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  1. Re:Won't work. on Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit · · Score: 1

    It can work, here is the run down: it doesn't really have to see the encrypted stream between you and thousands of peers. It can compare the sha hash in that torrent file you downloaded via http to those in their registry. So if you download the torrent files over unencrypted http, ftp, news group, etc... Then they would have a match. Now this doesn't mean you actually downloaded the illegal material via torrent, but it gives them a probable cause.

  2. Re:Spam alert! on Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring · · Score: 1

    You sir, have no idea how right you are about Nagios... It spams, a lot. And depends on how well you know what you are doing, it will spam you from couple mail per hour to literally e-mail bomb you so you can't even open your e-mail client.

  3. Why don't they just hire media defener on Air Force To Re-Open Pursuit of Cyber Command · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All they want are DDOS kiddies right? They might as well do something useful with that company, such as defending the nation instead of letting it attack our citizens.

  4. Re:Uh Oh! on Google Claims User Content In Multiple Products · · Score: 0, Troll

    So if some guy post child porn on pisca, google legally own those as well? Isn't that a federal criminal offense to distribute CP? Hmmm... Legal fiasco?

  5. Re:Not so slow on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    Please elaborate on this Advancement on the actual fiber that affect the amount of data delivered. To me, you write a lot of empty words without having actual proof backing your claims. You only know the newer fibers deliver more data, but you cannot tell us why, do you expect to make your point without actually doing the research? But that aside, building a communication network is a lot like building a road. Of course there is an initial cost and maintaince cost, but this cost is paid for by all its users overtime. This is typical. Another issue I have with your post is the fact you seem to think business bandwidth is a fixed commodity. That concept is out right wrong. Your carrier only guarantees the last mile bandwidth, which is between their data center and your company. A very few better companies guarantees that bandwidth anywhere on their own network, but that is really rare. No one in their right mind will guarantee, for example, a 10mb connection from U.S. to India. Your entire argument falls short when it comes to interconnection and fiber melds between different companies and data centers. Most ISPs do not even guarantee bandwidth between their own relay stations much less talking about melding point to other companies. Your argument is long, dry, and outright ignorant. Please stop resorting to personal attacks when your own arguments aren't as well formed either.

  6. New to google labs... on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: 1

    Sunbather search... Bikini excluded

  7. Importance of FSF on Behind the Doors of the Free Software Foundation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is hard to grasp the importance of FSF, because one cannot see it until it is taken away. Free software is a good way to improve society as a whole just like the concept of a wheel, People use those free software all the time just like how wheels are incorporated in most of our technologies. Can anyone imagine what are the ramifications of a tightly controlled licensing scheme on wheel technology based fully on economics?

  8. Lobby the delegates. on How Can Nerds Make a Difference In November? · · Score: 1

    I would be surprised if you guys haven't noticed, but "democracy" in the states are delegated. It gives the rulers an idea what the general public wants. However when it comes down to it, the public only elect delegates, and those delegates have no obligation in going through with voting the person they say they are going to vote for. Therefore, it is none obvious way to actually make a significant impact on an election.

  9. Ninja vs. Pirates on RIAA Exec Moves Over To Gaming Industry · · Score: 1

    I think the primary reason why he was hired is to provide ESA with insights on what not to do when clamping down on pirates. However, I get the gut feeling that ESA wants to clamp down on the pirates fast and silent.

  10. Incompetence... on FEMA Phones Hacked, Calls Made To Mideast and Asia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    DHS is like the laughing stock of government security. Being PBX Phreaked with a 15 year old hack is just bad... Hope the next administration isn't this incompetent.

  11. Re:Solaris has packaging design issues on OpenSolaris From a Linux Admin and User Perspective · · Score: 1

    I suggest you read the documentation you posted yourself. Your method isn't only flawed but is more or less hiding your head in the sand.

    First and fore most, there are services responding to local requests, that means they are actually running, and are reachable by using any sort of local reflection attack (e.g. "hey, i broke into this php app, but i am jailed... Time to run all these RPC exploits!"). This is right off the bat a security concern.

    Secondly the existing vulnerable binaries are on the hard disk, as well as vulnerable libraries. Although people can be told not to run certain binaries, building a series of apps and configuring them not to link certain libraries and still keep all the functionalities are more of a challenge.

    I am not trying to plug for linux, I just think solaris definitely has room for improvements, and from all the replies, it seems they are being addressed as we speak or type.

  12. Solaris has packaging design issues on OpenSolaris From a Linux Admin and User Perspective · · Score: 3, Informative

    Trying to harden Solaris is a nightmare. Mostly because so many packages in the Solaris install are interdependent. It is either install 90% of the packages or install nothing. Why do they even bother breaking the software packages if this is the end result? Getting rid of RPC can create so many problems it isn't even funny. Both BSD and Linux offer the option of only installing the base package and only choose the services you want with little to no other packages to depend on. This however absolutely cannot be the case for solaris because a single needed software package will require you to install nearly all services.

  13. Re:Scene search on NVIDIA Shows Interactive Ray Tracing On GPUs · · Score: 1

    You wont be using any space parsing trees other than n-d tree, of course you can adjust the levels of an n-d tree in order to specify the rendering complexity. And yes, there is already hardware acceleration available for n-d tree, it was implemented in the famed ray tracing chip. http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~woop/rpu/rpu.html

  14. Faults of free market and democracy on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 1

    It is blatantly obvious why large number of people cannot make informed decision on most topics of importance. However, I believe that is also the very reason why I need to explain this is the case.
          In any type of economy where trade occurs, specialization is needed, encouraged, and ensured to support large number of people. For example, if a fisherman wants to survive compete with others, he must be able to fish better than the average laymen.
          But specialization also requires individuals to spend more time in their field of expertise. For example, A medical doctor may not necessarily champion in particle physics or environmental science.
          On the other hand, a democracy ensures that everyone has a voice in deciding the future direction of the state. It is certain there are more laymen making decisions than experts when it comes to specific issue based voting due to the fact people specialize. But people need to have a sense that we are in control of our lives. Thus democracy is some-what needed to calm the masses and create social stability. And this is exactly why the founders of many countries chose representative democracy as opposed of true democracy.