Comment Re:But who uses Yahoo! mail? (Score 1) 83
That's a useful side benefit. They correlate for commercial purposes. Selling out to Fed TLA is one such commercial purpose.
Comment Re:But who uses Yahoo! mail? (Score 3, Interesting) 83
Microsoft does the same for Hotmail/Live/Outlook. They claim suspicious use of your account was detected, and that to return access to you, you must change password, with a supplied phone number for secondary account control.
Bullshit. I had this happen across 5 MS hosted mail accounts in the same week - each were purpose-specific accounts to legitimately isolate commercial activity.
Google? The bastards try to wheedle your mobile number out of you at every PW change or update. They practically hide the UI to bypass this request.
Needles to say, all three are used only as "burner" addresses, now.
Comment Re:Glitterboyz on the way (Score 1) 630
The real purpose of these guns, is to entertain Slashdot, while siphoning Federal monies into private pockets for exciting boondoggles.
Comment Re:SWATH, not Catamaran (Score 2) 630
Potato, potahto.
Submission + - Navy to Test Deployment of New Railgun Tech in 2016 (wired.com)
Jeremiah Cornelius writes: The US Navy's new railgun technology, developed by General Atomics, uses Lorentz force in a type of linear, electric motor to hurl a 23-pound projectile at speeds exceeding Mach 7 — excess 5000 MpH. The weapon has a range of 100 miles and doesn’t require explosive warheads. "The electromagnetic railgun represents an incredible new offensive capability for the U.S. Navy," says Rear Adm. Bryant Fuller, the Navy’s chief engineer. "This capability will allow us to effectively counter a wide range of threats at a relatively low cost, while keeping our ships and sailors safer by removing the need to carry as many high-explosive weapons." Sea trials begin aboard an experimental Navy catamaran, the USNS Millinocket, in 2016.
Journal Journal: Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
By Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
25 March 14
Comment Brevity (Score 1) 4
Assists in clarity.
Comment Re:With just a bit of pâté perhaps? (Score 1) 6
Fava. Chianti.
Comment Re:To tell the truth (Score 3, Interesting) 123
Thomas Polgar, the last CIA station chief in Vietnam, died in March at the age of 92. His obit is in today’s New York Times. And here's Polgar himself, remembering the fall of Saigon. As well as, in this brief aside, the war criminal Henry Kissinger.
One day I had an opportunity to ask Mr. Kissinger what he thought of our intelligence. Not speaking of Vietnam, but generally. He was getting this big flow of intelligence from CIA world wide at the time. What did he think of the value of it? And he thought for a moment and then he said, "Well, when it supports my policy, it’s very useful." And I think we are here at the heart of the problem. It is that American policy is not formulated in response to what the intelligence shows. We first formulate the policy and then we try to find the intelligence to support it.
It is interesting to speculate what might have happened if Truman had decided to let the country continue to bumble along, as it had somehow since 1776, without any "intelligence" agency at all. No Shah of Iran, hence no hostage crisis and no Ronald Reagan. No U2, hence no refreezing of the Cold War. No Bay of Pigs, hence no Cuban Missile Crisis. No arming of the Taliban, to teach those Russians a lesson. No Weapons of Mass Destruction, hence no The list goes on and on. The CIA stands in relation to the White House as the drug dealer stands to the addict.
Comment Re:To tell the truth (Score 1) 123
Don LaFontaine:
"In a world, where Truth is forbidden... Where Justice - is a threat... and Treason means having the courage to do what's Right...
Sometimes, there's a chance for one man to make a difference, and risk it all... So others can reach the summit and see the light."
This summer, is the summer of.. Snowden.
Comment Re:Which just goes to show (Score 1) 123
NSA - Just following orders, like the SS did!
Submission + - Major OpenSSL bug found (heartbleed.com)
Bujang Lapok writes: OpenSSL implementation bug found which affects the majority of secure services (https, smtps, pop3s, openvpn etc). The vulnerability if exploited can cause the leak of the private keys. The fix is out, patch NOW!
Journal Journal: Should PETA Turn Jeffrey Dahmer's Home into Vegan Restaurant 6
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, proposes that the former home of convicted murderer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer be turned into a vegan restaurant called, "Eat for Life -- Home Cooking." "Rather than remaining as a stark reminder of
Submission + - Should PETA Turn Jeffrey Dahmer's Home into Vegan Restaurant?
Jeremiah Cornelius writes: PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, proposes that the former home of convicted murderer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer be turned into a vegan restaurant called, "Eat for Life — Home Cooking." "Rather than remaining as a stark reminder of it dark past, the building can instead become the site of a celebration of culinary compassion. Like Dahmer’s human victims, cows, pigs, and chickens are made of flesh and blood and fear for their lives when confronted by a man with a knife... The difference is that when Dahmer was caught, his killing spree ended. Today, however, more than 30 billion animals are slaughtered in the U.S. every year in similarly gruesome ways for food." Is this statement just callous appropriation of a terrible human tragedy for political opportunity, by those who claim to be motivated by deep compassion?
Comment Re:What's been the hold up???? (Score -1, Flamebait) 100
AND, there are lots of other interesting moons out that way. good to establish a precedent that this far out exploration can be done.
Why don't the US ask Russia which one they're going to, and beg for a lift.
It's been working for the local service...
