Marcomasino

And apparently at least one commentator on Hacker News has no sense of humour :)

And if they don't agree with you, so rather than respond with a refutation they'll just downvote you instead.

'Chaum is also building into PrivaTegrity .. a carefully controlled backdoor that allows anyone .. to have their anonymity and privacy stripped altogether.'

Nov 2012: "Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Khosla Get Behind Energy Storage Start-Up LightSail in $37M Deal"

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/11/05/peter-thiel-b...

Not another Newyorker article, sorry I can't take anymore, Dave, my mind is going, I can feel it .. I can feel it .. my mind is going .. there is no question about it :)

"Facebook, despite being the biggest app developer on Android, presents a growing threat to Google."

Shouldn't that be Facebook is the biggest developer of Facebook apps on Android?

Was this article written at Facebook HQ?

"This simple point — that America is awash with more guns than ever before, yet we are killing each other with guns at a far lower rate than when we had far fewer guns — undermines the narrative that there is a straightforward, causal relationship between increased gun prevalence and gun homicide."

According to Table 1, firearm homicides dropped to 10,828 in 1999 and have actually gone up since. Which demonstrates that you can get statistics to say what ever you want. I have another simple point, that it is harder to kill someone with your bare hands that with a gun.

Why didn't such bugs come to light when Comcast tested the device for potential security vulnerabilities. They did test that a radio controlled home security device was immune to conventional jamming?

Aw, come on, lighten up, it's just an online forum. Maybe people develop Asperger traits from working in this field. Like one time I asked a college did he know what the time was, he replied YES and walked off :)

Having worked with and directed people of differing ethnic backgrounds, I would pick the Chinese as best to work with. The worst who shall remain nameless, were either augmentative dishonest or lazy and some were as thick as two very thick planks glued together. You had to speak to them in very short sentences and not use big words and still they didn't get it. I didn't experience a large enough sample to form an opinion as to whether it was environmental or genetic.

I know exactly what _pmf_ means. I used deal with a self declared Asperger who was top class in his field. The thing is whenever I asked him do you know how to fix this problem. The answer was invariably, 'sorry I don't know how to do that'. Of course I should have phrased it as, I am having difficulties in solving this problem and was wondering if you would advise me on finding a solution.