, limited hangout efforts, pure propaganda or PR.

  20. Cash for 'cyber' is flowing on Obama Wants Big Hike In Cybersecurity Research · · Score: 2

    http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/219725/government_employs_hackers_in_brave_new_scheme.html
    "...harness those within the hacking community who typically present research at black or white hat conventions but whose work flies under the radar of DARPA."
    "hacker incubators" and made it clear that the DoD would not request commercial rights to any innovations discovered.
    " a new type of Windows rootkit that was undetectable and almost impossible to remove." http://crowdleaks.org/hbgary-inc-working-on-secret-rootkit-project-codename-magenta/

  21. Re:Parroting Alex Jones on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    Google is now very fast at finding new sites. Google can then bring keywords out of any new site/blog/forum back to various intelligence agencies.
    How many unique sites picked up on new building work, funding, unique project names ect. mentioned by very few news agencies over a 12 h news cycle?
    What is done with the information you expose when searching if your ip/longterm cookie is of interest seems to be the question.
    ip collecting/search term honeypot sites that always seem to be within the average top results could show the 'mood' of the public?
    Over time in your local area, could an isp/real name float to the top with certain key words?

  22. Study the collected results? on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    Whats a 'low-quality' site? A blog/forum/site that a large well connected party political flash mob sends to Google?
    If Google takes time to get the code/human effort working well, good sites will be airbrushed from the 'google' web.

  23. Re:Pfft. on Secret Plan To Kill Wikileaks With FUD Leaked · · Score: 1

    REALLY* this bad, the US has a much bigger problem than a website.
    It depends who stumbles over your work and what made them look.
    DIA with its Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC), in the past TALON/Counterintelligence Field Activity ect.
    With this its just .com's looking after other .coms on a very public internet, no need for a new Church report.

  24. Going deep with "what function stories enact" on DARPA Wants To Know How Stories Influence People · · Score: 1

    Recall the Office of Strategic Influence to push happy press material outside the USA.
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0219-01.htm
    Then you also have a new effort in Israel for "new media fighters" to create better blogs/forum post ect.
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4025751,00.html
    DARPA has seen the simple ideas of 'talking points' fail.
    Expect a lot more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout efforts to flush out "digital artifacts" ie keywords on a blog.

  25. Re:The way things are going... on Startup Provides Secure Calls For Egypt · · Score: 1

    In the US the NSA is your telco. Copper, optical, sat, dial up, they will deep packet inspect it all.
    The unique encrypted traffic will glow and any average user will stand out.
    A fusion centre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center would get your details and the vans would be on the way.
    Also remember what this software runs on. Nokia Siemens was to Iran as a that nice telco/web 2.0 .com is to the USA?