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  1. Re:Cops can get away with it unfortunately on Audio Surveillance, Intended to Detect Gunshots, Can Pick Up Much More · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A system where they are fired and sent to jail for 20 years as a federal crime would help a bit as well.

  2. Re:The real problem on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1

    The solution is in the DMCA already they are required to state specifics, fails to do so and have it rejected as an improper notice. Godaddy wants to do the least possible amount of work try a real hosting provider not the cheapest guys on the block.

  3. Re:Yeah, if you use a magnifying glass on Obama To Agencies: Optimize Web Content For Mobile · · Score: 1

    And if you coding your pages well they do not care. How something looks is a end device issue, you just need to give it enough contextual information to be useful not play typesetter.

  4. Re:Just create accessible web sites on Obama To Agencies: Optimize Web Content For Mobile · · Score: 1

    Oh please for the love of no.

    Can we throw in some animated gif under construction signs while were at it?

  5. Re:Amount of information per page on Obama To Agencies: Optimize Web Content For Mobile · · Score: 1

    For a mobile browser I want the same to more information per page sine 3g and 4g the latency to get things going is fairly high while the end device has plenty of room (I am not talking about J2ME type handsets). Since if it's well written it can render the page with very little of it actually downloaded.

  6. Just create accessible web sites on Obama To Agencies: Optimize Web Content For Mobile · · Score: 0

    If the web site is accessible it will work well on mobile. Ditch the piles of eye candy and put information there and it should work fine. PS flash and java script is not allowed anywhere ever.

  7. Re:Complicated on Florida VoIP Provider Files Net Neutrality Complaint With FCC · · Score: 1

    I would tend to want to avoid municiple internet though I think there role should be fiber to the home. Where they just take care of the fiber and manage the cross patching to whoever wants to provide services. Could they be a provider for services above that sure just not the only ones.

  8. Re:NTP - wrong answer on Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't · · Score: 1

    Consider that they need not even setup a dedicated server, most core networking gear can provide authenticated NTP by itself with a battery backed up RTC with enough accuracy to keep within a few seconds a year. Consider that some of these devices already have a network connection to talk back to the EMR software anyways.

    Setting up a whole new standard is foolhardy, setting up a RF based standard in a hospital setting is looking for trouble. Adding a procedure that needs to be done is just adding cost. It wont be just press the button it will be a 4 hour training seminar. How will you secure this? Will each device have a different dance to sync it's time?

  9. Re:How the money could better have been spent on West Virginia Buys $22K Routers With Stimulus, Puts Them In Small Schools · · Score: 1

    You know all those small ugly boxes they have been strapping to poles for the last 20 years that is the new CO. It's technically possible just not necessarily profitable this year or this quarter and that's all they are concerned about.

  10. Old Java on Why You Can't Dump Java (Even Though You Want To) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately a lot of us have to keep old versions of java around and apps are free to ask for old versions and get them. Java for being "portable" is far far from it every java app only seems to works on a specific range of java versions. You know those fun apps networking kit seems to love. Work with a few different vendors and different version of there firmware and quickly you need a half dozen outdated versions installed.

  11. Re:When can I shut it down? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    They may own it but it does not give them the right to shut it off. Emergency calls must make it through, the system does not care if the phone has an account was stolen etc 911 just works. They took down part of an emergency service with no technical reason. Wireless services are using the public space to make money that comes with responsibility.

    Hopefully the FCC does it job to insure this never happens again. Doubtful but I can hope. Protesters in a public space, is that not part of what public spaces are for?

  12. Re:Never? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 2

    Yup and we could save lives by only letting truckers and buss drivers on the roads. Life is a risk accept that. Now I am all behind the existing system were the government can prioritize there own wireless traffic in an emergency.

  13. Two Words on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 2

    Joss Whedon he generally does not make junk films. The movie did not suffer because it did not suck.

  14. Re:Slashvertisement on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    It's all about the monitor. Are you running at least 1080P? HDTV has done a horrid thing and effectively keeping displays at or close to HD res there are very view monitors that will do more than 1920*1080 some pack some more vertical pixels in at 1920*1200 with a 16x10 ratio. Anyways it's rather easy for a few year old card to run maxed out if you only running an average display 1366x768 was the most predominant per http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_resolution_higher.asp and that's really not a lot of pixels.

  15. Re:Avoiding The Man 101 on Osama Bin Laden Didn't Encrypt His Files · · Score: 1

    True but without a key can not divulge anything about the documents nor can they be forced to deliver false documents either. Throw is a good old spy dead drop and they might not even know who they are giving it to or receiving it from.

    Spy craft was probably not his strong suit, you know with all that hatred and general jihad bits taking up all his time.

  16. Re:Avoiding The Man 101 on Osama Bin Laden Didn't Encrypt His Files · · Score: 1

    Consider that he used people to move data a lot. PGP and the like would make a lot of sense for his underlings to be able to know it came from him and insure the intermediaries could not decode it.

  17. Re:So What Was the FBI Supposed to Do? on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    Funny they do this all the time, they had no reason to suspect the server owners of anything. I work in the colo space getting a few request like this is a week is not uncommon (70k physical servers, easy to have hundreds of hosting VM's per server each with hundreds of web sites each and it's easy to have a few million web sites pointed in your direction). We collect up the info that was requested and charge them for our time to do so. They had no reasonable reason to suspect the colo of anything, possibly one of there tenants, and probably one of there tenants users.

  18. Re:So What Was the FBI Supposed to Do? on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    The responsible thing would have been to request the information from the server owners. They got heavy handed when they seized it effectively ruining any goodwill with the people most able to help them. Honestly the last thing you want to do it turn a server off. If spammers can figure out how to use encrypted VM's somebody else covering there tracks sure can.

    Having dealt with the FBI computer people would say this about on par with the shoddy work they seem to do. Fire the lot and let the SS computer guys take over they have a clue, understand that it's part of there job to be polite and efficient.

  19. Re:What about the price? on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 1

    Roughly authors make about 10%, publishers 40%, distributors 10% and retailers 40%. Ebooks can effectively cut out the retailer and distributor completely. Publishers are already taking care of marketing and have reduced costs (about 10% of gross to phonically print it ship it handle returns etc goes away). Amazon's publicly available price for ebooks it a 30% cut so ebooks should be roughly 70% of the cost of a new physical book just with everybody making the same amount. Factor in that the DRM laden versions precluded resale pricing should be even lower while keeping profits the same.

    Now business do not work to keep profits flat they want to make more that's what businesses do. Some companies have reacted to ebooks as something new and scary and shunned them other have embraced them. Individual authors have looked at moving from 10% ish royalties to 70% and self published/formed there own publishing staff as a fixed cost. The reality is an author can self publish with very very little up front cost. Perhaps there is a new market for commissions based marketing firms in the publishing industry to replace the traditional publishers role.

  20. Re:Wouldn't that reduce the financial burden? on Telcos Oppose Bill To Respect 4th Amendment · · Score: 2

    Burden? As a third party they get to charge for there efforts.

  21. Re:And that, ladies and gentlemen on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Religion != people religion has no right to dictate directly to governments, people do. In a lot of ways I would love to see the separation of church and state run both ways, the state does not mess with churches and churches stay out of politics. The state should never implement church doctrine as law, rather implement the minimal set of laws that are required for civil society. That would let the church go back to working on morals and the state out of enforcing them.

  22. Re:Use Satellites on Iraq Emerges From Isolation As Telecommunications Hub · · Score: 1

    They each go the same distance at about the same speed. Spot beams have been the laser of RF for a long time. They can relieve the congestion but not the latency and that's the killer issue. The fix for sats was leo clouds rather than goe sync to get the distance down. It was tried and pretty much failed, leo needs a lot of sats that need to be replaced often vs geo's one bird will do 1/3 the planet fairly easily and lasts 10-15 years.

  23. Re:Zip disks filled a gap reasonably well... on 30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette · · Score: 1

    Even better I remember that the cheaper lpt zip drives were really the scsi version with a lpt to scsi controller. So you could mod the unit to act as a cheap and slow scsi controller and/or attach it tot he faster more reliable scsi buss.

  24. Re:I know what you're talking about on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1

    And you loose the ability to separate the required monopoly and the services. We did this model with phones, the fiber is actually cheaper so I do not see it being a big issue. Once you have a smart box in the middle that the monopoly has to take care of. If you give them a point to charge for something more than an connection they will try to. The whole point is to keep the monopoly paws out of what your delivering and sell to anybody for the same price.

  25. Re:Lots more than just CPU and transfer resistors. on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1

    FCIP, iSCSI they all HATE latency in sync mode and async gets scary quick. CDWM is dirt cheap read under 1k even with the cisco badge on it and good kit for under a few hundred. No power no OS just optics not much to go wrong if you don't hit it with something and break it.