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  1. Ugh on FCC Looking Into Paid Peering Deals · · Score: 1

    I was very excited about this, until I read:

    He did not say whether the deals would be opened to the public.

    Also, it seems like these are only for the "Paid fast lanes" but it's hard to tell.
    Reveal all the peering agreements, when they start, when they end, their term... etc...
    Then this entire problem will make a hell of a lot more sense to the public. The peering agreements ARE the problem. Charging for them is not the solution.

  2. Re:Meaningless on Canadian Supreme Court Delivers Huge Win For Internet Privacy · · Score: 1

    Right, so law enforcement can twist that to any meaning they want.

    At which point the judge crumples up their illegitimately obtained evidence and tosses it out, along with their case.

    based on what? There is a clear ruling. That's why this is bad.

  3. Meanwhile on Amaya Gaming Buys PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker For $4.9 Billion · · Score: 3

    Meanwhile the government of the united states runs the largest Gambling rackets in the world via lotteries and scratch offs. I don't gable, I think it't stupid. But the fucking government shouldn't be allowed to tell me when I can and when I cannot decide to be stupid. They're not qualified to make that distinction.

  4. Re:What about flat cards? on Clueless About Card Data Hack, PF Chang's Reverts To Imprinting Devices · · Score: 1

    My credit union prints their own cards... which don't have a relief on the printed data... so they can issue them directly from the branch. If you want relief on your card, you have to order it through the mail. So I guess I'm not eating at Chang's tonight

    My credit card company wont even except carbon printed bills anymore. I'm not sure how this is supposed to work.

  5. Re:endo/ectotherm on Dinosaurs May Have Been Neither Warm-blooded Nor Cold-Blooded · · Score: 1

    Read the article:

    Today, that middle ground is occupied by animals including tuna, lamnid sharks and leatherback turtles.

  6. Meaningless on Canadian Supreme Court Delivers Huge Win For Internet Privacy · · Score: 2

    This is meaningless.

    ...except in exigent circumstances or under a reasonable law.

    Exigent : pressing; demanding.

    Right, so law enforcement can twist that to any meaning they want.

  7. neat! on 545-Person Programming War Declares a Winner · · Score: 2

    This is a very fun game! I've been looking for stuff like this. Normally I have fun writing stuff like this in games until they ban me for "Hacking" when really the hacking was the only fun part of me. Now the hacking bit IS the game.

    Maybe I can ditch my EVE mining bots now ;-)

  8. Re:Wow on The Profoundly Weird, Gender-Specific Roots of the Turing Test · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That would be a hard test. Most guys can not even pull it off. Lord knows I have seen a lot of guys online trying to pretend to be women who just can not even get the basics down.

    I disagree. I used to be pretty heavy into MMOs prior to WOW ruining everything. I was one of the few that didn't have a problem having a female character... and I got hit on CONSTANTLY. Seriously, my female characters would randomly receive gifts via mail or in person and I wasn't even remotely trying to pretend I was female. MMO dudes are just that desperate, they dont care to check if you're really female or, even if you are, if you're actually attractive in real life. And we're not talking about healing potions... we're talking stuff that cost hundreds of real world dollars. It was so funny it became a running joke in my guild who started passing around pictures of both models and ugly women to entice, shame or even enrage my "suitors" I'd even put 'NOT A CHIC' in my profile but to no avail. It really opened my eyes to just how desperate some people are.

    Nowadays it doesn't seem as bad. I think there are either more women into MMOs...

  9. um on FWD.us: GOP Voters To Be Targeted By Data Scientists · · Score: 1

    Republicans already support immigration reform: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/la...

    For some reason the media, the left and even republican leadership think immigration reform requires amnesty. You'll never get the law and order republican types to agree that those who broke the law should benefit where those who obeyed the law get stuck in south America. It's just not going to happen. Leave amnesty off the table and immigration reform would pass like grease lighting.

  10. The real news on Man Behind Hacks of Bush Family and Other Celebs Indicted In the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If my email gets hacked is the federal government going to extradite someone from Europe to charge them?
    The real story here is special treatment for special people. For some reason the department of justice thinks the invasion of privacy of political and media elites is a worse crime than the invasion of the general publics privacy. It's so transparent it's laughable.

  11. boring on Cockpit Revealed For Bloodhound Supersonic Car · · Score: 1

    The cockpit looks exactly like what I'd expect it to. The only thing interesting about the article is the speedometer.

  12. Re:Meh... on AT&T Says Customer Data Accessed To Unlock Smartphones · · Score: 1

    "Employees of one of our service providers violated our strict privacy and security guidelines by accessing your account without authorization," the company said in a letter to affected customers. "AT&T believes the employees accessed your account as part of an effort to request codes from AT&T than are used to unlock AT&T mobile phones in the secondary mobile phone market."

    You're right. People don't realize just how much regulation Telecoms and Cellular providers are under. They've got a security policy, and a vendor violated it during a routine part of their job. Likely this was just some guy that wrote a query as "Select * from accounts" instead of "Select ID, Phone, address from accounts" like he should of. AT&Ts security policy required a report on it or whatever. I saw a guy I worked with get fired for a similar mistake.

    Careful with your Queries folks... even while testing. The wrong SQL statement can land you on the front page of CNN.

  13. Re:Ingredients for water? on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 1

    Does it mean hygrogen & oxigen are separately bound up in rock?

    It's stored in hydrates when underground usually:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

  14. lol on Ask Slashdot: PC-Based Oscilloscopes On a Microbudget? · · Score: 1

    There's this new thing called "Ebay"
    http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...

    In all seriousness though, for what you are looking for they are about $70
    I went with a used bench-top model myself because the analog display looks cool and I don't really need all the features. I'm just a hobbyist and not in need of what your students will be doing.

  15. Re:What? on Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to 15 Years For Organizing Protest · · Score: 1

    Yes, but unlike the KKK's version of Christianity, radical Islam seems to be spreading today--fast. Forty years ago, or even twenty years ago, I would certainly have accepted that radical Islam was a relatively insignificant and obscure movement within the religion as a whole. Today, with radical numbers, influence, and power growing rapidly every year, I'm not so sure I buy that anymore.

    But you have no numbers. You just have what's on the news, which is being exaggerated by our media to get more viewers and exaggerated by our government to get us to allow them more power and weapons. Just like the problems we had in the 1950s were used by the FBI to extend their own powers. There are a LOT of Muslims in this country... why aren't they blowing things up in the home of the great Satan? Because when given opportunity, jobs, education, they are no different than the rest of us. If you stuck our uneducated rural Christian americans in the middle of palatine I bet they'd be launching rockets into Jerusalem in no time.

  16. Re:Stalking ads on Facebook Lets Users Opt Out of Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    No mom, I have no idea why we keep getting these popups for Astroglide. Can we please get back to paying your phone bill?

  17. Re:Trust but verify on Tesla Releases Electric Car Patents To the Public · · Score: 1

    Well the blog post is really all they need now. he is the CEO of the company, which means what he writes there is what it is. If they sue now there will be some massive fees for them..

    The question I would have though is what it means to be in good faith...

    And when your company builds its entire product line on Tesla patents... it'll be 5 to 10 years until you have a product. Tesla cars end up causing cancer or something so they go bankrupt and Apple buys up their patents as part of their bankruptcy... You wont even have to wait for the Apple lawsuit. Your stock will tank and you'll be out of business long before that.

  18. Re:And your point is what? on Cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products · · Score: 2

    yea, I've worked for a couple of hardware companies and this was always how they did things and not a secret. They even gave a demo of how they use expensive xray machines to dissect chips and see how they worked. This wasn't just to steal ideas, it was also to find flaw to leak to the press or faults to use in sales pitches. I even found a new device at my local computer store once, mentioned it in a meeting and got asked by an engineer to pick one up and mail it to him in Japan. Some companies even go to lengths to conceal their hardware. I knew of a custom guitar amp manufacturer that embedded their entire board in a special plastic so taking it apart would destroy it. This isn't anything new at all.

  19. Re:What? on Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to 15 Years For Organizing Protest · · Score: 1

    that briefly ended 60 years of autocratic rule

    Haven't we learned from Syria and Iraq that autocratic rule is better than Muslim rule. During the brief Islamic rule of Egypt non-Muslims were killed, raped, burned out of homes and places of worship. Yes, they are a bit hard on this blogger - but lets not forget what the movement he supported stood for.

    You're talking about a very specific sect of Muslims. The vast majority of Muslims do not support what these groups are doing but it's hard to argue with someone when their form of argument involves stoning you to death. Basically relating the two is like relating the KKK, Nazis or other turn of the century fascist regimes to Christianity. Yes, they may have claimed to have been a part of it, but they in no way represent the religion as a whole. There are plenty of Majority Muslim countries in the world that don't do anything like the atrocities we're seeing in these countries now.

  20. Re:Politics on Why United States Patent Reform Has Stalled · · Score: 1

    Here is the problem.
    The Right Wing Media has done such a good job a painting the Democrats and Obama as pure Evil, is that any sign of working with the Democrats on anything is a sign that they are being manipulated. So these politicians cannot dare to do anything that will make Obama side considered a win. As if they did they will get voted out in the next primaries.

    The Left Wing Media makes the Right Wing like they are so out of touch and evil, so the Right feels constantly threatened, thus makes their stance more resolved.

    This degree of Polarization has gone to the Crazy level.
    Simple common sense solutions will not go threw because it was the other side who came up with it first.

    And here's the solution: Stop voting (D) or (R)
    They're the same damned party anyway.

  21. Re:Shoot him on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Anyone who thinks there aren't enough languages shouldn't be shot on sight.

    Then shoot me first I guess. There's nothing wrong with more languages. The more tools you have to solve a problem the better off you are. There's nothing more annoying than working on a project with someone that only knows 1 language.
    "Well, you can't do that in JavaScript!"
    ok, do it in something else
    "huh?"

  22. Re:Let gay men donate on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The only reason they were ever banned from donating is the fear of disease. A fear that's bigoted and unfounded. Just force all blood donors to get tested for infection, regardless of orientation, then give the clean ones a certfification with expiry. Re-test as required to continue donating.

    Wrong. Gay men and/or people with HIV/AIDs should not be discriminated against but lets not pretend there is no difference in contraction rates.

    Your chance of contracting HIV is 18x higher if you're having anal sex. Gay men are far more likely to be having anal sex though not always (I have a gay friend that hates it an only does Oral... strange as that may be, he says its a common preference.) When those rules were put in place there was no test for HIV. Now testing is easy and cheap so the rules are pretty silly. Also, heterosexuals are having a lot more anal sex than they were 20yrs ago so they should be testing everything anyway.

    Again, no one should be discriminated against, but those rules were put into place when kids were dying from transfusions of blood from well meaning men that were sick and had no way of knowing. There was a lot of fear mongering back then, but these rules were not part of it.

  23. Re:I'm not surprised... on Physical Media: Down, But Maybe Not Out · · Score: 1

    And until the industry address the concerns you raise, piracy will always have the advantage of quality and convieniance.

    Right. Pandora fixed music for me. I do not pirate music. Pandora is just too damned easy. I listed to very weird music... very hard to find stuff. But I can always make up a channel that suits my needs. In the event I want a specific song I hop on over to groveshark.

    Pandora should do a video channel. That would probably change everything.

  24. Re:blu-ray for 4K / 8K download cap are to low for on Physical Media: Down, But Maybe Not Out · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, if you have troubles with throughput there is this awsome website that lets you cache the movies you want to watch right to your hard drive. You just start it before you leave for work, and when you get home its there to watch with no chance of network congestion problems. Go here to find out all about it: http://thepiratebay.se/

  25. Re:not just obsessive collectors on Physical Media: Down, But Maybe Not Out · · Score: 1

    There is definitely an aspect of obsessive collectors liking physical media, yes: they're more tangible, sometimes look nice (especially in fancy limited editions), etc.. But even people who are not really that big into collecting have a pretty big reason to still prefer physical media: you have some chance of actually keeping it. Your purchase of a book or CD will probably not be remotely "revoked" by the manufacturer, which is more than can be said for the currently popular methods of digital delivery.

    Lucky for me, the PirateBay has never taken back any of the movies I've gotten from them. Those guys are great.