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  1. Re:Fourth Amendment vs. Second Amendment! on Secret Text In Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access To Email Records (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    They would have even less money or a lack of existence if they had protected the 2nd Amendment as well; when the ACLU was founded, one of the major monetary contributors made that stipulation. They continue to support the collective interpretation undermining their own position on individual rights belonging to "people".

  2. Re:Unlock the bootloader for unsupported phones on Slashdot Asks: Would You Pay For Android Updates? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking something like Open Firmware but since they would have to use JAVA or whatever Google has instead of Forth, it will not work. Torvalds has harped on this issue as well.

  3. Abstraction Layer on Slashdot Asks: Would You Pay For Android Updates? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If only there was some kind of abstraction layer so that the OS could be upgraded to add features, remove bugs, and fix exploits without involving the original manufacturer.

  4. Re:Caps are good but there's a yawning danger on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no way for the ISP to determine which received UDP packets were solicited so you get charged for all of them. I believe this applies to some other stateless protocols like GRE. There is no other way to do it. I am surprised there have been no reports of people getting hit with huge bills do to this but my guess is that it has already happened but not been identified.

  5. I am aware of the differences. My point is that the FCC is enforcing rules against non-interference with WiFi which it is not enforcing against cellular.

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

    Note that they were blocking WiFi via interception or deauthentication and not jamming in the sense of capturing the receiver using a stronger signal.

  6. The chairman is so on the side of consumers, that he set up a rigged network neutrality complaint procedure. The ISP has a plethora of excuses that they can use for blocking or throttling content.

  7. the choice is to make the effort to get the candidates that you want on the ballot

    You mean like the candidates who get kicked out of the early debates by the political committees which change the rules?

  8. Re:Caps are good but there's a yawning danger on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, metered service seems like a great idea until someone sends you a boatload of unsolicited UDP packets and runs your meter sky high. And the teleco can make money off of it!

  9. Re:But everyone else was doing it? on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, lets prosecute people for crimes they didn't commit.

    BTW, the FBI would like to have a chat with you, Mr Coward is it? Something about the Lindberg Baby and JFK assassinations?

    The FBI does this all the time. Interrogate someone until they say something that does not agree with what the interrogators believe and charge them with lying to a federal officer.

  10. Re:HRC's judgement sucks on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Or it was not a honey pot for foreign intelligence services to enjoy.

    Like what if she kept a diary and routinely wrote down in detail what she had done and learned during the day while someone else photographed the pages for a foreign intelligence service? Any counter intelligence leak would at most point to her keeping a secret diary and someone else taking advantage of it. Historically how friendly has she been with the Russians with that uranium thing and the Chinese?

    I do not believe any of the above is true about her and just present it as a hypothetical. I have plenty of other reasons to dislike her and not support her.

  11. Re: And they knew it was hacked since at least 201 on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No. He will commit suicide with 3 shots to the back of the head, roll around on the carpet, die in a park under the jurisdiction of the agency least able to investigate while leaving no blood there, and then his office and home and whatnot will be ransacked for national security purposes.

  12. Our allies would just declare war on the US because Trump is a threat to the world.

    Or give him a Nobel Peace Prize. That is what they did last time.

  13. How will the carrier know?

    They could let the owner block international calls or at least mark them as international but why would the carrier care? They make money from unsolicited calls.

  14. Re:Yes, good job FCC!!! on FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Law enforcement does not need jammers although they have them; they have the power to shut down cell phone service as needed.

  15. Re:Yes, good job FCC!!! on FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Do the Stingray devices have a jam mode? It would be trivial to include it.

    They do not need to jam in the traditional RF sense but since they are capable of impersonating a cell tower, all they have to do is accept calls and not forward them. The "legal" WiFi jammers do this yet the FCC went after them.

  16. Re:Yes, good job FCC!!! on FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not enough that someone's legal rights are infringed.... In order to be heard in court, you actually have to have evidence that not only were YOU personally and directly affected, BUT a Real material financial loss or other damage resulted.

    Which is another way to say that the innocent have no civil rights.

  17. Re:Yes, good job FCC!!! on FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I would add to this that the FCC does apparently regulate the use of WiFi devices which obey all regulations as far as RF emissions but spoof or deauthenticate other WiFi devices. Stingrays do the same thing for cell phones.

  18. So what does the use of WiFi devices which are already approved by the FCC fall under when they are used to spoof or deauthenticate other WiFi devices?

  19. Re:I sorta did this in the 1980s on Tor To Use Distributed RNG To Generate Truly Random Numbers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Cryptography can be used to generate shared random numbers for multiple parties.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Re:White Noise on Tor To Use Distributed RNG To Generate Truly Random Numbers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not know why they would have to be precisely matched but semiconductor junctions have more excess noise and less stringent requirements for amplification and measuring the differential noise while rejecting external common mode influences applies just as well to them. With a resistance based noise source, you have to be careful that you are not actually measuring the voltage or current noise of the amplifier and if you are going to do that, then you do not need the resistance based source.

  21. Re:5$ / hr is not sane in the current economy on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    So the workers displaced by automation can work for law enforcement, the courts, and the prisons instead.

  22. Re:Blame the incompetent ISPs on Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    What I mean is that the ISP's metering records outgoing and *incoming* packets whether solicited or not. So for every 50GB of UDP traffic someone sends you which you cannot block, you have to pay AT&T $10.

  23. Re:Hmm... on AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    It is also less then 1 Windows reinstall if I include my Steam games.

  24. Re:example of his "sophisticated political views"? on Hacker Phineas Fisher is Trying To Start a 'Hack Back' Political Movement (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Based on his description of the situation, why would you think any of those things would work?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Re:secret == Cannot verify on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    The situation seems to be setup to support an existing despicable behavior in court where agencies like the FBI and especially BATFE testify that their records are 100% accurate. This continues even though revealed agency memos show that they know this is not the case and it is just another way they lie to the courts and the courts accept it.