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  1. Re:It's the other way around actually.. on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Then the police would say "You're being detained for questioning" and haul your ass into the police station.

  2. Re:Why? on FCC To Vote On Net Neutrality On December 21 · · Score: 1

    Funny you mention that, since they have a gigantic amount of jurisdiction over cable TV.

  3. Re:It's the other way around actually.. on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    If they want to arrest him, they should get a warrant. They are independent actions. questioning someone is not related to arrest.

    The police would (possibly) want to give away their hand, giving him a chance to run, while not knowing exactly where, or even which country, Assange is located in, why again?

    Usually, you do have an obligation to assist in a police investigation. You don't have to incriminate yourself, but you can't lie to them, or outright evade being brought in for questioning.

  4. Re:Bullshit on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Please, do give a more neutral name.

  5. Re:Ut Oh! on DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you stop the server itself from crapping out. That just means slow load times for people trying to get to the site.

  6. Re:Iran's plan on Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    The threat of American intervention alone would keep an Arab coalition from attacking Israel, I'm sure. Quite a few of those countries have much to lose and nearly nothing to gain from doing so. None have standing armies of significant size or sophistication. The only country even comparable to Israel in either category is Egypt - a long standing ally of the US, and former recipient of a wild ass-kicking at the hands of Israel (while they had pretty much the rest of the entire middle east helping them, no less).

    I imagine Israel may have their own nukes, but held in another country they find trustworthy, or out on subs as you suggest.

  7. Re:Iran's plan on Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    It's not like you've never had nukes on your soil.

  8. Re:Iran's plan on Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    They've also admitted plans to bomb Iran "within the next month" over a year ago, and quite a few other things. Gaffes aren't representative of the real state of affairs of a country.

  9. Re:Iran's plan on Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    I was talking about Israel. That was mentioned first, after all.

    I don't doubt they can weaponize rapidly. But so could quite a few other countries. I have no doubt that Germany, Spain, Canada, Greece, Brazil, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Australia, Portugal, Italy, Japan, South Africa, and South Korea could make one quite quickly (within a year) given a dire need, which makes the argument somewhat of a moot point.

    But to claim they actually possess nuclear weapons is fairly well baseless. If they do "have" nukes, I don't think they actually have them on Israeli soil. They said they weren't going to be the ones introduce nukes into the region, and I don't doubt them on that.

    I don't see how international policy operates on that assumption, though. If that were the assumption, there would be a much more widespread push towards nukes in the rest of the middle east.

  10. Re:Iran's plan on Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    That's another insanely bold claim with no basis.

  11. Re:Iran's plan on Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    I would try to provide proof of the first, if I were to make such a bold claim, if I were you.

  12. Re:Online updates on The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead · · Score: 1

    You're pretty much right about extending the console's lifetime, but the Netflix streaming could have been done with older consoles. Just add a memory unit to a broadband internet-enabled console, and you're golden for Netflix. Dreamcast could have done it (it had a broadband adapter), along with XBox, had internet connections been up to snuff back then.

  13. Re:I can say now: faulty on Cambridge Computer IDs World's Most Boring Day · · Score: 1

    That just means nothing happened in the U.K., or of significance to the U.K, where the BBC knew about it before proclaiming that there was no news. Other things may have happened elsewhere, and been significant within other countries. You know, like some revolutionaries in Bangladesh beginning an uprising against British colonial rule in Chittagong.

  14. Re:Props to Apple on How Apple Had a Spectacular Year · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Samsung Captivate is pretty nice, TBH. It rivals the iPhone very well on AT&T, and is lighter and thinner than the iPhone, while providing better battery life.

    I think this is the serious contender that the iPhone needed on AT&T after owning both for a while. Before this phone, nothing even came close to an iPhone on AT&T.

  15. Re:This is why on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's really hard to grow a third world economy at 5 to 10 % of their GDP.

    I mean, the GDP of some of those countries is lower than what single people in the US earn, but that means nothing.

  16. Re:One of Our Cancers on DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, there's no physical seizure where the accused has a right to defend themselves. You get the right afterwords, not before, in every physical case, why change when dealing with an electronic case?

  17. Re:One of Our Cancers on DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, they (the owners) have access to the original via their hosting provider, and direct via IP, and possibly via physical access to the hosting servers. They didn't shut down the servers or change the data on them in any way, just seized the domain names that other random people use to access it.

  18. Re:Say goodbye to the cats on Chicago Using Coyotes To Fight Rodents · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's hardly even a cat IMO haha. It's bigger than a bobcat.

  19. Re:Mongoose on Chicago Using Coyotes To Fight Rodents · · Score: 1

    Are they native to an urban area like Chicago?

  20. Re:Say goodbye to the cats on Chicago Using Coyotes To Fight Rodents · · Score: 0

    Cats won't eat rats, though.

  21. Re:Kinda pricy on Verizon Speeds Up FiOS To 150Mbps · · Score: 1

    You're talking like they don't also pay by actual usage.

  22. Re:Incorrect - the logos are player-generated on Xbox Live Enforcement — No Swastika Logo · · Score: 1

    GP may be talking about the nazi faction in COD:BlackOps, where you regularly see a swastika appear (at least in multiplayer, and not just a swastika, but red-white-black Nazi flag) every time they use a killstreak reward.

  23. Re:Question on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've seen videos of the new scanning procedure where people got scanned, turn 90 degrees, and got scanned again.

  24. Re:Travel Tip on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    Bah, yeah, you're right. I'm still pretty sure it's a sealed container, though, and is also much bigger than a hard drive.

  25. Re:Travel Tip on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    Toner cartridges also are built to carry liquids. The explosive they tried to use was a liquid. See why hard drives just wouldn't work for that attack?