Submission + - NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds" (washingtonpost.com)
Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls.
Comment Re:It's the risk you take (Score 1) 179
Comment cache anyone? (Score 1) 284
Comment Bracing for costs? this is an improvement... (Score 2) 212
Comment Re:not fair (Score 1) 717
Comment App store VS repository (Score 0) 429
Comment Re:... but now you've got a COYOTE problem (Score 1) 222
Roadrunner will have more success now that his target is wearing a government-issued GPS tracking collar. Those ACME homing missiles will be much more effective.
<coyote removes collar, attaches it to nearby car>
<Road Runner donnes cheap suit, and sells car to coyote...>
Comment Re:Umm... (Score 1) 362
and if you couple this attack with the slightly older "make the address bar show a slightly wrong thing" attack...
you know, the PayPal.com vs PayPaI.com (one's an L one's an I, can you tell with the default font?)...adjusted for font collisions, or making use of the way a browser falls back on installed fonts when you try and show a different script style...
This could be very bad...
Comment Worcester Area Exam on Thursday (Score 1) 368
Anyone in the Worcester area who wants to get licensed can come by WPI's Slasibury Hall, Room 407, 1800 hours, Thursday, April 8th, for our next exam!
The fee is only $15, bring two forms of ID
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Comment Re:Dumb Government Abuse of Power (Score 1) 819
They are all spur routes off of I-95, there are more than 9 of them, so the numbers get reused...
I grew up a few miles from 459 in NY, and go to school up in MA now, it still throws me off when i have to momentarily consider the difference between the two roads.
Comment Re:is he right? (Score 1) 409
1%er is a reference to criminally bikers, from an AMA (American Motorcycle Association) publication ('91 I think) claiming that 99% of bikers are law abiding citizens. The suggestion of 15%er is that in AU there are many more criminal bikers than in the US, so many that it might be an acceptable form of shenanigans, like soccer hooligans in GB.
Submission + - Sony Ericsson Developes Motion Headphones (pcworld.com)
Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 104
They aren't trusting the clients just for fun. Current technology has to put lots of things on the client so it works good. I surely hope this will, and probably does, change in the future but currently it's not applicable.
Comment Re:This crew (Score 1) 108
Not really. Many astronauts get assigned that sort of managerial duty between flight assignments. You gotta keep them busy when they aren't training for a flight. Three of them are recent/current residents of the ISS.
As for science, it's not a science flight. In fact, the last science flight was STS-107. It's a final delivery flight to the station. So the crew composition makes sense for the tasks.