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  1. Re:Slashdot Propaganda Machine Working Overtime on What Medical Tests Should Teach Us About the NSA Surveillance Program · · Score: 2

    Yes, specially with the revealings of the recent weeks, it is impossible to think about any other wrong doing of governments and spying agencies (i.e. conspiracies).

  2. Re:I'm not an expert on Aussie Telco Telstra Agreed To Spy For America · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is officially an act of spying on your own country. I don't have enough stomach to read the news these days.

  3. Re:Something missing on Microsoft Reveals Its 3D Printing Strategy For Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    Color laser printers were several thousands of dollars few years ago. A cheap 3D printer is around $1200 now. I therefore think 3D printers will soon be consumer devices.

  4. Re:Wait, what!? on Heml.is, New Encrypted Messaging Service From Brokep of the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    I hope I can have the courage to do the same. I even think of carrying only a dumb phone (and its battery separately) just in case I need to use it for an emergency call.

    I guess people had a more happy life with land-line phones.

  5. Re:Nothing overly dismissive there on Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Yes, bla bla bla

    You don't even understand the basic concepts of P2P.

  6. Re:Nothing overly dismissive there on Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes · · Score: 1

    At the time I implemented my first SMTP, POP3 and HTTP servers using C (and developed SMTP and POP3 server libraries for Delphi) you were possibly in primary school. Go back to your pathetic hole.

  7. Re:Nothing overly dismissive there on Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Nonsense is your existence. I was not talking about Anonymization at all. Go back to your freaking hole ass-hole.

  8. Re:Nothing overly dismissive there on Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes · · Score: 1

    You are an asshole and a freaking illiterate stupid. And yes, you deserve that freak tag on your name.

    I was not suggesting to implement SMTP using P2P. Go back to your stupidity hole.

  9. Re:Nothing overly dismissive there on Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes · · Score: 1

    The p2p messaging would not use a definite path between source and target and could possibly store the encrypted message parts on other PCs if the receiver's computer is not available.

    The IP address could also change (a unique identifier might still be needed though).

  10. Re:Nothing overly dismissive there on Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes · · Score: 0

    You don't know anything about P2P , do you?

    Emails need domain names and name service and domains are centralized services. The transfer of emails also happen in a deterministic way (i.e. between the source and target servers). It means the email service depends on the existence of the source and target servers at all times.

    It never ceases to amaze me how clueless people talk big.

  11. Re:Nothing overly dismissive there on Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes · · Score: 1

    I am waiting for a peer-to-peer email replacement that solves the issue of trusting companies and data centers on storing and transferring messages.

    A few years ago I wrote a peer-to-peer chat application (used an existing java library) for a postgraduate course homework. I wouldn't offer that to public though.

  12. Re:If it makes you sleep well at night.... on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    For Iran it is mentioned to be just 510 years! (I guess it is based on the date it was renamed from Persia to Iran!). I just don't understand the base of this map.

    Iran had its kings from more than 3000 years ago.

  13. Re:It's cute... on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    You found this just now?

    US has been putting unilateral sanctions on different countries (like Iran) and forcing every other country to execute the internal laws of the US. Everyone (Japan, Europe, Korea, Turkey, India and even China) is competing to conform with the B.S.

    The problem is that every B.S. is fine until it involves us. Then it is not!

  14. Re: Mehh on You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 · · Score: 2

    Windows 8 is a move toward making Windows usable on Touch displays (specially the mobile computers), not a change for the sake of change.

    The success of the approach is another matter.

  15. Re:Can you upgrade from preview to final later? on Hands-On With Windows 8.1 Preview · · Score: 1

    This is an "UPDATE" to windows 8. It therefore means you "update" your existing windows 8.

    Unless you don't have Windows 8. Then you will install an already updated software (Just like Windows XP SP3 dvd).

  16. Re:Going to Russia for safety from the US. on Edward Snowden Leaves Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    Laws did not come from God! They might be unfair or even incorrect.

    Refer to N.K. laws for more information (and the laws which allowed NSF and GCHQ to spy on people's everything).

  17. Re:Why is it a sealed criminal complaint? on US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage · · Score: 2

    Like spying on diplomats in G20?

    Which diplomat was a potential terrorist? Or spying on him was useful for the purpose?

    You are either naive or a liar. If intelligence data had 20 major usages , only one of them would be anti-terrorism.

  18. Re:Good for the economy. on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    Not my tax money! and no, I don't trust your government like they ask for.

    Please tell them to stop spying on me.

  19. Re:Innovation only from Google, FB, Apple ?? on Don't Panic, But We've Passed Peak Apple (and Google, and Facebook) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they have more computers to handle more traffic.

    Oh and of course web servers, database software, load balancers .. They should really be innovative then.

  20. Re:Hmm on Legislators Introduce Bill To Stop Set Top Boxes From Watching You · · Score: 2

    "Legislators Introduce Bill To Stop Set Top Boxes From Watching You"

    Awww, how considerate. How about a Bill to Stop "Prism, Fairview, Blarney, Boundless Informant ..." watching us? Oh... never mind.

  21. Re:So why can't Iran have Nukes? on India's ICBM Will Carry Multiple Nuclear Warheads · · Score: 2

    Thats becuase we like idia, while Iran is filled with a bunch of hate filled nutters!

    And you think there is no reason for that hate (if any)? I was talking to an Iranian friend a few days ago who was saying US and western countries have stopped selling medicine (cancer, MS, AIDS, ...) and create problems for them even if they want to buy from other countries.

    The irrational financial sanctions (Swift network) is harming ordinary people in Iran. Do you expect love from them?

  22. Re:Infiltrate! on U.S. Authorizes Sales of American Communication Tech To Iran · · Score: 2

    Oh boy....

    How much do you know about a country which has 2.5 million university students (around 40,000 PhD candidates) and 11+ million university graduates and had a ranking of 17th in scientific products in 2011 (15th in 2012 ahead of Russia) : http://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php?area=0&category=0&region=all&year=2011&order=it&min=0&min_type=it

    Last October when I visited Iran almost all of the middle class engineers I met had an iPhone, Galaxy S3 or something like that. Streets were full of modern cars as well as Iranian made cars (Iran produces 1.1 million cars a year). If you think they are in need of their bread and food then you are in huge mistake. Iran has a PPP of $13,000.

    Not a fan of Iranian regime, but people need to educate themselves about these things before they open their mouth.

  23. Re:Oh, what's your definition of "matches"? on AMD Launches New Mobile APU Lineup, Kabini Gets Tested · · Score: 1

    Oh is it?

    I have done my whole PhD in CS simulation project (hundreds of thousands of agents with machine learning, discrete event methods and what not) on my G630 celeron computer. I run heavy software like Matlab on the same PC. My previous PC was an AMD 4400 MHz equivalent.

    It still is my main PC. If even i3 is required for your facebook things you are doing something wrong.

  24. Re:Heh on AMD Launches New Mobile APU Lineup, Kabini Gets Tested · · Score: 1

    It offers something in between Atom and i3. The problem is that even though it offers higher computational power it still targets the same market as Atom and it does that with less power use efficiency.

    Those who trade off the computational power for battery life will mostly chose Atom and those looking for higher computational power will use celerons and i3.

  25. Re:Take that on World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure · · Score: 1

    Project failures are hardly a programming problem.

    Project management, software engineering processes (specially requirement engineering) and design are the most risky. Hiring programmers which are fit for the project is still a risk factor though.