Comment Re:What primary key for person? (Score 1) 123
To further compound the problem, SSNs are increasingly being used as both an identifier AND an authenticater!
Comment Re:I'm still trying to wrap my brain around... (Score 2) 346
I should note that I assume the site's instructions are for regular users who don't know how to re-image a drive and that doing so would be enough to remove it. Just googling "removing eblaster" appears to give some rudimentary instructions. I doubt it hides itself that well.
Comment Re:I'm still trying to wrap my brain around... (Score 5, Informative) 346
The agent shouldn't have needed to take it to a repair shop in the first place. SpectorSoft's own FAQ section states "eBLASTER ... cannot be uninstalled without the eBLASTER password YOU specify..."
Sounds like the guy forgot the password AND the shop didn't do its job.
Comment Re:I would love to see someone challenge Romney on (Score 1) 706
The concept that giving the middle-class more money to buy things seems to not be well known in either party, as both of their plans to start the economy make bad assumptions.
Democrats: Keynesian stimulus designed to jump start the economy assuming it will be enough for the public to start buying things and hiring workers.
Republicans: Tax cuts so business can hire more people.
The Democrats' stimulus won't work because the middle class has less income than before meaning they can't/shouldn't be buying things to stimulate the economy. The Republicans' tax cuts won't work because businesses won't hire people unless sales go up. Sales won't go up because the middle class has less income than before.
Comment Re:Utility (Score 1) 419
The Supreme Court already defined cable Internet as an "information service", which cannot be regulated, rather than a "telecommunications service" which can be regulated.
Submission + - Obama Blocks Chinese Wind Farms in Oregon over National Security
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Reuters reports that President Barack Obama has invoked a little-used law to block a privately owned Chinese company from building wind turbines close to a Navy military site in Oregon due to national security concerns. "There is credible evidence that leads me to believe" that Ralls Corp, Sany Group and the two Sany Group executives who own Ralls "might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States," said Obama in issuing his decision. The military uses the Oregon naval facility to test unmanned drones and the EA-18G "Growler". The electronic warfare aircraft accompanies US fighter bombers on missions and protectively jams enemy radar, destroying them with missiles along the way. At the Oregon site, the planes fly as low as 60 m and at almost 480 km/h. The administration would not say what risks the wind farm purchases presented but the Treasury Department said the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, known as CFIUS, made its recommendation to Obama after receiving an analysis of the potential threats from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The last time a president used the law to block a transaction was in 1990, when George H.W. Bush voided the sale of an aerospace company, Mamco Manufacturing, to a Chinese agency."
Comment Re:Good times! Clearly, he's a dirtbag (Score 1) 747
What makes you think he will be safer in a crowded prison?
Comment Re:Finally, a law recognizing privacy (Score 2) 363
I wish they could understand the US citizenry was tricked and had their country taken over by power-hungry demagogs for the last 100 years (well, 99 years this December), and that we're simply powerless to stop the machine at this point.
I think some of the blame should fall on the willful ignorance of so many apathetic voters.
Comment Re:I know nothing of physics, but... (Score 5, Interesting) 358
The name comes from Sandia Base where the first labs were located which happened to be next to the Sandia Mountains, which, according to popular belief, got its name due to the reddish color of the mountains at sunset.
Comment Re:Good News (Score 1) 243
Sure they could get cheaper, but they'll also be larger and of better quality. The difference would be that your spouse would now demand the diamond that X amount of dollars would buy.
Comment Re:U.S. driver training (Score 1) 992
At the age of 17 I received a license from Pennsylvania. My test had me go through a residential neighborhood no faster than 25 mph. At no point did I go through a stoplight, go on a major freeway, or encounter other traffic.
Comment Re:Rest of the world already ahead (Score 4, Insightful) 992
German requirements to obtain a license are orders of magnitude more strict than in the States. Safe drivers make safe roads.
Comment From my understanding (Score 5, Informative) 241
There's nothing anyone can legally do with that information. Weak attempts at breaking in and port scanning are just background noise.
Comment Re:Wait. What? (Score 2) 147
We don't need government to fix stupidity, we just need an educated public.
There's this thing called a legislature. People elect other people to go and make laws in the legislature. It makes it easier for people to get things done so they don't have to organize a concerted show of outrage towards companies. Instead they argue the merits of such a law and the elected persons make it so.
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 566
I'm going to take a guess and say that having a significant other means a great reduction in time spent in front of a monitor.
