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  1. Re:Yeah, only if one speaks in extremely low tones on Extracting Audio From Visual Information · · Score: 2

    Because your emitting something sending that IR laser to do it. This is completely passive.

  2. Re:Applies oversea or applies to local access? on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 1

    The problem is that is a direct analogy this is a third party. This is forcing a neutral third party to potentially commit a crime because a us court ordered them to.

  3. Re:Moving information for Freedom.... on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 1

    No it should not. Getting a warrant in the country the data is stored is not a high bar. Yes this means in most civilized countries you can not get a warrant to look for something that is legal there. This is a good thing.

    In this particular case it looks like the DOJ is fishing as getting a court order in Ireland for a legit criminal case should be easy.

  4. Re:Like extradition, but for evidence on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea it's called asking a judge in Ireland.

  5. Re:Oh think of the fun when drivers update firmwar on "BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" · · Score: 1

    One example given was a keyboard that can guess your password (watch for the first string you type) and then wakes up your pc in the wee hours to send the keylog to collections web sites. You need not install anything into the OS.

    We already know that the NSA has swapped hardware in transit. This just makes it even easier. Often their is no facility to read the firmware back from these devices without physically accessing it and even then it may not be possible.

  6. Re:Oh think of the fun when drivers update firmwar on "BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" · · Score: 1

    http://www.usb.org/developers/... has been around for a decade and a half. I'm sitting in front of a USB mouse that gets firmware updates. I've flashed USB keys with new firmware. USB devices can and do contain nonvolatile firmware not just flash drives and not just what is general accessed by the OS.

  7. Re:Oh think of the fun when drivers update firmwar on "BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" · · Score: 1

    I'll repeat.

    Sure this is the case with any hardware and MS but you would assume a secure facility would lock it down. But USB now you have the sneaker net issues.

  8. Oh think of the fun when drivers update firmware on "BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" · · Score: 1, Troll

    Windows loves to install USB drivers for all sorts of things. A couple NSA letters later and MS is now sending NSA payloads. They do not even have to ever touch the hardware.

    Sure this is the case with any hardware and MS but you would assume a secure facility would lock it down. But USB now you have the sneaker net issues.

  9. Re:It Depends on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 1

    Yes you should config iptables, If you thing all it's supposed to do is block inbound access your not really using it well. You should be locking down outbound as well per user/group. So rules for a LAMP stack box might only allow some very specific outbound connections from nobody, outbound packets to your log server, outbound connections to your config server and inbound connections to SSH from your jump box. Frankly I would not run a LAMP box in the modern day rather splitting up a web server box a DB box running on top of a VM server. Possibly adding in an application specific firewall/proxy/load balance VM in front. Allowing for you to expand laterally as needed.

    Mind you I nearly never see just a LAMP box, you end up with an ecosystem once you add in backup, separate storage and compute tiers, management and monitoring applications etc etc etc.

  10. Re:Moved and still they call on Comcast Confessions · · Score: 1

    I sorta did that with AT&T, ordering DSL I specifically told them that the phone line was down from the pole to the house and they needed to dispatch a tech to correct that. Was using my own DSL modem and waiting to see that they had come out and fixed it. I got a bill for service and took nearly an hour and 2 escalations to figure out the wire did not connect to my house yet meant they had not provided service yet.

  11. Re:Comcast Business is anything but! on Comcast Confessions · · Score: 1

    This is a problem all over the world with ISP's providing "smart" devices now often incapable of running in dumb mode. Buy your own modem 60-100 bucks at staples solves a lot of hassles since the tier 1 guys do know how to activate a customer owned cable modem (or DSL box for that matter). Frankly the concept of my ISP running my firewall scares me.

  12. Re:Don't allow missils to be fired... on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    So one of two things needs to happen, an internal uprising overthrowing hamas or an external invasion to liberate them. I think that falls under my options 2 hit them with cluebats.

  13. Moved and still they call on Comcast Confessions · · Score: 1

    So I moved out of a Comcast area. It was 3 rounds of what can we do to keep you, to cancel. Apparently I no longer live in a Comcast area is to hard to process. I've since gotten a call trying to get me back.

    I ready did not have much of a problem with internet from them, though my new Optimum service is faster and cheaper (75/25)

  14. Re:Hamas Is 100 Percent of the Problem on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Last I checked they are the ones refusing a cease fire to allow humanitarian aid so pretty hard to spin that PR.

  15. Re:Don't allow missils to be fired... on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Who is calling for the finial solution? Frankly even evacuating that whole hellhole and glassing it over the religious extremists would fight over the radioactive glass. The long term solution is education people so they can understand that religion by definition is insane.

    As to understanding the means that a countries military is capable of or that half a century of war gives people reason to do, has nothing to do with the Finial Solution nor is this even close to the scale of what the Nazi's inflicted on the Jews and others.

    I see a lot of complaining about a disproportionate response, would you tell a police offers that if they get punched they can only punch back just as hard? Should a thief just have to give the stuff back when caught? No nearly universally justice demands a much harsher response to deter others from doing the same. This conflict will not end until the Gazan's (sp) figure out peace is in their collective best interest for the long term.

  16. Re:Who does the NSA report to? on Senate Bill Would Ban Most Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Sure but they can write one order that is public and countermand it with the next classified one so you need something from congress since we still can not make secret laws.

  17. Re:Hamas Is 100 Percent of the Problem on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    It's not much of a blockade if the are not hurting. Isn't the point that once they are hungry enough they will elect a leadership with a clue that wants peace and will stop the attacks? Pretty sure they do not want them to starve to death bad PR and enough of the old folks remember how nasty that is. But hunger is a good motivator to break a defiant population.

  18. Re:Don't allow missils to be fired... on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is the point of the blockade isn't it? Getting Gaza to capitulate and figure out it does not hold the upper hand. They are perfectly capable of leveling Gaza and frankly have more than enough reason to do so. They want a neighbor that will not attack them and will work aggressively to stop terrorist from doing the same. The Gazans are free to elect somebody that is willing to and can do just that or hit there current people with enough cluebats to make it happen.

  19. Re:I thought it wasnt possible on A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World · · Score: 0

    When talking about lossy compression for video it might technically work but it's still worthless. For example my highly proprietary heavily patented postage stamp algorithm reduces all video down to 90 era dialup rate mpeg 2 aka a blurry postage stamp. This means it's massively compressed and very quick so it scores high on both metrics. It also looks like crap. Output quality and ratio are generally the metrics that matter and output quality is a subjective factor that needs to be determined by humans. How long it takes to encode is general a non factor as outside of live encoding it's a one time event. The other factor is how hard is it to decode generally not an issue right now.

  20. Re:You can't sell what you don't have! on Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE · · Score: 1

    Yet they show 49.5% profit on wireless last year.

  21. Re:Alternative explanation on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    But that is not how the internet has traditionally worked. Teir 1 providers (those that pay nobody for bandwidth) which L3 and Verizon are do not pay each other ever. L3 is more than happy to increase port capacity/count and Verizon is refusing to do so. Put more simply Verizon is refusing to increase capacity in hopes to get the Comcast deal with Netflix. Netflix is also happy to give Verizon CDN gear to deploy on their network again a common practice.

    Verizon is a teir 1 but pretty much an eyeball network, they send very little traffic compared to what they consume. They are effectively gaming the settlement free peering that has made the internet work to date in attempt to extort netflix and the like to buy their more expansive bandwidth to use their CDN etc etc. If you extend that logically we fall back to the walled garden days of compuserve aol etc which seems to what Verizon wants people paying to consume the things they are getting payed to send them.

    For the obligatorily car analogy it's the car dealership making the factory pay them to take the cars and making the consumer pay for the car irregardless if it's the one they want coupled with the government only allowing a couple car dealerships sell to people in a given area, effectively take what they offer or get nothing.

  22. Re:Good to hear on Switching From Microsoft Office To LibreOffice Saves Toulouse 1 Million Euros · · Score: 1

    It's native objects can look rather childish, look at the cloud object that looks like something from ms paint for an example. But the big issue for me is it's missing the tools built around visio. Network discovery being the big one. Sure could I hack something together to use an existing tool and get the objects into Dia. I may be wrong as it's been awhile since I looked at it.

  23. Re:can be done on Two Cities Ask the FCC To Preempt State Laws Banning Municipal Fiber Internet · · Score: 1

    Frankly if this is done right the muni primarily provides the natural monopoly portion, just the glass back to the CO, no active gear on poles etc. At the CO they could provide power/cooling and implement there own layer 2/3 network to act as an ISP.

    CWDM makes it easy to have a muni network and 8+ other networks on a single fiber. A muni might also resell it's active infrastructure allowing smaller players to enter a market and for efficiency serving lower utilization clients. Besides internet access it's fairly simple to provide library, school and government web site access via a google like install fee to cover costs. Offering metro area network type services is an easy add on, point to point via a dark channel and lit services and multipoint via lit services can be a huge boon to companies. Companies can fill in back-hauling to telco hotels and other muni's allowing for meta services to be built on top much like today's long haul fiber market.

  24. Re:almost should have let her call on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Sure hey TSA idiots arrest this guy. Hell probably try and have it covered under the obey all instructions of the flight staff BS.

  25. Re:File with the FCC on How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads · · Score: 1

    At this point you would have to be buying decade old networking gear to not support ipv6. I would stick away from cisco for a school and many other places as real lifetime support on networking gear is built in by HP etc so cisco's TCO sucks, tack on the support bait and switch you need a service contact BS.

    From the sounds of this district it's extremely poor, internet access can be a game changer in education for the kids and their parents.