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  1. Re:What a plus in the Google. on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 1

    Not only was it read, taken seriously, and a wrong righted; but as studies has previously proved by a post from one of the only of a handful of people who used Google +.

    I might of at least posted the link https://plus.google.com/+Keith...

  2. What a plus in the Google. on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 1

    Not only was it read, taken seriously, and a wrong righted; but as studies has previously proved by a post from one of the only of a handful of people who used Google +.

  3. Ask Ethan on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    I've read/scanned one of his articles, that won't happen again. He was saying the Universe has always existed and always will (Steady State theory) and proving it, under the guise of what if.

  4. Re:Sorry what is their area of expertise on Kaspersky Explains Why They Won't Say Who Hacked Them · · Score: 1

    again?

    FTA: "In general, the attribution of cyber attacks is difficult to do conclusively"

    Then the examples given didn't or wouldn't need malware to obtain access to a system.

    FTA "In the case of Duqu, the attackers intentionally introduced false information to confuse investigators"

    While this is unclear what they are saying is they can't point to a person specifically, it being outside their expertise.

  5. Re:Sorry what is their area of expertise on Kaspersky Explains Why They Won't Say Who Hacked Them · · Score: 1

    again?

    FTA: "In general, the attribution of cyber attacks is difficult to do conclusively"

    Then the examples given didn't or wouldn't need malware to obtain access to a system.

  6. Re:Glitch at Space Station changes it's orbit on Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services · · Score: 1

    "a Soyuz spacecraft docked at the station unexpectedly started"

    Marked as Troll, my bad, not my intention.

  7. Glitch at Space Station changes it's orbit on Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services · · Score: 2, Informative

    "a Soyuz spacecraft docked at the station unexpectedly started" yep, that would do it.
    http://www.space.com/29632-soy...

  8. Re:My Usenet has always been throttled on Appeals Court Rejects ISP Stay of Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    What ISP still provides USENET access?

    Charter.com :) ya, I was fairly surprised myself. nntp.charter.net

    I'm sure there are just a handful of us using it as it's becoming the great unknown; also why years ago they gave a date which has long since past that the Usenet would be shutdown yet still accessible.

    Thought I'd check, I don't have numbers just the size of the file and the speed a bar goes from 0 to 100 for it's download (Forte Agent) and it does seem to be faster, but that could be due to a number of reasons. The important thing though is it's still accessible.

  9. Re:My Usenet has always been throttled on Appeals Court Rejects ISP Stay of Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    I wasn't happy about this myself when the ISPs started doing it, but my guess is that it'd be a problem if they were throttling or blocking your access to Usenet with any other provider, but not the one they're bundling with your service.

    Shoot the headers don't even show what server sent it anymore "Path: not-for-mail" is as good as it gets.

    My Usenet comes from my provider as a free service, but they do pull from another service with a retention of 5-10 years for the text groups, southwind.net seems a familiar name to of shown up in the headers.

    Since it can't be throttled anymore I'll most likely lose it, my ISP did post a few years ago it was being dropped, yet it's still available.

    Wonder if they can continue to block outbound SMTP though. Ironically, my ISP locking me to their SMTP as a spam prevention tactic means I can't reach people from time to time because Spamcop has been RBLing my ISP's SMTP.

    A problem I've never had, I POP3 in, and SMTP out, and my ISP only has email accounts I use on mobile devices (expendable).

  10. Re:Good and Bad on Appeals Court Rejects ISP Stay of Neutrality Rules · · Score: 3

    Thousands of pages? Have you skimmed it? http://transition.fcc.gov/Dail...

    "A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of a non-harmful device, subject to reasonable network management."

    Subject to reasonable network management - Not that that will ever be an abused argument.

  11. My Usenet has always been throttled on Appeals Court Rejects ISP Stay of Neutrality Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wonder how that's going to work out tomorrow.

  12. Re:Youtube is going to get me screwed. on Ghost Towns Is the First 8K Video Posted To YouTube -- But Can You Watch It? · · Score: 1

    Maybe start making your own work, rather than stealing that created by others and claiming it as your own.

    Couldn't figure out what you were posting about, stealing someone elses work as my own.

    The fav uploaded right, Nope, not only was it properly attributed to Pita Ten and Shia Chan; the start of the video has an intro by Shia Chan, their Yahoo.com email address, and a hope you'll enjoy the video; then the best rendition of "Send me an Angel" I've heard begins.

    The intro is separate from the music and easily removable. In a way posting the video I felt a hat tip to Shia Chan, as it was no longer found on Youtube.

  13. Re: Death of Reddit, film at 11. on Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond · · Score: 1

    I first heard about Voat a few months back, as some great censorship-free haven in which anything goes.

    It took about twenty minutes of browsing the site before I stumbled on a child porn subreddit (or whatever they called them).

    A subreddit (or whatever they called them) like that you can bet will be heavily monitored and not by the site itself. I've seen a bit of baiting being posted, trying to bring those type into the open.

  14. Re:Death of Reddit, film at 11. on Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond · · Score: 1

    I just looked back at digg.com for the first time in a couple years from when it flamed out heroically on it's 2.0 launch. It's not horrible now, there doesn't appear to be too much drama on their front page. Looks like delicio.us Just a abc/cbs style repost of yesterdays "hot web news"

    Yep, I was there when Digg.com updated their site to nobodies liking, most migrated to Reddit.com. Digg.com is now all but forgotten.

    A long fall from their height after shutting down the site when a key to bypass Blueray (?) DRM was posted, then came back on-line and that key was reposted by everybody, it became a popular site over that.

  15. SpaceX founder is going to give it a go on Google and Facebook Cancel Satellite Plans · · Score: 1

    SpaceX founder files with government to provide Internet service from space

    "The plan calls for launching a constellation of 4,000 small and cheap satellites that would beam high-speed Internet signals to all parts of the globe, including its most remote regions. Musk has said the effort “would be like rebuilding the Internet in space.”"
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

  16. Re:Hiding behind anonymity on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 1

    You can bet those retarded assholes would be much more polite if they weren't cowering behind a veil of anonymity.

    I've seen many post where one threatens the other with death threats or for libel yet it went no further (and this was when the posters IP address was listed in the headers).

    Didn't think of it when posting.

    My Usenet provider retains many years of post in some areas, here's part of a header as a cit, if you go to https://www.robtex.com/ and input the "NNTP-Posting-Host:" you can see where this person lived or still lives.

    All you see anymore is the message bouncing back and forth between Google servers with 10.x.x.x addresses.

    --------

    Subject: Re: Really #ucked up kid
    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:40:01 -0400
    X-Priority: 3
    X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
    X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
    X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028
    X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
    Message-ID:
    Lines: 74
    NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.47.165.88

  17. Re:Hiding behind anonymity on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 1

    You can bet those retarded assholes would be much more polite if they weren't cowering behind a veil of anonymity.

    I've seen many post where one threatens the other with death threats or for libel yet it went no further (and this was when the posters IP address was listed in the headers).

  18. Youtube is going to get me screwed. on Ghost Towns Is the First 8K Video Posted To YouTube -- But Can You Watch It? · · Score: 0

    I've gotten 9 copyright infringement notices, the last one a few days ago when I posted a link as a shock video ( the upload date (2009) - every notice I've gotten whether I link to it our uploaded it, that video is still on youtube.com.

    I made a minecraft video with Moody Blues as background music, rejected for copyright (not a problem, wasn't sure of the music), uploaded another I'd downloaded years earlier as it's a fav, rejected for a copyright held by some anima production company. And a few others have been rejected which I've accepted as my bad.

    So it's not like youtube.com allows copyrighted material, they don't; but at least all get on the same page as if it's on youtube.com I take it as public domain; unless of course it's obviously being sold, or a copyright claimed in some manner.

    If that weren't enough the ToS has changed https://www.youtube.com/static... #4 A - came across it just now, and I always read ToS's, so a habit (I'd of known). The way I read it I can't even paste that line, the link chancy :) - I did remove a link and reedit this post though. Showing yep, they are gonna screw me...

  19. Re:What a whine, over a piece of mucic on Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM · · Score: 2

    I have a top notch stereo/Dolby/whatever sound field u need system (All Sony for compatibility), beats anything I could hope to put together again. It's sitting in storage as the introduction of HDMI made it obsolete.

    I have a HDMI to optical switch, works quite well.

    I'll be damn! http://www.newegg.com/Product/... I didn't know these existed, I guess I fell for the line that you can't bypass HDMI, so no options for me. By going through the optical port is doesn't.

    Thank you,

  20. Re:NASA testing on NASA To Test Inflatable Donut For Landing On Mars · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the days of jumping head first out of 5 story windows.

    Citation needed. Oh wait, it never happened, so you're unlikely to get a citation.

    Well that took all of a minute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

  21. What a whine, over a piece of mucic on Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM · · Score: 1

    I have a top notch stereo/Dolby/whatever sound field u need system (All Sony for compatibility), beats anything I could hope to put together again. It's sitting in storage as the introduction of HDMI made it obsolete.

    Got a Denon DHT-1312BA receiver as it came with matching speakers ( hell of a time saver), but it's got nothing on my old system, can't even use any of the peripheral components of the old system - unless of course I'm happy with stereo only.

    --- While people scoff at the mention of the Usenet or Newsgroups, what's not commonly known is everything is hidden in plain sight, and where you'll find your DRM-less music.
    Just need to find it's location, not as popular as it once was old groups are being used for new purposes, alt.biniaries.astronomy.sky is now just one huge movie collection (hard to get across just how many movies it contains - didn't count just scrolled down the list till I got bored) but it's slow going (unless you find a decent server). My Usenet is still free, slow is just fine with me.

  22. Re:NASA testing on NASA To Test Inflatable Donut For Landing On Mars · · Score: 1

    I believe NASA did all of its LSD testing back in the 60's...

    Ah yes, the days of jumping head first out of 5 story windows.

  23. I watched the first robot land in a large ball on NASA To Test Inflatable Donut For Landing On Mars · · Score: 1

    Broadcst from JPL, over the com system it was announced it's still rolling, still rolling (nervous laughter), still rolling, ok forgot to account for Doppler, it's stopped now.
    (Mars was receding from us).

  24. Re:Great tool for insurance companies, too on New Test Could Reveal Every Virus That's Ever Infected You · · Score: 1

    Positives for hepatitis can also mean you have had the hepatitis vaccine. They can currently test for hepatitis antibodies to check whether you need a booster....

    Sorry, that's not true. I've posted below over my dealings with hepatitis, as far as I'm aware (been out of the medical field for a long time) gamma globulin is what one is given as quickly as possible if hepatitis is a possibility -preventing one from acquiring it; a vaccine I've never used. Once one has hepatitis they have it, there is no cure (it has to leave on it's own unless type C), again a long time since I've been in the medical field (Pharmacist).

    A copy and paste:
    "I've always claimed I had hepatitis, twice in fact the first time when I was 5 years old, yet no clue which "strain", last year I had blood work done to test for hepatitis, it came back I had had A and B, not a carrier and I haven't had hepatitis in quite sometime, as told by the antibodies." In this case the antibodies just showed I had had hepatitis at one time, and only a marker. Will admit that the antibodies were so few that the test barely picked them up, being in fact almost non-existent.

    And in all fairness wikipedia does mention a booster vaccine for type B hepatitis.

  25. Re:Great tool for insurance companies, too on New Test Could Reveal Every Virus That's Ever Infected You · · Score: 1

    Insurance companies could use this to determine the pattern of risk in your behavior throughout your life. Someone with antibodies for a bunch of diseases related to risky behavior could be charged a higher premium to represent that tendency for greater risk-taking.

    For example, someone with antibodies for 50 different flu strains is clearly taking more risk than someone who has only, say, 10. Maybe they don't wash their hands well enough, or maybe they expose themselves to sick people more. Either way, they are riskier people and should pay more.

    That concern is over, it was a reality awhile back but now days, bragging where you are on a social site can have a cruise missile sent your way. The Internet is all about collecting info, cause it can be sold to Flurry.com who in turn sales it to others for personalized ads (lots of money involved), if you've ever posted of a medical problem you've had, it's public domain. Your private medical records available on demand by just about anybody. Read the next privacy policy you sign over a medical condition, which you authorize anybody having a medical interest in you to request and be sent your records.

    I don't think insurance companies are as big of a concern as they once were when it comes to info on you (more so as your no longer able to keep pertinent info from them). Most of the time just getting the correct key words into Google will do the trick. Why I was always from Uganda and a 35 year old male - Yet don't use a proxie and Google knows all of my accounts, the list to choose from is getter rather troublesome. - I could easily rant over this subject, /. was all about warnings of such activity, now it's old hat.