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Comment Re:You have to be kidding! (Score 1) 199

U.S. ISPS need to be shot.
I am currently sitting on a couch in LaCygne, Kansas. Looking out the window, I can see the place where the fiber (yeah fiber, in a rural area) terminates if I look out the window.

Now guess what the speed is. Go ahead, guess.









512 KBits/320KBits.
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Back home in Texas, my Verizon DLS (non FIOS), is 1.5MBit/384KBit for $30/month. In other words, I can upload from home faster than I can download here in Texas.
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Now guess how much the Kansas line costs a month. Go ahead and guess.









$60/month.
Its all a scam, and there is no basis for it. Greed, pure and simple.

Comment Why people like the pirate bay are a good. (Score 3, Insightful) 42

Why the heck would you allow non-hackers to protect you from the people you need to hide from?
I seem to recall that a group like the pirate bay, who made it their business to mask identity from powerful interests created baywords.com for exactly this purpose.
A misconfigured tor node or vpn stream could expose someone to torture or worse. A group like this needs to step back, and ask someone in the know to do it, and just offer funding.

Comment Re:Not Surprising, but when will MS ditch Windows? (Score 1) 1003

Bunk.
Windows 7 is no better than XP in terms and security - just check the news for the last year or so. Furthermore, many of the last updates applied to XP brought 7's security "features" to XP; things like better canary support, an upgraded (still crap) firewall, and other such things. The notion that 7 is more secure than XP is just bollocks.

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