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  1. Re:Great for CC scammers on Startup Touts All-in-One Digital Credit Card · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Vendors are not supposed to accept card without a valid signature on them. That alone would place them in breach of contract with the credit issuers and card processors if they accepted a cloned card.

  2. Re:What was the previous license on POV-Ray Is Now FLOSS · · Score: 2

    The old license was open source but had restrictions on commercial use.

    The old license is less permissive about commercial use:

    Subject to the other terms of this license, the User is permitted to use the Software in a profit-making enterprise, provided such profit arises primarily from use of the Software and not from distribution of the Software or a work including the Software in whole or part.

    Redistribution is more restricted:

    This licence does not grant any right of re-distribution or use in any manner other than the above. The Company has separate license documents that apply to other uses (such as re-distribution via the internet or on CD)

  3. Re:Let me be the First to Say... on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    The middle of Lake Ontario is a bombing range. I'm sure there are many more unsavory things sitting on the bottom than a few hundred gallons of jet fuel floating around.

  4. P2P != Wifi? Double standard from the courts on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    So if one allows access to P2P indexers, those people cannot retroactively claim their privacy was violated. Reasonable enough. However, if Google records unencrypted WiFi broadcasts over public spectrum they are guilty of wiretapping? It seems like there's a double standard being applied by the courts.

  5. Re:Features not that impressive on First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights · · Score: 1

    the door hold-up mechanism needs work. When they open the "suicide doors", which rotate backwards and upward, it looks like the counterbalancing system isn't quite right. The demonstrator has to adjust the door to keep it open, and then it shakes.

    Wobbliness aside, that appears to be a feature so that the door gives a bit when you bash your turban into it while trying to get out.

  6. Re:Swipe? on Square Is Discontinuing Monthly Pricing On February 1, 2014 · · Score: 1

    Canadians love traveling to the states to get cheaper products with lower sales tax. They won't willingly sacrifice their mag stripes when they are needed to conveniently spend money in the US.

  7. Roll your own authentication guys on Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We also understand that some people would prefer to have more identity choices. So we have been testing twitter, facebook and wordpress login options. We will be rolling them out over the next 7 weeks.

    Apparently they are too busy looking for other ways to force you to have 3rd party accounts to realize the obvious solution and roll their own authentication system.

  8. Re:who cares on GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads · · Score: 1

    for 2 features (CMYK and 16bit depth), that I can get by using a few other open source odds and ends in conjunction with Gimp.

    Converting 8-bit RGB into CMYK doesn't maintain the same color information as natively editing in CMYK.

    There is a cheaper alternative to Photoshop if you need those features: run Corel PhotoPaint in a VM.

  9. Re:Alternate host? on GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads · · Score: 1

    While it's not the same as the old Google code hosted downloads you can still put binaries on Google drive (The account is already active) and link to it from the 'code home page.

  10. Re:amused that they talk about the DT environs on Slackware Linux 14.1 Released · · Score: 1

    That's what screen is for.

  11. Apple browser bundling on Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for them to go after Apple for browser bundling. Until then their crusades will ring hollow.

  12. Re:WTF? on Gate One Will Support X11: Fast Enough To Run VLC In Your Browser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Vaporware doesn't generally have a repository on Github.

  13. Re:Twitter RFC on As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? · · Score: 1

    And how do you propose connecting your system to SMS? That is the secret sauce. No open solution can work as the SMS gateway providers will impose a toll for bulk messaging.

    That being said, SMS will eventually be irrelevant once data plans become cheap enough to be ubiquitous. You will still need a middleman to store undeliverable messages but it won't have to be a price gouging telecom company.

  14. Re:I wish I could say this stage was unnecessary on Robotic Surgery Complications Going Underreported · · Score: 1

    Now here's the rub....is robotic surgery any better, or offer benefit above, laparoscopic surgery?

    Ultimately it will be since the entire purpose of inserting the robot in the process is to provide finer control and filter out accidental motions that could cause mistakes and complications with traditional, hands-on-the ends-of-sticks laparoscopy.

    Right now it's use is limited by the number of approved procedures and the pack of wolves salivating at the prospect for waves of lawsuits against the manufacturer and operators. This limits the amount of data being produced to evaluate its effectiveness.

  15. Re:Compile time is irrelevant. on Speed Test: Comparing Intel C++, GNU C++, and LLVM Clang Compilers · · Score: 2

    An excessively long build time can inflate development costs if the delay in testing new code becomes prohibitively long. A large codebase that takes 4 hours to build on a slow compiler will force developers to frequently wait over night for test results to come back. If a different compiler can build that code 4x faster you have many more opportunities to observe test results during a work day. Upgrading the build system isn't always an option when you have to support legacy platforms with inherently slow hardware and cross compiling isn't an option.

  16. FOIL on Report Claims a Third of FOIA Requests To the NYPD Go Unanswered · · Score: 4, Informative

    Technically, there are no FIOA requests answered by any New York government office since the equivalent state law is abbreviated FOIL.

  17. Re:Silly question on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 0

    You need air inside to provide convective cooling. A partial vacuum would also make fluid bearings difficult or impossible to maintain.

  18. What's with the wheels? on SkyRunner Car Goes Off-Road and Off-Ground · · Score: 1

    20-inch rims and low profile street tires. Perfect for off-roading.

  19. Re:CANbus on A Protocol For Home Automation · · Score: 1

    CAN is nice in well designed systems but it wouldn't work well in retrofits to existing homes since no one wants to run dedicated wiring in an age where wireless communication is ubiquitous. It would be like expecting people to install 10Base2 and understand the need for terminations and avoiding star topologies. Not going to happen.

    A powerline based solution has potential but trying to tunnel CAN over the powerline would be doomed to failure since the non-destructive arbitration system depends on a well designed bus with length restrictions to limit propagation delays. Wireless CAN implementations are really only meant to bridge existing CAN busses and have the same security problems and range/interference issues as any other wireless solution.

  20. Re:BUNCH OF CRAP !! on Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate · · Score: 1

    That gives you at least 4kHz of bandwidth above the limits of human hearing right there.

    Actually only 2KHz because of sampling theory.

  21. It would be nice if they'd offer 10Mbps to $10.

  22. Re:What problem are they solving? on Silent Circle, Lavabit Unite For 'Dark Mail' Encrypted Email Project · · Score: 1

    Even with PGP, the SMPT headers are unencrypted. This allows an attacker to build a graph of who talks to who. The central weakness of traditional email is that messages are passed around through multiple untrusted servers before they reach their destination.

    This system depends on creating an encrypted link (presumably with tor-like indirection) and only passing messages direct from sender to receiver. The downside is that both parties have to be online to effect the transfer. The instant messaging aspect is used to notify a sender's server when a receiver is available to accept new (possibly cached) messages.

  23. Re:When will the sheep look up on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 1

    The slow trickle of revelations is the best one could hope for. It maintains a low level trend of reporting among media outlets even if the general populace couldn't care less. It may yet fester into an election year issue if it doesn't fade away the next few months. The highlight of next year will be when Snowden's temporary asylum runs out in August, right when the Congressional campaigns begin to ramp up.

  24. Re:Easier to just steal on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    Bill validators are mostly used on vending and change machines. A typical operator just visits periodically to restock the product dispensed and take the money inside. The validator tracks how much it took in but many require additional hardware to read that information out which most people would be too lazy to bother with. Skimming from a compromised machine is likely to go undetected.

  25. Re:Too little too late on MELT, a GCC Compiler Plugin Framework, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your hipster hardcore developer friends might want to read the GCC license some day which has an explicit exception allowing the runtime code to be incorporated in closed source software without imposing the terms of the GPL.