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  1. Easier to just steal on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 2

    If you have physical access to the validator it would be easier to skim some bills from the machine and remain undetected rather than modify it to accept fake bills that will be noticed as soon as the owner brings them to a bank.

  2. Re:Fukushima? on Crashing Rockets Could Lead To Novel Sample-Return Technology · · Score: 2

    It seems like academics grabbing at straws to make themselves seem relevant for their grant proposals. The parts of Fukushima that can be reached by a rocket impactor can still be accessed by a person in a suit in a much more controlled and safe manner.

  3. The imported employees get spun off and transferred around so fast that the government loses track of them.

    Imagine a day when our total surveillance is applied to something useful like flagging people who've overstayed their visas and looking for patterns of abuse.

  4. Re:I'd care but... on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 1

    At least on Linux, Adobe provides a 64-bit flash player which runs fine in 64-bit Firefox. That's the only plugin most people care about.

  5. Re:Why is HP suing, and not the consumer? on HP Sues Seven Optical Drive Makers Over Price-Fixing · · Score: 2

    HP is a dying company. This is a SCO type move to bring in some revenue and/or negotiate favorable settlements in the form of discounts and cheap patent licenses.

  6. Re:iPEAR on Book Review: The App Generation · · Score: 1

    It takes a special kind of narcissist to re-appropriate a company's branding to create the appearance of high-status amongst one's academic peers. Bravo, Sara Konrath.

  7. Re:WTF on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The irony is that Japan's constitution was written by Americans.

  8. Re:Having worked for a Springer journal, on Why Johnny Can't Speak: a Cost of Paywalled Research · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that for many people, yes, it is a significant professional hardship to lose a day or two of work to be trekking into foreign territory and sitting amongst the stacksâ"and that this hardship is made much more irritable by the fact that the very same articles are sitting there online, in 2013, yet can't be accessed at reasonable cost.

    Imagine the horror of having to look things up in a card catalog. Research requires work. There shouldn't be an expectation of entitlement that everything is available with the twitch of a finger. The only thing to be concerned about is the trend toward tossing out old copies of journals in favor of electronic versions restricted to students and faculty.

  9. Re:Time to shut down the WTO on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    That was a $1B loss of gambling revenue. Most of that money was immediately exported as payouts to winners. Assuming the house was taking in 1% the actual net loss to their economy was $10M.

  10. Double standard on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    The document notes that her husband, Paul Flanagan, was found guilty in 1986 to resisting arrest in Prince George's County. The warrant called for police to search the residence they share and seize all weapons and ammunition because he is prohibited under the law from possessing firearms.

    But without Hudson's knowledge, the agents also confiscated a batch of documents that contained information about sources inside the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, she said.

    Since when does a felon's restricted rights extend to a spouse? G. Gordon Liddy has been publicly vocal about all the guns his wife owns. You don't see the jackboots raiding his home.

  11. Re:Constitution free zone on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    Depends, how large are these constitution free border zones again?

    Didn't you get the memo? The constitution only applies within small fenced-in parking lots designated by big bro... the government.

  12. Re:How the heck ... on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    These people need to have their overinflated egos propped up by delusions of grandeur. All of the beltway insiders have routine contact with the press to disseminate strategic "leaks" and put out chatter that will help them move ahead and disparage their opponents. It is the most important part of business in Washington. You haven't arrived until you have a cadre of sycophants to lap up the insider manna you have the power to dole out.

  13. Only have yourselves to blame on F-Secure's Hypponen: The Internet Is a 'US Colony' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where are the non-US-based search engines, social media sites, video hosts, and email providers? Yes they exist, of course, but there are almost no notable standouts. For every Vimeo there's a dozen US-based YouTubes.

    You only have yourself to blame for complacently letting US businesses dominate these fields. The internet is based on open protocols and open networks. The playing field is level other than the minor niggle of ICANN's control of domain names and DNS root servers (minor since the internet works without DNS and could be replaced with something else). Hell, most countries have an advantage over the US considering our antediluvian telecom infrastructure.

  14. Re:I would love 4K!!! on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Why do so many tablets have a higher resolution (and probably higher quality) display than the Air then? Even the iPad Mini has a higher resolution.

    Because it's easier to manufacture a smaller screen and dead pixels are less obvious (leading to higher yield).

  15. Re:Didn't they learn from Microsoft? on Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well · · Score: 1

    It worked pretty well for Microsoft when they changed the default VBA security settings to their strictest level. That curtailed the propagation of Office macro viruses enough that they couldn't grow to epidemic proportions.

    Once the herd has immunity the few power users that need the convenience of running untrusted code without a nag dialog can do so with a much reduced threat of being compromised.

  16. Pre-Carly Laserjet on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    Get a pre-Carly Laserjet. They're built like tanks and are cheap to operate.

  17. Republican party on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    This is what you get from the Republican party's pro-business, minimal government policies... pro-entrenched business that is.

  18. Re:The USB Implementers Forum on USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware · · Score: 1

    It's about protecting their source of income. If organizations start reselling PIDs it cuts into their revenue stream which is needed to conduct activities maintining the standards. It's easy to paint the implementers forum as the bad guy but at least they are open enough to provide all documentation for free unlike organizations like IEEE that keeps an iron grip on their standards.

    If you don't like their system then switch to something like ethernet where the licensing fees are baked into the price of a MAC.

  19. Re:And when will Experian be charged? on Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service · · Score: 1

    Submit a dispute using the FCRA procedure. When nothing is done to rectify the problem within 30 or 45 days you have grounds to sue the reporting agencies as well as the original source of the bad data.

  20. Priorities on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thank god there won't be any breastfeeding moms to corrupt the mind when one is looking for snuff pictures.

  21. Not that simple on Crossing the Divide From Software Dev To Hardware Dev · · Score: 1

    Designing something that runs close to the DC end of the spectrum like a 6502 requires far less engineering know how than pushing into the high speed domain beyond 100MHz. That doesn't invalidate the value of designing with "old" tech when if will suffice but it isn't a viable way to change career paths.

  22. Re:Private networks? on Communications Protocol Leaves Power Grid Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Don't electric utilities maintain private communications networks for their critical infrastructure?

    They do, but nowadays many SCADA systems have internet connectivity for service and support. All it takes is one unsecured internet connection left open by bad system design or a forgetful technician to let the wolves in.

  23. Re:Virtual? on USS Zumwalt — a Guided Missile Destroyer Running On Linux · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's a stupid description. What they mean is that they are running Linux on VMs.

  24. Re:Reality check, please, people on Myst Creators Announce Obduction · · Score: 1

    Sort of like EA with Madden.

  25. Yay on Ubuntu, Kubuntu 13.10 Unleashed · · Score: 0

    Now maybe VMWare can get off their duff and provide a functional installer for 13.04