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  1. Re:Strange... you missed the whole thing. on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    My former Boss lived in such a place and his next door neighbor was assassinated at his breakfast table, the shot was taken from half a mile away. He was alleged to be a made man, and the hit was very clearly a professional military grade job. While 99.99% of the time that level of physical security is just pandering to paranoia, 0.01% of the time gets you 100% dead, and their are no do-overs.

  2. Re:Strange... you missed the whole thing. on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    My neighbor was on the forced entry team in the local PD and the last time he discharged, all ten rounds hit center of mass. the fucktard lived with his Mother and had a daughter on the premises who witnessed the event. The moral of the story is when you do crack, you don't fall down when the police shoot you until your well past dead; and it is really hard on your loved ones when you sell crack out of the house they live in when the Police come to the door.

  3. Re:Youtube + Profits. on Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds · · Score: 1

    I'm not seeing that kind of drop-off on my Comcast line, during OS upgrades a download starts in the 300Kbs range and only drops down to 100-150 Kbs range sustained rate.

  4. Re:WoW on Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds · · Score: 1

    why do you think multicast would help P2P? I'm not a network-Guru, but I understand the multicast allows one sever to broadcast a stream which is routed to multiple clients. P2P on the other hand allows a peer called a seeder to send specific chunks to requesting clients peers which inturn seed the chunks they have to other peers; it's completely different from the client-server protocols that multicasting is designed for. If you were running an internet radio-station or doing something like web-camming multicasting would be the cat's ass but for Bittorrent it would suck.

  5. Re:No shame on Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism · · Score: 1

    dude you must live under a rock, politicians have always shamelessly used the boogeyman du jour.

  6. Re:He's not overstating the link on Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well people do sell boot-leg software cd's, and some of the people are going to be Muslims, some of the Muslims are going to donated the money, some of which will knowingly or unknowingly support Islamic terrorists it's a given. Now I seriously doubt that funds from selling bootleg software is a significant source of revenue.

    A more serious matter is paid sperm donors! yes some paid sperm donors are similarly Muslims, some of the Muslims are going to donated the money, some of which will knowingly or unknowingly support Islamic terrorists so obviously we have to outlaw masturbation to protect civilization as we know it.

  7. Re:RFID tracking on Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars · · Score: 1

    tin makes whiskers, up to a cm long! A tinfoil can become a direct connection to the brain.

  8. Re:RFID tracking on Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars · · Score: 1

    When you come out of the cave, you'll find that your state is issuing new license plates in colors that are easier for the OCR tracker to read and have infrared reflective characters .They can read 100 plates a minute.

  9. Re:A throwback to the Roman Empire? on T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I read the article that it dawned on me that the color on the T-Mobile logo isn't magenta anyways the logo #e42384, and magenta is #ff00ff!

  10. Re:Smear campaign by Scientology on Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board · · Score: 1

    why is it the biggest mouths here are anonymous cowards?
    It hasn't always been like that, but the signal to noise ratio has been going down slowly around here for a while. The fact is that AC troll posts have been getting pretty shrill in Thread that even remotely deal with Anonymous vs. Scientology; I think a nerve has been hit in Co$. It's far to easy to flash-crowd a group so it would only take one person watching the RSS feeds from several sites to alert the whole group, and in the blink of an eye a hundred Scilons could be posting on /. anonymously.
    As far as the attack on the Epileptics, if someone told me that Scilons did the deed posing as Anonymous to make Anonymous look bad, the burden of proof would be on someone refuting it it.

  11. Re:Must be the thethans... on Huge Interest Brings Wikileaks Offline · · Score: 1

    Maybe they DDOSed themselves so they could make the Scilons look bad

  12. Re:That's a joke, right? on All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated · · Score: 1

    I once attended a seminar conducted by a Doctor who after getting his MD and becoming a liciensed physician, went back to school to acquire a degree in pharmacy

  13. Re:From a local newspaper on All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated · · Score: 1

    In the US a patent isn't a "Done Deal", it's an opinion that an application isn't obviously defective without looking too hard, but any difficulties are a matter for the courts anyways.

  14. Re:Can someone explain the basis for the patents? on All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated · · Score: 1

    One of the patents covered have participants in the system able to assume multiple roles, such as have admin privileges, instructor privileges and student privileges. This would be necessary to allow an department head to be able to set-up his/her department and still be able to be an in the department as an instructor and then to check things as a student or to take a course in a different field for personal enrichment or continuing education.

    One problem is patent number 1,000,000 is on bias-ply car tires circa 1900, and is 3 pages long, in a patent now 3 pages will not even contain the abstract.

  15. Re:I just wonder on All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated · · Score: 1

    let's see there is 26 letters in the alphabet with upper and lower case that's 52 then there is puncuation so I'd say they must have missed a few.

  16. Re:Put down the dictionary on All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated · · Score: 1

    Read the claims! The claims I've tried to read are pretty much illegible I supposed that they readable by someone "skilled in the arts", but I'm afraid for the sanity of that someone.

  17. Re:Yea, and some well know atheists.. on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 1

    In fact wasn't one of Christ's sins preforming miracles on the sabbath?

  18. Re:Won't be the first time a religion did this. on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 1

    Cylons were the synthetic bio-engineered not quite human antagonists in the "Battlestar Galactica" programs that went on a genocidal rampage to save the galaxy from the imperfect humans. Scientologists believe or at least claim they believe that humans have the ability to perfect themselves and become gods or god-like non-corporeal beings that will save the galaxy; hence some call scientologists scilons as an condescending moniker.

  19. Re:Won't be the first time a religion did this. on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 1

    They develop new psychological attacks.
    I disagree, the attacks are all the usual old tried and true attacks, maybe be polished and practiced better but nothing new. Read "The Story of O", "The Prince", some of the history of the Nazi party and the Catholic Church during the dark ages and inquisition and you'll know everything.

  20. Re:Won't be the first time a religion did this. on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 1

    True but the "low cost" nonprofit, "most insurances pay all or part" Christian Consoling and ADD accesement Centers creep me out.

  21. Re:Won't be the first time a religion did this. on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 1

    Most religions are founded by a man aged 35-45 years old, in the wilderness and on the verge of dying of thirst or exposure, when they have a philosophical-moral epiphany. The founder actually believes the religion revelation and spreads the testimony free of charge.

  22. Re:Credibility??? on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 1

    Awesome interview that you linked to

  23. Re:Wrong on US Broadband Policy Called "Magical Thinking" · · Score: 1

    dynamic is not necessarily a GoodThing(tm); the only broadband ISP that treats it's customers like customers instead of prey getting taken over by the vampire ISP would be an example of dynamic.

  24. Re:Using comcast peers on Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    The way I understand it is with cable, the system is heavily biased to download, upload is expensive over the last-mile because of the systems physical constraints; with FiOS and DSL the bias toward download is really artificial and can be changed with a few configuration file changes. If Comcast would pull their heads out from where the sun doesn't shine, they'd mirror everything they could in their own datacenter and run all the web traffic possible through a cacheting proxy and save some transport costs.

  25. Re:No on Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Comcast had no choice
    first even people like me discovered by enabling encryption and DHT Bittorrent works, just slower with comcast blocking,
    second the FCC dinged them hard over the Bittorrent blocking, they said the FCC had no power to regulate but Comcast is a cable company and sooner or later they'll need something the FCC does have authority to regulate so why piss off the Pope,
    third Verizon announced a modified version of a Bittorrent client just the other week the gives preference to cheaper low-hop in network connections that saves a ton on out-of-network band width;
    if Comcast didn't budge they'd be at a competitive disadvantage.

    Comcast greatly underestimate the reaction of the more astute internet users, the content providers and the regulatory agencies on this one, and are probably happy to have a way to back off and still save face.