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  1. Re:better title:some common encryption practices s on More Encryption Is Not the Solution · · Score: 1

    What if you do it in targeted attacks on specific users? How often do you check for changes in the key?

    As you say, this wouldn't really work for mass surveillance.

  2. Re:better title:some common encryption practices s on More Encryption Is Not the Solution · · Score: 1

    CAs have *nothing* to do with distribution of private keys!

    A trusted CA can just generate a new private key for the site and go MITM. This is why the CA's are a big issue for private key security, at least with the way HTTPS trust chains are set up in reality. Yes you 'could' delete all CA's in your system and replace them with your own, but who does that?

  3. Re:He should do a similar one for Tokyo on A Circular New York City Subway Map To Straighten Things Out · · Score: 1

    Looking at the maps, I wouldn't say the Tokyo map is bigger or more complex? Having visited Tokyo, the sheer crowds, enormous stations, and multiple separate metro companies do make it complex though :). I don't really think a new map is what would fix that though ^^

    disclaimer: haven't visited NY

  4. Re:CNet reading comprehension on Apple: Developer Site Targeted In Security Attack, Still Down · · Score: 1

    Wow, he might want to recheck the law if he thinks he is not breaking any laws. If Apple wants to play things hard, that's some serious jailtime he is looking at.

  5. Re:No, you can't use it. on Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses · · Score: 1

    What is a "clone" right? You can clone it all you want. Copyright is about distribution. So if you mean distribute it in violation of copyright? Yes that is not allowed.

    "So if you have no license that allows you to put out on your machine and use it, how useful is it? "

    You can use it all you want, you just can't distribute it (ie. to others). If someone gives you a book, they don't have to give you a 'read' right. Under copyright you can use it for anything you want, you just can't make copies and give them to others. You can even distribute it in some cases, depending on copyright law in your country.

    Given that you can still fork and modify it on github, and use github as the distribution channel (but you can not distribute it yourself), I would say pretty useful.

  6. Re:No, you can't use it. on Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses · · Score: 1

    They don't have to grant a 'use' right. There is no such thing as a 'use' right. Why would you not be allowed to use it? Do you live in North Korea with some insane laws or such?

  7. Re:I'm surprised on Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses · · Score: 1

    Well, it's just about copyright. You still allow github to distribute the code, and anyone can use it, commercially and otherwise, as using something doesn't have any implication on copyright.

  8. Re:what if i cannot choose a single license? on Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses · · Score: 1

    The pirate bay? Depending on how you would do this, this is not compatible with GPL.

  9. Re:The Netherlands. on Meet PRISM's English Little Brother: Socmint · · Score: 1

    Maybe Netherlands just needed to tap more telephone conversations because they didn't have something like Prism?

  10. Nothing about price? on Review: Oracle Database 12c · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait what. He wrote a review about Oracle, gave an 8 for value, and didn't mention pricing? Is this some kind of shill or such?

    Even for a shill I would at least expect a line like
    'Yes, a license for a normal octocore setup costs more than your home, but...'
    or 'After going through the 2 hour cost calculation matrix, the resulting price seemed a tad steep, but'

  11. Re:IE still doesn't support modern web technologie on Google Retiring Chrome Frame · · Score: 1

    Internet Explorer 10 no longer supports conditional HTML.

    According to Microsoft it is no longer necessary, since IE supports everything now!

    Of course I found out they no longer allow conditional HTML when their so-called implementation of a feature was broken (don't remember which one exactly).

    Having said that, IE9 and IE10 are a huge improvement over IE8.

  12. Re:What a Simple World You Live In on India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare · · Score: 1

    I had a bit of a stressful day yesterday and I feel like I over-responded to your message and I do apologize for that. I guess we can see eachothers points and take it as they are.

  13. Re:What a Simple World You Live In on India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare · · Score: 1

    The only one foreign war that the USA has started since the Cold War is the 2nd Gulf War.

    Yes, because Afghanistan is in the US? I love the meaning you give to the word 'foreign' :). With the whole 'Prism is not a big deal, we just spy on the rest of the world' stuff, I guess you are not the only one using that meaning. However, I stated nothing about things being legitimate or not.

    But to pretend that him getting re-elected is solely the result of the population not giving a shit about body bags, that's overly simplistic.

    Well, it was about political impact of bodybags of soldiers in the US being the highest in the world, that was the statement I was responding to. I would say there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, the re-election of the president being pretty notable. How that matters? Well apparently people didn't care enough about it to prevent it from voting for him. Is that proof? no. You don't have to believe me, I'm just saying I doubt the statement. Also wasn't the whole controversy in the US about the total lack of political impact? So what exactly was the political impact?

    the 2nd Gulf War was not their war, so of course the fallout would be greater.

    The fallout would be greater because they had less casualties and didn't start a war? For most countries starting a war is a bit more influential than helping an ally.

    India has a lot of reasons

    It wasn't about reasons to create weapons, it was about political impact of bodybags. Also, your opinions on India are a hilarious compilation of what you might find in typical 2 paragraph uninformed journalist newsitems.

  14. Re:India? Robots in the front line? on India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare · · Score: 1

    only in the USA soldiers in body bags have such a heavy political price

    The fact that the US is one of the few countries to start foreign wars in the past decade, and that the president responsible got re-elected makes me doubt that. Hell, even in a bunch countries just supporting the US in Iraq and Afghanistan the political fallout was bigger. Not sure about India though.

  15. Re:Esport? on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 1

    You mean running as a sport? Obviously it's a game, there are even competitions for it!

  16. Re:Esport? on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 1

    You say: all games are not a sport

    Football is a game.

    Football is a sport.

    Boom you are wrong.

    I guess you meant not all games are a sport? Did I claim otherwise?

  17. Re:Esport? on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 1

    All sports are a game no matter how you try and word it.

    And there is a bunch of computer games that should qualify for being a sport in terms of physical skill required, competitiveness and sometimes even physical stamina more than a whole bunch of olympic sports.

  18. false positive rate on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    I get really tired of the automated GMail filtering. Not sure about others, but for me the false positive rate on all these things (spam, notifications, etc) is through the roof these days, to the point that the majority of my gmail spambox is legitimate mail (although sometimes bulk). At this point I just wish for a way to turn it all off, I'd rather go through a couple of dozen of spam messages than having to check and mark as 'not spam' messages every couple of hours.

  19. Re:Can we please have- on Scientists Growing New Crystals To Make LED Lights Better · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Even the smallest devices these days seem to need room illuminating blue lights, sometimes even in stand-by. I guess red leds are considered old-fashioned now, but if they could at least pick red ones as it's much easier to sleep with red lighting.

  20. Re:Snap What? on Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication · · Score: 2

    I take it nobody has sent you any naughty pictures recently? You may not be the target group for it.

    And I don't mean this insultingly or so, I'm neither. But make no mistake, 90% of people under 20 know about it, and it did have its impact.

  21. great reasoning! on How European Startups Are Battling Labor Laws For Developers and Programmers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Along the same line of reasoning, you should just steal that Porsche that you are selling, as it would have been impossible, or simply too expensive, to buy it officially.

    Yes, of course it's a pain in the ass that you can't just hire people in 1st world countries for 3rd world prices. However, if we want to maintain our social system, that's not viable. So they should either hire them in the low wage country themselves, or pay a good price for this skill they say is not available on the local market (depending on country, that means a salary between 2500 and 5000 euro per month to be eligable for a highly skilled migrant visa). If it's really such a uniquely skilled person, that should be no problem of course?

  22. zero evidence on World Press Photo Winner Accused of Photoshopping · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The supposed proof of 'fakery' from the article seems entirely consistent with what the photographer says it is, different regions with different light intensities from the same raw file.The light angles seem entirely plausible, I guess the article writer hasn't heard of reflection. Even the moon landing nutters come up with better stuff than this.

    The only true thing is that (as the photographer also says), the light intensities are differing.

    Why wouldn't the photographer be allowed to change light intensities? Every single digital image, ever uses some kind of processing to turn photons into pixels on your screen, and there is always some level of subjectivity in how that is done, even if it's done right on the chip. Why is that an issue?

  23. Re:You know who else had things ruined? on How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least For One Writer) · · Score: 1

    Did you even read my comment?

  24. Re:You know who else had things ruined? on How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least For One Writer) · · Score: 1

    I think most were more annoyed by the American 'no it is not a genocide, so we don't have to interfere with it', the actively trying to prevent other countries from setting up a proper UN mission, and afterwards claiming to be the heroes. Anyway, it wasn't just the US that got flack there, France got a lot more flack. Anyway, it's a long time ago, hopefully lessons have been taken...

  25. Best of world? on How an Aussie University Creates the World's Best Hackers · · Score: 1

    It's a national CTF for some australian schools. Wake me up when they win iCTF and Defcon in the same year.

    What's next, call the junior ice skating winner in the Australian nationals the best ice-skaters in the world without further evidence?