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Comment Re:A programmer arrested for © infringement? (Score 1) 188

once involved in a criminal conspiracy, which I am sure the Feds deem MegaUpload is, you are liable for all use of that which you created, even a program you coded if it was used for illicit purposes.

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There, you just participated in a web forum used for illicit purposes, and so are also guilty of criminal copyright infringement and criminal conspiracy.

Hope to see you in cell block six for the traditional fuck-beta gathering!

Comment Re:bank I use ... allows (weak passwords) (Score 1) 271

Other software vendors can even leverage Google's app for their own products (One example I know is Guild Wars 2 can use Google's app for 2 factor on your game account)

That's because Google Authenticator app is nothing more than a bog standard RFC6238 TOTP client.
It's an open standard with many server and client implementations.

My home Debian server uses the TOTP PAM module to require two-factor auth for OpenSSH, and I use Google's Authenticator app as my main client, with a Yubico hardware token as a backup.

Other than Google creating their app, Google has NO other involvement in my authentication process.
I run my own PKI "in house", so no need to even use Google services to avail yourself of their (mighty nice IMHO) TOTP client.

Comment Whiney copyright holders (Score 1) 227

Just remember this next you attempt to complain about your works being pirated.
It isn't OUR doing, you have only the government to blame.

If you refuse to pay for copyright protection for 70 years after your death, then don't bitch when I say my check for your work won't clear for 70 years after your death either.

Comment Re:Too Late Really (Score 3, Informative) 253

Xamarian Mono or it's predecessor Ximian Mono. This is both a good and bad thing because while they're releasing the code, why aren't they working with Xamarian since they've already got a cross platform .NET environment?

An interview with Miguel De Icaza (creator of Mono and co-founder of Xamarin) on that very question:
Microsoft .NET released from its Windows chains... but what ABOUT MONO?

Comment Re:its not about the ring, its just a lesson. (Score 1) 591

This isn't teaching kids to fear imaginary threats, it is teaching that threatening people, whether the threat is credible or not, is highly inappropriate, and won't be tolerated.

I have interpreted your entire comment as an inappropriate threat against my life.

I demand you are imprisoned for life to prevent you from murdering me followed by mass-murdering trillions of other people, as that is the natural progression for this sort of thing.

So will you follow your own "morals" and turn yourself in to prison? Or are you just another hypocrite you wants zero tolerance applied to everyone BUT you?

Comment Re:So what's the real story here? (Score 3, Interesting) 145

If the seller doesn't agree to meet at the stationhouse, isn't that a person the police should be investigating?

I certainly hope not!

Before seeing this article, I personally would have assumed meeting at the station house would put ourselves in the way of police officers with other important things to do, perhaps even things like saving lives, for what basically boils down to a simple craigslist purchase.

If someone else would have suggested it I would certainly be offering up other safe options to go with first, only choosing this one if literally no other options were available to not meet alone, and even then I would still feel bad for being in the way.

Now sure if I was to shoot down ALL suggestions for safe meetings, then that would and probably should be seen as shady as hell. But offering tried and true alternatives first is not something I feel should earn deeper investigation by the police or any other government agency.

"Do you have a friend or three that can come along? How about we meet at the Cinibun in blahblah mall? Or anywhere else closer to you that's in public and has a lot of people and cameras around? The police probably have lives to save and stuff, would you at least three-way call them first and ask if it's OK?"

Personally I see offering multiple ways to help reassure the other party, while also having my only one request for similar reassurance being denied, as the questionable act. Still not "investigated by the police or feds" level of questionable of course, but enough to raise my "I don't want to deal with an overly demanding buyer" counter, especially if there are other buyers in line.

Comment Re:This is no surprise... (Score 4, Informative) 288

The core virtualbox is open source and free, but the guest tools extension pack is closed and commercial. Under restrictive use cases you are allowed to install the guest tools for personal use for yourself and not need to pay for a license. But even so much as installing it for someone else is a license violation and Oracle expects you to pay for that.

No guest tools extensions means you have no drivers for the guest VM, no shared folders, no mouse/window integration, no accelerated 2d or 3d graphics nor resolutions over 1024x768 vesa.

Whom ever installs the guest tools extension is the ONLY person legally allowed to run that copy of virtualbox afterwards (following the legal agreement when you downloaded it at least.)
If you install virtualbox and the guest extensions on a PC for your mom, mom isn't licensed to run it and Oracle wants a paid license in that case.
Installing virtualbox via scripts including the guest extensions requires a license for each install, even if you are the one using a copy.
(Academic use is somewhat excluded last I saw, but not being in academia I don't know any of those details)

There is an open source version of the guest tools, at least for Linux guests (maybe others by now.)
I'm not sure what features it lacks or differences in the drivers, but they are made by a different development team unrelated to sun/oracle.

Comment Re:Does It Matter? (Score 1) 288

Are there some other core VirtualBox features I'm not aware of that keep people pinned to it?

It's the only way to virtualize OS/2 Warp as of six months ago and very likely to this moment.

(You didn't specify how many people a "core feature" must be useful to - although you would likely be shocked at the number of people who do just this)

Comment Re:Windows Phone (Score 1) 111

...or you can just use a Windows Phone and disable the advertising ID as part of the OS in the Settings menu.

Or you could read at the very least the one sentence title of the story.

Verizon inserts the cookie, long after the traffic has left your phone and your phone has any ability to do shit all about it.

The only thing your phone could do or be effected by is if it also added a cookie with the same header name, in which case Verizon deletes your data and replaces it with their own.

It should be a requirement that you can read before you are allowed to write and post...

Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 86

Missing from the summary: THEY HAVE SOFTWARE INSTALLED ON THE VICTIM LAPTOP that modules the CPU usage.
You don't need any fancy equipment, any AM radio will do.

That reminds me of the Altair 8800 and what some call the machines first program that actually "did something", which ran various lengths of different timing loops in the CPU which had the effect of playing Fool on the Hill as RF interference on an AM radio placed near by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Can someone explainn (Score 1) 165

It seems the sensible solution is to mount the telescope to the camera all self-contained on/in the drone.

I can then pilot the drone a sizable distance away from me and closer to you, but park the drone the *500m away from you so that you are in view of its telescope yet still far enough away so the sound mixes with the normal background environment.

I'd imagine one would want the telescope camera to be in addition to any normal cameras, as the former is more for spying and less for navigating.

* I'm not familiar with the current state of the art in telescope optics - that 500m figure came from a parent post
I'm also not familiar with such a telescopes weight and am assuming it would still be on the heavier side and so needing a more powerful and thus loud drone to carry it. The lighter the telescope would be, the quieter of a drone that can be used.

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