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  1. Re:Abandoned Town Security? on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    Knock the houses over or just let the toxic land kill the tweakers.

  2. Re:we care on Towards a Permission-Based Web · · Score: 1

    No, "Net Neutrality" doesn't mean what I said. That is why I did not use that term :}

    Net NEutrality still has nothing to do with what you're blathering about.

    Additionally, "that specific case" which clearly means the app store, is not a network issue. So no, I was not speaking of enforcing bandwidth.

    who cares? The while point of this thread is someone getting hacked off about net neutrality. What sort idiot demands that a store owner give up control over who's allowed to sell product in its store?

  3. Re:Greenies - broken accouting on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    Corporations aren't people until they're susceptible to rubber hose cryptanalysis.

  4. Re:walled gardens on Towards a Permission-Based Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyways, with tools like tcp->dns relays, and tools like me walking around, I wonder how long this dirty little secret will work out.

    They'll change the DNS server for unauthed computers to only serve the billing page and redirect all A queries to a single IP. You could probably write that app in a few hours.

  5. Re:we care on Towards a Permission-Based Web · · Score: 1

    That is the neutrality issue in that specific case.

    This has fuck all to do with net neutrality. Neutrality is about enforcing bandwidth neutrality for traffic passing through your system - The AppStore is an app and expected to be somewhat biased.

    Without jailbreaking (Something Apple hasn't stated is OK to do, and has at least implied it is NOT OK to do) you can't load software of your choosing on your own hardware, only software Apple deems worthy to sell on their store.

    Well, like it or not, they haven't been anything but open about that.

  6. Re:Smart police officer on Metadata In Arizona Public Records Can't Be Withheld · · Score: 1

    That sort of makes sense: when you're the plaintiff, you can always lose, but as a lawyer, the only question is whether you can collect your fees.

  7. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? You have to house people and keep them from escaping. Of course, there's something very wrong with society when people commit crimes so they can have a roof over their heads and food to eat.

  8. Re:Not the same, in several aspects on Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    an ISP-hosted email account, currently, does have full access to the content, with your tacit approval.

    Tell some random person that their ISP thinks they are allowed to read their email and see how they react - judge is off his meds.

  9. Re:2 Simple solutions on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    some businesses depend on third-party apps that require Microsoft Access.

    If yours does not, why do you care? If you do need Access, how about running it on a VM (assuming light use)?

  10. Re:Lenovo on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 0

    Amen to that. I have a nice little side business installing operating systems. One Christmas teenagers paid for all of my wife's Christmas presents and bought my daughter a new wardrobe.

    Sweet!!!

    And they'll keep installing malware until they have the money come out of their pockets.

    Teenagers bought your daughter a new wardrobe? Does she spend a lot of time in her room with a webcam?

  11. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    and that costs more than welfare. Why are you so hot to spend money on vengeance against fat slobs?

  12. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    This is the US. The guiding principle is supposed to be that if it's not specifically authorized by the chartering document, the government is prohibited from it.

    Only when that requires specific powers. Also, that mainly applies to the fed: state and city government has a freer hand.

  13. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    The train is great, but one of the reasons you prefer it might be because the train ticket doesn't cover the full cost of operating the train.

    Between the car payment, gas, maintenance, etc, I pay $800/mo for a car and it doesn't cover the costs of operating it on the road. What makes you think trains are different?

  14. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that once you do that, the fat slobs will go get a job and contribute to society. They sure as hell won't decide that they're entitled to a living and go steal stuff.

  15. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    that's all very complicated and probably expensive to administer. How about we pay for it out of the general fund?

  16. Re:That'll learn 'em. on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    There's more than one company that can provide internet. Also what compro01 said - TV, phone, fancy backup service, whatever.

  17. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 1

    It's not 'secure' no matter how you look at it. Putting it outside the computer doesn't help. I can still run aircrack and pwn your system just as quickly.

    If I cared, I'd stick my WAP on a restricted subnet. I probably should anyway, since it's only used by guests. I have a wired network and it just works. Wireless, not so much - hit it hard and it dies messily.

    Anyway, you can't do that unless you show up at my house. Good luck pwning anything in there with just my gateway IP (which you don't have).

  18. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 1

    That's the whole point of making it separate: you keep it from being too integrated with the PC and therefore vulnerable. If you care about the logs, we already have a net protocol for sending those around - just run something on your PC to snarf them. I already have a wired network, and there's one wire going into my computer - no reason for you gadget, especially when my router hooks up to the tivo and xbox sitting by the TV.

  19. Re:What's science done for us lately? on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 1

    Let's see: we are on the cusp of real fusion tech thanks to one Dr Bussard (Deceased), and fuck business. They don't see anything but the balance sheet and the next earnings call. I wouldn't expect them to understand basic research.

  20. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 1

    What's the big draw? As I see it, you eliminate one box, but only if your PC is by the router anyway, and you have to do surgery on your computer whenever the thing gets upgraded. Me, I have a box and I leave it where it is for 2-3 years at a time.

  21. Re:Really on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, big tech has spent the last decade telling congress that they need lots of foreigners because they just can't find any local talent: you'd think they'd raise the salary a bit if that were true.

  22. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 1

    Actually the real solution is to make the OS non-susceptible to running remote commands or code on its default configuration, but often that is too much to ask of some people.

    No, the real solution is what we already have - a separate box that mitigates most of the problems with billware. Much cheaper than getting MS to build secure software (along with every other software builder).

  23. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 1

    so now you have to run it all the time when you use the network and if the OS crashes, the network goes down (because the manufacturer cheaped out and offloaded some processing to windows to save $2/unit). Rebooting takes the network down, etc. Or plug in a 8W box and ignore it.

  24. Re:Now they're copying Apple too!? on Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Yes, actually. The top 100 are dominated by infiniband (which is as fast as GigE, but with better latency), but half the stuff or more past 300 is GigE.

  25. Re:Never even heard of it on Microsoft Opening Outlook's PST Format · · Score: 1

    No, the size was 1G back in the day. Judging from the comments here, even that isn't safe with the current version of the file. Best to use a DB/spool if you need a lot of mail kept around.