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  1. Effectiveness on After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy · · Score: 2

    Image board like 4chan don't permanent host data. On the quick moving boards, images are gone before someone even could type up a DMCA request. Maybe they'll prevent that picture being posted again. I wonder how their members are going to react to new censorship.

  2. Re:Looks Interesting on Firefox 32 Arrives With New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning Support · · Score: 1

    I run Palemoon x64 at both home and work. The performance boost is impressive while not having to deal with the toddler interface. 64 bit used to be a pain on windows because of plugins, but the major ones (flash, java, etc) that were game breakers for some have finally caught up. And I have to admit I like only having to update for security patches since it's based on the ESR release, rather than every time they want to add a minor feature.

  3. Re:Hello, it is 2014 on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    Because support for 64 bit plugins are still lagging...

  4. Re:Sweet on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pale Moon is a 64 bit build of the LTS version of Firefox. Highly recommend it.

  5. Twit....ter on Lizard Squad Bomb Threat Diverts Sony Exec's Plane To Phoenix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looking at Lizard Squad's twitter feed they have the maturity level of about a screaming toddler. The obvious lack of thinking is painful. They see these things as just pranks and a way to make a political statement. But bomb threats and DDoS attacks are a good way to waste your prime years in prison.

  6. Re:Selling Free Software on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the problem before was that Apple was selling a license on behalf of a third party, which runs a foul with the GPL. If Apple charge for the software and not for a license then they would be able to sell it. Since this is "Free", they aren't selling a license so it doesn't have issues with the GPL.

  7. Re:Selling Free Software on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I remember correctly, the issue with VLC on the Apple store was that the GPL allows charging for the software but does not allow charging for the license. Since Apple doesn't charge for the software but instead charges for a license to the software on behalf of a third party. So you can put free GPL on the Apple store but not pay for, even though GPL allows for it.

    I actually had to read about the Wii store issue. The issue there seems to be that a subcontractor used both ScummVM and Nintendo's SDK. Nintendo explictly prohibits use of open source software together with their Wii SDK. Again nothing have to do with keys. Use of the Wii SDK forbids Open Source, so it doesn't what the terms of the GPL are, no GPL at all on the Wii Store.

  8. Not even a part per billion. on Paint Dust Covers the Upper Layer of the World's Oceans · · Score: 0

    ~200 particles vs ~3*10^25 molecules of water in liter seems pretty small. Especially since these plastics aren't very reactive. Seems pretty small scale of a problem.

  9. Re:First post on Snowden Granted 3 More Years of Russian Residency · · Score: 1

    You're saying people like Angela Merkel are terrorists?

  10. Re:String theory is voodoo physics on The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension · · Score: 2

    I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but it deserves to be said.

    In no way is String Theory anything like Phrenology. Trying to develop a model that unites both the large scale and the small scale is incredibly difficult. Quantum mechanics and relativity are complex enough without trying to unify them. String theory and super-symmetrical models have a basis in advanced mathematics, but the question is whether or not the model matches the immensely complex reality.

    Even if it doesn't work out, studying the problem advances our knowledge of the known universe and modelling it in mathematics. That's how science works, you make a hypothesis and you attempt to test it and then you reform your hypothesis. The current problem right now is finding a way to test it. A failed hypothesis is not something to laugh at, because what you learn from that failure helps you forms a new and more accurate model.

  11. Over $1 a track on Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    If the royalties they get is over a dollar for every track, I guess we are blessed that digital music stores can sell tracks for under that. The iTunes store is truly benevolent for giving away money...

  12. Re:child casualties on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Hamas fires weapons in areas with civilians so that when Israel retaliates against the launch site they kill children. It doesn't mean that Israel isn't also responsible for the death of the kids and other collateral damage when they return fire. They know when they pull the trigger that this is the case. Both sides are to blame.

    During a hostage situation, if you shoot at the hostages to get at the criminals behind, you are still responsible for killing the hostages.

  13. Re:child casualties on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    People have the right to complain about abuses on both sides. Either way the only things coming out of the current conflict right now is suffering of innocent children. Both sides should be ashamed.

    During a hostage situation, if you shoot at the hostages to get at the criminals behind, you are still responsible for killing the hostages.

    Both sides suck, finger pointing isn't helping.

  14. Re: Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    But it's still probably wrong to shoot at his children or bystanders, even if he's standing next to them.

  15. Re:Please Explain This Crap on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you read this thread, there is rarely support for Hamas. But not that doesn't sanction the killing of children or shelling schools by Israel. The citizens there can't leave basic necessities like concrete to build houses or basic foodstuffs like fruit are blockaded.

    People have the right to complain about abuses on both sides. Either way the only things coming out of the current conflict right now is suffering of innocent children. Both sides should be ashamed.

  16. Obligatory personal blog remark on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This week in the exciting adventures of what irks Bennett.... cellphone keyboards.

    Tune in next week for yet another complaint about something that no one cares about.

  17. Re:EVD on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    Or a whole lot less, considering how many other TLA's there are for EVD. It takes to the third page of google for there to be a page on ebola when searching for EVD. But if you say Ebola everyone knows what you are talking about.

    Now I can understand wanting to abbreviate "ebola hemorrhagic fever", which is way more descriptive.

  18. Bias on Amazon Fire Phone Reviews: Solid But Overly Ambitious · · Score: 2

    If you don't want to listen to nerds or think this site has a bad bias, then the comment section probably isn't for you. Whenever you get a group of like minded individuals together, you are obviously going to get biased opinions reflecting their mindset. That isn't always a bad thing.

  19. XOR on Researcher Finds Hidden Data-Dumping Services In iOS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The summary seems to imply that law enforcement and being an attacker are mutually exclusive...

  20. Fast Flux on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article linked to Wikipedia on what Fast Flux was:

    The basic idea behind Fast flux is to have numerous IP addresses associated with a single fully qualified domain name, where the IP addresses are swapped in and out with extremely high frequency, through changing DNS records.

    In case anyone else didn't know that was Fast flux was.

  21. Re:Industry being destroyed! on Insurance Claims Reveal Hidden Electronic Damage From Geomagnetic Storms · · Score: 2

    I say we launch a spaceship with a team of oil drillers to place nukes on it.

  22. Re:Look somewhere else on Insurance Claims Reveal Hidden Electronic Damage From Geomagnetic Storms · · Score: 2

    Good idea, however even if geomagnetic activity was a significant cause to consumer equipment failures, I think that would be hard to see through the random noise on other reasons for buying new equipment like sales and new models.

  23. Re:Buy Surge Protectors on Insurance Claims Reveal Hidden Electronic Damage From Geomagnetic Storms · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not to be pedantic, but people probably would want power conditioners not surge protectors to guard against those conditions. Surge protectors are built to prevent voltage spikes where power conditioners are built to deal with brown-outs and "overvoltage" generally along with spikes.

  24. Deductible on Insurance Claims Reveal Hidden Electronic Damage From Geomagnetic Storms · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably the damages are below the cost of a homeowner/renters deductible. Lot's of difference between making a claim on a $30 microwave and a $20,000 piece of industrial equipment. Even more so the correlation would probably not be a tight as consumers probably would have a much larger standard deviation on time between equipment failure and when the claim was filed.

  25. Re:Interesting... on FTC Files Suit Against Amazon For In-App Purchases · · Score: 2

    No one has problems with the micro-transactions themselves. But for them to be made without having to type the account password. So when you die in an app a dialog might pop up saying click ok to get another life and the parents account gets magically charged $10. No one really cares if the person charges that much for a life, but that there is a proper warning and approval. Free to play will be just fine, unethical apps that try to scam small children hopefully won't.