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  1. The real truth. on What Does IQ Really Measure? · · Score: 2

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." — Albert Einstein IQ doesnt measure much.

  2. If I was Ebay on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    if i were ebay say. id comply to keep revenues and store passwords + password history of 1year in reversible encryption like md4; except passwords must be changed weekly and each time password gets changed. it informs the user why they have to do it. Including the names of the politicians involved,

  3. Small tech firm does what? on Anonymous Isn't Anonymous Anymore · · Score: 1

    >Person X does ddos... their public ip is in logs. >Small tech firm does a cat on the log file? >Gives IPs to feds? >feds goto court to get info from ISPs? wtf did this small tech firm do exactly? Why are the feds this incompetent?

  4. Re:I don't get it on Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded · · Score: 1

    CRTC and wholesale services were created to create competition in broadband. A gig of data is like 1cent for newer networks upper limits 5 cents for old shit networks. The wholesale isps then had option of setting caps and having lower costs/monthly or unlimited. They kept unlimited because lol caps are stupid. Bell then forced caps on their customers so those customers went to wholesale. Bell then saw many customers cancelling their service. Which in of itself causes others to eventually cancel. So since they basically control the crtc, they got crtc to force usage based billing on whole sellers and the prices set are specifically set to make it impossible for wholesellers to compete. Which is why it's utter shit.

  5. Re:And people "even" download software on Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded · · Score: 1

    SaaS is internnet based. Web 2.0 apps are internet based.

  6. Re:The perfect plan. on Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded · · Score: 1

    Actually the disband the crtc idea doesnt mean ISPs can continue to do whatever they like. Disbanding the CRTC would moreso just mean new people are put in power. All the policies are still in effect.

  7. This is how I would roll. on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 1
  8. How exactly is it bad? on US Trials Off Track Over Juror Internet Misconduct · · Score: 1

    More information is always a better thing tbh. Maybe I'm juror for us gov vs assange treason case and without reading articles I just never find out treason only applies to american citizens. This added fact helps me understand what is going on. Or government caught hacker with wireshark and well that hacking tool is all they have on him. Quick wiki of it gives me information relevant. TBH lawyers just want the ability to be intellectually dishonest.

  9. Re:Heya politicians, judges and media moguls... on US Trials Off Track Over Juror Internet Misconduct · · Score: 2

    You ask for citation beginning of post. Then conclude he fails because he didnt give citation? Are all internet comments now requiring that they have applicable citations page now for all posts?

  10. Piracy as Advertisement. on Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times · · Score: 1

    How many people here could name more then 5 anti-virus programs? How many normal people? Not many. On the otherhand if I'm looking for antivirus where do I go? Certainly not store.. tom's software guide doesnt really exist. I might have heard about some names from friends. I dont really know what's good. Instead I goto piratebay or whatever. Top 100 - apps -windows and sort by seeds. Find #1 antivirus and now I have the best one really. Crowdsourced goodness.

  11. Nukes for everyone? on Schneier Recommends Nuclear-Style Cyberwar Hotlines, Treaties · · Score: 1

    Back in the day... who really could launch nukes? Hell even today how many people could build a nuke... friggen governments cant even do it. So yes you could get your dozen groups communicating and that stops it from happening. You are able to talk to everyone who can do it. Very diplomatic Today on the otherhand 23 year old guys control 500,000 zombie botnets. Computer security itself is terrible to the point basically a huge number of independants have the power to do the job. So what are governments doing to open communication with these people? They are trying to identify them in order to arrest or as the usa says "the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the President, to launch [...] an actual bombing of an attack source or a cyber counterattack." This isnt diplomatic at all.

  12. Americans sites only? on DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What I want to know is if the applicable websites are of AMERICAN registrars and/or AMERICAN servers. As if they hijacked non-american DNS. Then the USA must be removed from all authority in DNS. We have allowed them this position because they were of the position they wouldnt enforce their morality on the world.

  13. Only American DNS on Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This bill if passed only applies to american based dns records; and for non-american websites they have to goto all the isps to create the great american firewall. Long story short... everyone moves their dns records to non-american registrars and the hosted pages also. That includes every website who doesnt like the censorship. Net effect: American economy has a decent sized exodus of money(currently in USA) now leaving the country.

  14. Best result. on Considering a Fair Penalty For Illegal File-sharing · · Score: 1

    $1.5mil isnt going to be paid. So being ordered up for this amount is tantamount to ordering up to paying nothing, except now the copyright cops take yet another bad pr hit and we move ever so closer to removing their copyright protection at all; at least for non-commercial infringement.

  15. Wholesale vs Bell on CRTC To Allow Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    Wholesale: $1.12 per GB and then $0.75 per GB with no max overage. BUT Wholesales already pay for usage at the isp level. So 2x that. Bell: Max overage of $30 aka unlimited for $30. While if not hitting max it's $0.69/gig. Wholesales absolutely cant compete. GG Internet in Canada.

  16. Multiple phonelines on Closing In On 1Gbps Using DSL · · Score: 1

    Their methodology requires multiple phone lines bonded and being used with parity in order obtain these speeds. Most houses dont have multiple phone lines. Which means they have to send techs out to install said extra wires. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU BE SO STUPID?? Send the techs to install fiber. Now you are future proofed to 10g speeds AT LEAST. Verizon's gpon can deliver 10g right to your house. I'm sure in a decade when gigabit becomes a sluggish speed... 10g can EASILY be deployed. The next step after that is also just as easy to deploy.

  17. The key distinction on What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    While in Canada we have useful unions which restrict TAs from teaching courses. However, in many other countries it's like that... the TAs are teaching the courses. Potentially even worse sometimes. I have a friend who did really well during bachelors and she took a position which had interaction with her university. The professor had a car accident or whatever and he was in the hospital. So she was asked to teach the course and was told to never let it out that she wasnt at all qualified and that she was a collague. What needs to be done is just this: You need to accept everyone pretty much. University is a business afterall and there's no reason you cant accept everyone at all. Offer different levels of service for education to manage large number of people. 1. You get the network access and tutoring/TA access. This gets you access to coursework and such like MIT's free services; but also writing the exams and all that good stuff. This option ought to be the cheapest option. 2. You're in a classroom setting and can interact with the professor and such; but it's essentially streamed and you're not in the same room as the professor. 3. Your typical current offering of you being in the classroom with the professor. Next big change is essentially to move education to similar that of doctors. Whereas you need to have a 95% average to get your degree. The idea being if I'm in school for physics I'm expected to memorize equations. While in the job force I can free look up the equations. In school I can get 65% average and get my degree... in the job force I better not be only getting 65% of my work correct. We should be educating people on how it really works.

  18. Linux Desktops on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Linux Desktops are at the highest levels EVER. If that's not the exact opposite of dead... I just dunno.

  19. Re:Good thing on Why the Web Mustn't Become the New TV · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What's really scary is the possibility that we are getting this very same thing from google-bing. Well not to the level of eliminating global warming or eliminating open source; but some bit of censorship of making it more difficult to find some things or eliminate. In addition to the known government censorship and malware/cp censorship.

  20. Re:MetaSploit Framework anyone? on New Site Aims To Be iTunes For Exploits · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there are so many companies who sue/prosecute/harass/discredit and with law as it is... a hacker is liable to lose their life to such things. Not literally but going to jail or having lost your job and all your money to protect yourself from a large corporation with bored lawyers/PR on staff is awful. In addition many companies dont offer $$$ for exploits; they expect to get them for free. Sooooo many factors all forcing hackers to go to the black market.

  21. Ebay for exploits on New Site Aims To Be iTunes For Exploits · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We need an auction site where vendors, bad guys, and good guys all bid on 0days.

  22. Disagree with law on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    All protesters must be willing to accept the consequences of breaking the law. Props to this teen. A true blackhat in the making.

  23. Re:The bigger question is: on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the universities are still going to provide the same bandwidth... they can essentially be the guaranteed seeders; everyone else supplements the system while update manager is goin.

  24. Business 101 on "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. · · Score: 1

    Soon as you weed out applicants you leave yourself with either less skilled or more expensive employees. Any potential damage to your business has to out value that loss. The reality right now with the state of the economy is businesses can be picky.

  25. He never exploited.. on Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He found the exploit... he didnt exploit anything. He is thusly not responsible at all. The mischievous users and twitter are the ones responsible.