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  1. Re:General Electric on US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 · · Score: 1

    GE did not pay zero taxes. That's just bad reporting from the NY Times.

    http://www.factcheck.org/2012/04/warren-ge-pays-no-taxes/

  2. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 1

    Why install a router? That's a HELL of a lot more expensive than a splitter. It's not the right piece of equipment for this job.

    As far as the entire contents of the data stream being sent to some other location, Klein does not state that in either the deposition or his interview that I linked to that this was happening.

    Plus why would you install the Narus in SF if you had some central location with all the traffic? It would be more logical to place the DPI operation at this central location.

    I think collection of the data and sending it to another location is just something the tinfoil had crowd has made up. It doesn't make sense in any way. Collection of all the internet traffic would require a shadow internet with the capacity of the entire internet.

    It is a far more sane idea to do the data extraction at the telecom hubs.

  3. Re:two wrongs dont make a right on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 3

    Apprentice. Disney was the primary advocate and beneficiary of the Sonny Bono Act.

  4. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 1

    How the hell are you going to get the signal to the DPI infrastructure without installing a splitter?

  5. Re:Logistically impractical on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 1

    Of course. Big infrastructure isn't off the self. It takes time.

  6. Re:Logistically impractical on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 1

    So extrapolations say by the end of 2015 we are going to have a 1 zettabyte per year run rate.

    that would be 1x10^21. Divide by 3.5x10^9 => 3x10^11

    That's about half of the 2011 world production of hard drives.

    If they are doing it now, they aren't going to be able to keep it up for long.

  7. Re:Logistically impractical on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 1

    So you are saying the NSA flooded Thailand to hide it's purchase of hard drives?

  8. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 4, Informative

    DPI = deep packet inspection. A TCP/IP packet contains header(s) and body. The header tells you the address and some info re the protocol. The body is the content. Most internet infrastructure only cares about the header. Something that is capable of DPI will recover the content of some types of packets. Which ones depends on the capability of the DPI unit you use.

    So if you want to search for email sent to joe@there.com you need to use DPI because the email header is in the body.

    Use of a splitter is step one for DPI.

    This article talks about the AT&T / Mark Klein incident:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection#United_States

  9. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is Klein's statement.

    https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/SER_klein_decl.pdf

    The splitter sent the internet traffic to a secure room.

    And another interview with Klein:

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interviews/klein.html

    It's pretty obvious that room contained a Narus DPI. End of story.

  10. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 4, Informative

    A switch room that contains a deep packet scanner is not the same thing as sending ALL internet traffic to a storage system. More likely it's just a tap.

    The thing that makes me doubt this is the cost. To funnel a copy of the internet to the Feds would require building a shadow internet plus storage for the whole thing.

  11. Re:Yawn on Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million · · Score: 1

    One season of locally cold weather is a simple fluctuation. You need to consider all the data.

    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/08/16413805-noaa-2012-was-warmest-year-ever-for-us-second-most-extreme?lite

  12. Re:Call me a denier for asking a question on Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million · · Score: 1

    Somebody isn't giving you the current science on this topic.

    The early to the beginning of the late Ordovician was very hot, and had the highest sea levels of the Paleozoic due to those high levels of CO2 from vulcanism.

    In the late Ordovician vulcanism subsided and the earth cooled due to the drop in CO2 to the point where there was an ice age and mass extinction events.

    http://www.skepticalscience.com/CO2-levels-during-the-late-Ordovician.html

  13. EPA? on EPA: No Single Cause For Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 1

    The report seems to be from the USDA, not the EPA. There are some contributors from the EPA though.

  14. Re:Drunk! on EPA: No Single Cause For Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 1

    It's not that simple.

    Some countries like Switzerland that don't have

    2. Introduction of pesticide

    do have

    3. Bees die.

    While other countries like Australia that have

    2. Introduction of pesticide

    don't have

    3. Bees die.

  15. Re:This EPA announcement brought to you by... on EPA: No Single Cause For Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 1, Informative

    Monsanto does not produce neonicitinoids.

  16. Depends on Risk on Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    If it's a bleeding edge thing yes I will buy an extended warranty.

    For example I bought an extended warranty on my first large screen TV. Good thing I did too becuase the guts failed twice on it and I ended up with 3x the warranty cost being free repairs. Later ones are a lot cheaper and a lot more reliable.

    Other stuff not so much. I bought one on a car because of the price - 8 year coverage for $1000 on a $40,000 car. Odds are pretty favorable the this one will pay off.

  17. Re: Good on Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I don't agree with anything you have said. Every state in the US allows adoption by single parents. It's not an argument.

    Another fact of the matter is that there is research that shows gay parents on average get just as good results as hetero parents and better than single parents, and far better than foster homes. Gay parents after all have to make a real commitment to the process before getting a child. What matters most seems to be the number of parents.

    The idea that states have a right to reject marriage certificates from other states is completely preposterous. The Constitution forbids such a thing in Article Four.

  18. Re: Good on Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    The Necessary and Proper, the General Welfare clause and the Commerce clause give the federal government a lot of power.

    Add this to the fact that the 10th Amendment does not contain the word 'explicitly' and you have a bunch of implied powers.

    Hamilton's argument of sovereignty was also adopted by the Supreme Court in 1811 giving the Federal Government a lot of flexibility.

  19. Re: Good on Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    The Constitution makes it very clear that states are supposed to accept each other's laws.

    It's something the Founders thought made a LOT of sense.

    Article Four: "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State"

    DOMA is unconstitutional just based on the fact that it attempts to get in the way of this process. It really is a miserable shitty law in every respect.

  20. Re: Good on Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    EIGHT Federal Courts have found section 3 of DOMA to be unconstitutional on various grounds.

    It's just taken time for the cases to get to the Supreme Court.

  21. Re: Good on Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    Lots of things aren't mentioned in the Constitution. This is why we have the 9th Amendment which makes it CRYSTAL CLEAR that the Constitution does not contain an enumeration of the rights of the people, and that not listing a right means nothing about whether or not such a right exists.

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

  22. Re: Good on Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    The problem with banning gay marriage is the ideal of equal protection under the law, which is expressed in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

    States and the Federal Government pass laws that give tax benefits and other privileges to married couples, and then pass laws that restrict people from marrying based on sex.

    This fundamentally wrong. It's enshrined in the 14th Amendment that "no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

    There are only two ways around this. Remove laws that give privileges to married couples or make gay marriage legal.

    You can't have a situation where your laws grant privileges to a specific group of people and not others. It is fundamentally WRONG.

  23. Re:Why? on Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected · · Score: 2

    Those massive abuses may still be less destructive than what we have now.

  24. Re:Out of the frying pan.... on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    The correlation has some quite notable exeptions, including the continent of Austrailia and parts of Europe including France and Switzerland where neonicinoids are not used.

    http://www.vicbeekeepers.com.au/what-is-wrong-with-our-bees-.html

  25. Exponential Growth on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    Some other resource will limit growth.

    Duh.

    The most important video.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFnrvcS6AQ