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  1. Re:Qwest on If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again · · Score: 4, Informative

    What they said translates to "We are putting you behind a carrier grade NAT, you will no longer have a public IP unless you pay us extra for it."

  2. Re:Why use EC2? on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    for normal cluster computing you want high IO between instances (doing some math this guy was running 8 of these instances to get the numbers he was achieving, so to answer the grandparent, you would need to buy 16 Teslas to get the performance he is getting)

  3. The pricing is wrong on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Either the guy is lying or the pricing is wrong, from the TFA is says they charge 28 cents a min, but from the amazon ec2 pricing page it says [quote]Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance, from the time an instance is launched until it is terminated. Each partial instance-hour consumed will be billed as a full hour.[/quote]

    also to get 28 cents/min you would need to run 8 instances at $2.10/hour so really he paid $16.80 not $1.68

  4. Re:would be nice... on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 2

    Actually dropbox is smart enough that if two computers are visible to each other on a lan they will directly sync to each other instead of going out to dropbox's server.

  5. My order on Taco Bell Programming · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I get a server logging system, hold the email notifications. Can I get extra rotating log files with that?

  6. Re:It literally took hours... on FCC Approves Changes To Cable Box Rules · · Score: 1

    Actually they talk about the failings of tuning adapters in the paper too.

  7. Re:TFA is useless; here's the actual order on FCC Approves Changes To Cable Box Rules · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the document is 59 pages of legalese.

    I read through some, The pages are only have height (half is taken up by footnotes) so ites really like 30 pages, The rules itself are only page 43-48 (appendex B) everything else is just what was talked about in the meetings. Now the rules changes are legalese but pages 1-33 (Discussion) are actually a pretty easy read.

  8. Re:can one file from a Linux-native program yet? on IRS Servers Down During Crucial Week · · Score: 1

    You can do your taxes on the efile website i believe.

  9. Re:Uhh, guys? on iPhone Opens Up Bluetooth For Data · · Score: 1

    Nike+ works with the iPhone, but it works with all iPods really (But there are special things the app from nike can do on the touch and iPhone that it can't do on the other models)

  10. who knew? on Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who knew that Billion was spelled differently in Canada, maybe it is like color and colour.

  11. I was going to bash this on TheSpaceGame — Design Your Route To Jupiter · · Score: 1

    I was going to bash this and say they could just take the money and feed random trajectories in to the formula and get the same results, but I got to thinking, this is actually good. This can give you the top 100 or so options then you spend the cpu time tweaking this or that variable. You may actually get some better results that doing raw multivariable calculus with a lot of variables and unknowns could do.

  12. Re:How's this different from a do-not-call list? on Online Ads, Privacy Remain In FTC Crosshairs · · Score: 1

    Actually for some state, county, and city laws they are passed democratically for a famous example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)

  13. Re:Enlighten me please on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    The advantage is your phone can have a HDMI out (there is even a mini spec to fit on a small device like a phone) to play at 1080p on your big screen.

  14. Re:It's uglier than you can imagine. on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 1

    yea, but how do you steer it?

  15. Re:Does this mean... on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 1

    This makes it so you are not breaking the law when you jailbreak your phone (DMCA circumvention law) however you are still under the terms of your "contract" with apple ( X number of days to revive a free warranty repair as long as you do not modify the hardware or software of the device)

  16. Re:By the time they've made this into a real produ on Sony's Blue-Violet Laser the Future Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    So will the cost per GB for this new disks. Just use what any serious person uses for Write Once Read Many backups and TODAY has a capacity of 1.5TB... Tape

  17. No iPhone App on Google Voice Opens To All · · Score: 1

    according to http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html there is a App for the iPhone. I can not find one in the App Store, is there any other app other than http://m.google.com/voice for the iPhone?

  18. Jawbone headset on Best Telephone For Datacenters? · · Score: 1

    http://www.jawbone.com/ it uses the vibrations in your skull from speaking to do noise cancellation.

  19. Re:You are incorrect Sir! on Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones · · Score: 1

    I use a prepaid service. "Unlimited" voice, text, and data is $50/month

    You are not using a prepaid service. You have a monthly contract of $50/month. Pre-paid the article is referring to are phones where you pay per minute you use plus a fee for connecting. so you make no calls during the month your bill that month is $0.00

  20. Re:Geee! on OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Who here has "CNNIC ROOT" left over from the default install in their windows(or firefox) cert list? I bet they would be more likely to give up a signed CA cert then VeriSign would.

  21. Re:Geee! on OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I agree that this most likely will not happen in the US for the same reasons you stated. However, I do not see this out of the realm of possibility of a more oppressive government like China or N. Korea.

  22. Re:Quick on Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    BitDefender != Microsoft

  23. Re:Exactly backwards on Final Decision Deferred On ".xxx" Domains · · Score: 1

    Actually if you are running your own DNS server on your intranet you can use whatever TLD you want, so as long as they don't approve the plan of letting large company register their own TLD anything non in the standard ICANN naming system would be considered a private TLD.

  24. Re:Sounds like resistance is easy. on Aurora Attack — Resistance Is Futile, Pretty Much · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Go ahead - root me. What are you waiting for? You want the details of my operating system? HA! I'm not that easy to social engineer!

    Thats why I don't root you, I root your receptionist to get the proverbial foot in the door. "Hi this is John from IT, we found a virus on your workstation I just emailed you the program to remove it, just open it and it will solve the issue"

  25. Re:Sounds like resistance is easy. on Aurora Attack — Resistance Is Futile, Pretty Much · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yea, because there is no way to get rootkited or other vulnerabilities on Linux system.

    Hey, I wonder where the term "rootkit" originated?