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• On the post: FBI Says It Has A Warrant Requirement For Stingray Use; Has Exception Broad Enough To Ensure It Never Needs A Warrant

  

  marak ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2015 @ 01:00pm

  Why do I get the feeling, that the FBI is saying to each other "how dare they question us!", as if the senate was a teacher asking a student for a report on their free play.

• On the post: Latest Trade Agreements Are About The Opposite Of Free Trade: Protectionism For Big Business

  

  marak ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2014 @ 12:41am

  Response to: Anonymous Coward on Dec 30th, 2014 @ 11:46pm

  What do you mean in 20 years?

• On the post: Lessons On Censorship From Syria's Internet Filter Machines

  

  marak ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2014 @ 01:07am

  That was an interesting read, thanks for the crosspost. I do wonder if we switch to https what the next fine grained blocking system is and how it will be implimented.

• On the post: Yet Another Study Shows US Satire Programs Do A Better Job Informing Viewers Than Actual News Outlets

  

  marak ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2014 @ 02:09pm

  So i thought id check out an episode of the colbert report. Except their videos on the site are region locked.
  
  Sigh.
  
  Should i apologise to them for not being in the right location? I cannot understand this sort of lock on this content.

• On the post: Human Rights Groups Ask Senate To Reject Proposed Sex Trafficking Law That Strips Long-Held Protections For Website Owners

  

  marak ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2014 @ 01:06pm

  Umm.
  
  Now no ones ever accused me of being a lawyer, but coyldnt this cover banner and side adds on streaming networks? If thats the case there are a lot of not-work-friendly sites that are in trouble o.0

• On the post: 'Scorpion' Walter O'Brien Finally Tries To Respond To Inconsistencies In His Many Claims

  

  marak ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2014 @ 03:16pm

  Pardon my language but,
  
  Ahem. . .
  
  What a bumbling fucknut.

• On the post: UK Teacher Shows Student's Swimsuit Photo From Facebook To Class Assembly To Teach Her A Lesson

  

  marak ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2014 @ 06:46am

  I dobt really underatand this one. Publicly available image, nob pornographic. Umm. What?
  
  Its available publicly online without circumventing anything and were telling them off for it.
  
  I cant see the problem here. Unless the image is restricted for some reason, in which case perhaps we should attack the uploader photographer too.

• On the post: Moral Panics Of 1878: NY Times Warns People About The Evils Of Thomas Edison's Aerophone

  

  marak ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2014 @ 01:25am

  If they had only known back then to warn us of the dangers to children and from terrorists, we would all still have our hearing today.
  
  Instead we are forced to converse through text! Thankyou very much Mr. Edison!

• On the post: Nine Epic Failures Of Regulating Cryptography

  

  marak ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2014 @ 12:19am

  Didnt the guy accuasd of running the silk road have encryption, which they got around by arresting him while he was logged in?
  
  Seems like crypto averted without too much hastle to me.

• On the post: Cell Phone Manufacturers Offer Carefully Worded Denials To Question Of Whether NSA Can Track Powered-Down Cell Phones

  

  marak ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2013 @ 03:30pm

  Re: Just Test the Damn Things!

  Same no equip avail here for me to test. Anyone got a local hacker station available? (or anyone know of one in japan that they speak english at? lol)

• On the post: Cell Phone Manufacturers Offer Carefully Worded Denials To Question Of Whether NSA Can Track Powered-Down Cell Phones

  

  marak ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2013 @ 03:29pm

  Re:

  Ok so i got a chance and read the other posts (told you i would!), and some people have touched on it, but here's a link (happened to be reading it yesterday, woo for timing).
  
  http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
  
  In short everything related to radio is controlled by a secondary OS, also USB and and GPS (possibly more still need to read the white paper).
  
  Update: quick read through these are also tied to the chip:
  
  Microphone and speakers.
  
  These are closed chips so we dont have any of the source code and have to rely on information given - joy -.-

• On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much

  

  marak ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2013 @ 02:19am

  Love your articles Tim, i dont even have to read the author name to know its you haha.
  
  OT: sigh. just sigh. i think ill walk carefully away from this one.

• On the post: DRM In HTML5: What Is Tim Berners-Lee Thinking?

  

  marak ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2013 @ 04:14pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Is it a standard if it changes every few days?

  note i dont have hulu
  
  step 1. play video in full screen.
  
  step 2. record screen using fraps.
  
  If it can be played on the machine, it can be recorded.
  
  Note 2: even if they put in some sort of detection for recording software(which would break frequently) you could setup a second monitor - which is actually recording software thus having the video stream sent directly to the recording software.

• On the post: White House Petition On Legalizing Unlocking Of Mobile Phones Tries To Pass 100,000 Signature Threshold

  

  marak ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2013 @ 07:26pm

  Response to: Mr. Applegate on Feb 11th, 2013 @ 7:08pm

  I believe he means more than the total Contract price.

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  marak ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 06:50am

  Re: Used to have one

  Did you get postage back btw?

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  marak ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 06:49am

  Re: Honestly?

  Lol if your config file is more than a MB in size you need to start looking closely at what your saving!
  
  (yes yes i know there are some very rare circumstances that it can be bigger, but trying to give this story some reason to have a laugh!)

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  marak ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 06:47am

  Re:

  Infact lets get this straight, using napkin-figures.
  
  What possible settings do you have? lets say, 18 pre-sets(i know more than it has but hey work with me here), plus DPI, scroll rate - can anyone think of more.
  
  so 18 key pre-sets, 2 key combinations, each key is what , worstcase scenario 1kb(this is amazingly over what its required btw).
  
  so were looking at 18KB plus DPI/Scroll, lets be REALLY generous and say there's another 2kb there. 20KB
  
  20KB.
  
  ill let this sink in once more
  
  20KB.
  
  im sorry i have to ONCE MORE
  
  20KB. I honestly think i could program this for under 500 bytes - but i havnt worked with that sort of storage for a long time.
  
  Are they "honestly" trying to say that onboard storage is that expensive that they are required to use an always on connection to support their mouse settings?
  
  You could multiply my own base calculations by 100 and still burst the data upstream in bugger all time, definatly NOT requiring an always on connection.
  
  My next question would be... what are they transmitting to their servers???

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  marak ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 06:33am

  Re: This is just incorrect

  Can you adjust the DPI, macro keys etc(im not being snide actually wondering - if you cant there's a problem, if you can, then the story is over-hyped)

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  marak ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 06:32am

  Re:

  Infact to push that one step further, whats wrong with putting 512k of onboard memory and storing the data internally?
  
  If you cant store all the user data in 512k, you have more problems than you ever imagined!

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  marak ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 06:14am

  Re:

  $80 here in australia, not THAT expensive considering some of the gaming gear ive brought - although after hearing about the drm id definatly expect a discount... say around $70 AUD would seem fitting id think

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