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  1. Re:I'd love to see a "solution" on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 1

    If that happens, we can allow more immigration and lower the minimum wage LEGALLY. That would be better for citizens and immigrants. Leaving things as-is cheapens the law.

  2. Re:Spying on each other on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 1

    Nursing homes!

    Just think. All the old people who saved nothing for retirement but can't take care of themselves just suck up tax dollars in nursing homes right now. With this program, we could give them something to do (watch cameras) while they earn their stay (saving police dollars). Sounds like a good match.

  3. Re:There is a key difference on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 1

    There is nothing xenophobic about enforcing immigration law.

    But good job cheapening your own argument with this obvious misuse of a language.

  4. Re:my solution: I installed a DSL splitter on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that VPN, UDP, and many other protocols are ABOVE internet protocol on the networking stack, don't you?

    The "local" (like ethernet or PPPoE or docsis) overhead, which is below IP on the stack, should not be included in the cost of my "internet" connection.

  5. Re:my solution: I installed a DSL splitter on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    "Note that the rated maximum speed (3 Mb/s in my case) accounts for not just the actual payload data being transmitted, but all of the protocol overhead as well: TCP headers, IP headers, etc (there are multiple protocol layers, each with overhead). Your typical internet speed test is not able to directly account for all of the protocol overhead, so your data will be transmitted slower than the rated line speed."

    If I'm buying an INTERNET connection, the speed they advertise had better not include any overhead other than internet IP and up. I don't want to pay for whatever method they use to get it from my cable modem to the pole, to whatever, to the internet. If they advertise 3Mb internet connection, I had better get three megabits of Internet Protocol packets, with Internet addresses.

  6. Re:Moot point on SSL Cert Revocation Lists? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Instead of jumping right to the tinfoil hat response, I'll give you a real reason to trust Verisign: It is in their financial best interest verify that they are giving certs to the right people. If they make too many mistakes, Microsoft might stop including them with Windows (due to customer demands).

    Reputation is everything in the cert industry. They won't want to lose it.

  7. Re:and right now .. live from Washington on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    Since the market trends up over long periods of time, trading randomly all day is still more likely to make money than not, unlike gambling.

  8. Re:and right now .. live from Washington on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    When you buy a stock, you buy the ability to vote for the board of directors, who can cause dividends to be paid out directly to you. You also buy ownership of a business, which, as long as it is profitable, is increasing in value (such as assets). It is a lot more than a certificate.

  9. Re:Vista won't be better on MS to Launch Paid Security Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    How would a "secure OS" prevent users from downloading and running malware?

    That's right, it can't. And don't give me the "programs should run as admin" crap. A virus can spread just as easily running as a user. It can destroy just as much of the user's data (which is all that really matters) running as a user.

    Trusted Computing (requiring binares be signed to run) might help, but no other OS does that.

    Yeah, as long as people have the ability to download programs off the Internet and execute them, there will be a need for a service that identifies bad programs and prevents them from running.

  10. Re:Instead of competing with Symantec, on MS to Launch Paid Security Subscription Service · · Score: 2, Informative

    A router and a NAT/PAT device are not necessarily the same. A simple "hardware router" does nothing for security.

  11. Re:and right now .. live from Washington on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    You don't know the difference between money and wealth. Have you studied economics?

  12. Re:From a Canadian Perspective... on On Point On Slacking · · Score: 1

    I would LOVE to see your source that finds Americans to be less productive. Everything I have heard indicates that Americans are BY FAR the most productive workers in the world.

  13. Re:No buying selling stocks online? on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    Companies create wealth. Gambling does not. Very different.

  14. Re:and right now .. live from Washington on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    In the market, on average, everyone makes money. With gambling, on average, no money is made.

    Buying a company that generates wealth is different than poker, where no wealth is made.

  15. Re:Dear Land of the Free on EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Moderates don't make for good televised arguments. Therefore, the average american is not exposed to a moderate viewpoint.

    To a comfortable (and therefore apathetic) populace, such a system is inevitable. The market demands infotainment, and debating extremists are much more entertaining than moderate discussions.

  16. stack vs heap on Symantec Posts Fix To Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the curious: The reason they point out that this is a stack based BoF is because stack addresses are easily predictible, while heap addresses are not. So stack based overflows are much easier to write exploits for.

  17. Re:Huh? What? on Overconfidence in SSH Protection · · Score: 1

    In American English, there is no gender-neutral pronoun. Most English instructors recommend the author choose whichever pronoun he feels most comfortable using when speaking abstractly.

    What country are you from and what pronoun do you use?

  18. Re:That's what happens on Science Ability Down in U.S. High Schools · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At my school, the smart kids (who weren't challenged enough with academics) got in to arts (marching band, concert band, choir, show choir, theatre, etc.). Drugs really were for the losers. My school was exceptional and well-known for those programs, though. Were you at one of those schools which closed arts programs in favor of athletics, or were drugs just "popular"?

  19. Re:dont really understand the problem. on Overconfidence in SSH Protection · · Score: 2, Informative

    Care to explain how a remote root login is any more dangerous than a remote user login when the user can sudo to root?

  20. Re:Huh? What? on Overconfidence in SSH Protection · · Score: 1, Informative

    DMZ hosts are typically configured so that they can NOT connect out to hosts outside the DMZ. This is enforced by firewall restrictions. As long as this is done, there is no problem.

  21. in RAM? on Microsoft Claims OpenDocument is Too Slow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You only need to write it to disk when you hit "save." When the document is open, and living in RAM, it doesn't even have to be kept in ODF!

  22. Re:requirements for being public on Trolltech Going Public · · Score: 2, Insightful

    99% of what RedHat sells is stuff they DON'T OWN THE COPYRIGHTS TO.

    Trolltech owns the rights to QT.

    So they are VERY VERY different as far as IP goes.

  23. Re:This is news? on Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots · · Score: 3, Informative

    You did not say "all" people anthropomorphize. It is possible that all soldiers are from a subset of people which is has a null intersection with the subset of people who anthropomorphize. You are now officially banned from using the letters "QED."

  24. requirements for being public on Trolltech Going Public · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will it always be in the stock holders' best financial interest that new versions of QT for linux be licensed under the GPL? If not, they will be obligated to change licenses to something less free.

  25. Re:Important distinction on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 2, Informative

    You were on meds because you are crazy. Modern western medicine is tested scientifically. The fact that you had bad side effects from some drugs is NOT scientific at all. The fact that you think careful vitamin use cured all your ills is NOT scientific. If it did cure you, you were probably malnourished, and the only person you have to blame for that is yourself (not "society" or whatever). Our society requires nutrition info to be labeled on food. Nice, eh?

    You are right that psychology is one of the most difficult parts of medicine. It is hardest to study scientifically, and hardest to diagnose.

    Most "western" medicine is FAR more precise than psychology. I take some very expensive maintenance medicine, and if I took your advice, my life would be MUCH worse. Without western medicine, I would be crippled by allergies, I would be bald, and I would have life-changing digestive problems. No herbs would change that. You show your insanity for suggesting so. Taking pills every day is much better than the alternative.