* Posts by kain preacher

3832 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2007

Ofcom mulls popular number charge

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US area codes

Um you do know California has added area codes. During the 50's some area codes changed between states.

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minimum

Um drop the requirement for a minimum amount of numbers.

Fake student hacker avoids jail over ID theft scam

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Bail

We have this thing called bail in America. You put up some money or property to ensure that you will show up to court . As long as he was tried in state court, he would of gotten a similar sentence in the US provided this was first time offense.

Ford secrets thief caught red handed with stolen blueprints

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@Terrorist Watch List

Um now were does it say that he was put on a Terrorist Watch List ? It might surprise you that the feds have more than one kind of list .

@How does Xiang become Mike as a nickname? Simple he picked an American sounding name .

Lindsay Lohan dumped from Lovelace movie

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Sobriety

Well they did make her sign a contract that said she will stay sober . Maybey she failed to do so.

'Plastic surgeon' cuffed for in bar boob checks

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here is what she looks like

Here is a pic of of the accused

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/300384#ixzz15jG4yLuL

Google charges feds $25 a head for user surveillance

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Data slurp

So now we know the real reason for google slurping up the wi fi data.

US may disable all in-car mobile phones

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an idiot

Will still be an idiot . These are the same folks that shave and put on make up while driving.

Fox News outs Beatles as 'Manchester's favorite mopheads'

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fox newless

There is nothing funny about Fox News. The people that belive in Fox grows every day and it scars me.

Auction for failed games developer hit by DDoS attack

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re:disgruntled creditors

It could of been done by a creditor so low on the list, that they will not get paid .

Woman charged with stealing nude pics of baseball star

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Realy ?

Cause in California theft is define as taking some thing that does not belong to you. It says nothing about the intent to deprive the owner . in this case the files were consider property and was taken with out permission.

CAL. PEN. CODE § 484 :

Burglar cuffed after crime scene MySpace blunder

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Snow

Florida has lots of snow. Just ask the DEA.

Disguised impostor clears international flight

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Racial profiling

So much for racial profiling.

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Death of flying

Forget the perv-o-tron. In order to fly you will know need to show up 72 hours in advance. What will happen is this. You show up to the air airport, the will you and make you takes shower. A full body cavity search done with an endoscope. After that the will give you nice orange jump suit and show you to a nice room were you will be observed for at least 48 hours. For your safety they will put you in belly chains and shackle you to the other passengers. For your comfort they will put a clothe hood over you while you fly. When you get to your destination they will repeat the process.

Supremes poke Schwarzenegger's 'violent' game ban

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and yet

Every time they try to pass this law , the courts reject it . They have tried in 10 other states and failed in 10 states.

Mac market share slips worldwide

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@ChrisM

Um were in the article is in only quoting US figures . It does compare US figures to the rest of the world and shows that Apple is more popular in the US. So please tell me how you get from this article that they are only using US figures.

Windows 7 fans hold hands out for Halloween service pack fun

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KB976902

Updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 installation software are included in this update. The installation software is the component that handles the installation and the removal of software updates, language packs, optional Windows features, and service packs. This update is necessary to successfully install and to remove any service packs to all versions of Windows 7 and on Windows Server 2008 R2.

http://support.microsoft.com/KB/976902

no black hole update .

Notorious Koobface worm ported to Mac OS X

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@Michael C

"The only way even the tiniest percentage of Mac users might fall for this would be people led to by a scam to a site, that looks like a legit company at a web address that can be spoken"

Really then you need to work at a call center for an ISP. I did. I would get calls from mac users cause they went to a web site , DL a program and it does not work. What happened is they got a pop saying windows has detected a problem.

"OK, admitted, getting a user to click accept is not terribly hard. Getting a Mac user to ckicl accept and ehter a keychains password however, for an app they did explicityly specifiy to download and that does not present a disk image file on their desktop, from a company they never heard of on a site they did not browse to specifically to get this app? VERY high hurdle."

No its not. I'd say 20% of my callers were dumb as a brick. Wait that's insulting a brick. You also have a group of people that are click happy. Will click on any thing . Then there are the class of folks that should only be allowed a type writer. I had call were the customer could not figure out how to do copy and paste. He had never done it before and had being using a mac over 3 years. This person was in their 40's. I just could not believe how clueless people were with computers.

What was more amazing is things that t people expected their ISP to fix, like forgetting their password to their online banking account or help recovering their windows or tool chain password .

Credit card 'flash attack' steals up to $500,000 a month

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@Obvious Response

If an ATM card is being used in a city different from the one it was last used, a withdrawal transaction should require that the account in question be brought .

Um since people don't always live and work in the same city that might be a nussiance .It's not uncommon for me to travel 50 miles from home for pleasure . Now what I have seen happen is if you travel out of state (in the US) your ATM/card the card might work for one transaction but then is shut down. A much better solution is if the card is used more than once at different ATMs in under 30 minutes .

BA slams stupid security checks

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@Underpants !!! #

3. Incident with underpants bomb - no action

WTF

THats cause the want some thing to hold onto when they screw you .

Chinese regime opens Google Earth rival

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@Jeremy 2

Windows has detected a problem. Please click here to get your state sponsored maleware err anit virus software here .

Yeah I can think of plenty reasons why a map software from the Chinese government would need to run in admin mode with UAC turned off. None of them are nice .

Microsoft sings Happy Birthday to Windows 7

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@Avatar of They

"And can I please have speakers AND headphones together"

If you can't do that in win 7, the drivers you are using suck. I have a gigabyte mother board and I have that option right here in the their setup program. Thats not an OS fault. USB is not crashing here . See above about drivers .

European Parliament: If you don't pay, you will pay

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only way

only way I can see this working for the little guy is if you can make a claim anomalously . Then the gov audits the books of the offending party. Then levy a %15 penitentially thats paid to the people that were paid late. Then a %15 fine that goes to the gov. Make it more expensive to pay late then to pay on time .

Power grid scare stories a 'bunch of hooey'

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@ac10:22 GMT

Thank you AC. I got it a bit confused. Oh by the way the US does not have a national grid. We have three major grids which includes parts of Canada and Mexico.

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@Knocking the Grid out of Phase?

Um far as I know its impossible to sync the generators in two different location to the same phase or is hard. The solution is DC interties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie.

High voltage direct current (HVDC) is used to transmit large amounts of power over long distances or for interconnections between asynchronous grids. When electrical energy is required to be transmitted over very long distances, it is more economical to transmit using direct current instead of alternating current. For a long transmission line, the lower losses and reduced construction cost of a DC line can offset the additional cost of converter stations at each end. Also, at high AC voltages, significant (although economically acceptable) amounts of energy are lost due to corona discharge, the capacitance between phases or, in the case of buried cables, between phases and the soil or water in which the cable is buried.

HVDC is also used for long submarine cables because over about 30 km length AC can no longer be applied. In that case special high voltage cables for DC are built. Many submarine cable connections - up to 600 km length - are in use nowadays.

HVDC links are sometimes used to stabilize against control problems with the AC electricity flow. In other words, to transmit AC power as AC when needed in either direction between Seattle and Boston would require the (highly challenging) continuous real-time adjustment of the relative phase of the two electrical grids. With HVDC instead the interconnection would: (1) Convert AC in Seattle into HVDC. (2) Use HVDC for the three thousand miles of cross country transmission. Then (3) convert the HVDC to locally synchronized AC in Boston, and optionally in other cooperating cities along the transmission route. One prominent example of such a transmission line is the Pacific DC Intertie located in the Western United States.

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@must watch what i say

That theory has already been tested. Were I live ATT was about to go on strike. Some how a key fiber ring was cut and about 50,000 people lost phone and internet. Even though the fiber was owned by ATT , it also took out about 8-12 Version cell phone towers in addition to ATTs towers in the area. 911 in the area was shut down too.

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transmission lines

It would be easier to take out a 50kv transmission line . Bye bye switching stations.

Spanish fascist decries Franco Eurovision slur

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@Dave 15

Don't worry mate. When the oil runs out we will head south, starting with Mexico. That way we can get the oil and declare a victory on the war on drugs.

Florida cops tase naked jogger

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@If the cop can't do it, then call in someone competent

The orderlies in mental hospitals deal every day with far harder cases. They don't threaten the patients with violence and they don't shoot them with tasers. (Or at least not usually.)

Thats when they get six or seven people to hold him down and sedate him. The problem with that is if he is on drugs sedating him could kill him, drug interaction. If he is on drugs struggling can lead to a condition called stressed induced heart attack. But most of the times the cops just wrestle the guy to the ground like what the orderlies in the hospital would do.

Last comment. Before every tars th US police with the same brush, I've seem to notice that alot of these cases come from Florida and Texas.

Foxconn faces leaked report of worker abuse, violence

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@Gannon (J.) Dick

"You'll find they violate Chinese Law, but not American Law ... because there isn't any American Law regarding the duration of work."

Um thats not true. there are Federal laws that deal with work duration.

Ubuntu 10.10: date with destiny missed

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Windows re install

If you have to reinstall windows once a month or 6 times in year , you are doing some thing wrong.

Corrupt Akamai worker charged after secrets sting

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@heyrick

Please tell what your definition of in entrapment is. He already once tried to commit a crime and was tipped off. He was willing to commit a crime and was not tricked into doing so.Would you prefer that the cops try and stop a crime or wait till it happens ?

In criminal law, entrapment is constituted by a law enforcement agent inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit. In many jurisdictions, entrapment is a possible defense against criminal liability. However, there is no entrapment where a person is ready and willing to break the law and the Government agents merely provide what appears to be a favorable opportunity for the person to commit the crime.

Youth jailed for not handing over encryption password

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Re:so

"This guy had a 50 char password, and the jury did not believe that he could have forgotten it.

Wtf?"

it's simple, they believe the password is on a sticky note some were, after all thats what they would of done.

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Tempest

Most countries allow the right to hold your tongue, except when it comes to the USA torturing anything out of victim's mouths - truth or otherwise, but in Britain you are practically forced to state your

Really look at the 5th amendment.

Met chief fears Brit cybercrime gangs

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In my day

We had to walk 5 miles up hill in snow , both ways to rob a person. We were not afraid to hit a man either .

BT bids bumpkins to beg for better broadband

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Just a silly yank here .

But it seems like BT is saying f you for living out in the sticks you country asshole. You should live in the city were we barely maintain our net work.

Hugs cable modem with 20mb confection and stupid 250 gig monthly cap.

Copper prices push cable thefts to new high

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California

California took it one step further. When you recycle copper they make your show ID and wait a week to get paid.

Men sentenced to prison for Comcast hijack

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Realy ?

"Running someone over with a car would attract less of a punishment."

Not in most places in the US. you can face up to 4 years in prison and have your driving license revoked in California.

US forces drop dead drug-poison killer mice from helicopters

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Title required

] The words acetaminophen (used in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Iran,[11] Colombia and other Latin American countries) and paracetamol (used elsewhere) both come from chemical names for the compound: para-acetylaminophenol and para-acetylaminophenol. In some contexts, it is simply abbreviated as APAP, for N-acetyl-para-aminophenol.

"Tylenol to be fair is paracetamol and codeine and not just paracetamol. Commonly called co-codamol"

Wrong plain Tylenol has no codeine in it. Tylenol 3, Tylenol 4. Tylenol 5 have codeine.

Indiana judges dismiss girl's nipple exposure appeal

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RE: Basic Biology

"As far as I'm aware, men do not have 'breasts'. (Where 'breasts' is a euphemism for 'mammary glands'.)"

Wrong. Give a man enough estrogen and prolactin he will lactate. Of course breast will grow to .

Bill would let feds block pirate websites worldwide

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they tried

They tried to get the law passed before and failed. What makes you think it will pass this time around. Even G.W. Bushed said he would veto such a law. plus this law would conflict with Fourteenth Amendment.

Prosecutor won't resign over lewd texts to 'hot' crime victim

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disbarment

I see some one losing their lisence to partice law.

Steve Jobs chops student hack down to size

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to the folks bashing her

There are a few facts missing. Did she choose this topic or was it assigned to her? When starting out as journalist you don't always get pick what you want to report on. Was she required to contact apple directly and get info from them? Yes the professor could do some thing silly like that. You know make her get a first hand information rather than just searching the net. It's crazy thing that editors like to have from their reporters . You know having them have first hand sources instead of just taking stuff off a companies website . But I could be wrong .

Software re-sale restricted by US Court of Appeals

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@Bryce Prewitt

I would to see were you got that stats from. The 9th circuit court of appeals statistically gets over turned no more than any other appeals court . People often through out the the 9th circuit gets over turned more then any other out appeals court with out telling you they hear more appeals than any other court .

Adobe urges 'caution' for 64-bit Flash player beta

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Wait

Isn't IE 9 beta ? Testing a beta on beta product makes no sense.

Steve Jobs carried 'ninja throwing stars' in hand luggage

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how is a nunchaku a firearm?

its not and the law the AC is called the dangerous weapon act .

HP sues Hurd to keep secrets from Ellison

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One slight problem

Non compete clause are not valid in California.

VW to eliminate worst road hazard: drivers

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How to eliminate road hazzards

Require 100 hours book work, then 500 hours of driving practice. Create over passes for bikes and pedestrians . Make it a $1000 fine for pedestrians , bicyclist and cars to cross against the light. $1000 fine for pedestrians and bicyclist to cross at non designated spots . Make all moving violations a crime . No trees near the roads.

Sounds bat shit crazy right ? And yet if we did that I believe you will still have morons on the road .

Drunken employee pops cap in server

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Sooty

and who do the criminals steal these guns from? Yes - it's the law abiding citizens who went into a shop and filled out all the paperwork.

Nope . Must guns crooks get come from crooked gun dealers or illegal straw purchases. Most AK's on Americanstreets were illegally imported. nice try though.

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@Kimo

terms that have been, or still are, used as synonyms for semi-automatic pistol are automatic pistol, self-loading pistol, self-loader, autopistol, and autoloader.

When say automatic pistol in the US its understood to be one bullets per trigger pull.