Comment Re:That's nothing (Score 1) 67
Basically.
Out of his 30,000+ keyboard drooling tweets, 452 have been about Russia and Collusion.
Comment FALSE! (Score 1) 65
He has $100,000,000,600 now after my massive Amazon purchase today. I expect some gratitude here!
Comment Re:Last Season of Star Trek (Score 1) 67
So what's the over/under of this planet being inhabited entirely by Nazis or Prohibition gangsters?
Comment Floppy Security Concern (Score 1) 252
Now is probably not a good time to continue to use a medium developed by Sony for storing critical information.
Comment Meh. (Score 3, Insightful) 880
It's not the World Trade Center, and it's not Bali. It's a single cafe and a maximum possible body count than your typical school shooting in the US (which can hardly hold the news media's attention for more than a week any more).
This news wouldn't have made it out of Australia (if even NSW) if it weren't for the Islamic bogeyman angle.
Comment Re:Sony needs to invest in their IT (Score 1) 170
Well, someone played a Sony music CD on the web server, and...
Comment Re: The new threat (Score 4, Funny) 388
A plastic battleship would be unstoppable.
Four red pegs should do it.
Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 271
What does any of that have to do with the story here? The tracking device wasn't added by the police or even at the behest of the police, but by the buy-here-pay-here dealer, operating a business of the same respectability as payday lending and rent-to-own stores, who expect their customers to default. This wasn't done for cops but for repo men.
By all means complain about a violation of privacy, but it isn't by the state. Rather this is the result of a financial system that promotes, aggravates, and profits off of poverty.
Submission + - Hundreds of Police Agencies distributing spyware and keystroke logger
realized writes: For years, local law enforcement agencies around the country have told parents that installing ComputerCOP software is the “first step” in protecting their children online.
As official as it looks,ComputerCOP is actually just spyware, generally bought in bulk from a New York company that appears to do nothing but market this software to local government agencies.
The way ComputerCOP works is neither safe nor secure. It isn’t particularly effective either, except for generating positive PR for the law enforcement agencies distributing it. As security software goes, we observed a product with a keystroke-capturing function, also called a “keylogger,” that could place a family’s personal information at extreme risk by transmitting what a user types over the Internet to third-party servers without encryption.
EFF conducted a security review of ComputerCOP while also following the paper trail of public records to see how widely the software has spread. Based on ComputerCOP’s own marketing information, we identified approximately 245 agencies in more than 35 states, plus the U.S. Marshals, that have used public funds (often the proceeds from property seized during criminal investigations) to purchase and distribute ComputerCOP. One sheriff’s department even bought a copy for every family in its county.
Some of the agencies that have used it include U.S. Marshals — Under Director John Clark, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office gave out the program for "free" to 6,700 foster parents, Riverside County District Attorney's Office, San Diego County District Attorney's Office, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office,
Complete list of agencies that use the software compiled by the eff click here
As official as it looks,ComputerCOP is actually just spyware, generally bought in bulk from a New York company that appears to do nothing but market this software to local government agencies.
The way ComputerCOP works is neither safe nor secure. It isn’t particularly effective either, except for generating positive PR for the law enforcement agencies distributing it. As security software goes, we observed a product with a keystroke-capturing function, also called a “keylogger,” that could place a family’s personal information at extreme risk by transmitting what a user types over the Internet to third-party servers without encryption.
EFF conducted a security review of ComputerCOP while also following the paper trail of public records to see how widely the software has spread. Based on ComputerCOP’s own marketing information, we identified approximately 245 agencies in more than 35 states, plus the U.S. Marshals, that have used public funds (often the proceeds from property seized during criminal investigations) to purchase and distribute ComputerCOP. One sheriff’s department even bought a copy for every family in its county.
Some of the agencies that have used it include U.S. Marshals — Under Director John Clark, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office gave out the program for "free" to 6,700 foster parents, Riverside County District Attorney's Office, San Diego County District Attorney's Office, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office,
Complete list of agencies that use the software compiled by the eff click here
Comment Re:The best photo... (Score 1) 113
This post is factual, poignant, germane to the topic at hand... and yet, in this crowd, this post can legitimately, literally be modded as "flamebait."
Comment Re:It's made of plated steel (Score 1) 54
known for its superb conductivity of heat
Exactly: pinpoint heat sources will see that energy rapidly disbursed throughout the entire suit rather than stay concentrated in a hot spot.
Water's heat conductivity, its ability to spread heat out into meaninglessness, is one of the reasons why it's effective at extinguishing fires.
Comment But it failed (Score 1) 54
Face full of sparks at the 2 minute mark.
Comment Re:Given current tensions, ... (Score 1) 157
I think they would be very happy if the rest of Europe were utilizing GLONASS, a system they can shut down or manipulate if they need to.
But they themselves can't get it to work, as was highlighted in the link I posted. So why would a Europe unable to deploy Galileo use GLONASS instead of GPS?
And it certainly isn't like Europe doesn't have its own space launch capabilities.
Russia has absolutely nothing to gain and much to lose by trying to fuck with this launch.
Comment Re:Given current tensions, ... (Score 4, Interesting) 157
The Russian GLONASS has its own problems, and the whole point of Galileo is a GNSS that is independent from the US. Do you think the Russians like falling back on US technology? Or do you think they're planning to rely on Beidou?
Comment I'll pass (Score 1) 252
Yes, I enjoyed Babylon 5, but then stuff like Crusade, the Ranger movie, and that "Lost Tales" compilation happened. I'll probably put this new movie in my Netflix queue, but I won't be running out to buy a theater ticket or anything.
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