Comment Re:I wouldn't shed a tear (Score 1) 68
You are sick if you equate minor inconvenience with your precious Mac computer and a loss of human life.
Comment Re:Innocents have nothing to hide (Score 1) 1111
Personal insults are signs of emotional immaturity. To answer your question -- somebody may just have a wad of money just because they like to have it this way. Not because they run a business. Did those drug traffickers say to Anaya that they need a hidden compartment for a particular business purpose? No, and it is not his business to ask.
I like your "an bullshit bromide" phrase. Is it a new internet meme that I have missed?
Comment Re:Really Stupid and Unconstitutional (Score 1) 1111
McCracken took no pity on him. “He makes the drug world work,” she told the judge. “He is equivalent to what I consider somewhat of a genius that takes cocaine and molds them into shapes so that they can be moved in plain sight I don’t feel bad at all today. In fact, this is a pleasure. And Mr. Anaya says that he’s part of this big group of people that puts in compartments. He’s part of this secret society, I guess. Well, I hope he tells a friend, because we’re coming for them.”
Comment Innocents have nothing to hide (Score 1) 1111
"If you hide something, that is because you are a criminal"
Comment Modder? Justice is coming (Score 1) 1111
McCracken [the prosecutor]: "I don’t feel bad at all today. In fact, this is a pleasure. And Mr. Anaya says that he’s part of this big group of people that puts in compartments. He’s part of this secret society, I guess. Well, I hope he tells a friend, because we’re coming for them.”
Comment Re:...made him get the money out (Score 2) 1111
> he demonstrated that he believed the money was ill gotten
I still do not get it. This proves what exactly? The craftsman suspected that the customer may be a criminal. This does NOT make him a co-conspirator in a drug smuggling operation.
"But Anaya resisted his court-appointed lawyer’s advice to plead guilty; he still couldn’t fathom how building traps made him a drug trafficker, and he was confident that a jury would sympathize with his plight."
Logical, I would think. Only the jury in Kanzas (not Anaya's state, BTW) did not sympathize for some reason. Why would that be?
Comment ...found 800 grand inside (Score 1) 1111
And so? Having a bit of cash is illegal? Did he have to immediately call the police?
On what basis should have he refused to do his job? "Oh, I don't know, I cannot do it because you may be a drug dealer, probably". Great way to treat a customer who may have won a fortune in Las-Vegas.
Did the Spamhaus DDoS Really Slow Down Global Internet Access? 70
CowboyRobot writes "Despite the headlines, the big denial of service attack may not have slowed the Internet after all. The argument against the original claim include the fact that reports of Internet users seeing slowdowns came not from service providers, but the DDoS mitigation service CloudFlare, which signed up Spamhaus as a customer last week. Also, multiple service providers and Internet watchers have now publicly stated that while the DDoS attacks against Spamhaus could theoretically have led to slowdowns, they've seen no evidence that this occurred for general Internet users. And while some users may have noticed a slowdown, the undersea cable cuts discovered by Egyptian sailors had more of an impact than the DDoS."
Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope 115
First time accepted submitter szotz writes "The National Ignition Facility has one foot in national defense and another in the future of commercial energy generation. That makes understanding the basic justification for the facility, which boasts the world's most powerful laser system, more than a little tricky. This article in IEEE Spectrum looks at NIF's recent missed deadline, what scientists think it will take for the facility to live up to its middle name, and all of the controversy and uncertainty that comes from a project that aspires to jumpstart commercial fusion energy but that also does a lot of classified work. NIF's national defense work is often glossed over in the press. This article pulls in some more detail and, in some cases, some very serious criticism. Physicist Richard Garwin, one of the designers of the hydrogen bomb, doesn't mince words. When it comes to nuclear weapons, he says in the article, '[NIF] has no relevance at all to primaries. It doesn't do a good job of mimicking secondaries...it validates the codes in regions that are not relevant to nuclear weapons.'"
Comment left:WASD right:click! (Score 1) 260
I am right-handed, but I type and use WASD & shortcuts in games using mostly left hand. Right hand is for the mouse + right 1/3 of the keyboard.
Comment That is cool! (Score 1) 222
Very nice work. The article is well written too.
Comment Re:What's new? (Score 1) 374
It is not new. "Survival of the friendliest" dogs is described, for example, in Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale (2004).
Comment Re:Fixed (Score 1) 1106
> The three stores were basically paying the rent and showing a very small profit...after years of not making a profit.... The first year I was in charge, I got profits up by 70%
So you have improved profits by 70% of a very small amount? 70% of nothing is still nothing, isn't it?
Comment Re:Add-on CPU (Score 1) 176
> I guess the days are finally here when you buy your graphics card and then figure out what kind of system to add on to it
Of course! That has been the case for a long time already. If you want to install, for example, 2 NVidia GTX cards in SLI configuration, you need to think about having enough power, then measure your case, because some cards are longer than the miniATX motherboard and may stick out to the space occupied by your SSD RAID. The motherboard should have PCIE slots spread out wide enough for cards with a lot of heat sinking. Stick as much RAM as you can. And only then you add a latest Intel CPU, does not matter which one, as long as it has a bigger number, like i7 (and definitely not i5!)
Submission + - Will Facebook's Battle With EU Spur Innovation? (technoverseblog.com)
Cavaradossi writes: Facebook has legitimate gripes (as well as having a lot at stake) with the EU Commission's right-to-be-forgotten-rule. In the proposed changes--article 17-- to the landmark 1995 Data Protection Directive, "data controllers" --Facebook, Google, Tumblr, or any service that collects data--will be held responsible for deleting all data, even copies found on third-party sites ,when the "data subject"-- you or me--requests it. It's not the way the Internet was supposed to work as Facebook has pointed out. Entirely unreasonable request from EU technocrats. But could the EU Commission's demands end up spurring innovation in privacy?
