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  1. Re:How to make a fool of yourself with the cops. on 58,000 Security Camera Systems Critically Vulnerable To Attackers · · Score: 1

    Why would you let your kid use the same user account as yourself (or grandpa). Are you a fan of deleted documents? Just make a separate account for DVR, leave the soft running and fast-user-switch out of it. And a separate restricted accoun for the kid.

    And on a side note - if the computer recording your cameras is in a place where a 3 year old can access it, this computer will probably be the very first thing stolen - so i think you are making this crap up.

  2. Re:well ... on 58,000 Security Camera Systems Critically Vulnerable To Attackers · · Score: 4, Informative

    The difference is simple (but huge). To allow a program or device to make an outgoing NAT connection, i have to assume that it is not malicious. To allow programs and devices map incoming ports via upnp i have to assume that it is not malicious AND it is not buggy enough to allow gazillion script kiddies access to my network. So thanks, but no thanks on the upnp front - i keep my open tcp ports to a minimum.

  3. Re:Never attribute to malice... on 58,000 Security Camera Systems Critically Vulnerable To Attackers · · Score: 2

    Well... If you plug your random DVR (or print server, or any device for that matter) tcp port through your router, you deserve what you get. If you leave upnp on, you deserve what you get. Openvpn costs nothing.

  4. Re:It has been scientifically tested. on Crowd Funding For Crank Physics · · Score: 1
  5. Re:100 million my arse on Chinese Man Pleads Guilty To $100M Piracy Operation · · Score: 1

    Yea, but the argument here is that he did not make 100mil, therefore it is not a 100mil scam. 100mil was an imaginary profit, or "retail value" of the software he sold. That would probably not have been sold at retail price anyway.

  6. Re:100 million my arse on Chinese Man Pleads Guilty To $100M Piracy Operation · · Score: 1

    Anyway. Who BUYs pirated software? His clients should be fined for stupidity.

  7. Re:Who cares? on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 2

    No assistant gets any royalties even now.
    I would propose the same people get royalties who do now. Let's say the director is assigned a 1/5 cut of the royalties - if he dies, the movie is that much cheaper to license. Until all the specified personnel have died - at which point the movie becomes royalty-free.
    Then all artists get rewards from their works during their lifetime (which was the idea in the first place) and heirs get none.

  8. Re:Who cares? on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 2

    Copyright was meant to feed the auhors, not their heirs. Copyright of any work should expire once its auhor passes away.

  9. Re:A couple things that kept me from upgrading... on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Surely, you mean command.com?

  10. Re:Not satellite access required. on FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Batteries lasting a couple of days vs one has nothing to do with digital vs analog. I have had a digital (GSM) phone with a battery that lasts for two weeks easily. Batteries these days don't last more than a day because of those gigaherzes of cpu to power, inches of screen to light and constant communications for smartness.
    And by the way - GSM goes easily to 35k feet (11km) - if there are no obstrucions - you know - like in the AIR. We use a ferry to travel from Tallinn (Estonia) to Helsinki (Finland) and only right in the middle of this ~80 KM journey is there no cell reception from either shore. I would extrapolate that at least 30 km (3 times the height of commercial air traffic) is easily doable.
    Cell phone reception only sucks if you have buildings or plants in the way. Or a mountain.

  11. Re:Related Anil Dash Blogs and earlier /. discussi on How the Internet Became a Closed Shop · · Score: 1

    I have celiac and am all for research, but this site is like an example of ALL the bad practices for coding a site. Is the whole this written in deprecated HTML 3 or something? Flashing text even!!!

    I refer you to the upper right corner where a banner states that the website in question is W3C validated HTML 4.0.1 (i haven't checked it, but that is what the site owner claims).
    However your question is irrelevant because none of the W3C standards that i know of, addresses eyesoreness.

  12. Re:Excellent. on Swedish Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade · · Score: 0

    The trouble is that Pirate Party in Sweden is no way a dominant policymaker in Sweden. It is a tiny minority with 2 members of parliament.

  13. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And most importantly - its not a particularly amazing piece of code. I am not a programmer, but know how to write basic stuff in a few languages - and i do not find a TWO LINE LOOP that fills the screen with a choice between two characters that make up something that LOOKS LIKE A MAZE, but is not necessarily navigable not a least bit amazing.

  14. Re:lawsuit time? on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    The tighter thy are, the easier to break out of them.

  15. Re:lawsuit time? on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    I would take zip ties over handcuffs any day. You can break out of them quite easily. Google it.

  16. Re:who cares? on OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    I did not say that its illegal.
    I was answering to a post stating that "NeoOffice is the OSX port". I tried to hint that Libreoffice and OpenOffice also run natively on OSX nowadays, i.e. they are themselves OSX ports. And there is no reason for me to "get it from another bloke" if i can download Libre- or Open- without the hassle and keep them up to date.
    You should really work on your reading skills.

  17. Re:who cares? on OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    NeoOffice is not free nor open:

    To download the NeoOffice-3.3-Intel.dmg file, please login so that we can verify that you have paid US$10 (or €7 or £6 or CA$10 or AU$10 or ¥834) or more within the last year.

    Why would i prefer this over Open or Libre which both have native OSX builds nowadays.

  18. Re:who cares? on OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    I used to. But LibreOffice (on OSX) STILL nags me occasionally on missing Java runtime although use of java is switched off in preferences. Mainly on keyboard shortcuts like cmd+s, cmd+c. It is totally random and annoying.
    I now tried Apache OpenOffice, and this doe not nag me - so out goes Libre-, welcome Open-.

  19. Re:Hybrid Drives on Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money? · · Score: 2

    If you choose your SSDs and buy a fast one, the performance increase is quite substantial, be it desktop or laptop. And (IMHO) most of the perceptible performance increase comes from 0 seek, not necessarily transfer speed - a fact that the OP overlooks.
    For laptop added bonuses are reduced power usage and (i don't see that argument much, but it is important to me) noise. I like my laptop dead quiet.

  20. Re:Interesting, very interesting +1 on First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 · · Score: 0

    It will not. Also mentioned in the OP.

  21. Re:boo on Estonia To Teach Programming In Schools From Age 6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Programming actually teaches more than just programming computers. It teaches you to build structure into your thoughts. I personally think learning foreign language or music or other subjects will in fact benefit from programming basics.

    BTW i am Estonian, but did not have such luck - ran into programming in late teens.

  22. Re:tick tock on UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not even for safety. It is chipped away for an *illusion* of safety. Does anybody know anyone who feels more safe than a couple of decades ago thanks to all the modern surveillance tech? I don't.

  23. Re:so you lot are promoting ip theft now ? on The Pirate Bay Launches Free VPN · · Score: 1

    I would not have bought the thing i copied from a friend, anyway. Sot they do not have "one less potential sale". So the "owner" of the ip has lost nothing. Zilch. Nada.
    But on the other hand - if the stuff was any good - they might get a peer recommendation from me. So they have actually GAINED a potential sale.
    Even a small child could understand that.

  24. Re:Advice on English Prepaid SIM on Mobile Operator Grabs 4G Lead In UK — But Will Anything Work On It? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about areas. In Europe, a network usually covers the whole country and the signal is everywhere except deep in the woods.

  25. Re:Worrisome on Mobile Operator Grabs 4G Lead In UK — But Will Anything Work On It? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In mobile communications, it's the US that uses a "different" frequency band than the rest of the world, not UK.
    And what has zigbee's use of *unlicensed* frequency band for short range communications have to do with anything?