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  1. Re:Who loves USA on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    maybe all those who got free money from the US for the past 40 years?

    Giving money to a possibly corrupt government is not the same as giving it to the ones that need aid. It only generates "love" in a very select few. Proof is that even in EU and LA there are large groups that don't think very highly of the US, even after inmmigrating there.

  2. Re:Its the economy stupid! on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    That attitude by drivers is very common and usually goes "my car is bigger, so you watch out and get out of the way". Just substitute the bigger car part for "I'm on a car and you're not" and you get senseless car drivers that think the biker is an obstacle. Very ingrained in cars.first countries, less where bike-specific lanes, roads and laws have been implemented for a not too short time. I live in a rellay hot country, but if we had a way to change into clean clothes after a shower, probably would bike to work most days.

  3. Re:So in this case where the government behaves on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 1

    Since the romans it has been: "the people only nedd bread and circus". i think it was Neron or Caligula that gets attributed with the phrase.

  4. Re:Firing in US on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 1

    I prefer the government treat me as an adult.

    "An adult" being that a persont isn't told what to do by the government or the laws but by the one who pays more.

  5. Re:Firing in US on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 1

    The whole world is run by "Big Business". In Europe you can't fire an employee so easily because social and labor "conquests" are further along than in USA. In the end, it is about differences in the way of life, with USA being more about individual success.

  6. They had to do a "study"? on Piracy In Developing Countries Driven By High Prices · · Score: 1

    So, they had to do a research study and report to discover something that anyone that has even just traveled on vacation to a "developing" country (such an euphemism) knows by just looking at the houses, streets, and more.

    It is just a common sense-derived knowledge that no one can expect a person that earns less than US$500/month for a family of 5 or 6 is going to pay for software when the only thing they have to do is ask a friend to install it or copy it.

    "Developing" countries are called like that precisely because more than 80% of its inhabitants earn US$2 or less a day. "First" world (or "developed") countries have a culture of abundance and shield their population from that kind of knowledge, unless you go about findig out. That's the real reason why you hace so many "cheap" goods, or why else do they assemble things such as phones, music players, clothes and about 99% of consumer goods in "thirld" world countries and not in the US or Europe?

  7. Re:How is this newsworthy? It's just common sense. on Deferred IT Maintenance Is a Ticking Time Bomb · · Score: 1

    Easy! New stuff is useful to show "upper" management levels that you are "innovating", "aligning IT" and all those pretty buzzwords "CIOs" (or applicable title) like to throw around to justify spending. There isnt much chance to "be seen as a profit center instead of a cost center" in maintenance, upgrades or other such upkeep activities. This is just seen when you have big trouble that can't be patched up and need to upgrade to current hardware or software.

  8. Re:Someone help me out here. on First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    I believe it was an honest mistake: The F-117 is called "NightHawk". BlackHawk is a helicopter as you said.

  9. Re:Seriously? on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, and "how much is the return/savings" can be a (extremely) condensed form of what you postulate, but right now there isn't any compelling commercial necessity that makes clear to them how important starting early (being already somewhat late) can be. There isn't any current restriction on connectivity and odds are that any transition, even a forced one, will be more of a gradual process than a col turkey cutoff.

  10. Re:Seriously? on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 1

    deleted...

    If you ask me its legacy applications as usually that probably forces most orgs to go dual stack or holds them back, kinda like it keeps IE6 and that 3270 terminal emulator on the desktop.

    As I see, I'm partially with you: not that the legacy apps themselves are the ones holding back, it is the functionality provided by such apps and the cost of reproducing that funtionality in newer and (hopefully) better apps that can hold back both legacy hardware, software and protocols

    Please remember that management (the finance and accounting departments that really have control of the money and by way of that control the companies) needs a reason to change over expressed in terms of returns, being that savings in operating costs or direct benefits produced by such a project.

  11. Re:Seriously? on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 1

    My boss would ask (more or less what we would understand after all the manage-speak): How much will that "IPV6 Migration" project save or return?

    That is the real cause of not having already moved to IPV6, there is no clear way to convice management to spend the resources (call it money, time, personnel or whatever) in doing it.

  12. Re:horse on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 1

    It wasnt a USB stick, he burned to CD-RW, wich were allowed as USB and other means weren't. I believe now they will be removing CD access too.

  13. Re:horse on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure a DoD system will not mount a USB drive and will alert security to the fact it was attempted. deleted

    I believe they have software in place for that. We do and we are in the "third world".

  14. Re:They'll just use them to play Elite all day on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 1

    Maybe. How to program for severely limited resources too (a.k.a. smartphones and such).

  15. Re:"it's legal now!" on Prankster Jailbreaks Apple Store Display iPhone · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry about this, but I seem to have read (here on /. ) that UAE's an SA's concerns (along with India) isn't about WHERE or by which means the data goes. Their concerns are about *not being able to decrypt* the data stream (man-in-the-middle-style) to intercept BB-PIN and email communications.

  16. Re:Encryption on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you manage to replicate the thinking algorithm of only one lawyer, you've just created truly unbreakable one-way obfuscation. Not even the original lawyer understands after his own process.

  17. Re:iNelson on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    The product name was: IBM Personal System/2 hence, IBM PS/2.

  18. Re:Satellite Fight! on Drifting Satellite Could Knock Out Cable TV · · Score: 1

    V-isitors?

  19. Re:Future of Internet and firewalls on What Is the Future of Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    True, I think, in the end, firewalls will have to evolve to check a lot of traffic across using just a handful of ports tunneling many other protocols and applications. More like current application firewalls or IPS/IDS systemas, maybe much more evolved. If not, then firewalls are destined to vanish.

  20. Re:So after 28 years... on After Discovery's Launch, What's Left For the Shuttle? · · Score: 1

    Maybe because all the "safety requirements" for an activity that is inherently unsafe (strapped to what is essentially a bomb is NOT safe!) delay the process and increase costs beyond what is "economically feasible".

  21. Re:Not a bad idea... in fact, an obvious good idea on Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal · · Score: 1

    If someone should do something, and they don't, we make a law to force them to.

    Unless you live where I do, then you make the law and those not doing what they are supposed to do (and the new law mandates) still don't do it and just say the law does not apply to them for whichever bizarre reason comes to their mind in that moment.

  22. Re:The important question: on Federal Judge Orders Schools To Stop Laptop Spying · · Score: 1

    Lycos!

  23. Re:Sounds like a good thing on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1

    And remember also the "privilege-escalation" exploits available.

  24. Re:Sounds like a good thing on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1

    That's a strawman argument. It's natural for security minded folks to "jab" at Microsoft (in a manner similar to how safety advocates "jab" at lead-painted Chinese toys).

    On a SANE OS, rootkits can't be installed by regular users who are viewing a banner ad, or plugging in a storage device like a memory stick or USB picture frame.

    So, I think the answer to that is: there aren't any "sane" OSs available for the general public. Only highly controlled and restricted machines are configured like that for everyday use. In all other, eventually at least one full-privilege user or operation has to be present.

  25. Re:Sounds like a good thing on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1

    Not really if you have ALL your machines taken out by said measure.