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• On the post: Only Hollywood Would Think That This 'Disc To Digital' Program Makes Sense

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 12:23pm

  Re: Re: You missed the best quote from the article

  I preference to having a 'hard copy' of my movies--that way if anything happens to my media server's drives (or cloud account, in your scenario) I've not lost access to the original and can always rebuild.

• On the post: Only Hollywood Would Think That This 'Disc To Digital' Program Makes Sense

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 11:59am

  Re: Re: allowing consumers to convert their libraries ?easily, safely and at reasonable prices.?

  I've had that happen to me~!
  
  It was a 'Windows 95' disc, a legit one, too!

• On the post: Only Hollywood Would Think That This 'Disc To Digital' Program Makes Sense

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 11:30am

  Re: Faster Service

  Then the next person with the same movie doesn't have to wait for the ripping process, just the file copy time...?

• On the post: Attacking The Hacker Hydra: Why FBI's LulzSec Takedown May Backfire

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 11:08am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Technically, anything not happening at this exact moment is "in the past"--like that time I typed up the reply to your post.

• On the post: Attacking The Hacker Hydra: Why FBI's LulzSec Takedown May Backfire

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 10:49am

  Re: and, as such, the arrests are actually only likely to create more such activity, which is the exact opposite of what law enforcement should be seeking to do.

  Another post where I wish there was more than 1 "insightful" button I could push...

• On the post: Misfortune Sucks, But It's Not Google's Responsibility

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 09:46am

  Golden Opportunities

  He's totally missing out on the 'macabre' niche!!
  
  His campsite could become the destination of choice for the gothic/morbid/weird crowd. Throw in a little crime-scene/educational stuff and you could totally get some government/college funded college-kid field trips too!
  
  The guy's got the kind of publicity you simply cannot buy with money--and he's just pissing it away. Sad, really.

• On the post: How The Runaway Success Of A Tiny $25 Computer Could Become A Big Problem For Oppressive Regimes

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 08:42am

  Futures come, futures go.

  "But nowadays you can put a supercomputer on a single chip, so anytime you see more than one chip together in one place, you're looking at significant ware."

  -Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)

• On the post: The Details On How To Elect Futurama's Bender To Whatever Election Is Using Online Voting

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 08:22am

  Re: Open Source the Design and Test Test Test

  Yes!
  
  In short--the cryptographer's dilemma: It is assured that YOU can design an encryption which you cannot break; but that in no way means it's any good.
  
  The only way to know if it's good is to open-source it--feedback from one's peers lays bare all the flaws in your design.
  
  Without that feedback and perspective, you never quite know if you're submitting a shiny polished turd or a shiny flawless diamond.

• On the post: The Details On How To Elect Futurama's Bender To Whatever Election Is Using Online Voting

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 08:01am

  Re: From the paper

  And that's why good coders implement a "you must change your password" protocol on initial default login.

• On the post: Why LulzSec Was Un-Hackable, And Why That's A Good Thing

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 05:43am

  Re: Skillsets

  Yes, but...
  The skills used by hackers of any hot color (mine is brown, for example) are largely the same. A "security expert" needs the same knowledge and skill of infiltration that an infiltrator would use against his facility.

• On the post: File Sharing Moves En Masse To The Darknet; Good Luck Shutting That Down

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 01:57pm

  Re: Re: Re: Stockings?

  Meshnets are presently a logistical nightmare--though I'm sure somebody will come up with an elegant way to fix them soon enough.

• On the post: Why Search Engines Can't Just 'Fix' Search Results The Way The MPAA/RIAA Want

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 11:35am

  Re: Re:

  Yeah, but they'll need like 3.5 dragons to get that many...

• On the post: Paypal Pressured To Play Morality Cop And Forces Smashwords To Censor Authors

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 08:38am

  Old Hat

  ...bankers still run the world, you say?
  
  [yawn] Old news, very old news actually.
  
  Thanks for the modern update on it though.

• On the post: Danish Police Accidentally Censor Over 8,000 Sites As Child Porn… Including Facebook & Google

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 08:14am

  Re: Human Error

  When human error puts unwanted pickles on your hamburger, it's not exactly a big deal.
  
  When human error threatens the livelihood of tens of thousands of people--then it's a big deal.
  
  See, it's not that hard to think logically about this stuff. Try it some time.

• On the post: Danish Police Accidentally Censor Over 8,000 Sites As Child Porn… Including Facebook & Google

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 07:37am

  Re: Due Process...

  I assure you, due process was not a fiction!
  
  It was a historical anachronism--a wonderful concept which died out along with pastoral agrarian societies, enlightened philosophical cultures, and pastel cheeses.
  
  Some things were simply never meant to survive in the harsh, cruel world which we live in.

• On the post: As BPI Tries To Block The Pirate Bay From The UK, Dan Bull Explains Why Musicians Should Block BPI

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 06:30am

  Re: Re: A question for the BPI and RIAA

  Call them "assholes", they hate that.

• On the post: Mobile Carriers Don't Want To Give Up SMS Without A Fight

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 12:48pm

  Transit

  Sure, it's all just data--but some data has stringent requirements--like carrier pigeons, or virgins dressed in gold-gilded togas--there must be some logical, reasonable explanation whey the cellular networks are claiming the farcical nonsense it true. Right...?
  
  
  ;-P

• On the post: TV Networks Gang Up To Sue Aereo; Do Copyright Rules Change Based On The Length Of A Cable?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 11:15am

  Re: I am inching closer to hoisting the main sails

  Come to the dark side, we have cookies.

• On the post: Chipping Away At The First Amendment: New 'Trespassing' Bill Could Be Used To Criminalize Legitimate Protests

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 09:37am

  Re: Unsafe politicos

  If the politician is such a fuck-up that he needs Secret Service protection and to be shielded from the general public should such a person even be in government in any function at all?
  
  Let's remember: the reason we have the right the bare arms is to KEEP THE POLITICIANS SCARED OF US so they'll think twice before screwing the public.

• On the post: Kim Dotcom Gives TV Interview Where He Insists The Charges Against Him Are A Joke

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 08:42am

  Re: Cue the Ironic

  Yep, because I'd never name the picture I've taken of my puppies which I've ironically named "Lord of the Rings" and "The Two Towers" because shiznit like that never happens in real life...

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