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Comment Pre-judged? (Score 1) 60

"In the final stage, 'all remaining issues will be tried, including damages and willfulness.'"

Wouldn't using the word 'wilfulness' suggest he already thinks Google did something wrong?
You or I may or may not think that, but a judge should try to remain neutral. Maybe a 'if needed be' or some such context was cut out of the quote.

Comment Re:Pooling Opinions... (Score 2) 189

Well one interesting configuration is to use untrustable notaries (or notaries using untrustable sources), such PRC, DHS, FSB, etc. If any one is trying to trick you with a fake certificate for a MITM attacks, the others are not likely to agree that the certificate is genuine. Unless you believe such state powers would co-operate on getting at your encrypted sessions.

Submission + - Marlinspike's solution to the SSL CA problem (convergence.io)

Trevelyan writes: In his Blackhat talk on the past and future of SSL (you can find the video and slide if you really try, or just buy them from BH) Moxie Marlinspike explains the problems of SSL today, and the history of how it came to be so. He then goes on to not only propose a soution, but he's implemented it as well: Convergence, it'll let you turn off all those untrustable CAs in you browser and still safely use HTTPS. It even works with self-signed certificates. You still need to trust someone, but not forever like CAs. The system has 'Notaries', which you can ask anonymously for their view on a certificates authenticity. You can pool Notaries for a consensus, and add/remove them at any time.

Comment Thunderbolt == Docking port (Score 1) 207

Apple hasn't marketed as such, as least not in this neck of the woods, but Thunderbolt is clearly a Docking port. The first one ever on a MacBook!! (That I know of)

Take a look at their new Thunderbolt display. With one cable connection, your MacBook gets network, sound, firewire, USB and power(!), all via your external Display. No need to attach a second cable.

Considering that Thunderbolt already is a DisplayPort connection, I don't see the benefit of connection a second graphics card over the PCI-e connection. Some says to have a more powerfull card, over 4x PCIs 2.0?, for games. However lots of suppliers have hard PCexpress (also on MacBooks) GFX cards, but none work with Macs because Apple wont play fair with regards to GFX drivers in OS X.

In the end, to be honest, I find it far more exciting that I can finally replace the 8 cables that I have to plug into my MacBook with just one.

Comment Re:Initial unlocked numbers a bit surprising (Score 1) 274

A lot of European countries have Laws that say the phone must be unlocked after the initial contract is finished.

My GF had a very old little Nokia feature phone, which she recently decided she wanted to give to her parents. The operator had to send it off and post it back to her, because its one of those Nokias that have no unlock code. However to her it was all free, regardless of her being a customer or not!

AFAIK in Italy your not allowed to sell locked phones. A lot of the unlocked iPhones in the EU come from Italy.

Comment Re:Summary is false (Score 1) 380

I have IPv6 through my WRT610N too. However I'm not sure if that is a feature from cisco, or a by-product of the linux kernel used in the official firmware.

One thing of note is the complete lack of IPv6 options in the user interface. Also as far as I can tell the various services in the router do not support IPv6 either (can you access the web interface via IPv6?).

I do have serial access, but I have check to see if netfilters is configured for ipv6. My guess is no, so your/my IPv6 access is unfiltered/unprotected.

So I am left with my original thought, it's not an intended nor a supported feature. Just an accident due to the linux kernel.
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Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages 211

alphadogg writes "The [Facebook Profile] changes include a clustered listing of biographical information under the user name at the top of the page, including such details as the person's job, hometown, relationship status, where they went to college, what languages they speak and birthdate. Beneath that will appear a set of the five most recent photos that a user allows to be posted at their profile page." The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to anger.

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