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  1. Because that wouldn't have people ripping their hair out in a panic.

  2. Re:Advantages? on Comcast Carrying 1Tbit/s of IPv6 Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    With IPv6, a couple simple rules on a stateful firewall will give you exactly the same protection but without requiring packet rewriting. As a side benefit, you get lower latency and the router has less trouble under network load.

    If manufacturers would set those rules by default, there would be no problems.

  3. Re:McCarthyism v2.0 on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    Really? You are defending an adimistration that actually fabricated evidence to hoodwink the country into a trillion dollar war? Sorry, no. Bush gets no passes here.

  4. Re:Risk of mutation to something worse? on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    That is a typical course when a disease first crosses to human beings.The good news is that they also tend to become less deadly in the process.

  5. One day on Verizon's Offer: Let Us Track You, Get Free Stuff · · Score: 1

    One fine day, perhaps years from now, there'll be a screwup in the rewards program. We'll have a bunch of seals and sea lions getting great deals when they go shopping and a bunch of Verizon customers getting dead fish in the mail.

  6. Re:McCarthyism v2.0 on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be at all fair to blame Obama solely for the problem. However, given that he could wipe out large chunks of this with the stroke of a pen, it's reasonable enough to grant him considerable blame. Before GOP supporters get too smug, Bush could have wiped it out with a stroke of his pen as well and didn't.

  7. Re:110 or 240v on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 2

    Actually, we generate 3 phase just like everyone else. We just don't run all three to each house. Industrial and commercial users do commonly get 3 phase.

  8. Re:110 or 240v on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    220v is mostly in single or duplex residential settings. Otherwise, it's often 208v (convieniantly available by connecting to two phases of 3 phase power).

  9. Re:Duh on Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video) · · Score: 1

    Nice way to toss in an insult just to prove what a bright light you aren't.

    Were you a brighter bulb, you would realize that PS rating and actual consumption often have little to do with each other. In fact it doesn't draw half of what you think it does and electricity doesn't cost as much as you think where I have the box.

    Meanwhile, who said my usage was typical? Certainly not me.

  10. Re:Duh on Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video) · · Score: 2

    It is used only for administration, serial console for a few devices, crunch some log files, etc. It used to be a backup mail server as well. All well within it's capabilities. It isn't likely to run at high load very often. The run like a tank feature is it's primary reason to be. Since it is the machine used to diagnose problems, it's helpful that it is unlikely to be the machine with a problem.

    Sometimes, old used equipment is exactly the right answer, sometimes it's a terrible idea. The production servers are much newer machines.

  11. Re:Duh on Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video) · · Score: 1

    I picked up a Sunfire v20 for $20. I would have to run it for 8 years non-stop for the electricity cost to add up to the cost of a new more efficient machine of equivalent capability.

  12. Re:Wait, wait... on Exodus Intelligence Details Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Tails OS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't that put them dangerously close to criminal like the guys that sell zero days to the Russian mob?

    I'm thinking yes but it will be ignored because their customers include bad guys within the U.S. government.

  13. Political on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 2

    The proper conclusion is that SOME combination of rampant surveillance by the government, totalitarianism, socialism, and poverty in East Germany lead to a greater willingness to lie and cheat. They have not even attempted to control for the confounding factors sufficiently to pin it on socialism.

    Honestly, were I to make a guess, I would rank socialism as the least likely among those conditions to be the actual cause of the measured difference. I would place the fact that the Stasi employed a full third of the population to tattle on the other two thirds near the top of the list. Why not lie to someone who is 33% likely to report you to the authorities if you tell the truth?

    If they really want to draw a solid conclusion, they need to compare with other populations as well.

  14. Re:Identical devices on A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    they don't care who you are.........They also salt the site with "Free" offers that all you need to claim them is to input your contact information. Once you do that they link that contact information to your browsing history and shoot it over to a salesman and/or send you a personally designed advertisement to your email.

    So in other words, they very much care who I am.

    Getting targeted ads is creepy. It's like having my own 24/7 personal stalker. I notice the advertisers often aren't that anxious to share their own details with me. Too often, they can't even manage to be honest about the products they're advertising.

    I would rather get ads for irrelevant products and services. Or just ads that are relevant in a generic sort of way based on a few demographic observations.

  15. Re:Pardon for clearification on The "Rickmote Controller" Can Hijack Any Google Chromecast · · Score: 1

    With a Pringles can.

  16. Re:Economists on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    That makes no sense. Minimum wage labor is only a portion of the actual cost of anything. That is the only part that went up due to minimum wage increases. Any other rise in price would have happened anyway. So unless businesses illegally collude to raise prices in a big FU to the state, it won't absorb all of the increase in income.

  17. Re:Crazy on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    And those corporations are also welfare recipients. As for sources, take your pick. Forbes is probably good.

  18. Re:Really? on FTC To Trap Robocallers With Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I never admitted such a thing. I dared them to sue [insert name they called for].

  19. Re:As the old song goes on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 2

    That's just it. Slippery slope is often NOT a fallacy. Anywhere where precedent is followed, such as law, permits a logical argument behind the slippery slope. Anything involving human psychology (boiling the frog) likewise.

  20. Re:" and particularly describing" on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 1

    So now it just needs to describe particular things to be to be seized. Everything is too broad.

  21. Re:Warrants are supposed to be narrow on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 1

    You also need to describe what you are searching for. It needn't be an EXACT description, but should be as narrowly constrained as possible. For example, you might search for 'the object that bludgeoned john doe", a bloody baseball bat, a handgun, etc.

  22. Re:Warrants are supposed to be narrow on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 1

    That would be fine, but what they actually asked for was the email account. Item to search for: Every email ever sent or received.

  23. Re:Local testing works? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    That doesn't even make sense. Setting a minimum wage isn't at all a new thing. No new power was necessary, just the exercise of an old one.

  24. Re:Local testing works? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    So why all the angst if it had no effect at all on anything?

  25. Re:About time on EPA Mulling Relaxed Radiation Protections For Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but it has nothing to do with permitted radiation. Fukushima well exceeded it's permitted limits. Setting them lower wouldn't have prevented anything. Setting them higher wouldn't have made a tsunami hit it sooner.