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Comment Re:Amazing that they think it's theirs to give awa (Score 0) 57

well, not quite. any country can to a point control how other parts seem when viewed from their land.

however, it seems that US supporting multi stake is more like US opposing a new more level multi stake arrangement through some other entitity(un is a multi stake entity for example). US would rather that all the stakes are US stakes..

Comment Re:Web server for printing... (Score 1) 178

who said the web protocols aren't "totally custom" in relation to other web protocols for sending a file to print?

now there's standards like bluetooth for printing that don't need driver, but suck for various reasons.

even still, the only time anyone I knew personally printed anything from a mobile device was over 10 years ago and that was in an electronics store, printing goatse over bluetooth to a printer on display.

so I don't really get it how mobile is the norm, most people print from some pc or another still - even connecting their mobile device to said pc to move the data they want to be printed.. because fck, whoever printed something as a message to a printer thats sitting at their home or girlfriends home? yet that's what is in the stupid adverts.

now let me tell you what is the real BREAKTHROUGH inkjet printing technology: hacked printheads with tubes for ink coming from external tanks. shit cheap per page! I can keep printing all day every day and it costs pennies! well it costs almost just the paper. and here in asia that sems to be the norm, everyone who buys an inkjet buys it with a hacked cart and ink reservoirs.

Comment Re:Hoax (Score 1) 986

material science seems to be like spaghetti to the wall sometimes - but even the guys at 3m have some direction they're going to.

but other inventions, like the television - certainly not.

now. can the guy make another and can it be put to producing electricity? should be proof enough. if not, why the hell not?

Comment Re:Hype and Misdirection (Score 1) 140

"Hopefully one day a technically literate author will write a book which describes Telsa's work, but without all the hype and misdirection."

that would be really, really nice. all the tesla stuff lately seems laced so heavily with conspiracy and free energy shit that it's not enjoyable to read at all. youtube is filled with tesla free energy devices of which none work and plenty aren't even based on his work - they just put the title there for it to be cool

Comment Re:Hoax (Score 3, Insightful) 986

it did affect it somewhat. not by too much, but at least a lot of people knew that Uri was just full of shit.

and nowadays Uri has gone to saying that he is not psychic or posses supernatural powers - though it took a long time after the expose to end up at that.

and I don't get whats so unscientific about randis skepticism, somehow his critics always believe in some sort of another magic, be it tesla-magic, spirit-magic or whatever(and consequently one conspiracy or another) - and always like "oh but his real psychic/inventor I know doesn't need the money"(but somehow they always need money from normal schlobs/investors).

Comment Re: Intel Common Core i7 (Score 0) 239

more probable that the textbook just fudged something. if it was about significant figures, the question should have stated that (and used different notation, but I'm unsure of how the american schooling teaches on that. then again, it's possible that it was "biblical math on meth" where anything goes if it's for gods word).

-lassi

Comment just change mac... (Score 1) 429

just change the mac.. once you change it often enough, all the ip's from the dhcp pool are banned and then nobody gets to use use the network.

I mean, if you want to bw limit, why not just run limit per user or some other network shaping like that. and does he really expect the public wifi operators to install this?

and furthermore, why the fuck would you need to hack or steal password for a PUBLIC FUCKING WIFI? it's public. deal with it - how about if you're a nomadic hippie worker, you just BUY PROPER NETWORK access when you need it, nomadic worker doesn't need equate to a freebie leecher worker you know. there's for pay hotspots all around most asian countries - or you can buy 3g for rather cheap.

Comment Re:Alternative headline (Score 1) 429

I'm not sure (from the short blurb) if it's the network operator who needs to run this or not. if it's the operators choice, then ok. if it just floods them on the wifi or some shit like that, then using the tool would be arguably illegal in most countries.

plenty of routers have p2p bw restrictions built in though? so what the guy is really annoyed about is that people don't configure such things to their public access wifi's.

never mind that it's youtube etc that clog the public wifis far more often - and is he going to develop a vpn, ssh and https banhammer tool next...

Comment No, they're hiring stupid people. (Score 1) 580

They obviously want to hire people who are too stupid to understand what the questions are asking and/or too stupid to know what is legit and what is not.

Because those skills will come handy later, when they're testifying in congress that they did not use any illegal techniques in obtaining or fabrication evidence - or when creating crime that they later solved.

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