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  1. Re:what about the Bernie Bros, themselves ? on Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls (usuncut.com) · · Score: 1

    I see how you got modded down for suggesting that HRC might actually be qualified to be POTUS. That is a shame, and I'm actually wearing a Bernie shirt today. All the Sanders supporters that I know will vote for Clinton if she's the nominee, anything else would be insane.

  2. Re: And there's the kid who made one for $50 on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Buying off the poor on Amazon Begins Housing Homeless In Seattle (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been seeing more and more people hanging out at freeway entrances/exits looking for handouts in the last few years.
    I think that's more to do with the heroin problem. People trying to get money for their next fix before they get sick. At least they are asking for money instead of doing petty theft. Even the exits up in Marysville and Arlington have folks flying signs. The street I work at in Everett (Chestnut, just south of Hewitt) had all sorts of the stolen bike crew hauling junk to the scrap yard or just hanging out. Since it's closed the street is a lot cleaner and I don't have to collect used syringes in the morning.

  4. Re:Buying off the poor on Amazon Begins Housing Homeless In Seattle (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1

    Other cities know that Seattle has these programs, so they ship their homeless to the Pacific Northwest.
    Citation needed.

  5. Already done? on Google Fiber Wants To Beam Wireless Internet To Your Home (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure that's what we did at Clearwire a few years ago. Difference was we mostly built our own microwave backbone, but did use fiber for a few local hubs.

  6. New? on Architects Design a 65-Story Data Center (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked a decade in a 34 story telco hotel in Seattle starting in the mid 90s. I watched elevators disappear to become power conduits; parking spaces in the 6 level garage become homes for generators and cooling. We even hosted (gratis) images.slashdot.org there because Malda had maxed out his T1.

    Come to think of it, it kind of looks like a radiator.

  7. Re:Network separation? on Surveillance Cameras Sold On Amazon Found Infected With Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice write up.

  8. Re:Network separation? on Surveillance Cameras Sold On Amazon Found Infected With Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Then only allow those addresses.

  9. Network separation? on Surveillance Cameras Sold On Amazon Found Infected With Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would you actually hook these up to a network that has Internet access? Of course you make a separate VLAN or network for your "security" devices and other monitoring, ^H^H^H^H^H IoT devices that can only talk to preapproved connections. That is what a firewall is for.

  10. Re:Could be, they just don't understand how TOR wo on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Okay, assuming that you are in the US, go find someplace better or work to make the US better.

    Quite your crying you little fuckin' 7 digit punk.

  11. Re:Could be, they just don't understand how TOR wo on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep. Cases they are working go cold. Now in a less free society the things cops may be looking for are what we call human rights, why TOR was invented. But the downside is that when cops are working valid cases trying to protect kids human rights of not getting fiddled with, it hampers the investigation. The cops spent a lot of time on the case and because it turned out to be TOR, they are unhappy. But in the US and the rest of the free world, that is the price we pay for trying to protect those that don't have our rights.

  12. Re:I hate to be the one... on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 0

    Good for the police trying to find an active pedo. They had no way of knowing it was a TOR exit node. Should they have first tapped the connection? Even then, how could you really be sure the traffic was TOR?

    It could have been one of three things, a pedo at that address, a unsecured WiFi, or a TOR node. If it's the pedo then that's why the warrant and the early call (police have done that forever, because it works.) If it was an open WiFi, then the geek cop that went with them would help secure it and maybe setup his own honeypot WiFi since the pedo was near by. Oh, it's a TOR exit node. Of course they don't like it because the case just went cold on them and they had spent a lot of time on it already. But the did act professionally.

    And from a local radio report, they did have a geek cop with them that did understand what TOR is.

  13. Re:Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly, how would they know there was a TOR exit node there? From a local radio report I heard one of the cops was a geek that knew what TOR was. That's why it was handled quickly. All the cops had was an IP and got the address from WaveG in a legal manor. The next thing was to get a warrant and go talk to the guy, that's what they did. The brought along a geek cop too to translate, so to speak. They had the warrant because it could have been a pedo. They brought the geek cop because it could have been an open WiFi and he could help them secure it, and then setup up a honeypot WiFi to catch the pedo which would have been near. Come to find out it's an exit node. Sorry to wake you, I hope you understand. The cops don't like TOR because it causes false hits like this and costs time and money.

    Given the case, this went down just like it should. Sure it was early, but cops do that so they can talk to you before you get your coffee and your mind about you. That's standard.

    They knocked, waited for him to come to the door. No pets were shot.

    Given the description in the warrant there's some sick fuckers out there twiddlin' kids. Yes we want the cops to try to find them. Read the warrant (if you have the stomach) and see how much time has been put into the investigation. Of course they were unhappy that an exit node caused a dead end. But they did NOT take the computer or anything. They were professional about it.

  14. Re:Could be, they just don't understand how TOR wo on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 2

    A local report I heard on the radio (KIRO or KPLU, can't find it now) says that one of the cops was enough of a geek to know what TOR was and that is why the issue was cleared up so quickly. I mean how were they going to find out it was an exit node anyway? They got an IP and an location, got a warrant and then went to talk to the guy. Should they have tapped his connection first to find out it was an exit node? How would you tell just from the exit traffic anyway? I suspect they weren't thinking TOR but an unsecured WiFi or a pedo, if the latter then that's why they had the warrant. If an unsecured WiFi then the geek cop could figure that out quickly enough but it would also mean that they were close to the pedo's location and then may have setup their own honeypot WiFi.

    Cops don't like TOR because it give false hits like this and take up a lot of time and money.

  15. Re:and woe betide you... on HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop (time.com) · · Score: 2

    Are you talking about the 8470s? Yeah those things are great. We just refreshed with Dells and now I have a few at home with i5, 480GB SSD and 16 RAM. Old aerospace engineering laptops. We had those traveling all over the world. Very few problems. The 840 is a nice one too, snagged one for my wife, she loves it.

  16. Re:yet another reason to never set foot in Oklahom on Oklahoma Video Vigilante Uses Drone To Wage War Against Prostitutes and Johns (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a bit of experience with the system due to some bad choices in the mid 80s involving Sprint, a C64 and the USSS. One rule of thumb, given a choice, go Federal, the food is better.

  17. Re:yet another reason to never set foot in Oklahom on Oklahoma Video Vigilante Uses Drone To Wage War Against Prostitutes and Johns (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The year and a day thing can be a favor too. Often for any sentence under a year or under you don't get time off for good behavior. Getting a year and a day means you'll do less time, almost 2 months less under federal rules (54 days.)

  18. Re:You insensitive clods on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 1

    They did, it's called heroin and late career unemployment with no future job prospects because your job in the warehouse at a company that moved its manufacturing to Mexico is gone, just like all the other companies in your city, and you're too old to become an app developer that works 80 hours a week because you don't understand that shit, and never will. So fuck it, my back hurts from three decades of loading trucks and doctor give me something, and that runs out and you meet up with some high school drop-out that can hook you up. The pain goes away, as does your family. Now you need to get some disabled benefits from the government but that's taking a long time so you finally pick up on some of this new high-tech stuff call ID theft because now you're motivated. After a bit of fun (speedballs and hookers) you do find that the government is willing (insisting) on giving you healthcare, food and housing, and a cell mate.

    God bless America.

  19. Re:You insensitive clods on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 1

    I think they should raise the drinking age to 55. You really don't need it until then. And how about a nice 200ct bottle Ibuprofen with each social security check?

  20. Re:Not a big deal? on Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I tried that shit back in the 70s. Mostly found a lot of psychos that didn't give shit about anything or suckers of those fuckers. Fuck, I'd take your average Scientologist over them. Unless they are a psycho Scientologist like Miscavige. Fuck Miscavige, that fucking mind fucking fuck of an asshole fucker.(Not to say ass fucking is bad per se, just that any ass fucking by Miscavige is rape.)

    Are we clear on this?

  21. Re:And Sync tried to send me over a cliff. on Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, back when I was doing DirecTV installs deep in rural Snohomish county Google maps would try to route me down fenced off high tension line inspection "roads." This was also the time back in 2006ish when there were a lot of new roads planned and on the map but never actually built because of the housing bust. I just went back to the paper map book from 2002.

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  23. Re: Yes on Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that's what made hiking fun! (As long as you didn't have to wait for the local SAR to find you.) But see, you still remember that day. But if you had all just whipped out your iThings and looked down and stared at them... opps, that's getting into bear porn now.

  24. Re: Yes on Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? · · Score: 1

    They might not tell YOU where you are, but they sure can tell me where I am if I've just been hiking around. Besides, just turn on your phone for a few minutes and get the lat and long from it if you want to be lazy about it.

  25. Re:paperwork.. on NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This. I work in aerospace. We turn a 10 cent screw into a $10 screw because of the QA, Flam & Cert needed. You don't even want to know how much a sticker that says No Smoking costs to put on an airplane.

    Be glad it's this way. You don't want to be stuck in a metal tube with fire.