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  1. Re:Did the NSA just kill SMTP? on Silent Circle, Lavabit Unite For 'Dark Mail' Encrypted Email Project · · Score: 1

    I wish they would also do something fundamental about spam problem. But that would possibly means unique id for senders which would ruin anonymity.

  2. Re:what a joke on German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you say the president in a country should know everything (like website problems, every action of spy agencies and problems in tax and financial organizations)? That's Terra bytes of information.

    I am not American but I cannot think how can he know about everything.

  3. Re:Problem? on EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, but if you're an officer of a foreign government you don't get the death penalty. "

    You are wrong! That's only when you have diplomatic immunity. Otherwise the country may exchange you or just send you to court. And you may receive a death penalty in court (which might be performed or remain pending for exchanges).

  4. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You ... They even report us where you go!

  5. Re:Problem? on EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US · · Score: 1

    In most countries if you arrest a spy she/he will receive a death penalty. See the problem? You can spy but when it is known you will pay the costs and you will be punished. Is that normal to you?

    In this case US deserves to be sanctioned, economically, politically and in any possible way. If it is not, it is because those countries are either not capable to punish the US or ...?

  6. Re:Sometimes it's a matter of pain on The Neuroscience of Happiness · · Score: 1

    Right now I am in trouble with cold water in the shared bathroom in the hostel university has provided to me. In 40s it is a bit hard to take it. For the past 15 months this has been the story (except the few days in between I went to different conferences and stayed at hotel).

    In general yes, I have enjoyed buying household equipment one by one with my ex-wife and building the life (that was eventually ruined after 10 years by a cheating wife). After my father died (I was 18) I left the home and did not have any support. So I have seen lots of difficulties in my life ... lots of them... I guess that's why I can appreciate and enjoy my life even in a piss poor hostel (at the age of 41).

  7. Re:the point of diminishing returns? on Next-Gen GPU Progress Slowing As It Aims for 20 nm and Beyond · · Score: 2

    The more DPI craze has just started. We are going to have more DPIs on monitors and graphics cards will compete to bring the same speed of lower resolutions to them. The unfortunate thing is that the moore's law is at its practical limits (for now) so more capable CPUs might become more expensive and consume more power.

    I personally hate the noise of those fans and the heat coming from under my table. I don't do games but I use the GTS-450 (joke? ha?) for scientific computing.

  8. Re:Intel on Next-Gen GPU Progress Slowing As It Aims for 20 nm and Beyond · · Score: 3, Informative

    Exactly. The new Intel GPUs (those on Haswell) do better than entry level NVidia and ATI dedicated graphics.

  9. Re:Price? on Nokia Introduces Windows Tablet · · Score: 0

    No! Just recompile open source ones and run .Net apps without any change.

    See a list of ported software here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2092348

  10. Re:Anti-Windows posts on Nokia Introduces Windows Tablet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Vote positive (to even slightly pro-MS posts) and you will no more receive voting points. I have huge amount of positive karma (tens of +5 posts) but after I voted a few of these up, I receive no more voting points.

    Btw. I have never worked for any American company or organization (let alone MS). I have been using Linux since 15 years ago on servers but windows on most workstations. I have developed mostly for *nix, Java and at the same time C++ for Windows.

    So don't assume the votes on /. really show the opinions of all readers. /. gives the up vote points to those it likes.

  11. Re:It's not mutually exclusive. on Huawei Using NSA Scandal To Turn Tables On Accusations of Spying · · Score: 1

    Isn't Junos a proprietary open source? I guess others could not use it. Am I not right?

  12. Re:It's not mutually exclusive. on Huawei Using NSA Scandal To Turn Tables On Accusations of Spying · · Score: 1

    and why not show those proof or at least one of them to public to prove the case?

  13. Re:Meh on Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today · · Score: 1

    The windows 7 start button did not do a huge work too. It brought a list of shortcuts (and a search for shortcuts).

  14. Re:That's what you get for using vBulletin on 35,000 vBulletin Sites Have Already Been Exploited By Week Old Hole · · Score: 1

    It is a proprietary software with open source. It means you will pay at least $ 599 /year and the source is open to hackers for them to find bugs and exploit.

    Could you tell us why in the hell I should contribute to such a thing?

  15. Re:Holy fucking shit, this is AWESOME. on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 1

    Besides, it does not mean they can sustain the reaction for a long time.

    I guess the reactions are still too short to be useful for energy production.

  16. Re:Dump the wonky RT and ARM stuff on Microsoft Makes Another "Nearly Sold Out" Claim For the Surface Line · · Score: 1

    I would buy the surface 2 (the ARM version) if it was a Baytrail atom.

    I am not interested in the pro (I have a PC for that) but I need a decent Baytrail tablet and Surface 2 could be it.

  17. Re:So let me get this straight on Scientists Boycott NASA Conference Because of Ban On Chinese Participants · · Score: 1

    Same has been going on with Iranian scientists.

    Iranian scientists which work for government organizations have been banned from publishing in American journals and those journals which do business in the US. As an example science direct and others.

    Isn't that pure B.S.?

  18. Re:Pick your team Dr. Marcy on Scientists Boycott NASA Conference Because of Ban On Chinese Participants · · Score: 1

    Very well said , thank you.

  19. Re:Bit off-topic on Linux-capable Arduino TRE Debuts At Maker Faire Rome · · Score: 1

    Most of the available boards including RaspberiPi are not suitable for embedded design experiments (that's my personal opinion though). I prefer to program low level I/O code using C or even assembly for such purposes than writing a linux code (which in the case of RaspberyPi is several giga bytes).

    I guess older versions of Arduino used to be what I want. I bought a few cheap Chinese boards (ARM and AVR) from ebay a few years ago and they are exactly what I want.

    Btw. I built my first radio (the circuit board using Acids and so on) in 5th grade and designed an FM transmitter in 8th grade. Even now at 40 I enjoy playing with these things as a hobby from time to time. Though I enjoy FPGA design as much. I somehow regret that I changed my field from electronics engineering to computer science for masters and PhD.

  20. Non-US Internet on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Iran has already done it. It has built an Intranet like network which connects to outside world through few gateways. The transition of the network users to the new Intranet is being done at the time being and will complete in year.

    The main purpose is the:

    1- Avoid the internal Iranian traffic to travel over the internet (i.e. unknown countries).
    2- To control in/out traffic (deep packet inspection, control access to outsider websites, attack and spying control, allow access to Iran-only websites just from inside Iran, emergency kill switch).
    3- Force Iranian organizations to host their website in Iranian data centers.
    4- Save traffic costs.
    5- Flourish local hosting and cloud business and local peering between ISPs. ....

  21. Re:Only read the headline on The Internet Society is Unhappy with U.S. Govt's Internet Spying Tactics · · Score: 1

    What a kind title. How about apologizing (and kissing) each other and finishing things kindly!

  22. Re:OTLP? on Oracle Promises 100x Faster DB Queries With New In-Memory Option · · Score: 1

    How about using google to find out?

    http://datawarehouse4u.info/OLTP-vs-OLAP.html

  23. Re:Which Pretty Much Proves ... on NASA Rover Fails to Turn Up Methane On Mars · · Score: 1

    @Toad-san :

    You see how denial of the existence of cows turned out? I guess you disappointed those sensitive creatures.

  24. Re:Previous attempt on Massive Open Online School "FutureLearn" Opens · · Score: 1

    I just found it. It was called UKEU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKeU). It was a famous effort which ended in am ugly shutdown.

  25. Previous attempt on Massive Open Online School "FutureLearn" Opens · · Score: 1

    Didn't UK try to build an online university almost 7-8 years ago which ended in a disaster (millions of wasted money and eventual shutdown of the website) and house hearings?

    They were supposed to provide masters courses for 6000 pounds but the costs exceeded the estimates and forced them to stop the whole thing.