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  1. Re:Come'on on CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns · · Score: 1

    Cybermen Voices: We have been upgraded.
    The Doctor: Into what?
    Cybermen Voices: The next stage of mankind. We are human point two.

    DELETE DELETE DELETE

  2. Re:Really? "Sheep by law"??? on CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns · · Score: 2

    Not exactly.

    We'll give you all the minorities that we either imported as slaves, or close to slave like conditions, and then performed systematic racism against for decades and we'll see what happens to your murder rate. The non-minority murder rate in the U.S. is much closer to the U.K. even with our guns, so something doesn't add up.

    Therefore applying a U.K. answer to a U.S. problem is not going to have the intended effect.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/2012/apr/12/london-knife-crime

  3. Re:Spring is in the Air on CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns · · Score: 2

    No politician wants to have to do something so official and public as voting to remove a constitutional right...that would be political suicide. They're afraid, yes, but not of the NRA.

    That you state the issue in those terms shows how effective the NRA has been.

    Blaming the NRA on not wanting to touch constitutional issues? I don't guess your from the states. Touching the constitution tends to involve stuff like civil wars, race riots, prohibitions that start huge black markets. I'm not saying that abolishing slavery or more voter rights is bad, what I'm saying is, as a politician touching rights issue is dangerous politically and physically. And it has been since pretty much the beginning.

  4. Re:Works for me on Cellphone Privacy In Canada: Encryption Triggers Need For Warrant · · Score: 1

    In case you were not aware, they can 'search' your device via the data port, ignoring your screen entirely.

  5. In the words of Slim Shady on Got a Cell Phone Booster? FCC Says You Have To Turn It Off · · Score: -1

    Fuck the FCC.

    Anyway they chance of them doing anything about this is nil.

  6. Wrong scope. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Why protect only yourself when this is a community problem.

    Print up 100 fliers that say:

    WARNING: a scary hacker is using ADVANCED wireless hacking techniques to view CHILD PORN over your internet connection. He is also trying to steal your CREDIT CARD numbers! They are also using FACEBOOK to seduce your kids in to bed. This is a neighborhood CRIME FIGHTING campaign to locate him!

    Stick these to every door within wireless range of your house. If the hacker is an older person (adult) they are likely to stop to avoid an angry lynch mob of soccer moms hanging them. It's also likely to get law enforcement attention. Now you've associated wireless hacker with a kiddie diddler. It's also good plausible denialbility for all the people he has hacked and downloaded shit thru.

    Plus, if you see some dude taking all the fliers down, it's probably him.

  7. You are thinking too high tech. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Also, why go with a technical attack/protection?

    Print up 100 fliers that say:

    WARNING: a scary hacker is using ADVANCED wireless hacking techniques to view CHILD PORN over your internet connection. He is also trying to steal your CREDIT CARD numbers! They are also using FACEBOOK to seduce your kids in to bed. This is a neighborhood campaign to locate him!

    Stick these to every door within wireless range of your house. If the hacker is an older person (adult) they are likely to stop to avoid an angry lynch mob of soccer moms hanging them. It's also likely to get law enforcement attention. Now you've associated wireless hacker with a kiddie diddler. It's also good plausible denialbility for all the people he has hacked and downloaded shit thru.

  8. Re:Give him a warning on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    SSID: "IPTABLES -R FUN"

  9. Re:WPA2-Enterprise on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    * Configure your router not to well, route. Use it as just an AP and you have to manually set the IP info on your machines, and the router is not *.*.*.1 on the network.

    useless: he probably runs Nmap on the connected net first thing anyway.

  10. Re:Daily disconnects on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    I'm a customer of XTRA, the ISP wing of New Zealand's (abusive) monopolist phone carrier.

    When we hooked up, we asked if they did static IPs. The girl on the phone had no idea what we were asking. Eventually, we found someone who did, and they said "Yes," and it was something like $20/month for a static IP. We told them that we weren't going to pay that much for a one-off change.

    I have the same IP today as I did when I signed up, more than a year ago.

    Most ISPs keep your same IP if your MAC on the CPE doesn't change (or at least till the power goes out at their head end). That said, at one point the ISP I worked for was out of IPs in a cable block and you may have kept your DHCP address for a day. So it can very greatly on the circumstances.

  11. Re:Stealing Electricity on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    yank as much cable as you can from them, damn cords are expensive these days, cord cost would quickly exceed stolen power costs. I'd give it to someone else though so they didn't try to accuse me of theft.

  12. Re:Whitelist!? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Don't try to explain, dittbub develops DRM for the MPAA.

  13. Re:Power & antenna placement on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    that's why you use the -blur 4 option instead. Ain't no coming back from that.

  14. Re:Why lose your time? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    >you can easily jam a 100 by 1000 meter area with such a setup.

    6. Everybody drops their wireless and goes to wired. Script kiddy has to get a job to pay for internet.

  15. Re:Why lose your time? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    If you had a linux box with 2 network cards it would be pretty easy. One NIC of course its the network/internet facing side. The other NIC is directly connected to the WAP. Firewall off everything on the 2nd NIC except what's needed by the VPN protocols. Client connects to the WAP, gets an IP, authenticates VPN and gets the routeable IP and they are good to go.

  16. Re:dd-wrt is not vulnerable to WPS attacks... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    1. DD-WRT doesn't work on everything (a lot of manufactures put out a bunch of undocumented shit).

    2. A lot of vendors don't have updates to fix there undocumented shit.

    3. Buy something that's not undocumented shit.

  17. Re:i like to limit my DHCP scope on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    go find a zero-day

    Because that is so easy to do...

    Java.

  18. Re:Nah, teach the little hacker about malice. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Very unlikely that said idiot would try to bring charges about it, since he in the progress of losing his details was committing crimes himself.

  19. Re:Basics do not change on Book Review: To Save Everything, Click Here · · Score: 1

    > The primary goal is management of the kitchen, which means ordering, managing, and most critically, designing a process so that the various components of a plate get to the plate quickly and in an ordered manner over a short time period

    This.

    I've been cooking since a very young age and lots of little details I've learned over time, I didn't realize I've learned. It was very obvious with one girl friend I had. She could cook very good food, but she couldn't finish the food in the order it needed to be ready in complex meals. Think serial vs parallel processing. Parallel processing is hard because of resource contention, being able to pick recipes that can share common ingredients, or share common temperatures in the oven isn't easy. Having the cold stuff chilled enough, the hot stuff hot, and the very hot stuff cooled enough to eat, AND having it finish at around the same time is an enormous optimization problem.

  20. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    > I'd love to see stats on how many "private individuals" sell more guns than the average licensed dealer

    Yes, they are prison time stats. If you own 100 guns, you can sell them all without a license.

    If you buy 100 guns with the intention of selling them (dealing) without a license the ATF investigates you, and will bring the matter to trial. (I know people this has happened to.)

    You may get away with it for a while, but then the first 'incident' occurs with a gun you sold that involves a traceback, and the person you sold it to tells where they got it from, the ATF will come knocking (or they won't, and they'll get legal wiretaps and surveillance).

    So, yea, the law pretty much as ways of dealing with this already.

  21. Re:"Shortage" on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >And if you fight off-shoring, firms outside of america will eventually become more competitive than american companies and undercut them on pricing.

    Actually, something different happens. The price of living in $outside_of_America goes up (since they are making more money now) and their costs rise. Things cost what they do in America because roads are not free, schools are not free, government is not free, and not turning your environment in to a shithole is not free.

  22. Re:Greedy Upper Management. on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 2

    Or you can control the market by passing laws (bribing senators) limiting the free market because your a CEO with millions (and a company with billions) so you get all the benefits of living in a first world country while paying for none of it!

    Protectionism is protectionism, whether you are fucking the future of the country you are in or not.

  23. Re:Company lacks credibility on Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it has been quite bastardized.

    Is it server rental, well it shouldn't be, cloud should be instance rental, the underlying server being whatever performance metric you need for your app, but the actual hardware is abstracted.

    I think 'Hive computing' would be a better name for it. In a hive you don't care which bee gets the work done as long as the work gets done quickly. If one bee dies, there is another bee to replace it.

  24. Re:Company lacks credibility on Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python? · · Score: 1

    >There are plenty of hosting companies that give you the option of paying for have a real machine to yoursel

    Yes, but that is not 'cloud' computing.

    A cloud and spring up quickly then vaporize quickly. If I need to serve 10 million extra customers in 2 days for a big sale I can spin up how ever many extra VM instances in the 'cloud' very quickly. If I need bare metal it will take much longer to get operating systems up and running on them, and I'll it's likely that I need to have a much longer lead time in with the hosting provider to get all the machines I need. Just like the previous poster said.

    If you need fixed (baseline) capacity for long periods of time, run on bare metal (or run a VM on your bare metal for hardware abstraction and snapshotting). If you need dynamic capacity, use whatever cloud provider is fast and cheap to fill the gaps.

    tl;dr: Yes it is.

  25. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    >And since you broght it up, how drivers license, fishing license and any other license is different is, none of those are specifically called out as basic human rights in the constitution or any of its amendments.

    My guess is the founding fathers didn't even expect the British would ever require a license for that. George Washington: "WTF a license to gather food and ride a horse, we've not gone far enough, time to invade Britain and put an end to this once and for all."