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  1. Office supplies on Sys-Admin Dispenses Passwords With a Banana (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 5, Funny

    This invention moves the bananas into the same category as printer ink cartridges.

    "My wifi doesn't work!" "Have you tried to replace your banana, sir?"

  2. Re:Well there goes the cipherhood on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 1
  3. Because it is clearly simpler to put an entire planet into underground recording studio under area 51?

  4. if you ask a geek on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 3, Funny

    Left turn = three right turns. Three times safer, right?

  5. Reminds me of one thing on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 2

    We (almost) have self-driving cars. Aircraft generally self-drive themselves almost all time now. Why not have self-driving aircraft?

    Seems a lot safer for now. Pilot can enter anytime if an emergency of non-standard situation is declared (and verified).

  6. Re:Anyone who believes Wikipedia on Wikipedia Admin's Manipulation "Messed Up Perhaps 15,000 Students' Lives" · · Score: 1

    Or as Scully heard, "Trust no one."

  7. Re:No, it couldn't. Read the post. on Elon Musk Pledges To End "Range Anxiety" For Tesla Model S · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or simply using the saved energy from the software update to zap any range-anxious driver.

  8. Re:I don't think this is really true. on Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo · · Score: 1

    Whoa, good list. There are also very good methods to recognize people by non-facial features (especially the ears are something that computers can "fingerprint" very easily and reliably), but I haven't seen that in any software package yet.

  9. I don't think this is really true. on Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo · · Score: 2

    Postgrad students at our faculty were developing face-recognition stuff that can easily and percisely tag almost all photos we were able to stuff in it. In microseconds. I guess it would be really weird if facebook didn't have this technology available long time ago (it isn't really that hard either).

  10. Also known as The Regex Execution Man on One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake · · Score: 2

    Next up: The Wget Guy manually downloads a "hand-tailored" copy of wikipedia and sells it for living on DVDs.

    Oh wait.

  11. Isn't this too complicated? on SpaceX Landing Attempt Video Released · · Score: 2

    I mean, If it's already slowed down like this, why not just gently land the rocket into the ocean and take it up with some prepared nets/ropes? IMHO it can save a lot of headache from trying to hit a platform this small.

    If the water getting in the rocket is problem, what about a gigantic sheet of plastic on the water surface? (still cheaper and more reliable than hitting the landing pad).

  12. Re:Nothing has been lost! on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Sir, you already have +5. Imagine you have +6 now.

    On the other side, I wouldn't want to see the situation when some country (say, U.S.) takes bitcoin as alternative currency and starts to defend its value with an army.

  13. Re:Good thing technology never moves forward on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Moreover, if UK Ballistic Police Department couldn't do that, who else would? Nobody, obviously!

    I saw like dozens of videos of successful printed guns, did they completely miss that?

  14. Look from the K.I.S.S. side on Free Can Make You Bleed: the Underresourced Open Source · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From a bit different perspective (largely unix-practical) -- when not having enough resources, you are forced to keep stuff simple. That's usually good, isn't it?

    Anyway, I always wondered why is OpenSSL such a bloated pile of code. It does one god damn gazillion things tightly packed. Now, TLS implementation itself is pretty simple, Key management tools are pretty simple, PKCS verification tools are pretty simple, mathematics behind that is pretty simple, commandline tools for quickusing the maths are simple, relationship between those entities ("APIs") are well-defined and usually clear. Who stuffed all of it into one project?!

    PS. Bonus paranoia&FUD I saw today: http://pastebin.com/gjkivAf3

  15. The actual result on Major Scientific Journal Publisher Requires Public Access To Data · · Score: 1

    Tables with improvement percentage readings will be less excellent.

  16. Re: LHC didn't destroy the Unvierse? on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 0

    Looks like anything that's not about beta is offtopic today. All 3 posts.

  17. LHC didn't destroy the Unvierse? on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, let's build bigger one!

  18. NOP.

    srsly.

  19. RSA is not a "modern encryption" on NSA Trying To Build Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    I mean, we got lots of PQ cryptosystems already working, google for "post-quantum GPG".

  20. The only thing that would make sense... on The Silk Road Is Back · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...is that this instance is run by FBI.

    I don't see other reason why anyone would take the risk without - at least - a massive security technology change.

  21. Re:Oh the irony on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 1

    Either that, or missing mysql_escape_string.

  22. Some simple suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    If you are not actually _hosting_ the game (in which case you are f-ed, because you simply need to examine all the packets by yourself, but from the fact you were not talking about any server I somehow suppose that you are just connecting), carrier-grade or similar NAT perfectly solves this problem. Your ISP should be able to hide you in an inner network in no time this way.

  23. Hey guys, seriously. on Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stop whining for money.
    Stop envying money.
    Stop money.
    It will be cool.

  24. Re:Little difference anymore between PC/console on QuakeCon 2013: Carmack On Next-Gen Console Hardware · · Score: 1

    FYI there's a whole lot of 32bit ARM CPUs around, placed in pretty much everything.

  25. "Web forums" on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...seriously?

    On the other hand, more stuff they block, more users will opt out. I guess it can easily become a "traditional first thing you do with Internet", like removing IE and installing fox/chrome is now.