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  1. Re:Was wondering when this would happen on Best-Selling Author Refuses $500k; Self-Publishes Instead · · Score: 0

    I think you would enjoy Neil Gaiman's work less if it weren't edited and I'm sure you like cover art too. Maybe you enjoy having places like amazon.com to buy books from and without a publisher's marketing effort you might not have even heard of Neil Gaiman.

    The $20 price isn't all profiteering, there are a lot of people who work on creating and selling a book and they don't work for free.

  2. Most people? on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 1

    "PayPal's move is unlikely to result in many more people boycotting the company, as most knowledgeable on-line users will have been refusing to use them for years for a wide variety of abusive practices."

    I don't think that the word most means what the submitter thinks it means. Either that or the submitter is implying that if you don't boycott Paypal you aren't knowledgeable.

  3. Re:Why not just simply ban the practice? on SEC Blames Computer Algorithm For 'Flash Crash' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is this moderated Funny?
    Wouldn't Interesting be a better fit?

  4. Re:100,000 preregistered? on ICANN Approves .xxx Suffix For Porn Websites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was also there when *cough* alt.sex was created; it took all the sex off mainstream usenet and put it in one tidy place. .xxx will do the same over time

    Because all companies restrict themselves to .com and other organisations stick to their respective .org, .net or .edu?
    Because all US based domains are registered under .us?

    I don't think .xxx is going to change anything at all, especially if ICANN introduces custom TLDs for sale.

  5. Re:$11bn?!?! on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia suggests that a third of Telstra was worth $14bn in 1997. The current market cap of Telstra is $41.8bn (which actually suggests that the company is worth less today than it was in 1997). Telstra's total assets run to approximately $37bn. The Government still owns about 10% of Telstra through its future fund.

    $11bn would be about 26% of the total value of all Telstra's stock or 29% of the value of its assets.

  6. Re:Most definately is a crime. on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 1

    IANAL but analogies rarely hold any legal water because the laws that govern each activity are completely separate.

    The Missouri statute quoted above includes the 'reasonable grounds to believe that he has authorization' provision and I doubt that any sexual assault legislation would have a similar provision.

    Whether or not a court would find that Google does have these 'reasonable grounds' is too complicated a question for me to more than guess at. It may be that the onus is on Google to prove that their belief was reasonable or alternatively there might be precedent about what constitutes 'reasonable grounds' that is applicable to the case.

    Of course unless Google is charged with violating this particular Missouri law the question isn't particularly relevant.

  7. Re:Well, it's not a popular view ... on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 1

    A reply to your aside: It's not the encryption between me and my mail server that I'm worried about (that's easy to control), it's the lack of encryption between my mail server and wherever the mail I send is going. How many mail servers are configured to talk SSL encrypted SMTP? I know about STARTTLS but do mail servers generally try and use it?

  8. Re:Most definately is a crime. on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 1

    While I'm not sure if the act's definition of access would require two way communication alternatively I'd suggest that Google could claim that they had reasonable grounds to believe that they were authorized to access the network based on the lack of encryption on the network.

  9. Re:Having actually READ the novel on Cory Doctorow On For the Win, Gold Farming, and DRM · · Score: 1

    After looking into it a bit, I must admit that the book does actually look a good attempt to give an unbiased introduction to common fallacies in economic thought. I guess you can't judge a book by its cover (or title in this case)

  10. Re:Having actually READ the novel on Cory Doctorow On For the Win, Gold Farming, and DRM · · Score: 1

    I don't know anything about Joseph Heath or his writing but a title like "Filthy Lucre: economics for people who hate capitalism." doesn't make it easy to believe that it is a balanced accounting of the basics of economics.

  11. Re:Caching? on NZ Plan For Fiber To the Home · · Score: 1

    Many if not most Australian ISPs maintain large transparent proxy servers to meet this requirement. It worked really well in the past before streaming media became big, between youtube and bittorrent standard caching schemes don't seem to cut it. Even with many of the big CDNs having an Australian presence there is only so much good that local caching can do.

  12. Re:MTX + Privacy Issues on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    It sounds more like they use the MW4 3D engine to visualize GIS data. If they instead talked about IP Geolocation rather than "GIS navigation" I might believe that they're in advertising.

  13. Re:Gonna sound snarky.... on Apple Raises E-book Prices For Everyone · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't forget marketing, publishers will try to get a book publicity in the form of advertisements, reviews and premium space in bookstores / ebookstores.

  14. Re:Stross who? on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    The Jennifer Morgue isn't a science fiction novel.
    If you would like to try Stross' science fiction I would suggest Accelerando (available free online here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/accelerando/ ) or if you prefer near future science fiction Halting State would be worth a look.

  15. Why is tiered pricing evil? on Why AT&T Should Dump the iPhone's Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why everyone is against metered data costs whether it be on phones or one their home connections. Electricity and other utilities are metered by use and it doesn't seem to provoke the outrage that metering of data connections does. Adding metered data usage could make the iPhone data plan cheaper for light users. The concept of metered usage is not inherently any less fair than unlimited usage plans, it all depends on what price structure they propose. If unlimited data is $30 but 1Gb/month is $15 then the average iPhone user is saving money, on the other hand if instead the pricing was $1/Mb obviously the users would be losing. It's clearly too early to be worried, why don't you wait and see what happens? Why shouldn't the people who use a little data on their iPhone pay less than the people who use a lot?

  16. Re:Freedom is born where oppression reigns on Pirate Party Unites In Australia · · Score: 1

    This is interesting to me, do you have a link about the illegal groups thing?

    Australians do have a "constitutionally upheld" right to free speech according to the High Court, see http://www.aph.gov.au/LIBRARY/Pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn42.htm for details. While the ruling isn't as broad as the the US 1st Amendment it still provides freedom of political communication. With this ruling it would be difficult for any Australian law to outlaw a political party.

  17. Re:Strange... on Snow Leopard Missed a Security Opportunity · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that Linux ASLR was rather primitive unless you used non mainline patches.

  18. Re:except on Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker · · Score: 1

    Please direct me to your lawyer. I wish to engage him to explain the MySpace ToS with crayon drawings and hand puppets at an upcoming children's birthday party. It will be great!

  19. Re:This law helps network administrators do their on Australian ISPs Soon To Become Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    EFA opposes the construction of 'appropriately used' in s 6AAA of the exposure draft. We submit that the definition in s 6AAA ought to be amended to reflect that operators are only entitled to intercept and monitor communications where those communications pose a threat to the security of the network itself.

    Personally, I'd want the ammendment to be clear that it applies to network troubleshooting as well as network security so that network administrators can definitely use tools like Wireshark to fix their network.

  20. Get it while it's hot on Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins · · Score: 1

    The source code for their project is still available: http://graffiti.cs.brown.edu/download/ or svn co http://graffiti.cs.brown.edu/svn/graffiti/

  21. Re:very odd on How To Build an Openfire Chat Server On Debian 5 · · Score: 1

    Once again, that section is referring to the inter-server communications.

    The author is saying that even though Openfire lists XMPP server to server communication as experimental it has worked fine for him.

  22. Re:Google Talk Still experimental? on How To Build an Openfire Chat Server On Debian 5 · · Score: 1

    The article is referring to the connector that allows your server to talk to the Google Talk server to pass messages.
    My guess is that it's unstable because Google Talk uses some non-standard options when talking XMPP.

  23. Re:WHAT? on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why the **** does the Air Force have critical systems 1) Running a stock commercial OS, and 2) Connected in a way where this sort of infection is even POSSIBLE?

    You must be new here.

  24. Re:Wrong defense on Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users · · Score: 1

    The argument is that a few BT packets do not constitute proof of copyright infringement. The individual packets do not breach copyright so the ISP or copyright holder would require a record of a whole session before you could start reasonably making copyright infringement assertions.

  25. Not as dumb as the summary makes out on Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users · · Score: 1
    From the article:

    They also claimed that, because files are broken up into tiny "packets" before being sent over BitTorrent, this may not be enough to suggest a "substantial portion" of a copyrighted file was distributed.

    iiNet are suggesting that observing a couple of bittorrent packets is not enough to infer a breach of copyright because each packet does not contain a substantial amount of the original work. Much more data would be required before you could assume a copyright breach.