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  1. Re:Another Job for RequestPolicy on Cookieless Web Tracking Using HTTP's ETag · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it must be immensely hard to have a domain foobar.org and just create a cdn.foobar.org subdomain. Instead, every hipster startup goes to register fbrcdn.org instead. It's as if noone understands DNS anymore - every purpose gets a new domain instead of having a good structure.

  2. I don't think an unencrypted virtual network satisfies the P in VPN.

  3. Re:MacOS secure!!!! on The Register: 4 Ways the Guardian Could Have Protected Snowden · · Score: 1

    I don't see how this could be verified. Sometimes, even compiling the same code with the same compiler twice doesn't yield bit-identical binaries, let alone using a different compiler.

    Isn't Schneier being way too naive here?

  4. Re:Dump data into a darknet on The Register: 4 Ways the Guardian Could Have Protected Snowden · · Score: 1

    Amen.

  5. Humans on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 2

    Humans pursuing their petty little human needs when noone is looking? YOU DON'T SAY!

    Separation of power was not thought up by idiots, you know.

  6. Re:Needs IPV6 on Internet Infrastructure for Everyone · · Score: 2

    Another one confusing NAT and packet filters.

    Plus it is easier to defend a single point of entry than it is to defend a 255.255.0.0 address space from the world.

    What the hell does address space size have to do with how easy it is to "defend from the world"? Do you patch a cable for each individual IP address to your border?

    NAT+filter or just filter, which one is simpler? All security comes from the filter, not from NAT. OTOH, all problems come from NAT, not the filter. The question is not whether you have a good reason to put your toaster on the net, the question is whether you should cripple yourself _if_ you want to put it on the net.

  7. Re:Partitioned apps + automagic updates. on Internet Infrastructure for Everyone · · Score: 1

    So in other words, they discovered gcc -static and just ship giant binary blobs? Yawn.

  8. Re:Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me on Internet Infrastructure for Everyone · · Score: 1

    Hipster shit.

    In other news: botnet sizes at all-time high.

  9. Re: No on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 2

    As if you can't have both. That's what branches are for! Duh.

    But of course you'd have to understand branches and their use first. Why call it stable if it's just another testbed where everything is shipped regardless? If "stable" is moving so fast that bugs that are already recognized cannot be pulled back in time, something is just wrong.

  10. Re:... only in accordance with the law. on Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default · · Score: 1

    "In accordance with the law" is a hollow phrase when the laws itself are unjust or secret to begin with.

    Everyone following your "laws" and not openly disobeying them is in good company with people "just following orders" in 1933's Germany.

  11. Re:How do you know? on Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default · · Score: 1

    If you think the Internet could ever be trusted you started using it way too late.

    The Internet once was this cozy anarchistic place where it was all just packets and if you didn't secure your shit, you were owned, right as it should be. Now it's all marketing scum drowning you in ads, trying to get into your pockets and living rooms, global adversaries becoming a real threat and ass-backwards pussies trying to censor your shit.

    Fuck that.

  12. Re:Because they will kill AND torture Snowden on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 1

    I don't know but I have a feeling a safely stored gun was not the intent of the amendment.

    I think the point I was trying to make is that even if you tried to claim back your country from the corruption that's currently running it, what would your revolver or rifle do against a drone miles high in the sky controlled by a coward behind his joystick? Or a plain old tank for that matter?

    I like how you tried to put forth the idea that there is still such a thing as democracy and votes actually matter. May I point to the title of the news again... What was the saying? "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order."

  13. Re: TL;DR on New for 2013: An In-Depth Analysis of Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey · · Score: 1

    So you're an illiterate idiot or why the need to speak up?

  14. Re:TL;DR on New for 2013: An In-Depth Analysis of Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    TL;DR, the gang sign of illiterate idiots.

  15. Re:Because they will kill AND torture Snowden on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's sad that you're arguing what the non-torture promise is actually for. If the USA was actually a free and civilized country, it would be so outlandish a thought that they could torture anyone, that an extradition would actually be doubtless.

    The whole situation says a lot about "The Land of the Free" when a communist country known for not-so-democratic behaviour has to protect a citizen from a so-called western democratic country.

    Why Americans aren't using their 2nd amendment rights already to get rid of all these corrupt fucks is beyond me.

  16. Re:Slowaris Delenda Est on Oracle Sues Companies It Says Provide Solaris OS Support In Illegal Manner · · Score: 2

    Isn't charging for patches a conflict of interest within the same company? They make more profit the shoddier their work is. I wouldn't touch anything from them with a pole.

  17. Re:Similar Gay Boy Scout Ban on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    The last word is supposaed to read bullshit, although it fits either way.

  18. Re:Similar Gay Boy Scout Ban on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    If they aren't out of the closet, how can they be recognized as gay and thus be accepted? That's one of the most illogical things I've heard.

    If you don't have a masculine enough walk for example, do the BS say "he must be gay, because he walks gay, but he hasn't come out yet, so we accept him"? I call BS.

  19. Re:The analysis is correct, these people have no c on Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes · · Score: 1

    You gain competence the same way pilots do. They don't get to fly hundreds-of-passengers boeings on their first day either. It's OK to be a crypto beginner. But why do they publish a chat system instead of scribbling around in Cryptool?

    If you see someone looking into a loaded shotgun barrel with their finger on the trigger, you don't say "oh, let him learn by trial and error". You take the gun from him, slap him across the face and send him learning the basics.

  20. non-issue on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are supposed to use HTTPS only over Tor anyway and transmit no identifying data in other cases, respectively. Tor already assumes the existence of such an adversary as the NSA, so what's the story here?

  21. Re:Meh. on Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs · · Score: 1

    Just because the error is not in a part of the OS where it forces a bluescreen doesn't mean there are no errors.

    If you run overclocked hardware in any setup that earns you money, you're a fool.

  22. Re:Meh. on Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs · · Score: 1

    Overclocking - when done wrong - can do permanent damage that doesn't go away when clocking back to stock.

    If you ever value your data and calculations, you simply don't overclock.

  23. Re:Not really a big shock on Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs · · Score: 2

    Just because you buy a pro CPU for your toy doesn't mean you and your needs are suddenly relevant for the customer base of the pro CPU.

  24. Re:Sales Pitch on Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs · · Score: 1

    Why would you use the OS that lacks the games as the base and then go around and run a convoluted VT-d setup to have 3D in a VM? Just use the OS that _doesn't_ need the GPU in a VM, dummy.

  25. Re:self-incrimination on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Because opening up the contents of the hard drive is not self-incriminating. The incriminating evidence is there, it is just being uncovered.

    Fucking bullshit. If it's there, why isn't it used to charge the man with a crime? If it's not sufficient for charging him, it's not "there". Do you people actively want your rights trampled or what is it with this line of arguing? I don't get it.