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And yet Chicago, roughly 10,000 square miles, manages to do so nicely (contrary to what locals bitch about).

The Chicago area is 234 sq miles (606.1 km). Jacksonville, FL at 885 sq miles (2,292 km) is the largest city in the 48 contiguous states and is more than twice Chicago's size but still is not nearly as big as 10,000 square miles.

Falcon

And yet Chicago, roughly 10,000 square miles, manages to do so nicely (contrary to what locals bitch about).

The Chicago area is 234 sq miles (606.1 km). Jacksonville, FL at 885 sq miles (2,292 km) is the largest city in the 48 contiguous states and is more than twice Chicago's size but still is not nearly as big as 10,000 square miles.

Falcon

Is there some benefit to these super duper broadband speeds besides talking about how cool it is? It takes a tiny fraction of this speed to send a HD movie.

640K of memory should be enough for anybody.

Falcon

In the very announcement they link to the FCC broadband page about how to build out your own community gigabit municipal fiber network. You don't have to wait for Google. They would rather you didn't.

What FCC broadband page would that be? The only FCC page I found linked to is WCB Announces Workshop on Gigabit Community Broadband Networks but it does not say how to build gigabit fiber. It may be in the video on the page, but that is more than 5 hours long. Searching FCC how to build gigabit municipal fiber networks doesn't return the how to either in the first five pages of results. Only the first result is an FCC link.

Falcon

Should there be a Law?

It has the same components as a traditional Xerox machine. There is a drum that rotates and their positioning technology put the chiplets in precise locations on the substrate. The chiplets are in a fluid that acts like toner.

It appears that the performance depends on how fast the substrate conducts signals. At this point it seems unlikely that this is as fast as an on chip connection, but there seems to be no intrinsic reason that it would be any slower then the wires that hook a chip pad to a package pin. In aggregate the speed might be faster then a circuit board because the chiplits could be closer together then chips on a board.

One possible deployment would be to use this to assemble components which are then packaged in a standard IC. It's like an SOIC, except the parts are not all on one piece of silicon.

There are potential economies of scale. With an inventory of chiplets, and automation to make the interconnect substrate with CAD, a custom assembly line can create vast numbers of different configurations and not have to include a foundry in the loop.

Despite all the naysayers that have already posted, this is a potentially game changing technology.

Just after Google's announcement, AT&T made an announcement that it will bring a gigabit network to ATX: https://www.google.com/search?q=at%26t+gigabit+austin&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

Don't think hate matters, hmm? Check this out:

            EA flat on its back

Set to "all". Note the hate effect.

This whole bit of FUD is based on taking two words out of context in a list of features that Samsung could have changed to not infringe in the German design patent infringement case. Specifically, Apple said that their patent claimed A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H, etc. with one of those things being rounded corners.

Look at the patent, which, by the way, has 1 content-free claim (you didn't know that?), and a few crude pictures. I remember drawing things like that in high school.

It's a design patent - all design patents have only one claim, by law. However, it's not content free at all - rather, the claim is claiming exactly what's shown in the figures, which are not crude by any mention. And kudos for your high school for having an engineering drafting class. Mine did, too, and it has been very useful through several careers.

All I claim is that it's been thought of before, but nice trolling.

Nope, you did nothing of the sort. You asked a rhetorical question about Apple patenting rounded corners, and as I pointed out, they did nothing of the sort nor ever claimed to. And really, calling someone else a troll when anyone in here can scroll up and see what's been actually posted is laughable.

Note that Stallman's solution doesn't include either of those requirements, and therefore lacks the same moral justification.

So his argument is flawed because he didn't chew it up for you like I did? Try again.

Glad you agree that Stallman's solution lacks the moral justification you suggested.

Unless you disagree? It's not clear from your post. Maybe you're just trolling rather than wanting to have an actual discussion?

This whole bit of FUD is based on taking two words out of context in a list of features that Samsung could have changed to not infringe in the German design patent infringement case. Specifically, Apple said that their patent claimed A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H, etc. with one of those things being rounded corners.

Look at the patent, which, by the way, has 1 content-free claim (you didn't know that?), and a few crude pictures. I remember drawing things like that in high school. All I claim is that it's been thought of before, but nice trolling.

Note that Stallman's solution doesn't include either of those requirements, and therefore lacks the same moral justification.

So his argument is flawed because he didn't chew it up for you like I did? Try again.

http://xkcd.com/1169/
https://maps.google.com/?ll=73.103006,126.44577&spn=0.272619,1.385651&t=h&z=10

For vertical tabs, I think Opera supports them.
Not sure exactly where you turn them on because I haven't used it in ages.
Chrome seems to provide extensions that support it, but I am extremely doubtful of the browser now --trying to just get AdblockPlus was useless because it's not designed for my computer setup or something like that. It used to work some months ago (using Rockmelt)

A user can install and update applications into his own folder.

On Debian and Ubuntu, that appears to work only for compiling and installing applications from source, as only root can install .deb packages. Or is that a problem of Debian packaging that other distributions have fixed?

As a simple google search will show you you can install DEBs (or RPMs, etc) to your own user directory if you like. It's not typically done, but it is possible to do and done by design.

Crap! We're already TOO LATE!

https://www.google.com/search?q=coconut+crab

Bonus: they drop coconuts on your head before they jump down and eat.

Is it possible there is just more innovation in the past 4 years? I would argue 'progress' is exponential, not linear. Regardless, patents such as this probably fall in the lower standard category, yet is was patented in the 90s.

She started us on the "no such thing as society" route

The full quote is:

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!" or "I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!" "I am homeless, the Government must house me!" and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation and it is, I think, one of the tragedies in which many of the benefits we give, which were meant to reassure people that if they were sick or ill there was a safety net and there was help, that many of the benefits which were meant to help people who were unfortunate -- "It is all right. We joined together and we have these insurance schemes to look after it". That was the objective, but somehow there are some people who have been manipulating the system and so some of those help and benefits that were meant to say to people: "All right, if you cannot get a job, you shall have a basic standard of living!" but when people come and say: "But what is the point of working? I can get as much on the dole!" You say: "Look" It is not from the dole. It is your neighbour who is supplying it and if you can earn your own living then really you have a duty to do it and you will feel very much better!"

Sounds a lot better when you understand the context. The things we demand or take from "society" are actually demanded or taken from our fellow man. As to the "some people will never get a job" quote, you have three of the five googled instances of the quote, all from the same copy/pasted comment that you gave above.

Then you move on to:

The thing I hate her most for is usurping the prayer of St Francis of Assisi. I cannot her it now without thinking about how she did the exact opposite of every single statement - it brings thoughts of selfish greed, self importance and hypocrisy instead of peace and humility now.

That indicates your problem. You could have chosen to view the prayer and her works in the better light they deserve. You have poisoned your worldview for at least three decades.

Another was changing the law and backdating it when she tried to take money earmarked for London transport, despite the judge saying it was not only legally but morally wrong,

End the Cold War? Reverse the economic decline of the UK? Not worth mentioning. But mess with your pet public transportation scheme, and you'll be bitter till the end of time.

Google has self-censored sites in the Washington, D.C., area and other areas of military and national security interest at the request of the USA government. It's blurred the regions or limited the resolution at which users can scan the areas, such as Fort Knox or the Naval Observatory a.k.a. the Vice-President's Residence. It's also done that for China and India, South Korea, Australia, and others (I think) at those government's requests also. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government the name of that link speaks for itself
How Google And Bing Maps Control What You Can See
http://gizmodo.com/5907421/the-dutch-have-the-weirdest-google-maps-censorship
and of course wikipedia's article on Map censorship by google and microsoft So if Google and MS and others already do all of this at the behest of the government, why are we surprised that the French government is trying to censor Wikipedia?

First off, prions are infectious pathogens. It doesn't matter what the mechanism for infection is, just that the infection happens. Viruses have a different mechanism for infecting hosts than do bacteria, but we still refer to variants as strains. Soda cans generally aren't considered pathogens, so I don't refer to their variants as strains.

You're implying that the only difference are the host's proteins and all the variance is accounted for by the host's genetic variations. But just like other pathogens, genetic variations in hosts result in different levels of susceptibility from different strains.

You seem to have you panties in a knot about the use of the word "strain" to describe prion isoforms. Sorry to bust your pedantic bubble, but strain is commonly used in literature about prions. Of course, since you're posting on Slashdot, you must be a subject matter expert and know must know better than everyone else.

Because it is conversion of the host prion proteins, the only 'strain' that exists is the host.

Wrong. From the UCL Institute of Neurology MRC Prion Clinic:

Although prions do not carry genetic material, they also come in several different forms - again known as strains. If prions are just proteins, how can they come in different strains? This has been a very important question. It is now clear that there is not just one rogue form of PrP that causes prion disease but there several distinct rogue forms.

Oh look, they also use the word "strain" on that page, the horror!

Aside from the authors I cited and the MRC Prion Clinic, a quick search shows hundreds of examples. They all must be wrong too, huh? Anyway, I'm going to go with the credentialed neurologists and researchers on this, as opposed to some random arrogant Slashdot pedant.

France and Russia are very different states indeed, but it's interesting that Russian Wikipedia had a similar incident recently. The Russian Wikimedia received a request from the government to remove the 'Cannabis smoking' article from Russian Wikipedia (see google-translated version). The request in an ultimate manner states that if the article won't be removed during 24 hours then 'the hosting provider is obliged to limit access to such website' (haha, hosting provider from USA?) and if the hosting provider refuses to do that, then 'the IP address of the website will be listed in a database of addresses to whish ISP's will limit access'. The request PDF is here.

Well summarized list! I've used LaTeX for years as well, and could immediately relate.

tex.stackexchange.com is helpful (wish it existed years earlier), and will hopefully become much more helpful. For instance: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23650/when-should-we-use-begincenter-instead-of-centering

But I completely hear you: it's frustrating I have to constantly look up things on a forum (or ask the local TeX guru) even after years of advanced usage. BTW, I use https://code.google.com/p/latex-makefile/

Oh boy, what rubbish. Let's address some of your points:

1. You failed to show a correlation between drug prohibition and incarceration. Do we have substantially more people in jail *because* of the war on drugs? If so, prove it.

2. It doesn't matter that everyone consumes drugs at the same level (to be proven, where is your source?). What matters is who deals and distributors said drugs. I highly doubt that as many white people distribute drugs as other ethnic groups and it makes perfect sense to dish out longer jail time to distributors than users. So what are you really complaining about here?

3. There is a reduction (on a gross-level, not net), but the population is increasing and drug distributors are better funded than people enforcing the law. Are you implying that ineffective drug enforcement means we should give up altogether? Sex trade and child labor is on the rise too, should we stop trying to curb those crimes too?

4. I'm not going to argue for/against this.

5. I'm sure terrorism had nothing to do with it. The world is changing my friend, drugs are only part of the problem.

6. I'm not sure what you're referring to here. The DEA and main police force are separate beats. I trust my local police force just fine, thank you very much.

7. Last time I checked, drug use was illegal (and enforced as such) in most countries around the world, so I have no idea what you're referring to.

8. Poor logic. Again, should we legalize all form of criminal acts for fear of what the black market will do? Laws exist for morale reasons. Selling drugs is like selling Alcohol to a known Alcoholic. It is highly addictive and prays on people's weakness.

9. Many people experiment, but most move on and hold nothing but respect for law enforcement. Most people don't smoke pot and do crack through the rest of their life.

10. That's a problem that affects all felons. Where do you draw the line? Shouldn't we try to improve the life of *all* felons? Why the focus on drug felons alone?

Obviously you failed to watch the debate.

1. 50% of the Federal inmates, 25% of state inmates for drug offenses: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs

2. You're just being racist.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-than-blacks/
http://www.hrw.org/news/2009/06/19/race-drugs-and-law-enforcement-united-states#_Part_I:_Race

A recent study in Seattle is illustrative. Although the majority of those who shared, sold, or transferred serious drugs[17] in Seattle are white (indeed seventy percent of the general Seattle population is white), almost two-thirds (64.2%) of drug arrestees are black.

3. I don't even understand you're point in the first sentence. It's totally incoherent. The second, about the sex trade, completely misses the point because the number of people who use prostitutes is vastly smaller than those who use drugs. The drug war is like outlawing french fries -- sure, they make you fat but so many people use them, it's pointless to push against the tide. The same cannot be said about prostitution. If we ever get to the point that is the case, then we can address that -- right now, it's just off topic. A diversion.

5. As Greenwald pointed out in his debate, the egregious civil liberties violations of the last decade, first took root in the drug war.

6. Google "drug war militarization of the police force" and pick an article: https://www.google.com/search?q=drug+war+militarization+of+the+police+force

7. Again, you totally didn't watch the debate

I ended up with gscan2pdf and a rigid directory and filename structure. It works, but yeah, tags would be nice.

gscan2pdf is OK, but if you want to do this seriously then you're probably going to want a reasonably fast sheet-fed scanner (I got a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500, which is supported by SANE and can scan at 18-20 pages/36-40 sides per minute) with a button so that you can go through a whole stack of paper quickly with minimal keyboard/mouse interaction to slow you down. This led me to setting up scanbuttond (which just gained official support for the ScanSnap but there was a patch floating around somewhere for a while before that) with a custom script.

Make sure you OCR your documents to make them searchable then run an indexer (I like recoll but KDE and GNOME both have their own desktop search solutions as well). I've found the best OCR engine on Linux seems to be tesseract, but there are a couple of others you can try. The process took me a while to get right and is a bit painful - the script which scanbuttond runs runs scanadf to scan to a string of image files per side and puts them in a processing directory. I then have another batch-processing script I run once I'm done with a pile of papers while I go and get a cup of tea which runs unpaper then tesseract on them, then hocr2pdf to convert each page individually into a searchable PDF file then finally pdftk to concatenate all the pages together into a scanned document. I split the two parts of the process out because the OCR bit can take some time and this way I can get maximum throughput on the scanner itself without needing to wait for the rest to catch up. If I could be bothered then I could make the scanning script run my de-batching script once only and have it pick up new files as they are dropped in the directory but it's not that much of an effort really.

I then sort my PDFs into a hierarchical directory structure once they've been OCRd (and at this point they get indexed as well for searching).

If you're on Windows/Mac then the software that comes with the ScanSnap will pretty much do all this for you; although it's better to scan with OCR disabled then use Acrobat to batch-OCR the PDFs later for the same reason. Add a decent desktop search solution like an old version of Copernic (or possible Windows Search) and all is good.

Using Camscanner or its ilk is something that a few friends have suggested, but I find the quality of the scans to be less than I really want for long-term archival. This may suffice for many documents that I'm likely never to look at again, such as bills, but things like letters or tax documents I think may require a little higher quality. Also, if a document is more than one page, camera scanning quickly gets unwieldy. I scanned a 30 page document on the go using Camscanner and it was a painful experience.

Constant fear? I'd be living in constant fear, too - if I were living in a stolen house, where I'd buried the owners' murdered grandmother in the garden.

Anonymous outed 35,000 Mossad "sayanim" and operator/assets with the @RedHack team.

That's pretty decent, for a start.

pyglet 1.2beta1 has partial support for Python 3

I have two (physical) slide to unlock buttons on the base of my laptop.

I'm fairly sure the Sumerians already had slide-to-unlock on their doors. They even had their own version of the tablet after all, the veritable clayPad.

Unfortunately they focus mainly on religious and ethnic hatred, which doesn't really account for some of the biggest genocides of the 20th century like in Pol Pot's Cambodia, Stalin's USSR and Mao's China, They do mention Pol Pot a couple of times, for the "blue ribbon" symbolism and the "Denial" stage, but miss the root of the problem. Their view is shallow at best, IMO.

But is there anything wrong with the overall categorization? I think a better example would be the conquests of the Mongols (and similar brutal wars, during the fall of the Western Roman Empire). They had many of the characteristics like dehumanization, but they didn't bother with symobolization,or organization. In situations where it was ordered, the Horde moved in and just killed everyone. No need to make plans for genocide when you have an extremely competent and obedient army ready to carry out your every whim efficiently. I doubt that the Mongols bothered to polarize their forces before most such massacres.

Most significantly, there was never any attempt to hide such atrocities. Widespread knowledge of previous atrocities made future battles and conquests easier.

"Genocide Watch" would have probably missed those "early stages" of Communism...

Let's take a look. Classification and symbolism is pretty obvious. They classified a lot of people in classes that were good (eg, revolutionaries, proletariat, heroes of the people, etc) and bad (kulaks, capitalists, class enemy, enemy of the people, etc).

Some categories were vague such as "kulak" which apparently degenerated in the late 30s into whoever could be accused (apparently, the secret police had quotas and not enough kulaks around to meet said quotas).

Dehumanization happened as well. For example, here's a quote from Lenin in a speech written some point in 1918 and published in 1925:

...while barely two million consist of kulaks, rich peasants, grain profiteers. These bloodsuckers have grown rich on the want suffered by the people in the war; they have raked in thousands and hundreds of thousands of rubles by pushing up the price of grain and other products. These spiders have grown fat at the expense of the peasants ruined by the war, at the expense of the starving workers. These leeches have sucked the blood of the working people and grown richer as the workers in the cities and factories starved. These vampires have been gathering the landed estates into their hands; they continue to enslave the poor peasants.

Ruthless war on the kulaks! Death to them! Hatred and contempt for the parties which defend them-the Right Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Mensheviks, and today's Left Socialist-Revolutionaries! The workers must crush the revolts of the kulaks with an iron hand, the kulaks who are forming an alliance with the foreign capitalists against the working people of their own country.

The kulaks take advantage of the ignorance, the disunity and isolation of the poor peasants. They incite them against the workers. Sometimes they bribe them while permitting them to "make a bit", a hundred rubles or so, by profiteering in grain (at the same time robbing the poor peasants of many thousands of rubles). The kulaks try to win the support of the middle peasants, and they sometimes succeed.

Note the use of dehumanizing terms like "bloodsucker", "spider", "leech", and "vampire". Then a call for their deaths in the middle paragraph. There are other timeslike when during a revolt Lenin ordered the hanging of a hundred kulaks to make examples of them.

There would have been about 15 years of genocide precursors (and ruthless massacres and imprisonments) prior to the Ukrainian Homodor (in which several million Ukrainians died).

In case you have not heard, Hotmail's PC chat application, Messenger, is two days from being sunset in favor of Skype. That will be causing a massive migration from users who ignored repeated upgrade emails from the MS team.
Just when I thought it was hard to convince my long-term guests that they should ignore the Messenger Icon, forcing themselves to learn the freshly installed Skype forced down our throats, I have to worry about their malware risks from a new vector of attack.
I very sparingly use the hotmail/live/OUTLOOK/identityCrisisNameDUJOUR account, and would have uninstalled it if I didn't have said friends from a land where people KNOW nothing else*. The loss of Hotmail integration, loss of social media-ish features, and bold GUI design choices to force you to try their $$$ calling plans really is making me consider shutting the doors on the account.

*We stay off FB. They know OF Yahoo Messenger which I never use. My GTalk is unknown to them and all this stinks of network effects.

Amazon's streaming service is flaky with linux. The issue is DRM which for some reson is not supported in the linux version of the flash player.

Amazon video works fine under Ubuntu. Use Firefox, not Chrome.
From the FAQ

Why can't I watch videos on my Chrome browser in Linux?
The Flash Player Plugin in Chrome removed support for Digital Rights Management (DRM) in Linux as part of the upgrade from 11.3 to 11.4. This upgrade was bundled with the latest Chrome 22 update for Linux. If you applied the Chrome update, you are no longer able to watch DRM-protected content, such as movies and TV episodes. Trailers are unaffected as they do not use DRM. To get around this issue, you can use a different browser, such as Firefox. For information on Chrome and the Flash Player plug-in, see: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=108086.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=3757

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bulletin_des_administrateurs

Translated:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikip%25C3%25A9dia%3ABulletin_des_administrateurs

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Wikimedia Foundation elaborates on recent demand by French Governmental agency to remove Wikipedia content

Version as of 1 April, still current as of a few minutes ago:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bulletin_des_administrateurs&oldid=91565146

Translated:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DWikip%25C3%25A9dia%3ABulletin_des_administrateurs%26oldid%3D91565146

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bulletin_des_administrateurs

Translated:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikip%25C3%25A9dia%3ABulletin_des_administrateurs

Scroll down to
Wikimedia Foundation elaborates on recent demand by French Governmental agency to remove Wikipedia content

Version as of 1 April, still current as of a few minutes ago:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bulletin_des_administrateurs&oldid=91565146

Translated:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DWikip%25C3%25A9dia%3ABulletin_des_administrateurs%26oldid%3D91565146

Russian Wikipedia received a letter demanding to remove "Cannabis smoking" article or face block on ISPs level, based on the law from November 2012 that instituted register of banned sites (for now, containing info about suicide, drugs and child porn) with expedite inclusion.

It's still up, though, and ban only names ru.wikipedia.org URL, not any other language WP section. Still makes people wonder, would they add Wikipedia IPs to the blacklist if they fail to comply?

Let's reinforce that !!

Investing in one of THESE is a big help:

DDoS Appliances:

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Because DDoS/DoS CAN be stopped (Microsoft & Amazon are setup PERFECTLY vs. it in fact, read on below on that note)!

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Microsoft Windows NT-based OS settings vs. DoS:

Protect Against SYN Attacks

FROM -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648853.aspx

A SYN attack exploits a vulnerability in the TCP/IP connection establishment mechanism. To mount a SYN flood attack, an attacker uses a program to send a flood of TCP SYN requests to fill the pending connection queue on the server. This prevents other users from establishing network connections.

To protect the network against SYN attacks, follow these generalized steps, explained later in this document:

Enable SYN attack protection
Set SYN protection thresholds
Set additional protections

Enable SYN Attack Protection

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The named value to enable SYN attack protection is located beneath the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters.

Value name: SynAttackProtect

Recommended value: 2

Valid values: 0, 1, 2

Description: Causes TCP to adjust retransmission of SYN-ACKS. When you configure this value the connection responses timeout more quickly in the event of a SYN attack. A SYN attack is triggered when the values of TcpMaxHalfOpen or TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried are exceeded.

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Set SYN Protection Thresholds

The following values determine the thresholds for which SYN protection is triggered. All of the keys and values in this section are under the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters

These keys and values are:

Value name: TcpMaxPortsExhausted

Recommended value: 5

Valid values: 0?65535

Description: Specifies the threshold of TCP connection requests that must be exceeded before SYN flood protection is triggered.

Value name: TcpMaxHalfOpen

Recommended value data: 500

Valid values: 100?65535

Description: When SynAttackProtect is enabled, this value specifies the threshold of TCP connections in the SYN_RCVD state. When SynAttackProtect is exceeded, SYN flood protection is triggered.

Value name: TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried

Recommended value data: 400

Valid values: 80?65535

Description: When SynAttackProtect is enabled, this value specifies the threshold of TCP connections in the SYN_RCVD state for which at least one retransmission has been sent. When SynAttackProtect is exceeded, SYN flood protection is triggered.

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Set Additional Protections

All the keys and values in this section are located under the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters. These keys and values are:

Value name: TcpMaxConnectResponseRetransmissions

Recommended value data: 2

Valid values: 0?255

Description: Controls how many times a SYN-ACK is retransmitted before canceling the attempt when responding to a SYN request.

Value name: TcpMaxDataRetransmissions

Recommended value data: 2

Valid values: 0?65535

Description: Specifies the number of times that TCP retransmits an individual data segment (not connection request segments) before aborting the connection.

Value name: EnablePMTUDiscovery

Recommended value data: 0

Valid values: 0, 1

Description: Setting this value to 1

Yet another funny one from 1980: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_(Yes_Minister)

I feel part of what is happening at the big picture level is that examples like Debian and Wikipedia and Linux and GNU are reminding us that people can govern themselves in various ways. Example:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/08/04/14/1349202/study-reports-on-debian-governance-social-organization

We are also seeing how people can improve things by participating in a "gift economy" related to those sorts of projects and others. Government making free stuff for everyone (like public domain code from NASA or your local government staffers) is a potential big win for society, where a relatively small investment can yield big dividends by avoiding using "artificial scarcity" as a business model for important software tools or data sets.

As Lawrence Lessig writes in Code 2.0, behavior can be shaped through norms, rules, prices, and architecture. Government bureaucracies can affect all of those, but so can individuals, civic groups, and businesses. Maybe the internet is letting some of the lines blur a bit more these days?

We're also seeing that exchanging emails and IMs and twitters can replace some of the movement of monetary currency to signal "demand".

The internet has also made a lot of alternatives, if not easier, than at least "discoverable":
"The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization"
http://books.google.com/books?id=IKZVKMPEQCEC
"This dictionary provides ammunition for those who disagree with the early twentieth-first century orthodoxy that 'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism'. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century."

A Knight News Challenge on Open Government is just ending ($5 million to be given out). My wife and I put together one of the 828 entries (did not make the final cut though):
https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/civic-sensemaking-by-working-with-stories-using-rakontu/

There are many other interesting suggestions there:
https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/applause-feedback/

The O'Reilly book on open government is online, and I put up a link to it as an "inspiration" part of that challenge:
https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/inspiration/o-reilly-releases-open-government-book-for-free/

Anyway, as you imply, we have yet to see how all these visions of "open government" play out.

An indirectly related book:
http://www.amazon.com/Policy-Paradox-Political-Decision-Making/dp/0393976254
"Unlike most texts, which treat policy analysis and policy making as different enterprises, Policy Paradox demonstrates that "you can't take politics out of analysis." Through a uniquely rich

To further the loop, here's a Google link to this page, currently the top result.

If the studios do drag Google employees to trial for that, they'd probably argue they were Just Following Orders, due to the company mission. Not that the argument would save them, but takedown letters do have information and all...

Why would you need a skilled coder when the databases are in plain CSV format ?

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/data/

This article can be summed up in one sentence: "LOL WINDOWS USERS"

Really? The biggest malware outbreak in modern times in terms of percentage of user base infected was Mac Flashback infecting 1% of all Internet-connected OS-X Macs. Beating Conficker who "only" infected 0.7% of Windows PCs (sources). The Windows user base is bigger in actual numbers of course, but percentage of user base infected is how you measure the infection risk to users of a platform. Later versions of Mac Flashback did completely silent drive-by infection, without any user intervention or admin password needed, just by users visiting a web site.

"We have tried using a Linux boot CD but usually get funny looks or confused users."

, my foot.
Look into these:
distrowatch.com search for "live cd"
If you say to your guests "you can either play on our computer using this CD, and look funny or confused at me (or leave in disgust to go to a proper friend with Real Windows(TM) instead), or we can go play frisbee or twister or Risk", they still have the choice and you don't have the computer security problem.
As a bonus, they may want to play frisbee or Twister or Risk with you instead of slaking their computer addiction.

Which browser did you use? I'll give you an example gardenersworld.com has a forum (i've got a tablet running ICS and rooted) now if you go to post a message on android first problem is the text editor will just let you enter text the toolbar is missing (it uses tinymce) so then you get it to send you the desktop site. Ok toolbar is there now. click on the add picture icon pops up a requester select upload a file from your computer and you get a selection of apps to use gallery file manager and a few others but whichever you choose you do not get to upload the file. it usually says something like file not found. With gmail you don't get to open or add attachments.There is an app for that gmail downloader.

In theory opera mini is supposed to be able to upload files i haven't managed it yet i've tried opera firefox google chrome dolphin... This is an android problem, but ios has it and so does the current windows mobile. It's a "feature". Love to see you prove me wrong because it is seriously annoying.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2519
have a look here to see a long thread about this issue.

The ISP which is blocking sites that is 3 ireland and I don't think it was a problem till earlier this year. Seems anything remotely pornographic is blocked, also any site that has any mention of drugs is another. I found searching for any information on grow lights seemed to be blocked. Might surprise some people that grow lights don't have to be used for growing dope! I like gardening I'm growing from seed and this spring has been especially bad. I've rung them, three, about this and it is more than likely down to "Age verification" and I will need to go into a three store to verify my age.

I use pay as you go. Mainly because it gives them less opportunity to screw you. They give me free data if I top up 20 euro a month. I used to have a 3g modem with them on contract. One christmas i blew through my data allowance 2 days early and i think it was the day before my next month was due to start my browser directed me to a page that told me i'd used all my data allowance and i'd used about 80 quids worth of data outside of my plan.

Fell out over that, seemed a bit wrong that they could break into my browser to tell me that after i'd spent 80 quid extra and not when it had run out. Claimed to have sent a text to my modem but since i was running linux i didn't have access to that. Also turns out I was on month to month at that time, having completed my 12 months. So was forced to pay for one more month before I could exit their contracted services.

So in some ways they are bad, others pretty good. I have a proxy server hidden on one of my websites. Which gets me round the filter for static content they don't like me viewing, it can't do video thou. But youtube isn't the smoothest experience at the best of times either even without a proxy.

The Google+ thing is annoying but Google doesnt seem to want to let me upload direct to picasa web albums from android I can upload with g+ and then move the pictures to a private picasa album. The gallery app doesn't want me to view files on my tablet just the ones that are in the "cloud". I like android but this kind of fight shouldn't be happening. If I want to take random pictures of my plants and record how well they are growing (they move fairly slow apart from germination) Android should be ideal time location all stored and if I want to share a picture. E.g my slightly frost bit fuchsias i can link to that picture, but i don't really want to share the crappy pictures i took as well. Secret to being a good photographer only show your good photo's .

might be right about the DNS servers, i used to mess about moving sim cards between my phone and my 3g dongle and with the dongle in my router i just use 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 for dns. I don't think there was any blockage. These days i just use my phones tether button and connect wirelessly to that. (

We've thought about buying an iPad for guests to use, but decided it wasn't right to knowingly let others use a computing platform that may have been compromised.

If you're willing to buy a $499 iPad just for guests to use, then you'd probably be willing to buy a $249 Chromebook instead. It's a great second laptop, and perfect for guests to use. There's even a "Guest" account they can use, and it clears the data when they are done using it. And it's secure - which you want if your guests have "high risk computing habits."

On the Android platform, there are third-party, open-source apps available for encrypted voice and SMS. Those are just the ones I'm familiar with; there may be others.

On the Android platform, there are third-party, open-source apps available for encrypted voice and SMS. Those are just the ones I'm familiar with; there may be others.

This year, Israel's entrant into the Miss Universe contest is a black African. This from a country that brought you Bar Rafaeli (and even Aliza Gur, one of the original Bond girls). Images here.

Israel must be differentiating on something other than race. As for being a religious country, can you think of one Muslim dominated country that pumps out bikini- and monokini-clad models like Israel does? These women sure make me a believer, is that the religion you're talking about? Claims of apartheid and religious domination are absurd. If you cling to them you must not have a lot else to do. Maybe Israel is just trying to solve some real problems. Migrants and refugees from neighboring continents clamor to get in. Those fleeing from Muslin-on-Muslim violence come in, too, when they tire of the sport that makes Israeli violence seem as insignificant as its land area is relative to the Arab world.

Most importantly, I'm bored. I don't want to have to put up with this kind of name calling any more. Israeli Arabs choose to stay and be part of Israeli society. I'll listen to them with interest, but I can't find the energy to keep following along with this knee-jerk Israel-bashing trope.

These tablets are being offered for sale at £549 (US $834.32) and £634 (US $963) respectively. The Kindle Fire HD costs from £159, the Google Nexus 10 costs from £319, while the Apple iPad costs from £399. Even if there were nothing else wrong with Windows RT, trying to sell tablets for between 150% and 350% of the price of the comparable market leaders was never going to work.

As it is, if you actually want a Windows RT tablet for some reason, you've got to know that there's going to be a huge fire-sale of these things, and soon. Why would anyone pay those prices?

My credit union offers two factor authentication. Could a Bitcoin exchange do the same? You bet. But they haven't. The fact is that it's easier to find legit and robust exchanges and institutions in USD than BitCoin.

I believe you're correct in that the exchanges don't use two factor authentication. However, my Bitcoin wallet is an online one (yeah, not so secure, but I only do a little bit of mining...less than $50 in there right now) that definitely does use two factor authentication through the Authy app. Quite simple really, and the exchanges should definitely use something like this.

If you're looking for inexpensive and simple, you should consider Google's Ganeti.

Maybe you should also check Synnefo out. It's an open source IaaS cloud platform, compliant with the OpenStack APIs, which uses Ganeti at its core, for the VM cluster management.

You and the parent would likely be wrong as to their motives. They have very lucid reasons for forking, ones that pass the smell test. One of the developers enunciated them here, though he's careful to qualify it as his perspective, not an official position.

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+cisco+unicom

Moving in 3, 2, 1....

https://www.google.com/dashboard/ is already a good part of the way there to providing the information.

Unless there are some potential problems that aren't obvious to me now, this legislation is with Google's own ideas about privacy. Specifically, it's in line with "Make the collection of personal information transparent" and "Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy."

See: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/googles-privacy-principles.html