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Comment Re:Before everyone goes too conspiracy overboard.. (Score 2) 71

Keep in mind that Einstein is a DHS program for monitoring the security of government networks from an internal point of view. It consolidates information from participating agencies' firewalls, intrusion detection systems, malware detection, anti-virus scanners, etc,. It has nothing to do with monitoring anyone or anything aside from government-owned systems, government-owned internal networks (i.e. the LAN in a government office building), and the actions of government employees using those internal government-owned stems and networks. In other words, it's exactly the same sort of thing every major company, university, or other organization does in their security operations centers.

Whether or not the data should be kept around for research purposes is a worthwhile question, although publishing it would require a lot of sanitization to avoid revealing data that would be useful to attackers (for instance, the name, IP address, and precise version number of every firewall within a given agency).

But in this case it's not about covering up any surveillance or information gathering on public behavior.

How about records of one or more government agencies intruding into other government agency's or branch's networks?

For instance, could there be evidence contained in those logs of TLAs intruding into the networks of Congress, the SCOTUS, etc?

Never mind TLAs spying on normal everyday citizens. The Executive Branch has been quite cavalier of late in spying on those in the other branches of government, particularly when said other branches may be deciding whether or not to exercise their duty and ability to limit the Executive Branch's power and scope.

This data could provide hard evidence regarding just how extensive and pervasive these practices have become.

Strat

Comment Re:The cult of Nuclear power is insufferable (Score 1) 145

Only if you want to rape the earth with a chainsaw is nuclear the worst option.

People who are against nuclear may as well set fire to an acre of tires in their back yard, it would represent a tiny fraction of the pollution you have caused from the continued and future use of coal plants, you dirty bastard.

Comment Re:AIDS is bad (Score 1) 102

let me clarify what I mean

They are using the idea of donating to AIDS research with the money you used to buy X. Now some people who were not planning to buy X will see this and think "oh look, they are donating for AIDS on everything we buy today, we should buy something to help!"

On the other hand people who were going to buy, but maybe not on friday see it and say "oh boy, if we buy this a few weeks early, we will be helping support AIDS research!"

This is nothing more than using social engineering to get more buyers by tugging at the heartstrings. In no way is apple to be singled out by doing this is happens all the time, im just surprised more people dont understand this technique

Submission + - Activists Discover Evidence of St. Petersburg's River of Poop (globalvoicesonline.org)

Okian Warrior writes: Two weeks ago, a group of St. Petersburg ecologists conducted a test in Novoye Devyatkino, a suburb about 12 miles outside the city, of the local sewer system. In a study they titled “Feces Travel,” the activists dropped ten miniaturized, waterproofed GPS-tracking units down the toilet of a single apartment home and began mapping the devices’ signals.

On their website, the ecologists claim the trackers spilled out directly into the open-air waterways outside the building, without encountering even the most rudimentary sewage filtration. From Novoye Devyatkino, five of the devices reached the open waters of Neva Bay, where the units’ batteries appear to have died.

Comment Sexist? (Score 4, Insightful) 125

Have you ever talked to a little girl? Saying that having to Frozen characters involved might interest more little girls is not sexism, it's the most common of sense.

People like you say you want more women in coding but don't want to do anything real to make it happen, at the level it needs to happen - early education.

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