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  1. Re:Wouldn't it be something on Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India · · Score: 2

    Don't bother. You're talking to roman_mir, who won't be content until the government consists of one guy in a room with no power and even less funding. Down with government! Long Live our Corporate Overlords!

  2. Re:"Must accept harmful interference..." on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 1

    No, it's the licensed spectrum used by LTE.

  3. Re: $136? on Would Linus Torvalds Please Collect His Bitcoin Tips? · · Score: 1

    Yet as a New Zealander it costs me $20 to send anywhere from $1 to $1,000,000 to someone in Australia, and takes 3 hours. And that money is sent the same way Wells Fargo sends it. Don't assume that because you have a shitty bank that it reflects everyone's experience with the system.

  4. Re:Multiple credit cards on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Plus let's not forget that it's run through an algorithm (Luhn) which must equal a certain number (or is it multiple of a number).

  5. Re:Multiple credit cards on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    No, the bank does not eat the cost of the fraud. The merchant does, and Visa/Mastercard/Amex merchant agreements forbid doing anything to reduce that risk (e.g. ID sighting)

  6. Re:Stupid people prevent us from having secure thi on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Well, you need to pay $3,500 to ICANN to apply, $4,000 per year in maintenance, a variable percentage of ICANN's operating expenses once a quarter, have access to at least $70,000 in cash or loans, and have liability insurance in the amount of half a million dollars.

    And you'll get rejected if you're just trying to run it for yourself.

    So no, you can't run your own domain name registration.

  7. Re:Umm... on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    What's a boxen, and how hard was it to install Linux on it?

  8. Re:It'll be fun to watch. on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    Is "Death Star" another name for "2GB Seagate"?

  9. Re:Comcast, government enforced monopoly == (!mark on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 1

    Good answer.

  10. Re:Free market means exactly that ! on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, you cannot block a transfer due to non-payment of an account, it violates ICANN rules. The exception is, of course, if the payment is specifically for the domain name renewal or registration. But ancillary services such as NetSol's new "account security" would not qualify.

  11. Re:Comcast, government enforced monopoly == (!mark on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 1

    And the fourth largest dairy company in the world, Fonterra, is actually nothing more than a massive farmer's co-operative. Although as a New Zealander, it almost is the government.

  12. Re:Some details on Microsoft Paying for Positive Xbox One Coverage on YouTube · · Score: 2

    According to this one article from the New York Law Journal, contracts are entitled to copyright protection, therefore you could potentially be hit with copyright infringement charges for posting one without permission.

  13. Re:all astroturfing is immoral on Microsoft Paying for Positive Xbox One Coverage on YouTube · · Score: 1

    No. For example, I kinda like it. Well, once I installed Start8 and set it to boot into desktop mode, anyway. Task Manager alone is droolworthy compared to its predecessor.

  14. Re:And? on Microsoft Paying for Positive Xbox One Coverage on YouTube · · Score: 1

    And I'm NOT shocked at all that apparently you can't read.

  15. Re:Great..... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Or running a copyright infringing site. Apparently.

  16. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    My experience with some of those Indian consulting firms is that if you deal directly with them, you can actually get quite good outcomes - because you're directly involved with the quality control, and they do like repeat business so they try make a good impression. The only catch is that you can't go for the cheapest - it's still cheaper than hiring locally, but if you pay a few cents, expect a few cents worth of work.

  17. Re:No link to the music service? on Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service With His Own Album · · Score: 1

    With a business model including substituting ads on websites with ones served by them, thereby taking revenue away from small website publishers and giving it to his criminal enterprise, the interesting thing will be how long before he is sued out of existence. Ugh.

  18. Re:We're all really screwed if... on Adware Vendors Buying Chrome Extensions, Injecting Ads · · Score: 1

    It requires Chrome or Safari. This does not help you if you are using Firefox.

  19. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Aaaaand I thought I couldn't get more disgusted by the neanderthals that plague this site.

    I was wrong.

  20. Re:Give Linux some time. on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Considering he's probably referring to Diebold, it will be a disaster beyond reckoning.

  21. Re:JP Morgan on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Actually, they would be able to handle HFT because if there's one thing COBOL does well, it's lightning quick handling of financial data.

  22. Re:Let's go one better... on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    By booting off the USB. The OS is irrelevant if you have physical access and can run your own arbitrary code in place of it.

  23. Re:Not just ATMs.... on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I actually work in a hospital, and I can tell you with certainty that things going wrong with that sort of hardware is vanishingly rare, and the medical professionals are trained to react quickly to protect life if the computer system does fail (and in reality, chances are greater that the power grid will fail and the operation have to pause for uninterrupted power to kick in than the computer randomly crashing). Even the MRIs and Linear Accelerator monitors are running on Windows XP these days (bar the OBIs which actually drive the accelerators - those are not commodity hardware).

  24. Re:Let me laugh even harder... on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Uh, what the actual fuck. If they were running Linux and configured to allow booting off USB the exact same thing would happen. The operating system on the machine is irrelevant if you can boot an arbitrary one off removable media.

  25. Re:Price? on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Except for the disgustingly massive per-processor support charge from Red Hat or Canonical or whoever of course (seriously, if you have access to Volume Licensing, Windows is literally cheaper than Red Hat. I've seen the pricing).