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Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 275

I'm sorry to have to say this to you like this, but you have no idea what you're talking about.

Sorry but we do know. Whether the equipment you cited supports IPv6, well or otherwise, is irrelevant because 99.999% of the Internet is inaccessible to IPv6 nodes without NAT64 and NAT46.

Anybody who has tried to use IPv6 knows this. IPv6 will never reach more than 0.01% of the Internet without NAT64 and NAT46 and probably NAT66 as well.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 275

NAT works

Everyone knows NAT works because everyone uses NAT, most of us aren't even aware of it. The only people who have a problem with NAT are ILECs like ATT, aggregators like Google, and wirters of trojans, viruses, spambots and other P2P malware. These groups know that access to us and our data would be much easier with NAT out of the way, and they think IPv6 is a way to make this happen. Claims that NAT is harmful only exist because the ATTs and Googles of the world have a lot of money to spend on astroturf.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 275

Upgrade your systems to IPv6 already

Is this a rhetorical question or what? Considering that no equipment currently on the market does IPv4 to IPv6 NAT any IPv6 device would only be able to contact at best 0.001% of the Internet. Give me a break is right, just not a broken Internet. IPv6 is still a long way from being usable.

Comment Wells Fargo harassment as well (Score 5, Informative) 794

Not just Paypal but Wells Fargo as well. When I heard about Paypal and Amazon I went to the wikileaks website to make a donation. Not only was my charge denied but they put a hold on my card! Talk about harassment. It's bad enough when your own government breaks the law, worse when vendors decide to run a protection racket when they disagree with a customer's purchases/donations.

Comment Re:Relax.. Take a deep breath.. (Score 2, Insightful) 347

You cannot "think" yourself out of stress

It's true you can't "think" yourself out of stress but you can meditate on your stress, its effect on your body and your thinking, and come to terms with it in that way. Meditation does not involve thinking i.e., internal dialog, but it does involve taking the time to sit quietly for a half hour or more and just focusing on what exactly the"stress" is. That's the only way to achieve real understanding of it, to come to terms with it, to live with it, and to mitigate its negative effects. It's the same for other types of pain.

If, like most people, you deal with stress by trying not to think about it, by staying busy, by drinking, taking drugs, watching TV, even by exercising (alone) you'll still suffer from it.

If you want to see what meditation is about download a few lectures from audiodharma (to your smartphone or PC) and listen to them while commuting or before bed.

Meditation techniques are even taught in hospitals in the US thanks to unequivocal research showing its beneficial effects. See also books/audiobooks by Jack Kornfield, Lama Surya Das, the Dalai Lama, or Alan Watts among many.

Music

Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? 520

crookedvulture writes "Integrated audio has become a common freebie on motherboards, causing many to question whether there's any need to have a sound card. Tech Report took a closer look at the issue by testing the latest integrated Realtek codec against a couple of sound cards: Asus' $30 Xonar DG and its considerably more expensive $280 Xense cousin. Everything from gaming performance to signal quality is explored, and it's the blind listening tests that prove most revealing. The integrated solution is obviously flawed, and in a bit of a surprise, the cheaper Xonar is the one most preferred. Discrete sound cards certainly have their benefits, and you don't need to spend a lot to get something that sounds a lot better than the average motherboard."
Google

Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? 257

bonch writes "Technology consultant Benjamin Edelman has developed a methodology for determining the existence of a hard-coded bias in Google's search engine which places Google's services at the top of the results page. Searching for a stock ticker places Google Finance at the top along with a price chart, but adding a comma to the end of the query removes the Google link completely. Other variations, such as 'a sore throat' instead of 'sore throat,' removes Google Health from its top position. Queries in other categories provide links to not only Google services but also their preferred partners. Though Google claims it does not bias its results, Edelman cites a 2007 admission from Google's Marissa Mayers that they placed Google Finance at the top of the results page, calling it 'only fair' because they made the search engine. Edelman notes that Google cites its use of unbiased algorithms to dismiss antitrust scrutiny, and he recalls the DOJ's intervention in airlines providing favorable results for their own flights in customer reservation systems they owned."
Security

TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old 1135

3-year-old Mandy Simon started crying when her teddy bear had to go through the X-ray machine at airport security in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was so upset that she refused to go calmly through the metal detector, setting it off twice. Agents then informed her parents that she "must be hand-searched." The subsequent TSA employee pat down of the screaming child was captured by her father, who happens to be a reporter, on his cell phone. The video have left some questioning why better procedures for children aren't in place. I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.
Firefox

Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser 132

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla Labs is working on an experimental add-on which enables video and audio recording in the browser. Anant Narayanan writes on the Mozilla Labs blog, 'The Rainbow add-on for Firefox is an early developer prototype that enables web developers to access local video and audio recording capabilities using just a few lines of JavaScript. The add-on generates files encoded in open formats: Theora (for video) and Vorbis (for audio) in an Ogg container. The resulting files are accessible in DOM using HTML5 File APIs, which may be used to upload them to a server.' Support for live streaming and WebM is planned for a future version of the add-on."

Comment Re:Diesels already do this. (Score 1) 576

* Car-1 gets 27 MPG running gasoline. I pay $3.19 per gallon. $0.12 per mile
  * Car-2 gets 40 MPG running diesel. I pay $3.79 per gallon. $0.09 per mile

Would be nice if that were the sole measure of cost per mile, but it fails to factor-in the cost of higher compression ratios, which A) will experience blow-by earlier than engines with lower rations. When that happens pollution will increase substantially and efficiency will drop until B) the engine gets a ring job, costing big bucks.

Comment Re:Diesels already do this. (Score 1) 576

Diesel's actually not that bad. It gets a bad rap because it's used in a lot of truly awful applications, but it's not much worse than regular gasoline when combusted reasonably efficiently

Efficient or not Diesel exhaust contains a lot of particulate matter. The stuff accumulates in the lungs where it is far more damaging to human health than gasoline's non-particulate components.

Other than that, and the need for high compression ratios Diesel is pretty good. High compression, OTOH, is hard on piston rings and other parts of the drivetrain and kills efficiency when the inevitable early wear starts in. Replacing piston rings is also very expensive.

Google

How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes 1193

bonch writes "Google only pays a 2.4% tax rate using money-funneling techniques known as the 'Double Irish' and the 'Dutch Sandwich,' even though the US corporate income tax is 35%. By using Irish loopholes, money is transferred legally between subsidiaries and ends up in island sanctuaries that have no income tax, giving Google the lowest tax rate amongst its technology peers. Facebook is planning to use the same strategy."
Microsoft

Why Microsoft Is So Scared of OpenOffice 421

GMGruman writes "A recent Microsoft video on OpenOffice is naively seen by some as validating the open source tool. As InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues shows, the video is really a hatchet job on OpenOffice. But why is Microsoft so intent on damaging the FOSS desktop productivity suite, which has just a tiny market share? Rodrigues figured out the real reason by noting who Microsoft quoted to slam OpenOffice: businesses in emerging markets such as Eastern Europe that aren't already so invested in Office licenses and know-how. In other words, the customers Microsoft doesn't have yet and now fears it never will."
The Internet

DoD Study Contradicts Charges Against WikiLeaks 228

Voline writes "Last Summer, after WikiLeaks released 90,000 leaked internal US military documents in their Afghan War Log, Pentagon officials went on a media offensive against WikiLeaks, accusing it of having the 'blood on Its hands' of American soldiers and Afghan collaborators who are named in the documents. The charge has echoed through the mainstream media (and Internet comment threads) ever since. Now, CNN is reporting that after a thorough Pentagon review, 'WikiLeaks did not disclose any sensitive intelligence sources or methods, the Department of Defense concluded.' And, according to an unnamed NATO official, 'there has been no indication' that any Afghans who have collaborated with the NATO occupation have been harmed as a result of the leaks. Will the Pentagon's contradiction of the charges against WikiLeaks get as much play in the media as those original accusations did?"

Comment Re:Check, But Not Mate (Score 1) 342

I'm not an expert on Android internals or anything, but I think this story is being significantly overblown.

Seriously understated... The problem with Oracle and Google is simply licensing. If Google had licensed Java like every other company doing a port like Android perhaps Sun would still be a viable company today. Perhaps it is unfortunate that Sun did not want to litigate, but you can't expect Oracle to drop the same ball.

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