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  1. Re:My end users say it was coming from MSNBC.com on New Malware Simulates Hard Drive Failure · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And sites complain when people block ads. This is of course why anyone with a brain blocks ads.

  2. Re:How could one differentiate ... on New Malware Simulates Hard Drive Failure · · Score: 1

    Well normal windows behavior means that under a LUA, you can't do squat. I mean, you are using LUA's right? So, how often do you see hive collapses? I can count them on one hand, over the last 10 years. However malware behaving like this has been off-on again for the last 5ish years.

  3. Re:TLD4 Variant? on New Malware Simulates Hard Drive Failure · · Score: 1

    That one, and the new TSS variants floating around are...painful. Nuking the machine from orbit and restoring from a clean backup is almost easier than removing them. The last machine I cleaned from one of the new TSS variants took nearly 5 hours. The infection point was some bloody facebook page.

    The stupid it burns sometimes.

  4. Re:Maybe... on Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days" · · Score: 1

    I don't know about up hill both ways, but compared from 25+ years go to kids today and what constitutes a snow day? It is different, massively different. Freezing rain these days? Schools come to a stand still, back 20 years ago? Unless your bus wasn't running school was still on for you. And it still might be, you'd have come in on a snowmobile. Besides we don't have soccer moms in Canada. We have hockey moms.

  5. Re:"mining" for bitcoin on Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner · · Score: 1

    Sadly, your viewpoint is flawed. My currency is worth more than the USD, and my currency also belongs to the only G7 nation to not have collapsed in on itself, unlike Europe, and the US. Gold is overvalued, I said that before. But there's a deeper issue behind it. If I'd bought in at oh 1k, I might be selling now. But I stayed out of that and stuck to making money via currencies. But if I was, my gut would say another 2mo before the selloffs hit.

  6. Re:Climate Change Deniers on Signs of Ozone Layer Recovery Detected · · Score: 1

    Pretty broad statement in believing that people who watch fox have no education. I mean I see plenty of academics who believe that freedom of speech is just fine, as long as it's not yours. And plenty more who believe that inconsistency is the best policy. And yet, there's the people who watch cnn, msnbc, abc, etc, who believe that there's an evil right-wing conspiracy. And that people like Limbaugh are out to get them, and take their childrens skulls to make drinking mugs. Of course it's easier to do that, when you have various groups like media matters who selectively create controversy by breaking the context of a statement.

  7. Re:Funny... on Signs of Ozone Layer Recovery Detected · · Score: 1

    Accepting responsibility requires that there be an honest and equal debate on an issue. No such debate has happened, rather everyone is being told that "this is the way it is" and questioning the dogma is anathema. Because some central planner knows best. Not only that, but anyone who disagrees is automatically in the pay of *insert evil company here*.

  8. Re:Climate Change Deniers on Signs of Ozone Layer Recovery Detected · · Score: 1

    The fact that you even use 'oil people' in a statement and believe that all deniers are in that group shows just how much bias, and the methods you use to stifle debate on the issue. I'd be ashamed to use use that as an argument. But since many in the pro-AGW use this regularly, I'll just lump you as a religious nutbag. Your methods are similar.

  9. Re:Thunderbolt hardware cost no less than $90 on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 1

    Except there's next to no legacy support for older devices on the standard. People actually do get tired of upgrading technology at some point. And people will no upgrade technology when budgets are tight. This all comes across as poor timing in bad market conditions.

  10. Re:Just give me one year... on Massive LinkedIn IPO Raises Dotcom Bubble Concerns · · Score: 1

    6mo tops. There's already a large correction coming and it's going to hurt. I'm making money as fast as I can to buffer against it.

  11. Re:joint statement with Sony on Firmware Troubles For Old Xbox 360s, Possibly PS3s As Well · · Score: 1

    No, these are NOT the "same guys". Those guys were over in Sony Music.

    Right. Keep telling yourself that. That's like saying GM/Buick or Ford/Mercury aren't the same. Same shit, different pile, same people, same mentality.

  12. Re:joint statement with Sony on Firmware Troubles For Old Xbox 360s, Possibly PS3s As Well · · Score: 1

    Even Sony wouldn't be that stupid.

    You sure about that? These are the same guys who used rootkits on CD to stop people from copying.

  13. Re:"mining" for bitcoin on Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner · · Score: 1

    I hear hype, and driven market prices based on defaults, and losses are a pretty good way to enforce scarcity. Last I heard gold was over 1500/oz/usd, and it's due for a correction but unless you bought at over 1200 it won't hurt. Unlike silver which corrected itself.

  14. Maybe... on Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days" · · Score: 1

    They should just change the definition of a snow day? Up here in Canadaland, where blizzards dumping 2-3ft of snow wasn't enough to shut down schools when I was a kid, the opposite is now true. 8" of snow? Shutdown, 5" of snow? Shutdown. I don't know what's worse, that kids aren't going to school(and I hated it, and was lazy) because of a light dusting of snow, or that they feel that kids shouldn't go to school for a light dusting of snow.

  15. What nonsense on Kaspersky Calls For 'Internet Interpol' · · Score: 2

    That's what interpol's job is supposed to do in the first place in all forms. Coordinate police dept's and services around the world. The real problem isn't so much that police don't talk, it's that the governments don't give them the resources to deal with internet related crime. In Canada, financial crimes under $200k are done on a case by case basis, by local dept's or by the provincial police, if there's enough officers available to take them off traditional crimes. Financial crimes over $250k are looked at only by the RCMP, and the RCMP will not take any case under $200k due to the lack of manpower and resources. And financial crimes under $40k are pretty much written off unless there are officers available. That's not even touching on the training.

    It's a sad state, but the problem is three fold. First people don't think you need more police. The average citizen to cop ratio is between 100:1 and 750:1, though in some parts of the US it's 4000:1. Second, while a lot of younger cops(that's under 40 as the average age here is around 45), see this as an issue but not a pressing one(too much traditional crime, and staff sgt's who have too few resources, or too few inspectors for the job and are on other cases). Third, politics and bureaucratic BS. There are either weak laws, no laws, a mishmash of laws, or politicians and chiefs stuck in 30-40 year old thinking.

  16. Re:N00b.... on When AIM Was Our Facebook · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you lived but the only thing that really stopped people from using IRC was when they started sticking on login restrictions from anonymous redirects(usually a badly configured router from a ISP, or if you were using a NAT box improperly configured). ICQ was popular everywhere except the US, and in the end the majority of my US friends were using ICQ, and that was by early 2000.

    But yeah, I'll find the whole 'omg couldn't live without facebook' stuff amusing in a few more years when it dies. I generally figure though that when marketing jumps on something, it's deathknell has just about arrived.

  17. Re:In 10 years this will appear on a list on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    You should be using dedicated links in all circuits now according to CSA and NEC. Unless each outlet is low draw.

  18. Re:In 10 years this will appear on a list on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    It would be smarter to allow control at the end of the circuit instead of at the end of the device. This is needlessly complicated.

  19. Re:Let's ban school sports then on GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School · · Score: 1

    Yeah I live in a smallish city and the 3 public highschools, and catholic highschool have a football team. Sadly though my graduating year year was the last for wrestling, one of the few sports I really enjoyed. I hated everything else.

  20. Re:Nobody expected dirt to get in the way... on Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls · · Score: 1

    I'm not surprised. Then again anyone that's lived in Ontario and parts of NY/MI for most of their life already know that dirt varies from a few feet deep to several dozen feet deep or more. There's that whole 'scraped the topsoil off the canadian shield for several thousand km' thing and dumped it here thing that I guess these guys didn't look into.

  21. Re:Hrm... on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've always thought of political correctness as just another form of racism, with a dash of sexism, and bigotry all mixed into one happy basket. And I say that as someone who's half-japanese. But otherwise you're spot on.

  22. Re:Hrm... on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 1

    Uh-huh. I'm guessing you know how many years it takes to do something like that right? It's not exactly a crash course. You're not going to dispose of someone who's had training for that long, on being a splody-dope, etc.

  23. Hrm... on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 2

    I see no problem with this. Then again I always believed that behavior profiling is a better method of screening anyway. It's very hard to train yourself to not set off behavioral queues for evasion, and so on, unless you've had a head injury that screws everything up.

  24. Re:Hooray! on Live Justice Comes To the Internet · · Score: 1, Informative

    I don't know where you live in the uncivilized parts of the world, but the average citizen could always enter a court and watch a trial. Both in Canada and the US. This to me seems simply like an extension of that. The only difference is, the chances of having a chat with the judge before they go on break seems pretty slim with this. But who knows, maybe they'll add a Q&A session at the end of the day.

    Where I live(canada), justices and jp's regularly take questions from the gallery on the current state of law and decisions.

  25. Re:The price we pay for sanity on Canadian Music Industry Seeks Copy Tax On Memory Cards · · Score: 1

    No. The GP is correct. Cancon's exists because it gets it's funding from general revenue(heritage and culture + CRTC). This ends up protecting us from criminalization of the music industry.