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  1. That's how mobile roaming works. Data is carried back to the mobile provider who then connects it to the Internet locally. US SIM cards block sites that are censored in the US. Film at 11.

  2. Re:AP Stats is the easy AP math on Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? · · Score: 1

    Statistics isn't easy. AP Statistics is easy. It's basically how to turn a story problem into numbers you plug into your calculator.

  3. Not what they said on Microsoft Promises Not To Snoop Through Email · · Score: 2

    They said:

    Effective immediately, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property from Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer’s private content ourselves. Instead, we will refer the matter to law enforcement if further action is required.

    One narrow circumstance that probably won't happen again. In all other circumstances they can read the customer's private content?

  4. Re:Nonsense. on South Korean Court Rules That Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable · · Score: 1

    cause people to hack their phones

    So there is some positive?

  5. Re:We're all really screwed if... on Adware Vendors Buying Chrome Extensions, Injecting Ads · · Score: 1

    https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements

    Do companies pay you for being added to the list?

    Whitelisting is free for all small- and medium websites and blogs. However, managing this list requires significant effort on our side and this task cannot be completely taken over by volunteers as it happens with common filter lists. That's why we are being paid by some larger properties that serve non-intrusive advertisements that want to participate in the Acceptable Ads initiative.

  6. Re:We're all really screwed if... on Adware Vendors Buying Chrome Extensions, Injecting Ads · · Score: 5, Informative

    They already have. The option to allow ads from people that have paid AdBlock is checked by default. https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.txt

  7. Re:server ban? on Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban · · Score: 2

    Some of us run servers that receive mail.

  8. Re:4 hours to respond on Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I heard that airlines operate in multiple time zones.

  9. Re:When spamming is illegal, only criminals will s on Strict New Anti-Spam Regulations In Canada · · Score: 2

    Many businesses spam customers. Banks are especially bad about this. No I would not like a balance transfer.

  10. Re:The photos should include the driver on Database Loophole Lets Legislators Avoid Photo Radar Tickets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is there any legitimate usage of the word surcharge or does it always mean scam?

  11. SQL injection is old news on Automated Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records On Drivers · · Score: 1
  12. Re:I could name a few other mobile OS's on Foxconn Betting Big On Firefox OS · · Score: 1

    actual devices to shops or gtfo.

    That's what Microsoft thought too.

  13. Re:Use Bit Torrent for distribution on Researchers Pull Out of Talks With Publishers On Text-Mining · · Score: 1

    Torrents die if nobody seeds them. If I've got a few gigabytes of data that only ten people want, possibly years apart, torrents won't work.

  14. Code optimization on Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style · · Score: 1

    Student writes inefficient code, learns how to optimize it using known techniques, it becomes faster. Film at 11.

  15. Re:Specialty Software on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the special add-on modules to come up with a different spelling of your name each visit.

  16. Re:That's why remote admin/root shouldn't be allow on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 1

    Great! Now all I have to do is compromise your user account, add some aliases to your .bashrc, and I get promoted to root.

  17. Re:Virtualization is kind of bullshit on A Glimpse of a Truly Elastic Cloud · · Score: 1

    -config files and adhoc installed libraries are impossible to link to the application that actually needs it (given the fact that my time is scarce). Nightmare when upgrading, creating new instances or when pulling apart a system (for e.g. performance/HA).

    chroot.

    -if an application uses resources, e.g. I/O, too much you want to know about it, point fingers and restrict its usage (and maybe give it its own). Nightmare when you want to find out 'what causes it to grind to a halt during Xmas'.

    iotop. A VM only makes this problem harder.

    -applications has 'resources' they should not have, because another application needed that 'resources'. Example: Qmail needed compiler and afterwards a cracked PHPMyadmin used that to compile malware.

    chroot with linux-vserver enforcement.

  18. Re:Report Abuse on Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs To Fight Phishing · · Score: 2

    Now you're either storing all the users' past passwords. Or maybe some clever hash of those passwords that preserves efficient computation of Levenshtein distance. However, given an oracle that computes Levenshtein distance, one could easily extract the password.

  19. Duke Nukem Forever on Duke Nukem 3D Code Review · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm more interested in a Duke Nukem Forever code review. Imagine how horrible it must be.

  20. Re:trivial, 99% effective fix on Do Not Track Ineffective and Dangerous, Says Researcher · · Score: 1

    How dare people chop of the trailing bits of an IPv6 address, thus rendering IPv6 privacy extensions ineffective.

  21. Wrong concern on EU Data Protection Proposal Taken Word For Word From US Lobbyists · · Score: 2

    While it is concerning that a U.S.-based lobby has this much power, the real issue is that nobody should be listening to the American Chamber of Commerce. If the EFF started writing EU legislation, we'd be jumping for joy.

  22. Re:overreaction? on Github Kills Search After Hundreds of Private Keys Exposed · · Score: 1

    Some projects deal with SSH keys and include them for testing purposes: https://github.com/trolldbois/sslsnoop/blob/master/test/id_dsa-1.key

  23. Net Neutrality on Why You'll Pay For Netflix — Even If You Don't Subscribe To Netflix · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So basically this is a Faux News article arguing against net neutrality.

  24. Obligatory form on Facebook Testing $100 Fee To Mail Mark Zuckerberg · · Score: 5, Funny

    your post advocates a

    ( ) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante

    approach to fighting spam. your idea will not work. here is why it won't work. (one or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

    ( ) spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
    (x) mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
    ( ) no one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
    ( ) it is defenseless against brute force attacks
    (x) it will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
    (x) users of email will not put up with it
    ( ) microsoft will not put up with it
    ( ) the police will not put up with it
    ( ) requires too much cooperation from spammers
    ( ) requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
    (x) many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
    ( ) spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
    ( ) anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

    specifically, your plan fails to account for

    ( ) laws expressly prohibiting it
    (x) lack of centrally controlling authority for email
    ( ) open relays in foreign countries
    ( ) ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
    (x) asshats
    ( ) jurisdictional problems
    (x) unpopularity of weird new taxes
    (x) public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
    (x) huge existing software investment in smtp
    (x) susceptibility of protocols other than smtp to attack
    (x) willingness of users to install os patches received by email
    ( ) armies of worm riddled broadband-connected windows boxes
    ( ) eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
    (x) extreme profitability of spam
    ( ) joe jobs and/or identity theft
    ( ) technically illiterate politicians
    ( ) extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
    ( ) dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
    ( ) bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
    (x) outlook

    and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

    (x) ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
    ( ) any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
    ( ) smtp headers should not be the subject of legislation
    ( ) blacklists suck
    ( ) whitelists suck
    ( ) we should be able to talk about viagra without being censored
    (x) countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
    ( ) countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
    ( ) countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
    (x) sending email should be free
    (x) why should we have to trust you and your servers?
    ( ) incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
    ( ) feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
    ( ) temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
    (x) i don't want the government reading my email
    (x) killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

    furthermore, this is what i think about you:

    ( ) sorry dude, but i don't think it would work.
    ( ) this is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
    (x) nice try, assh0le! i'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!

  25. Re:How is this sort of crypto supposed to work? on South Carolina Shows How Not To Do Security · · Score: 1

    There are less than 10^9 SSNs. That's a very easy brute force attack.