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  1. Delegated vs Federated logins on Facebook's New Tool Looks To Replace Traditional Two-Factor Authentication (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Relevant 60 second read: http://sites.psu.edu/ntsh/2010...

  2. Meanwhile unhackable code confirmed on HackerOne CEO: Every Computer System is Subject To Vulnerabilities (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I would love him to address this news: https://www.quantamagazine.org...

  3. Re:option for surrender on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    After killing an officer, the waiting for surrender bullshit goes straight out the window.

    If you kill, you should expect to be killed, end of story.

    No, thats wrong. American police aren't to kill unless they out of options (which is what started this mess in the first place..) Were they strategically out of options at that point? There are lots of details still missing from the public eye. Why didn't they try knocking him on his ass with a stun grenade taped to the bot? Maybe send in a few of these and knocking him on his ass and waiting until he was out of ammunition or physically unable to attack? Lots of questions remain on why he was killed this way.

  4. One does not simply decrypt "all data" on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats not how any of this works, Mr. Putin.

  5. 1. wait for SF to deploy these in all major parking locations
    2. wait a few years for snow....http://snowbrains.com/san-francisco-ca-rarely-see-snow/
    3. break into everything while the useless 400 sensor robot can't get to or from its charging station
    4. profit

  6. 1. don't sell out on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, just don't sell out. Don't change the site for monetary reasons. Things will slowly work in your favor, and you will profit for a long time.

  7. Re:I saw a TEDTalk about this . . . on How Tesla's Autopilot and Google's Car Are Entirely Different Animals (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    <quote>. . . where the speaker compared the two approaches like this:

    Gradually trying to move towards driverless cars instead of working directly on that goal is like thinking that by practicing jumping and getting better and better a jumping that you'll eventually be able to fly.</quote>

    Which isn't incorrect with incremental development.
    If I'm able to increase my jumping height, eventually I'll be high enough to enter orbit, and I'm easily able to fly.

  8. Millis started the site http://hardware.slashdot.. on Gaming Computers Offer Huge, Untapped Energy Savings Potential · · Score: 1

    Do you even try to check your work??
    FIX THE LINK

  9. Maybe its not what you pass but what you don't pass to her:
    Clear browser history on exit

    Seriously though, you can't parent when you are dead, and you are dead soon. Don't worry about what she will be doing with her life. Don't focus on later events. She won't care about you on her 50th birthday. You will be a short story and several photos to her husband. She will get wisdom from the living, I assume most from your wife. Tell her stories and show examples of how things were in your life, and do it NOW, so 8 years from your last day on earth she will be happy that something about you can still be remembered, without the need of computers or whatever tech we will be using...and after that, use your spiffy technology to record a few skydiving trips of you and her, or the entire family doing whatever. She won't care what, as long as it was exciting and fun and with dad in the picture.

  10. Oblig "Your Post advocates.." on Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU · · Score: 1

    Your post advocates a (X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting pot. Your idea will not work....pot doesn't harm you. I'm too sleepy to finish the form.

  11. /. wants me to open 17 tabs?? on Education Chief Should Know About PLATO and the History of Online CS Education · · Score: 1

    I know we don't RFTA..but c'mon 17 links in one post? You expected me to open 17 tabs today??

  12. sounds like a pinky and the brain episode on NASA Pondering $1.5 Million Stratospheric Airship Competition · · Score: 1

    .. No Pinky. We enter the contest, and design our pirate airship to control all other contestant's airships. After successfully maneuvering all of them into the path of the sun, thereby blocking out all sunlight, we hold the world hostage until the everyone recognizes me as their unquestioned leader! Yes!

  13. Drop test? on LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Being the world's thinnest ain't worth crap if it shatters when the wind blows. How strong is this .7mm bezel?

  14. Re:Not Unlimited in the least on OneDrive Delivers Unlimited Cloud Storage To Office 365 Subscribers · · Score: 1

    run a quick test: fsutil file createnew junk 10000000000

  15. Re:What about the Dell knockoffs? on Samsung Acknowledges and Fixes Bug On 840 EVO SSDs · · Score: 1

    Good question. But I believe the SM841 is equivalent to the 840 Pro, hence not affected by this problem.

    No its a real problem, but Samsung hasn't acknowledged it yet: http://www.overclock.net/t/151...

  16. What about the Dell knockoffs? on Samsung Acknowledges and Fixes Bug On 840 EVO SSDs · · Score: 2

    So are they going to fix the Samsung SM841 SSD or are we just screwed because we bought Dell?

  17. Re:Soon, a few companies will own all your base on Justin.tv Shuts Down Amid Reports Google Is Acquiring Twitch · · Score: 0
  18. tl;dr: on Extracting Audio From Visual Information · · Score: 2

    Yelling MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB, ITS FLEECE WAS WHITE AS SNOW at a houseplant, bag of chips, and glass of water is now research.

  19. First, "Glory Days" definition needed. on Are the Glory Days of Analog Engineering Over? · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the future! If you mean what I think you mean, then I agree. The "glory days" are gone. There are less analog designs being done, and they are replaced with more complex digital systems. Some of these are better, but none are as elegant as pure analog. I also think the "glory days" of the WWW are also gone. There are simply less (none) HTML only sites being created, and they are getting replaced with..well everything they can cram into your face. Welcome to the future!

  20. sounds like an ad for the future fast lane on How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds · · Score: 5, Funny

    Xfinity video in your face 4650% faster! Xfinity introduces the RLNC fast lane data transmission! Its like an over caffeinated jaguar solving linear matrices while orbiting the earth in the space shuttle and doing coke. RAAAWRR! Don't like the jaguar? Tough floating jaguar shit, you don't have a choice! We own teh tubes! ©omcastic!

  21. somebody make a dragon for dos joke on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    I'm not smart enough to make it

  22. Re:100 foam plastic balls of orange color on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    Why about 100 foam plastic balls of orange color with a plastic orange flag and LED light (blinking for 3-4 months after contact with water) cannot be placed inside the fuselage on an aircraft which costs hundreds of millions? The size could be of a tennis ball, an additional weight and cost almost zero.

    This is a great thought. If something like this works it would save tens of millions.

  23. Re:Yankees or Red Sox Mystery on Mystery MLB Team Moves To Supercomputing For Their Moneyball Analysis · · Score: 1

    How have the sox been buying wins since 1994?

  24. The Connected Browser's Battle of the Mute Button on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 2

    Now do they really think "They're lazy! Instead of not reading the article, they will just sit back and listen. No-more bad comments, problem solved" They underestimate our power. Begin the rants!

  25. Put games into Windows bootup on IEEE Predicts 85% of Daily Tasks Will Be Games By 2020 · · Score: 2

    I want to have simple games inside of windows boot. At least a snake knockoff. Maybe people will actually want to reboot every patch Tues.