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  1. Re:They forgot to include terrorism on RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering · · Score: 2, Informative

    Like the IRA videos of kids throwing petrol bombs at RUC cops with soundtrack provided by RATM? Something tells me RATM isn't opposed, but their label might have a thing or two to say about it.

  2. South Park on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's like the Dances With Smurfs episode of South Park where butters says to Cartman, "Like what you have to say, like how the President never does anything and how she's changing everything!". Pretty much just like that. I think its a form of cognitive dissonance or something.

  3. "quality control" on Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just announce at the beginning of your conversation that the call may be recorded for quality control purposes.

  4. Alice's Restaurant on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reminded me:

    "Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
    know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
    you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
    officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
    forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
    fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
    and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
    down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
    pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
    other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
    the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
    following words:

    ("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

    I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
    ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
    sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
    'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
    kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
    said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
    off to Washington."

  5. Re:Ah, Yes, 'Let Someone Else Worry About It' on Why You Shouldn't Worry About IPv6 Just Yet · · Score: 0

    If your server isn't exposing itself via ipv6, then are you really going to have to worry about it, though? I may be wrong, but wouldn't they be hitting you via a 6to4 tunnel or similar, where the ipv6 is encapsulated in ipv4 packets, so you end up seeing basically ipv4 'proxy' addresses server-side.

    But yeah, if you're designing systems/software which have correct interaction with native ipv6 as a requirement then of course you need to be concerned with it. But for the majority of people, probably not so much.

  6. Re:What I suggest to people on Linux X.org Critical Security Flaw Silently Patched · · Score: 4, Informative

    Darwin is their codename for what is the open source bits of MacOS X. The kernel is largely based on Mach. Since its a Microkernel, it can have "servers" for different subsystems, including BSD, which aren't really "kernel modules" in the Linux or BSD sense. A lot of the userland and C libraries are derived from FreeBSD, with some GNU stuff, and custom changes to both. They did hire a bunch of big-name FreeBSD people though, like Jordan Hubbard, which just contributes extra confusion to a confusing situation.

  7. Re:Saddest Part on Did Sea Life Arise Twice? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who died in an oil spill because of BP?

  8. Re:Source on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    I was saying that to the Taliban, who were the previous government of Afghanistan, those collaborating with occupation forces would be seen as traitors. When they kill those traitors, they get to go to traitor hell. Right there with Brutus and Cassius.

    Plus, the post I was responding to was referencing a congressman who wanted to hang the little bastard. This was all perfectly relevant.

  9. Re:News Flash on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    The very first virtue is no snitching.

  10. Re:Dick Cheny on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IIRC, there was an incident back in the 80s or early 90s in Ireland, where the Minister of Defense had given tacit support for an Iran-Contra style incident involving providing weapons to the Provisional IRA. The conclusion was basically that if the Minister of Defense did it, it wasn't illegal. Basically, you can't violate the orders when you're the one making them. In Cheney's case, it was still a bitch move, though.

  11. Re:Source on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because he violated his orders and actively breached security protocol. **IT DOES NOT MATTER** what he "leaked" or why, it just matters that he broke the law. And in breaking the law by providing classified (even if most of the content was "common knowledge") documents to the 'public', he also provided classified documents to the enemy, in this case the Taliban. And those documents contained the names of Afghan citizens who were "collaborating" with NATO. And that puts them in danger, and makes putting them in danger a lot easier for the Taliban.

    You could say that he aided the Taliban. Sounds like about half of "giving aid and comfort" or "aiding and abetting". No, where have I seen that phrase before? Oh, yeah... the definition of treason. And last I checked, treason is a hanging crime. Not only that, but the very center of hell is reserved for traitors, turncoats and informers. So, assuming hell exists and it is as Dante wrote, then he'll likely have some time to discuss the morality of his actions with the people he outed to the Taliban who were subsequently offed.

    At least, that's probably what the congressman in question was thinking.

  12. Needs a new name on Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    First, I misread this as "linux walmart" and thought it was some sort of "app store" deal. Closer inspection reveals the truth is far more disturbing. They should probably pick a new name... or dress them up like 'Shrek' and market them towards kids or something.

  13. Re:Interesting on 7-Inch iPad Rumored · · Score: 1

    The MacBook Air, hence him using the designation iPad Air for his joke. The Air has a base starting price of about what I payed for my enhanced (memory and hard disk) MacBook Pro 13", and it has a smaller screen and no built-in optical drive. Basically, another "what's the point?" product like a mini iPad that also seems to fill a niche people only think existed after the product was "rumored" to exist.

  14. Re:All of us? on Facebook Takes On FourSquare · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, I mean the retarded kids. Like with helmets.

  15. All of us? on Facebook Takes On FourSquare · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I quit Facebook. and I quit Twitter. Accounts deleted. I never used Foursquare, because it reminds of the game the retarded kids have to play at recess. In fact, given what I know if it, its pretty apt. SO, who is this "all of us" that these companies have a hold on?

  16. Re:It must be my age.. on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Same here. A few months ago I ditched my Crackberry and the data plan and picked up a Motorola Barrage. My friends keep going through new Androids and iPhones like no tomorrow. Some of them have a new phone every couple of weeks. At least mine is more-or-less shaped like a phone and not a chocolate bar, and thus I can hear and be heard when I *gasp* make a voice call. Plus its insanely hard to break. I already dropped it about 6 feet onto pavement and hardly a scratch, let alone functional damage. Lets see those fancy smartphones do that.

  17. Re:These people are idiots on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    This is the reaction I get from everyone I've talked to that does a stint overseas.

    I think you'll find, statistically speaking, there are fewer pussies in the military than in the general population... and not just because of gender discrimination.

  18. Re:Don't knock Ubuntu on Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 2, Funny

    I once had to patch the vfat file system driver in a development kernel so that I could save my History paper to disk and take it in to school because that was easier than getting my non-postscript printer to work. Screw printers.

  19. Re:and on Internet Explorer Turns 15 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yeah, pretty much. I think everyone who uses IE doesn't know they're using IE, and if they do, they probably don't care about how old it is. Everyone else doesn't use it. But think about it this way -- its not that IE is turning 15, its that the Browser Wars started about 15 years ago, and despite some lull in the middle, seem to be just as heated and relevant as ever.

    The only thing that's really changed in 15 years is that Netscape faded into the shadows and went guerrilla as Mozilla, and Microsoft's attempts to wage conventional war against it just ended up providing Mozilla with more ammunition. Its now stronger than ever.

    Like Vietnam, only lamer.

  20. Re:Tabloid? on Julian Assange To Write For Swedish Tabloid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's not down-modded. ACs post at 0 by default. It just hasn't been up-modded.

  21. Tabloid? on Julian Assange To Write For Swedish Tabloid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does the term 'tabloid' have the connotation of 'Weekly World News' in the rest of the world as it does in the United States, or does the term still have to do with the tabloid format as opposed to broadsheet when doing pre-press layout? Just curious as to what sort of reputation this paper has.

  22. Re:Ridiculous on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the kids are munching on Chinese routers while swimming in a contaminated pool? But seriously though, those all sound like classic symptoms of public school in general. I suffered most of them myself when I was in school, and the 802.11 standard wasn't published until about the time I started high school, and I didn't start to think of it as commonplace until a actually fairly recently (like, last 5-6 years or so). We certainly didn't have any APs in my school.

    It's probably mold... or the soul-crushing depression of academic slavery.

  23. Re:Network meltdown due to hub cross-connects on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 2, Informative

    The physical difference is pretty much the key. The Layer 3 switch will have a bunch of Ethernet ports, but generally no serial ports (other than the console and auxiliary, of course). The layer 3 switch tends to push most of the work logic off onto ASICs rather than doing it in software on CPU time, too. That way you don't suffer much performance loss when routing between VLANs, but you wouldn't put on at a WAN uplink or network border.

  24. Re:Network meltdown due to hub cross-connects on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is such a thing as a Layer 3 switch. They have routing functionality built-in, mostly to reduce latency for inter-vlan routing across a single switch. Cisco makes devices called Layer 3 switches, which are different from routers.

  25. Screw this guy on Startups a Safer Bet Than Behemoths · · Score: 1

    Ok, first of all, how are you going to talk about 'startups' doing all the 'innovation' then go on and on about Apple, a company that's been around since 1977? Oh, wait, I forgot. Everything before OS X 10.0 was just a dark phantasmal nightmare of beige plastic and doesn't count.

    Second of all, the likes of Apple don't create core routers capable of moving 322 terabits per second. They're also not creating electronic chess grand masters, are they? Nope. But at least they're shiny!

    Disclaimer, I'm writing this on a MacBook Pro that I'm fairly fond of. It's a nice machine. It's hardly ground breaking or innovative. It has some nice features, and it looks pretty, but frankly I, think being able to move 322Tb/s through a router is a little more earth shattering than a fucking music player.