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  1. Re:Arrested for knowledge? WTF? on Man Who Downloaded Bomb Recipes Jailed For 2 Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Think of it from the other side too, if I had a USB stick full of credit card numbers (yours & your families, let's make it personal), and I told the fed I got them accidentally and was merely researching the sequencing credit card companies used for the their # assignments, does that sound like I'd be in the clear?

    It's probably OK to look up what he had, but saving it to your computer is personalizing the information (ex. WHY do you have those credit card #s?)

    I hate to say but he would probably have been fine w a better lawyer. Intent is not action. If they found explosives at his house, now that's another story...

  2. Re:Ah, nothing like corporate greed on AT&T Threatening To Raise Rates After Merger Failure · · Score: 1

    Is there an echo in here?

  3. Re:Who cares on Jailbreaking Could Soon Become Illegal Again · · Score: 1

    That's an Apple philosophy in general: Apple products only work with Apple accessories, that's why there's so little 3rd party stuff available for Apple compared to say everybody else. And they make bank on accessories to (a long long time ago in a retail store long dead managers got hard over accessory % sales) so don't expect them to be gentle...

  4. Re:Who cares on Jailbreaking Could Soon Become Illegal Again · · Score: 1

    People tend to do a lot better at action when their back's up against the wall, until then...

  5. Ah, nothing like corporate greed on AT&T Threatening To Raise Rates After Merger Failure · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the public's defense, At&t's 4g is a joke that's lost all humor, & they drop calls like it's going out of style. Sounds more like they're saying "we can't compete without this merger". My advice = fix your customer service then your revenue margins.

  6. Re:Again with the visas on America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware · · Score: 1

    Highly skilled workers create jobs for others by doing their job to a superior level thus allowing business expansion for one. Just ask India...

  7. Re:Oh yes, software on America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware · · Score: 1

    Yep, it's crazy to see a few people manage a plot of land where the fence is in the horizon, but that's where technology's gotten us.

  8. Re:Streisand Effect, anyone? on Twitter Can Now Block Tweets In Specific Countries · · Score: 1

    Also, it might sometimes beat the alternative, which is taking it out on the people... but is stopping a revolutionary tweet in a country riffled w fear and oppression really the right thing to do? I agree it's not twitters responsibility and that they are a business and want the web traffic, but then it speaks for twitter and that is that they are "just" a business and should be treated as such > they will do what and only what nets them profit.

  9. Re:That's crappy on Pentagon Drafts Kids To Build Drones and Robots · · Score: 1

    WWI & again in WWII???

  10. Re:Perhaps a less sensitive subject? on Object Lesson in Non-Transparency At Energy.gov · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But but but, let's back up a minute here. The government trying to purposefully obfuscate sensitive data on a website? Realize they wouldn't publish truly sensitive data here... also, when has the government ever made a user friendly, easy to navigate website? There are projects out there that scrape government websites into better websites to present data. It's more a testament to our IT fail than deliberate vagueness.

  11. Re:sounds sucky. on Book Review: The Tangled Web · · Score: 1

    But, it's often not the code that secures the application... rather the underlying technologies... much of the modern applications they're referring to sit behind a username / password over https that requires brute force (99.9% of the time unfeasible). The ones that aren't have much higher security research budgets than this book did :)

    Cross site (XSS) & sql injection are real threats, but are they really the weakest link usually?

    Coming from a guy who's dba in college left a test server w/o a root password for 1+ years.

  12. Re:Except... on Book Review: The Tangled Web · · Score: 1

    Yep, I remember only the 1st book from highschool, however I remember the explanations being mostly literal as well. At times it was hard enough interpreting the text. I think to really get into it you'd probably have to read it at least 3-4 times in the entirety of the trilogy. Alternatively you can get/have a life :)

  13. Re:500 million?? on Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads · · Score: 1

    I'd be a lot more worried about google saying they've had enough and taking their business off shore, but hopefully we're still a ways from that happening...

  14. Re:Woo-hoo! I hope there's lots of sex! on Julian Assange To Host Talk Show · · Score: 1

    1st shown on hbo and later edited for content on cable :)

  15. Re:heart's in the right place, but on Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Code · · Score: 1

    I didn't miss, but I didn't weigh it proper either it seems, "learning calculus" is very broad, sounds extensive though since you point it out. My point in general is when you have a passion for something, pursue it in the real world (, rather than the academic. That way you can secure your passion / talent as your source of bread eventually as well. W/e you do w/ it though don't become an accountant... :)

    Maybe something like... http://www.intmath.com/applications-integration/applications-integrals-intro.php ?

  16. Re:Load of bull on Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Code · · Score: 1

    The OP your replying to is probably trolling, or ignorant / debarred from IT, but... there was time when aged programmers had issues w skillset / job finding and that was during the .com bust. The market became saturated w unemployed "IT", and server based programming was becoming more of a req., as well as stuff like jscript and css. So all these HTML people suddenly couldn't compete, thus the skill gap.

    From what I've seen in the industry, there's a niche for every skill, it can easily cost millions of dollars to upgrade an IT system, and people still run mainframes, .NET 1.1, outdated PHP, classic asp in mass. So while you may not land EVERY job on the market w an outdated skillset, the ones you do land tend to be more niched and thus higher paying :)

  17. Re:heart's in the right place, but on Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Code · · Score: 1

    Why constrain to the school though? Find some real world math problems and work on those, or join a math club (I'm assuming your school doesn't have one) in the community.

  18. Re:heart's in the right place, but on Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Code · · Score: 1

    Your confusing using facebook with administrating a computer. The same delusion, a lot of gamers share: being on the computer all day doesn't equal being good at using the computer.

  19. Re:So when did... on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone was late to show the show and is jealous.

  20. Re:Don't Be Evil on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil · · Score: 1

    Great, so i think it's more than fair to say, if you don't have a fb account, don't use fb? Surely money is not the issue here when it comes to fb accounts lol. Not sure what your expecting from them lol. There's an old phrase that comes to mind though: want much, get little.

  21. Re:Don't Be Evil on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil · · Score: 2

    You've got to ask yourself at the end of the day: how much do I really care about this?

    Seriously, who actually uses google to find fb and twitter posts when those sites have their own search?

    This is about $, not ethics, in the sense of fb and twitter and myspace wanting to make more with google's good will this time. Sounds more like a jest / proof of ethics than an actual feature request.

  22. Re:They're also stupidly overpriced on Apple Nets 350K Textbook Downloads In 3 Days · · Score: 1

    Too late to tell you now, but you CAN probably share that analysis textbook w a buddy for 1/2 price. This works because system analysis depends heavily on stats and common sense. At least I remember not having to use mine a whole lot.

    Past that, it depends on somebody's learning style as to the value of the textbook.. will I ever use it again? For me the answer is 95% no. The 5% I gave to a friend LOL (asp.net 1.1), they've come out w asp.net 4.0 since then (not all as forward think as you might believe). My point is, in fields that are NOT IT, those textbooks could benefit a lifetime, granted an ebook would do the same, but I don't know, it's just not the same... possibly due to eye strain?

  23. Re:Not to mention... on Apple Nets 350K Textbook Downloads In 3 Days · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, but remember some books like say your biology textbook, benefit greatly from this refresh, but a writing book??? Sounds like a partial racket, confirmed by 1k+ college textbook bills. Irregardless of research, some people are making bank on this.

  24. Re:Don't Be Evil on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil · · Score: 2

    That's redundant because neither is private google+ data.

    I think the landscape of the internet has changed too much, google is competing with facebook (google+), twitter (buzz, though it failed), and myspace (what competition, these guys still around??). Business 101 implies you do not offer your services to competitors. Google does have one big thing the rest don't, and that's a search engine, it kind of screws fb and twitter that they leverage it against them, but it's theirs to leverage.

    At least google's learned their lesson and you have to "opt-in" to it. Facebook still randomly rolls features out.

  25. Re:Abolish copyrights and patents. on The Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Bring SOPA To Canada · · Score: 1

    Ok, riddle me this: I'm an inventor, I invented a piece of software that replaces ms outlook with a superior client (friends & family told me).

    Do I...

    go get a DVD burner and start making discs of my software?

    File a patent and let a factory make the disks and handle the marketing when they buy the rights to my product? (I am entitled a split moving forward here usually)

    Our system in place is a joke, along w the rest of the bureaucratic US government, however...

    You need to protect the inventors too. While the RIAA & MPAA have been abusing the shit out of this system, it's cause the system is flawed, but... that doesn't mean we can "just abolish it". Abolishing it would effectively stop our inventive progress because suddenly its not worth inventing something cause the bigger guy will just out market and out produce you. The system needs to be fixed to be in the 21st century, the fact that it hasn't is a flaw of the government and the copyright people are just vultures trying to feed off a dying carcass.