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  1. Re:Packet Encryption on DPI and Net Neutrality's Overseas Weak Spot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ive been routing my internet through trusted nodes accross the net in encrypted form for a while now and have given up the "old internet". NSA has dpi level inspection at major fiber lines via light bending, especially with underwater fiber. They also use spoilia (spillage of communication signals caught by satalites due to the earths sphere shape) to intercept our activities on wireless communications. If your data is ever transmitted in the air, assume it is being watched. Fiber optics is harder to snoop in on since it requires a physical tap. I wouldn't worry about the US spying on its citizen. It dosn't need to. Under the UK-USA agreement, the NSA shares its intelligence info with the UK, Nz, and Aus and in return those countires share their info with us. The US does not engage in spying on citizens, instead, it usually asks one of its allies to spy on a specific person. By doing this, the US bypasses many laws on privacy. The NSA's largest establishment in the UK USA agreement is at menwith hills and fort mede, maryland. The two agencies (both controlled by the NSA) coordinate sigint. Bottom line, all of our traffic is monitored and run through thousands of different communication algorithms for data mining. Do not share any identifiable information online, to any one for anyreason. Even anonymous browsing is vulnerable to time analysis.

  2. Re:For what it's worth...I tried one and returned on What's the Problem With iPhone 3G Reception? · · Score: 1

    Actually it has spell check i just didnt use it because i was in a hurry :)

  3. Re:For what it's worth...I tried one and returned on What's the Problem With iPhone 3G Reception? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Im posting this from my samsung inatinct. I was given this phone for work and what i thoight was a shitty iphone wannabe phone has led me understand and love many of the samsungs unique functions and designs not to mention sprints fantastic data services...anyways ive always been an avid tmobile fan and cant wait to see htc and google this september. iphone lacks basic phone functionality...

  4. Re:Better yet - get involved on The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy · · Score: 1

    I disagree. I have been running Tor exit nodes on my home office and my office for over a year with only 1 problem (Nintendo complained about mario kart sharing, which was due to improper setup anyways). A properly configured Tor exit node (lets say binding to port 80 only and rejecting all other traffic) will allow you to still download the trackers and get the information you need to run the torrent. I don't think Italy is blocking the default bittorent port...

  5. Re:no sale, here, then on Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order · · Score: 1

    Im also obstaining from iPhone purchase for the same reason... I can't beleive at&t makes you return your phone if you cancel your contract (in addition to cancellation fee). Dosnt that mean you dont own the phone?

  6. Girls are getting better at video games too on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend just owned me in Call of Duty 4 and Halo...and now math? Guys, we're doomed to being eliminated from the human race, especially since science can now extract sperm from bone marror (see link).

  7. Very good mentor on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 1

    After watching his lecture on TED, I began implementing his teaching strategies in my training classes at my workplace...turns out the head fake concept works very well ;)

  8. THIS IS HORRIBLE on Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet · · Score: 1

    I'm a police officer in the US. I make my salary by pulling over traffic offenders for minor infractions such as speeding over the limit by 5 mph. This kind of technology will make my city's bloated police budget more efficient. First it was automated revenue...I mean ticket machines. That still guarenteed my job. Now this? This will cause cops all over the US to get laid off. As a police officer I will have to resort to my old job, selling marijuna to teenagers I'll end up narking anyways.

  9. Re:Very good article, but... on Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet · · Score: 1

    Wind energy in the US looks very promising. They have agreements to install windmills on farms throughout the US. The farmer gets a smaller percent of energy cost earned by windmill on their property (energy company keeps rest). The farmer can choose to buy the windmill over the course of 10 years in which case the farmer earns the profits of energy sold back to the grid. Currently a large portion of Wyoming is powered by this system. It is also bringing prosperity to famers in rural areas like never before. Cool stuff, especially since US has large amounts of farms and land.

  10. Not a complete loss... on Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the same concept can be applied to OLED screens. Quick create a company in eastern texas and patent it!

  11. The solution to this...is ebay on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's right. The solution to this whole FISA-Obama and US 1984 Police state nixon wannabe administration is ebay. Put your american citizen ship on ebay and let an illegal alien buy it. After all its not doing you any good...

  12. A feature unmentioned on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I think one of the most unmentioned benefits to TrueCrypt is the ease of creating secured backups. Password protected zips just dont cut it anymore and with backup tapes of companies always getting stolen these days, it just makes sense to backup true crypt containers =). just like backing up a file, I love it. Perhaps the biggest issue with this is the unused portion of the partition, but the convinience for security vs. unused partition data is a good tradeoff in my opinion.

  13. Re:Detecting Truecrypt. on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Right, but how can you tell if the encrypted volume contains another encrypted volume (the hidden volume). That's the thing, the hidden volum eis designed to be encapsulated in the encrypted volume. Plausible deniability is only offered in the hidden volume functionality.

  14. Re:Only works if it's default install on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Calling radomized data a partition simply is an assumption. It cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the randomized data is specifically a hidden partition. It can be a temporary file for some random program...it can be a foriegn compression scheme, it can be free space. So many other things it can be, simply calling it a hidden partition is a stretch.

  15. Re:Browser-based OS on The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's right. The data can still live in the cloud. What we have is a lack of a good direct remote database structure for applications offered to typical developers in the way that mySql and others are offered to web developers... What were talking about is the next step beyond the web. Applications that are integrated online like Google Earth make more sense than sticking everything in a browser. Application developers are falling behind...all applications should make use of online storage facilities to some extent. It should at least be a standardized option.

  16. Re:Browser-based OS on The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? · · Score: 1

    I concur, Qt is the best approach in my opinion. When you think of how the moc process works vs a virtual machine, it's clear that the extra 10 minutes it takes to compile on another platform outweighs the slow VM interpretation and security issues. Web platform is hardly consistent. People just want to access their information on any terminal fast and secure...the solution is not adding new browser technology or standardizations, the solution is applications should store information on accessible servers (like direct connection to a remote MySql - dont flame me for security, its an example). As far as the security structure...since the information lives on the internet the application can be run in the user's home path, providing a secure execution that does not require a million permissions. Standard application development should also consider other server side storing facilities like sessions. So essentially you have 'customized browsers' instead of a single browser to access all information on the internet. The benefit, you get the internet model plus the power of native apps. I think 'browsers' such as Google Earth and Northwind are perfect examples of this ideology.

  17. Not Qualified on Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    Most highschool teachers lack the proper credentials (or expirience) to debate the validity of a scientific theory. Hmmm, who am I going to to trust, a highschool teacher whith a masters in education and bachelor in science who spends their career reciting information from a text-book, or the scientist who spends their entire career dedicated to research through scientific inquiery and empirical evidence and has a PhD. PArdon spelling posting from cell.

  18. Ironic on US To Get EU Private Citizen Data · · Score: 1

    It seems that we declared independance from England for the very purpose of escaping the grasp of a controlling government. A government that demanded to know everything about trade information and restrcited free trade. The irony is now that were buddy buddy with england, there old paranoid antics are slowly turning us into another version of them. Soon it will be the amerian citizens who run into space and declare independance for the sake of Free Information. Look at what we americans have become, fat, greedy (and cheap), wasteful, consumpution oriented, self-ish, ignorant sheep. In the furture we won't be able to tell our heads from our ass, but our government will. Excuse me for ranting, but seriously fuck the US government. I hate my government, I no longer want to be a US citizen, our country looks ugly as hell becuase we have shitty suburbs with telephone poles everywhere, we have psuedo democracy, a congress with drunks and sex offenders and an incompotent president who practicies disinformation and has a history of cocaine abuse which has lead to a lack of intellectual curiosity and an iq of a drunken sloth.

  19. Re:Totally Misses the Fscking Point on Children Concerned By Parents' Web Habits · · Score: 1

    Woman who look better online exhibit what is known as the "angles" Woman afflicted with the angles tend to take photos from a verticle diagnal arms-length away. The camera is slightly focused downwards, effectivly eliminating a person's ability to accuretly judge weight and face symetry. Beware of these types of images....beware of the...angles...

  20. Test not controlled on Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field · · Score: 1

    I disagree with the test results. Also opera has configurable memory cap...waht gives? My opera 9.5 has all sorts of extensions, mail, rss feeds, notes, book marks and 8 tabs open. 161 kb. I have never seen my opera browser above 200. The test fails to inform us if the system used a vanillia installation of vista sp1. Other programs such as anti-virus, even when not directly loaded in the browser, generally load through user32.dll to hook the user interface of popular browsers. So which services and programs installed on the machine would have an impact on broswer preformance due to what the OS modules import. A better analysis on memory footprint would take module walking and threads into consideration.

  21. My own AI project on Cutting-Edge AI Projects? · · Score: 1

    Im working on an augmented visual display system that uses a network of firing signals to forge 'paths' in an ever-evolving AI processor for visual recongition. My goal is to completly replace my pc mouse so I can dominate my foe in Warcraft III. Stay away from the USEAST servers or prepare to be dominated.

  22. Milk as subsitute? on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 2, Interesting

    does vitamin d in milk contain the same sub-elements as that found in UV? If not, would milk be a viable alternative to UV exposure at all?

  23. Re:The names we give on What Does It Mean To Be an Open Source Author? · · Score: 1

    I prefer "computer god" it strokes my ego, invokes fear of damnation, suggests omnipotence, and has potential to start a cult ^_^

  24. Re:I am _so_ calling this one: on DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development · · Score: 1

    Very scary indeed. What if they sneek a bot net in there...one of those bot nets the millitary wanted to create and distribute amongst us citizens...?

  25. Re:waste of taxpayer dollars on Northrop Grumman To Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars · · Score: 1

    Duke nuke'em forever already has these binoculars. there so behind.