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  1. Re:But it's the cloud... on Attackers Install DDoS Bots On Amazon Cloud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you choose a cloud offering which does that for you then yes, you don't have to worry about things like software updates and patching.

    However, if you choose a cloud offering which is essentially a hosted server, then you still have to worry about all the things you would with your own local server, excluding power and hardware faults.

    Amazon AWS is a platform provider, its not a fully managed solution and never has been - people have been caught out by that before when availability zones failed and suddenly people realised the benefit of having redundant instances in multiple availability zones.

  2. Re:Elop on Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus · · Score: 1

    You have cited a lot of things to hate over, which you obviously do, but you have yet to cite anything that can actually be sued for.

  3. Ahh, that bullshit.

  4. What's incorrect about the term "piracy"? Its been used to refer to copyright infringement for hundreds of years.

  5. Re:I'm curious on "Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery · · Score: 1

    Once the basics of supersonic flight were understood and the materials science behind the engine tech was perfected, it was easy to produce an aircraft that went Mach 2, so the F-104 isn't something to really be compared to the F-35.

  6. Re:New Microsoft CEO on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what the point of your post is other than a typical bitching about Microsofts past.

  7. Re:Agent was wrong anyway on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Go on, show us those rules which agree with you.

  8. Re:RUDEST PASSENGER EVER on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Airlines can't leave a minor unattended on a flight through upgrades or moving the seating allocations around, but there's nothing requiring them to allow minors with different ticketing groups to their parents to board with the highest ticketing group on flights with non-allocated seating. Boarding priority is all down to the airline, so in this case the airline was correct - the bloke could board with the lower ticketing group because that would be his choice, but he couldn't bump the lower ticketing group members up to his group.

    So in other words, the airline already allows for the minors to be attended by their parents, its the parents choice as to whether they accept it or not.

  9. Re:New Microsoft CEO on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 1

    In the past Microsoft may have had an NIH approach, but over the past few years they have significantly changed from that in the developer area - switching from the Microsoft Ajax tools to jQuery, using Json.Net etc etc etc.

  10. Re:Make-work Project? on China Plans Particle Colliders That Would Dwarf CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    Taiwan had various degrees of local democratic reform culminating in the first presidential election in 1996, but it wasnt until 2000 that the Kuomintang party actually lost power in an election.

  11. Re:Waiting.... on CNN iPhone App Sends iReporters' Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 2

    It depends what they are vetting - the security of a third party service is probably something they care little about.

  12. Re:Make-work Project? on China Plans Particle Colliders That Would Dwarf CERN's LHC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every country has make-work projects, some of them even have additional benefits - the EU is currently reviewing a energy savings plan where one of the main points is "costs will be offset by the jobs created to implement this directive". Make-work.

    In reality, the Chinese project is definitely not make-work if they plan to do actual research. The "ghost cities" you talk about are actually gradually filling up as more population moves from rural settings into the cities - this has been a long term goal of the Chinese government, but their "long terms" are a fair longer than the "around next election time" terms that westerners tend to think in.

    If you want to see some real "ghost cities" there are plenty in Spain, entire towns and cities, with airports, which were built to sustain the Spanish building industry during the 2008-2013 period, and the properties have never been put on the market.

  13. Re:no thanks on Firefox 31 Released · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the party, except you are many years behind the 'crowd' - a lot of people (but fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things) abandoned Firefox over the "Awesome Bar" debacle, where you couldn't even go back to the old functionality at all (yeah yeah, loads of people posted "fixes" which did nothing more than change the skin, while doing nothing to revert the underlying behaviour), so the current situation is nothing new.

    The way the Awesome Bar was dumped on us pushed Firefox way down on my list of browsers to use, and even today I only fire it up to check website functionality when I'm developing.

  14. Re:Solar power? on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    Transmission over anything further than a few dozen metres.

  15. Re:Privacy is dead on Privacy Lawsuit Against Google Rests On Battery Drain Claims · · Score: 1

    Your privacy is indeed worthless if you aren't doing anything to protect it yourself - if you are expecting everyone else to protect your privacy for you when you don't take even basic steps to protect it yourself then I have no sympathy.

    At some point you need to take some responsibility for your own privacy.

  16. Re:Warrants are supposed to be narrow on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does this differ from a typical search warrant for a premises? While you can get a search warrant to search "room X at property Y", more often than not the search warrant is for "property Y", which is exactly the same as a gmail account in entirety.

  17. Re:This is news? on Ars Editor Learns Feds Have His Old IP Addresses, Full Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 1

    Actually most get a token from their payment provider and store that for future use - only the very large sites which have their own merchant accounts and card provider systems will store the card details.

    In the UK, most card providers require you to enrol into something called "3D Authentication", which sets up a password for your card - when you make a payment online, you put in your card details, billing address etc, and then you are asked for three digits from your 3D Authentication password. The way in which this works is its handled directly by the bank, not the payment provider or the vendor website - the payment provider returns a response saying "3D Auth required, go here to complete..." and you redirect your user to that website, they do the additional authentication, the bank then sends a result back to you, and you send that on to your payment provider.

  18. Re:Do you have any hands-on experience ? on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    If you are pointing out how clear Ukrainian airspace is, try looking at the same map from two weeks ago, or even earlier on the day of the shoot down - Ukrainian airspace was being used by most airlines on that route, it was only afterward that airlines started avoiding it as a matter of course.

  19. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    Which democracy is that, the one before or after the overthrow of the democratically elected government?

  20. Re:It gets worse... on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course there are things to dispute, because both your assertions have bias in them - the Ukrainian air defence system was on a higher state of alert because they had accused the Russians of shooting down a Ukrainian air force jet earlier that day, and the Ukrainians have the missiles that are alleged to have shot down the 777 (but we have no proof at all of the type of missile, just assertions coming from the Ukrainian side). So its well within the realms of possibility that the Ukrainians shot down the jet thinking it was a Russian air force incursion.

    As for who claimed the shoot down in the immediate moments afterward, remember how many groups claimed 9/11 before it was finally pinned down to Bin Laden.

    If you look at this from a neutral point of view, then nothing has been confirmed or proven yet - other than the 777 crashed of course.

  21. Re:No Advertising does not power the Internet. on Dealing With 'Advertising Pollution' · · Score: 2

    There is a fuckton more content on the internet today than in 1998, so what worked before doesn't necessarily work today and vice versa. To take the YouTube example of the story author, we have two sides to it - those who post the content without having to worry about being hit by a massive bandwidth bill, and those who view the content without having to whip out a credit card to pay for it. In between those sides, we have Google who is paying the infrastructure bill and funding the means to pay that bill by showing ads.

    People on here and other open forums regularly bitch about paywalls, so there are only really two other alternatives - find another way to pay the bill, or offer the content completely for free. Offering the content completely for free doesn't work for a lot of companies, because they are there to make money....

  22. Re:meanwhile overnight... on Russia Prepares For Internet War Over Malaysian Jet · · Score: 1

    Rebels that come from the Ukrainian military.

  23. Finally... on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    A goal for all those zero sized models and weight loss fanatics to aim for!

  24. Re:Fanbois on Apple Agrees To $450 Million Ebook Antitrust Settlement · · Score: 2

    Damn right an Apple monopoly was the worse situation - I can read my Kindle books on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows and a whole load of other platforms. Where can I read my Apple iBooks? Uhm... iOS.

  25. Re: Maybe, maybe not. on Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours · · Score: 1

    And companies have turned to privateers to protect their claims and ability to function in the past - the East India Trading Company had quite the military arm...