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  1. Regardless of the outcome on Senators Call For Hearing On Carrier Content Blocking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Shouldn't market forces be allowed to decide whether
    or not the public wants their internet and mobile
    communications blocked or censored?
    btw I know that in some areas carriers have a total
    monopoly over internet access, but still...

  2. Why does it look like the Predator-B? on NASA Ikhana Assists SoCal Firefighters · · Score: 0

    I mean come on is it really that hard to come up with a unique looking design?

  3. Re:Check this out... on Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    not really relevant, just something somebody posted from a previous article, i thought the code comments were slightly relevant. In any case I was trying to look "geeky", now I'll have to curl up in the fetal position and cry all day.... booo hooo booo hooo :(

  4. Check this out... on Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents · · Score: 2, Interesting
  5. DP Approach on Content-Aware Image Resizing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This method is quiet interesting, though it falls over in situations where the detail level
    or entropy of the background is as great as the foreground. Also the paper doesn't go into
    too much details about the dynamic programming approach they used to find the path of least
    energy, I guess that aspect of it is patentable. Another thing they could investigate is the
    use of diagonal seams instead of just staggered vertical and horizontal seams.

    All in all a very interesting read.

  6. People are afraid of new things on Computer Program Learns Baby Talk in Any Language · · Score: 3, Funny

    [They] should have just taken an existing product and put a clock on it or something.

  7. Re:The threat... on GCC 4.2.1 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know "who" is grumbling, but just looking at the C++ and C side of things, those
    languages's syntax to RTL conversions are written by a small group of people (I believe 4-5)
    under the auspices of something called "code sourcery" of which some of them are employed
    by a company called EDG.

    Hence I believe if the majority of people from this group were to revolt and stay with gpl2
    then a fork occurring would be inevitable and the FSF wouldn't have a leg to stand on, they
    would have to concede as they did with EGCS.

    That said no one from code sourcery has made a comment about gpl3 ,positive or negative.
    We'll just have to wait and see.

  8. Re:Epically bad. on New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police · · Score: 1

    I believe the DA would still have to prove the data exists to get a
    conviction.

    Asking someone to prove a negative goes against "the innocent until
    proven guilty" paradigm.

    That said I suggest you read up on plausible deniability file systems.

  9. Essentially Erasure Channels on Rerouting the Networks · · Score: 1

    Essentially what they are using are erasure codes such as tornado
    and digital fountains. The problem with these codes are that even
    though they near Shannon's limit, they are not nice towards other
    forms of data transmission such as TCP (aka bandwidth hungry).

    By using such codes the round-trip overheads that are evident in
    protocols such as TCP are eliminated.

    These codes are mainly used for massive multi-cast and stateless
    loss transmissions.

    But using these codes doesn't mean you get rid of routers, it just
    means you get rid of the need to persist connections over multiple
    routers.

    Essentially most comms will be over something similar to UDP. But one
    must remember that there will always be an inherent need for reliable
    comms. As most of these schemes require an initial exchange of
    information in the case of digital fountains a seed and a scheme for
    the distribution must be communicated to the end user.

    Such technology would be great for wireless connections.

  10. ICMP Warning on Skynet Means More Bandwidth for British · · Score: 1

    Remember to duck and cover when they come

  11. Is "terroristic" a bushism? on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just can't help lovifying my wordiness!

  12. This is the exact definition of the Mafia on RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now the only question remaining, Is Tony getting his cut?

  13. Re:Speeches on Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran · · Score: 1

    I believe the translation of his speech was poorly done by US media
    outlets. Why can the BBC translate it properly but not the mainstream
    US media?

    What he essentially said was that the current socioeconomic structure
    of Israel (where-by it is continually being propped up by foreign
    powers eg: the US) can not be maintained indefinitely. It will
    eventually collapse. that was his opinion, he has a right to put forth
    his opinion as does anyone else. I believe that he did not incite
    genocide or the eradication of a nation as some people like to
    suggest.

    I would like to ask this to the US citizens reading this, do any of
    you know how much "required" tax which would be used to prop-up your
    ailing health care and education systems for example is not being paid
    by companies because they get tax breaks for setting up offices in
    Israel?

  14. Re:Consider the time, though. on Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran · · Score: 1

    The reason why the US was late in pulling its people out was because
    after supporting the Shah and then seeing him grow the brass balls
    needed to ask for more than $30 per barrel the US began supporting the
    revolutionary movement that was beginning to grow in Iran and which
    was being controlled by Khomeini in Paris - with the hopes that by
    destabilizing the current regime they could bring about another regime
    that might be more friendly or more brainless or both towards their
    oil and gas negotiations.

    My guess is the Carter administration thought that the friendly smiles
    and winks they were getting from the "new kids on the block" was going
    to last indefinitely.

  15. Re:Mission Accomplished? on US Missle Interceptor Tests a Success · · Score: 1

    You're dumb ass!

    100% - 99.9% = 0.1%

    0.95^n = 0.1% // prob of not hitting with n missiles.

    n = -1 / -0.02227 ~= 44.903

    With an n of 37 you get 0.1498, which is a probability
    of 99.85 and not 99.9!

    As I said at the start you are a dumb ass or a real tight
    ass not wanting to spend the extra 8 missiles to make sure
    you get a 99.9% probability of success.

  16. Re:Mission Accomplished? on US Missle Interceptor Tests a Success · · Score: 1

    You Americans and your wasteful ways you only need ~45 missiles to
    reach a 99.9% probability hit rate! :)

  17. Re:So true on Microsoft to Get Tough on License Dodgers · · Score: 1

    In the US I believe the term is: "On the balance of probabilities" for civil action suits

  18. Its Called Traitor Tracing... on Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM · · Score: 1

    Nuf said.

  19. What night is the eviction show? on New Plan In UK For "Big Brother" Database · · Score: 1

    And will there be mutton dressed up as lamb?

  20. Re:Brings to mind... on Mars Rovers' Software Upgraded · · Score: 1

    you are insanely insane! :)

  21. All I know is... on Former President Gerald Ford Dead at 93 · · Score: 1

    that he liked BEER and NACHOS!

  22. Independence day Aliens on FCC Drops Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 3, Funny

    So how will we coordinate our counter attacks when the aliens from independence day come-a-knockin'?
    sms perhaps?

  23. TCAS, what was that all about? on Civil UAVs Still A Distant Prospect · · Score: 1

    well - tell me?

  24. Re:I got a question... on A New Vulnerability In RSA Cryptography · · Score: 1

    THESE ARE BIGINTS!!! they have nothing to do with what an x86 thinks they are, libraries
    are specifically designed to handle bigint numbers that 100+ digits long. that is the
    branching they are talking about in the article nothing else.

    That said, temporal and power cryptography has been known for at least 15 years now. this article
    is yesterdays news. the people writing this stuff are for all intents and purposes burnouts from
    the 90s.

    In short such attack don't work will in multitasking OSs running on multiple execution pipeline
    processors.

  25. Re:I got a question... on A New Vulnerability In RSA Cryptography · · Score: 1

    everyone one of the statements that contain *, mod and + have
    branching. Or did you just think they magically happen?