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  1. Re:Playing devil's advocate... on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 1

    As far as we know, all the leaks have been from insiders...

    I'd expect the agency that claims to monitor the whole internet to be able to monitor their own network... But you never know...

    Ofcourse inside leaks might occur from a spy instead of an attention whore...

  2. Re:As a Mexican living in Argentina... on NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mexicans don't understand the the world beyond US, they are too close and too economically dependent to see there is something else.
    Let me tell you something... I have been in Canada. I'm Mexican. In both paces US news are covered to an extent far beyond that any other country covers US and/or a neighbour nation. Both countries even follow US sports leagues as if they were local. How do you explain that?

    France initial response to the NSA allegations was to take down Evo Morales plane.

    From my point of view, US can't be trusted. It has too much information, the policies are little enforced and these leaks seem to happen very frequently. So what happens when this sort of information is silently leaked to corporations or to the enemy? Or how is it regulated to which friends the US can exchanges this information?

    And then when they are caught, they decide to act like nothing happened, and expect everybody else to pretend this is the way things should be on the world. And when Dilma doesn't like Obama reading her email, and even proposes to do something to avoid it, you say she can't look beyond Latin America?

    I expect this sort of event to make Latin America rethink in which terms they want to cooperate with US. If it's convenient to have US bases in our soil or to which extent we want to be US allies.

  3. Re:If that's true, Most parents are NUTS! on Most Parents Allow Unsupervised Internet Access To Children At Age 8 · · Score: 1

    There are a number of other reasons to know what your kids are up to, sexting, pedophiles, identity theft, bullying etc are all reasons you need to at least monitor what your kids are doing online. (Not to mention to keep the NPAA off your case should they figure out how to bittorrent the latest movie they want..)

    Just put a porn filter and block facebook. And teach your kids about identity theft the same way you teach them to not eat candy from strangers...
    By the time they can circumvent the porn filter they are old enough to watch porn, and will access it even if you don't want.

    At different ages a child needs different degrees of privacy. The trust that they have on you will be related to the trust you have on them. Not having facebook will not prevent your child from being bullied, and if you need to spy his/her facebook to learn something is wrong at school you already are a clueless parent.

  4. Re:Bad Parent on Most Parents Allow Unsupervised Internet Access To Children At Age 8 · · Score: 1

    Because and enough motivated 8h year old can't manage to create his own gmail account...

  5. Re:There goes the value of Bitcoin. on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    They can't cash it, because that would mean that at least some part of the US government believes that BC exchanges are legal.
    That might be counterproductive when the US & friends finally decide to step in, regulate this shit and take their piece of the cake.

  6. Re:Yeah, talk me more about those "Washington Effo on President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN · · Score: 1

    I don't see anybody calling the Syrian insurgency "terrorists", or not calling North Korea "terrorist".
    You can't play the terrorist card whenever 'X' attacks 'Y', and 'X' isn't part of a government... 'terrorism' it has a very specific definition.

    The funny thing is that in these latitudes, we take the reverse point of view, the de facto governments are being judged for terrorism or what they did to combat that insurgences... governments that were not only allies, but also were promoted by the US.

  7. Re:NSA's fucking job on President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN · · Score: 1

    A clumsy job if yo ask me... Assume that everybody spies on everybody... Why would you give a contractor like Snowden, access to that sort of information?
    There was no justification other than "because we only care about ourselves". But you can't say that because economic consequences are greater that the tactical advantage.
    Do you really think that before Snowden, the tactical advantage taken by spying justified the risk of being caught spying?
    Some think that it didn't, that a target like Dilma would know that she is being wiretapped, that no sensible information would be transmitted through gmail, anyway.

    What about the risk of giving access to that information to some contractor because it was cheaper than doing it inhouse?
    Or you think that this sort of analysis of whom and how you should spy isn't part of the NSA job?
    Or you think that the US shouldn't give a shit about what a lesser country thinks about you?

  8. Re:Commendable on President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN · · Score: 1

    But putting it all together will be expensive; Kardashian shopping spree expensive.

    But would it be worth, economically speaking, or the current intercontinental links and infrastructure is enough for the moment?
    It might have been a plan that just was revealed before time because of the political opportunity.

    Anyone has some rough numbers of how much money are we talking about?

  9. Yeah, talk me more about those "Washington Efforts on President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Washington's efforts to smooth over Brazilian outrage over NSA espionage have so far been rebuffed by Rousseff

    Yeah, talk me more about those "Washington Efforts"...

    Obama with a poker face: Well we spy on you to protect the world against Terrorism
    Dilma: So I was suspected of terrorism, even if I was the candidate for the ruling party of an country without conflicts with the US.
    Obama: But with terror...
    Dilma: And If I was suspected of terrorism, the why did you spy on our major petrol company...
    Obama: Err terror...
    Dilma: Fuck-You.

    accusing the NSA of violating international law by [...]

    And the rest of the world, doesn't care what is the NSA, for us it's the US that's spying, so no she accused the the US...

  10. Re:Some people... on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 1

    They all sell you on a similar story whether it's Heaven, Jannah (Islamic Heaven), Nirvana (Buddhism) or Vaikuntha (Hinduism) but while you don't care which religion, the religions do.

    Clearly not, or the Valhalla wouldn't have been an appealing for anyone.

  11. Re:Never knew on Romanian Science Journal Punked By Serbian Academics · · Score: 1

    Oh oh, there is a mistake in that paper, "Ortega y Gasset" is a surname and thus, shouldn't be translated.

  12. Re:ballsy move on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    That was also done in Argentina (not by law)...
    In some way it makes sense...
    The word 'sirvienta' has always been used to refer to a female housemaid, instead of 'sirviente'...
    Why not do the same with the word 'presidente' that has the same declination???

  13. Re:Well, obviously on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    Yes, they MIM the SSL connections inside the corporations, If the corporation servers are outside US, the NSA would need to install their servers in foreign soil.
    That would mean:
    A) The corporation violated the law in that foreign country, and is liable.
    B) The NSA performed hacking on foreign soil, and that is an act of war (Not that the US gives a shit about that, but eventually you'd be forced to).
    Of course, NSA could access that data from the US based google corporation infrastructure, but that would be illegal without a warrant. (Again, not that the US government gives a shit about that, but eventually, US citizens will force it to).

  14. Re: Does it do custom folders? on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    That's not a fair comparison. A fair one would be how a media editor deals with this issue. Generally It does it in the same way or in a more obfuscated.
    Calibre stores all the metadata it can on the epub (ID3 equivalent). So you can point any program to your database folder, and as long as it only scans for the files in your preffered format, you're fine. It also keeps a copy of outside the files.

    How do you expect calibre to deal with different non equivalent file formats of the same file, if it isn't storing all the files in one folder per title?

    Per each title you need to store:
    The cover picture (the same as any media player, some store it on the same folder some at other folder).
    All the different formats of the same title you chose to export to.
    The xml metadata. (where do you propose to save the matadata of a plain text file?)

  15. Re:Does it do custom folders? on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    You are doing it wrong... That's what the collection tag is for...
    You can then use the web server to find the book. At least that's the calibre way.

    Otherwise, you can mount the library directory and look for the book based on the template you originally used. The default is author/book... I don't think Douglas Adams wrote more than 100 books, so you're fine with that.

    If all your books are in a single folder, but you have a naming convention, you can just find the book with your proffered OS tool.

  16. Re:Does it do custom folders? on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    epub 2.0 wasn't thought for big picture books... The biggest part of any epub sould be the cover picture. Calibre was thought for ebook managing

    Your issue means:
    1) You have more epubs you will ever be able to read. Unless you administer a library / bookshop that isn't the case. Ask B&N
    2) You have lots of technical pdfs. Those are from 10 to 200 MB. But calibre wasn't thought for that sort of books. Actually those are scanned books not ebooks.

    Anyway, you could always delete the original book after it was imported...

  17. Re:Thanks Kovid! on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    bttletanks ammu

  18. Re:Apples to Apples. on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    Maybe you missed the part where the work is located at the atacama desert... You'd need to compare it as a typical grad stipend that works in alaska, or something like that.

  19. Re:My 3 least favorite things in one sentence on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 2

    From Mexico to Chhile/Argentina, you can find lots of countries with '.' as thousands separator. Last time I checked, we still aren't part of the EU, but I might be wrong...

  20. Re:Computer Intrusion on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    Think about this...

    You were more or less living a normal life in a forgotten town. One day the US bombs you in the name of freedom, killing all your family.

    Then you find out that they did bomb you because some crazy bastard that you never heard about, that wasn't born and didn't live in your country, destroyed some towers you didn't know existed. Oh, and some shit about massive destruction weapons.

    Depending on your mental state, and how much you lost, you might consider that life isn't wroth any more... Some guys suicide, some guys seek revenge...

    Next time one of this guys gets in your country and kills a bunch of your people, you'll call him a terrorist... You should really reflect on why the fuck this guys do what thy do, why they hate you, and what you could have done to prevent this guy from hating you.

  21. Re:You shouldn't be surprised by Jevons Paradox on Software-Defined Data Centers Might Cost Companies More Than They Save · · Score: 2

    That's not true.
    30 years ago, you had no LCD/plasma tv's.
    So with a ratio of 3:1 tv's, you're saving power.

    With a 4:1 you'd spend a little more power on prime-time, but if there was an "always on" tv on the house, you'd be still saving power.

  22. Re:Victim Card on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Your nested quotation marks ar difficult to parse.

  23. Re:How Will He Get There on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 1

    No it wasn't.
    But the Spanish ambassador in Vienna demanded to register the plane before it took off to Canarias. He spoke to Evo personally.
    That was even after France had allowed to use their air space again.

    In fact some Spanish newspapers criticize that stupid, out of time, diplomatic move.

  24. Re:Texas... on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 1

    Besides the last Cease and Desist Order, the last ./ reported stupid American trials belong to Texas.

  25. Re:Oh, Canada... on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 1

    But in a country where they need to send cell phone alerts to everyone because of an amber alert, making a joke is now a crime apparently.

    FTFU