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  1. Re:Speaking as a road user not in a 4,000lb box... on Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' · · Score: 1

    you sound like a politician, to make things even more simple.

  2. Re:Speaking as a road user not in a 4,000lb box... on Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' · · Score: 1

    You are missing a lot of factors in the equation. Just naming one does not make a valid equation in this case, only an oversimplification.

  3. Re:Speaking as a road user not in a 4,000lb box... on Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' · · Score: 1

    They also have big 'safe' cages blocking view. If entities are on collision course then the angle doesn't change and you are not/less seen because the pedestrian only 'becomes bigger'. That is why a small change in speeds really helps.

  4. Re:Faulty Reasoning on Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money? · · Score: 1

    If a company needs the math as an argument...

  5. Re:There wouldn't be any of this on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 1

    You only commit political suicide with _one_ idea if you have a 2 party system.

  6. reuse on Does Open Source Software Cost Jobs? · · Score: 1

    He would be against books because it contains too many ideas that can be freely reused. He would oppose forums on the internet because reviews from citizens cannot have a good quality and are bad for profession newspaper reviewers. And webshops should be forbidden: Bad for old fashion shops. And this email stuff costs too many jobs at the postal services.

    Stop the efficiency!

  7. Re:and why... on SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password · · Score: 1

    Like any service (i.e. preventing bad voodoo) you cannot guarantee service levels without monitoring. Service == monitoring. Nice story: A Dutch army base had a lot of anti-nucleair protesters around an they often came in. It turned out that they changed the lock at one of the (never used) break-away doors. Monitor the lock.

  8. Re:duh on SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password · · Score: 1

    or h20h30+oh-

  9. Re:Not just consumers ISP's on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    Some Amsterdam prices:
    non-peering prices are like this (jointtransit prices)
    peering costs are something like this (nlix)

  10. Re:Did I miss something? on Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection · · Score: 1

    If you never sent any large quantities of mail, you do not have a good reputation (just 'no reputation'). Trying to send large quantities of mail is impossible to large parties. If you let a warm IP 'cool', its reputation is gone. It takes many months, or longer, to heat it up. One bad mailing = blacklistings (which are 1 to 3 days) + a hit in reputation.

  11. Re:So? on Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection · · Score: 1

    They will probably just block entire /56 since this is the kind of assignment a customer can get. See here: ripe ncc ipv6 training material, page 8.

    The funny thing is that the hotmails of the world do not have a AAAA records for their mail servers. That means no ipv6 spam server can reach them.

  12. Re:Good test. on Researchers' Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail · · Score: 1

    I hear a new scam born... And you invented it. That means you are responsible for all damage that results, right?

    At least morally ;-)

  13. Re:See... on Court Renders $3 Judgment Against Spamhaus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That is half of the truth. The second part is content/applicability and ease of opt-out.

    If my pencil-shop sends me an email after 5 years because he wants to sell a new one, it is spam. You don't expect it.
    If my car-dealer sends me an email after 5 years because he wants to inform me about a call-back, most people would not consider it spam.
    If my ISP sends me an email about pencils, it is spam.
    If I cannot opt-out because I need my customer card to complete the procedure, it is spam.

    Actually, and anyone at an ESP will tell you that, if the receiver thinks it is spam: it is. Because _that will_ hurt your deliverability at the hotmails and yahoos of the world.

    Btw I'm in that business.

  14. Re:A fork for old machines on Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA · · Score: 2

    The cost you mention do not represent the actual costs of shipping stuff. Shipping a container which is not in a hurry is dirt cheap.

    You could have deducted that yourself. How can a new system be shipped to Lagos from (lets say) China and cost $577. And then you mention shipping computers from the US to Lagos which would be twice (or more) as expensive (without the price of the hardware).

    UPS is ripping you off.

  15. Re:No that can't be right on The Dark Side of the Tech Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    Your logic is failing you here:

    An algorithm is no different than a mechanism. An algorithm is required to obtain a result, a mechanism is required to obtain a result.

    An apple is a fruit, a pear is a fruit. They are no different?

    I would say that copyright is enough to cover

    (x / 2 = y)

    or

    ((x - 3) >> 1) + 1)

    . I presume the copyright is long gone. But to say that a mathematical formula is a mechanism: There is no intermediary so you cannot call it a mechanism (and please don't confuse math with how math is implemented on a cpu).

  16. Re:No that can't be right on The Dark Side of the Tech Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    Adding 1+1 is mathematically very different from the physical design (e.g. putting two things next to each other like 2 apples, 2 magnets or 2 elektrons).

    Physically there are two things: the result and and the way that result was obtained.

    Mathematically there is only one thing: the result. Software is a way that result can be calculated and it is already protected by copyright.

    Software patents are not software patents but mathematical patents claiming to be software patents.

  17. Re:The concept of browser is wrong. on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    You are mixing 'browser' app and 'cloud' (where most people assume external cloud). They are not by definition coupled.

    I do however think that many office applications, e.g. Excel and Word, will remain on the desktop for a long time.

    Btw, the company I work at has http://www.reeleezee.nl/ for online bookkeeping (5M$ turnover / year). Most companies I worked at have external payrolling.

  18. Re:The concept of browser is wrong. on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Interactivity and control.

    Most people don't need it doing business work. Your example is the corner case.

  19. Re:"Software engineers" don't do web programming on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 0

    You are being an arrogant prick and your id is too high to back it up.

  20. Re:Work offline on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    The same way you do offline phoning... lol.

  21. Re:Charter definitelly does something like that on The Five Levels of ISP Evil · · Score: 2

    That is why I use https searches on Google...

  22. What the system is on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    The 'kilometerheffing' or 'rekeningrijden', kilometer charge, is a system to replace road tax and the extra VAT (BPM=40%!) on a car. It is supposed to enter service in 2014 but because of non-governance a while back I suppose it is delayed.

    How the pricing is determined:
    -type of fuel
    -type of engine/exhaust system (no particle filter == 2.5 ct/km)
    -place of the road (not sure if this in the current proposals)
    -time of day

    The system makes having a car cheap and driving one expensive in congestion areas/time.

    I think the system, which was publicized in 2010 (!), is a little unfair. I bought my car in 2009, which is without particle filter. I now face, without doing anything, a hefty 2.5ct/km tax. That is 875 euro per year for me. Tell me where I could have made a different decision.

  23. Re:Mind the gap on Why The US Will Lose a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    Not much internet left if you pull the plug on all incoming and outgoing ip traffic. Or do you keep the local traffic?

    I hope you don't think that cutting the lines to the rest of the world is enough.They tried it in all those African countries: It don't work. A couple of sat links and you are out of business.

  24. Re:Virtualization saves energy? on Google Running 900,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    Young padawan, there are many sorts of virtualization.

  25. Re:Upon further consideration on How Increasing Cloud Reliance Affects IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    I can't believe you haven't been modded insightful yet... Head on.