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  1. SEND VIDEO DATA OVER PORT 80, SLASHDOT on Louis Suarez-Potts Talks About Making Money with FOSS (Video) · · Score: 0

    Either stop hosting your own videos, or make your stupid video player send video streams over port 80.

    Just create a YouTube channel and be done with it!

    Obviously you're not interested in viewership.

  2. All these years... on Louis Suarez-Potts Talks About Making Money with FOSS (Video) · · Score: -1

    ...and OpenOffice / LibreOffice still suck.

  3. French/WHO Interphone Study concluded this month on 11-Year UK Study Reports No Health Danger From Mobile Phone Transmissions · · Score: 0

    Conclusions

    Glioma and meningioma
    Overall, no increase in risk of glioma or meningioma was observed with use of mobile phones. There were suggestions of an increased risk of glioma at the highest exposure levels, but biases and error prevent a causal interpretation. The possible effects of longterm heavy use of mobile phones require further investigation.

    Acoustic neuroma
    There was no increase in risk of acoustic neuroma with ever regular use of a mobile phone or for users who began regular use 10 years or more before the reference date. Elevated odds ratios observed at the highest level of cumulative call time could be due to chance, reporting bias or a causal effect. As acoustic neuroma is usually a slowly growing tumour, the interval between introduction of mobile phones and occurrence of the tumour might have been too short to observe an effect, if there is one.

  4. I put a GPL-based "Nuclear Option" into my patent! on Open Source — the Last Patent Defense? · · Score: 0

    I put boilerplate on the code segment figures licensing them under the GPL, so that if I need to I can apply "any later version" of the GPL which gives a patent grant! ... For the actual patent application the patent lawyers whited-out the GPL boilerplate in the code segment figures, and they added to the text of the patent, "The programs and program segments as shown in FIGS. 28 and 29 are believed to be subject to a GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)." They stipulated a version to avoid triggering "any later version" clause and thusly the patent grant, but I help write the provisional patent application, and I know the boilerplates in the provisional do not specify a version of the GPL! ;)

    So I've assigned my patent to a third party, my former employer, but should I ever need to use my own invention, I put a secret patent grant in it for myself.

  5. Telomeres and Telomerase .... ??? on Acid Bath Offers Easy Path To Stem Cells · · Score: 0

    In adult cells turned to stem cells, don't they need to give the new stem cells a bath in telomerase to extend their telomeres? Otherwise you have a "new" "young" malleable cell that will deteriorate faster because it has the age of an adult cell.

  6. Wait so... on Why Transitivity Violations Can Be Rational · · Score: -1

    It was irrational to think this behavior was irrational?

  7. XMBC on Raspberry Pi on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: -1

    I've really been enjoying its capabilities as compared to my PS3 (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime), AppleTV, Roku, etc., etc. Now PS3 and Raspberry Pi are my most-used media players.

  8. Single System Image clustering on DragonFlyBSD 3.6 Brings AMD/Intel Graphics Drivers & Better SMP Scaling · · Score: -1

    The cool checkpointing and process migration features are part of DragonFly's goal of providing seamless Single System Image clustering some day... A feature and goal that I highly respect and find cool-as-hell, having been an early user of MOSIX and openMosix back in the day.

  9. These Findings Consistent with Genealogy on Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found · · Score: -1

    The native annals of several Phoencian/Scythian nations (e.g., the United Kingdom) describes the invention of language occurring along the southern shores of the Black Sea.

  10. WRONG -- DISPATCH NOT DETECTION on Twitter Based "Ted" System Warns of Earthquakes Earlier · · Score: 0

    USGS Tweet Earthquake Dispatch

    has nothing to do with detecting earthquakes by analyzing twitter feeds

  11. I JUST WANT TO REMOVE TWITTER FROM MOUNTAIN LION on Apple Reportedly Considering Huge Investment In Twitter · · Score: 0

    What about those of us that want to delete all integration with Twitter that comes standard on OS X Mountain Lion.

    Twitter is for brainless fucktard idiotfaces.

  12. Re:Ireland's native annals & genealogies corro on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: -1

    I posted a reply to this citing sources & documentary evidence, but strangely it has been deleted...

    Basically, too many people groups from too many eras across too many cultures, languages, and countries have documentary evidence of their descent from Odin for it to have been made up. Look up Guala/Hvala/Hawala, his genealogy documents the long line of descent from Thor to Odin.

    My own genealogy corroborates the Odin genealogies but I am not descended from Odin (Odin is some kind of ancient great uncle to me). My common ancestor to Odin is Milesius 3,000 years ago. The genealogies diverge & corroborate at nearly every generation, e.g., the Smith clan is not descended from Odin either, but my common ancestor to the Smiths (M'Gowans) is about 1,500 years ago.

    Back in those days names were often titles, and they were used and reused all over the place. You can't really trust modern scholars when they say that Tacitus "may have" referred to Odin, since the Odin who was worshipped by the Norsemen is very well known to history.

    You should study your family history, you just might discover the secrets of the world at a library near you.

  13. Re:Ireland's native annals & genealogies corro on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: -1

    Odin was a prince who lived circa 400 AD and who founded the Kingdoms of Kent & Wessex. Odin was never a stone-age deity, Odin was descended from the House of Heremon. He has always been a perfectly historical figure (until he was worshipped as a deified ancestor by Norsemen 300 year later [euhemerism]).

  14. Ireland's native annals & genealogies corrobor on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: -1

    FTFA: "Until now our knowledge of the Tower of Babel has been based on the account in Genesis 11:1-9, and of Herodot: The Histories I:178 - 182, with the measurement of the first 2 steps, and a Seleucid tablet of 229 BC (Louvre AO 6555), giving the sizes of the steps."

    This is not entirely true, the Irish genealogies of Milesius (corroborated by disparate genealogies throughout Europe) also attest to the Tower of Babel and its peoples.

    The Tower of Babel story occurs in the Irish & European genealogies with the namesake of the Phoenicians, Fenius Farsa, and his son Niul the Linguist.

    These genealogies diverge at nearly every generation & they corroborate independently across countries & cultures. They're are among the most valuable documentary evidence we have of ancient world history (more so than the bible).

    See, e.g., http://books.google.com/books?id=h5MNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8.

    The story among the Irish also corroborates the Slashdot story about the common source of languages (and, yes, the genealogies pre-date the arrival of Semitic biblical texts to Ireland [if the bible is Semitic, these records are Japhetic]).

  15. Correction: M code GPS on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: -1

    Military grade M-code GPS has two options, red-key mode for classified hardware like stealth drones, and black-key mode for unclassified hardware. They each use RSA in symmetric & asymmetric modes, respectively.

    Did Iran fast-factor the semiprime numbers used in RSA?

  16. Re:GPS jamming on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: -1

    By doing this Iran has announced to the world that RSA is broken. Military grade M-code GPS has two modes, red-key mode for classified hardware like stealth drones, and black-key mode for unclassified hardware. They each use RSA in symmetric & asymmetric modes, respectively.

    To spoof the GPS signal the drone would be locked on to, Iran either got the secret keys or fast-factored the large semiprime RSA numbers.

    Iranian ComodoHacker claimed to be in pursuit of a crack to RSA, go read his broken English rants.

  17. Re:Connected and controlling are not the same thin on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: -1

    This study measures CONTROL through the threshold of 51% ownership within the CONNECTED public Trans-National Corporations.

  18. This is a Study of Public Companies ONLY on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: -1

    This study was unable to analyze private equity funds that own these public Transnational Corporations.

    The global control of, e.g., Commerce Bancshares could not be analyzed for this report.

  19. Puns consolidated on Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away · · Score: -1

    Dennis M. Ritchie: He didn't just change the world, he make world. By all conventions we cannot call him routine. He was the goto guy in bracing for changes of scope. Now, as he implicitly returns to the void, it is time_t for him to say, "Goodbye, world." He certainly was a strong type of char*acter, and he gave us many pointers to live && work by. Objectively speaking, he had class. The complexity of his main() contributions will be incalculable in the centuries following his EXIT_SUCCESS.
    ^ C what I did there?

  20. pushed through != vetted on Oracle's Plans for Java Unveiled at JavaOne · · Score: -1

    no matter how you slice it

  21. It's called Fractional Reserve Banking... on Feds Call Full-Tilt Poker a 'Global Ponzi Scheme' · · Score: -1

    If only Full Tilt Poker were incorporated as a bank, they'd be okay:

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

  22. Re:Dedication on ALS Sufferer Used Legs To Contribute Last Patch · · Score: -1

    KDE was the first to go all 'bling bling'... GNOME is just trying to keep up with the Jones'...

    Problem #1 with open source projects, they're led by geniuses, and geniuses almost exclusively only care about their own thoughts, ideas, and starting points, and rarely the thoughts, ideas, or starting points of others. (As evidenced by "Spatial Nautilus" which was coined as revolutionary & quickly done away with.)

    Most "open sores" projects are rabbit hole cults, not innovations in computer science. I blame KDE on this one for getting such a whole ugly-ass ball rolling (because it made complete sense to make your desktop a window on the desktop!).

  23. REAL REASON: Undocumented Services w/ No rc Script on Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers · · Score: -1

    Besides you don't need to: When you reboot the server, critical application services won't be running because their existence was undocumented & their daemons lacked init.d & rc scripts!

  24. Re:46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 on Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info · · Score: -1

    That 46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 D4 CD B2 C2 is a funny number indeed. It's like sig-worthy.

    I just put an even funnier number (00C5B2BFA1A413DD16F26D31C0F2ED4720DCFB0670) into Wikipedia:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Private_key_compromised

  25. Deprivation of Rights -- NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT on Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info · · Score: -1

    First of all, everybody should be familiar with 42 USC 1983, it ain't just for black ppl no mo.

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00001983----000-.html

    And 18 USC 242:

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000242----000-.html

    Also, put this on all of your seizable equipment that resides within the United States:

    NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS

    The owners and users of this system are exercising First Amendment rights.

    Some material on this system is in preparation for public dissemination
    and is "work product material" protected under The First Amendment Privacy
    Protection Act of 1980 (USC 42, Section 2000aa). Note that this is a
    civil statute. Violation of this statute by law enforcement agents is
    very likely to result in a civil suit as provided Section 2000aa-6. Each
    and every person who has "work product material" stored on this system is
    entitled to recover at least minimum damages of $1,000 plus all legal
    expenses. Agents in some states may not be protected from personal civil
    liability if they violate this statute.

    In addition, there are e-mail and chat logs, i.e., "stored electronic
    communications" as defined by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
    (ECPA) which have been in storage less than 180 days on this system. Such
    stored electronic communications are protected by the ECPA from seizure or
    even "preventing authorized access" without a warrant specific to each
    person's electronic communications. Seizing the computer where these
    communications reside would prevent such authorized access. There are
    civil actions which may be taken against law enforcement agents under
    provision of the Act. You can find them in USC 18, 2707. On this system
    you can expect multiple people to have stored communications. Each of
    them is entitled to collect at least $1,000 plus all legal expenses for
    violations of Section 2700 and 2703.

    Please ensure you have appropriate warrants before seizing this equipment.