Comment Sonic Screwdrivers! (Score 1) 120
Huh, they really do have a use
Comment Good (Score 1) 205
Pornography only serves to frustrate more, and victimizes women.
Comment The Fifth Element comes to mind (Score 1) 188
It's not a machine gun that shots at people behind you, but still.
Comment Is this for real? (Score 1) 346
I just can't believe a Russian military officer would just come out and say that they're milking Snowden. I don't doubt they are; just that Russia would want to brag about it.
Comment I wonder (Score 1) 72
I'm all for regulation of mass surveillance. After the Snowden incident I started using a password manager and made sure my pgp key was up to snuff. But I wonder how many other more important secrets he had to tell the Russians to get amnesty, how many ships sank because of his lose lips.
Comment Maybe the Gov't Will Finally Abolish It (Score 1) 240
Finally! Something concrete to take to congress.
Comment If you don't like it, (Score 1) 284
use some other service. Freedom of speech means that they can provide whatever results they want, but so can Google.
Comment The lengths we go to (Score 2) 70
just to play super mario.
Submission + - 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted in Woman
djhaskin987 writes: The first successful implantation of a 3-D printed skull has taken place in the Netherlands, according to NBC news:
Doctors in the Netherlands report that they have for the first time successfully replaced most of a human’s skull with a 3-D printed plastic one — and likely saved a woman's life in the process. The 23-hour surgery took place three months ago at University Medical Center Utrecht. The hospital announced details of the groundbreaking operation this week and said the patient, a 22-year-old woman, is doing just fine.
Comment Well, that took a while (Score 1, Interesting) 184
It's because Steve Ballmer refused to acknowledge iOS's existence. Now that a new guy is in charge, things are happening again.
Comment How long does he expect to do this? (Score 1) 275
The difficulty goes up exponentially with pool size. How long does this guy plan to keep buying up the world's computing resources? Cause he'll have to pretty quick to keep his 10% goal.
Comment Re:Someone will make money (Score 1) 198
Likely. Either they already owned a company, and got the government to use it; or, learning that the government will use it, they bought into the company.
Submission + - Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, And PowerPoint
An anonymous reader writes: At an event in San Francisco today, Microsoft Office General Manager Julia White unveiled Office for iPad, featuring Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new suite, which supports viewing but not editing for free, will go live in Apple's App Store at 11:00AM PDT (2:00PM EST). Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPad feature a ribbon interface just like the one featured in Office for Windows and OS X. The trio of apps are much more powerful on the tablet than the smartphone, but naturally aren't comparable to the desktop versions.
Submission + - How do the FBI and Secret Service know your network has been breached before you (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: By all accounts, many of the massive data breaches in the news these days are first revealed to the victims by law enforcement, the Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). But how do the agencies figure it out before the companies know they have been breached, especially given the millions companies spend on security and their intense focus on compliance? The agencies do the one thing companies don’t do. They attack the problem from the other end by looking for evidence that a crime has been committed. Agents go undercover in criminal forums where stolen payment cards, customer data and propriety information are sold. They monitor suspects and sometimes get court permission to break into password-protected enclaves where cyber-criminals lurk.
Submission + - eBay passwords revealed as username+123456 (itnews.com.au)
mask.of.sanity writes: eBay Japan created passwords for accounts based on a combination of a username plus a static salt, allowing anyone with knowledge of it to access any account, a researcher reported. The salt, which should have been random, used was the combination '123456', which was reported as last year's worst password. Video.
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