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Comment Re:Obviously: (Score 2) 208

by ilikenwf (#47070353) Attached to: NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121
We need to fire everyone in Washington DC and reform the crap out of everything. Both sides are wrong here - why vote for a flawed by design bill? It only exists for political posturing for elections.

We need to remove the bureaucracy, scrap the tax law and start over, zero base budget every agency, and force everyone in DC to work for an amount that is equal to the mean wage of the nation, since they're supposedly volunteers. On top of that, Obamacare should apply to them and pensions should be removed for all of them, past present and future.

Comment Komodo Anybody? (Score 4, Informative) 121

by ilikenwf (#46939113) Attached to: GitHub Open Sources Atom, Their Text Editor Based On Chromium

I'm here at work using it right now...anyway, Komodo runs on Linux, Mac, Windows and is based on Mozilla...it has also been free and around for quite a while...extensibility? Yep...

I don't get why everyone reinvents the wheel when they could instead make something that already exists, but is more complete better.

Submission + - NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day (theguardian.com)

Submitted by ilikenwf
ilikenwf writes: A new release from the files obtained by Edward Snowden have revealed that the NSA collects millions of text messages per day. These are used to gain travel plans, financial data, and social network data. The majority of these texts and data belong to people who are not being investigated for any crime or association. Supposedly, "non-US" data is removed, but we all know that means it is sent to a partner country for analysis, which is then sent back to the NSA.

Submission + - Announcing Nightingale 1.12.1 - The First Release Since Songbird Discontinued (getnightingale.com)

Submitted by ilikenwf
ilikenwf writes: The Nightingale developers have announced version 1.12.1 of the media player, forked from the now defunct Songbird (RIP). Improvements include a new localization infrastructure, enhanced stability, battery drain fixes for OS X, Unity integration fixes, libnotify integration, new first run pages, and more (Release Notes). If you already use Nightingale, the automatic update feature should have notified you of the release. If not, get the new version here.

Submission + - Would Intel build best-in-the-world ARM SoC?

Submitted by 4wdloop
4wdloop writes: With x86 architecture becoming quickly irrelevant for market dominance, Intel's fab technology being step or two ahead of competition could make them the King of ARM. Why would or would not Intel do it?

Submission + - Is quantum cryptography the key to thwarting the NSA? (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It has already been proven that when the quantum computer is realized it will be able to easily break RSA encryption, one of the fundamental means of protection for bank transactions as well as many other forms of communication online. (Why will quantum computers make short work of RSA? Here's a brief explanation.)

Reading that, it’s tempting to think quantum computers spell the end of encryption. And, considering Edward Snowden’s leak that the NSA is working on a quantum computer, that fear isn’t entirely unfounded. However, quantum physics may offer hope for privacy advocates as well. Some scientists believe quantum cryptography may soon offer Internet users privacy protections that even the NSA won’t be able to skirt.

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