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Comment Re: Why should it be? (Score 1) 225

by cyb97 (#63824254) Attached to: Canadian Prisons Restrict Technology To the 1990s

So again, 27 million population so about the second or third largest state in the republic?

Wouldn't it then be fair to say that they should have a crime rate like Texas or Florida?
Or are you saying that all crime in Florida is directly influenced by being a part of the United states?

If so, consider the EU. Population of 450 million, approx â..." more than the US. With a capital murder rate of about 1/100.000 compared to the US 5point-something/100.000?

EU has about half the area as well... if cramped living conditions also was an argumentâ¦

Comment Re:Lazy ISPs (Score 1) 140

by cyb97 (#63730854) Attached to: AWS To Start Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses

This is not the case you are looking for.

If you have "thousands of servers" you are not on AWS by "accident". If you have thousands of servers with public IPv4 there are other options.

There are also a lot between "a simple static page" and thousands of servers. For scale, thousands of servers are approx 0.1% of AWS (in terms of physical servers). Or 2%+ of a single AWS DC. There aren't many operations at that scale that don't have a department for looking into these very specific OPEX/CAPEX issues every other year.

Comment Re:To put that in perspective (Score 1) 26

The challenge here is the legal standing for this is GDPR. If this sticks in Norway, it will stick through out the whole EU-area. Think Schrems, Austria is also just "one country with a small population"...

Pretty sure Schrems 1&2 ended up costing Facebook much more than 1% of annual profitâ¦
Hardware Hacking

Is It Time For Hacker Scouts? 186

Posted by Soulskill from the earn-a-lightsaber-badge dept.
ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine asks: is it 'Time For Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts 2.0?' What might the future of education be like if it were based on online & earned skill badges, and what could the future of traditional organizations for kids, like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, be like in a very modern, tech-savvy world? Social networks and the maker movement are the perfect intersection of where the kids of today are, but we don't see 'leaderboards' for skills yet; we only see them for video games. Is it time for Hacker Scouts?"
The Internet

Last Available IPv4 Blocks Allocated 312

Posted by Soulskill from the good-thing-i've-still-got-my-y2k-supplies dept.
stoborrobots writes "Following on from APNIC's earlier assessment that they would need to request the last available /8 blocks, they have now been allocated 39/8 and 106/8, triggering ARIN's final distribution of blocks to the RIRs. According to the release, 'APNIC expects normal allocations to continue for a further three to six months.'"

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 112

by cyb97 (#33000706) Attached to: Open Source GSM Cracking Software Released

Or you can pay for it and have it both ways. This is available in quite a few countries where cloned SIMs is a legitimate use case.

Depends on your locality. Around here it is not uncommon for companies to have one number, but several phones - or even people. So you can have the same number on your desktop phone, mobile phone and car phone without having to move sims around or do cumbersome bluetooth magic.
The Gimp

Submission + - GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04 (digitizor.com) 2

Submitted by kai_hiwatari
kai_hiwatari writes: It seems like the Ubuntu developers consider GIMP to be too powerful for a normal desktop user. So they are removing it from the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04. This actually feels like a good reason as most people uses GIMP as a "Paint"-like software.
Robotics

Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man 652

Posted by Soulskill from the forecasting-a-great-toaster-revolt dept.
Strudelkugel writes "The NY Times has an article about a conference during which the potential dangers of machine intelligence were discussed. 'Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society's workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone. Their concern is that further advances could create profound social disruptions and even have dangerous consequences.' The money quote: 'Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years,' Dr. Horvitz said. 'Technologists are replacing religion, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.'"
GUI

Nokia's Maemo Switching To Qt 182

Posted by timothy from the on-the-qt-but-not-very-hush-hush dept.
suka writes "During a keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Nokia's Quim Gil announced that a future release of Maemo is going to be built around Qt. Maemo Harmattan is going to switch away from GTK+ / Hildon, derStandard.at reports from the conference." Michael Pyne also writes with a post describing day one of the conference from a KDE perspective.
Cellphones

AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage 305

Posted by Soulskill from the do-they-know-he-has-explosives dept.
etherlad writes "MythBusters' Adam Savage got a bill charging him $11,000 for 'a few hours' of Web surfing while in Canada, using his AT&T USB Mercury modem. AT&T gave him a quote on the data rate: '.015 cents, or a penny and a half, per kb.' Looks like AT&T didn't learn from Verizon's inability to do math. AT&T is also claiming Savage downloaded over 9 GB, which he calls 'frakking impossible.' Savage's huge following on twitter got him a speedy response by AT&T."
Microsoft

Microsoft Cancels EU Antitrust Hearing 203

Posted by Soulskill from the heck-with-it dept.
bahstid writes "The NY Times reports that Microsoft and the European Commission have canceled the only hearing planned in an antitrust investigation into the company's tying of Internet Explorer into Windows because of a dispute over the attendance of European regulators serving as advisers. As a result, the commission will reach its decision and levy a fine based on written statements from Microsoft and its adversaries. Microsoft decided against the opportunity to give oral evidence in the case after it was unable to persuade the commission to move the meeting, scheduled for June 3rd through 5th, so that it did not conflict with a global antitrust conference in Zurich that draws European antitrust regulators."
Networking

James Bond Villain Data Center 103

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i-expect-you-to-die dept.
jeet writes "Data centers are boring and NOCs are doubly so. But this one sure beats all of them. Found this video of a data center suited for james bond villain on Data Center Knowledge website. The facility is established in a hydrogen bomb safe bunker and has generators used in German submarines. The CEO takes you around and shows some other cool features."

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