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  1. Re:Which is why I use OpenDNS, or Google, or on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 2

    Bah, I've been using 198.6.1.3 since that was the main DNS server for the largest ISP on the planet (by volume of traffic, not subscribers). Unfortunately, MCI bought them out and went under, but the DNS server is still up.

  2. Re:I hate Comcast just as much but on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1

    They will scale in a linear faction, so long as the initial ones were nearly random. If you find playboy.com and then try penthouse.com, and hustler.com, the results wouldn't scale linearly, as the test sites were very non-random. If you actually had a random list of sites on the Internet, and tried 10, there's no reason to assume that the next 1,000,000 wouldn't scale linearly.

  3. When did DNS errors become "website down"? on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 2

    So, if you do the DNS query from another provider's DNS, can you get to the website over Comcast? Seems like a basic troubleshooting step that was missed. At least not mentioned in the extended summary.

  4. Re:How exactly was it stolen? on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    Only for idiots that can't separate "legal" from "common" (no, not a comment on SA, but Texas).

  5. Re:How exactly was it stolen? on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    And yeah if the gun is going to come out at all, you are no longer talking about a pickpocket (propety crime).

    Nope. It's perfectly legal to shoot a pickpocket in the back as they are walking away (at least in the stipulated Texas).

  6. Re:Effects of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on 3 Years Later: A Fukushima Worker's Eyewitness Story · · Score: 1

    Yes, the fearmongering won't be the stupid shit people in the US spend insane amounts of time and effort worrying about, but it will be propoganda against the "enemy". Fearmongering of a different nature.

  7. Re:why wait? on Snowden Says No One Listened To 10 Attempts To Raise Concerns At NSA · · Score: 1

    What part of
    "And whistle blowing by effectively going to the board of directors to blow the whistle about the lower middle-management is a bit off-putting. And, based on my personal experience, doesn't work anyway, once you commit job suicide by going above the head of everyone above you. But in my case, I was already on my way out. The company was bankrupt within the year."
    Did you miss?

    You didn't address the difficulty in doing it, and just doing it is career suicide, yes, even for a "protected" whistle blower. The risk is less to flee the country and steal classified material. Whistle blowing rarely works, and nobody has come up with a reasonable way for him to do it. Yes, including the one method you mentioned.

  8. Re:The tighter you clench your fist, Lord Vader... on Snowden Says No One Listened To 10 Attempts To Raise Concerns At NSA · · Score: 2

    So you are saying that someone that doesn't understand the load on a server can maintain it optimally.

    Someone that doesn't know what the disk usage is can budget for expansion and backups.

    Do I really need to explain this to you?

  9. Re: yeah. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    Either it was a rogue actor or unintended consequence of WLAN config. Given the speed at which it was fixed, it didn't sound like a deliberate act of policy.

  10. Re:why wait? on Snowden Says No One Listened To 10 Attempts To Raise Concerns At NSA · · Score: 1

    He wasn't an employee, so some means of escallation weren't available. And whistle blowing by effectively going to the board of directors to blow the whistle about the lower middle-management is a bit off-putting. And, based on my personal experience, doesn't work anyway, once you commit job suicide by going above the head of everyone above you. But in my case, I was already on my way out. The company was bankrupt within the year.

  11. Re:The tighter you clench your fist, Lord Vader... on Snowden Says No One Listened To 10 Attempts To Raise Concerns At NSA · · Score: 2

    So, you are ordered to connect a port labeled "Sprint secret illegal wiretap" to a server.

    I don't know if I've ever worked somewhere where the email admin didn't read employee email for fun. Every email admin I know has done it.

    Any sysadmin that doesn't know what the servers he administers does, isn't a good sysadmin.

  12. Re:No eyewitnesses of Kamaishi or Ofunato survived on 3 Years Later: A Fukushima Worker's Eyewitness Story · · Score: 1

    FEMA does, as do many other governments as part of flood or earthquake insurance. It's a subsidy to the insurance industry, not welfare, but it's done to protect the liability of insurance companies in areas prone to certain disasters.

  13. Re:Effects of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on 3 Years Later: A Fukushima Worker's Eyewitness Story · · Score: 1

    I see more fearmongering in the less free countries. The Nazis were constantly fearmongering about the Jews and such. The more free you are, the less you monger.

  14. Re:Probably not Illegal. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    Yes, they were having their political power neutralized, so that they couldn't force their beliefs on others. That was "persecution" much like murders are "persecuted" for their beliefs.

  15. Re:no surprise on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    In my case, I was also pulled over for DWW (driving while white). It was San Diego, Texas (a small town where the "nightlife" is to drive East 50 or so miles to the metropolis of Alice Texas and hang out at the Sonic). The town is almost 100% hispanic, and when I was in town fro Spring break, passing though, but staying with a friend from school, I was targeted as not fitting in. Pulled over for "weaving within my lane" which was 100% legal, last I heard. And impossible not to do, or prove you didn't do. He just checked me out and waved me on.

    Illegal stop, but nothing you can ever do about it.

  16. Re: Not a subsidy? on NASA Admits It Gave Jet Fuel Discounts To Google Execs' Company · · Score: 1

    You can. Step 1, pay NASA more than $1,000,000 a year for hangar space at a NASA facility. Step 2, buy it. Google isn't the only one with this arrangement (And it isn't even Google, but one of the richer Google employees). It's a common arrangement that's been around probably longer than you've been alive, it's just now, someone's making a deal about it and linking it to Google.

  17. Re:No exceptions for law enforcement or security? on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    You don't have to have citizenship elsewhere to renounce, but as your renunciation isn't binding, it can be revoked as it shouldn't be accepted if it leaves one stateless (by international treaty the US is party of).

    And there isn't much to defend when the US rejects "routine" visa applications solely to punish ex-citizens as a matter of punitive policy, as is their right, even if evil. Yes, the US will block you from going home for your parent's funeral if you renounced. Or visiting new grand children. That, and they can still charge you for all "missed" taxes, and arrest you if you ever transit US. You are better off simply failing to file taxes forever and never renouncing. Renouncing gets you on a number of "bad" lists.

  18. Re:Solution - Face-saving way out on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    I read TFA, and it looked like if you find someone who agrees with you, then give them facts that support them, they'll agree with you less. The point is, teaching the controversy confirms there is one. And that causes doubt.

  19. Re: Not a subsidy? on NASA Admits It Gave Jet Fuel Discounts To Google Execs' Company · · Score: 1

    And what stops the airport from selling the fuel itself, banning all others, and charging too much for it? Most airports have contracts with a single vendor. That's the case here, but to prevent profit seeking from NASA, NASA is required by federal rules to sell it at cost, and no higher.

  20. Re:Definitions on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    The previous law covered changing room video. This was just a narrowly crafted law to address a single missed case.

  21. Re:Has this been a large problem? on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    I could put a camera in my shoe that would be invisible to a passing glance. How do you shame someone for doing something you don't (and can't) know they are doing?

  22. Re:No exceptions for law enforcement or security? on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    I don't consent. So i don't vote, and did leave, but I'm on the hook for a lifetime of taxes. I could renounce citizenship, but that makes me legally below a non-citizen, and is revocable by the US, so it's a net loss on all counts.

  23. Re:Age difference on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    They can always make the argument that the 16 year old can't legally consent.

  24. Re:no surprise on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    The problem is that if the cops ever *want* to get you, then they will interpret them exactly how you say is not normal.

    I've been pulled over for DWB (driving while black), though I'm white. The law allows any cop to pull over anyone at any time "I thought your inspection sticker was expired" (though it was 2 months into a 12 month period). He "hides" on a cross street, and pulls over anyone that doesn't "fit in". In the day, that's black people. At night, that's someone in a car that doesn't fit in. I was in a 15 year old car in a nice neighborhood (college student at the time). Of course, finding out I'm a middle class white person and not a poor black, I was let go with an apology.

    Of course, that was in a town that has been convicted of civil rights violations (rounding up minorities for "loitering" at bus stops so the white residents didn't have to see them).

    But in my case, he had a full-proof excuse. It was dark and he could say "from my view, I couldn't tell whether your sticker was expired" though the nice Cadillac in front and brand new car behind me were unmolested and with the same inspection sticker as me. They teach cops how to have civil-rights-proof reasonable suspicion to harass anyone that doesn't fit in.

  25. Re:no surprise on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    It's already a federal felony, and this law doesn't change this at all. At most, this law, as it says in the summary, is a misdemeanor, not a felony.