Comment Re:TSA and DHS (Score 1) 435
Or Congress could vote to cut TSA's funding to a buck a year.
Comment Re:My WRT54G v2 is still in full service (Score 1) 118
Am I the only one who still has his WRT54G v2 in full service? Its no longer a router, just an wireless access point and it runs dd-wrt. Nevertheless, it is probably the only 9 year old device still in active duty without any problems.
Up until 2008 or thereabouts when I upgraded from DSL to FiOS and 10Mbps ethernet became a bottleneck, my home firewall was running on a Sun SPARCstation LX c.1992. Never gave me any problems and it was probably 16 years old when I retired it. Haven't powered it up since then but I suspect it would still run.
Comment Not the first plastic computer processor (Score 2) 73
I had one of these back in the 1960's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
Comment Re:Very Cool (Score 1) 334
Hope the electrical parts aren't made by Lucas...
Comment Re:This decision has now been overturned (Score 1) 352
As a Yank maybe I'm not up on the intricacies of Australian jurisprudence but I am curious as to how an individual (even if he/she is the AG) can repeal a law all by his/her self? Don't you guys have courts or parliament or balance of power or something like that?
Modded Xbox Bans Prompt EFF Warning About Terms of Service 254
Last month we discussed news that Microsoft had banned hundreds of thousands of Xbox users for using modified consoles. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has now pointed to this round of bans as a prime example of the power given to providers of online services through 'Terms of Service' and other usage agreements.
"No matter how much we rely on them to get on with our everyday lives, access to online services — like email, social networking sites, and (wait for it) online gaming — can never be guaranteed. ... he who writes the TOS makes the rules, and when it comes to enforcing them, the service provider often behaves as though it is also the judge, jury and executioner. ... While the mass ban provides a useful illustration of their danger, these terms can be found in nearly all TOS agreements for all kinds of services. There have been virtually no legal challenges to these kinds of arbitrary termination clauses, but we imagine this will be a growth area for lawyers."
Comment Re:Keeping in touch downrange (Score 2, Interesting) 176
Worst case, setup your stateside box to sit on port 80, which is NEVER entirely blocked.
May not be blocked from the far side but if you happen to have Verizon as your ISP, they have been blocking port 80 from getting to your stateside box for years, purportedly as an anti-spam mechanism. 443 goes through ok as does 8080. Good luck and stay safe.
