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  1. Re:Marlinspike's approach on Are Some CAs Too Big To Fail? · · Score: 2

    That's not very useful if your ISP is doing the MITM, which is very much a reality in many places right now.

    To add a notary you have to input the public cert for the notary, how do they MITM that without throwing warnings.

  2. Not art on $5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art · · Score: 1

    So can I take a shit on a pedestal and call it 'Modern Hollywood' and call it art?

  3. Re:Marlinspike's approach on Are Some CAs Too Big To Fail? · · Score: 1

    How do you authenticate the authentication server?

    You dont. You are the authentication server, and you ask 50 servers.

  4. Re:That is seven kinds of awesome on New Video Brings Portal To Life · · Score: 1

    Made in, instead of made about.

  5. Re:That is seven kinds of awesome on New Video Brings Portal To Life · · Score: 1

    I agree with the YouTube commenter who said "Get this up on Kickstarter and make a full length movie".

    Not going to happen. While Valve is awesome, I'd guarantee you they'd want more money for licensing the Portal property then you could raise on kickstarter.

  6. Re:Sync vs Useful rates on The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds · · Score: 1

    Mr. and Mrs. John Q Public seem to have gotten used to their cereal box being half-full because of settling during shipment.

    Cereal is sold by weight, not by volume.

  7. There's a line on RIM Helping UK Police Track Down Rioters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a difference between protesting and rioting/looting. So cheers for tracking down rioters and looters.

  8. Re:Huh? on Cisco, US DOJ Fire Another Salvo At Peter Adekeye · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain to me why the company's CEO should be responsible for his employee wrongfully sharing his password?

    That's not what they're saying. They're saying that the person who shared the password should be responsible. Did you even read TFS?

    Cisco's Chief Security Officer proclaimed in 2007 that people 'need to be held accountable for their risk-taking,' noting that CEO John Chambers drives home the point that 'information security is everybody's responsibility' at Cisco.

  9. Easy solution on Are 'Real Names' Policies an Abuse of Power? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dont use Facebook or Google+.

    Plenty of other methods of communication.

  10. Instant Pages? on Google Patches 30 Chrome Bugs, Adds Instant Pages · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought this was called link prefetching.

  11. Re:False advertising on Measuring Broadband America Report Released · · Score: 1

    They should make ISPs advertise minimum speeds, and not 'up to' speeds. So if you buy a 5mbit plan, you will definately get 5mbit at all times, if not more.

    Of course I highly doubt many ISPs have the capacity to actually promise anything above dialup speeds at any given time.

  12. Errr what? on Measuring Broadband America Report Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My results do not correspond with the results reflected in the report.

    You mean a single data point doesn't follow the trend? Throw the study out! It must be crap!

  13. Re:Telex? Couldn't think of a better name? on Telex Would Work, But Is It Overkill? · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you don't mean Teletex ?

    No, Telex. From the intro blurb for Teletex: Not to be confused with Telex or Teletext.

  14. Re:Extraordinary rendition on UK Police Charge Suspected Anonymous Spokesman · · Score: 1

    This is like the FBI flying from Washington DC to Oregon, arresting someone, and flying them straight out to Washington again. It's not legal.

    Hint, the F in FBI stands for Federal. They have jurisdiction everywhere in the US on Federal crimes. You're seriously deluded if you think the FBI can only arrest people in Washington DC.

  15. Re:Dr. Roy Spencer... on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 0

    Why is it when people contradict AGW, the AGWists respond by attacking the messenger and not the message?

  16. Re:In other words on 35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But go on hatin' if it makes you feel better that many people choose an iPhone b/c it's a good phone and just as good if not better than many Android handsets.

    Sounds like you're the one hating that iPhones have been out longer and but has a smaller market share then Android phones.

  17. Re:Not all Bachelor's Degrees are created equal... on Is the Master's Degree the New Bachelor's? · · Score: 1

    Some of those require a mix of intense training and natural talents.
    There's a reason why "MBA" is said to stand for
    Master of
    Backstabbing and
    Ass-kissing

    I always though MBA stood for Master Bullshit Artist.

  18. In other words on Mozilla Announces Enterprise User Working Group · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To this end, we are re-establishing a Mozilla Enterprise User Working Group as a place for enterprise developers, IT staff and Firefox developers to discuss the challenges, ideas and best practices for deploying Firefox in the enterprise.

    In true Mozilla fashion, I'm sure that will mean "We'll pretend to listen while we continue to do whatever we want"

  19. Re:Can't actually store 135TB of data on Build Your Own 135TB RAID6 Storage Pod For $7,384 · · Score: 0

    Just because it's been used that way in the past shouldn't be justification for continuing to bastardize it.

  20. Re:Can't actually store 135TB of data on Build Your Own 135TB RAID6 Storage Pod For $7,384 · · Score: -1, Troll

    And these are all "manufacturer's terabytes", which is probably 1,024,000,000,000 bytes per terabyte instead of 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) bytes per terabyte like it should be.

    No it shouldn't be. Stop bastardizing the SI prefixes. Terra is the prefix for 10^12. 135 TerraBytes would therefore be 135 000 000 000 000 bytes

  21. Re:I really wish... on Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website · · Score: 1

    They dont block answers, scroll down past all the crap.

  22. Not different on Chain World — Innovative Game Design Sparks Debate · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Chain World, Rohrer explained, was a mod, a customized version of Minecraft and a set of scripts that govern how it’s played. And here was the cool part: It all lived on a single USB memory stick. [...] A week after the challenge, Ji posted an eBay auction for the memory stick. “This charity auction is for the third player slot for Chain World,” [...] The winner was an anonymous entity calling itself Positional Super Ko, a reference to a rule in the board game Go. For the right to play a used videogame exactly once, Positional Super Ko agreed to pay $3,300.

    So basically he automated what the minecraft community has been doing already and people went full-on moron.

  23. Not the first on Chain World — Innovative Game Design Sparks Debate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    [...] different from any game that came before it

    Sorry, the community around pretty much every sandbox game out there does this already.

  24. Re:Multi-Step Approach on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about the government or Google?

  25. Misleading Article on Bitcoin Mining Tests On 16 NVIDIA and AMD GPUs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given that the difficulty increases exponentially you're not going to be making their calculated B$/day for the whole year, so while the quickest to pay of is 70 days if the difficulty increases at the usual rate, you'd probably want to add on another month or two.

    For the ones taking nearly half a year to pay off at the current rate, you'll probably spend closer to a year before you'll even break even.