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Comment Re:Excellent move for the government (Score 1) 62

there's no reason to carry positive on it, it's a prepay card.

besides, if mastercard shafts them, they could just implement the backend themselves.

HOWEVER.. having such card would make it rather easy for them to move official business to using said card for payments and that might cut 95% of sticky fingers.

Comment Re:yet if we did it (Score 1) 463

slap on a wrist is something else than nothing.

also, being a lying scumbag police officer is something that most of us do not do on everyday basis.

and would you have watched the trial the same way if she had been using her laptop while driving while also using her smartphone to do texting at the same time stamps and it had been shown that she lied about that and that there was evidence that she had been driving like that, as an accident waiting to happen, for a while?? I doubt that...

Comment Re:Broadcom... (Score 1) 165

they're claiming all the micro board successeses, but don't want others cloning.

you know what they are really doing? working _for_ the resources they are resources to.

the broadcom chip is stupid and it is stupid to make a clone with it. if you're cloning something clone the bbb.. or at least something capable of _decently_ driving a cnc or 3d printer(pi is shit for that, even if there's a proof of concept of doing it worse than 8 bit atmel..).

Comment Re:Mod parent up. (Score 1) 108

they shouldn't even remove the current investigation tags, because that is information about the current investigation(removing them, if the perps see that their license plate should be on the list since they drove on the same street with every other plate on the list...).

but the real thing is that everyone is under current investigation and maybe the full sweeping of license plates tells that you're visiting a shady neighborhood to either bang some lady or to score some crack and therefore further investigation is needed.

Comment Re:1st post (Score 0) 266

the famed israeli airport security is more along the lines "are you a white jew or a white tourist?" and putting you on further questioning/searches if you are not.

and the fake devices don't work if 3) the person operating it believes it to work and goes by the beeps. with the claimed operating ranges of the devices for explosives and the operator carrying explosives(bullets) himself it's a bit dubious though how stupid you need to be to believe them to work.

Comment Re: maybe (Score 1) 355

I really depends on how at&t represents it on the marketing.

like "download x gigabytes of movies(MINUS ENCAPSULATION!!!)."

I seriously doubt that they advertise it like that or lay it out like that even on the contracts.

furthermore, they could one sidedly change the encapsulation to have gigabytes of padding for no reason at all.
 

Comment Re:central storage or n^x security guard costs / s (Score 1) 191

if they can't read our ancient languages or have lost the records what are the chances of them digging far enough safely...

oh wait you're not storing them safely underground.. not that it matters since if you're still running an active power plant at the location you're going to need security anyways.

for finnish aspect, maybe check this out
http://www.intoeternitythemovi...

furthermore, if they have "lost" all civilization(capable of detecting the threat) then it's going to be a quite localized threat, like asbestos landfills and what have you... since if they have lost all that they're not going to be moving on about long distances.

also a rant about descending into chaos in the past 6000 years - GLOBALLY there has not been any descent into such chaos, it's all been unifying and forward going progress and the more there has been trade and communications the faster and more the advancement has been.

we have quite well known already for quite some time how the romans technology worked, how the greeks did their thing and of the things we don't know exactly we know several explanations how to have done those. we know better how they built the pyramids than the fucking romans knew and todays chinese know how the romans built their aquaducts...

Comment Re: Switched double speed half capacity, realistic (Score 2) 316

first third wouldn't really do it on multiplatter drives though?
you'd have to do 100gb there and skip and 100gb and skip and 100gb... just the right way.

wouldn't surprise me if modders used to swear by bullshit though.

what I had do do once was to skip 600mbyte in the middle of a 3.2gb drive because that area was a broken platter or head and would crash the drive if tried to access - it worked just fine when I formatted around that area though...

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