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  1. Re:Your android is very rickety on Early Hands-On Preview of Dell's Streak 7 Tablet · · Score: 1

    Your search terms, chrome gives a long term cookie, doubleclick and google-analytics to track you after you selected what to do. orkut for who you like, gmail for emails, google docs ect. (on average)
    So if your Dell Streak can take Linux and any telco you found to be cheap/value it would better.

  2. Re:Or Like Kaiser does.... on Algorithm Contest Aims To Predict Health Problems · · Score: 1

    It depends who is paying and why.
    If your shareholders are paying, better to steam the sickest away from your care. Everyday they stay sick with you is a real loss.
    If your shareholders can bill the US gov, steam the sickest to extra care that makes a profit and improves 'positive outcome' stats.
    If your a gov, steam the sick bright young people to extra care that protects future tax payers and skills base.
    If your a gov, steam the sick old people to less care that protects tax payers.

  3. Re:Bandwidth, People on Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users · · Score: 1

    Rustbelt telcos did not roll out beyond voice, text and pics. Now their lack of backhaul is starting to show and they are running around blaming users.

  4. Re:At-will employment on Anniston, Alabama To Censor Employees' Facebook Pages · · Score: 1

    Nothing can block your 1st in any state, ever.

  5. Re:This is far from settled law on Anniston, Alabama To Censor Employees' Facebook Pages · · Score: 1

    My understanding of US law is your 1st trumps all, and then you have whistleblower protections too.
    Your home would become a Constitution-free zone for your working life?
    Telling the world about where certain data lines are vs telling the world your city was over charged for no bid IT upgrades in a very friendly 'deal'?
    This is chilling.

  6. Re:Internet kill workaround on No Internet “kill Switch” For Australia · · Score: 1

    "The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown" http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom some are open for all :)

  7. Re:Burn the clothes? on Researchers Lift Fingerprints From Clothing · · Score: 1

    A good movie would have a clean room or hazmat suit for all, then burn. Make it look gang, cult or medical issue/suicide for extra reality.
    The Shooter, Michael Clayton ect.

  8. Re:What if it happened here? on Egypt Coming Back On the 'net · · Score: 1

    The UK would be very interesting. You would be facing the GCHQ/NSA (US bases) at home. Would they suggest net/web 2.0 stays up to track everybody in realtime and offer locations of interest to ~Forward Intelligence Teams (FITs).
    Find and "remove" the leaders and the lone-wolf types who suddenly become very active.
    The "phone network" is the GCHQ so your data call to an ISP outside the UK would just add another number to be tracked back to you and then blocked/recoreded.
    Public phones, mobile phones may only allow a sub set of calls, eg a "white list" of local emergency services and the police tip line.
    Mesh wireless network is just more quality signals intelligence to act on. The US and UK are very very good at tracking any wifi, cell or sat phone.
    Look up and you will see the next gen Nimrod/Islander or drone collecting all the realtime voice prints on any "linux phone".
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268535/Superspy-sky-soon-patrolling-British-cities-search-hidden-terror-cells.html
    Use any phone after the 'emergency' and your voice of interest will add some new billing/address/id or just location. CCTV can do the rest.
    Ham radio would be the same. They have learned from the French use of minitel (1980's French computer network) setting up protests.
    Whats left? U.S. military satellite transponders ie "The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown" http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom ?

  9. Re:Net kill switch on Egyptians Turn To Tor To Organize Dissent Online · · Score: 1

    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/egypt-isp-shutdown/
    Gov calls, sends, codes all the 'big' isp's a message. Smaller isp's, private groups get a DHS visit.
    You wake up, turn on your adsl modem, cable, optical device ect no lights for you today.
    Ring the telco, at best a recored message, or nothing.
    Dust off your sat phone or phone an isp outside the USA with your CC.
    Can that US sat phone running in the US on a US CC be turned off or tracked http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078689 as in Iraq?. Can international calls be blocked?
    Whats left? Ham radio is registered, ie the gov would have a "list" of users and detection would not be hard...
    http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom Brazilian Sat-Hack like or risk a data hand over to a fleeing tourist/diplomat/press?
    NO CARRIER

  10. Re:Oh well. on Researchers Track Mouse Movements and Hesitations · · Score: 1

    Yes the joy of the http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines.
    Now we need a browser extension to help this effort track all the random data it likes.

  11. Re:Timothy... on Ski Lifts Can Could Help Get Cargo Traffic Off the Road · · Score: 1

    Expects a glowing pneumatic tubes story submission soon.

  12. Re:Why is theodp's troll crap on slashdot at all? on Connecticut AG Opts For Street View Settlement, Without Seeing the Data · · Score: 1

    Some idiots were broadcasting passwords and other private info that got picked up. Google wasn't looking for that data, doesn't care about that data, and promised to destroy the data.
    Google fitted their cars world wide with wifi, signed off on the code that was used and kept the data collected.
    Parts of the world do have laws protecting any network from any 3rd party keeping data and google understood local laws about wifi capture.
    Recall http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/04/data-collected-by-google-cars.html
    "Is it, as the German DPA states, illegal to collect WiFi network information? We do not believe it is illegal--this is all publicly broadcast information which is accessible to anyone with a WiFi-enabled device. Companies like Skyhook have been collecting this data cross Europe for longer than Google, as well as organizations like the German Fraunhofer Institute."
    A cute "If the president does it, it's not illegal" idea?
    Google was collecting as much data location data as it could in one pass.
    "barely a story to begin with" would have been a few cars in one city. As for "anti-google shills", if Google gets a free pass to suck up and keep any data it likes from any network it can find, data protection and privacy laws become very weak.

  13. Re:What's the Catch? on Egypt Cuts the Net, Net Fights Back · · Score: 1

    So all Egypt needs to do is trace all calls to that number and the range of numbers around it.

  14. Safe for how long? on UK ISPs Consider VPN To Avoid Piracy Crackdown · · Score: 1

    ""suspected" unlawful file sharing p2p activity from publicly available IP details; a feat that is already extremely unreliable."
    "as there is no requirement to log NAT sessions"?
    1. Log data as file is shared, downloaded.
    2. Get legal advice in the UK.
    2.5. Another private dinner with members of the Rothschild banking dynasty at the family's holiday villa on ....
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/25/file-sharing-internet
    3. A UK court asks "happy joy isp will not log NAT sessions.co.uk" about downloaded data.
    4. You face an "amnesty" letter to pay a "low" amount or risk facing a court?
    The good part is your exchange?/small one road town has its ip hidden from all users.

  15. Re:As opposed to on A Lego Replica of the Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Gold_Hat ~ bronze age pda (personal duration assistant?) meets lunisolar calendar meets bling sun cult headdress?

  16. Re:Why the Hell... on EU Approves Intel's McAfee Purchase After Interoperability Pledge · · Score: 1

    1. If all the mainstream AV on Intel running software makes Intel hardware feel slow, people might look for a different 'brand' and it will feel more snappy for a while.
    If Intel can have a go at funding a more responsive AV by running it on a low cpu setting, deep in the background for longer and pausing for games, Intel hardware can feel snappy. A nice PR bounce about been "safe" and "fast" on the next generation of cpu ect..
    2. The Feds get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) in many more shipping computers. No hoping a user of interest buys from a fed friendly vendor. "DHS Inside"

  17. Re:"Egypt Shuts Off All land-based Internet Access on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Depends if you want that 'on'.
    When it came to a satellite phone kill (Chechen leader Dzokhar Dudayev), Russia had to ask the NSA for help in 1996.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Dudayev#Death_and_legacy
    Who knows what export quality tracking systems can be bought via the EU, China, Israel ect. ?

  18. Re:Assuming the Egyptian govt. cuts off people on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Diplomats, press, tourists, workers ect. A small 'photo' chip 1/2 empty with holiday pics and a space free for a deleted vid.
    The 1991 http://www.friendsoftimor.com/santa_cruz_massacre.php (~271 were killed, 382 wounded, and 250 disappeared) shows how film can be made public, even if strip searched on arrival back in 'free' counties.

  19. Re:Openleaks is not what we need... on Openleaks Goes Live · · Score: 2

    Yes read http://cryptome.org/0003/nyt-robs-wl.htm
    The part about "Even goes so far as to brag the Times publishes documents too, not just editorial gloss of them. Then carefully preens shamelessly about how the Times met repeatedly with US government representatives to vet Wikileaks documents before publication." ie from
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
    "Dean Baquet, our Washington bureau chief, gave the White House an early warning on Nov. 19. The following Tuesday, two days before Thanksgiving, Baquet and two colleagues were invited to a windowless room at the State Department, where they encountered an unsmiling crowd. "
    "Before each discussion, our Washington bureau sent over a batch of specific cables that we intended to use in the coming days. They were circulated to regional specialists, who funneled their reactions to a small group at State, who came to our daily conversations with a list of priorities and arguments to back them up."

  20. Re:Another unfunded mandate on DOJ Seeks Mandatory Data Retention For ISPs · · Score: 1

    Re send the data to "law enforcement" in real-time, and let them worry about storing it?
    That would spoil the anonymity feel of the network and the bad people would go greater lengths to hide their actions.
    Better to make people feel like they are an ip lost in millions protected by privacy laws and courts.
    Fusion centers and the local NSA roll out once your noticed.
    Recall the reaction to Room 641A, the press and political leaders could drop the issue fast enough.

  21. Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom on Inception, The Social Network, TS3 Get Oscar Noms · · Score: 1

    I hope she wins. Animal Kingdom projects an amazing image of aspects of Australian crime.

  22. Re:Desperate to make money on Facebook To Make Facebook Credits Mandatory For Games · · Score: 1

    Facebook can get real names, hopes to get 30% real cash via addictive fun games and cellphone numbers.
    That kind of real data has value to govs, the private databases that feed govs and other private groups seeking info in bulk or on a single person.
    Can ads, games and 'real data' add up to 50 billion $ over 'years' before the next 'big' web 3.0 thing is tested?
    Facebooks way of making people enter personal data for free is still rather unique.
    As for the credits and not offering in the US, someone is going to win big :)

  23. Re:Who else hasn't read his copy of volume three? on Volume 4A of Knuth's TAOCP Finally In Print · · Score: 1

    Working 70+ hour weeks, whats that in Mythical Man-Months?

  24. Re:Drones bad, helicopters good? on Domestic Use of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    A loitering drone network feeding into false color crime maps and 3d stats to be enjoyed by local underfunded cops.
    So if they wanted to mess with you while driving it was a bit random without a gps tracker. Now they can find you the second you walk out the front door, 24/7.
    Makes you rethink about that court case, complaint, next peace protest, political rally ect.
    Your unknown face and a well made picket sign is no longer such a mystery.
    Walk, ride, car, bus back from a local event, your home or a friends home ect. can be noted.
    Expect a friendly visit about pre-crimes.

  25. Re:What is the privacy concern? on Domestic Use of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Cell phones to find or trace voice prints or numbers of interest ie state and city techs get to play NSA.
    How soon before the bankrupt states/cities with a need need to 'confiscate" and IRS go Greek and think of looking for "expensive" things they cannot see from the road?
    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/greek-tax-avoidance-101-cover-your-swimming-pool-tarp-fool-satellite
    Are you living and upgrading your property beyond the local average poverty level/tax return and have unknown extra funds to invest in a real pool?
    Add in under taxed farms, expensive cars, water use, expensive new solar ect.