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  1. Well... on UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking · · Score: -1, Troll

    What about US laws?

    I'm NOT in the UK.

  2. Re:Not that foolproof on This is How We Catch You Downloading · · Score: 1

    According to part 14 FCC code, it is unlicensed band.

    As long as you abide by uW/m^2 required for that band and keep your harmonics down below a certain threshold, operating is perfectly legal.

    Radio is not comparable to your physical analogies, as they just dont work.

    As far as anybody knows, access to your system is forbidden and considered trespass.

  3. Re:Not only that... on Jon Stewart, Lorne Michaels Come Out In Favour of YouTube · · Score: 1

    That anime is awesome.

    Especially when they go in the final excursion to the Grand Stream and finish off the evil lady's ship and regain control of the intergalactic self-defending spaceship.

    oops. spoiler alert.

  4. Re:Why? on MS Requiring More Expensive Vista if Running Mac · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Under first sale doctrine, they cannot strong conditions AFTER the sale. EULA's do precisely that.

    I abide by required copyright law. Past that, I CAN do anything I want with those disks.

    I also affirm that installatin of MS oses are ILLEGAL, as they start on the CD/DVD. They are then copied onto the following: IO chips, IDE bus, IDE i/o chip,pci bus, ram, CPU cache, CPU instruction cache. I didnt buy "licenses" for those. Hmmm.

  5. Re:Careful now. Think this over carefully. on Mozilla and Google — Exchange Killers At Last? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ---Google has engendered nothing like this. For the love of God YES YES YES I would love for Google and Microsoft to trade places in the marketplace. All I ask is that you MIGHTILY resist the urge that all humans have to be suspicious of anything that grows big, such as Google has.

    Anything big is slow to move and is an easy target. Big things usually subtract the human element due to bureaucracy. I would say that big things are generally corrupt, and that would indicate Google too.

    ---Yes they're a corporation. Yes they're in it for the money. But they manage to do it by embracing technology and providing it to a wider base of users for FREE. They can data mine every second of my life if thats all they ask in return.

    I dont know where you live, or what you do for a living, but I'm a 25 year old. At our local mall, there's a door with a company plate on it. It idnt spiffy looking, nor are there windows or anything else. They are a marketing firm. They are the ones that Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and many other companies go to for aggregate and specialized data.

    I have participated in a few of these studies (I cannot specify product names.. nda for company name I tested only). I usually am given 10$ worth of goods to test and then do a write up and phone interview for said products.

    My average payout for these interviews is ~30$, along with free products, and getting a say on a new product. I KNOW that I'm in a database somewhere and I'm properly compensated for it. When companies come along and want "free information" for "free product", it tells me that what they offer isnt worth it, and my data is worthless.

    Word to Google: Tell me how much my information is worth, and Ill pay for information if your product is worth what I deem it to be. Better yet, if they are willing to pay me, I'll list product names and prices and my personal writeups. Not all companies will like what I write.

  6. Re:Now they are really screwed... on Microsoft Pressures Testers After Software Leak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And to foil that kind of obfusication, you just take one of those free translator services and translate it twice: once in a foregin lang, and once back.

    That munges things up enough.

  7. Re:Why do they have so much power? on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 1

    ---Well, the first obvious step is not to permit *any* outgoing or incoming connection that doesn't go through your own proxies.

    Easy. I have a web page. You can enter stuff to see a dynamically created page.. It just happens to proxy, without "proxies". Detect that.

    ---Once you've done that, you have complete control over what hosts the users can or can't connect to. At that point I can think of several ways to easily limit what they can access.

    Unless you whitelist, it wont work.

    ---Don't permit encrypted connections except to approved hosts.

    Then <html><head>encryptedgarbagehere</head></html> is just HTML, right? I think you'd be amazed what nc can do.

    ---Block connections to hosts that don't have a valid pointer record.

    Domains are cheap. As are piggybacking on a friends dns list.

    ---Block access to dynamic addresses.

    You do realize that most websites are "dynamic IP"? They use massive load sharing and load balancers to make it look seamless. Then again, if you did know that, you wouldnt have said what you said.

    ---At this point it really is just a question of what the institution's policies permit. I personally favor a hardass default of blocking everything except what is specifically permitted, but that might just be because

    ---I'm a prick ;-)

    I'm a bigger one. Can you guarantee that every host you allow has no ways to break out?

  8. Re:Why do they have so much power? on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 1

    You're a perfect reason why I got into computing.

    We had a resident IT-asshole who blocked everything that seemed even slightly controversial. My very first way around that was using a modem and dialing up into a free ISP. After 6 months of routing to the POTS network, he got smart.

    I then started using proxy lists with proximitron. He got smart to that and used default proxy blockers. Easy enough.

    Then I started using tunnels. That took him a while until he blocked all encrypted content.

    I finally just brought down the whole network after that. They were running an old Novell network. I was able to capture passwords and got root(well, novells admin).

    If you were smart, you'd open holes or unblock things for intelligent users. If you wont, we'll just do it anyways. If you "allow" us, you can at least watch us.

  9. Re:Not new -- just a new application on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    It's just transformer oil.

    Nothing fancy, really. You just have to make sure that board contaminants dont ionize. Ions = electrical circuits. Thats bad.

  10. Re:Earthlink & FiOS on Dumping ISP May Cost Customers $150 · · Score: 1

    Then you're stupid.

    They are BREAKING TERMS OF SERVICE by not providing... SERVICE.

    The next time they do stupid shit, log a bunch of calls, while recording them (give a disclaimer when they do). Then when they "bill" you, sue them for fraud.

    People just dont get when SERVICE is not given, TERMS OF SERVICE dont apply.

  11. Re:I used to respect Paul Graham on People Don't Hate to Make Desktop Apps, Do They? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, who really cares who a person is?

    If the person says something that can be backed up by evidence, then does the source really matter? If Mussolini said to "Love one another", does his actions reduce what is said? (Be aware that Mussolini was much worse than Hitler, his group killed 20 million 'indigents' vs 10 million for Hitler)

    Base ones word upon their worthiness of said word, not among their prior words, nor among their actions.

  12. OFF TOPIC. on People Don't Hate to Make Desktop Apps, Do They? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, you may call him/her a spammer, but the place does undeniably have free porn.

    As gross as it may sound, the place sells "24 hour used panties".

    The porn is for show. And there's a lot of it. 50 galleries @ 20 images each.

  13. Re:Don't ask a pilot on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes · · Score: 1

    ---A hug chunk of the available frequencies go to Avionics/Gouverment leaving only a few frequencies for civilian use (Notice how overused 2.4 GHz is).

    Well, yeah. We can always move upwards in the band though. Seriously, if you were doing ~20Ghz tight beam connections, the spooks most likely wouldnt catch you, nor would they care too much as long as you didnt step on anybodys toes. Best yet is to become a ham and do it within the band plan.

    ---When frequencies are assigned the useable ones are far enough away from each other so no interferance happens.

    Please. The FCC packs assigned frequencies together like sardines. That only works because there's also stiff rules on harmonics.

    ---The electronic equipment is also designed to filter out any other frequency outside its selected range. Example if you talk on one VHF channel you don't hear the VHF channels beside it.

    And that would have to do with the type of modulation. FM has that nice thing called capture that will actively mute weaker signals. In airlines with ATC, you dont want this*. AM would be preferable, as it allows everybody to be heard.

    *That and superhetereodyne squeals suck ass. SCREEEEEE

  14. Re:Shove the Noisy Bastards Off the Plane on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see you TRY to get away with the boxcutter gag now.

    My security isnt in the hands of some well identified "unmarked" marshall, but is in my hands and the hands of the passenger next to me.

    You fuck with the plane and we come and get ya. ;-)

  15. so completely off topic.. on Cable Packet Shaping Causing Slowdowns · · Score: 1

    We had a conversation on Kuro5hin.org about this very topic. See here for the article.

    There's a few things we gathered:

    1. It's a "pedo crime" if 2 15 year olds go at it. Yet we consider them as adults in other avenues (that of murder/deadly assault).

    2. The recent 14 year old who took webcams of herself is being tried as a kiddie porn collecter (or whatever). It's her own body, yet illegal. Wonderful florida law.

    3. Pictures that end up on a school computer that have kiddie porn are ASSUMED to be a substitutes.

    4. Prior cultures didnt halt sexuality as our culture has. Many aboriginal groups were sexual right after puberty. As a discussion, why has this changed? Was this change for the better or worse?

    Frankly, I can discuss this (and other issues) without coming off as a complete "I HATE YOU BURN IN HELL" idiot as prior posters have. Just understand that your feelings are just that: feelings. I'd rather scientifically examine what was the past trends, current trends, and why things have changed in these ways.

    Too bad K5 is hard to get into (rather nastyish clique)... unless you're floridasun. Who knows.

  16. Re:Admin should be charged on EBay Hacker's Conviction Upheld · · Score: 1

    So pulling his network connection is above your intelligence?

  17. Re:Days? on Busy Lives Prompt Speedier Board Games · · Score: 1

    I can attest to that.

    The commodore 64 version of monopoly actually had that as a "rule". Perhaps people remembered the old computer days in which that was applied..

  18. Re:It wasted power on my end on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 2, Informative

    So why didnt you disable the "Windows Time" service? MS put a NTP client with a ntp.microsoft.com address. I'd rather have a NTP server of my own and it only pulling time off of a level 2 NTP server.

    That would make my server a NTP level 3 and my clients level 4. 4 Deviations of time off of nasa... Not too shabby.

  19. Re:Good for the wrong recent (and bad for others) on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    ---That means MORE energy is used in the winter.

    That's always been true. It's cheaper to remove 20F from a volume than it is to heat it up by 50F (assuming 80F in house at summer and 70F in house at winter).

    How exactly does waking up at a different time "means MORE energy" consumed?

  20. Re:Gah, My Pet Peeve! on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think the best change that DST could address is the fact that power consumption is shifted further away from peak times (9a-5p is peak).

    The higher the peak at peak time is, the more 'instantaneous generation' power we need. However, if we can diffuse power need further away, we could possibly address power plant constructions and perhaps delay them another year to five.

    But that's the best I could come up with. And it's not that good of an excuse to monkey with the definition of time.

  21. Re:Save the dinosaur on Wildlife Deputy Changed Science For Lobbyists · · Score: 1

    Do you realize that humans taste like pigs? Well, it is rather close.

    Why do you think some American native tribes said that humans were "long pigs"?

    Food for thought.

  22. Re:ridiculously expensive on Using the Terahertz Spectrum for Wireless Communication · · Score: 1

    But that varies its frequency upon temperature constant. There's no other way to modulate other than flashes.

  23. Re:Validity of the criteria? on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Corporate tax is just dumb.

    Why is a tax dumb? Simple: Any bills levied upon the corporation are paid for purely by the customers.

  24. Re:Finally! on Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching · · Score: 1

    So does that make the queen a Verb?

  25. Re:Got done.... on What to Do When Your Security is Breached · · Score: 1

    ---Filtering by OS doesn't make any sense because it's trivial to fake. What's the point exactly?

    Ok. I have a Windows network, a Linux network and a MacOS network. I can prevent machines from migrating networks. If they attempt to, they will be isolated via rather nasty tools (arp corruption tools).

    Also, it is NOT rather easy to fake network signatures from consistent data streams. It's easy to fake a NMAP scan though.

    The key is I can segregate networks and I have the technological means to do so without me actively watching.