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Comment Re:Self-signed certs have bad cost:benefit for Goo (Score 4, Informative) 299

Sorry, but it isn't. MITM means the man in the middle pretends to be the server when you talk to him, then pretends to be you when the server talks to him. He then stands in the middle, encrypting to you, encrypting to the server, pretending to be both.

Check out this video for the video that finally caused me to "get" it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QnD2c4Xovk

Comment Re:We got them beat in Canada (Score 1) 119

Sadly, I know someone who *DID* walk uphill to and from school. Split custody with parents. His mother lived downhill from the school, his father uphill. In the morning, he would walk from his mother's house to the school, uphill. In the afternoon his mother worked, so he would walk home to his father's house, uphill from school. His mother would pick him up at his father's house and bring him home at night. He always had shoes though =)

Comment Re:Umm (Score 2) 510

Those drives were hit with some sort of power issue. Even same batch of drives it's way too close together for manufacturing flaw. Congrats on getting the data off quickly though.

Comment Re:What's the value here? (Score 2) 698

You have valid points on some of these, but I won't give you Gitmo. There are clauses in funding for Gitmo in the budget that say "Money can not be used to transfer prisoners from here". There is no funding to close Gitmo, so they can't close Gitmo. That funding comes through congress. After fighting to the edge of default a budget was passed that no one liked. Obama has tried multiple times to close Gitmo.

Comment Re:Guilty until proven innocent, as usual (Score 3, Informative) 72

Actually, making a false claim is considered a perjury, but that clause is almost never enforced.

Sadly, that is a part often mis-read by people. The DMCA requires a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Meaning, you say (not under penalty of perjury) that the information in the notification is accurate, then also say (under penalty of perjury) that you have the rights to send DMCA notices for your client.

If you're sending notices proporting that you represent MGM but you don't actually represent MGM, you're in trouble. If you *DO* represent MGM, but are wrong about the copyright violation, there is no perjury.

Comment Re:If $3000 is the societal cost to you not (Score 1) 2416

In this case hiring more cooks means burning more coal/natural gas/oil or building more nuclear. I'm all for doing that if there was no downside, but frankly, there is a downside (I'm for building new nuclear plants... even in my back yard since I get all my power from Ginna) to all those extra emmisions.

So my real question is why not do both? Build more and save energy. It is the responsible thing... more supply, less demand == good prices.

Comment Re:If $3000 is the societal cost to you not (Score 0) 2416

Wrong. Lets take Lightbulbs: The electrical savings of switching from incandescent to CFL is non-trivial. By removing that much power usage from the grid we reduce the national power usage. Our grid is already bursting at the seams, by using less power we have less strain on the grid. Upgrades to the grid are certainly needed, but cutting off excess use is the same. Conversely, if everyone is using more gasoline then supplies run out faster, prices go up, not just for him, but for the guy using the hybrid too.

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