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  1. The bad guys on UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Worthless, the bad guys will use custom apps and custom encryption scheme to stay ahead. You will end up spying on joe six pack and stupid criminals. Really dangerous guys will find a way to stay ahead. The only way to win is to keep up and being able to decrypt their communications by any means we can. No bill can help that.

  2. Re:Data data everywhere and not a drop to think on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    > retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?

    Of course we launch anyway, what are you thinking???
    And you are exaggerating anyway, it only has shrunk a little due to cold temperature.

  3. Re:Data data everywhere and not a drop to think on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We should make bigger overhead bins in the passenger compartment and eliminate the cargo space completely. This way, the luggage/cargo would be further from Earth center of mass so its weight would be less thus better fuel economy and easier take-offs ;-)

  4. Re:darknet? on After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi,
    Click Ctrl riight-shift alt D on your keyboard.

    A popup will appear asking you to confirm that you want to enter the dark-net.

    Click OK. You are now on the darknet. It is like a second kind of Internet. This functionality is not publicized to much and more or less kept secret to protect the children.

    P.S. You need recent browser and OS versions in order to access it since the TCP stack had to be adapted for the darknet. It uses a special bit in the TCP header.

  5. Re:Lawyers failed at presentation on Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't enforce it directly. They will get you for something else or frame you for something else or use connections to ruin your career.

  6. Re:Lawyers failed at presentation on Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why they never write such letters duh. It would be like incriminating themselves. Everything is done verbally and sometimes the person who receives the message doesn't even know the identity of the person who delivers it.

    Now, try to prove you received the message; "Some guy told me that...". Worse case, when you know the identity of the person, it is his words against yours, there again, not much chances.

  7. Re:Hipster on OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going · · Score: 1

    Hmm... see this picture from taliban3.gstatic.com and judge for yourself!:

    https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic...

  8. Re:America on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    I agree, Bernie Ecclestone for president!

  9. Re:Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1
  10. Re: Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    Oh, if the seek solution is really how it works, then bigger buffers than usual at the application level must be used too...

  11. Re: Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    I guess the best explanation I have found so far in this thread, a few posts below, went like this:

    The device just reconnects to the stream provider like in a brand new demand for the same video and seeks to the position you were at on your wi-fi IP. If done fast enough, you can make the process look transparent.

    Forget about all other theories expressed on this thread:
    -IP multipath
    -http request, HLS, DASH, etc..

    And of course, the one of my own:
    -Apple make you use them as a proxy and accomplishes it through some proprietary protocol.

    It is shame that Apple doesn't document its stuff any better and keeps everything secret. It gives me a tendency to be suspicious.

    Of course, this won't work for ssh session and a bunch of other stuff but the seek solution expressed above seems most likely. Maybe the guy who tipped us off is an apple engineer ;-)

    Cheers,

  12. Re: Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 0

    This work reasonably well with connectionless web applications that generate an http session token provided that they don't also check that your IP doesn't change for security reasons. But for streaming videos?

    I still suspect Apple plays the man in the middle.

  13. Re:Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    Great! Android has it too. The catch is that both end need to support multipath. Are you sure Apple does it without playing man in the middle?

    Otherwise, it would only work with a handful amount of sites to provide fail over when streaming a video.

      Are you sure Apple even uses multipath to provide the functionality if it really works as advertised?

  14. Re:Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    I don't see how netflix could automagically start streaming to your new IP address, so most likely, you will have to restart the stream from the beginning.

    You might not understand how, but that's EXACTLY what this does transparently. It's one of the use cases - streaming a video, moving away from the WiFi, and the stream continues transparently.

    Possibly you don't realise that just because it's streaming doesn't mean it isn't being delivered in packets. And packets can be re-routed and resent.

    You might not be used to being able to swap and change like this on your existing phone. But that's the point, this is a new feature that other OSs don't do as yet.

    As I understand it the difference is that as soon as the WiFi signal is seen to be failing the request for a packet is send straight away via Cellular. And whichever comes back first will get used. The WiFi will eventually properly time out, but starting to use Cellular doesn't have to wait for that. The details might vary slightly from this, but that's the essence.

    Other OSs don't do? I don't understand how? I don't know that streams are delivered in packets?

    If this really works, my guess is that Apple plays the man in the middle, netflix streams to Apple and Apple streams to you in order for this to work. Let me know when you understands how it works yourself so you can explain it to me. My guess is that it has nothing to do with the OS.

    Watch what you watch because Apple and some agencies can probably watch it as you do.

  15. Re:Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, you should notice, I don't see how netflix could automagically start streaming to your new IP address, so most likely, you will have to restart the stream from the beginning. This makes the following sentence from TFS a bunch of mumbo jumbo:

    That's helpful if you're in the middle of watching a video or some other task on the internet that you don't want interrupted by spotty Wi-Fi service.

    It will get interrupted anyway...

  16. Re:10 Mbps on Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied · · Score: 2

    10 Mbps is frankly pathetic. 100 Mbit connections should be the minimum...

    I don't understand, I have a 10Mbps connection, that's 100Mbits per 10 seconds. What is the difference?

  17. Re:One Handed Typing Activies on Researchers Use Smartwatch To Spy What Users Are Typing On a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I wonder text it detects when you actually look at the adult site.

  18. Re:Do not want on Open Source Router Firmware OpenWRT 15.05 Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thank you, thank you.

  19. Re: Do not want on Open Source Router Firmware OpenWRT 15.05 Released · · Score: 1

    All handled differently, not centralized, difficult to find exactly what's needed, difficult to read or at least not standardized output. They are conceptually wrong because they are mostly without concept. journald fixes all that once you get used to it.

    Is this about the Borg vs humans?

  20. Re:Where to watch? on NASA Launching 4K TV Channel · · Score: 1

    Chris Hadfield here, the important thing: will it stream to the ISS?

  21. Re:Yeah!!! on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chris Hadfield here. I drank the whole bottle and it sure tasted different. But summary has to be modified, strictly scientifically speaking, we aren't sure if the change of taste came from the fact that the whiskey aged in space or from the fact that I was in space while drinking it.

    In phase two, we expect to be able to wait until bottles are back on the planet before taste testing.

  22. Re:Facebook Thinks on Facebook Thinks Occlusion Is the Next Great Frontier For Image Recognition · · Score: 1

    Thank you, I am starting to work on countermeasure right away so I can keep my private life. I'll arrange so it thinks I am some politician, a giraffe, an SUV or something else. There is all kinds of illusionist shows on TV so it shouldn't be that hard.

  23. Re:Facebook Thinks on Facebook Thinks Occlusion Is the Next Great Frontier For Image Recognition · · Score: 1

    But...

    Will it be susceptible to optical illusions?

  24. Re:Solution on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    Well, what you describing is 2 bike lanes on each side of the road !

    Not 2 bike lanes on either side of the road.

    Agreed, using "either side" might be common in English but "each side" makes it less ambiguous IMHO.

    either
    conjunction adverb

    1) used before the first of two (or occasionally more) alternatives that are being specified (the other being introduced by “or”).
    2) used to indicate a similarity or link with a statement just made.

  25. Re:Solution on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    So, the Dutch solution then: 2 bike lanes on either side of the road

    Hmmm...

    Do you mean:
    So, the Dutch solution then: 2 bike lanes, one on each side of the road.

    I am just curious about that Dutch solution...

    Otherwise, with "either", I believe that's what they have in most places allowing head to head collision between cyclist.