Comment Re:Over 599 US dollars... per year. (Score 1) 572
True, I pay approx. $800 (12 x €56) a year for basic TV cable + 50 mbps cable broadband.
Comment When you make $40K/year... (Score 1) 572
In this case you may consider having a new gaming console an unnecessary luxury?
Comment Buy used laptop for guests (Score 1) 572
You can buy a used, but perfectly usable and cheap windows XP/7 laptop from your local Craigslist or ebay. Re-image it regularly.
Comment Re:Deep Freeze (Score 1) 572
Nice. Does Deep Freeze restores all the photos that a guest accidentally deleted to make some space on disk to download malware?
Comment Re:Useless Russian police? (Score 1) 68
Sure, multiple squads of Russian police are on their way now to arrest mavook! Just tell them that the only evidence that he is the creator of flashback is his forum signature.
Comment Re:I wouldn't shed a tear (Score 1) 68
You are sick if you equate minor inconvenience with your precious Mac computer and a loss of human life.
Comment Re:Innocents have nothing to hide (Score 1) 1111
Personal insults are signs of emotional immaturity. To answer your question -- somebody may just have a wad of money just because they like to have it this way. Not because they run a business. Did those drug traffickers say to Anaya that they need a hidden compartment for a particular business purpose? No, and it is not his business to ask.
I like your "an bullshit bromide" phrase. Is it a new internet meme that I have missed?
Comment Re:Really Stupid and Unconstitutional (Score 1) 1111
McCracken took no pity on him. “He makes the drug world work,” she told the judge. “He is equivalent to what I consider somewhat of a genius that takes cocaine and molds them into shapes so that they can be moved in plain sight I don’t feel bad at all today. In fact, this is a pleasure. And Mr. Anaya says that he’s part of this big group of people that puts in compartments. He’s part of this secret society, I guess. Well, I hope he tells a friend, because we’re coming for them.”
Comment Innocents have nothing to hide (Score 1) 1111
"If you hide something, that is because you are a criminal"
Comment Modder? Justice is coming (Score 1) 1111
McCracken [the prosecutor]: "I don’t feel bad at all today. In fact, this is a pleasure. And Mr. Anaya says that he’s part of this big group of people that puts in compartments. He’s part of this secret society, I guess. Well, I hope he tells a friend, because we’re coming for them.”
Comment Re:...made him get the money out (Score 2) 1111
> he demonstrated that he believed the money was ill gotten
I still do not get it. This proves what exactly? The craftsman suspected that the customer may be a criminal. This does NOT make him a co-conspirator in a drug smuggling operation.
"But Anaya resisted his court-appointed lawyer’s advice to plead guilty; he still couldn’t fathom how building traps made him a drug trafficker, and he was confident that a jury would sympathize with his plight."
Logical, I would think. Only the jury in Kanzas (not Anaya's state, BTW) did not sympathize for some reason. Why would that be?
Comment ...found 800 grand inside (Score 1) 1111
And so? Having a bit of cash is illegal? Did he have to immediately call the police?
On what basis should have he refused to do his job? "Oh, I don't know, I cannot do it because you may be a drug dealer, probably". Great way to treat a customer who may have won a fortune in Las-Vegas.
Did the Spamhaus DDoS Really Slow Down Global Internet Access? 70
CowboyRobot writes "Despite the headlines, the big denial of service attack may not have slowed the Internet after all. The argument against the original claim include the fact that reports of Internet users seeing slowdowns came not from service providers, but the DDoS mitigation service CloudFlare, which signed up Spamhaus as a customer last week. Also, multiple service providers and Internet watchers have now publicly stated that while the DDoS attacks against Spamhaus could theoretically have led to slowdowns, they've seen no evidence that this occurred for general Internet users. And while some users may have noticed a slowdown, the undersea cable cuts discovered by Egyptian sailors had more of an impact than the DDoS."
Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope 115
First time accepted submitter szotz writes "The National Ignition Facility has one foot in national defense and another in the future of commercial energy generation. That makes understanding the basic justification for the facility, which boasts the world's most powerful laser system, more than a little tricky. This article in IEEE Spectrum looks at NIF's recent missed deadline, what scientists think it will take for the facility to live up to its middle name, and all of the controversy and uncertainty that comes from a project that aspires to jumpstart commercial fusion energy but that also does a lot of classified work. NIF's national defense work is often glossed over in the press. This article pulls in some more detail and, in some cases, some very serious criticism. Physicist Richard Garwin, one of the designers of the hydrogen bomb, doesn't mince words. When it comes to nuclear weapons, he says in the article, '[NIF] has no relevance at all to primaries. It doesn't do a good job of mimicking secondaries...it validates the codes in regions that are not relevant to nuclear weapons.'"
Comment left:WASD right:click! (Score 1) 260
I am right-handed, but I type and use WASD & shortcuts in games using mostly left hand. Right hand is for the mouse + right 1/3 of the keyboard.
