http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVlTeIATBs

More information is always a better thing tbh. Maybe I'm juror for us gov vs assange treason case and without reading articles I just never find out treason only applies to american citizens. This added fact helps me understand what is going on. Or government caught hacker with wireshark and well that hacking tool is all they have on him. Quick wiki of it gives me information relevant. TBH lawyers just want the ability to be intellectually dishonest.

You ask for citation beginning of post. Then conclude he fails because he didnt give citation? Are all internet comments now requiring that they have applicable citations page now for all posts?

How many people here could name more then 5 anti-virus programs? How many normal people? Not many. On the otherhand if I'm looking for antivirus where do I go? Certainly not store.. tom's software guide doesnt really exist. I might have heard about some names from friends. I dont really know what's good. Instead I goto piratebay or whatever. Top 100 - apps -windows and sort by seeds. Find #1 antivirus and now I have the best one really. Crowdsourced goodness.

Back in the day... who really could launch nukes? Hell even today how many people could build a nuke... friggen governments cant even do it. So yes you could get your dozen groups communicating and that stops it from happening. You are able to talk to everyone who can do it. Very diplomatic Today on the otherhand 23 year old guys control 500,000 zombie botnets. Computer security itself is terrible to the point basically a huge number of independants have the power to do the job. So what are governments doing to open communication with these people? They are trying to identify them in order to arrest or as the usa says "the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the President, to launch [...] an actual bombing of an attack source or a cyber counterattack." This isnt diplomatic at all.

What I want to know is if the applicable websites are of AMERICAN registrars and/or AMERICAN servers. As if they hijacked non-american DNS. Then the USA must be removed from all authority in DNS. We have allowed them this position because they were of the position they wouldnt enforce their morality on the world.

This bill if passed only applies to american based dns records; and for non-american websites they have to goto all the isps to create the great american firewall. Long story short... everyone moves their dns records to non-american registrars and the hosted pages also. That includes every website who doesnt like the censorship. Net effect: American economy has a decent sized exodus of money(currently in USA) now leaving the country.

$1.5mil isnt going to be paid. So being ordered up for this amount is tantamount to ordering up to paying nothing, except now the copyright cops take yet another bad pr hit and we move ever so closer to removing their copyright protection at all; at least for non-commercial infringement.

Wholesale: $1.12 per GB and then $0.75 per GB with no max overage. BUT Wholesales already pay for usage at the isp level. So 2x that. Bell: Max overage of $30 aka unlimited for $30. While if not hitting max it's $0.69/gig. Wholesales absolutely cant compete. GG Internet in Canada.

Their methodology requires multiple phone lines bonded and being used with parity in order obtain these speeds. Most houses dont have multiple phone lines. Which means they have to send techs out to install said extra wires. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU BE SO STUPID?? Send the techs to install fiber. Now you are future proofed to 10g speeds AT LEAST. Verizon's gpon can deliver 10g right to your house. I'm sure in a decade when gigabit becomes a sluggish speed... 10g can EASILY be deployed. The next step after that is also just as easy to deploy.

While in Canada we have useful unions which restrict TAs from teaching courses. However, in many other countries it's like that... the TAs are teaching the courses. Potentially even worse sometimes. I have a friend who did really well during bachelors and she took a position which had interaction with her university. The professor had a car accident or whatever and he was in the hospital. So she was asked to teach the course and was told to never let it out that she wasnt at all qualified and that she was a collague. What needs to be done is just this: You need to accept everyone pretty much. University is a business afterall and there's no reason you cant accept everyone at all. Offer different levels of service for education to manage large number of people. 1. You get the network access and tutoring/TA access. This gets you access to coursework and such like MIT's free services; but also writing the exams and all that good stuff. This option ought to be the cheapest option. 2. You're in a classroom setting and can interact with the professor and such; but it's essentially streamed and you're not in the same room as the professor. 3. Your typical current offering of you being in the classroom with the professor. Next big change is essentially to move education to similar that of doctors. Whereas you need to have a 95% average to get your degree. The idea being if I'm in school for physics I'm expected to memorize equations. While in the job force I can free look up the equations. In school I can get 65% average and get my degree... in the job force I better not be only getting 65% of my work correct. We should be educating people on how it really works.

Linux Desktops are at the highest levels EVER. If that's not the exact opposite of dead... I just dunno.

What's really scary is the possibility that we are getting this very same thing from google-bing. Well not to the level of eliminating global warming or eliminating open source; but some bit of censorship of making it more difficult to find some things or eliminate. In addition to the known government censorship and malware/cp censorship.

The problem is that there are so many companies who sue/prosecute/harass/discredit and with law as it is... a hacker is liable to lose their life to such things. Not literally but going to jail or having lost your job and all your money to protect yourself from a large corporation with bored lawyers/PR on staff is awful. In addition many companies dont offer $$$ for exploits; they expect to get them for free. Sooooo many factors all forcing hackers to go to the black market.

We need an auction site where vendors, bad guys, and good guys all bid on 0days.