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  1. Re:How unfortunate... on FCC Preparing Transition To VoIP Telephone Network · · Score: 1

    The most ubiquitous VoIP app (Skype) is encrypted out of the box. That eliminates the "Strip the wire, attack a speaker" taps possible with the current PSTN system. Further, why isn't VoIP stable? Are you assuming there won't be any QoS implemented?

    "To assume makes an Ass out of U..."

  2. Re:Must be deployed only with court orders. on FCC Lets Radar Company See Through Walls · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is exactly what Liberty will say.
    The response will be "You would say that. You probably have explosives / children / real butter in your house.If you have nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear."

    I think I might start buying up old microwave ovens and putting the mesh from the windows under my wallpaper.

  3. Re:Stop scaremongering on FCC Lets Radar Company See Through Walls · · Score: 1

    The proles will never revolt.

  4. Re:Linux MCE on Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? · · Score: 1

    Anyone made a hacked client which reports a different agent to Netflix? Borking transmission because it's not an approved platform is shocking (but not unexpected), which is why there are ports / alternative clients for many services out.

  5. Re:It doesn't matter who is violating your rights on Net Neutrality Seen Through the Telegraph · · Score: 1

    Get a router which does NAT more efficiently. Yours seems to be failing.

    I lose internet connectivity sometimes when I run Spotify and iPlayer at the same time; Both open multiple connections (P2P style traffic) and cause my router to fail temporarily. It's nothing to do with bandwidth. FWIW, I play WoW and rarely get over 10kbps unless I'm in a 25man. FPS games will be similar. Your 120Mbps connection is overkill.

  6. Re:HotHardware Test on DX11 Tested Against DX9 With Dirt 2 Demo · · Score: 1

    I remember from Crysis that "High" was DX9, and "Ultra" was DX10. The "Ultra" setting may have nothing to do with increasing graphics quality above "High" on DX9, and just enable the DX11 codepath.

  7. Re:Why wouldn't they? on EFF Wants To Know If the Feds Are Cyberstalking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They are. They're just not allowed to entice you into breaking the law in order to arrest you.

    All those lines of "I'm not a cop!" in the movies are for the benefit of idiots who think that by saying they're not police officers that they can admit / do anything in their presence. Bear in mind that citizens have powers of arrest, too.

    They should properly identify themselves at the time of arrest, though. All police officers carry identification.

  8. Re:oblig on EFF Wants To Know If the Feds Are Cyberstalking · · Score: 1

    "Online" and "private" are mutually exclusive. There is no reference to "online private space", only "private space" in the parent post. The implication is that "private space" is offline.

  9. Re:I'm starting up a new website too! on AbleGamers Reviews Games From a Disability Standpoint · · Score: 1

    I must have added a closing / inside the href element. Apologies.

  10. Re:needs Memento tag on Brain of Patient H.M. Being Sliced, Streamed Live · · Score: 1

    Memento was a great film, but absolutely inaccurate factually.

    Clive Wearing has anterograde amnesia (same thing as H.M.). He spends his day (and has for the past 20 years) writing "I am awake for the first time." over and over again, in a variety of ways in a diary. He crosses out previous entries as he doesn't remember writing them, and often becomes extremely agitated when he reads them, scrawling over page after page, believing (temporarily) that someone is attempting to fool him.

    Much more upsetting than that, though, is that a member of his close family died some time ago, and he was quite fond of her. They used to tell him that she was dead, but he'd become extremely upset, but then forget why he was upset. They now tell him that she's gone to the shops, or some other similar fabrication.

  11. Re:Commendable... on SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation · · Score: 1

    I'll do it for $5k plus travel and accommodation. Hell, I'll even use my own internet connection to look up how to do it, because I haven't got the first clue about scripting.

    I'm willing to bet Google does, though.

  12. Re:this is brave on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    Bad analogy, and requires a qualifier.

    Playing a DVD is as you have said; Using the taped key to open the lock and access the contents. Ripping a DVD is more like opening the lock with the taped key, photocopying all of the sensitive documents inside, and putting the copies on your desk. The security protection is gone.

  13. Re:this is brave on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    USA != Denmark.

  14. Re:This is not brave on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    In the UK, it's down to the Crown Prosecution Service to determine if there is sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction. If there is not, then there is no trial.

    This is why none of the politicians who were using tax payer money to pay for home renovation and leisure activities have been put to trial for fraud and embezzlement. CPS say "Nope, sorry. Not enough evidence." Same with the Chief Constable in charge of the Jean Charles de Menezes incident.

  15. Re:this is brave on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    It's actually down to the local council to specify the arbitrary tolerances. West Yorkshire, for example, equipment is calibrated at 10% + 4mph.

    My best guess is this is to prevent anyone with a little knowledge going "Ah, I can do 80mph on the motorway with impunity! They only catch those doing 81mph!"

  16. Re:Behold, a free market evangelists dream takes f on Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" · · Score: 1

    Great. Now they know to ask for $20m next time.

  17. Re:Behold, a free market evangelists dream takes f on Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" · · Score: 1

    ...even in the face of significant Western naval support.

    I don't recall reading anywhere about a carrier fleet bombing the shit out of Somali pirates in international waters, or the pirates picking on a small private yacht only to find three Victoria-class hunter-killer submarines have been tracking them for the past two hours.

    Please, tell me of this "significant Western naval support" you mention.

  18. Re:Paging Bernie Madoff Clients... on Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" · · Score: 1

    Mostly no. Which is why you need to unload everything you're carrying at the pirates.

    A "... just to be sure" situation.

  19. I have a theory too. on The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded · · Score: 1

    The key to discovering the secrets of this manuscript are to be found by first finding Wilfrid Voynich's Bacon Factor.

  20. Re:really? on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Troll
    "In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion."

    My intention was to offer a comparison between two religious beliefs. Both are reasonably accurate accounts of their respective texts, and are only presented in a way to illustrate the fact that both sound as fictional as each other. I'm simply tired of reading about how the ships were exactly like DC-8's without wings, or how the Thetans were captured in big nets, or how the water was turned to wine, or how bushfires talk to people.

    I reject prescribed religion in general because I see no difference between them. I reject scientology especially as it reminds me of Middle Ages catholicism with the amassing of wealth and power. It may not have invented the banking system, but it certainly has members who are involved with it. I want to hear about those things, not the rantings of the religious texts. This is Slashdot; We know it sounds daft.

  21. I'm starting up a new website too! on AbleGamers Reviews Games From a Disability Standpoint · · Score: 1

    It's to rate websites which review content for disabled people on criteria relating to how easily accessible their website is to the disabled. I apply the details and recommendations supplied by W3's Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation Overview

    So far, the games they review score significantly higher than the AbleGamers website.

  22. Re:Sueing? on AbleGamers Reviews Games From a Disability Standpoint · · Score: 1

    I would have thought that blind folk would have the common sense to save money on special effects-laden Hollywood crap (which the Daily Star reading knuckle-draggers see as "high entertainment") and buy a decent audio book.

    Still, with so little common sense in the general population anyway, I suppose you can't help some of it purveying minorities. They are human too, after all.

  23. Re:Screw Optus, go Vodafone on AU Mobile Operator Optus Blocking Paid Android Apps · · Score: 1

    It's not the operator's choice, though. The operator does not manufacture the phone, or decide which OS gets put on it.

    HTC might get told off by Google if they were disabling Android functions, but which data is allowed over the network's infrastructure is between the network and the customer.

  24. Re:Finally... on Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense · · Score: 1

    Who's to say they're using Base10?

    "Introducing Optimal Octopus, version B.04!"

  25. Re:Yet another story stating the obvious on Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "If you can't find that little certificate what choice do you have...[?]" Surely you don't think that just because Microsoft's rubbish Genuine Advantage software says that you need a new license that you actually need to buy a new license for your OS? If you have a license for it, there are numerous methods of disabling the notifications which pop up, and also remedying the slowdown encountered.

    I'll not link anything as it might be construed as aiding bypassing copy protection, but suffice to say that your Google-fu must be quadraplegic if you can't find a set of instructions for disabling Windows Genuine Advantage notifications.