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Comment Re:IPv6 as a help? (Score 1) 135

I predict that we will see a lot of NAT with IPv6, just because ISPs want to make static IP addresses more expensive. You are correct however, that in any sane set-up it is very rare and generally not needed.

This makes no sense. One of the selling points of IPv6 is there is so much address space, not only can every single human being have their own address.. every device they own, including their car, their 20 phones and 50 computers and 2 fridges and microwave oven can all have their own address too.

Comment Re:Just cheating themselves (Score 1) 438

This isn't true at all. Cheaters get better grades than many fair students. The cheaters then get better jobs and make more money, while the fair students may miss out.

Bzzzt. Sorry, this is wrong. This is not the fault of the cheaters/non-cheaters in education systems. This is the fault of recruiters and who ever interviews candidates for a position. Don't you like, do any kind of aptitude testing on a potential new employee? Would weed out, I'd think at least, the cheaters who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground, from those who actually know what they learned.

Sorry, don't buy this. Employers need to better test their applicants to ensure competence for the job being offered.

There's also the class of 'cheaters' who are just really smart people and think the education system is bullshit and they're rather spend their time doing something else, so they cheat to pass tests. They're probably more capable than those who don't cheat at all.

Comment Re:Just cheating themselves (Score 1) 438

Imagine, a work force of people who will lie and cheat because they feel entitled to.

I think you just described a majority of business relationships in the United States. Ever watch any George Carlin? Business people lie and cheat and fuck each other over everyday. Nothing new here. Also doesn't really have much to do with cheaters. We already have that workforce, it's all around you.

Comment Re:Unless Yes (Score 1) 706

Uh err... care to connect the dots on how regulation of the nature *WE WANT* equals government control the internet? I never advocated for that, I don't think Obama did either. I don't think ANYONE (except maybe the government and even that is questionable in my mind) is advocating that any one entity control the internet.

I thought we were talking about regulating internet providers so they cant run parallel businesses that create conflicts of internet (like ISP's being content providers.)

Next time, try less swear words and insults and provide more information.

Comment Re:Goodbye TOR and the like (Score 1) 706

Wait what? What does government regulation have to do with encrypted comms over the internet? If fact, unless I'm misunderstand, Obama is advocating what a lot of us have been wanting for years.. stripping internet providers of their ancillary businesses of competing with content providers, wanting to shut out 3rd party content in favor of internally created and promoted content?

Enlighten me as to how this even remotely associated with what we do with those pipes, especially if ISP's were reclassified as common carriers, and barred from competing with outside content providers due to conflict of interest? Am I just out in fantasy land believing this right here is what the whole fight is about?

Comment I blame the sysadmins/IT staff (Score 1) 61

They need to be taking proactive steps to securing their systems not only against outside threats, but from the idiots using their systems/networks. Isn't this like common knowledge, your users are your worst enemy?

Oh wait, its the guberment. All bets are all, I guess. Common sense need not apply.

Comment Just cheating themselves (Score 4, Insightful) 438

Sadly, most people learn this little gem of wisdom too late in life. Cheating only harms the cheater. It may mildly harm those who employ these people, but it doesn't take long for others to see despite your piece of paper, you're just an idiot who knows nothing, when you cheat.

So I say, if that's what they want to do, let 'em. It'll bite them in the butt soon enough.

Comment Re:Typical muslims (Score 1) 389

"Since early December we have effectively witnessed a cleansing of the majority of the Muslim population in western CAR, tens of thousands of them have left the country, the second refugee outflow of the current crisis, and most of those remaining are under permanent threat."

This is a very important distinction to make. They left the country. If the shoe were on the other foot, they'd all been executed just as we're seeing ISIS doing in Iraq and Syria with non-muslims. Convert or die. I applaud any country eradicating Islam. It has no place in the modern world.

Comment Re:Typical muslims (Score 1) 389

Thank you for demonstrating your blatant racism and ignorance.

Thank you for demonstrating the same. It's not racism to blanket hate Muslims. They're not a race, it's a religion. I don't know what you call someone who hates Muslims. I see the term Islamaphobe tossed about here and there, but that more infers fear of muslims, rather that hatred. Personally, I hate all religions. But I have a special place of hatred for Muslims because of how violent they are as a group, currently. If any other religions were this violent, I'd hate them too, but they aren't, at the moment.

Comment Re:I thought the DMCA is American Law (Score 1) 389

There is no treaty that requires EU countries to respond to DMCA requests.

True. But see, Google is a US company and required to comply with US law. So I think it basically means, if someone DMCA's your junk on Youtube, and, like the guy in the article, you need to respond or get your stuff taken down. He was by no means required to respond, he could have shrugged and made a new account and reuploaded everything, but he choose to respond. His call.

I think what you were hoping for is that Youtube wouldn't comply with US law outside the US. Bzzzzzt. Wrong.

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