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  1. Anonymous Coward Posts on Amazon Opening Imported Goods Store On Alibaba · · Score: 0

    Looking at the majority of responses previous to this, we find the majority of them to be from Anonymous Coward accounts, written in obviously non-native English.

      You have to wonder how many are real, non-biased opinions. How many are scared to post from an account with history, from fear of repercussion?

  2. Top Secret? on Schneier: Either Everyone Is Cyber-secure Or No One Is · · Score: 1

    Haven't people testing wireless security with aircrack been using packet injection for like... years??

  3. Re:Just a distraction from the real fail... on Uber Discloses Database Breach, Targets GitHub With Subpoena · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Or there could be 2 accesses of that file, depending on how long they left it up there"

    They're asking for 6 months of data. Here's the subpoena.

      http://regmedia.co.uk/2015/02/...

  4. This will be settled on Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When the firm representing the class bills up a few million, the defendant agrees to paying the fees and to mail all class members a $5 discount coupon or some useless download.

     

  5. Re:heres another lie. on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 1

    "More to the point, most geeks object vocally when carriers try to look at what you're doing. T-Mobile doesnt. They provide a pipe."

      T-mobile's DNS server feeds you to THEIR custom add ridden 404 when there's no resolution, and by default ignores any DNS server you have set. I can't remember the exact details, but it takes a little brute force to make the device use the DNS you want. And if I remember correctly, it must be done with each and every address lease.

    That's hardly "not looking at what I'm doing"..

  6. Re:I hope so on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    Wrong... any numbnut with as little as $10k can margin $30k to $40k worth of equity long or short. The minute the security (or what you're borrowed to sell short) falls out of cash value you have, the broker either sells it or covers the short.

      These days, selling short is even easier as you don't have to wait for a down tic to fill the order. Additionally, most brokers have sufficient inventory to loan for short sellers. The game's the same, the rules have changed to make it even less fair.

  7. How much does it cost on AT&T To Match Google Fiber In Kansas City, Charge More If You Want Privacy · · Score: 1

    To have my packets routed around the beam splitters that they have provided the NSA with since at least 2006?

  8. Re:Seriously on Bill Gates On Educating the World · · Score: 1

    http://www.gatesfoundation.org...

    Total grant payments since inception: $31.6 billion (1)

  9. Seriously on Bill Gates On Educating the World · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We all have fun poking at Mr. Gates, warranted or not. And, we can all believe that the 31.6 billion dollars his foundation has GRANTED since inception internationally is not much of a personal sacrifice in relative terms. But a least he's taking a shot. Surely, figuring out how to grant money effectively is more than a full time job. Regardless of one's opinion of the effectiveness of his benevolent ventures, there's more than just a financial commitment here.

      I find it honourable and surely it has majorly affected recipients in a positive manner. Undoubtedly, he has made life changing or saving differences in this world. If you had the ability to do anything, anywhere, anytime, had the ability to make multiple errors, sans ANY change (personal, financial, etc), how long would it be before you would just disappear from any public exposure?

      If you plant seeds in every place in the world, some of them will produce fruit and some will fail. I see the motivation as benevolent and don't believe condemnation here is deserved or warranted.

       

  10. Let me guess on Bill Gates On Educating the World · · Score: 2

    Clippy is going mobile.

  11. nt

  12. Theyre not alone on HSBC Banking Leak Shows Tax Avoidance, Dealings With Criminals · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bank of America, Citi and Deutsche Bank have all been implicated in laundering funds.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/citi-de...

  13. Phil Zimmerman on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 2

    How soon we forget someone who stood up. Someone who should be honored for his contributions to free speech, expression and privacy,

      Besides, isn't PGP Snowden used?

  14. Before he removed the GPS, and Gopro . Now it's an RC quad covered with a shell. Now it's impossible to fly without line of sight and is significantly less efficient than it was before the "show" mod.

      Personally, I rather have FPV, RTH and the ability to program autonomous flight. Show and no go!

  15. Re:that assumes that "security audits" are worthwh on Ed Felten: California Must Lead On Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    "Security audits are only worthwhile if the company being audited is actually serious about security in the first place".

      I guess what matters is who holds the 'purse strings". When I observe a non-compliant issue and report it to my client, most of the time my client calls for a secondary audit. It's rare to see the same issue on the secondary. The audits I've done where I observe the same non-compliance are rarely retained by my clients.

      My clients hold the "purse strings" and will accept an "anomaly", "error" or an explainable exception, but they won't deviate from agreed compliance with their clients.

  16. Re:facepalm on Ed Felten: California Must Lead On Cybersecurity · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why would you say something like that? Whereas, I don't have high confidence in any governmental organization to ratify legislation that works well with tech matters, California has lead the way for many in the past that are now national standards.

      Off the top of my head, there was a time where you could buy a new car without a catalytic converter, and without any emission standard requirements in every state besides California. Same thing can be said about safety equipment or specification (bumper heights, crash standards). Currently, all the requirements that had to be met for California are nationally required.

      I expect we will see the same adoption nationally for small motorized and two-stroke motors in the future. Also, the Junior College system that CA has had since (at least) 1978 (sans tuition for residents) recently had national mention.

      All in all, although many protest and resist change, it seems that California legislators are more intuitive than most and they seem to have lead the nation on many other models aside from the aforementioned.

             

  17. Re:Nope on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    And it sure isn't the case in California where junior colleges have been free since 1978 and to this day are of minimal expense (like $46 a unit).

  18. Re:Nitche Market on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 1

    "And why does everything need to have "growth"?"

    Because without growth, there's no investment. Sometime look at the security pricing data after the most stable, profitable company reports flat earnings. Investors will keep a security of a company that reports huge losses but shows growth. Fear and greed drives the market.

  19. Nitche Market on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 2

    Someone still makes buggy whips. If an infrastructure and supply line is established to fill the current market demand, that's where it ends. There's no growth here..

      The fact is that given the same source content, high quality digital copies are by far higher quality, have better SN ratios and dynamic range than vinyl is capable of delivering, with a media that doesn't degrade the minute it's used.

      It's not realistic to compare a highly compressed MP3 to vinyl. Compare a lossless audio file to vinyl and you'll find it to be significantly higher quality. Even if you don't believe the math.

  20. Re:Early adopters on For Some Would-Be Google Glass Buyers and Devs, Delays May Mean Giving Up · · Score: 1

    Who's "they"? Google? I'm going to have to call BS here. Please provide a reference. If your email is ever looked at by a human, it would never have any identifying information and the only reason a human would look at it is to assure the ads are relevant or results from an algorithm return are useful and of high quality. These uses are expressly disclosed in the TOS you agreed to when you opted to use their services.

      The times Google has screwed up (street view issues and WIFI mapping) they've admitted the error and provided their corrective actions transparently.

  21. Re:Virus Name on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Palin Syndrome

  22. Wasn't Galileo sufficient enough an example?

  23. Depending on the plan... on When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    A perfect example of why connectivity should be controlled by the PUC (and considered a public utility). I don't want providers shoving locked, altered OS's with applications they deem necessary or recommended. I don't want to be told what type of device I can use to access bandwidth running RFC spec communication protocols. I don't want your DNS servers shoved down my throat, providing compensated landing pages in lieu of the address I requested. I don't want them believing they have a right to profit off of any data I care to view.

      Venturing even further, you can take your POTS system
    separation from my bandwidth and the double income you have been earning for the past 15 years and put it where the sun doesn't shine.

    I feel better now..

  24. Re:It's a bad sign on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 2

    I call it "The Patriot Act".

  25. Re:What is it good for? on Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara · · Score: 1

    Those communication lines weren't twisted pair to twisted pair. Termination, possibly. Guaranteed, those lines weren't passed over analogue copper. your response while valid, is equal to the FCC license requiring the ability to copy morse code without the requirement to have any knowledge of how analogue to digital conversion is accomplished, nor oscillated.

      The fact that IP based communication failed during the aforementioned emergency was only due to the carriers terminations services. It's a given the long haul was packetized.