Comment Leave Right Now (Score 0) 710

by SponjWorthy on Sunday December 02, 2007 @10:33PM (#21556337) Attached to: All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'

You and I both know the number of people migrating illegally south to north is at least 1000% greater than north to south across rio bravo. I mean who wakes up in the morning (other than a convicted felon) and thinks to themselves, I think I'm going to swim south today?

I do think that they only intend to create a terror profile for the legal crossings, which seem kind a basakward to me. I don't know... I guess I'm just a north swimming wetback.

Submission + - Comcast violating law by filtering torrents? (cnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @03:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: It's been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that Comcast, like the Great Firewall of China use forged TCP Reset (RST) packets to do the job. While the Chinese government can do what they want, it turns out that Comcast may actually be violating criminal impersonation statues in states around the country. Simply put, while it's legal to block traffic on your network, forging data to and from customers is a big no-no.

Feed San Francisco opens first commercial biodiesel station (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @07:32PM

Hybrid B20 fuel can be used in most diesel vehicles without engine modification.
Photos: San Francisco fuels up on biodiesel

Journal Journal: Sudo for Windows

Journal by robin850 on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @01:52PM

Bring *nix security to Windows! Stop running Windows as "administrator" or even "power user", but yet have the ability to run needed programs with elevated rights. Sudo for Windows. Finally, a way to operate Windows in a "mostly" secure manner. This project allows running as a restricted user but permits running a predefined list of programs with elevated rights. sudowin.sourceforge.net

Feed China Hoping That A Little Marxist Propaganda Will Clean Up The Internet (techdirt.com)

From feed by techdirtfeed on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @01:52PM

At some point, you have to just think that Chinese officials will say anything about the internet and it need not be based in any sort of reality. Earlier this week, of course, China was blaming the internet for youth violence, making the very weak case that since many kids caught doing crimes used the internet, that obviously it was at fault. However, President Hu Jintao is kicking things up a notch. Earlier this year, he suggested that the internet needed to be purified, and now he's provided some details. Apparently the way to purify the internet is to make sure that there's plenty of Marxist and socialist ideas online which will somehow entice people away from the decadent aspects of the internet. He even admits that its propaganda he's talking about. Perhaps it's just a cultural thing, but if it seems like you should be able to support your position with facts rather than admitting it's propaganda.

Feed Rawstudio: A fast and light RAW photo converter (slashdot.org)

From feed by lcfeed on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @01:32PM

Rawstudio is an open source, GTK+-based RAW photo converter. It takes a straightforward approach -- no outside-the-box interface designs, no fancy frills. The result is an easy-to-use application that is stable enough for everyday usage, even though...