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  1. I know their standards had gotten pretty low, but damn, until now I still had a little faith that membership required some intelligence.

  2. Re:Magnetic reconnection? on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If magnetic reconnection existed we would have small explosions every time two electric motors moved in relationship to each other. The entire idea is science fiction.

  3. Re:Not surprised on Core Windows Utility Can Be Used To Bypass Whitelisting (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean with "crappy hacks"? Unless you are referring to the OS as a whole I do not know what you are talking about. I am talking about a backdoor built into the OS.

  4. Re:Sorry, still nope on Opera Adds Free VPN-Client With Unlimited Usage To Its Desktop Browser · · Score: 1

    I don't remember that configuration. It may have been part of an extension.

  5. Re:Sorry, still nope on Opera Adds Free VPN-Client With Unlimited Usage To Its Desktop Browser · · Score: 1

    I used Opera exclusively for quite a while up until it changed after 12.0. It was a very good browser, but then they tried to be Chrome...
    I haven't tried it out in quite a while, they may have recovered from their mistakes by now.

  6. Re:Mixed Feelings on In a First, Judge Throws Out Evidence Obtained from FBI Malware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting a very important part here.
    The cops violated the law.
    It is their turn to be prosecuted, and they should have no leniency.
    These are not cops who broke the law on accident, breaking the law is standard procedure for these people.

  7. Re:Mixed Feelings on In a First, Judge Throws Out Evidence Obtained from FBI Malware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If it were a drawing you would be completely correct. It would be the same here in the US.

  8. Re:Mixed Feelings on In a First, Judge Throws Out Evidence Obtained from FBI Malware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true, and that fact keeps the price of ivory extremely high. Which, of course, makes more incentive for poachers to kill more elephants for that ivory.

  9. Re:Mixed Feelings on In a First, Judge Throws Out Evidence Obtained from FBI Malware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you meant illegal on the first one there, but I get your point. It is one that I have made before.
    I think the real problem is that a very large portion of people are completely incapable of rational thought when it comes to the safety of children, or women if we want to be truthful about things.

  10. Re:Mixed Feelings on In a First, Judge Throws Out Evidence Obtained from FBI Malware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially when they lump in CG and drawings with it. How the hell do they justify saying that a child is hurt when there was no child involved in the first place?

  11. Re:Missing the point on software security updates on Choosing to Skip the Upgrade and Care for the Gadget You've Got (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm all for this idea, but sadly, no manufacturer is going to allow such to get passed.

  12. Re:Missing the point on software security updates on Choosing to Skip the Upgrade and Care for the Gadget You've Got (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately this is heavily hindered by manufacturers refusing to release specs for their devices. Because of that we do not have drivers available to be used with different operating systems.

  13. Re:Not surprised on Core Windows Utility Can Be Used To Bypass Whitelisting (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know that this is the only function? Do you have the source code? Can you compile it yourself and compare it to the stock binary?
    I didn't think so.

  14. Re:Missing the point on software security updates on Choosing to Skip the Upgrade and Care for the Gadget You've Got (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, I know.
    [muttering under breath] Fucking OpenSuse 11.4, why can't I use a damn newer OS? Security updates were discontinued before we even switched... incoherent babbling.. ... ...[/muttering under breath]

  15. Re:Not surprised on Core Windows Utility Can Be Used To Bypass Whitelisting (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What? I was saying that blocking only Windows would not work by blocking by MAC address because I am dual booting on all my machines. I intend to block at the router level(ddwrt) by IP address and setting separate static IP addresses for Windows and Linux on all the machines.

    The final goal is to only allow access to sites required for gaming when in Win7 with the possibility of a few others to support gaming like nexusmods.com

  16. Re:Not surprised on Core Windows Utility Can Be Used To Bypass Whitelisting (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    MAC won't work, I'm dual booting on all my machines. I'm leaning towards IP.

  17. Re:Not surprised on Core Windows Utility Can Be Used To Bypass Whitelisting (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Good to hear. I need to get mine setup here soon before I get too many more "security patches" that fuck up my Win7 install. In fact I just need to set it to a very small whitelist for windows machines while leaving it open for Linux. I'm not sure how I'm going to do that yet though. Maybe set blocking by IP address and have static IP's?

  18. Re:Medical Devices?!? on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 1

    Only the second one exists.

  19. Re:Not To Worry on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 1

    That's rich, you actually think that the FDA approves devices and medicines based on clinical trials instead of who gives them the most money.

  20. Re:Not surprised on Core Windows Utility Can Be Used To Bypass Whitelisting (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That means nothing at all. Why would you think Micro$oft wasn't thinking about taking control over the OS in 95?

  21. Re:Not surprised on Core Windows Utility Can Be Used To Bypass Whitelisting (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If your firewall is on your router I will agree with you, but it you are talking about the firewall on Windows, then you are seriously mistaken.

  22. Not surprised on Core Windows Utility Can Be Used To Bypass Whitelisting (threatpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It sounds like this is one of the back doors put there for Micro$oft to use. The only flaw is that it was found.

  23. Re:Magnetic reconnection? on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to find the article I read that in, but I did find a good explanation as to why the theory does not work.
    https://www.libertariannews.or...
    This goes over the theory and many of its problems in a fairly easy to understand manner. Well, easy if you have a decent understanding of electricity and magnetic fields anyway.

  24. Re:Magnetic reconnection? on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy that came up with it in the first place later said that it was complete bullshit. Sadly, nobody listened that time.

  25. Building upon the retracted... on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This gravitational wave garbage has already been retracted for months now.
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/pa...
    http://www.nature.com/news/no-...