Comment Three Letter Agency response? (Score 1) 127
Comment Re:Linky? (Score 1) 55
Comment Give the man some rope! - Some Russian guy... (Score 1) 55
Comment Linky? (Score 1) 55
Comment Re:Rumor Mill (Score 1) 50
Comment Really? Really? (Score 3, Funny) 50
While antivirus software pioneer John McAfee is in the media spotlight for his long-shot Libertarian presidential run...
I'm sorry, but if he's "in the spotlight" for his presidential run, it's pretty dim, maybe needs a new bulb.
Comment Re:The eventual redefinition of "privacy" and the (Score 1) 89
All of this is boiling over to what exactly is considered "YOUR" information in the digital age? Nobody seems to be asking this question.
As a minimum if you don't encrypt it before tossing it out onto unknown public and private networks you don't control, you've already said you don't care who sees / reads / hears / metabolizes your data.
Comment Re:No (Score -1, Troll) 323
I work for a small hosting/cloud provider...
And that is where I stopped reading. What you really mean is your company resells shared hosting on virtual servers...
Comment Re:I've said it before and I'll say it again (Score 0) 95
Comment Maybe Corporate America Should Loose Up the Purse? (Score 2) 275
Ham radio enthusiasts have been doing this forever.
This may be so. But...
There are a *LOT* of big-time commercial orgs that make use of government funded weather sats. Maybe it's time that some of the Big Money Bags that make bank off of publicly funded things like the National Weather Service started ponying up a little cash-ola?
Comment Re:I've said it before and I'll say it again (Score -1) 95
Comment Re:I've said it before and I'll say it again (Score 0, Flamebait) 95
Comment Re:That didn't take long (Score 1) 690
The percentage of people who abuse drugs and behaviors to induce a changed state of mood/feelings is around 10%, regardless of what chemical available.
Unless you are using for "medical" reasons, isn't "induceing a changed state of mood/feelings" the reason *MOST* people use alcohol and pot?