Comment Re:Just need a 3-D printer (Score 1) 72
pretty close to that
Comment Re:Need to make a comparison, not absolute judgmen (Score 1) 446
it's a good thing that all combatants wear uniforms and can be asked after they were blown up if they were a threat, because you know if not, a government might just have to report them as civilians because well, they wouldn't harbor TOO many people that might not like the US, that'd be like asking to have your palace/estate/mcmansion raided by SEALS or something.
We are where we are because every civilian in the world has watched and allowed it to happen, right back to fighting the "cold war" in the region(and far beyond that, but im trying to be region specific).
Not saying i'm for randomly shooting up a building full of people because there are a few confirmed combatants in there either, but politics are a bitch, and if the tables were turned we (US citizens) would have to bear the responsibility of letting our government go so freaking nuts I'm sure.
Comment Re:I'd leave my wifi open (Score 1) 248
but if it's encrypted and used in that manner, it's harder to prove it wasn't you(despiste being just as easy to use in said manner). Leave it open, that way you've always got the "someone stole my wifi!" scapegoat.
Comment Re:If we start filtering... (Score 3, Funny) 253
when filtered incorrectly...
Submission + - Florida accused of concealing worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years (rawstory.com)
NotSanguine writes: The state of Florida has been struggling for months with what the Centers for Disease Control describe as the worst tuberculosis outbreak in the United States in twenty years.
Although a CDC report went out to state health officials in April encouraging them to take concerted action, the warning went largely unnoticed and nothing has been done. The public did not even learn of the outbreak until June, after a man with an active case of TB was spotted in a Jacksonville soup kitchen.
The Palm Beach Post has managed to obtain records on the outbreak and the CDC report, though only after weeks of repeated requests. These documents should have been freely available under Florida’s Sunshine Law.
Although a CDC report went out to state health officials in April encouraging them to take concerted action, the warning went largely unnoticed and nothing has been done. The public did not even learn of the outbreak until June, after a man with an active case of TB was spotted in a Jacksonville soup kitchen.
The Palm Beach Post has managed to obtain records on the outbreak and the CDC report, though only after weeks of repeated requests. These documents should have been freely available under Florida’s Sunshine Law.
Submission + - DotCom offers the DoJ a Deal (stuff.co.nz)
Master Moose writes: Kim Dotcom claims the United States criminal case against him is collapsing but he is offering to go there without extradition provided federal authorities unfreeze his millions of dollars.
In a now hallmark style, he made the offer on Twitter.
"Hey DOJ, we will go to the US," he tweeted, "No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & living expenses."
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Dotcom says the department knows it does not have a case.
"If they are forced to provide discovery, then there will be no extradition. That's why they don't want to provide discovery. If they had a case, they would not need to hide what they have."
In a now hallmark style, he made the offer on Twitter.
"Hey DOJ, we will go to the US," he tweeted, "No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & living expenses."
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Dotcom says the department knows it does not have a case.
"If they are forced to provide discovery, then there will be no extradition. That's why they don't want to provide discovery. If they had a case, they would not need to hide what they have."
Comment Re:Good for you. (Score 2) 515
dunno anything bout this 80/20 rule, but I can say, I went from dumb ass it job to dumb ass it job watching the people that wanted to learn the tech out pace those that wanted to "do their job".
When i started at the last of those jobs, on my second day I was handed a "new" tablet pc and asked if i could "make it work" with our image. I said I'd give it a shot. A few years later that same manager hired me to do technology research for his team. I'm pretty happy with it.
Be there, do what you can, and don't write checks you can't cash. If it's good, someone will pick up on it.
Comment Re:Impressive progams? (Score 1) 118
well crap, I've been spelling it wrong the whole time.. no wonder it never works like it should
Comment Re:Impressive progams? (Score 3, Insightful) 118
VLC is one of those impressive programs that just works with nearly any input thrown at it, [...].
Or what we, in the Linux community, call "software"*. ^^
* after all required dependancies are hunted down from the ends of the earth and/or compiled from source and installed.
Comment Re:Illegal... (Score 1) 149
no that was pre 9/11
the first amendment now only covers advertising.
Comment Re:Intuitive = Intrusive (Score 3, Insightful) 159
plus.. won
seriously, there is a give and take. I hadn't really connected the dots on what all of this info meant until I met with microsoft research.. some of the really cool stuff they are doing, they can only do because they have systems in place that will collect a STUPID amount of data. regardless of if it's immediately apparent that it'll be needed.
you just can't allow a computer to make correlation and causation decisions without having the massive amount of info available to it.. that we as humans (with our fancy sensor arrays) take for granted.
Comment Re:Uh oh-- it's a 1%er! (Score 2) 175
they are the 15%! and make their money off of the backs of the other 95% of us! (+- 10%)
Comment Re:Here, here (Score 1) 175
you forgot the true department store of our time
the internet.
see thread on handing it over to the U.N. pls
Comment both sides? (Score 1) 95
On one hand.. this should require an opt-in the likes of which ANY company needs to "share" a customers data.
on the other hand.. If you act like a fool in public, expect to end up on the news... and probably in it's advertisements.
Comment Re:Oh really? (Score 1) 184
there will always be people that are slow to adapt/adopt.. just the way these things work.
as usual, this doesn't mean it's not happening.
I hadn't noticed really.. until I started looking at facebook again, but yup, they are out there. and I have been seeing more and more of em in twitter.
