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  1. Re:Money for nothing, chicks for free.... on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 2

    "and that time is being paid for by somebody else".

  2. Money for nothing, chicks for free.... on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me get this right, you want to be paid by your employer for your work, but still own everything you produce. You are putting nothing into this other than the time you are spending to produce the code, and that time is being paid for by somebody else.

    So where is your skin in this game?. Sounds like you want somebody else to finance your enrichment.

  3. Re:40 years & merely "almost doubles" performa on US Switches Air Traffic Control To New Computer System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are largley right here, the gains in thoughput in the system will be made by reducing seperation between aircraft, so you can have twice as many aircraft on the same airways. Those reductions in seperation can only go so far, as you have to have a system that can still fail back to stone age (100% down) and still be reasonably safe. At that point controllers fall back to using primary radar, radio and bits of paper in stacks, i.e. how it used to be done before computers.

    The improved processing and tracking allows some saftey margins to be compressed, but not many, and not by much.

  4. Re:I suspect the leakbox will be full of Sun nonse on The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop · · Score: 1

    That is a good point, perhaps this is a way of them being able to "launder" stories obtained by indefensable means.

  5. what kind of leaks do they want. on The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the Sun is more interested in who has been leaking body fluids on who, than any matters of global import. Its like the national inquirer setting up a securedrop site.

  6. Re:Not enough resourcees on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    But if it allows us to stop digging it out of the ground and burning that, then its a win win.

  7. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    I think they are saying that the fuel does not contain any nitrogen, if its made from water and co2 then how can it?. It may well produce nitrogen containing byproducts when combusted in air, but it is itself nitrogen free.

  8. Re:islamist radical? on Would-Be Bomber Arrested In Kansas; Planned Suicide Attack on Ft. Riley · · Score: 1

    Would he have had the means without thier support, there are loads of nutters roaming around raging at the world, most of it is just impotent rage. However if you stand them up, pander to thier psychosis, give them a box with bomb written on the side and point them at a bunch of picket fence citizens, dont be suprised if they dont go for it.

  9. Re:could never wrong. fast and furious, feds kille on Would-Be Bomber Arrested In Kansas; Planned Suicide Attack on Ft. Riley · · Score: 1

    Lol, waiting for the outrage in 3..... 2...... 1......

  10. Re:Misleading summary on How Flight Tracking Works: a Global Network of Volunteers · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://flightaware.com/adsb/pi...

    Build your own for under $100, raspberry pi, dtv reciever, internet connection.

  11. Re:Misleading summary on How Flight Tracking Works: a Global Network of Volunteers · · Score: 2

    They are however required to keep the realtime databases that the websites mentioned in the article use. The reciever is basicaly a usb DVB-T terrestial digital tv receiver working as a software defined radio and a bunch of code to pickup the ADS transmissions. The results are streamed to the tracking sites databases.

     

  12. Re:Kind of ironic on 'Let's Encrypt' Project Strives To Make Encryption Simple · · Score: 2

    They dont need to, the packages are signed, they are not trying to keep the contents of the packages secret, or hide thier contents during transfer, they are only trying to ensure that they are distributed unmodified. To perform a MITM attack on the packages pulled down from a repo, you would need the private signing keys To creat new packages.

    Looking through most of the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d on my fedora install, all the dl links are already https.

    I suspect that ubuntu is the same.

    Its probaly full of holes, i dont think i have seen a decent, analysis of the package managers from a security standpoint, but they seem to have most of the basics.

    I dont know if the private keys are distributed to the packagers, if they are then that could be an issue.

  13. Re:Only web servers? on 'Let's Encrypt' Project Strives To Make Encryption Simple · · Score: 1

    I suspect its for anywhere you want to provide TLS protected connections, SSL on webservers is just the biggest use case, so its going to get the attention initialy, but i dont see any reason why agents cant be built to handle the maintenance and signup protocol on other transports than http. SSL and HTTP are not co dependant.

    Its also going to be a big help in the migration to HTTP 2.0, which mandates SSL. I have a bunch of domains that i would like to move to HTTP 2.0 once it settles down, but im not up to paying $30-40 a pop for a cert.

    Im hoping that they will roll HTTP 2.0 migration into thier easy setup software.

  14. Re:Behind... on 'Let's Encrypt' Project Strives To Make Encryption Simple · · Score: 1

    Back under your bridge troll........

  15. Re:Linux only, as usual. on 'Let's Encrypt' Project Strives To Make Encryption Simple · · Score: 1

    Its ok for us linux nerds

    Seriously, this is all about low barriers of access to SSL certs for webservers, the vast majority of which are either linux or other ix based. Client systems general dont need these certs, so they are not relevant. They just need a suitable root CA Cert.

  16. Re:Why we use office on UK Forces Microsoft To Adopt Open Document Standards · · Score: 2

    I think its more a case of FOSS office is great at being everything but being Microsoft Office, it does not have the "looks like MS Office, works exactly like MS Office" comfort.

  17. Re:Yep on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 2

    Spot on, all this pursuit of youth is futile, i dont ever want to be that stupid again.

  18. Re:Its strange on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 2

    We also routinely humanely kill millions of cattle every year, why not just use the same method, a large metal cylinder driven by compressed air into the side of the head. Its about as instantanious as you can get. Alternativly the guilliotine was also considered to be pretty damm fast.

  19. Re:The Obama Calculus on State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida · · Score: 2

    Twat

  20. Re:India is murder on women on Indian Gov't Wants Worldwide Ban On Rape Documentary, Including Online · · Score: 1, Informative

    We should also remember this was not just a rape, it was a horrific gang rape and assult. Aside from the trauma of the rape itself, this poor woman was beaten with an iron bar and then raped with that bar to the point where parts of her intestines where pulled outside of her body. This would have been a horiffic event in any country , not just india. Also dont forget this completly innocent woman died of these nighmare injuries she sustained.

    That is why so many people feel sickend by this act.

  21. Arm, avr and pic all have gnu c++ compiler environments.

  22. Re:Fraudulent herbal supplements? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    GMO corn is a lawsuite waiting to happen to somebody because genes some organisation belives belongs to them starts breaking out into the general pool. I religiously avoid gmo because I don't want to encourage or support scumbag companies like Monsanto, who are trying to sew up ownership of whole classes of organisms, by claiming their deliberate contamination is IPR theft.

  23. Re:Wow. Maybe they should call it a swamp cooler. on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 1

    The 3d printing part of it allows the creation of meta materials that cannot be created by any other means, with a fine enough printing system you can control the internal geometric structure of the material. All sorts of weird properties can created. The "cool" is not in the 3d printing, that is just a tool to create the meta material. The "cool" is in the structure of the material Itself.

    Short of a working nano assembler tech, 3d printing is about as close as you can get to creating virtual alloys of materials with complex internal geometric structures.

  24. Re:mold? on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here in the philippines, water is often kept cool by storing it in porus pots, the water slowly seeps through the walls of the clay pot, and evaporates from the outside, there are no channels as its using the micro pore structure of the earthen ceramic pot. The evaporation lowers the temperature of the whole pot.

  25. Re:Circuit Boards on VP Anthony Moschella Shows Off Makerbot's Latest Printers and Materials (Video) · · Score: 1

    Checkout the "cyclone pcb mill", basicaly a small pcb focused cnc rig, for isolation milling and drilling custom pcbs.

    It is almost completly 3d printed and can use a quadcoptor motor or a dremel as a spindle, its essentialy a small cnc machine made with 3d printer parts.