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  1. Re:Turn the power off on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Battery packs and recharging when stationary. Or you could use that powerful maglev field for some inductive charging.

  2. Re:Contradiction on The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that reaching your funding goal is the full definition of success.

  3. Are undocumented features better or worse than H1B features?

  4. Re:Make that 14,999,999,000 users on YouTube Claims 1.5 Billion Monthly Users (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Make that 15,999,999,999 users

    Make that 14,999,999,999 users.

    You wanna try that again? Hint, commas and periods don't show up if you're reading the headline via the URL.

  5. Re:Why would anyone report to the FBI? on Victims Aren't Reporting Ransomware Attacks, FBI Report Concludes (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    None of that is their jurisdiction either.

  6. Re:Why would anyone report to the FBI? on Victims Aren't Reporting Ransomware Attacks, FBI Report Concludes (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you paid money for a copy of the pics, you reported it to the wrong place. At best this is a civil issue, not criminal.

  7. Re:Of course they aren't on Victims Aren't Reporting Ransomware Attacks, FBI Report Concludes (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    99% of the time, it's outside their jurisdiction anyway. How many domestic ransomware attacks have there been compared to China/Russia/Ukraine?

  8. B-vitamins in energy drinks are getting very common to see.

  9. Urine should be clear or slight yellow tinge. Medium- or dark-yellow means you're dehydrated.

    You can't rely on that. If it's clear or pale, you're not dehydrated. The converse is not true.

  10. You didn't read the terms of service on their web site:

    Body Vibes, LLC assumes no responsibility regarding the accuracy of the information that is provided by Body Vibes, LLC and use of such information is at the recipient's own risk.

    Clearly, that means it's OK.

  11. They mean Mylar, right?

    There are carbon atoms in it, it's NON-conductive. But they didn't say it conducts electricity, so they could probably get away with that.

    This reminds me of the marketing scam where some guy is trying to sell stocks relating to "oro blanco" (white gold) as some new age super fuel that gets nearly infinite gas mileage. What is it? Lithium carbonate, like you'd use for rechargeable batteries.

  12. In the US, today's "small" was yesterday's medium. The sizes are going up.

  13. Starbucks does this. But kind of in reverse and in Italian. The "venti" cold drinks (that's 20 in italian) actually measure 24 oz. to account for some of the extra ice.

  14. Re:Maybe BBC needs a backup plan on BBC Technical Glitch Leaves TV Presenter In Silence (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    That's exactly right. If something like this happens, there should be a contingency to switch to full manual control (even if "manual" still belongs in quotation marks). They spent way too long trying to fix it on the spot when they should have just bypassed the whole thing.

  15. Re:Way Way Way too complicated on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    FTP is one of the least secure file protocols in active use. Second only to maybe SMB, and that only because it was not designed to be exposed to the Internet.

  16. Re:300 000 every day? on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed the point as it flew over your head at 30,000 feet. Other OS's, including ChromeOS, don't have measurably fewer bugs. They are just less targeted and there are currently fewer exploits. Changes in market dominance will flip that number very quickly.

  17. Re:Way Way Way too complicated on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    Does that make it somehow less possible? No. There just hasn't been any reason for someone to try...yet. If you're protecting against all possibilities, then you need to think about theoretical rather than actual.

  18. Re:Way Way Way too complicated on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've never heard of any malware jumping through an FTP connection.

    Any transfer protocol implementation could have buffer overflows or any vulnerability that anything else has. Why is FTP more magic than SMB?

  19. Re: Using a data diode, and careful controls on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1, Informative

    If the security depended on the USB stick itself to not automount (trusting the external device), then he wasn't the only person at fault.

  20. Re:Simpler on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    Multiple points of failure along the way decrease overall security anyway.

  21. Re:Some basics on Remember When You Called Someone and Heard a Song? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's real. I've heard them in the US. Typically popular music. Not real common, but not uncommon. Targeted at the older tail of millennials mostly.

  22. Re:Isn't this what Qubes is for? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    that has had the transmit pin on the NIC physically cut

    ACK! What a terrible idea!

  23. Re:Answer on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    Better put that in a faraday cage too, otherwise I might induce current into the circuits remotely and try to read the output RF interference.

  24. Re:Wait... whaaaa? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    Whatever you do, don't program on a Mac. The malware is compatible with everything. Even alien motherships.

  25. Re:SneakerNET? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 2

    Since it got formalized with an RFC.