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  1. Re:The Technology is Not New on Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique · · Score: 1

    I fully agree.
    Yet, the concept is around since electricity was mastered by humans. Next, I might go read TFA and see how much is real ;-)

  2. Re:Tinfoil clothes please on Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique · · Score: 0

    The sun is at a reasonable distance.

    You do know that they have to completely shutdown a tower to prevent the worker to fry like if he was in a microwave when he climbs one of them for maintenance, right?

    Many people have reported problems with radio waves especially when close to the transmitter although I do not know if their suffering is psychological or real.

    One thing for sure, an antenna is power transmission. See my other post:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4090989&cid=44570315

  3. Blizzard on How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blizzard:
    "A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility."

    It is hard to "tag" in those conditions...

  4. Re:it is new... in a way. on Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique · · Score: 2

    It doesn't matter. The only difference is how the tv or radio station will notice signal weakening compared to the electricity company.

    Electricity company:
    Voltage will go down as amperage will go up.

    For TV stations they transmit at a constant power rate so they will notice signal weakening by taking test at various distance from the transmitting antenna.

    The energy one device "steal" is not available for the device behind it so there is a limit to how many device a transmitter can sustain.

    Proof? If what I say isn't true then, congratulations! You have just defined an infinite energy supply. Set up a transmitter with a number of devices large enough to produce more energy then it took to power the transmitter.

    http://www.edn.com/design/sensors/4342455/Understanding-electromagnetic-fields-and-antenna-radiation-takes-almost-no-math

  5. Re:it is new... in a way. on Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Peer to peer analogy? If not enough people seed with devices hooked up to power sources, the system will fail.

    Also, I remember that they caught a guy hijacking power from high power lines without touching the wires. He was doing it simply by induction and the power line was close to his barn. The electricity company noticed a power leak and this let to an investigation resulting in him being convicted even if he never touched the wires.

    Now, how will the tv and radio stations react when they notice their signal get weaker because a bunch of devices draw power from their signal?

  6. Re:Sooo.... on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 1

    is like a coke whore

    They only have one way to spend everyone else's money.

  7. as simple as ABC on Chaos Computer Club, Others Scoff At German Email Security Move As "Marketing" · · Score: 2

    as simple as ABC, baby you and me.

    Of course encrypt with START TLS but it has nothing to do with gpg/pgp.

    -[PinePGP Sun Aug 11 03:08:56 EDT 2013]-------------------
    gpg: Signature made Sun Aug 11 03:08:37 2013 EDT using DSA key ID 5BA0D409
    gpg: Good signature from ""
    --[PinePGP Sun Aug 11 03:08:56 EDT 2013]------------[end]--

  8. Re:Of course if you can pay... on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 1

    Can you estimate how many Windows XP installs without a valid license are able to use Windows Update? My understanding is that you need a valid license plus activation to use windows update anyway so if my understanding is correct, it is hard to follow your comment logic.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326851

  9. Re: Of course if you can pay... on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 1

    Well, about the military then?

    For the OSes at least, these updates exist, believe me. I do not know about some old Microsoft CMS although, it depends on the user base I guess...

    Some just do not take shenanigans like forced OS upgrade...

  10. Of course if you can pay... on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 1

    Of course if you are a big corporation and you can pay, Microsoft should still be able to provide you with security updates. At least that's how it was done with windows 2000 if I remember right...

  11. Re:Piece of Cake on BREACH Compression Attack Steals SSL Secrets · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't just one compromised machine on your wired network fit the bill?

  12. Re:NSA go talk to those CERT boys!!! on BREACH Compression Attack Steals SSL Secrets · · Score: 1

    Already done the talk a long time ago.

  13. Re:Oh right, like we're going to believe that. on The Old Reader Will Stay Open To the Public Thanks To US Corporation · · Score: 1

    We want your wealth and we will get it.
    Who are you?
    -That's not important.
    Are you a wolf?
    -Yes but not like the one in the little red riding hood...

  14. Re: Kirobo = Kibo + Robot on Japan Launches Talking Humanoid Robot Into Space · · Score: 1

    On TV, you could see him taking zero gravity tests in a special airplane, just like the human astronaut do.

  15. Re:Toy story on Japan Launches Talking Humanoid Robot Into Space · · Score: 1

    Admit it, you are thinking of a category F toy aren't you? pervert! ;-)

  16. Re:As John Crapper intended? on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    OK son, let me explain:

    1) Wipe to remove excess stuff.
    2) Use conventional bidet to remove the rest and pieces of toilet paper left behind, attached to your bum...
    3) Wash conventional bidet.
    4) Wash hands.

    The method you are describing is going to send shit all over the place, even where you wouldn't get any by just wiping. It is a little bit like when you take a piss and drops bounce back outside the toilet. What do you think is going to happen with a built-in bidet?

    Also, there is nothing wrong with touching yourself to make sure you did a good job ;-)

  17. Re:As John Crapper intended? on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    The only existing fancy technology from a use-perspective that makes sense is the integrated bidet.

    Not sure I would like that hygiene wise. Washing your bum in the toilet?

  18. Re:hackers control toilets on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 3, Funny

    All kinds of agencies will now be able to gather more very valuable information about yourself too...

    Heck even Google will now be able to target you with diarrhea ads instantaneously! Insurance companies can now tell that you are an heavy beer drinker etc. Possibilities are endless...

  19. Re:"We all new" on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    We're all new, it was just a matter of time.

    Here, fixed it.

    I am glad the new age finally begins.

  20. Re:Only sort of offtopic on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    You could be right but don't forget that humans have a tendency to not take threats seriously until it really happens. We wait until a really bad accident happens before fixing a dangerous road, we surely do not remember the Bay of Pigs like if what came close to happen had really happened etc.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/14/bay-of-pigs-newly-revealed-cia-documents-expose-blunders.html

  21. Re:Dumbass Slashdot Editors on Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't surprise me at all if they could.

  22. Private jails on Bradley Manning and the 'Hacker Madness' Scare Tactic · · Score: 1
  23. Re:How to secure home routers on Extraneous Network Services Leave Home Routers Unsecure · · Score: 1

    Problem is that some cheap routers keep the functionality alive even when you disable it!

    Some are notorious for being hackable with WPS even when the functionality is disabled:

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ags-JmeLMFP2dFp2dkhJZGIxTTFkdFpEUDNSSHZEN3c

  24. Re:and that's why on Extraneous Network Services Leave Home Routers Unsecure · · Score: 1

    It's not because one uses iptables instead of route to do NAT on linux that commercial routers don't do NAT.

    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk361/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094e77.shtml

  25. Re:Cooperation wins big time. on Paper: Evolution Favors Cooperation Over Selfishness · · Score: 1

    You would have to be either one to really be able to tell if they have.