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  1. "Swapped information" on Feds: TVA Executive Traded Nuclear Information For Cash In Chinese Espionage Case (knoxnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am curious: what information did he get in return?

  2. Not nice for all people... on Google Introduces Voice Access To Make Android More Accommodating For People With Disabilities (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is not nice for people who suffer from Tourette syndrome.

  3. Given this is India... on India's Audacious Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2 Billion People (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am surprised that they did not call it Rational Unified Payment Interface.

  4. Is this a proof of concept? on Academics Claim Google Android 2FA Is Breakable (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The second link is to a google doc, which is a possible attack vector according to the submission. Should I visit this link with my android phone? Or is someone really not thinking clearly?

  5. Re:Too many questions on Toyota Teams With Microsoft On Connected Cars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    What happens in the event of a crash? Is there a blue screen of actual death?

    Not entirely. There are probably some red splashes on it.

  6. Re:I have a suspicion... on Tesla Receives 115,000 Model 3 Preorders Worth $115 Million In 24 Hours (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is much easier, seeing the numbers as I count on my fingers.

  7. Re:Would be nice if... on Tor Project Says It Can Quickly Catch Spying Code · · Score: 1

    What is a CMU?

  8. Re:Terrorism without Internet ! on Paris Terrorists Used Burner Phones, Not Encryption, To Evade Detection (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well you are actually right. Terrorists want exposure. And the internet has greatly helped them. But that does not mean you have to use the internet in the preparations.

    Apart from that, encryption used by terrorists would probably be dead simple, such as calling a bomb "the mailman", so they can say "The mailman has arrived".

  9. Aren't most of the currencies digital today? You are almost automatically seen as a terrorist if you pay with normal cash nowadays.

  10. Re:NOT EVEN POSSIBLE!!! on NASA's Journey To Mars May Use Nuclear Rockets (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No way. First there are international laws and treaties preventing ANY nuclear devices I space.

    Way. In fact, it was already done long ago. The Voyager space probes have a nuclear power source.

  11. Re:Cattle on Why Buses Need To Be More Dangerous · · Score: 1

    No, the logic is sound, period.

    No, absolutely not. The situation is safer when you are in the bus, but the author does not mention the risk to other road users. Should all pedestrians and cyclists take the bus or die underneath one?

  12. Re:Meanwhile in Indian on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You beat me to it. Trade agreements, well any agreements, used to be a solution. Nowadays, they are used as weapons. That is definitely not something to be proud of.

  13. Re:Gold is the only real money on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 1

    it is always advantageous to wait until prices drop

    Only up to a point. You would not want to wait your entire life for clothes, food, housing, etc. Besides, I read that the world's population growth would end somewhere this century. And off course money can be managed. If you install a negative interest rate (a kind of hoarding tax) spending becomes more advantageous. This is not a new idea, and basically I think that most humans are, well, human and not bean counting "rational" specimens of homo economicus. Maybe the stock exchange would grind to a halt. That would actually be a good thing.

  14. Re:Gold is the only real money on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You did not learn anything from the past crisis, did you? The main problem with our fiat currencies (the dollar / euro, etc) is that they are poofed into existence for dept with the obligation of paying usury. Off course, that usury was never created, so the dept spiral can only grow until the whole scam blows up in our faces. Gold has the problem that its quantity does not follow the population, but apart from distribution problems that is not necessarily a bad thing. We would just use less gold for the same goods when the population grows. The ever growing dept spiral however forces an economy to grow on top of the population growth, just to remain "stable". Off course, exponential growth can never be stable.

    Mind you, fiat currencies could work, but not if they are created and managed as they are now.

  15. Re:a 30,000 dollars drone on Hacking a Professional Drone · · Score: 2

    There is, but on slashdot it probably starts with a capital A crowned by a tilde.

  16. Mr. Trump is for Americans first. on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Mr. Trump is for Americans first.

    I believe that is true for one American only: Mr. Trump himself.

  17. Re:Capital punishment will fix this. on Hacking Group Presents 'Long-Standing' Threat To Japan (thestack.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please don't use camelCase punishment. I feel sorry for the camels.

  18. "life, limb or liberty" on German Police Allowed To Use Its Own "Federal Trojan" (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    And given the fact that lots of governments are spying on you already, your liberty is threatened anyway.

  19. Re:OK, if .... on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 2

    Even if it does not cost you any money, the real costs are your privacy and the fact that you are ever more forced into the arms of the same institutions that create money basically out of fraud. The more money gets digital, the less it has to exist in the first place.

  20. Re:Don't see the problem on Congressman: Court Order To Decrypt iPhone Has Far-Reaching Implications (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And if you read the article, you see that Apple states that this is a backdoor.

  21. Re:Works for me on French Gov't Gives Facebook 3 Months To Stop Tracking Non-User Browsers · · Score: 5, Informative

    I deleted my Facebook account several years ago.

    You cannot delete a facebook account. Everything is stored and stays so. They might have a "delete" function somewhere, but nothing is actually deleted. So you are still tracked and your data is still actively being used.

  22. Re:Math is fine! on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    But will it get you a job?

    If you plan to move to India and work for peanuts, you may have a chance.

  23. Re:Under the sea on Microsoft Serves Cloud From the Sea Bed (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    Underwater cloud? I believe it's called trouble. "Like a bridge over troubled water".

  24. Supply and demand on Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden (telecompaper.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah. Alas another example of the law of supply and demand failing because the client is not the client and the supplier is not the supplier, as everything is forced through middlemen.

  25. LHC.....No wireless.

    Off course not. They study particles, they do not simply trust those particles are doing their designated job. Before you know it A SYN passes out as an ACK at the other end of the collider...