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  1. Re:Just another corrupt judge on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 0

    He gave his daughter corporal punishment, this is different than child abuse. Am I missing something?

  2. Re:The Feds agreed it was a search on Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IF they have a warrant for a targeted wiretap why not go to verizon??? This device exists so they can avoid having to get warrants all the paperwork etc that verizon might require. The FCC should come down on them hard unless for impersonating a cell tower they did not have the rights to use those frequencies. It sounds like they are trying to use there few legit cases to justify them having and using these devices.

    How long before the real criminals figure out how to use encrypted voip? I already have this on my phone connecting me to the office pbx.

  3. Re:Regulators vs. legislators on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    It works fine at a local level it's just not fast enough for some people. The feds have pushed into everywhere under the name of civil rights. Yes there will be bad things like the tyranny of the majority. The problem is the local majority is a short lived problem the fed only gets more and more power.

  4. Re:Single distro? on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that there is little to no vendor support outside of centos/redhat. If there is a serious bug in centos rolling your own replacement rpm is pretty straight froward.

  5. Re:Make broadband a tariffed, regulated utility on Rural Broadband to Replace POTS As Beneficiary of US Gov't Subsidies · · Score: 1

    Yup and thus why I suggest the state do what they can be good at basic infrastructure. With a just fiber passive system they are not getting into bandwidth uses etc. It's more like the FCC here is the available spectrum (per house) there are 8-18 CWDM channels each 2.5 gbps at about 60km range. The splitters and combiners are all passive devices no power needed. Once you get past that 60km those users might need to be served by DWDM it costs a bit more one time ot get the gear but can be amplified along the trunk and the amplification is agnostic to bit-rate etc. Big carrier can colo some switch gear at the co or near it via fiber back haul. A small ISP could just colo some switch gear and back-haul to own offices, A wifi ISP could contract with homes/business where they want to put an AP (possibly trading a fiber internet connection). Expand it out and you will watch the likes of cogent put a switch in every major CO if nothing else but to feed there switches in multi tenant business locations, so small ISP's could pick up $1 a megabit and cheaper bandwidth. Long haul fiber companies will quickly interconnect all the CO's so they can pick up new business without the costly local loop installs.

  6. Re:Make broadband a tariffed, regulated utility on Rural Broadband to Replace POTS As Beneficiary of US Gov't Subsidies · · Score: 2

    Split the different run a pair of single mode fiber to each home/business back to a CO, allow all comers to rent space or bring fiber to these CO's. Sounds like something better to do with 4 billion a year. Since it can all be doen with passive optics it's realy cheap CWDM and that gets 10 gigabits or more to each and every house.

  7. Re:Bugs like the 21 email systems in Ag? on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 1

    It's freaken email. I've got tens of million emails accounts sitting on a stack of servers that would fit in a single rack and is three way redundant (local mirroring and async over the wan to the DR site). Is it that hard to setup clustered email? We have been dealing with email for over 20 years it's easy to scale out. LDAP for users, config etc. Inbound and outbound AV/SPAM filters IMAP/POP/Webmail/Sync frontends and back end message storage. What are they running exchange? Even that can deal with spreading out the load (it's realy not a bad email platform after you remove the silly gui stuff).

    I would bet they did silly things like used email for inter systems message passing (oracle and the like only supporting email and ftp for so many years as a built in).

  8. Re:I like the Switzerland model on Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders? · · Score: 1

    The big issue is we have multiple incompatible networks unlike the eu. Some of those networks even had innovative tech. Nextels 2way service that even worked handset to handset when out of range of towers, Sprint bought them out and killed it. Granted with software radio's that we use now it would not seem to hard to make a universal phone in the US.

  9. Re:Whos fault? HTC or Verizon? on Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders? · · Score: 1

    Thats one hell of an end run around the requirement for the spectrum. They are still knowingly selling a non compliant phone would seem reasonable they would need to stop selling defective phones and replace the ones they sold.

  10. Re:Still a grind on Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria · · Score: 1

    The only things that kills anything but the tank in dungeons and raids is standing in fire or grabbing aggro. Those are each learn to play issues. Mages have a pile of get out a jail free cards to play. If your dead and your ice block and blink are not on cd you have nobody to blame but yourself. Wow is a very easy game until hard mode raiding.

  11. Re:A bit thin-skinned... on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 1

    And when they are ready for prime time it sound like a great option. Right now range and recharge times couple together is a significant factor. Keeping the 60-100 mile range of the existing bits if you can get the recharge time down to a few minutes the range is bad but stopping every hour is not that horrid. Allowing for home charging would also be nice I would worry about the long term viability of petrol stations would seem there would be a doughnut effect were cities might need only a few since recharging in parking garages could be offered suburbs would not they have garages it would be mainly across the interstates where people are taking long drives and rural area's where 60 miles barely gets you into town and back.

  12. Re:OCZ on OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD · · Score: 2

    It's not so easy they require reads to write. Say you have 5 drives that's 4 blocks of data and 1 block of parity info the OS has to be able to write out as little as a single block so you have to read 4 blocks then write out 5. In reality the stripe size is bigger than one block. Now the controller has to handle a pile of these at the same time, all real raid controllers do this in hardware. Not your el chepo motherboard built in raid but most of the add in cards over a couple hundred bucks. If you realy want to get more space on your ssd's try something like an adaptec 6q it does hot read and write caching, if your running linux dm-cache and similar will do the same thing. ioFusion and other have proprietary software to do this with there SSD's.in windows as well.

  13. Re:OCZ on OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD · · Score: 1

    Raid 0 1 and 10 are fine, raid 5 or 6 your quickly start getting the raid controller being the bottleneck, it's a whole lot of CPU grunt to do those calcs at a gigabyte or more a sec.

  14. Re:ICANN? No you can't, buddy. on Continuing the Distributed DNS System · · Score: 1

    They have done a good job over the years the primary issue is lately they have been using that control to assume all non country tlds fall under us law and summarily removing domains without any recourse of procedure. The legislature needs to specifically protect the DNS system from us law enforcement. Short term a presidential order would cover it. Require a judges order in the country that the domain is registered in.

  15. Re:Lack of upward mobility on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 1

    I do not see a correlation with age and success rates. From my perspective it's that 1% that should be in charge, leadership should not be a reward for putting your time in but rather being an effective leader. Age can bring those connections that are helpful towards that end. Try and become part of that 1% rather than hoping somebody eventually will leave and you can take that spot as retired in place.

  16. Re:Lack of upward mobility on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 0

    Hate to break it to you but the baby boomers are not the ones holding you back that's just you. If you expect to just fall into upward mobility it is true if you expect to work for it you can have it. Everybody gets the grab the bull and do it successfully people it's the my metrics are x% better. Find the riskiest projects the ones people expect to fail and make them work.

  17. Re:Greylisting on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    Whitelist the one domain past the spf checking?

  18. Re:rDNS on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    I soft fail for things like this. The issue will get resolved or it will time out on there end and they will get a note about it. I hard fair for more definite things like multiple RBL listings spammy content etc. In no event do I ever accept a message that does not go into somebody's inbox. Effectively if somebody sends a spammy message they should know within a few minutes that it was not delivered. If it temp fails there mail system may or may not tell them immediately but those are assumed to resolve themselves.

  19. Re:Responsibility goes both ways on Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    It seems like there gripe was the primary ISP was refusing to do anything about it they then move to the feeder ISP's until they fix it. By routing there traffic they are aiding spam. Ever expanding there blacklist to push companies to do something is the only method they have.to get something done. By the time they are complaining to a providers providers it's been a issue for a long time. That dutch ISP should never have to block one of it's clients, clients IP's they should have required them to act or terminated there contract. They might have "tough" spam rules but I've run a few med to large hosting providers, you do not just play whack a mole and let them sign up for another box you make sure you do not do business with them again.

    This is not hard all it takes is a packet sniffer or a flow scanner to see if it's just a spam server vs a legit box that got hacked. At this point I catch catch most spammers from simple switch ACL's this is not hard.

  20. Re:Blizzard has lost their way on WoW To Add Avenue For Real-Money Gold Buying · · Score: 1

    They promised multiple raids per tier in cata to compensate for the new shared lockouts. Shorter raids and more of them. They claimed not enough time to finish the other 4.3 raid.

    The void storage stripping everything off is a storage issue as in they do not want to keep those extra attributes. The keyring removal was explicitly stated as an issue of space http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2548839953

    The cata mantra was smaller faster patches with more content. So far were at best on par, and looking at 12 months of a single raid again.

    Overall I still enjoy the game but it's looking like EQ post Sony where you got the sense of accountants running the roost not game developers.

  21. Re:A little perspective here, please.. on California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    I would assume that this varies by state but here pre existing conditions only come into play if there was a gap in your insurance. You can pick up dirt cheap gap insurance to avoid that. The point of the pre existing conditions clause is to stop people from getting sick then getting insurance.

  22. Re:Blizzard has lost their way on WoW To Add Avenue For Real-Money Gold Buying · · Score: 1

    It's all about priorities, activision wants a return on investment and will do anything to get it. In the last year they have lost 1 million subs, went from a 2 raid to 1 raid per tier citing time issues. They excuse lack of storage space due to DB size. They still have some of the longest maintenance in the industry. It's a death spiral right now and they are still making piles of money. All the competent staff seems to have moved onto there next generation project.

  23. Re:A little perspective here, please.. on California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    The point being the importance. Helping idiots that can not help themselves is a good thing and all. Making the police less intrusive and generally abusive is better since we can not avoid them. The difference is one is something people choose to do and has a bad outcome and other other people are not free to choose to avoid.

  24. Re:The problem isn't the currency on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    It has a lot to do with communism as that is the ultimate expression of communism. You could have communism where the state controls the means of production but does not take care of people it will not be long lived. Socialism is the cookie the nanny state will take care of all your needs.

  25. Re:The problem isn't the currency on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Yet jobs go unfilled.