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Comment: Re:"So far" (Score 2) 97

by johanw (#43630251) Attached to: Antivirus Firms "Won't Co-operate" With PC-Hacking Dutch Police

The second a security company allows insecurities to exist NOBODY will use their software, nor should they. If a governmental agency wants to monitor its citizens they need to wiretap or do it some other way. It seems governments nowadays think they can do anything...

Well, the story of the Sony rootkit suggests otherwise. And of course, although all kinds of usefull programs like cracks are labeled as "potentially unwanted program", spyware like the Ask.com toolbar or Google Chrome can still pass all virusscanners.

Comment: Decryption order is far more dangerous (Score 2) 114

by johanw (#43618473) Attached to: Dutch Bill Seeks To Give Law Enforcement Hacking Powers
What is missing in the article is that the same hardline minister also put in that law the option for the prosecutor (not even a judge, just a prosecutor with a vested interest in a case) to order a suspect to decrypt encrypted files, punishable by max. 3 years in prison if he does not comply. It remains to be seem what the judges will do with "I forgot", or "I destroyed the keyfile" or "there is no hidden volume". So he leaves the inconvenient "not guilty until proven guilty" and "you have the right to remain silent". This could be overruled by the European court for the human rights but that takes a lot of time.

Comment: Finished software exists (Score 1) 110

by johanw (#43567091) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project?
Contrary to the belief of many managers, sometimes software is just finished. It does what it has to do and adding more functionality is just bloat and changing the UI for change sake results in failures like windows 8. So software that hasn't been updated for some years can just be complete and good as it is.

Comment: Re:Evil Gravity (Score 1) 586

by johanw (#43557023) Attached to: Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say
Europe simply forbids the import of Monsanto-patented food so they can be as cheaply produced as they want, we're not buying them anyway. Farmers who want to export food to the EU should also not use it. Nothing to do with competition. Of course, this is the next propaganda from Monsanto to change the EU rules in the hope that the EU will not act like a democracy. When there would be held a referendum over this matter, Monsanto food would not make a chance. There is a reason the company is also very much against labeling their food as GM food: it knows very well most customers would never buy it, and shops would probably boycot it also due to fear of a bad reputation.

Comment: Re:Discovery and limitations (Score 2) 205

by johanw (#43130893) Attached to: Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson
I don't want look to be trolling, but all this was all already conceivable and known to be possible with the theories we had in the 1970's. Although very interesting things they were not the kind of discoveries that change how we look to nature but mere refining our knowledge of the consequences of theories we already know. The kind of things that learn us something really new, like how to calculate things when both QM and GR become relevant, are still open questions but we assume they have answers.

Comment: What "education" (Score 4, Insightful) 172

by johanw (#43053411) Attached to: Criticism Of Copyright Alert System Mounts
This is exactly the same as other totalitarian regimes did and do to re-"educate" (or to say it plainly, indoctrinate) their citizens with ideological propaganda to support the system. The USSR did it before the wall fell in 1989, and now the megacorps are doing it in the USA. Most Russians were clever enough to see through such propaganda, I'm curious to see if Americans are just as smart.

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