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  1. These exceptions would legalize hacking in Canada on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    http://tinyurl.com/9wpxjg6 Page 11-12

    These exceptions they are asking for are so very broad. Take a look this exception they're seeking,

    (a) a program that is installed by or on behalf of a person to prevent, detect, investigate, or terminate activities that the person reasonably believes (i) present a risk or threatens the security, privacy, or unauthorized or fraudulent use, of a computer system, telecommunications facility, or network,

    Do you believe the RIAA poses a reasonable threat to your privacy from their new rootkits? Well then it seems, under this law, you could install a trojan horse on their computer, read their files, and then crash programs that might end up help the RIAA from violating your privacy...Like Windows

  2. Re:Workarounds? on Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System · · Score: 1

    Buy a seedbox to do your torrenting

  3. I've always heard untethered\tethered used in the sense that an iphone could, or could not, reboot jailbroken without having to connect back to your jailbreak application.

  4. You want the phone to update from a jailbreak program on a computer without having to connect the phone to the computer running the jailbreak program?

  5. Re:As a longtime Sim City player, I am sad on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 1

    I sure there will be an offline version put out by a certain Bay with pirates in it soon enough

  6. Re:And you expected something else...? on California's Surreal Retroactive Tax On Tech Startup Investors · · Score: 2

    Which is why generally Blue states pay out more in federal taxes than they take in, and Red states take in more federal funds than they pay in taxes?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spending_by_state

  7. Re:Somewhere out there on Multi-State AT&T U-Verse Outage Enters Third Day · · Score: 0

    Between the negative generalization in your post, and the negative generalization in your signature; I'm just seeing a lot of negative generalization.

  8. Re:Somewhere out there on Multi-State AT&T U-Verse Outage Enters Third Day · · Score: 0

    You're kinda big on negative generalizations, aren't you?

  9. Just what everyone needs..... on UK Government To Use PayPal For Identity Assurance · · Score: 1

    More avenues for easy identity theft!

  10. Re:Belgium. on Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power · · Score: 1

    90 miles in 30 minutes? Damn...Belgium has some crazy speed limits

  11. Odd choice of name.... on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The first thing I think of when I hear the name is going insane and dieing in a river

  12. I wonder if torrenting the design and sharing it on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    will one day lead accessory to murder charges

  13. Re:The Lie that Nobody tells on US Educational Scores Not So Abysmal · · Score: 1

    A number of American teachers and principals have been caught changing grade, or giving out answers to standardized tests. Here's one such incident

    http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/scranton-school-board-reverses-discipline-in-standardized-test-cheating-probe-1.1429762

    I'm not sure how wide spread this is, but it goes to show that similar things to what you described are occurring in America.

  14. We've started an investigation into ourselves..... on MIT Investigating School's Role In Swartz Suicide · · Score: 1

    Good news everyone! Our self investigation shows we were not at fault for anything

  15. Re:What happens ... on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 2

    Yes we can get over it, but only in the same way we might get over the "We can't dance in the middle of the busy freeway if there's a chance we might get hit" mentality.

    Both choices lead to messy results

  16. You know what's going to derease its effectiveness on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 1

    The use of alcohol

  17. Re:No, it isn't. on UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students · · Score: 1

    After you're 24 you qualify for independent status, and your eligibility for aid goes up. Especially if you have kids as well.

  18. Re:I was poor, you fuck. on UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure when you when to school. Now, with a pell grant, state grant, and Stafford loans I've have no problem paying for school without working. Though now loans, at least federal loans, aren't really a problem to payback under the Income Based Repayment program.

    Under IBR your loan payments are set at 10% of your adjusted gross income past 150% of the federal poverty level, and capped at a maximum of what you would pay on a 10 year repayment plan. After 20 years the remaining balance is discharged and counted as income.

    Maybe it's just me, but I find $50,000+ for undergraduates in loans that you may only payback a fraction of, and don't have to make payment if you aren't making money to be a generous offer to students with little to no credit.

  19. Re:Pay for education ? LOL on UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students · · Score: 1

    If you're poor and over 24; student aid in America is quite generous

  20. Re:Agree 10000% on UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students · · Score: 1

    It's just a bit more pricey these days.

    I paid about $2000 for 20 credits at my local community college this quarter, and right now the 4 year college I want to go to charges about $4000 for 12 to 18 credits.

    So yeah, I'm not interested in their deal.

  21. No on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would you ban laptops at work for the same reason?

  22. You may want to appeal to Financial Aid on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? · · Score: 1

    If your aid is being reduced because of the money you already are earning, but you want to take full time classes at the community college during the day; you may try writing an appeal to your financial aid office. You can tell them that you're going to be ending your job, and they will adjust your EFC accordingly. I'd imagine it'd be zero.

    I know the community college in my area gives out about $5600 per quarter when you've got a zero EFC

  23. If it wasn't for these crimes happening on Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave · · Score: 1

    then we would have low crime?

  24. Re:Don't you worry, never fear, robin hood will so on Peel-and-Stick Solar Cells Created At Stanford University · · Score: 1

    There are a number of places that sell solar panels for half that price.

  25. Re:Don't you worry, never fear, robin hood will so on Peel-and-Stick Solar Cells Created At Stanford University · · Score: 1

    I can find solar panels at $0.82 a watt, and sometimes lower. Is that what you mean by "crazy expensive"?