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  1. Might be very low tech leak on New Dell Tech Support Scams Have Customers Worried Company Was Hacked (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1
    Dell contracts with local fix-it guys to handle support calls. They have enough information to fix the issue and bill Dell. Most of them are your typical small business people, very decent professionals. All it takes is a few bad ones to leak information about a small number of customers. It might not even be deliberate, they might have thrown carbon copies in dumpsters or they might have had employees gone bad and a few of them might have been seduced by the Dark side of the Force.

    Having said that, Dell might be hacked too. Who knows.

  2. Re:duct tape... on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Insulting the Force you did. Take revenge Yoda will.

  3. Re:duct tape... on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, there were no injuries from being whacked over the head with a saber.

    You are doing it wrong..

    Nah, he made iLightsaber which works only if you hold it right.

  4. Young fool with no ambition. on How an IRS Agent Stole $1M From Taxpayers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 3, Funny

    What really upsets me is the lack of ambition and drive in the younger generation. This IRS agent could have made millions, but stopped at just one million. This really sucks, even when they can steal, they get lazy and take time off to post selfies in the facebook profile. There is no hope. Now, get off my lawn.

  5. Re:Isn't that a Catholic country? on Brazil Cautions Women To Avoid Pregnancy Over Zika Virus Outbreak (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of SA is indeed catholic, but that's changing fast [citation needed] and birth control methods such as condoms and pills are distributed for free by the Ministry of Health

    Tax payer funds for birth control? OMG, wait till the Republicans hear about this. They are gonna freak out. What? oh? They already know? All that noise they make is just for entertainment? OK, that figures. Does their base know?

  6. Isn't that a Catholic country? on Brazil Cautions Women To Avoid Pregnancy Over Zika Virus Outbreak (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't entire South America heavily Catholic? Don't they take very strong stance against birth control? Or the Catholics being against birth control something unique to USA?

  7. Any random guy without a car. on GM Dumps $500 Million Into Lyft (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    The business model for Uber is any random guy with a car can be a taxi driver pretending to be a non-taxi driver.

    The GM - Lyft model is any random guy without a car can borrow a conveniently parked GM car and be a taxi driver pretending to be non-taxi driver.

    Wow! Pretty soon we will have random guys with lock box code to apartment keys and be an inn-keeper pretending to be a non-inn-keeper. and the possibilities are endless.

  8. Is it part of the uncoordinated coordination? on 18 Million Targeted Voter Records Exposed By Database Error (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Election law is quite esoteric and it forbids "coordination" between people with similar goals. One way to defeat it is to collect the data and leave in a secret location but arguably a public location. The other party gets tipped off and they collect the "publicly" found info. Ted Cruz dumped tons of unedited video shoot in some public you tube account to provide material for his PAC to create advertisements for him without "coordination". Someone found it and comedians had a field day with it. They had specifically avoided copyright claims to allow the other party to use it legally. Now comedians happily playing with it.

    Similarly Fiorina just accepts invitation to speak from different group, posts these invitations publicly in a google spreadsheet. Her SuperPAC uses this info to organize all the campaign work. Uncoordinated coordination!

    This database could also be one of the deep pocketed presidential campaigns getting the info without paying for it, or provide the info without appearing to coordinate with them.

    Just wish we would just scrap the elections and just sell the elections to the highest bidder at this point.

  9. The acknowledgement does not look good on Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 (theintercept.com) · · Score: 2
    Not only you have to upload your recovery key to microsoft, the response you get after you upload from their servers does not bode well.

    It says "all your base are belong to us".

  10. Re:It is very, very bad... on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    They learnt the lesson. They had two guards for the secret entrance to the nuclear reactor. They didn't stop the attack, so point in posting the dumb guards.

  11. The damned librals everywhere! on Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1
    Why can't they leave at least one bastion of free enterprise and perfect competition? Why should they come in ask for equal representation of every 32 bit patterns? These numbers should know that in America every one gets equal opportunity not equal outcomes. It is a tough world out there and you have 32 bits and the other number has 32 bits. Fight your way and get represented as often as you can or fall by the way side.

    We should carve out an exception for the sincerely held religious beliefs to serve or not serve any particular random number for the generator.

  12. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    ..but... but... the spoilers!

    Watch once on the opening night to avoid being spoilered. Then watch it again at leisure.

  13. JJAbrams played it safe on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    This movie is exactly a reproduction of the original ANH. From a protogonist in a dusty planet dressed in rags who is unaware of his/her potential, to evil man in mask, distant more evil villain, climatic X wing fighters making bombing run...

    Having said that, this one leverages on the fan base, its speculation about possible connections between the characters. Back in the 1970s no one asked "Who is Luke Skywalker?" or speculated he could be related by blood to super villains. Despite being hinted at as Darth Vader = Dark Father in German.

    This time the net is abuzz with speculation about Rey. Everyone has all but concluded that Rey is the daughter of Luke. Some people hoping for a twist think she could be a grand daughter of Obi Wan. Or Obi Wan might have had a daughter who married luke, thus Rey could be Rey Wan-Skywalker.

    I hope they pull a totally unexpected twist and make Rey an aunt of Luke and Leia. Anakin's father is left dangling in the canon, with some vague hints by Shmi that Anakin had no father. Anakin's father could be from a long living tribe (Yoda was 900 years old), well endowed with the Force who go into suspended animation who wake up time to time to create off-spring to bring balance to the Force. "To eradicate the Evil, and to establish Righteousness, I will return to the Earth from time and again" said Krishna Geetha 4:8

  14. Re:i don't want a fucking on-going relationship on Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It · · Score: 1

    i just want to buy stuff - anonymously, without the shop-keeper knowing my name and other personal details just because i bought a fucking coffee or a hamburger or something.

    Why? what are you hiding? NSA, this cas2000 seems to be hiding something, please take a look.

  15. Speculation is she will turn out to be a daughter of Luke Skywalker. Some suggest may be a grand daughter of Ben Kenobi. But given that Star Wars stretches the boundaries "age", you know Anakin would have been all of ten years old when he married Queen Amydala... Rey could even be a daughter of Kylo Ren.

    I am hoping they would do something really unexpected plot twist to make Rey an aunt of Luke Skywalker. Anakin's father has been left dangling. Shmi's ambiguous explanation has been assumed to suggest virgin-birth of Anakin. But there is an opening there. Anakin's father could be from a tribe that could go into voluntary suspended animation for long periods of time. They might come in once in a long while to "bring balance to the force". It has been assumed bringing balance to the force means helping the light side over the dark side. What if the dark side was losing and Anankin was meant to provide the dark side some help? All through this saga the Dark side has had an upper hand all the time. What if that was by design? And then Force swung too far towards the dark, and so finally the time has come to help the light side, so Anakin's father returns to create Rey to provide the Light side of the Force some help. Darth Vader means the Dark Father in German. I am hoping for a Weiß Vater or Licht Vater be revealed as the father of Rey.

  16. Did they find the "Object"? on Seattle's Behemoth Boring Machine, Idle Since 2013, Makes Some Progress · · Score: 1

    What was blocking the tunnel machine? It was the shallowest part of the tunnel. It could be an iron ship sunk 100 or 150 years ago.

  17. The break down of 60 million is the key. on Estimating SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Cost Savings (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The 60 million cost includes the cost of manufacturing the components, inspecting them thoroughly, assembling them and inspecting and passing the assembly. They went for proven technologies and cheap materials, says the article. The rocket shell is relatively simple. The cost is in the rocket motor, the nozzle that holds the combustion products in plasma state, its cooling mechanism, pumps and controls. I am not sure how much of it can be inspected and re validated without extensive disassembly. I suspect most of the cost is in the inspection and certification of the vehicle rather than in the cost of individual components or the cost of assembling them.

  18. You keep the Christ, We keep the Merry. on NORAD's Amazing 60-Year Santa Tracking History (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This whole winter solstice festival was observed by pagans before they were civilized by Gospel and the Christians. To placate them the early Christian church allowed them to Christianize their pagan winter solstice festival by weaving a story of Christ being born on Dec. It is blasphemous to continue to observe that pagan festival in the Year of Our Lord 2015.

    Worse the liberals with the help of merchandise peddling corporations have infiltrated the government to the top levels. They even use the military to perpetuate the myth and indoctrinate the young kids into the myth of Christmas.

    It is time we return to the original Christian roots of observing and celebrating the birth of our Savior. No gifts, no pagan trees. No drinking or making merry. We have to take the Merry out of the Merry Christmas and put Holy in it, not holly. Strict abstemious, pious prayers and mass is ALL that should be allowed on Christmas. They commercialized the sabbath, commercialized Christmas. They will commercialize the entire church canon if you let them.

    Christians of the world, unite against the Merry in the Merry Christmas.

    Of course, we, non Christians would be allowed to celebrate a winter Season festival, with all the drinking, making merry and exchanging gifts. Pious Christians, you keep the Christ, the rest of us keep the Merry and we call it a fair division.

    Holy Christmas Greetings to Christians. Merry Season's Greetings to us.

  19. Martian soil is likely to very salty and toxic. on Now NASA Wants To Grow Potatoes On Mars For Real (examiner.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The soil on Earth has been washed by rain for millions of years and almost all the water soluble salts have been dissolved and transported to the ocean by the rivers. Without the rain cycle the martian soil is likely to contain very heavy doses of heavy and toxic metals, lots of salts. The martian Whatney would have died of heavy metal poisoning if he was eating the potatoes without poetic license and fiction reality adjustment. Just saying.

  20. Re:When did he say the 40K car will be shipped? on Tesla Will Have Self-driving Cars In Just Two Years, Elon Musk Boldly Declares (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    My point was, that model has slipped a lot in the promised delivery date. 2017, eh? Advance booking open?

  21. Need to protect it well. on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    WE don't want some random Libyan terrorist stealing it and recruiting a local mad scientist to make nuclear bomb. But if the scientist steals the Plutonium to make a time machine...

  22. It is actually an improvement. on Google Tests Signing Into Accounts Using Your Phone, No Password Required (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
    Vast majority of the people have no lock screen on their laptops, pads, home computer and phones. And they also let their browser save the passwords. For such people this phone authentication is an improvement. Even if they lose any other device, as long as they don't lose their authentication phone, they are safe. At least safer than before.

    People who eschew the "convenience trumps security" mentality and are willing to jump through the hoops for better security this approach does not offer much. But we are a definite minority. May be if the passwords are not the main authentication credentials those spam phish email volume might decrease, that benefits us all.

  23. When did he say the 40K car will be shipped? on Tesla Will Have Self-driving Cars In Just Two Years, Elon Musk Boldly Declares (fortune.com) · · Score: 2
    Model E or whatever he called it, an electric car with some 200+ mile range under 40K. When did he say it would ship?

    Anyway congrats on landing Falcon rocket. So yeah, he over promises and under delivers. But even his under delivered stuff is way too awesome.

  24. Scary thing is: EE has the *best* outlook ! on US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers (bls.gov) · · Score: 1

    Well, I did not really read the report. I thought it would be quite funny if zero growth is the best among *all* engg majors ;-)

  25. Very clever, very clever on Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary and the title sneakily suggest the windows phone has fans. Perry Mason would object to assuming facts not in evidence, in addition to the usual irrelevant, immaterial, incompetent, not having proper foundation laid.