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Comment Actually, YES. (Score 0) 448

Actually the kill switches and degradation modes and remote control overrides are well known... Check Pakistani intelligence, for example. They know their radar systems are degraded and remotely hackable, they know their F16s are degraded and remotely decomissionable, but they are still better than anything else Pakistan can get.

Comment Sexual dimorphism in corpus callosum's splenium... (Score 0) 136

Research has long proven that women have a different corpus callosum than men (which makes them better information synthesizers), where their splenium has more parallel channels of communication between the hemispheres of the brain (10 to 15 channels, whereas men only have 1 or 2 channels). Swedish researchers have proven that gay men have female-typed corpus callosum's. Turing's Imitation Game could have originated because as a gay man he realized he was better at pretending to be a woman than other men were...

Comment Number of devices per capita (Score 0) 197

The figure is obviously wrong. First of all, many individuals have multiple mobile devices, at least work and personal. Some people have additional tablets with mobile subscriptions, etc. Also, there are mobile subscriptions for alarm systems, for fleet vehicle monitoring and telemetry, for GSM modems used by SMS txt msg providers, etc., etc.

There may be nearly as many mobile device subscriptions as there are humans now, but it is definitely not 1:1 per capita worldwide.

Comment Bill of Rights went into effect 1791 (Score 0) 1633

This fact you point out further destroys the 2nd Amendment "where's the militia?" argument made by anti-gun people.

The 2nd Amendment was passed before there was a legal definition of "militia" at the federal level, because as you point out, the Militia laws had not yet been passed.

When the Militia laws were passed, it was REQUIRED that all males purchase guns by their own means.

Comment GNOME Shell has the same problem (Score 1) 641

GNOME Shell has the same problem... With developers worshipping their singular designer, Allan Day, and with Allan imposing his will despite tons of input from users about how his designs are not usable and are tracking behaviors from old versions OS X that Apples long ago admitted weren't usable and has since removed.

I see the problem resulting from this: Since 2010, European developers have eclipsed American developers in the Open Source community, in part because the US is experiencing another tech boom since ~2010, keeping the US devs out of open source and consumed with their professional work.

Our ancestors left Europe for a reason (European == You're-a-peon). These European devs don't have the benefit of that experience.

Comment Re:Ukrainian hackers? (Score 0) 148

This was us (the U.S.) getting back at Russia for helping Iran capture that CIA drone by spoofing m-code GPS with GLONASS. Now we have demonstrated capability to disrupt GLONASS globally.

When GLONASS went live just before the drone was downed, we were still in the process of launching new satellites to regain GPS superiority (Russia had GPS superiority for a short time there).

See, e.g., http://cryptome.org/0005/iran-rsa-cipher.htm.

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