Comment Smooth jazz (Score 2) 239
...will be deployed in 3, 2, 1
Comment Re:That is seven kinds of awesome (Score 1) 137
Exactly my point.
Comment Re:That is seven kinds of awesome (Score 1) 137
I noticed the odd Roman numerals (III II I III I, etc)after a bit. Maybe she left it as a clue to herself.
Comment Re:This guy is just blowing smoke. (Score 5, Funny) 662
Your knew hear, arent you?
Comment Re:"Walmart will keep its DRM servers online" (Score 3, Insightful) 92
Didn't see it linked yet.
Comment Re:Half a million dollars to whom? (Score 1, Insightful) 279
Hope more people see this comment. You can't do jack with bitcoins at the moment. Who knows, maybe in the future we can but for now:
News for nerds? Maybe. Stuff that matters? Hell no.
Comment Re:Police State (Score 4, Insightful) 521
No reason to do this. As a Massachusetts resident this is totally unwarranted.
"No reason to do this. As a fucking US citizen this is totally unwarranted."
FTFY.
Comment Re:simpsons did it (Score 1) 86
Submission + - Supreme Court Approves Warrantless Home Searches (nytimes.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The New York Times reports that the Supreme Court has ruled, by a vote of 8 to 1, that police may enter a home and collect evidence even without a warrant, if after knocking on the door and announcing themselves they "hear evidence being destroyed." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , who cast the lone dissenting vote, mused: "How 'secure' do our homes remain if police, armed with no warrant, can pound on doors at will and, on hearing sounds indicative of things moving, forcibly enter and search for evidence of unlawful activity?"
Comment Re:There Is No Cat... (Score 1) 112
What does Schrödinger have to say about people pulling his cat's tail? The next thing we'll see on the intartubes, is people slapping monkeys . .
Without asking him, I'm sure he's either ok with it or against it.
Submission + - FBI: If We Told You, You Might Sue Us (aclu.org)
Gunkerty Jeb writes: So these guys over at the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act with the FBI regarding the interpretation and implementation of the FISA Amendments Act. Last November, the government released a few hundred heavily redacted documents.
Despite redactions, the documents confirmed that the government had interpreted the statute in as broad a sense as we were afraid they might, and that the government had repeatedly violated the few limitations that the statute actually imposed. No real surprise there.
However, that is not the point. The real point is that the documents reveal that the government doesn't want you to know whether your internet or phone company is cooperating with their surveillance program not out of concern for national security, but rather for fear we may become upset and file lawsuits asserting our constitutional rights.
Despite redactions, the documents confirmed that the government had interpreted the statute in as broad a sense as we were afraid they might, and that the government had repeatedly violated the few limitations that the statute actually imposed. No real surprise there.
However, that is not the point. The real point is that the documents reveal that the government doesn't want you to know whether your internet or phone company is cooperating with their surveillance program not out of concern for national security, but rather for fear we may become upset and file lawsuits asserting our constitutional rights.
Submission + - MMO Strategy 101: DDoS Your Opponent's Website (goonfleet.com)
BondGamer writes: For the past several days Goonfleet's website, one of the largest alliances in space MMO EVE Online, has been under a sustained DDoS attack. The webmaster has taken several steps in an attempt to mitigate the attack, but the attackers persist. In the past day, the attack has expanded to other EVE alliance websites. Popular EVE news reporting site EveNews24 says they have been experiencing DDoS attacks for weeks. The reason for the attacks and who is behind them is unknown, but it is suspected to have to do with in-game wars and politics. By taking down alliance forums, communication is crippled and chaos ensues for the affected alliances. When the only real protection against these attacks costs thousands of dollars per day, how is anyone except a million dollar company supposed to fight back against these kinds of attacks?
Submission + - How To Hijack a Friend's Facebook Account (conceivablytech.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The security loophole described in this report allows an ex or frenemy to hijack your Facebook account within few minutes. It was discovered at University of Illinois and was reported immediately to Facebook. Interestingly and very surprisingly, other websites such as allfacebook.com pulled the report off their website. It is not confirmed whether Facebook has plugged the loophole.
Submission + - DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin (wordpress.com)
Davis Freeberg writes: "The Department of Homeland Security is hard at work again, protecting the industry from websites that the big studios don't want you to see. This time they're targeting the Mafiaafire plugin by asking Mozilla to disable the addon at the root level. Instead of blindly complying with the government's request, Mozilla has decieded to ask some tough questions instead. Unsurprisingly, when faced with legitimate concerns about the legality of their domain seizure program, the DHS has decided to clam up."
