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  • On the post: Why Voting For COICA Is A Vote For Censorship

    marak ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2010 @ 10:32pm

    Stupid law, as mentioned above wont work(as peeps will just start using work arounds for any blacklist.) And yay, mike accidently double posted, i dont feel so bad now when i do that :P

  • On the post: Australia Says No Warrants Necessary If Law Enforcement Thinks You're A Terrorist

    marak ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2010 @ 12:59pm

    Great so when me and my mates stand outside the city loop stations handing out flyers about how to get around the new filter, their going to call me a terrorist :s

    remember folks you heard it here first, im not a damn terrorist!

    And fentex, yeah we dont have one, damnit.

    Whats my country coming to, warrentless search's, a badly designed NBN with a mandatory filter that reduces speed and a blacklist thats mostly grey :S

  • On the post: How Warner Bros. Should Have Responded To Harry Potter Leak

    marak ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2010 @ 12:56pm

    Yup ill put my 5 cents in the "Advertising stunt" basket. Ive never seen a "first 36 minutes!" on a tracker yet haha.

  • On the post: Cooks Source 'Apology' Really A Rant Blaming The Woman It Copied For Daring To Tell People

    marak ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2010 @ 12:53pm

    What an inflated sense of entitlement! So basicly if we cannot handle our own workload, any mistakes we make are our own? Not because were not suited to the job at hand, but because everyone else makes things hard.

    Boo-freaking-who.

    God if she thinks writing a magazine about chefs is hard, then "Hey love, try being one for a few years!"

  • On the post: The Day The WSJ Attributed My Quote To Someone Else

    marak ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2010 @ 12:48pm

    Well if you get that warm and fuzzy feeling like i do when i get quoted on here, i guess that counts as important mike!

    Im surprised they emailed you, id say its a start at least, their paying a little more attention to detail now.

  • On the post: Comcast Buying NBCU Will Lead To Higher Prices… But Is That Really A Bad Thing?

    marak ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2010 @ 01:05pm

    A little to the left of this topic but its been bugging me. Here in aus we have whats called a VISP(virtual isp), for example i can rent bandwidth/connections off an existing supplier(or even isp with extra bandwidth) and rent that out to consumers at a fairly decent rate.

    Surely you can do something similar over there - i just asked my isp who's supplying their bandwidth and they told me, then i contacted that company and voilla, im basicly ready to start it with me and a few mates.

  • On the post: Comcast Buying NBCU Will Lead To Higher Prices… But Is That Really A Bad Thing?

    marak ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2010 @ 11:18pm

    Re:

    "I know you sometimes have to burn the village to save it. I just don't want to be in the hut that's on fire."

    A) Love that quote at the end

    B) This is going to be interesting to see what the end results are.

  • On the post: ACTA Negotiations Are 'Done'… But Negotiators Still Getting Together For A 'Legal Scrub'

    marak ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2010 @ 02:14pm

    Is it wrong to pray to the god of technology to have their aircraft fall out of the sky?

  • On the post: 30 Months In Prison For Denial Of Service Hit On Politicians' Websites

    marak ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2010 @ 01:00pm

    Re: You're missing the point

    re: Flack's
    "Any denial of service should be prosecuted and punished. If the attacker doesn't like a politician today he may not like a bank or your hospital or city mayor tomorrow.

    DoA at a bank could prevent people from getting access to their money when they need to eat or pay a mortgage and avoid late fees/foreclosure. And certainly we can think of medical systems that supply life critical information OK for him to DoA? Is it OK if he attacks your town's traffic systems causing hours of delays, pollution and emergency access?

    Punishment should be sever so that attackers won't say "It was just a harmless joke or a lark." Peoples lives, livelihoods, and safety are sometimes the unanticipated consequences of those DoA masking as pranks.

    DoA is an intentional crime. The manslaughter mentioned above is sad, but mainly punishment for negligence (We don't know all the circumstances obviously - and there is unfairness in sentencing out there.)

    If a DoA attack on a city or hospital causes people to die is that when you want to increase the penalty?
    "

    Are you nuts?

    Dos a bank - they should be smart enough to have internal systems in place for this, switching ips to the next one(while temp banning the high freq incoming for 30 mins).

    Dos a hospital - Since when is the equipment accessable over the internet? At the very least they should be running multiple networks, with a few physically seperated.

    Dos traffic lights - Again, if not on a seperate system - why not?

    To stop people from using their money your attempting to take down all ADSL traffic from the EFTPOS machines - which all have a manual option for when the networks are clogged/down to allow purchases anyway.

    What im saying is all important services are not vunerable to this so stop scare mongering :P

    The guy did take down a university, but again, THEY should have been prepared(if i dont insure my car and i crash into someone, can i blame them as i wasnt prepared?) - my uni site was recently taken down by a ddos, it was back up quickly with a work around(its a tech uni, id hope to hell my lecturers know what their doing).

    30 months for a prank? Glad i dont live over there.

    - Marak

  • On the post: Electrical Shocks To Your Head Can Improve Your Math Skills?

    marak ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2010 @ 12:45pm

    Well ive got a big week coming in programming, might just use that knife to fix that stil-plugged-in-toaster :P

  • On the post: If You Discover A Privacy Data Breach, You Probably Shouldn't Wait Three Months To Tell Users

    marak ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2010 @ 05:24am

    You too for the low price of $1.56 can also give out anyones personal info. Call now special offer.

    And if you order in the next 15 minutes, you can get a double cd - yes 24 songs - for the bargain price of $1.5M

    Where can i sign up?

  • On the post: $1,595 To Talk With The FCC About Telco Policy? Lobbyists Welcome; Average Citizens… Not So Much

    marak ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2010 @ 02:23pm

    Hey ill kick in a buck and with the way the aussie dollars going, it will only cost me 97 cents!

  • On the post: Apple Tells Labels, Unilaterally, That It's Increasing Song Previews To 90 Seconds

    marak ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2010 @ 02:06pm

    Re: Re: "I have altered our deal..."

    Bloody hell only US can view that link o.0 (apparently can search their ''uk'' version of the site but bugger that)

  • On the post: Trademark Law (Once Again) Getting In The Way Of Fan Art

    marak ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2010 @ 02:06pm

    Re: Fun fact...

    Id expand upon your point Transbot9 and say that all fanart(to some degree, even the badly made) acts as a free advertisement. Hell goto any deviantart page, you have a fairly good chance of seeing something thats "fanart" based, and generally of something you've never seen before.

    If it looks interesting wouldnt you want to look up more information?

  • On the post: Pizza Shop Sues Former Employee For 'Stealing' Recipe

    marak ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2010 @ 01:55pm

    Before i became a programmer i worked as a chef for a long time, and the amount of recipies i saw when i moved to a new area, suddenly spring up in competing restaurants was at first surprising.

    But its not the recipe that makes the difference, its the damn chefs(or in this case the cooks). Anyone can make a nice dough that prooves well and bakes quickly with a nice texture, its the quality and standards of making that dough, and the quality of your ingredients, cleanliness of your kitchen that makes the difference.

    And suing over a recipe, damn i should have thought of that, i could have skipped programming and retired :P

  • On the post: Study Says: Citizens In States That Back The Winning Party Search For More Porn After Elections

    marak ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2010 @ 01:44pm

    Re: Re: Question

    Leafed through? its where i get all my best porn! :P

  • On the post: USPTO Not At All Happy About Justice Department Saying Genes Shouldn't Be Patentable

    marak ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2010 @ 10:27pm

    Re:

    Patient Attourney.... Dedicated Professional.

    Wow... just... Wow....

  • On the post: 68,000 Speeding Fines May Need To Be Refunded In Australia Due To Faulty Cameras

    marak ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2010 @ 03:25pm

    Re: Re: 420MPH

    Yeah ive had that, bloody kangaroos getting stuck in the intakes on my small jet/car :P


    The drop bears are worse.....

  • On the post: 68,000 Speeding Fines May Need To Be Refunded In Australia Due To Faulty Cameras

    marak ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2010 @ 03:23pm

    *waits patiently for his letter in the mail with his refunds!*

  • On the post: Reminder: Despite What You May Have Heard, Happy Birthday Should Be In The Public Domain

    marak ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2010 @ 01:58pm

    Hmm well my fiancee's birthday is coming up soon, should i send them a cheque now - for performance of course(were going todo a badly sung cover version) - but their work is important, and i cannot condone artists losing income from me being a dirty pirate.

    /sarcasim (did i REALLY need to put that part in? :P)

    and again, it took TWO people to write this?

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