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  1. Re:More than a little retarded on The Technologies That Betrayed Silk Road's Anonymity · · Score: 2

    it's also anyone who might both have reason to dislike you and also motivation to reveal your identity to the police

    This is what causes many criminals to get arrested. I can be a jealous competotor or even a jealous partner or just some poor joe presured into giving up your name.

    So even if you make no mistakes, you can still get caught. So after that you need to leave no evidence they can use against you.

  2. Re:On loan??? on Neil Armstrong's Widow Discovers Moon Camera In Bag · · Score: 1

    I take away surplus time at work to read /.

  3. Re:I don't think this [release] matters at all... on Xfce Getting a New Version Soon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does Linux ebven matter? In the lasy 10 years at all the companies I worked I saw several versions of Windows and zero Linux installations.

    That said, the main difference is that XFCE is made with the intention tio work, not to look nice. So it will be used more by hardcore Linux users who are fed up by KDE and GNOME, Especially when GNOME 3 came out, many people went to XFCE.

    The reason I use it is because without any problem I can use three monitors with a seperate desktop. GNOME and KDE will do Xinerama by default. This means that if I change the workspace, I will no longer see the program on monitor 2 and three, while all I want is to change the workspace on monitor 1.

    It is apparently possible in KDE and GNOME, but I have not found a way. XFCE is as close as how I would like to work on a computer, without too much problems. KDE and GNOME take way to much time configuring to where I want to be.

  4. Re:Longer sentences on Swatting 19-Year-Old Arrested in Las Vegas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So now we know why the US has the most people in prison compared to any other country.

    To me the problem is that some kid can call in a SWAT team. And if this is the case, why would the SWAT team be that dangerous? Are they send in to be a killing team?
    If a dozen adrenaline-fueled heavily armed cops are a danger in killing innocent people, then they are badly trained.
    If these teams is like trowing gas on a fire, then they should not have been send in the first place.

    I understand that people in the US do not see it that way, but for me as a European, what I see police doing in the US would be police brutality and/or abuse of power/intimidation almost all of the time in Belgium.

  5. Re:Make sure to sow mistrust... on NYPD Creates Fake Social Media Profiles To Track Loud Parties, Underage Drinking · · Score: 1

    I heard this twice before in my life. Both was from people living in East-Germany when the wall was stil up.

  6. Re:Good think I don't use Facebook on Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo · · Score: 1

    I not only have keft Facebook, I am actively blocking it, Using pdnsd as my DNS server, I have added the following:

    neg {
    name=facebook.com;types=domain;
    name=fbcdn.net;types=domain;
    name=fbcdn.com;types=domain;
    name=fb.com;types=domain;
    }

    And besides being able to block facebook, I also use mvps that I add to it with a little bit of scripting.
    A third plus is that the domains that my provider is required to block are still available.

  7. Re:What are Autism rates in Mississippi on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    Interesting? Why is this modded interesting? If anything, it should be modded 'funny'.
    As there is NO relation between vaccination and Autism, there should be no question about it, because that might some people make believe that there IS some sort of link.

    "What are the rental car rates?" would be a just as relevant.

  8. Re:Regulation Strikes again on Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment · · Score: 2

    Interesting is that ODB has its origin in the USofA (California). They mandated OBDII 1996. Europe followed in 2001 (wikipedia)

    (Bluetooth) dongles are widely available, just as software to read the data (Free, open and closed) for all major OS.

  9. Anybody taking bets on MPAA Considers Major Changes After Sony Hack · · Score: 2

    Anybody taking bets if this will be good or bad for the customers and what are the odds? I am going for 1000:1.

  10. Re:Late to the party... on Apple Said To Be Working On a Pay TV Service · · Score: 1

    They were late to the phone party as well.

  11. Re:I predicted this 30 years ago on Radioshack Declares Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    If you predicted it 30 years ago and it happened now, it is not really a prediction, unless you stated the date.

    I can predict that it will rain, but when I don't say when, it is not really a prediction if it rains after 30 months. I then don't have the right to say : I told you so or I predicted this would happen.

  12. Re:consumerism wins! on Radioshack Declares Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Clearly you do not live in a 'right to work' state, because that is exactly what they are doing. They trow you away and take a new one.
    You took a holiday? Take your stuff and we will hire the next one till that one is broken.

  13. Re:So who's going to buy them? on Radioshack Declares Bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    Yes, it is the government at fault. Perhaps just the local one, but still. In Brussels there is a LOT of talk for a big shopping center. The reason is because it will suck away the local stores. That not only will mean less employment, but also a downwards spiral of the value of the area.

    I do not blame Wall-Mart for abusing the system. I blame the government for not changing the system when they see it is being abused.

    If employees need foodstamps, then there is clearly something wrong.

    And yes, I think it is good that a government tries to stop business practices when they will have clearly a negative influence on the rest of the population in how they live.

    What we see now is the opposite of what Ford did. Instead of making products cheaper and giving people more money so they can buy the products and more time to spend it, give them less money and fuck them.

    It is grab, grab, grab and the government doesn't do anything if not enhance the ability to do so.

  14. Re:Seriously? on Uber Will Add Panic Button and Location/Journey Sharing In India · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is their choice to pick them up. It is not as if they are taxis where the driver does it for a job, right?

  15. Re:No, he's not on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 2

    In Belgium, a company that has an FTE cost of 90K means that the emplyee will get also around 60K as salary, which means around 30K-40K in his pocket to spend.

    Salaries are mostly calculated per month and you normaly have to device by 13.78, (13th month and payed holiday) so that makes a pay of around 2500EUR per month. (what he sees on his paycheck). The average is 3100 EUR. I excluded Brussels as that is not representative.

    So in Belgium he would also not starve, but also easily get a job that pays more.

    And this is just the taxes, so no infra structure cost. It will include insurance and most likely100% public transport or mileage for 50% for car usage to and from work.

  16. Re:here's an idea on With Insider Help, ID Theft Ring Stole $700,000 In Apple Gift Cards · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in no way will this be abused.
    FYI in Europe it is possible to block stolen phones. In 99% of the time this is not done due to the cost being higher then the worth of the phone itself.

    What should happen is that this service is free and the companies are obliged to pay for it up front. Because if you look at it per phone, the cost is high. If you look at it in total cost, it is peanuts.

  17. Re:Still sucks on Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call · · Score: 1

    That is because France has taxes, only work 35 hours per week and have an enourmous amount of holidays. Oh wait.

  18. Re:Diminishing Returns on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 1

    The camera is nice, but it is the least important part of photography. You do not complement a chef on the kitchen, nor is the kitchen important. It just makes it a bit easier.

  19. Re:They do things differently in the UK on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 1

    In Belgium there are several systems for online banking. A simple digipass, a digipass with a card reader, sending an SMS for autentication.
    And those are just the ones I use. When I talked to friends, they have similar security with their banks. It is pretty standard here.

  20. Re:What I want to know is? on Some Hackers Unknowingly Gathering Intel For the NSA · · Score: 1

    Until due process is applied, no one is guilty ... all are innocent.

    Innocent. I don't think that word means that you think it means.
    I am not even talking about the people in guantanamo bay. (Or do you mean with 'all' 'only people in the US with a US nationality) I am talking about people who tried the whistle-blower route. I am talking about everybody who is being investigated. I am talking basically about everybody. You are not even presumed guilty, you ARE guilty and they just did not yet bother to harrass you.

  21. Remember his background on Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros · · Score: 1

    He comes form a S.u.S.E., SuSE, SUSE and openSUSE background where the rolling release are not that old yet. I believe they started in the 12.x or even the 13.x with it.

    Before that it was a new version every 6 to 8 months and a service period for 2 to 3 years (or 7 if you had the pro with support)

  22. Re:The strangest moon in the solar system is ours. on The Strangest Moon In the Solar System · · Score: 1

    obb: I don't think that's a moon.

  23. Re:Be careful how you define Troll on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 1

    Usenet anybody? The advantage there was that you could set up your own killfilter. However I stopped for the ost part when I noticed that I filters a LOT.

  24. Re:Incompetent IT in a health care industry? on US Health Insurer Anthem Suffers Massive Data Breach · · Score: 2

    Where I work we are by law demanded to keep the data safe. We are also required to share it with others (government) and this on a whim. We also contact govenment for data verification. All this is done over the Interwebs.
    We also need to follow strict privacy laws.

    Yet somehow we are able to do this in a safe and secure manner. We only send and receive critical information needed, so not other stuff that might be not needed, like the name of his dog.

    The protocols used are pretty standard in sending information from and to. (OK, perhaps not NSA safe).

    We are a small company and can easily keep up with the legal requirements. It is so integrated in what we do that if somebody asks if it is secure, they look at you like a cow looks at a train.

    And if you are still talking about updating your systems, you are at least 20 years too late. The systems should already be secure. That leaves the transfer of data part.

    The moment we receive a legal request for additional information, the IT part is the easiest part. Extract the needed data form the data base and send it to where it needs to go over a secure method. Or know where to get it from over a secure method.

    Exchange of the keys is already included in that. Both for the test servers as for the live servers.

    And please note: I said the IT part was the easiest part, not that it was easy.

  25. Re:"mandatory minimum" 20 years, minus 13% on Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty On All 7 Counts In Silk Road Trial · · Score: 1

    No wonder the jails are full in the USofA. In Europe you would first get a warning and the second time a fine. Third time again a higher fine. And only after many times AND causing accidents might you be put in jail. In Belgium you would need at least 3 months before you actually need to go.

    So unless it is something that will give you more then 3 months time, fines are used.