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Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 196

For all the people saying "hurr, durr, emergencies!", I've been around for awhile and never in my entire life have I needed an AM radio "for emergencies", and that includes in earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, and a (small) tsunami. I carried out an informal poll of a few folks who have been around for rather longer than I have, including one whose life experience goes back almost to the dawn of radio, and none of them could recall ever needing an AM radio "for emergencies" except for the near-centenarian who remembers listening to the radio for warnings about which city the bombers were heading for so they could go down to the cellar. In addition, apart from the near-centenarian, none of them actually owned a radio, or at least new where it was and whether it worked, and the near-centenarian only uses it to listen to Internet streaming because "the AM stations are all rubbish".

Apologies for injecting facts and data into the discussion. As you were.

Comment Re:This is a good thing (Score 4, Insightful) 51

The sad thing is that the US actually has some intelligent, educated military leaders, but the DUI hire and the dementia patient have either fired or sidelined any that didn't toe their line. What's left is a small amount of dross and a large amount of ones who don't dare step out of line because they've seen what happens when you do.

Comment Re:Potentially order the company to pay billions (Score 1) 30

Oh, I have a cousin
who runs a social network, Roy.
And these trumped up charges,
some nonsense about it making
43M misleading statements.
And the President, who really is
a lovely, lovely man,
he made the whole thing... go away.

Comment Re:OK... (Score 4, Informative) 49

It exploits a misuse of RSA that virtually nothing in existence does. When the various standards for RSA were created decades ago, PKCS #1, X9.31, ISO 9796, and so on, they were specifically designed to prevent this type of attack. So it's academically reasonably interesting, but otherwise nothing to worry about unless.

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