Comment Missing option: (Score 1) 202
The only computer company that ever innovated Hi-Toro.
Comment Not wireless, but will probably solve the problem (Score 1) 95
I was recently looking for a solution to a similar problem; speech-recognition from any spot in a living-room with a air-conditioner and lots of PC-fans running 24/7.
The only thing I could find that that was not a conference phone but still had speaker-tracking and echo-cancellation was this:
https://www.acousticmagic.com/...
Comment Re:FTL drive spinup (Score 1) 121
Clearly, this is the signature of an FTL drive spinning up.
The only thing that baffles me, is how far down I had to scroll before someone came to this obvious conclusion.
-HC
Submission + - Computing student jailed after failing to hand over crypto keys (theregister.co.uk)
stephendavion writes: A computer science student accused of hacking offences has been jailed for six months for failing to hand over his encryption passwords, which he had been urged to do in "the interests of national security".
Christopher Wilson, 22, of Mitford Close, Washington, Tyne and Wear, was jailed for refusing to hand over his computer passwords, a move that frustrated an investigation into claims he launched an attack on a police website.
Wilson, who has Asperger's Syndrome, was suspected of "trolling" the Northumbria Police as well as attempting to break into the Serious Organised Crime Agency's website.
Christopher Wilson, 22, of Mitford Close, Washington, Tyne and Wear, was jailed for refusing to hand over his computer passwords, a move that frustrated an investigation into claims he launched an attack on a police website.
Wilson, who has Asperger's Syndrome, was suspected of "trolling" the Northumbria Police as well as attempting to break into the Serious Organised Crime Agency's website.
Comment Re:What logic! (Score 1) 139
software should be thousandths of a penny per voter.
Not with the Norwegian governments track record of budget overruns in software projects. That, on top of the fact that all government/federal software projects, in any country, tend to cost at least ten times more than logic suggests they should to begin with.
Besides that, peoples votes not becoming public and the peoples trust in the ballot system where the main concerns in the decision to end the trials. In that respect, anyone slightly informed would stick to paper.
Comment Windroy (Score 1) 167
Comment Re:Caught one of these and felt bad . . . . (Score 1) 94
If you want to catch them without hurting them traps are a bad idea. I have found using a small blanket to catch them manually to be the safest and most humane way of doing it.
Submission + - After the Belfast Project fiasco, time for another look at time capsule crypto? (t.co)
JonZittrain writes: I'm curious whether there are good prospects for "time capsule encryption," one of several ways of storing information that renders it inaccessible to anyone until certain conditions — such as the passage of time — are met? Libraries and archives could offer such technology as part of accepting papers and manuscripts, especially in the wake of the "Belfast Project" situation, where a library promised confidentiality for accounts of the Troubles in North Ireland, and then found itself amidst subpoenas from law enforcement looking to solve long-cold cases. But the principle could apply to any person or company thinking that there's a choice between leaving information exposed to leakage, or destroying it entirely. Some suggested solutions are very much out of the box.
[Author's oped in Boston Globe.]
[Author's oped in Boston Globe.]
Submission + - Snowden rallies privacy advocates in New York City (dailydot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Mass global surveillance “isn’t just an American problem, this is a global problem,” Edward Snowden told the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) conference in New York on Thursday. Appearing via video call from Moscow, Snowden spoke with John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in front of a crowd of hundreds gathered in downtown Manhattan. Barlow announced the launch of the Courage Foundation, an organization dedicated to financially supporting Snowden’s considerable legal battles. “I’m afraid we’ve descended to this point,” Barlow said, “But why do animals lick their genitals? Because they can. Why do governments do this? Because they can’t lick their own.” “They’re licking ours,” Snowden quipped, “and taking pictures.”
Submission + - EFF Tells Court That The NSA Knowingly And Illegally Destroyed Evidence (techdirt.com)
An anonymous reader writes: We followed the back and forth situation earlier this year, in which there were some legal questions over whether or not the NSA needed to hang onto surveillance data at issue in various lawsuits, or destroy it as per the laws concerning retention of data. Unfortunately, in the process, it became clear that the DOJ misled FISA court Judge Reggie Walton, withholding key information. In response, the DOJ apologized, insisting that it didn't think the data was relevant — but also very strongly hinting that it used that opportunity to destroy a ton of evidence. However, this appeared to be just the latest in a long history of the NSA/DOJ willfully destroying evidence that was under a preservation order.
The key case where this evidence was destroyed was the EFF's long running Jewel v. NSA case, and the EFF has now told the court about the destruction of evidence, and asked the court to thus assume that the evidence proves, in fact, that EFF's clients were victims of unlawful surveillance. The DOJ/NSA have insisted that they thought that the EFF's lawsuit only covered programs issued under executive authority, rather than programs approved by the FISA Court, but the record in the case shows that the DOJ seems to be making this claim up.
The key case where this evidence was destroyed was the EFF's long running Jewel v. NSA case, and the EFF has now told the court about the destruction of evidence, and asked the court to thus assume that the evidence proves, in fact, that EFF's clients were victims of unlawful surveillance. The DOJ/NSA have insisted that they thought that the EFF's lawsuit only covered programs issued under executive authority, rather than programs approved by the FISA Court, but the record in the case shows that the DOJ seems to be making this claim up.
Comment Re:240,000 jobs for robots? (Score 1) 171
I for one welcome our new robotic-slaves, means the end of our slavery is finally approaching.
And I really doubt the result would have to be depression, in Europe that is. I believe the majority of people would realize that a manual-labor-economy is not well
suited for a automated-society. And to avoid the looming fear of depression most European states can simply evolve naturally from Socialism to Basic-income.
Nations that has capitalism as their state-religion will probably have not-so-bright future.
USA, i suggest you make http://www.deepleafproductions... part of curriculum at all schools.
As for the rest of the world, I do not know, but good-luck.
Submission + - Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden would not get a fair trial – and Kerry is wrong (theguardian.com) 1
ABEND writes: Excerpt: "Edward Snowden is the greatest patriot whistleblower of our time, and he knows what I learned more than four decades ago: until the Espionage Act gets reformed, he can never come home safe and receive justice"
Submission + - NSA "Knows the way you think" (siliconbeat.com)
mspohr writes: “As you write a message, you know, an analyst at the NSA or any other service out there that’s using this kind of attack against people can actually see you write sentences and then backspace over your mistakes and then change the words and then kind of pause and — and — and think about what you wanted to say and then change it. And it’s this extraordinary intrusion not just into your communications, your finished messages but your actual drafting process, into the way you think.”
More information here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature...
More information here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature...
Comment Re:The Empire never ended (Score 1) 348
I thought Black Iron Prison was Discordian...wasn't Dick doing his own thing?
Is there a difference?
Submission + - This Is Your Brain While Videogaming Stoned (vice.com)
Daniel_Stuckey writes: Pot and video games have long been bound together in hazy, wedded bliss—as well as in compulsion and codependency. Many a World of Warcraft binger has been found in the darkest hours of the night with clouds of sweet, milk-white smoke curling around him, a bong next to the keyboard. But the way these lovers, games and weed, commingle has only rarely been studied, and when done so, usually exclusively in the context of substance abuse and how it relates to what is known as PVP: “problem video game playing.”
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