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  1. Re:Doesn't Matter Anyway on Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security · · Score: 1

    Fortunately that is not how our legal system works. The police need to demonstrate intent to commit a crime. Its like a B&E, its only illegal with the intent to commit a crime. Which is great in Canada if you need to help your neighbor for any reason (fire, medical, etc). I bet the guy will be let off with a good, "Don't do it again", after the summit as the charges will never float in court.

  2. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 1

    I would say no. Soviet Russia accepted communism. In the US even socialism is vilified. Far left and far right both feel the requirement to control the population, but that is just about as far as they are similar.

  3. Re:Old news on Schools, Filtering Companies Blocking Google SSL · · Score: 1

    I would agree with you up until the fact that google apps for education is a free service. The content filters are the ones being paid to deliver a service and the burden of cooperation should be placed on them. Of course it would be nice if google worked on it as well, but they have no legal liability to. The only thing pushing them to work it out is if it hurts their reputation. Most users will probably recognize this as a filtering issue by the pretty your site is blocked page and it will only look bad on the content filters. If I was a content filter I would be grateful for any help google would provide and realize that google is attempting to extend its services not the filters.

  4. Re:Whatever. on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1

    While for me Chatroulette was nothing more than a one-time novelty and an interesting experiment by Ben Folds

    I suspect that's what the recognition software is to him. Luckily he gets to play with investors money this time around.

  5. Re:quite different on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not with a walled garden model. You should be comparing architectures instead of OSes of a single architecture. Imagine if Intel decided to wall off its processor to a single OS where they dictated what applications you could use. You would not be defending what Apple is doing. Further, Apple does not create content. They only act as the delivery system for content. Barrier to entry is high because you need a device to deliver content and Apple is building a monopoly on that.

  6. Re:I don't like ads BUT on Apple iAd Drawing Antitrust Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    Sorry anchor was done wrong. Should read "...1% of the market share..." after the would

  7. Re:I don't like ads BUT on Apple iAd Drawing Antitrust Scrutiny · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Rectifying interference with more interference? on Gulf Oil Spill Disaster — Spawn of the Living Dead · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We don't know what is acceptable diversity though. There have been periods of mass extinction that occur randomly and the ecosystem survives.

  9. Re:Bigger picture on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    I think your assumption of 2 man hours being charged to the production of one board is absurd. You need to include the increase in overhead, shipping, and supplier labour cost increases as well. That said the labour cost increase might make some investments more amortizable so they could lay off some people deviating the resulting labour costs even further. Further changes in price affect consumer spending which would affect supply and demand so it can not be carried through the entire pricing package. I definitely agree with you that a 20% pay hike does not increase the products price 20%. I just feel your math makes some poor assumptions invalidating the new price of $104.49.

  10. Re:This guy deserves a medal on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    And any public key algorithm worth its salt would be allocating multiple keys specific to each message for encryption making analysis useful only for that message. Reducing analyzable text and damage from broken keys. Implementation is really the defining knowledge of breaking the encryption, currently, as it is would be the military standard for all communications. I thought salting was performed so you couldn't rainbow table hashes, but I may be wrong.

  11. Re:This guy deserves a medal on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 3, Informative

    AES is an extremely well documented algorithm. Nothing short of stealing the implementation will give them useful information. Accusing the guy of risking sensitive information is a slippery slope when you have no evidence of it happening and that the information is antique now. I would want to question why he felt the need to leak that information. Especially when reuters was demanding it already. Government and Military oversight are two things that a country can't get enough of and cases like this justify it more.

  12. Re:Tiobe also explains how it determines it rankin on Objective-C Enters Top Ten In Language Popularity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think popular topic would mean popular language at least to some degree. Or for sure that it is a more used language as search results wouldn't discriminate preferences like actually enjoying the language. Neat to see and know, but wouldn't use it for any significant business related decisions is how I see it.

  13. Re:Impressive on Smokescreen, a JavaScript-Based Flash Player · · Score: 4, Informative

    Adblock seems to make smokescreen stop working.

  14. Re:if it's still there may make for a good court c on "Canadian DMCA" Rising From the Dead · · Score: 1

    It also doesn't cover media like blu ray and DVD so at least your not getting it from both sides for that one.

  15. Re:Call me a fanboi or whatever but... on Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time · · Score: 1

    I don't get why people argue about not being able to play their games in 10 years because of DRM. I would be more worried about my computer in 10 years being able to play the game without some sort of patch or emulator that could easily never materialize. Not to mention that I would still want to play the game in 10 years. Its also not like you are paying an arm and a leg for the software. You are willing to spend $70 tonnes of other items without ever expecting them to last that long (food, hardware, gas, housing), but when you spend it on a game you expect to be able to play it forever. What I don't like is when the DRM ruins the system stability and shoehorns crap into parts of the OS that the game has no business being in. Not being able to play the game in the first place is much more of a turn off then in 10 years when anything can happen in that time.

  16. Re:And if I did this... on Symantec Finds Server Containing 44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds more like FUD to get people to buy into Symantec so something like this never happens to your computer. Legitimately though they could have looked at the viruses they were finding and traced them back to the server that was commanding the botnet. I would say the numbers are estimates and no actual cracking occurred as there was no specifics on how they found the data, which would be much more interesting. Everyone has heard tonnes about DDOS already and this is just another boiler plate application of the concept. I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a hypothetical situation dreamed up by Symantec.

  17. Re:damned lies on Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am a chemical engineer and all the stats profs I have met said don't extrapolate as you don't know if the model is consistent. My guess is they expand their sets by factoring in assumptions. Like the model will remain second order and such forever. You also mention a bunch of fields where there is statistical analysis, but it is understood to be easily incorrect. I don't get angry when the weather man is wrong so I am just saying that this guy could easily be wrong and should be treated just like the weatherman is.

  18. Re:Technology is not the problem on Recrafting Government As an Open Platform · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the unelected ones continue being unresponsive.

  19. Re:damned lies on Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake · · Score: 1

    The first red light should be the mention of extrapolation. No statistician I have met was ever willing to extrapolate beyond the set. There are no sound methods to do extrapolation analysis. This guy is making assumptions and is playing up the danger by not outlining them. I would ignore the quack as there is no way to stop the earth quake and the worry would be senseless. There should be a plan of action for that type of disaster though, but that would be irregardless of how likely the quake is.

  20. Re:Planned obsolescene is in common on The Fashion Industry As a Model For IP Reform · · Score: 1

    I was thinking along the same lines. I figured since I don't buy software upgrades enough then this concept doesn't apply, but you proved me wrong. Then I got thinking the gaming industry has been playing with this concept for a while, as piracy has rendered copyright beyond useless there. Some developers release monthly installments to their games. The games are cheaper so there is less motivation for piracy to occur. Plus, you would be stuck breaking the copy protection for each installment separately. Further, copyright works well when almost everyone is willing to follow the rules. As less and less people acknowledge it, developers will be forced to accept a non-IP industry business model, I hope.

  21. Re:Google's We're sorry page on Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    Tried it on bing and got this webpage about fourth down. I am slightly not sure how to interpret that.

  22. Re:Bah on Review: Red Dead Redemption · · Score: 1

    Even then it might be a lame port where the controls are horrible.

  23. Re:All Anti-virus ? on IBM Distributes USB Malware At Security Conference · · Score: 1

    If you want to talk serious semantics anything made before 2008 wouldn't detect it. So I would say most anti virus would not(unless the market has exploded since 2008), but the all isn't because the requirement is that they are made after 2008. Bennyboy64 just made corrected the spokes persons mistake.

  24. Re:FP on Penn. AG Corbett Subpoenas Twitter For Bloggers' Names · · Score: 1

    Maybe he should have thought about what he said before he said it. The concept of free speech has nothing to do with identification. This issue could never have been seen. It used to be that most authors were readily identifiable. Free speech only ensures that you can't be prosecuted by the government for what you say.(Not the norm in a lot of countries) I kind of feel terrible that gutter sniping has become the norm and that people feel that anonymity is required for free speech. Maybe the states really doesn't have free speech if people fear retribution for what they say.

  25. Re:My question is... on Benchmark Software For Windows 7 Rollout? · · Score: 1

    The more sturdy the machines the better. Especially with todays over powered hulks. Less desktop support the cheaper by far.