OK, point looks to already have been made (-1, redundant?)

They weren't careful. A careful strategy, would not raise alarms by taking extraordinarily high wins, and would accept reasonable losses, ie, not fold with a great hand *even if* you know you'll loose.

What you'd want, is to scrape in marginally better positive wins, not great hits, -- and then move on. Heck, just in case, take some more-than-usual losses at some casinos. Build a data model; speadsheet it; look for a reasonably higher ROI, say 50%/annum on the operation, not spectacular wins.

Because the NSA is still going to p0wn your routers. And find a way to get the data home. Done.

Yeah yeah yeah. Guess you don't fly much.

Oh the 32-34 minute flight from BNA-ATL, ATL having really poor WiFi and equally bad 3G/4G/LTE, even in the lounges-- that time below 10K can really matter. It can mean a few minutes of catching up with family, before a long-haul to Amman with no connectivity out of ATL (last month). It can mean, catching and responding to a client email that's *critical* ($10K, $100K on the line...), even deciding to skip the next flight and reschedule to make sure the client is OK. And so on.

May not be your life, but it is some peoples'. And heck, it may seem glamourous to you, but it can be darn stressful. Especially for the people, headed in harm's way, who may not make it back to see their families, or who may not have a chance to communicate for days or weeks.

Nice joke. But you're the horse's petunia, for making it at the expense of people who are doing far more important things than tending your virtual farm, buddy.

Oh c'mon. Your TSA groping is the most fun you have all week. Admit it.

The OP has been reported to the NSA... oh, nevermind, they're already monitoring. See the van nextdoor? :P

>Now, you have regulatory agencies that don't make laws at all but are given jurisdiction to make what is held as equivalent to law in that if you disobey their rules, you can be charged with a crime. This is not appropriate at all and everybody should be outraged that this is happening.

We learned this in Sociology 25 years ago. It happened in the 1930s. There's a great scene in The Great Gatsby, when Rockefeller-equivalent calls up "his" Senator and tries to get something done, still thinking personal influence matters... and some bureaucrat at the Federal Housing Authority of the time, given the power by Congress, blocks him just to spite the big guy.

Think of that, next time you watch the murder / suicide in the movie... trope, for the US.

Ah crap. 15 mod points to burn, and I just commented.

RTFA. Just *READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE.* This goes for you who are reading this, too.

(Mod parent down, as parent ignores something well-explained in the article, among other problems that make this a run-of-the-mill ignorant comment, not "insightful," not to mention a 1M+ UID claiming unique years deep experience out of their rear orifice.... all I can say, is that if Qualcomm paid this guy anything, they paid ...)

> My planes have never had problems.

That's amusing. Kind of like saying, the STS flights I flew on, never had any problems with the O-Rings...

(hat tip to Mr. Feynman...)

>The original Internet wasn't built on trust, it was built by the government for military purposes in the sure and certain knowledge that the only people
>that had the ability to mess with it knew what was likely to happen to them if they did.

Now now. It was built by BBN in co-operation with many at MIT. And like von Braun... they reinterpreted the instructions a bit, didn't they?

Mod parent up. Please link to original if possible. Thanks.

Worth a mention:

http://www.iesc.org/geekcorps

Mod parent up.

It's not an *attack*.

That is all.

At least quadruple your hourly rate-- if not more. Your IP is yours. If they want it, make them pay. Otherwise-- you'll get nothing out of this, they'll exploit you, nothing more. That's all there is to it.

Seriously? No cyber-dildo-dentata option? C'mon, /.! Read Gibson!