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Comment It would likely be shockingly simplistic (Score 1) 892

...Assuming current level of technology. Like "fire a handful of small rocks at the enemy from a torpedo tube" or "launch several unmanned drones on a collision course". Without any kind of energy shielding tech, you either make your ships incredibly fragile, or cost prohibitive to get into space.

Comment It's the same with all government spending (Score 1) 225

The goal of every government agency in any given year is to need 10% more funds than their current budget. You always need more, and never less, because cuts to your budget will mean you are under greater scrutiny the next fiscal year.

So you throw money at every half-baked idea the lab coats present. If something works out, great. If not, that just clearly shows that you need a greater budget next year, since more money = better ideas.

Comment That Malaysian DigiCert site is fun (Score 1) 80

"DIGICERT is in the center of an effective trust model that the government is creating to address the issue of information security and the negative perception that has been painted in association with online transactions." *BREATH*

"Customers won't transact business at your website unless they are certain it's secure."

"The username and static password scheme has been widely used for verification online. Nevertheless, many have recognize this scheme as being obsolete as it can no longer be trusted to provide proper authentication online. There are countless of software distributed freely across the Internet that enables the cracking of passwords. There are also hundreds of web sites that displays 'Most Recently Hacked' passwords."

You can't really call it proper Engrish, but it's just a little off too.

Comment Re:Opt Out (Score 1) 378

(3) YOUR PSN ACCOUNT NUMBER, IF YOU HAVE ONE

Someone should organize a letter writing campaign. Send them like a million of these, anyone who's willing, even if they don't own a PS3. You know, just in case I ever do decide to purchase one. Make them deal with/file/keep them all.

Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 615

Well keep in mind that Windows generating and saving an NTLM was the default setting up until at least Server 2003 (not sure about 2008 but I think they took care of this). Sure, good admins turn this off, but how many systems are there out there where it isn't turned off, or perhaps even turned back on for compatibility reasons?

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