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Comment Spies vs Comm Monitoring (Score 1) 161

Sun Tzu almost 3000 years ago said he'd rather have 1 good spy than 10,000 good soldiers.

So what yields better results, spies you hire or machines who take no pay? Yeah, I know, spies are difficult, messy, and must be paid in cash.

My guess is what you catch with machines is bad guy wannabees. Real terrorists are probably already using unbreakable steganography. The chance of getting 500 bytes of info out of a 500 KB image, if you can figure out which image has hidden data in it, is next to none.

Comment Tired of Consensus = Fact (Score 5, Informative) 442

These stories are tiring as there is no chance for "settled science fact" in climate change.

All of these estimates are based on elaborate math models and yet the Earth's long term climate ON ITS OWN, has swung widely over recorded history.

And from the geologic history, we know we will again go into another ice age based on the history of the change in the Earth-Sun orbit & precession changes on a regular 110,000 year cycle. And without human intervention, the ice age ends.

Comment Ultimate Security Risk: Carry PW in your pocket! (Score 1) 267

"You should write your new passphrase down on a piece of paper and carry it with you "

Boy, that is NOT a security risk, is it? Of course, you always hide your hands under a towel when you enter the PW, right?

That keeps your screen's 'selfie' camera from allowing reading the key clicks off of the reflection on your cornea. Good, right?

Pick the start of the sentence or book title you have on your shelf all the time to serve as a reminder and PW source or a short sentence on a card in your wallet.

Comment Re:Kill dogs, why not people??? (Score 1) 179

Anything that kills a living organism is potentially a problem for humans. Only a small % of man-made chemicals have been rigorously tested for causing cancer; but then would you volunteer for such a study. I thought so.

Lead, asbestos, formaldihyde, weird solvents and reactive chemicals have been mostly eliminated from consumer goods with good reason.

Just stay away from as many chemicals as you can. Drink from glass cups/glasses. Wax coated paper cups, no. "Slug bait," no. Fast food, well virtually all fast foods have an anti-bacterial agent (calcium probinate) in them and it can muck up peoples digestion if they are sensitive and who knows what else.

Comment Re:Evolution-De-Population of Rural America (Score 1) 110

The most obvious are those associated with medical insurance, automobile & fuel requirements, electricity costs and added costs to electronics & devices for Energy Star & trace & potentially hazardous metals, like lead.

The increases are insidious in that most are built into requirements that the retailer, distributor and user never see as an individual cost. Some are indeed needed, like eliminating lead paint and asbestos. Others like using coal in power plants are questionable, but dozens of coal plants are due to be forced to close prior to the summer heat wave period of this year. That is punitive on the population for questionable benefit.

When you look at the decrease in dollar income over the last six years, coupled with now about 90 million adults not in the labor force (highest since early 70s), the effect is understood more, since it is factually true that % of population working and average income is down.

Comment Evolution-De-Population of Rural America (Score 1) 110

Technology changes are making the mega-city areas more desirable. Is rural America going to be slowly boarded up?

Given the wholesale changes since 2000, it is easy to see that the mega-suppliers/dealers, Amazon, Walmart, drug dealers, etc, are only efficiently available in the denser areas, but now the (Un)Affordable Care Act is decimating smaller town hospitals along with the increasing difficulty of making small retail businesses profitable given everything from increasing regulations, taxes and lack of (easily) repairable products. UPS & Fedex for small towns are the only saving grace.

The only given is change, and cities have been abandoned before the time of Christ.

Today, technology is the mover and shaker, but will it reinvigorate the small town?

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