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  1. Conclusion of the report... on Oz Govt Pushes Ahead With ISP Customer Data Retention · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We see an increase in SSL connections to Sweden.

  2. If they are still produced on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Laptop With a Keypad That Doesn't Suck · · Score: 1

    what about an HP Probook? You don't want to play games though

  3. Re:Lawsuits for everyone. on Facebook Privacy Suit Seeks $15 Billion · · Score: 1

    I am curious: do you intend to install a Firefox plugin for each one of the 900+ tracking cookies that Ghostery references?

  4. Hum... who isn't? on UK In Danger From Electromagnetic Bomb, Says Defense Secretary · · Score: 1

    If, like most people, you don't live in a Faraday cage, and if your country hasn't built a giant one around itself, you're most likely "in danger", aren't you?

  5. Facebok's next new group on Vesta Is a Baby Planet, Not an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    "When I was your age, Vesta was an asteroid"

  6. Re:No secret in academia on Positive Bias Could Erode Public Trust In Science · · Score: 1

    This seems quite complicated! The right way to do stuff is to first do it, and write your hypothesis afterwards according to your results. The same goes for engineering: you make the product, and then write the specification. Otherwise you would be wrong / request for deviation too often, and that would be depressing!

  7. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, no; we count on people who designed a rocket launcher the proper way (read: under pressure during the cold war) many years ago, and nowadays they don't know how to do it anymore. This is one of the reasons why the modifications to the Soyuz rocket launcher were kept to a strict minimum before launching it from Kourou: they wanted to keep as much as possible the old design that we know worked quite well.

  8. Re:Whats interesting to me is on Dealing With the Eventual Collapse of Social Networks · · Score: 1

    You sir, have a very peculiar definition of your friends... As people I know started to sign up and use telephone services more and more, I started getting less and less letters from them. Now I only get letters from a few of them. Don't get me wrong, its not a bad thing as it lets me know who my real friends are!

  9. In other related news... on Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase' · · Score: 1

    Apple: PCs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase'

  10. Re:rising costs on Jimmy Wales Backs UK Government Bid To Free Academic Data · · Score: 1

    Maybe "Open access" should not be understood as "anyone submits anything, Wikipedia-style", but more "anyone can read any approved publication"?

  11. Stephen King on Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster · · Score: 1

    Whoever he is, he always specializes in horror and suspense scenarios

  12. Re:Whoopdie-doo on Study Finds 1 in 10 Used Hard Drives Contains Old Personal Data · · Score: 1

    Maybe 90% of people who sell their old drives before they stop working know how to properly wipe them... Do you sell your drives that still work?

  13. Biophilia... on Cybercriminals Exploit Björk's Biophilia App To Compromise Androids · · Score: 1

    So... Androids are biophobic?

  14. Re:We don't need or want natural language searches on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The less words, the simpler. One of the reasons I am switching to DuckDuckGo: instead of typing 'wikipedia something' (previously with Google in my address bar, I just type '!w something'. I don't see the advantage of going back to a full sentence in natural language...

  15. One week? on SpaceX Launch To International Space Station Delayed For Code Tweaks · · Score: 1

    I am surprised. I don't remember very well what were the launch windows for LEO orbits, so this might not be applicable... But for GTO orbits, it was either one or two days of delay if there was a minor preparation glitch on the launcher, or something like one month if a new flight software had to be generated and qualified... Anyone knows more about this?

  16. Re:how long? on Iran's Oil Industry Hit By Cyber Attacks · · Score: 2
  17. Re:Miss-click on Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email · · Score: 1

    Moreover, in several European countries, you simply cannot fire someone by email; you need to summon them for a preliminary interview first, etc.

  18. Re:As this violates... on Europe Agrees To Send Airline Passenger Data To US · · Score: 1

    It's "funny" because:
    - It seems Germany has some agreements on international data transfers.
    - Just a couple of months ago, the European Commission proposed a Comprehensive Reform of the data protection rules... It's super effective!

  19. Re:The Netherlands is important because... on Judge Rules Takedown of Pirate Party General Proxy Illegal · · Score: 1

    True for the USA, but not for the Netherlands. The Netherlands have little power over the non-democratic elected officials of the European Union government (in other words, the peoples of Europe have no power to elect the ones with power in the EU government)

    - The European Parliament has one of the most democratic elections I can think of: proportional and with a large number of Europe-wide parties.

    - Local state legislation has an influence on the long term on the European people and the European governance, even if it does not apply to the other member states (and in some cases, fortunately).

  20. Re:Ready? on Why Didn't the Internet Take Off In 1983? · · Score: 1

    People thing Apple is greedy with their 30% cut? FT was worse...

    Yet, one of the most successful french businessmen in the ISP area built his fortune on Minitel services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel

  21. Re:So downloads of music are free in France then? on France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fat chance: in France there's already have a tax on HDDs, memory cards and all types of blank media to pay for our right to a "private copy" of the music people purchased, but this does not authorize them to downloadâ¦

  22. Re:How much do you make? on Making Mobile Presentations Without a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    According to the French Wikipedia, 250 g of Semtex could destroy most of a plane's fuselage. I guess this could fit in a fake phone !