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  1. Re:I wish the US Supreme Court was that smart. on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 1

    Tell me, please, where you see anything about "US Nationals" in the Bill of Rights. The bill lists natural rights supposedly inherent to being human and declares it wrong for any government to infringe them.

  2. Re:10 million digits on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 2, Informative

    it could be the previous record holder plus one

    No, it couldn't ;-).

  3. Re:Puffery on iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK · · Score: 1

    Guess what, the iPhone doesnâ(TM)t have a Gopher client either. âoeAll parts of the internetâ, bah!

  4. Re:Only 1/3? on Defcon "Warballoon" Finds 1/3 of Wireless Networks Unsecured · · Score: 1

    Which, incidentally, is the same that Bruce Schneier says. Go figure.

  5. Re:Hate to say this but... on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This has nothing at all to do with Pirate Bay. This is NSA-style wiretapping. The evidence gathered can (supposedly) not be used in regular criminal investigations for copyright infringement.

  6. Re:real bash web shell? on goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell · · Score: 1

    The connection could be as secure as any other ssh connection over an insecure network, as long as you verify the hostkey and the information is encrypted at the client, not at the proxy.

  7. Re:Seriously, what is wrong with the United Kingdo on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 1

    Britain is an un-nation. The landmass you refer to, is (and has always been) called Airstrip One.

  8. Re:That quote... on AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010 · · Score: 1

    So, lets go for a 3D projected movie. 4000(x)*4000(y)*4000(z)*100(fps)*4(channels)*4(bytes per channel, floating point HDR) Comes out to about 93 TB / s, uncompressed with no sound.

  9. Re:What's important about this: on Windows Update Can Hurt Security · · Score: 1

    This negates the claim that hiding the source code increases security. Static analysis against code diffs would likely have even higher accuracy and similar performance characteristics. It is easier to parse and understand the logic of source code than of optimized machine code. This is true for programs as well as for humans.
  10. Re:Bugzilla! on Practical Experience As a Beginning Programmer? · · Score: 1

    But the internal apps can still include open source as long they do not leave the "legal entity (the corporation) that created them". The GPL requirement to supply source only activates when you give someone else a binary. Giving an employee a binary does not qualify.

  11. jobs.apple.com on Practical Experience As a Beginning Programmer? · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Article leaves out cost benefit analysis on Inside The Twisted Mind of Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1
    The article recognizes that there is a cost-benefit tradeoff in the car dealership example. The point is that there will be no analysis unless someone sees that there may be a problem in the first place:

    The rest of the blog post speculates on how someone could steal a car by exploiting this security vulnerability, and whether it makes sense for the dealership to have this lax security. You can quibble with the analysis -- I'm curious about the liability that the dealership has, and whether their insurance would cover any losses -- but that's all domain expertise. The important point is to notice, and then question, the security in the first place.
  13. Re:You're damn right, most people don't get it! on Inside The Twisted Mind of Bruce Schneier · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No need to call in the busses. Just tell everyone that they may go home for the day. They will disperse randomly in every direction, quicker than any school administrator can administer their movements and in ways that no terrorist can predict.

  14. Re:Cops always think that way... on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course you would blame the electricity company. Worst analogy ever.

  15. Re:But I thought the EU thew out Software patents? on UK High Court Allows Software Patent Claims · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. The UK joined the EU in the 1970's and is as full a member as any other. Maybe you're confusing it with the fact that they have not adopted the Euro currency.

  16. Re:Discounting the price of a book? on French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping · · Score: 1

    More to the point, they are offering free parking (in many cases).

  17. Re:Yeah -- so what? on FireWire Spec to Boost Data Speeds to 3.2 Gbps · · Score: 1

    USB certainly has FW beat on adapters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:USB_types_2.jpg

  18. Re:Newsflash. on Can Time Slow Down? · · Score: 1

    No, that was a very long time ago. The earth has been known to be spherical for in excess of 2000 years.

  19. Re:strange answer on wireless on Freakonomics Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Plausible deniability.

  20. Re:Copyright on Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community · · Score: 1

    A conversation is typically not copyrightable.

  21. Re:.eu on .Asia Internet Domain Launched · · Score: 1

    .eu is for the European Union, not for Europe.

  22. Re:Album deal on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 2, Informative

    They have always had a deal on buying an entire album. And it's even more advantageous now that the per-track price has increased.

  23. Re:Yea another poll is in the news as well.. on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    No, it is not a contradictory statement. Not on the surface, not in any way.

  24. Re:How to Circumvent GPLv3 v1 DRAFT on FSF Releases Third Draft of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Did you read the following paragraph from the first link that you posted?

    The distribution right grants to the copyright holder the exclusive right to make a work available to the public by sale, rental, lease, or lending. This right allows the copyright holder to prevent the distribution of unauthorized copies of a work. In addition, the right allows the copyright holder to control the first distribution of a particular authorized copy. However, the distribution right is limited by the "first sale doctrine", which states that after the first sale or distribution of a copy, the copyright holder can no longer control what happens to that copy. Thus, after a book has been purchased at a book store (the first sale of a copy), the copyright holder has no say over how that copy is further distributed. Thus, the book could be rented or resold without the permission of the copyright holder.

    Emphasis mine. IANAL, but it seems like the premise of the grandparent post is that the person who received the two CD's can distribute (sell) the disk with the binary under the first sale doctrine? Is that not valid?

  25. Re:not to be a jerk but... on Alternatives To SF.net's CompileFarm? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hardly. The future is and has long been one of "write once, test anywhere". And that's the need the compile farm filled. Writing once and expecting it to automatically run everywhere without modifications is a pipe dream.