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  1. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're unaware that the NSA has a room in every major telco hub then? And that the techs aren't allowed to even look crossways at it or what they're hooked into, even for network diagnostic purposes? Huh.

  2. Re:All this assumes super cold beer is desirable on Condensation On Your Beer != Good · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or you could, you know, just drink it before it's old enough to buy its own beer.

  3. Re:Um...what's the "unlikely place"? on Pinball: a Resurgence In Retro Gaming From an Unlikely Place · · Score: 1

    Hey now, be polite. Talking to Dumbfuckistan's President like that can only harm diplomatic relations.

  4. Re:doesn't look so scary on Sophisticated Apache Backdoor In the Wild · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All everything is vulnerable if the binary is replaced. There's exactly jack and shit sophisticated about replacing binaries.

  5. Re:This is here, because? on Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Says you. I've seen the source. It's not really even all that complicated. Most of the cycles are taken up by annoy method calls with my object as the target.

  6. Re:Pandora needs to change technology to win. on Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora · · Score: 1

    As are most every other terrestrial radio station. Non-issue.

  7. Re:Pandora needs to change technology to win. on Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora · · Score: 1

    FM radio broadcasters pay zero in license rates. They're in fact paid by a middleman organization that I forget the name of that works for the labels to play the labels' music.

  8. Re:Pandora needs to change technology to win. on Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora · · Score: 1

    Yes, FM stations that broadcast over 200 feet have to be licensed. The cheapest way to go beyond unlicensed use is LPFM but it's rather quirky in its requirements, wouldn't be suitable, and would be overpowered by 1000x or more. Using frequencies outside the traditional FM range is another story entirely though.

    Power draw would also not be an issue. A transmitter and receiver on the same circuit board could get away with power of under 1mW. Possibly significantly below 1mW in a faraday cage.

    As to cost, I could build a transmitter/receiver board for roughly $10 in parts from Radio Shack. I assume they could get a much better deal on the scale we're talking. They could also probably manage at least a hundred of them on a PCB the size of a sheet of paper.

    Finally no, content owners get jack and shit from radio play on terrestrial radio stations. They in fact have things set up to pay the stations to play their music, though through a somewhat indirect method.

  9. Re:Pandora needs to change technology to win. on Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or a $20 50mW FM transmitter, a stripped bit of wire to use as an antenna, and a faraday cage for each user's personal "station". That would put them pretty much exactly where aero is. There are no licensing requirements for FM stations that broadcast under 200 feet in the US and the faraday cage could drop the broadcast range to milimeters. They could even have the transmit/receive antennas on the same circuit board.

  10. So the line every week waiting on the very small delivery of new ammo that then sells out at 3-10x last year's price as fast as the clerk can ring up the purchases is my imagination? All the usual online sources saying "yeah, sorry, we don't have anything" too? Good to know.

  11. Good luck with that. What with basically every government agency spending their entire budget surplus on ammo (including agencies like the SSA and IRS that don't even have guns to put it in) you'll be lucky to find enough to complete the class.

  12. Re:Sony will figure out a way on Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Might very well be a valid argument. I'll consider it after six months have gone by without Sony giving their customers a lubeless ass-fucking.

  13. Re:TPB trackers down for days on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 1

    The part where you think this is still possible without A) using a client built by morons or B) going out of your way to find a client so old that this wasn't a solved problem when it was written. A trained monkey could hardcode every release with a list of known-good peers with static addresses. A little more thought and you'd rig up one or two of your own for your client to try if it goes through the entire known-good list and can't connect to any of them.

  14. Re:TPB trackers down for days on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all clients come with a preloaded set of peers, this really has been thought out, believe it or not.

  15. Re:TPB trackers down for days on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 1

    BZZZT! Wrong but thank you for playing!

    You can create a torrent with no trackers, start seeding it, post a magnet link somewhere, and people WILL be able to get the torrent file from you over DHT and WILL be able to complete the torrent.

    Is it as fast to find peers on a low-activity torrent? No, but that wasn't the question.

  16. Re:TPB trackers down for days on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Scuse me, that magnet link? It does not need trackers, it supplies them. Even they are not necessary if you have a client that supports DHT. Every single one of those (non-tpb) trackers could be down and the link would still function fine. Of course DHT has only been built into every major client for several years now, so why should that be assumed, eh?

  17. Re:TPB trackers down for days on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 5, Informative

    Magnet links do not NEED trackers and tpb hasn't run its own trackers in quite a while. Your issue is something else.

  18. Re:linux ppl love to sell out on JMS and Wachowskis Teaming Up for New Netflix Funded Scifi Series · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even worse, look at the editor bitching about Netflix not working on Linux when it's a solved problem.

  19. Re:Arch Linux is for you on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I love Arch myself but NO. Arch regularly makes changes that will leave your system thoroughly hosed if you update without watching the news feed. That's not even sysadmin-friendly much less noob-friendly.

  20. Re:Depends on the bitrate on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, it still counts if you're listening to it on an episode of Tom & Jerry.

  21. Re:In other news on Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Smarter? No, just more educated. They still buy the lines of bullshit politicians sell and reality TV keeps growing in popularity. Their stupidity just migrated.

  22. Re:Not a huge surprise... on Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement · · Score: 1

    Customer outcry won't do shit. After they have your money, they do not care. People not buying is the only thing that would make them care.

  23. Re:Stopped Reading after "9th Circuit" on Court: 4th Amendment Applies At Border, Password Protected Files Not Suspicious · · Score: 1

    The 6th and 5th are ahead of the 9th in percentage of overturned cases. At least they were the last time I checked a year or two ago. Still, a nearly 80% overturned when reviewed rate is not something to be proud of. And, yes, they are almost always erring on the side of the left when they're overturned.

  24. Re:So What's The Point on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 5, Informative

    Really? You've never admin'd a dns server then. It's trivial to have one respond to wildcard subdomain names that you could generate dynamically on page load with one line of javascript.

  25. Re:You use GPUs for video games? on New GPU Testing Methodology Puts Multi-GPU Solutions In Question · · Score: 1

    The break-even point for GPU mining doesn't exist anymore if you have to pay for power and it's a very, very long time if you don't. Why? ASICs.