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  1. Re:Not the end of the world on SSLStrip Now In the Wild · · Score: 1

    But the problem here is that the domain is wrong before you make an SSL connection.

  2. Re:Not the end of the world on SSLStrip Now In the Wild · · Score: 1

    What if the address bar highlighted the portion of the address that is the domain name? It would then be obvious if the domain name was being spoofed.

  3. Write your representatives on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1

    If you do not contact your representatives and do not vote against them next term if they vote for this, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

  4. Re:What's this "finally" shit? on Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 · · Score: 1

    Time Warner has never been known for not being dumb.

  5. Re:What's this "finally" shit? on Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will they even let you get business class? My ISP (Time Warner) simply refuses to sell business class to a building zoned residential.

  6. Re:Yes, and no. on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Therein lies the difference.

    If you use Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Haiku, VMS, Windows 98, or any number of other operating systems that lets the user be the system administrator, you can do whatever you can devise a terminating algorithm to do.

    Newer versions of Windows do not let you be the system administrator. You are at completely subject to the whim of Microsoft and those to whom Microsoft gives access. If you do not trust Microsoft and friends, do not use Windows.

    Disclaimer: I do not know enough about Apple's OSX to know to which category it belongs.

  7. Re:What if... on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    do we really need a new keyboard with every new PC?

    Yes, it has to match the design of the new case, monitor, mouse, speakers, and printer.

  8. Re:Apple Lock-in... on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    In order of my concern:

    1. Designing products with non-user replaceable batteries.
    2. Deliberate restricting application developers to Apple's channel.
    3. Threatening to sue application developers who try bypass or facilitate bypassing Apple's channel.
  9. Re:Apple Lock-in... on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was considering buying Apple products. Two years ago, I told my wife that when her laptop (with Windows XP) died, I was going to get her an Apple. Her laptop still survives, but my plan now is to get her an Asus and put Linux on it. Not because of any advances Linux has made in the past two years, but because of Apple's recent practices.

    However, I appreciate the work they have done that has improved Konqueror, and use it regularly.

  10. Re:Apple Lock-in... on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He refuses to reward the company by purchasing their products because of their business tactics.

    Why does that preclude him from using code that Apple has given away?

  11. Re:One Word on Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux · · Score: 1

    It is a user-space application. No Microsoft IP is going into the kernel.

  12. Re:could someone please explain to me on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because it would be easy for the government to cherry pick a few shots of you at certain times and use them as evidence to convince a stupid jury that you broke a law.

    "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." - Cardinal Richelieu

  13. Re:Security cameras. on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 1

    They are useful for figuring out when something happened.

  14. Re:One way to get more registered voters on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    People want to be like sheep concerning local matters. They want somebody else to take care of them and make the decisions.
    People want to be like shepherds concerning non-local matters. They want to tell other people what to do when it does not influence them.

    When did all this start happening?

    Long before North America was populated by Europeans.

  15. Re:One way to get more registered voters on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, I think he means the state right to determine its own economic policy, tax structures, social programs, business requirements, personal freedoms, militia regulations, land distribution and zoning, and everything else left to the states or to the people by the constitution.

    The federal power-grab that happened in conjunction with the abolition of slavery and the civil war is a sad example of what happens when a country starts out with major moral problems like slavery and white supremacy.

  16. Re:Wow... on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    It's a good idea, but I see the Supreme Court stepping in at some point.

    On what grounds?

  17. Re:So we've got a duopoly on WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband · · Score: 1

    There is only a basis for tarring and feathering the politicians who signed a one-sided contract in favor of their rich donors at the expense of the rest of us.

  18. Re:What is really wrong with trains? on Two Big Tests For Personal Rapid Transportation · · Score: 1

    I also prefer driving a car with a manual transmission, good road feel, and limited computer intervention. I prefer driving just about anything to taking the bus.

    So I started biking to work. Ten miles each way. I am in control. Plus, I get exercise, fresh air, and a better view.

  19. Re:This will revolutionize transportation... on Two Big Tests For Personal Rapid Transportation · · Score: 1

    Cops cannot bring in revenue by walking a beat.

    Aside:
    But sometimes they get ridiculous. I was ticketed for not having a bell on my bicycle while riding on a path that excludes motor vehicles; by a cop driving a car on the path (taking up the whole path and forcing walkers, runners, and cyclists off into the woods).

    He wrote me up for a vehicle and traffic law violation; the VAT does not cover the type of path I was on.

  20. Re:Good idea, but... on Two Big Tests For Personal Rapid Transportation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bonus: You get to track exactly where everybody goes.

  21. Re:Oh Gawd on ESPN's Play To Make ISPs Pay · · Score: 1

    When you say "nature of the internet", you mean the Internet culture, etiquette, history, and common practices. But the Internet is really just protocol implementations - it is really just "get data from point A to point B". They do understand that. Joe Sixpack understands that. The Internet you knew and loved has changed.

  22. Re:The goose that lays the golden eggs on ESPN's Play To Make ISPs Pay · · Score: 1

    I was into the Internet when it was underground.

  23. Sorry, "feet", not "feed". on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    ssia

  24. Re:Holy moly... on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 3, Funny

    These guys need to learn how to party like Lutherans.

    To eat casseroles, stare at their own feed, and mumble about the weather?

  25. Re:Holy moly... on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    NY also has strict regulations about owners of grocery stores also owning liquor stores. It is not about morality, it is about protection of current business models.