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  1. Re:Mythbusters show just how impaired you are at . on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    Here is scientific evidence; the sweet spot is above 0.08. Look at the curve, at 0.08 you are indeed impaired, a little above, you get into super human driving abilities. So, what we need is actually making it illegal to drive above or below the sweet spot.

    https://xkcd.com/323/

  2. Re:5G with 10GB/mo cap on Samsung Testing 5G Phones With 1gbps Download Speed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use a Yupana, it does calculations with the help of Fibonacci numbers and it doesn't make any noise.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus#Native_American

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yupana

  3. Re:Spectrum? on Samsung Testing 5G Phones With 1gbps Download Speed · · Score: 1

    I do not know what is the limit of the "wireless spectrum" if there is any. Before this limit is reached, I guess just updating all hardware gears that transmit/route more efficiently is all that is needed.

  4. Re:5G with 10GB/mo cap on Samsung Testing 5G Phones With 1gbps Download Speed · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFS: "capable of getting speeds up to 1gbps"

    That's 0.125 GBps so 8 seconds for a GB. You need at least 80 seconds to hit your 10GB cap which is more than one minute. This sounds much fairer now.

  5. Re:Please contact me to fix this on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Email Encryption Gateway For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    Regardless, I'd like to solve the original poster's problem. I'd ask that he contacts me at Voltage, and I'll handle any issue he's having at the moment.

    If you do not already know who he is and therefore you can't contact him then; Are you sure that he is real?

    I would be curious to know if he is a real customer of yours first. Just post the reply to my message here.

  6. 1) You encrypt with the public key(s) of the recipient(s). Then, only him can decrypt the content using its private key.

    2) You sign with your private key. Then, anybody can verify your signature using your public key. The content really comes from you as long as your private key wasn't compromised.

  7. Re:Strange failsafe on Honeywords — Honeypot Passwords · · Score: 1

    Yep, I do not want to troll/bash but just reading that paragraph in TFA made me doubt about the seriousness of those researchers.

    Could be a mistake in TFA or a researcher wrongly cited I don't know...

  8. Strange failsafe on Honeywords — Honeypot Passwords · · Score: 1

    From TFA:
    "The researchers acknowledge that attackers might subvert their system by launching a denial-of-service attack against a honeychecker server. In such an event, they recommend using a failsafe: if a honeychecker server becomes unavailable, temporarily allow honeywords to become valid logins."

    Letting everybody in seems like a weird way to failsafe;-)

  9. Re:The hack resides in memory. on Backdoor Targeting Apache Servers Spreads To Nginx, Lighttpd · · Score: 2

    I think they said there is a modified httpd although. It should be enough to raise suspicion.

    https://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14836

  10. I remember seeing a whistle device... on 80FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles (and Switch On Lights) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember seeing a whistle device that you attach to your key ring. When you lose your keys, you whistle and your key ring beeps.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tobar-Keyfinder-Keyring-Whistle-Activated/dp/B000246JIQ

  11. Re:how is this not an act of war? on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams · · Score: 1

    CIA uses Slackware?

  12. Re:Warning re samba on OpenBSD 5.3 Released · · Score: 1
  13. Re:C++ on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Hell, you can even write the machine code by hand without any platform or language, on a piece of paper or whatever, which I have done as part of an assignment.

  14. Re:KDevelop 4.5 Released on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    It is a matter of efficiency at context switching

  15. Re:KDevelop 4.5 Released on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    True, Pine is my everyday email program. Very powerful with very complex and advanced configuration possibilities.

    Now, the funny thing; If I remember correctly, Pine uses pico as its default editor. It sure feels like pico anyways.

    P.S. I am dead serious about using pine, I swear I am not lying this time ;-)

  16. Re:KDevelop 4.5 Released on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, that's interesting. I have a similar principle. Cut and paste if takes less than 1/2 an hour, otherwise write a script to do that the job for you even if you only use that script once.

  17. Re:KDevelop 4.5 Released on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    AD doesn't get much more R than that.

    Active Directory?

    Oh! sorry about that, my mistake, I was still on the state of mind of the GP post. I know what you meant by AD now...

  18. Re:KDevelop 4.5 Released on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    A Linux equivalent of VS is eclipse. It is used by many big corporations. So yes, "Wake up and smell the coffee" ;-)

    http://macbeantechnology.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/javabeans-560x373.jpg

    More seriously and objectively; how does Kdevelop compares to VS and eclipse or other modern IDE ?

    I had never heard of Kdevelop before although I am using KDE right now. This post got me curious about Kdevelop but I am too lazy to install it and test it out at this point. Could anybody with real life experience answer my question about how it compares to VS and eclipse for example ?

  19. Re:C++ on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    True, I wrote a small C compiler for embedded devices using turbo-pascal back then. Same concept as compiling for a different target platform, you just produce executable machine code for whatever target and you can use any language on any platform to do that.

  20. Re:I have a pussy detector on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    According to TFS, they use "divining rods". For pussies, I just detect them with my own built-in rod which isn't fake.

  21. Re:Well the ultimate value of Bitcoin is on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    Exactly, absolutely everything has the value of what someone is ready to pay for it! Making someone ready to pay a given amount for something is another story...

  22. The Corporation on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    activity was conducted by the hospital corporation for security purposes.

    yeah, yeah...
    Me, I work for The Corporation so please ignore any probes you see on your systems guys. That would be too easy wouldn't it?

    Seriously, he should be allowed to cut them off in order to run a simulation of what would happen in real life. Also, I wonder if he should have been told who was running the tests in the first place.

    It's like; OK I am going to attack you but you have to keep your shields down. Counter-measures are part of a good security strategy.

  23. Re:I wouldn't shed a tear on Russian Cyber Criminal Unmasked As Creator of "Most Successful" Apple Malware · · Score: 1

    Then, government agencies would tend to be the only game in town remaining and we may not hear about the need to patch our systems anymore.

  24. Re: "stop using OSes"? on A Glimpse of a Truly Elastic Cloud · · Score: 1

    Nope, they were floppies written in assembly. The idea was indeed to get rid of the OS to eliminate overhead so the game could achieve more with less. There was no DOS code on them at all.

  25. Re:Editors? on A Glimpse of a Truly Elastic Cloud · · Score: 1

    OK, but if the case, then something like:

    Does this sentence is written by no-brains ?

    Would have been more appropriate IMHO.

    Bonus: Google for "writed" and you will find out more people than you may think use it.