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  1. Re:Of course they do ... on Wireless Industry Lobbying Hard to Keep Net Neutrality Out · · Score: 1

    Even before AOL there was CompuServe with its octal user IDs

  2. Re:Should have upgraded Openssl on Heartbleed Bug Exploited Over Extensible Authentication Protocol · · Score: 1

    In which case the manufacturer should have upgraded OpenSSL and released (maybe even pushed) the update.

  3. Should have upgraded Openssl on Heartbleed Bug Exploited Over Extensible Authentication Protocol · · Score: 1

    When the Heartbleed exploit was announced, all users of vulnerable openssl versions should have upgraded.

  4. Re:Possibly... on UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages · · Score: 1

    In which case talking about it should never be allowed as refusing to either confirm or deny when previously having denied would strongly indicate that a gagging order had been issued.

  5. Re:Touristy places will be in for a surprise.. on European Parliament Votes For Net Neutrality, Forbids Mobile Roaming Costs · · Score: 1

    Or even worse when you do not even leave your home country but your phone happens to connect to a mast in a neighbouring country.

  6. Re:Say goodbye on Facebook's Face Identification Project Is Accurate 97.25% of the Time · · Score: 1

    Or to learn the techniques used by the Faceless Men in the Song of Ice and Fire series.

  7. Re:The Meat of It on Aussie Attorney General's War On Encrypted Web Services · · Score: 2

    Hiding the destination need not be difficult. You just do the electronic equivalent of putting a coded small ad in a newspaper. Everyone can read it, but only the intemded recipient can decode it and there is no indication as to whom the message is intended for.

  8. Re: wrong on New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers · · Score: 1

    Even that does not help. These mechanisms only authenticate you to the bank, not the bank to you. A spoof bank site could still request the OTP password or output from the dongle and accepr whatever response you give.

  9. Drop the sound on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    Rather than completely blocking the video, what was wrong with what YouTube used to do - show the video with no sound track?

  10. Re:Not imposing common carrier status on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    But they can treat different packets differently in the same way as the Post Office handles letter and parcels differently.

  11. Re:Could we be so lucky? on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Or with TCP you have to have sufficiently large jitter buffers to cater for the delays caused by the backing off of the retreansmit timers.

  12. Re:Could we be so lucky? on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Oversubscribed always means "congested sometimes".

    The analogue telephone network is oversubscribed. It would not be possible for all phones to be on a call simultaneously. However it is extremely rare for there to be congestion - when someone picks up the phone they get a dial tone and can attempt to connect to the destination number. The called phone might be busy, but it is almost unheard of for the call to fail because of network congestion.

  13. Re:Could we be so lucky? on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The last mile is the one place which should not be affected, as it is a dedicated link between the customer premises and the DSLAM (or equivalent) so is non-contended bandwidth. It is the various network entities between the DSLAM and the originating server which are shared with other connections and therefore contended and subject to throttling.

  14. Re:Major flaw in assumption: This ain't arbitrage! on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 1

    Train companies in the UK do something similar. If you go through London at peak-time (8am - 10am) or (5pm and 7pm), then there is higher ticket price than at other times (x1.5 to x2) . But This applies to any journey starting at these times, not necessarily in London. So you could split your journey into separate ticket segments (8am Liverpool to Oxford) (12pm to 2pm Oxford to London), and avoid this "surcharge".

    One difference is that in the UK splitting/combining railway tickets is explicitly allowed by the rules National Conditions of Carriage. Though tickets are non-transferrable.

  15. Give priority to human consumption on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the area has a drought then priority for water should be given to human consumption and hygene usages. Anyone using 'industrial' quantities of water should be charged in such a way as to discourage its use. Either that or the oil companies should have to pay for pipelines and pumps to bring sea water to their sites rather than competing for the local water supply. Even better make them not only pipe in sea water but also provide desalination plants to augment the local drinking water supplies. After all, the oil companies are no strangers to long distance pipelines.

  16. Re: Can someone please kill the fucker on Quentin Tarantino Vs. Gawker: When Is Linking Illegal For Journalists? · · Score: 1

    I think that a link is the direct equivalent of a citation. The extra functionality is in the user's brower which, when clicking on the link. does the equivalent of "sending a robot into the stacks to fetch the cited publication and open it at the appropriate page"

  17. Re:Can someone please kill the fucker on Quentin Tarantino Vs. Gawker: When Is Linking Illegal For Journalists? · · Score: 1

    Is a bibliographic reference to an infringing work in a paper publication also considered as 'advocating infringement'? If not, then a hyperlink should also not be considered as advocating infringement.

  18. Re:They aren't whistleblowing. on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 2

    Yes, most governments forget that they are the servants of the people, not the other way round.

  19. Re:It doesn't cost any more to serve more data on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    Reducing the demand by charging is not a magic bullet. Even if every (or most) customers cut down on the amount of streaming, there will still be a problem if too many of them choose to stream at the same time (eg a popular TV show or live event).

  20. Re:What has this to do with net neutrality? on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    A correlation but not always a meaningful one. Consider 2 customers, both of which download about 1GByte per day. One streams approx 500MBytes/hour for 2 hours during the peak period when many other domestic customers are doing the same. The other is downloading at a relatively constant rate of approx 40MBytes/hour 24x7. Even though they both download approximately the same amount each month, the first customer is probably costing the ISP considerably more than the second. If all customers were like the 2nd one then the ISP would only need 1/10 of the external capacity than if all customers were like the first one.

  21. Only while stationary on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 2

    Many of these smart systems - such as entering a destination into the navigation system should be made to only work while the vehicle is stationary so as not to distract the driver. It makes sense to input the destination before starting the journey rather than 'on the go'.

  22. Re:Voluntary payments! on Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed · · Score: 1

    That has been suggested in Spotify 'ideas' forum a number of time and each time Spotify respond with 'we will not implement that'.

  23. Re:Useless without context on Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed · · Score: 1

    But that is just one song. Assuming that the other tracks will not get as much play as the 'hit' song an album of 10 tracks might generate, say, five times that - approximately €30 000 per year.

  24. Re:Are they really being hosed? on Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed · · Score: 1

    Yet many, if not most, of the all-time most sucessful artists started out playing local pubs and clubs before getting signing by a label.

  25. Re:Nielsen must be freaking out on Facebook Delivers Viewer Engagement Reports To TV Networks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why do networks love it when people comment online in realtime? if someone is sending tweets or posting on Facebook then the show is not holding their attention. Unless they are waiting for the ad breaks to post online, in which case they are not paying attention to the advertisers.