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  1. Re:Food? On an airline? on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1

    I know. I wonder why there is even a galley on aircraft anymore. I usually just bring my own meals and snacks from home. Pretty much any food will get through security, even sandwiches.

  2. Energy harvesting on Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised · · Score: 1

    Why even have batteries if it is so low power. You know, with all the tapping on a keyboard, why can't they put in a kinetic energy harvesting chip like the one's I have been seeing in tech journals lately. Or even a little solar panel like Logitech's solar keyboard.

  3. Exoplanet detection? on Lightning-made Waves In Earth's Atmosphere Leak Into Space · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this could possibly be used for exoplanet detection. It sounds like it may have a distinctive radio signal. Any radio astronomers want to reply?

  4. Easy to tell on Internet Water Army On the March · · Score: 1

    I have been noticing this a lot more myself. I tend to skim over reviews with broken English, and it seems to be a good identifier if a review is legit or not. I especially skip ones that use texting shortcuts.

  5. Here's is my 2 bit (not the binary kind) theory on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    The crazy boxes of lines look like they could be mock ups for streets in a city. It would be interesting if they corresponded with an actual street layout somewhere in the world. Probably used for training armored vehicles. I did notice that what is at 40.457985,93.369799 looks a lot like a scale model of a region. A lot of militarys have used scaled regional models to train tank commanders. The massive grid-lines look like Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where the US tested chemical weapon dispersion, the same could be true for the lonely island of foliage and the reservoir. The antenna structure looks a lot more like an electrical substation without any equipment installed. I have one that looks like this near my house. It was built with the expectation that there was going to be a huge growth in the area, then the housing market crashed and, well... Others are obviously targets for training pilots or artillery. There are also several mock runways in the area that have craters in them also. The circular target looks like it is to test the dispersion of some kind of cluster munition. Well, that is all for my armchair intelligence observations.

  6. Addresses on Copiale Cipher Decoded · · Score: 1

    I think I saw a a Stargate address in the translated text. I definitely saw the home symbol...

  7. Playtime! on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Just remove the platters and let some kindergarteners play with them on the playground. Sure to be destroyed in no time. Also, give the magnets to your local high school science class. In seriousness, if you remove the platters and dispose of them separately from the drive cases, you are almost guaranteed no recovery. Anyone who comes across it and can read it without the associated heads and drive electronics is a serious three-letter agency and what the hell have you done to draw their attention?

  8. One handed on Verifying Passwords By the Way They're Typed · · Score: 2

    I was just thinking about this the other day when I needed to log into a computer at work while I was holding a part I wanted to look up in our system. I heard about password systems using pattern logging a while ago and thought it would be ridiculous in the real world. On a similar note, I had an uncle that retired from a workplace that had fingerprint, voiceprint, and a weight scanner to get into work. He said if you had a cold or gained or lost more than 5 pounds you had to be escorted to the security office and have your identity verified before they would let you in. Some security measures are just too odd. (A scale? WTF?)

  9. Bonus! on Erdos' Combinatorial Geometry Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    He should get bonus points for style with the name "Nets Hawk Katz"

  10. One hole is always open... on Goodbye, HD Component Video · · Score: 1

    No matter what, the picture still has to display something on the screen. No matter how good encryption gets, it will always be possible as long as you have to display something on screen. You can tap the signals coming from the LCD driver in the TV and recreate the image every time from the signals that tell it what pixel goes where and what color.

  11. World Domination on Remote Control Worms With Laser Light, Using FOSS · · Score: 1

    Ha ha!!! Now my plans for world domination will be complete! Of course, I will still have to figure out a way to keep them from frying on the sidewalks...

  12. Copy Protection! on Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It · · Score: 1

    Oh look! View page source, Ctrl+U.

  13. Been there... on Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death" · · Score: 1

    This happened at my workplace, and I was the one who had to fix it. I think it was a corrupted update for XP, because it happened right after one. I had to perform a repair using the install disk, fun. Not all were affected, just the ones that had auto update turned on, instead of just notification.

  14. Heat 'Em Up on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    Spray a mixture of Tobasco and water on the trouble areas with a cheap mister bottle. That should prevent them from doing more than sniffing them.

  15. As the saying goes... on Air Force Suspends Cyber Command Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We are always prepared to fight the previous war. If the US ever goes against any country with a significant tech base, we will not be prepared. To be fair, though, the US is prepared to fight without the internet, it will just be an inconvenience. The Future Warrior program was supposed to rely heavily on digital information systems, but it is now mostly canceled. The military is still using the same methods they did in the 80's and 90's (dedicated sat-links and voice channels)before the net got so integrated into daily life. The real problem would be on the civilian front where massive cyber-attacks could blackout good-sized chunks of infrastructure. But, the civilian sector already has to deal with that from botnets attacking a company's online presence to coerce money out of them. Therefore, there is already defenses being designed to combat this. Maybe the military is just going to keep things totally separated from the net to make it hard for any attack to even start to cause problems.

  16. Really cheap method. on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    I put toothpaste (without baking soda) and a couple drops of water on first and use a small circular motion with my finger for a couple minutes. After I rinse it off, I spry on some Pledge furniture polish spray and wipe it off with a soft cloth. I use this on Netflix DVDs all the time.