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  1. Re: When I see that [literaly] textbook mistake... on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    That's the eternal problem though. The balance between power necessary and acceptable user/program hindrance.

  2. Fix it? on Lost Beagle2 Probe Found 'Intact' On Mars · · Score: 1

    What is the chance of a future mission giving it a little nudge and salvaging the probe?

  3. Re:Alternate idea on US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts · · Score: 1

    Completely agree. Transparency would do wonders for both the security of the web at large as well as being an amazing PR move for them. Unfortunately along the lines of PR timing would definitely be a large factor in presenting a new initiative like this. Example: the IC-on-the-record tumblr thing that was started looks reactionary and probably generated so little goodwill that it was definitely a waste.

    But a transparent operation would be amazing on so many fronts.

  4. Re:Don't do evil on Google Finally Quashes Month-Old Malvertising Campaign · · Score: 1

    How can they support their goal without revenue?

  5. Wifi name on Simple Rogue WiFi Hotspot Captures High Profile Data · · Score: 1

    I just name mine xfinity

  6. Re:Biased Institutions FTW on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    What happens if this was 100% impossible? Or if you and your wife were just not able to agree to that? Would the child just be swept into the system end of story?

  7. Change on Systemd's Lennart Poettering: 'We Do Listen To Users' · · Score: 1

    It's not like this happened overnight. Change was needed and change was implemented. Then a whole slew of distros and devs decided it was a good direction to incorporate and now everyone is whining about it.

  8. Re:Alternate idea on US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts · · Score: 2

    Because if you spend a billion dollars doing source code audit and developing system hardening techniques but your seal is that of one of the three-letters you will still have the tinfoil hats accusing you of doing something nefarious. You have wasted a billion dollars better spent doing almost anything else. The war games seem like a show for the public anyway.

  9. Gov warnings of lack of encryption on US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. I think people forget that they exist to try and help advance the security of the internets, not listen to cheating husbands and wives for fun. Didn't they create SELinux, and the navy developed tor. Whether they are good or bad on the whole is a topic for another discussion but we shouldn't pretend that their mission statement is something like 'what 4th amendment' or 'internet cowboys without purpose'

  10. Re:100% Pure USDA-Disapporoved Bull on Silk Road Trial Defense: Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts · · Score: 2

    At the same time get into the technical facts that prove someone is innocent and they will zone out until something loud and shiny happens.

  11. Asked a question about stock ownership on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 2

    and apparently "chicken" isn't valid input? 1/5 This new software sucks.

  12. Re:Back to roots on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 2

    That's because every time you think of "Anonymous" as a group you fail to understand it at all. If any of the same people are involved in the latest 'anonymous' adventure that were involved in the previous ops that is a coincidence of them wanting to do it again. Full cycle every. single. time.

  13. Re:Literal mind control on Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up · · Score: 1

    Is this something that you are actually concerned about?

  14. Re:Great, wearable home electroshock therapy! on Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up · · Score: 1

    I'll hazard a guess that most of what you know about ECT is from a movie.

    On the off chance you have experienced it or know someone who has then you should probably have found a better doctor because the majority of cases where ECT is a treatment choice it is effective (because you don't use it as first line therapy or on a whim) and doesn't turn you into a robot. Hair loss is more common. Medications for depression/anxiety/etc have a higher chance of worse side effects but no one outside of those experiencing them really complains about it.

  15. Re:Not sure what to think on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 2

    I think the big point of that is the no-cost of the rolling updates. Sure some things will lag behind, and others will stay up to par. Any enterprise solutions that work already should not see the Apple-method as a viable release path as those two product types have wildly different end users.

  16. Re:ITSM? on What's the Future of Corporate IT and ITSM? (Video) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't wearing my glasses and I was 1/2 way through the summary before I realized I was reading over ITSM as FSM. It makes more sense when I'm not looking for his noodliness.

  17. Re: Developing Story on AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore · · Score: 1

    Maybe not as apparent in this story as they have started finding wreckage, but the 'slant' on 370 was exactly how the search area was being determined.

  18. Re:6TB on one drive is bad on 6 Terabyte Hard Drive Round-Up: WD Red, WD Green and Seagate Enterprise 6TB · · Score: 1

    And going bad doesn't just mean your day is screwed. Depending on the content stored your year could be down the drain.

  19. Re:Nth verse, same as the first on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 1

    That's my question. If the rendering engines are the same isn't this more similar to the IE clones? I can only think of Maxthon at the moment. That doesn't really fix any of the problems with IE.

  20. Re:No sign of Admiral Thrawn on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 2

    They have already stated a complete abandonment of the accepted post-ROTJ canon. New stories, and I would assume a completely different storyline for any of the movies to be released by Disney.

    More to how Disney is 're-imaging' the EU rights as they acquired it with Lucasarts ILM, they just re-branded all of the previously accepted EU under a different banner and now are running forward like they own the place...which they do. This move is unfortunate for everyone that is familiar with the expanded universe but probably won't affect sales of tickets or merchandise in a significant enough way.

  21. Re:"Can't trust Google cuz they're NSA buds" = sil on Google Forks OpenSSL, Announces BoringSSL · · Score: 1

    They'll be happy to comply with government requests for data, but on their own terms, and not by willfully subverting the security itself and leaving the door wide open.

    I think people forget that regular ol' poor programming may leave things open--incompetence over malice.

  22. Re:Next! on US House of Representatives Votes To Cut Funding To NSA · · Score: 1

    Without oversight? 1/2 of the words defining the NSA are describing the oversight mechanisms. _100%-catch-all effective oversight_ is what we actually want. It's not like they absolutely have no purpose, but limits are required.

  23. Re:simple on US Wants To Build 'Internet of Postal Things' · · Score: 1

    "Most messages" yes, but it is perfectly acceptable for the people using the USPS to send mail. The effective spread is not as great for the mail system as compared to horse shoes and rubber tires. That and government-provided access. A homeless man with nothing but a forever stamp and an envelope to his name can still send a letter.

  24. Re:Half-Life 3 guranteed within 1-2 years on Half-Life 3 Trademark Filed In Europe · · Score: 1

    Good, now they can be left to make the game they want to despite all of the fanaticism and buildup that it can in no way live up to. Not saying they didn't appreciate your business in the past, but maybe waiting until there was 'no hope left' by the original fans is the only way to set the stage for a decent (and appreciated) game.

  25. Not surprising on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    that the end of our civilization will start in Portland. Take a bath you hipsters!