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Comment Re:Microsoft OS is insecure (Score 0) 66

Linux has just as many privilege escalation exploits. It's just the nature of our current CPU architecture. It's impossible to secure if someone is allowed to run their own software. Add networking and these shit tier Web Library's we all use everyday like Flash and Java all that nonsense that are heaps of insecure garbage, if your local software doesn't compromise your machine; remote code exploits will. I would go as far to say that the software we use to browse the web and collaborate are left intentionally insecure. IN this day and age the government is openly promoting back doors and surveillance for everyone. They have outlawed encryption (that works and they can't break). Don't be so naive that "if only we had linux as our main OS we would be secure". No we wouldn't.

Comment They allowed drivers to rate passengers appearance (Score 5, Interesting) 76

I heard that the problem came down to drivers being allowed to add notes to each customers profile of how attractive they were. Predator drivers would then selectively choose passengers based on their appearance score, and then rape them. After it happened the first few times the company did not make any changes to their app, and I guess it started to become a repeat problem. Something tells me because its China that there are probably a lot more rapes and murders that don't get reported on because of the whole cultural thing of trying to keep up appearances. I don't know how much rape and sexual assault occurs in China, but it must be pretty bad if this started a rebellion against the company because that in itself is pretty rare in a country like China. Usually dissent is not something allowed.

Comment AMD could rework the industry price structure (Score 0) 195

I never understood why AMD doesn't just commit all of their foundries to making their very best cards. Drop the low end models entirely. Then price the card at the price of what their cheapest card would of cost (roughly). It's not like the cards cost more to manufacture. The high end pricing is intentionally set to pay for things like R&D and to make the company money. However if they sold their high end Ryzen for the price of their low end Ryzen; they would sell millions of them. They would make way more in the end. The marketshare they take up put them in the position to repeat the process the next generation, and slowly inflate price from generation to generation. Nvidia is not structured to be able to react to that in time.

Comment NSA is probably doing a bad job (Score 0) 68

The fact they still are using "removeable media" and that Snowden was able to exfiltrate all that data to "consumer formats" tells us all we need to know. They do not even have their own file format's, and if they do have created a way to export them into format's that you or I can read which should be impossible considering they should be encrypted six ways to Sunday with the only way to view the content through highly specialized software locked behind their wall of security. The other thing is they still think "software" if the way to secure themselves and our most important critical assets. No they need entirely proprietary CPU and hardware designs. Think like x86 architecture on steroids that unless you had the cookbook of its instruction set, would never even be able to write "hello world" without extensive effort. The fact they don't have 100% confidence in the bits and bytes going over the network. They should only allow very specific and purposeful traffic on their networks, that fits a very tight "DNA profile's" as far as network traffic goes. The whole CPU architecture needs a rework on the consumer side. The network data structuring needs to have an industry adopted format on how applications communicate.NSA should have every application in use profiled for its normal behavior and analytics run on that software to spot a single bit that should not be transmitted. At least for software that runs on .gov and .mil and its partners. There should also be extensive code auditing and chain of custody for the software. If it is not audited, it does not get deployed - PERIOD. They should be using the worlds most restrictive API's to develop that software, and its underlying library the most heavily researched software API int he world for vulnerabilities. I mean that should of been the goal 30 years ago. Their focus seems to be on "haha we can read emails and text messages we are l33t".

Comment We already are supposed to have this (Score 0) 57

We are supposed to have a Cyber Defense Hub/HQ/Task Force about 15 times over already, in budgets going back over 10 years. This is a serious embarrassment for US "Cyber Defense". Its not HARD to secure computer networks and computer equipment. It legitimately is NOT hard. If these is any weakness it is intentional sabotage from industry, or our nations hardware engineers.

Comment Staged, never happened. (Score 0) 61

I HIGHLY doubt this event never happened outside of a staged event that they will use as a talking point to develop policy and maybe even future legislation. FBI has become borderline domestic enemy by all their staged "plots" that are born within the agency; that they play out using the dumbest criminals they can cultivate.

Comment Thanks Obama for being so weak. (Score 0) 406

I have lost all faith in President Obama to protect my country and my interests. Another country steals a drone from a US Navy vessel directly in front of it, militarized or not; and does NOTHING besides send them a message asking for it back. A country that has hacked, stolen, billions of my country's wealth; and ignored every civil rationale objecting to their actions. My country's intelligence is weak; and does nothing but lie and fabricate against it's own people. our Military a neutered global waste of money doing nothing about any of the real problems in the world; only towing around the order's of people who would rather sell us out to globalization. leaving every ideal in the dust if it means we get a few more years of prosperity. End all trade with those slanty eyed thiefs and BLU-12 their island in the Spratleys from orbit. It is just a underwater instrument and it's obvious we are too pussy to stand against China or hit them with any real trade embargo. We should confront the real evil in the world, S A U D I A R A B I A and actually at least pretend to be human beings standing for what is right, and not just greedy slobs that only cares about consumerism and economics.

Comment Google is just going where the money is (Score 1) 253

They want their piece of the pie of the big business that is "Law enforcement". It will take millions of dollars to filter out such words as "marijuana" and "bing". Then they will join the police in doing as little as possible for the most amount of money, while calling themselves irreplaceable in the fight on terrorism, drugs, .
Crime

Submission + - Microsoft: 'Unlikely' Credit Card Details Lifted From Xbox 360s

An anonymous reader writes: Security researchers from two universities say they found how hackers can retrieve credit card data and other personal information from used Microsoft Xbox 360s, even if the console is restored back to factory settings and its hard drive is wiped. Microsoft is now looking into their story of buying a refurbished Xbox 360 from a Microsoft-authorized retailer, downloading a basic modding tool, gaining access to the console’s files and folders, and eventually extracting the original owner’s credit card information. Redmond is still investigating, but it's already calling the claims 'unlikely.'
Space

Submission + - 150 gigapixel sky image contains 1 billion stars

The Bad Astronomer writes: "Astronomers have used two big telescopes to create an infrared survey of the Milky Way that is the largest of its kind: the resulting image has an incredible 150,000 megapixels containing over a billion stars.

Something that large is difficult to use, so they also made a pan-and-zoom version online which should keep you occupied for quite some time. These data will be used to better understand star formation in our Milky Way, and how far more distant galaxies and quasars behave."

Comment Disgusting (Score 2, Insightful) 1671

At the end of the unedited video it shows the Apache's engaging a building with three hellfire missiles. Their justification was that they seen one person with a machine gun enter inside it. While they are setting up their aim for the missile you can see civilians in and around the building. They had no idea how many people were inside. Even knowing that the building was surrounded by civilians and not having any intel on how many civilians were inside, they still were given and executed orders to engage. This video was simply disgusting MURDER by the U.S. The soldiers show no remorse or hesitation to kill civilians. There was absolutely zero concern for the safety of bystanders. They actually enjoyed it and cheered on the higher the bodycount went up, irregardless if they had killed combatants, children, or civilians. These soldiers are endangering my safety as a United States citizen. They were killing in my country's name and breeding hatred for my country with these evil acts. We can no longer call the Iraqi's terrorists since we are obviously exterminating their people freely. DISGUSTING VIDEO. We have ZERO moral highground. Shame on the US Military! I thought we were better then this. With the technology we have this is UNEXCUSABLE. And the SICK SICK SICK SICK part is the US Military will probably stand for this as excusable. Thats scary, sick, twisted shit. The end of days deserve to be upon us.

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