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  1. Re:I trust the Gentoo devs on Gentoo Developers Fork udev · · Score: 2

    Ah I see the problem, you're using AUFS ... you should be using Union Mounts since that's the one right way. The code for them will be ready real soon now ...

  2. How does it do that exactly? Isn't flow control an optional part of protocol? I guess you could use non standard interframe distances, but that would be non compliant ... and it would indeed deny other APs access.

  3. What about the patents? on Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design · · Score: 1

    Google has a patent on using structured lighting to determine the shape of the page and correct the image ... is that open too?

  4. Re:The FCC is soliciting comments on this topic. on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 2

    It's just an attempt at denying culpability at what obvious is a scam to profit from the extremely perverse practice of charging for received text messages you have in the US ... if you're going to file comment do include the fact that Verizon is profiting from spam and that is a big reason why they set up the service in the first place.

  5. Re:Morons. on NY Attorney General Subpoenas Craigslist For Post-Sandy Price Gougers · · Score: 1

    The supply and demand system is completely immoral and it doesn't put a value on such externalities as social stability.

    If the economic value of labour falls below subsistence for a class of people, well sucks to not be rich. If the economic value of meat is high enough that grain and vegetable production drops below subsistence levels for the population, well sucks to not be rich. etc etc.

    If the market had been allowed to handle things in WW2 the Brits would have invited the Germans in in less than a year.

  6. Re:Morons. on NY Attorney General Subpoenas Craigslist For Post-Sandy Price Gougers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't equate rationing with price controls ... when you can identify the consumers and limit their consumption rationing works just fine, ignoring some inevitable corruption, you do this when social stability is preferred over market efficiency. This got the UK (and a lot of other countries) through WW2.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ration_stamp

    In a disaster this obviously doesn't work because you don't have a system ready to identify consumers and ration accordingly.

  7. Re:Get out of Greece now. on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 1

    Have you missed the massive outflows of Euros out of the PIGS? Have you missed the fact that major companies outright say they move their money out every week? It's not a question of evidence, it's a question of when the banks close ... the run is already under way.

  8. Re:Get out of Greece now. on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 1

    It's not about what makes things better, it's what is smart for you and your family ... most people have it tough enough without losing half they have saved. Of course that doesn't include the people on the list most probably.

    The Euro is inherently unstable, deposit guarantees should always be backed up by the printing press (or by the full faith and credit of the government who can turn on those presses, regardless of how independent the central bank is). That is what has mostly prevented bank runs during the fiat era, except in countries which pegged their own currency to a currency they couldn't print. Which the Eurozone has universally done, by design by the rich who got tired of having their "wealth" inflated/devalued away all the time ...

    Unless we start a pan European deposit guarantee (which also guarantees that those Euros won't be converted in case of the country leaving the Eurozone) we will soon see a pan European bank run ... it's happening in the PIGS already, but it won't stop there.

    In the mean time, don't be the last one in line in the run ... it's going to get ugly.

  9. Re:China's response on China Blocks NYT Over Critical Article · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but we don't have revolutions in our recent past like they do ... the Chinese rich are growing scared, they don't want to share the pie and the natives are getting restless. The small fry is already massively busy emigrating, but if a new regime comes into power the big political figures will face corruption charges back in China if they try to flee ... and they have no real friends in the foreign countries which are nice to live in, so that's not an attractive proposition.

  10. Re:Solve the problem at the root: change the law on How Patent Trolls Harm the Economy · · Score: 1

    The supposed difference between ideas and implementations is just a useless semantic diversion promoted by patent trolls ...

  11. Re:Solve the problem at the root: change the law on How Patent Trolls Harm the Economy · · Score: 1

    Tell me, how do you fix these fundamental problems.

    - Absolute monopolies will always promote patent trolling (before you posit it as a solution, if they have to have a product on the market for the patent to be valid they will just do the minimum required for that ... it won't actually be good products)

    - There is no objective way to set licensing costs for non absolute monopoly patents.

    - There is no objective test possible for obviousness which doesn't just break down to prior art with a different name

  12. Re:Let them on Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse · · Score: 1

    The newspaper don't even want that much without being paid for it ... not being indexed at all isn't really something they want either.

  13. Re:Function creep...? on Researcher Reverse-Engineers Pacemaker Transmitter To Deliver Deadly Shocks · · Score: 1

    Of course with a strong encryption algorithm a single secret key would be enough, but this is assuming you want to use something weak or password only.

  14. Re:Function creep...? on Researcher Reverse-Engineers Pacemaker Transmitter To Deliver Deadly Shocks · · Score: 1

    You can put a database with ID/key pairs inside the communication devices (pre-generated so you don't need to update the database). Can still be compromised of course by hacking the communication device, but it does add an extra layer of security.

  15. Re:Why are these approved? on Researcher Reverse-Engineers Pacemaker Transmitter To Deliver Deadly Shocks · · Score: 1

    Well in theory you can use a ping to determine distance, generally though you won't.

  16. Re:Med School on Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they lie, not least to themselves, about the number of mistakes they make because of it too ...

  17. Re:Med School on Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! · · Score: 2

    Those are all Force Majeur ... but if it happens every week something different is going on.

  18. Re:Med School on Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, maximum allowed shifts are 30 hours for interns ... I can see why the interns have no choice, how the fuck do doctors allow this shit to continue though? Is it like hazing, with all doctors thinking "I went through it so everyone has to"? Is it simply exploitation?

    Or is it to make sure all interns experience enough personal instances of medical malpractice that they learn to tow the line?

  19. The editorial is far too fucking kind on Will EU Regulations Effectively Ban High-End Video Cards? · · Score: 0

    I appreciate that the editorial added contains correct information, but people who RTFA might not realize it's not clarification but correction of complete and utter BS.

    Nordichardware is making a joke of themselves by leaving that article up as is ...

  20. Re:Publish them all --- NOT on Proposed Posting of Clients List In Prostitution Case Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    This is obviously only news because there are some rich people on the list ...

  21. Re:The article says something different on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 1

    If the lower court had simply said "for something sold legally once in the US the first sale doctrine applies" (similar to exhaustion of rights doctrine inside the EU for instance) then there would have been no problem except for grey importers ... the problem is that for some insane reason or other they simply excluded all foreign manufactured goods from the first sale doctrine, which creates a problem for pretty much everyone.

    It's simply insane.

  22. Re:Correction on Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama · · Score: 1

    It said CEOs and CFOs didn't it?

  23. Re:Why are we still using people as labor? on Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production · · Score: 1

    Because the robots can't do everything ... and how do you motivate people to do the work which does have to be done? (Personally I think we should be cutting work weeks.)

  24. Re:For God's Sake on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't lose access, you would have to tell the browser to use the password generated for the old domain name.

  25. Re:For God's Sake on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck has a major browser not adopted RFC2617?

    Why the fuck has a major browser not adopted the method of hashing a master password with the domain name? (http://crypto.stanford.edu/PwdHash/)

    Both of these are almost invisible to the user (when a website changes domains it might cause a few issues, but meh) so the argument that security introduces too much hassle for the user doesn't fly ... if I was into conspiracies I would say that there are forces intentionally sabotaging efforts to make the web more secure ...