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  1. Re:Who is in charge on Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? · · Score: 1

    And here are the World Health Organization's regularly updated situation reports:
    http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/situation-reports/en/ [who.int]

    Growth rate is down to 87%, that's from 100% last month and 133% the month before.

    At 87% population growth rate, it would consume the world in about 3 years...

  2. WHO is in charge during the Ebola Crisis on Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? · · Score: 1

    And here are the World Health Organization's regularly updated situation reports:
    http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/situation-reports/en/

    Growth rate is down to 87%, that's from 100% last month and 133% the month before.

    At 87% population growth rate, it would consume the world in about 3 years...

  3. Information Theoretic password strength meter on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Somewhere along the line, about when Fedora's Anaconda installer UI was redesigned, Fedora introduced an information theoretic password strength meter that measures apparent bits of randomness.

    Here it is in use in the Anaconda source: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/anaconda.git/tree/pyanaconda/users.py#n130

    Here is its official site: https://fedorahosted.org/libpwquality/

    It would appear this information theoretic meter has made its way into Ubuntu and Arch.

  4. Watson is most photoshopped Celeb Nude anyway... on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 0

    Isn't Emma Watson already the most photoshopped nude celeb on the Internet already??

  5. Full Disclosure can be found on oss-security... on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 5, Informative
  6. Actually, YES. on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 0

    Actually the kill switches and degradation modes and remote control overrides are well known... Check Pakistani intelligence, for example. They know their radar systems are degraded and remotely hackable, they know their F16s are degraded and remotely decomissionable, but they are still better than anything else Pakistan can get.

  7. Re:Will Happen on Facebook Seeks Devs To Make Linux Network Stack As Good As FreeBSD's · · Score: 0

    Userland has little to do with in-kernel TCP/IP stack... Your argument is invalid.

  8. Attacks have been documented in arXiv for years... on Black Hat Researchers Actively Trying To Deanonymize Tor Users · · Score: 0

    Nothing new to see here...

  9. Me on The World's Best Living Programmers · · Score: 0

    I am obviously the world's best programmer. Just ask me to do something and wait for the awesome and novel solutions I come up with.

  10. Constraint Satisfaction Problem similar to Hubble? on The AI Boss That Deploys Hong Kong's Subway Engineers · · Score: 0
  11. Sexual dimorphism in corpus callosum's splenium... on The Profoundly Weird, Gender-Specific Roots of the Turing Test · · Score: 0

    Research has long proven that women have a different corpus callosum than men (which makes them better information synthesizers), where their splenium has more parallel channels of communication between the hemispheres of the brain (10 to 15 channels, whereas men only have 1 or 2 channels). Swedish researchers have proven that gay men have female-typed corpus callosum's. Turing's Imitation Game could have originated because as a gay man he realized he was better at pretending to be a woman than other men were...

  12. Glom is written in Gtkmm + PostgreSQL. It is a GUI-based DB and app designer.

  13. Number of devices per capita on 7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated · · Score: 0

    The figure is obviously wrong. First of all, many individuals have multiple mobile devices, at least work and personal. Some people have additional tablets with mobile subscriptions, etc. Also, there are mobile subscriptions for alarm systems, for fleet vehicle monitoring and telemetry, for GSM modems used by SMS txt msg providers, etc., etc.

    There may be nearly as many mobile device subscriptions as there are humans now, but it is definitely not 1:1 per capita worldwide.

  14. same holds true for any language on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 0

    especially C

  15. Re:1M lines? Really? on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 0

    It is conceivable for a developer to write thousands of lines of code in a day when on a roll.

  16. Bill of Rights went into effect 1791 on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 0

    This fact you point out further destroys the 2nd Amendment "where's the militia?" argument made by anti-gun people.

    The 2nd Amendment was passed before there was a legal definition of "militia" at the federal level, because as you point out, the Militia laws had not yet been passed.

    When the Militia laws were passed, it was REQUIRED that all males purchase guns by their own means.

  17. GNOME Shell has the same problem on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 1

    GNOME Shell has the same problem... With developers worshipping their singular designer, Allan Day, and with Allan imposing his will despite tons of input from users about how his designs are not usable and are tracking behaviors from old versions OS X that Apples long ago admitted weren't usable and has since removed.

    I see the problem resulting from this: Since 2010, European developers have eclipsed American developers in the Open Source community, in part because the US is experiencing another tech boom since ~2010, keeping the US devs out of open source and consumed with their professional work.

    Our ancestors left Europe for a reason (European == You're-a-peon). These European devs don't have the benefit of that experience.

  18. Re:Ukrainian hackers? on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 0

    This was us (the U.S.) getting back at Russia for helping Iran capture that CIA drone by spoofing m-code GPS with GLONASS. Now we have demonstrated capability to disrupt GLONASS globally.

    When GLONASS went live just before the drone was downed, we were still in the process of launching new satellites to regain GPS superiority (Russia had GPS superiority for a short time there).

    See, e.g., http://cryptome.org/0005/iran-rsa-cipher.htm.

  19. SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED 10 YEARS AGO!! on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 0

    My bank recently upgraded ATMs... It is obviously running a newer version of Windows, and the UI is the slower piece of crap I've ever encountered.

  20. buffer overflow in printf ... great for security!! on GNU C Library Alternative Musl Libc Hits 1.0 Milestone · · Score: 0

    bugs fixed:
    - buffer overflow in printf when printing smallest denormal exactly

  21. Real benefit? on GNU C Library Alternative Musl Libc Hits 1.0 Milestone · · Score: 0

    What is the real benefit besides license? Is it correctness?

  22. She has Panic Disorder on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: -1

    From her testimony it is obvious that she has a case of Panic Disorder. Her condition can likely be treated with micro-nutrient supplementation, as is commonly done with pigs under stress in agribusiness who develop a form of cannibalism known as ear and tail biting syndrome.

    See, e.g., http://www.psyc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/earthquake%20research/Rucklidge%20et%20al%20Human%20Psychopharmacology%202012%20earthquake.pdf

  23. Discovery Vault aka Secure Content Monitor on US Intelligence Officials To Monitor Federal Employees With Security Clearances · · Score: -1

    I worked on the software that taps government multi-function printer devices, auditing all scans, faxes, prints, and copies made by government employees.

    The product was made by Perceptive Software, it is marketed by Lexmark. Search youtube for public product demonstration videos.

    The system was intended to store all classified documents for full-text indexing and partial matching (to find snippets of sensitive information among 500 pages of hamburger recipes), but the government will probably use it in a hot-word or key-phrase mode, since storing all classified docs in it would create a single point of failure / single point of leakage.

  24. REDDIT -- CAN ANYONE SAY REDDIT?!?! on NSA and GHCQ Employing Shills To Poison Web Forum Discourse · · Score: -1

    Slashdot is the home of the Anonymous Coward.

    Reddit is the home of the persona management bot.

  25. Popular among European Muslims on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 0

    I collect foreign nationals on Faceboook, so I can be informed of other perspectives.

    I first heard of WhatsApp from all the Muslims in my newsfeed.