Comment Re:Inflation isn't universal (Score 1) 229
Touche. Point taken.
Comment Unsustainable business plan (Score 2) 229
Comcast guarantees that it won't raise the price
This is an unreasonable expectation given that the US monetary system has inflation. Eventually they would really have to raise prices or end up losing too much money.
Comment Re:Use HTTPS (Score 2) 194
For users of Chrome, you can change your default Google search to use HTTPS by following the instructions here
Submission + - What to expect in OpenBSD 5.0 onwards (blogspot.com)
badger.foo writes: "OpenBSD-current just turned 5.0-beta, providing us a preview of what the upcoming release (slated for November 1st) will look like. Book of PF author Peter Hansteen takes us through the main new features and explains the development process that has consistently turned out high-quality releases on time, every six months for more than a decade."
Comment Let them try (Score 1) 328
It's going to be interesting to see them snoop packets encrypted through a Tor network. The Guardian Project already has a Tor app in the market and are also working on a lot of other cool tools.
Comment Re:Capped. (Score 1) 328
If I could, I would mod you up. I couldn't have said it any better.
Comment Disappointed (Score 1) 190
It is really disappointing to see things like this, which are not even close to being newsworthy, becoming front-page material.
Comment Re:Good Heavens! (Score 2, Informative) 387
And to build upon your Ron Paul quote, Benito Mussolini famously stated that "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Buyer beware.
Comment Re:never gonna work (Score 1) 249
touché
Comment Re:never gonna work (Score 1) 249
Weird since I remember finding my dad's porn on Beta and watching them
Comment Re:I wonder... (Score 1) 263
Exactly. It seems like the beginning (probably more like a continuation given recent years) of a slippery slope. I would think that the person who "owns" the device/plan would be protected in this case, but who knows anymore.
Comment I wonder... (Score 5, Interesting) 263
Would this also lead to your own personal device that an employer pays a portion of the bill to also give them rights to view your records? I bought my device and have an account in my name, but my employer reimburses a portion of the bill to me since I am on call every other week and get pages sent via SMS to the device.
Comment Re:System Registry (Score 1) 583
It's been more of the "bane of Windows" in the respect to manageability within the system. Outside of malware and the like, what do you think causes Windows to slowdown over time?
Submission + - Next-generation Linux file systems (ibm.com) 1
IndioMan writes: Linux continues to innovate in the area of file systems. It supports the largest variety of file systems of any operating system. It also provides cutting-edge file system technology. Two new file systems that are making their way into Linux include the NiLFS(2) log-structured file system and the exofs object-based storage system. Discover the purpose behind these two new file systems and the advantages that they bring.
Submission + - Placebo effect caught in the act in spinal nerves (sciencemag.org)
SerpensV writes: German scientists found direct evidence that spinal cord is involved in the placebo effect. According to "New Scientist":
"The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm. Then they rubbed a cream onto the arm and told the volunteers that it contained a painkiller but in fact it had no active ingredient. Even so, the cream made spinal-cord neural activity linked to pain vanish.
"This type of mechanism has been envisioned for over 40 years for placebo analgesia," says Donald Price, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who was not involved in the new study. "This study provides the most direct test of this mechanism to date.""
"The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm. Then they rubbed a cream onto the arm and told the volunteers that it contained a painkiller but in fact it had no active ingredient. Even so, the cream made spinal-cord neural activity linked to pain vanish.
"This type of mechanism has been envisioned for over 40 years for placebo analgesia," says Donald Price, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who was not involved in the new study. "This study provides the most direct test of this mechanism to date.""
