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  1. Re:Well now. on Blizzard Says Battle.Net Has Been Hacked · · Score: 2

    Since I''m over 25 and work for a living, this does not effect me.

    Well this will surprise you then. The prime market for MMO's and gaming in general is...

    Male, 25-41, working, with an average yearly income of $38,000

  2. Re:Cryptographically Scrambled Passwords on Blizzard Says Battle.Net Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    SRP is augmented by PAKE, I've heard people call it the latter before which is wrong. Some info here for those that have never heard of it. But it's not new, but it's very useful.

  3. Re:Obama in a nutshell on US Freezes Nuclear Power Plant Permits Because of Waste Issues · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Apparently people moderating don't know how dirty Chicago politics is. They make washington politics seem plain, and happy as the sun rising up on a beautiful day. Obama is a political hack, hell if people even bothered to look at how dirty his own senate campaign was, they'd wonder how he became president. Ah that's right, by "disqualifying registered voters and other opponents" CNN no less, not exactly a bastion of "evil right-wing news."

  4. Re:Canada? on Telco Company Claims Freedom of Speech Includes Misleading Ads · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. Canada has "freedom of expression" and S.2 is modified by S.1, which allows the government, courts and so on by law to limit speech by whatever means they can be demonstrated justifiably by law. So no, we don't have freedom of speech. That's why we have hate crime speech laws. That's why the HRC commission until recently could drag you through a kangaroo court for "hurting someones feelings" which no legal recourse(they operate outside of the courts). And could levy fines, or simply hold you up so long until your money ran out.

    Repealing S.13 of the HRC should tell you exactly why your post is wrong, and explain to you why canada didn't have "Freedom of speech."

  5. Re:When did 7.62 become "high-caliber"? on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    When the media get a hold of something. After all, these are the same guys that think a long rifle is an 'assault weapon' up here in Canada.

  6. Re:Can't he sue? on Legitimate eBook Lending Community Closed After Copyright Complaints · · Score: 0

    Neither have I actually.
    The problem is that they keep their trap shut. They need to open their mouths and say, "This is wrong," the way that I do. Otherwise their silence is viewed as approval of the hatefilled Chritians' actions. (Just the same as the silence by Muslims is viewed as approval of the terrorists.)

    They do? Perhaps you're traveling in the wrong circles, many liberals don't know many Christians(usually due to their beliefs conflicting). Then again, Christians don't get the same airtime that others do, unless someone is pissing in a cup and dumping a crucifix into it, and trying to force a response out of them. But it's not hard to find disapproval and open disapproval even online.

    Muslims on the other hand? Difficult, but it's out there. At least until they're coerced into shutting up with the threat of death. But then you only need to pay attention to the friday prayers when the various imam's start to call for "death to the west" and "death to the jews" and "death to the americans" but it's thursday morning, so you only need to wait a while, then you can catch it all over again.

  7. Re:Like religion in the 1600's on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 1

    Beh. In the 1600's though to the 1300's you were freer to voice your opinions and "go against the religious establishment" than you are today to go against the government and the courts. Especially when the magna carta was fresh and new. 1100's through 800's not so much, 1200's were kind of a special case(see 1215 and the magna carta). But the period was rife with people rising up against the church. Martin Luther(you know the guy who sparked the reformation), among others. Hell it worked out fine for the monarchy in England too. Hence the "Church of England" the reality is, government is even more overbearing today than it was in the days of serfdom.

    The real problem is law doesn't reflect the will of the people, it reflects the will of the state. People like to blast groups like the tea party(and social-libertarians) who want smaller less intrusive government. But hey, lookie here just what the hell is this entire news article about? Overbearing government that's too large, working at the behest of not the people, but for groups, organizations, and companies, who get laws passed which benefit them.

  8. Re:Too much for such an intervention on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 0

    Apparently Obama had 3 or 4 chances to nail Osama Bin Laden, and just kinda washed his hands of it because the timing wasn't right. AKA is poll numbers weren't low enough to bring him back up.

  9. Re:Priorities on Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? · · Score: 1

    A Cat 5 impacts the East Coast and we are worried that Facebook or Amazon might be down?

    Meh. Cat 5's are on the low side of risk for us here on the east coast of north america and it should be treated as such, there should be plans. But let's be honest, that bout of severe t-storms and high winds the blew through in the US from the derecho a bit back knocked Amazon offline. But we can see really severe winters, and I'm not talking about the snow. I'm talking about the freezing rain.

  10. Re:Pointless on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 1

    All too possible, I do have a backup in place just in case. But if it dies, it dies. 3 years won't be bad, it's hard enough to find mechanical drives with a 3 year warranty on them anymore.

  11. Re:Pointless on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 2

    To be honest, despite the dire doom and gloom warnings of people that the "end times will come" to first generation adopters of SSD's, I've got a first generation OCZ drive that's still chugging along and working like the day it was new. Heck, my page file is on it. It hasn't even used any of the backup blocks yet, 3 years on now and no complaints yet. I have a second 60GB drive that I transfer stuff on to if I'm using it alot, like MMO's and some programs that use large textures(Shogun2, Skyrim and so on) just to cut down on the load times.

    Everything else? Yeah, it's dumped onto my 1TB and 2TB drives.

  12. Re:Hansen is delusional on NASA Scientist: Heat Waves Really Are From Global Warming · · Score: 1

    How many consecutive "local anomalies" will it take for you to acknowledge a distinct pattern of increasing dynamism?

    That depends. Do your optics dispute that if an area accounting for only 1% of the total area is "global warming" when the rest of this rock was way under the seasonal normal? Or is that just blind ignorance, and part of the cult?

  13. Re:You are thinking about ebooks the wrong way on Kindle E-Book Sales Surpass Print Sales In UK · · Score: 1

    I personally prefer that paper book in my hands. Nothing quite like the paper, and smell of a good book. The problem of course is the one you already mentioned. The other of course is that ebooks cost more than paperbacks, until that changes I'll just stick with paperbacks. Heck, I've seen hardcovers that cost less than ebooks, and that's saying something.

  14. Re:Hansen is delusional on NASA Scientist: Heat Waves Really Are From Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I'll be happy to drop $20 on the table, that this will also be a "local anomaly" and will be pointed out as such in about 2-3 years time. As much as the "spring anomaly" here in the NE Canada and US earlier in the year, where it was unseasonably warm, but it was frigid as hell everywhere else.

  15. Re:Here's a heatwave graphic that includes the 193 on NASA Scientist: Heat Waves Really Are From Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Did he skip the one in 1988 too? Yep looks like he did.

  16. Re:The next circuit city. on Best Buy Founder Makes $8.5 Billion Bid To Take Company Private · · Score: 1

    How'd this post make it to +5? I gotta ask, because it reeks of big city arrogance, especially on the comment that the "small town rubes" don't have a clue.

  17. Re:Tune in to Coast to Coast AM on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. What he really isn't telling us, is that he's one of those martians himself. The conspiracy deepens....

  18. Beh. on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    Well as it stands now, with current food production there's enough room for another 3 billion people. With africa effectively producing nothing, the same still stands. If Africa ever fixes it's problems it would turn into the bread basket of the world again. But that would require a few thing, first among them getting over their petty squabbles. Second environuts and their anti-green revolution agenda will have to get off their high horses, and third will probably require world wide intervention to stop all the damned wars(see the first point).

    I can already hear the cries of "but over-population and all those families having large numbers of children" guess what? In europe, and asia the same thing happened too. The same still happens in parts of asia, because death at childhood due to disease/accident/birth is still the number one killer. But it's more so true for the middle east, and Africa. You raise people up, you reduce the number of children people need to have to "help out on the farm" as it was. Isn't industrialization a grand thing?

  19. Re:What's the point of this "story"? on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it can look like this instead? Where gays accost homeless street preachers. Kinda assine isn't it? But no it's no click bait, maybe you've heard of the guy who runs the blog too. He's a Associate Professor at Cornell Law. Then again, there's no shortage of hate floating up today either, just a small sample.

  20. Re:Secure Boot won't catch on on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 1

    Well the proof of concept on how to poison UEFI and inject malware on mac's already exists, someone else can post the link to BH/Defcon if they want, I'm on my phone. So, with that it won't take any time at all to break it, disable it, and smash it into itty bitty pieces. Sure they can patch it, but it won't do any good.

    Remember MS and their whole "we're updating the validation service to make it more secure" etc, etc, etc bit? Well I think it took all of about 40 minutes for that to be broken, it wasn't hard. Though legit users continue to have problems with it throwing up "your version of windows is invalid."

  21. Re:this is absurd! on EA Sues Zynga For Copying Sims Game · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Another conspiracy on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh no the guns were tracked with Bush but thanks for playing....

    That's what I said.

    and where the heck are all the supposed gun control laws that are supposed to come out of this conspiracy theory that the obama administration let the guns walk so they could enact gun control laws....nice one zippy.

    That's part of the question, especially since the contempt charge was blocked by the democrats. Which means that other avenues are now needed to find out exactly what was going on and where, and exactly what watergatish type BS was going on. And exactly how far the rot goes. Either Holder did this all on his own, or Obama signed off on it as well. In which case there's a lot of stink. There's no conspiracy theory here, only facts, and pretexts. You might have missed the news back about 3 weeks or 4 weeks ago, back before the Aurora shooting of the Dem's wanting to push back in the Assault weapons ban, and several other things all at once "just in time" for the election.

    Funny how a lone Canadian occasionally paying attention to your news catches this and you don't.

  23. Re:As much as I dislike... on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Just ensure that people are swiftly punished for violence and see how quickly all riots stop.

    Wrong. So very wrong, riots are multifaceted especially in developing countries like India. Especially when there are large gaps between rich and poor. Right now it's not a pressing issue. Let's take the power issue of the other day, extend it to a week. Up the number of people by another 100m. Reduce wheat yields for the year by 40%, and cut access to clean water by 30% due to the lack of power.

    Now, we toss in the current government which is wholly corrupt. Not spending enough on infrastructure. We have the open sewer problem, lack of fuel and poor sanitation. And we have...what? A peaceful open, well ordered society, with access to plenty of information about their neighbors to the east? I don't think so. What we now have is a teapot ready to boil over, because they know that even their neighbors next door in vietnam have better living conditions.

  24. Re:As much as I dislike... on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't underestimate India's capacity for Internet censorship even though it's not run by a dictator.

    India fits firmly in the pot of a neo-dictatorship. I thought that would have been self-evident, they have a very keen interest in censorship because they have neighbors nearby with a much higher standard of living, while they have rampant corruption, and a much lower standard of living. Those are the conditions for mass riots. Unless they try and control the flow of information, India will collapse with the free flow of information. That's inevitable.

  25. Re:Another conspiracy on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Meh. Agenda 21 is by far less a conspiracy theory than some things people think, plenty of cities(including my own) have already included some of their platform into their urban planning, so does it exist? Yep, is it real? Yep. Is it evil and insidious? Well I suppose that depends on how tight your tinfoil cap is. Is it "one world government" material? Meh..that's crackpot stuff. Personally, I'm leery of any supernational body where someone isn't elected giving "strong suggestions" on how to do something to a local government. It's kinda like the EU, don't like it.

    Personally, I'd figure more Americans would be worried about their own DOJ and Holder, blackballing the committee hearings on illegal gunrunning to Mexico and killing 300 people, while letting the guns walk. That entire thing is a pretext for "see, look at all those guns--they're in the hands of criminals and they're getting back into the US and all the rest." That's not conspiracy work, that's already happened. The guns flowed both ways. And before, someone get's their panties in a twist and go "Bush did it too" indeed, though their guns were tracked. Holder, just let their guns go free, no tracking, notta. The DoJ has already backwalked on that one.