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  1. Re:Terminate contract instead? on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    It would be dicey. In affect you are violating the Gag order by writing a contract clause that gives you an indirect means of notifying the customer or preventing the monitoring. I am no lawyer but that too me sounds like a whole boat load of legal trouble to invite on themselves.

  2. Re:Encryption is no panacea on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 1

    We are not talking simply a drastic increase in computing power here, There would need to be some truly astounding new understanding and application of hereto unknown physics to overcome the computation workload. We aren't talking about just an amazing increase in power but a complete reworking of physics out current understanding of physics.

  3. Re:Encryption is no panacea on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to have any concept of just how much processing power it would require to brute force. Even if we continued exponentially growing compute power for the next 50 years it still won't be a feasible attack vector.You are talking trillion's of years of computing time for something like the address space in 256bit AES and it would only be that quick if you could process trillions of keys a second.

  4. Re:Judgement day is coming! on Apple-Liquidmetal Joint Patent Could Enable Futuristic-Looking Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    I just want to see the Summer Glau Terminator fembots. I can die happy then.

  5. Re:I know why it failed....or is failing... on America's First Eco-City: Doomed From the Start · · Score: 1

    It's not about need. It is about being comfortable. I don't want to be standing on top of my family, I don't want to have to leave the house to get quiet time or some space to myself. I have lived in an apartment of around 900 square feet and a townhouse that was slightly bigger, It drove me insane, I would stay out late or find any excuse to leave the house as their simply was nowhere you can have peace and quiet. a house isn't just somewhere I to sleep and eat, I want to live their, that means relax, enjoy myself without feeling like I am being confined or compromising. Why is it so hard for people to understand that just because you can live in something tiny that it is not appropriate for everyone.

  6. Re:Is it true Apache webservers block DNT? on W3C Rejects Ad Industry's Do-Not-Track Proposal · · Score: 1

    Actually MS followed the standard, but the people at the standard were pissed that MS implementation meant most people would be protected if it was honoured so like all fucked up bodies they changed the standard to screw over users.

  7. Re:I know why it failed....or is failing... on America's First Eco-City: Doomed From the Start · · Score: 2

    People don't like living in shoeboxes. I would love to live in a sustainable estate or city, but if it meant living in a 850 sq foot shoebox then you can keep it. I don't need a massive house, but 850 sq feet would feel more like a jail cell.

  8. Re:Still missing encryption on Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    If they supported encryption how could they provide open access to government for your data?

  9. Re:Makes sense on HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol · · Score: 2

    I debug code every day, can't say the last time I read machine code though. Just because it is utilizing binary doesn't mean it has to be read that way, hell even my network tools include a raft of utilities to ensure I don't have to remember and understand every bit I see on the wire. It doesn't make sense for a computer to computer protocol to be bloated and slow just so someone can read it directly if they need to.

  10. Re:helpdesk india or helpdesk must use script fail on Sent To Jail Because of a Software Bug · · Score: 1

    shoddy system for shore. but there is no circumstance where telling a lie about the books being balanced is an acceptable response in this scenario no matter how painful the system or process is, It just makes the problem 10 times worse.

  11. Re:Yea! Another thread for the luddites on BBC Gives Up On 3-D Television Programming · · Score: 1

    It is staying, but definitely going backwards in many countries, cinemas are putting on more 2D sessions and less 3D with the popularity waning somewhat. Their is probably enough core people that enjoy it for it to hang around though (I am not one of them)

  12. Re:I didn't know VPNs were a problem on MasterCard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers · · Score: 1

    Getting around region encoding isn't illegal. It does breach some companies ToS but that is hardly illegal. Geo Fencing via IP is a poor mans security fence, most of the providers only do it as a token gesture to the media companies, hence why it is still so easy to get around. I use Hulu and Netflix from Australia, even with the insane costs of bandwidth and data here plus the cost of the VPN service I still save roughly $50 a month by not being raped by our local content provider foxtel. It is sad really, I am happy to pay for my content, yet fucking media companies insist on making it as difficult and unpalatable as possible.

  13. Re:Whatever happened to... on Microsoft To Shut Down TechNet Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    TechNet was not for developers. That is MSDN and hasn't been changed. TechNet was for product evals only, It has been abused by many as a cheap way to get software and keys for which they usually fool themselves into believing they paid for TechNet therefore they aren't breaching any licensing.

  14. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    Texting/surfing is just as annoying if not more so, today's super bright screens are a glaring annoyance when people use them in the cinema, I actually find it more annoying than making a call as at least people are suitably embarrassed when that happens and usually get up and leave to talk.

  15. Re:Microsoft seem determined on Microsoft XBox One Kinect Will Not Work On Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    You guys do realize they are making Kinnect for Windows available separately right? who gives a shit if you can't plug in the one from your Xbox.

  16. Re:The certificate crowd is proven wrong yet again on Hackers Steal Opera-Signed Certificate Through Infrastructure Attack · · Score: 1

    In this instance it is critical to differentiate, certificates have not been broken/compromised at all, underlying implementations of the infrastructure and the people handling that infrastructure have been compromised or broken. Certificates in general are an excellent solution to many security issues, however it does require good PKI infrastructure and management otherwise they are pointless. For many of their uses you don't even need to trust or rely on any external authority, you can run your own which no fukker has access to except those you specifically grant access and trust, for instance we run a PKI infrastructure where I work, not exposed to the internet and the CA itself is segregated off and heavily secured. We rely on no external party.

  17. Re:tl;dr: on Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 Review Roundup · · Score: 0

    funny but I actually have the opposite approach. Even since the brothel of bugs and bad drivers and frustration dealing with Nvidia support a few years ago I have never since been willing to buy another Nvidia card or even recommend one to a friend. All my machines I have built for the last 3-4 years have AMD GPU's in them and while their drivers certainly aren't trouble free I have had far less pain than I suffered under Nvidia.

  18. Re:Democracy works! on Australian Government Rejects Data Retention Law After Report · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Normally I doubt the influence world public opinion has on moronic pollies, But I suspect in this instance this is actually correct. The current government has tried to get other orwellian legislation passed including internet filters so them actually being against it themselves is unlikely. I think Snowden has highlighted how unpopular such ideas are and with a government that is almost certainly getting thrown out for incompetence come september they hardly need another nail in their coffin.

  19. Re:Sony Hackstation on PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    and? not sure what your point is. So it is equal to current AMD CPU's. why not just skip the locked down hardware specs and build your own with an 8 core AMD desktop CPU, infinitely more flexible and still cheap as.

  20. Re:Internet Explorer on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    You have someone that believes it is a backdoor despite all the evidence to the contrary, is it really so surprising that such a tinfoil hat wearer fails to use basic logic?

  21. whats the point? on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    If you are concerned about the NSA then their is no secure browser as the browser is only as secure as the ISP's and content providers you are accessing and given what the US Government is demanding they share that means no browser is secure.

  22. Re:One of these things is not like the other on Sony, Microsoft Squabble Over Console Features, But the Real Opponent Is Apple · · Score: 0

    There are a lot of articles in the press lately trying to talk up Apple, a lot of people that have invested a lot of money in apple shares on the dream of them continuing to go higher with no end in sight and are trying there utmost to save their investments.

  23. Re:This is actually a very bad idea, if true on 21 Financial Sites Found To Store Sensitive Data In Browser Disk Cache · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real problem here is the standard is just plain retarded. Even though I hate Apple I think their approach is the lesser evil. The default should be don't cache, web servers should then be able to enable caching if they want to sacrifice some security for performance (assuming the user hasn't explicitly disabled caching). It would be nice to be able to rely on users having well managed machines or the internet being made up of mostly well managed servers but lets face it that aint happening anytime soon in anything but well run enterprises and IT literate end users.

  24. Re:GUYS~ GUYS~ on Microsoft Kills Xbox One Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 2

    I guess you haven't watched Sony financial news over the last couple of years, I think they WISH people could write it as $ony

  25. Re:Is it April 1st already? on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    He was convicted, We don't know whether the Jury used it as evidence or completely disregarded it. All we know is it was entered as "PART" of the evidence against him.