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  1. Re:I don't buy it on Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism · · Score: 1

    Is shatter fixed yet?

  2. Re:No Carriers on ISPs Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption · · Score: 1

    They want you to only connect outgoing SMTPS connections on 465.

    Were that true, they would block outbound connections to port 25, not intercept them and use dirty proxy tricks to get the client to not use encryption.

  3. And it certainly won't get you a top of the class lawyer.

  4. Re:To their defense on Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation · · Score: 1

    Actually, it works out quite the opposite. Here in the U.S. counterfeiters go with $20s instead of $100s. The $20s are common enough and small enough that they don't want to give a stack of them careful individual attention. The $100 OTOH gets examined carefully. In many places, the cashiers are given explicit instruction on how to spot a fake $100.

  5. Re:Not only in Finland. on Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation · · Score: 2

    You mis-understand. If you already owe them money, they are obligated to accept your legal tender to satisfy the debt. If you are trying to buy something, then no debt exists and they are free to decline the transaction.

  6. Re:if you ban cash on Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation · · Score: 1

    And a lack of cash would force everyone to do business with them no matter how bad it gets.

  7. Re:Huh on Fighting the Culture of 'Worse Is Better' · · Score: 1

    The topic was Python 3.x

  8. Re:There is another response for people like this on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    But it is a sex crime. I don't see how calling it jaywalking would help.

  9. Re:No Carriers on ISPs Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption · · Score: 2

    Actually, no. TFA said that the client's communication was overwritten with something else and that is exactly what happened. He didn't claim any particular mechanism in use.

    Transparent proxying and DPI are equally evil. Either way, what you send is not what the peer of the connection receives and vice-versa.

  10. Re:No Carriers on ISPs Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if the attack is DPI or MITM, it's still an attack.

  11. Re:Hilarious on Windows Flaw Allowed Hackers To Spy On NATO, Ukraine, Others · · Score: 0

    MS has been convicted of felonies all over the world multiple times. If MS was an individual, they would be serving a mandatory life sentence somewhere on a third strike.

  12. Re:I thought they loved it! on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1

    When the plane has a real problem, I'm sure the people paralyzed when your lifeless body snaps their necks will appreciate it.

  13. Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1

    Isn't that where the pilot calls out "sit down and behave or I'm turning this plane around RIGHT NOW!" :-)

  14. Re:Huh on Fighting the Culture of 'Worse Is Better' · · Score: 1

    All great reasons to add a proper print function, but not necessarily to break comparability with a program that uses the old print statement.

  15. Re:Worse is worse on Fighting the Culture of 'Worse Is Better' · · Score: 2

    Part of the problem is that people wrongly equate creating software with building something when it is actually more like designing something.

    Yes, once a building is designed, it is possible (and expected) that a very close estimate is provided for the cost to build the thing. For some reason, people expect to be able to get an exact time and cost for designing a combination canopener/jumbo jet/submarine (oh, and can it have interchangable designer steering wheels and make a dolphin noise when it surfaces? KTHKSBYE).

  16. Re:A bit early on Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? · · Score: 1

    For point 1, there is a difference between a doctor looking at a chart, writing a script and saying "go home" and a doctor talking to the patient to find out what's wrong.

    Yes, I have. That only supports my argument that we have 3rd world healthcare here.

    As for 3, many articles have pointed out that they knew he had just been in an ebola hotspot. His symptoms clearly showed a viral infection of some sort. So they gave him an antibiotic?!?

  17. Re:There is another response for people like this on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with the celebrities. It's about the self-important gasbags quacking on about how it's the celebrities own fault . I'm guessing the thieves are enjoying that too.

  18. Re:Too bad... on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 1

    I do get to complain if a corporation cheaps out and makes people need more healthcare in general.

    ?The same complaints you make above apply equally well to insurance BTW.

  19. Re:Too bad... on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 1

    You mean cheaper for the supplier. It won't get passed to the consumer.

    So the quote above was a typo?

  20. Re:A bit early on Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? · · Score: 1

    The article you pointed to said the Hospital retracted it's claims about the EHR system.

    That still doesn't explain sending him home with antibiotics for what looked like a viral infection, even if they thought it was a run of the mill flu. It also doesn't explain the DOCTOR not talking with the patient.

  21. Re:Read the Report on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 1

    There is, especially given reprocessing and if breeding is implemented.

    There's also even more thorium available if we somehow manage to use all that uranium.

  22. Re:Too bad... on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 0

    Since you argue that capitalism is a failure, perhaps they should nationalize the plants.

  23. Re:Too bad... on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 0

    They DON'T end up paying for the excessive healthcare required. According to TFA, those costs that get pushed off on the public add up to more than the cost of the coal.

    In the U.S. individuals pay that price out of pocket or through insurance premiums. In the civilized world, it is paid through taxes (and no, the plant owners don't pay nearly enough in taxes to cover it).

  24. A bit early on Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There has been one case of Ebola transmitted in the U.S. Isn't it a wee bit early to be writing an epitaph for the Constitution? Especially since none of that crap was part of TFA?

    TFA's commentary on patient zero being sent home with a bottle of antibiotics (for a virus, of course) was spot on though. That's what happens when you insist on running healthcare as a business.

  25. Re:There is another response for people like this on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    Because everyone who isn't a fully trained locksmith deserves to be robbed...

    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess every last bit of your home security can be neutralized by nothing more than a hammer. It is laughably weak security. So do you deserve to get cleaned out? Are you stupid?