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  1. Re:Off-Earth habitation on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    I agree it would be cheaper. Unless you need a lot of territory, and you dont plan on travelling or returning to earth of course.

  2. Re:Off-Earth habitation on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 2

    Well, it has a little bit more than space, it has gravity, which seems to be important for various life process (of both man and plants).

  3. Post fake doxx and fake info on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 1

    Post fake doxxes and enough fake info mixed with real info, that google searches dont reveal anything real. If you are up for it, kill you public accounts (emails, social media), and start a fresh.

  4. Re:So anyone can just submit their github project on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    People using the firehose. click a button to recommend stories. Obviously enough people recommended it. If they are a sleep, the story would like have been buried.

  5. Re:So anyone can just submit their github project on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    But in this case, the users that browse the firehose and recommend stories, and the editors have found it interesting, so I dont see the problem.

  6. Re:I liked the Charle Hebdo cartoons on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 2

    Liking Charle Hebdo, Danish cartoons and Garland, does not make you islamaphobic. But assuming a brown kid with some wires and circuit is holding a bomb (and you decide not to evacuate, but still charge the kid with making a hoax bomb, force him to write a statement with the threat of expulsion, and deprive him of access to his parents while in your custody) does however.

  7. Re:So anyone can just submit their github project on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 2

    It the github/content is interesting, why not. Your question is like asking "So anyone can just write a few words in English, and that gets to the front page now?". Yes, and no. It depends on what those words are, and if they are interesting to the readers.

  8. Re:Nokia 635 on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    I have to add that the option only works if the phone has not been switched on using a AT&T SIM card (or an AT&T network simcard). If the phone gets registered on the AT&T network, you are not eligible to use the "non-AT&T customer" (because you are an AT&T customer, duh), and you have to use it for 6 months on AT&T. Make sure you remove the sim before turning on your 640.

  9. Re:Nokia 635 on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    The law changed recently, despite what the page says, they are forced to unlock it if you request. I unlocked mine on the same website. Choose non-AT&T customer option, and just proceed. The only reason they have the "non-AT&T customer" option, apart from current & previous AT&T customer is because the law requires them to do so.

  10. Re:Giving it the old "college try" eh? on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of problems with what he is doing. If he runs as an independent, he will siphon votes from the Democrat, and help the Republican win.

    He knows that, and he has already promised that he will not run as an independent.

    There is also little evidence that campaign finance is at the root of our problems. Sure, a candidate needs a certain threshold of funding to be competitive, but after that, more money makes little difference. In 2012, nearly everyone the Koch Brothers backed, lost. Money cannot just buy elections.

    The problem with campaign finance is not that money wins the election. It is that you become beholden to your contributors, if you want to continue being a politician. In many countries this is considered as corruption.

    I am no fan of Lessig, but I know his policies atleast. If it makes no sense to you, may be you should do some research.

  11. Re:Nokia 635 on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 2

    no carrier app crap, quad core with a GB of RAM and 8GB of storage and it asked when I put in my MicroSO if I wanted to save my apps to SD, hassle free.

    Lumia 640 does all of this BTW. It has one AT&T Music app and if I remember AT&T contacts. You simply long press it, click uninstall, and it is gone. The concept of locked apps doesnt exist in Windows phones. It is quad core with a GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage, when you put in a MicroSD, you can go to the settings and set apps to be installed to SD card hasslefree (it doesnt ask on it own, but it is 2 clicks away, and one time).

  12. Re:Nokia 635 on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    AT&T unlocks the phone right after you buy it, I am on AT&T's network, but I am not struck with it. You dont even have to be a AT&T customer to get it unlocked. I am on H2O wireless, and I will switch to any GSM provider (I dont care for 4G, both T-Mobile AT&T suck here when it comes to 4G). If you are already on T-Mobile, get the Lumia 640 for T-Mobile, it is a $69 ($10 cheaper than AT&Ts), get it at frys.

    Blu Win HD is pretty much double the price of the T-Mobile one, and the screen is not as good. Once you become used to sunlight readability, you can never go back. No thanks.

  13. Re: I disagree that this tool should be illegal on Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service · · Score: 1

    I am talking about a persistent DDoS, the ones that last days (and weeks). You are definitely underestimating the effect of 100 Gbps. I can think of many .gov domains (and depts), that would for sure not be able to handle it.

  14. Re:Nokia 635 on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 2

    Nope. That one has a 512 MB RAM, and 4GB internal memory (Win 10 is likely going to require 8 GB, despite what that amazon page says). If you want a cheap & good windows phone, you get a Lumia 640 for $79. The sunlight readability feature alone is worth it.

  15. Re: I disagree that this tool should be illegal on Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service · · Score: 1

    I am still willing to bet they wouldnt hold up at 100 Gbps attack. The capacity is usually measured in pps (packets per second). Even if you have the throughput, you may not be able to handle as many packets. Unless they own a lot of ASICs that can filter traffic for them, they are going to have a real bad time. All that is required is for one chock-point to multiply the effect.

    Anyways, someone self-testing a 100 Gbps sustained attack is going to have a lot of problems with their transit providers. I wish them luck.

  16. Re: I disagree that this tool should be illegal on Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service · · Score: 1

    As someone who has had the unfortunate experience of dealing with a DDoS, it most definitely wouldnt kill your ISP, but it would degrade their services a lot. The larger ISPs* will auto-null route your IPs and call it a day. The smaller ones, unless you have a good relationship at a personal level, will terminate your account and ask you to pack up (and null route the IP of course). Even the ones that advertise 10gbps (or 20 gbps) DDoS mitigation will ask you to pack up.

    * The only exception is probably OVH and may be even Voxility (it will cost you a pretty penny with Voxility of course).

    I understand this not something you expect on your server or your client's, but it is what a DDoS is.

  17. Re: I disagree that this tool should be illegal on Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service · · Score: 1

    May be, you can handle a 100 Gbps DDoS thrown at you, without your ISP throwing a fit and kicking you off. Mine will handle a layer 7 DDoS, but nothing else (I did not have to DDoS my system through an external network to simulate this)

  18. Re: I disagree that this tool should be illegal on Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service · · Score: 1

    I have never heard of anyone DDoS (even as a test) on their an internal network. It is generally understood to be on the internet.

    Unless you have the permission of the networks in between your equipment, it would be illegal. It is like disrupting a city by organizing a rally. The rally is meant to reach your residence, but it does traverse though the city. It would be illegal.

  19. Re: I disagree that this tool should be illegal on Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service · · Score: 1

    No ISP would agree to have one of their end points being stress tested by a DDoS (I dont think they can agree either without consulting their upstreams). DDoS causes a lot of problems for your ISP, and the entire internet backbone. It is absolutely illegal, even if you own the end point equipment.

  20. If SJW are only people he doesnt like, that would be true. It is unlikely, so I am going with some people he doesnt like are SJWs.

  21. Re:Boycott, Divest, and Sanction on Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content · · Score: 1

    And Israel. We give them weapons and money instead, because they are our partners.

  22. Re:Certainly a great achievement on ISRO Successfully Launches Satellite Into Geostationary Orbit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is quite easy to find per launch numbers. The GSLV MK 3 costs $36m per launch. At 5000 kg GTO payload, the competitors would be China's Long March 2-3-4, India's ULV, Russia's R-500 Proton, Japan's H-II, IIA & IIB, US's Atlas V, Europe's Ariane 5 and Ariane 6, US's Delta IV, China's Long March 5 and SpaceX's (US) Falcon Heavy. The ones current available, and their costs are Long March 2-3-4 (?), Zenit ($90m), UR-500 Proton ($100m). For the sake completeness, the remaining ones with much higher payload support, and their cost: H-II-IIA-IIB ($200m), Atlas V ($100m), Delta IV ($435m).

    Someone else will have to run development costs (the GSLV MK3 costs $400m (the cryo engine was a real cost sink), not including the earlier versions and development cost of PSLV). But overall, it should be cheaper that outsourcing, especially when your costs are much lower than everyone else, and you can launch satellites for other countries.

    Also keep in mind that, yesterday's launch is supposed to have unspecified military uses (probably just communications). It is not possible to outsource your military sats to other nations. Plus if it comes to it, you can claim part ownership of mars and moon (why do you think every country wants their flag on it). Plus, you will need most of the rocket tech for your missiles anyways. Add to this that your money doesnt end up in another country, and you are giving it to the people in the country (you will be consuming some of the top human resources in your country, and very tiny portion of the raw materials used in your country, but it is still a net benefit for you)

  23. Re:Not marines, just passengers on Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France · · Score: 1

    Of course, the SJW press is busily trying to not call him a terrorist, despite the plain evidence that he was, and was even known for his previous involvement with jihadists.

    Blame the European counterterrorism officals for that. "The train attack has not officially been classified as an act of terrorism, although the senior European counterterrorism official indicated it could be." -- CNN. Also blame the right, for jumping the gun and calling it a terrorist attack immediately .

  24. Re:Ouch? on More Ashley Madison Files Published · · Score: 1

    Thankfully the database has a verified flag. The ones you list dont have the verified flag set.

  25. Re:Yeah, right. on Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your take on that comment was that he was turning a blind eye? To me it seemed like a lament, that privacy is dead. Long live privacy.