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  1. Re:ICANN screwed up with the "at-large" board memb on ICANN CEO Wants To Make Progress On Leaving US Control · · Score: 1

    You know the top level domains are generic don't you? The US is domain squatting ".mil" and ".gov".

    ".us" is the correct domain for country specific domains in the US.

  2. Re:NSA tapped all cables on ICANN CEO Wants To Make Progress On Leaving US Control · · Score: 1

    The Americans I know always complain about having little or no disposable income. The Europeans I know seem to have enough disposable income to live comfortable lives. Both groups are mostly educated professional types.

    Americans often repeat that they have the most freedom and the best of everything but that's not my experience. It's just different stuff, not better stuff.

  3. Re:Leaving US control on ICANN CEO Wants To Make Progress On Leaving US Control · · Score: 1

    The NSA was then end of the open Internet. What we really need is a distributed DNS system that can't be screwed by IANA, ICANN, the UN, or any world government. And encryption everywhere.

  4. Re:Landlord that peeks through the keyhole on ICANN CEO Wants To Make Progress On Leaving US Control · · Score: 1

    Right, something distributed and secure is badly needed.

    Namecoin didn't solve the domain squatting issue though. I'm not sure it's solvable.

  5. Re:Landlord that peeks through the keyhole on ICANN CEO Wants To Make Progress On Leaving US Control · · Score: 1

    That's understating it. What the NSA did was more like setting up spy camera's in every room.

  6. Re:Bitcoin stopped being distributed a long time a on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 1

    Read the 2008 paper. The idea was never that everyone would mine, it's that mining was going to be taken over by specialized equipment and that the difficulty adjustment system and the free market would compensate for the ever increasing mining power. It worked out exactly like that.

  7. Re: Bitcoin stopped being distributed a long time on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 1

    Err, no. It's going almost exactly as the 2008 plan said it would.

  8. Re: Isn't the block chain what makes it decentrali on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 1

    If you control 51% of the hashing power in the network, you can modify the block chain while simultaneously self-verifying your version as the one-and-true block chain.

    No you can't. You still have to output valid blocks or every node will reject it. Every node validates every block and rejects anything that breaks the rules.

    A 51% attack can't steal coins, generate more coins, or change the past in any way other than by generating a parallel blockchain. It's considerably less harmful than people seem to think.

  9. Re:80/20 rule on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 1

    Slashdot. Where someone picks a random rule or law and claims it explains whatever the current story is about.

    There were no 80's or 20's in this story. Only a 50.

  10. Re:Unicorns and rainbows on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 2

    Just like USD is a fantasy. All money but gold is pretend computer numbers, yet somehow money is still useful.

  11. Re:Jebus on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 1

    It's so doomed to failure that major companies are taking it. That's not very doomed at all.

  12. Nonsense story on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 1

    This has happened before will no ill effects. The situation got fixed with no ill effects. The possible effects of one pool having 50%+ of the mining power are significantly less harmful than reported.

  13. No Answer on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    People will tell you that you absolutely must use this language or that language like there is no alternative. Ignore those people. There is no one correct answer to this question. It's a matter of taste and choosing the right language for the job.

    I get the impression you want quick shell script type programs. If so you might like Perl or Python. Perl has better regular expression support and lets you do more with less typing, Python is easier to master.

  14. Re:Sigh on UK Seeks To Hold Terrorism Trial In Secret · · Score: 2

    If it's held in secret how can anyone be sure it's anything that remotely resembles a fair trail? Maybe the defendants don't even know what that are being charged with. Maybe they are not allowed lawyers.

    Secret trails are not the worst of this though. Since about 2005 the home secretary has the power to put anyone under house arrest indefinitely without any burden of proof. The UK government don't even need trails anymore.

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...

  15. Re:No Way! on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1

    If Gartner say curved TVs are rubbish then it's time to buy one.

    Gartner have a very long history of being wrong about everything.

  16. Re:What the f*$# is wrong with us? on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    Or being roofied in a bar?

    This was and maybe still is a common way of mugging men in India. A friendly guy buys you a drink. You fall asleep. You wake up with no wallet, watch, or bag. The intent is to steal property not commit a sexual assault though.

  17. Re:What the f*$# is wrong with us? on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    That's bad reasoning. Just because things are terrible elsewhere doesn't mean they can't be better here.

  18. Re:This misogyny label is pure propaganda on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    Can you explain why Zionists see heterosexual men as a threat to their ideology? I thought Zionists were anti-homosexual and pro-heterosexual?

    If you are saying Zionists when you mean Jews, they are also anti-homosexual and pro-heterosexual.

  19. Re:#notallgeekyguys on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    So apparently if you're a standard frustrated angry geeky guy you need to have a manifesto?

    Damn. Guess I missed that memo.

    All the rest of us got it. Most of us chose more mundane messages than 'kill all women'. Mine is 'I don't like MS Windows very much'.

  20. Re:#notallgeekyguys on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 2

    We didn't have this conversation about environmentalism after the unibomber and we don't need it about some fringe internet trolls now.

    I believe the unibomber was against technology because it dehumanizes people, not because of environmental issues. Many believe his arguments were valid although his method of protest was ineffective and harmful. This has nothing to do with a frustrated kid going crazy, blaming all women for his social isolation, and trying to kill them all.

  21. Re:One more reason Flash sucks on Researchers Find, Analyze Forged SSL Certs In the Wild · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Flash is evil and should be destroyed, I agree. But this story is about how researchers did something cool with flash to detect forged SSL certs.

    In this one case Flash isn't the security issue, it's the useful software helping to find the security issue.

  22. Re:Stupid headline and summary. on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    They are not investigating Bitcoin as a threat.They are investigating how crypto-currencies can be used to finance terrorism.

    Because the US government doesn't have enough ways of supporting terrorism as it is?

  23. Re:To be fair... on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    Well, our (US) government seems to think every American citizen is a terrorist, so why couldn't a non-existant thing also be a terrorist?

    The US government has really lost the plot by calling math a terrorist threat. No wonder China is on course to become the world's biggest economy.

  24. Re:How about cash? on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    It's always been easy enough to transport large amounts of diamonds. Yet the US government hasn't declared diamonds a terrorist threat yet.

    I think the US government just went off the deep end.

  25. Stoopid government on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    They class everything as either a terrorist threat or an enemy combatant.

    What's their next trick? A war on breakfast cereals? Drone strikes against the color blue?