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  1. Re:Hacker??!! on Blogger Fined €3,000 for 'Publicizing' Files Found Through Google Search · · Score: 1

    Republishing someone else's documents is copyright infringement at the least. News websites are freely accessible, but if you spider all their content and host it on your own website you'll be lucky to get away with a €3,000 fine!

  2. Re:Seriously? on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    They were prescription glasses, and the wearer needed them to see. He had previously been that cinema twice wearing them with no problems, so he assumed there would not be a problem a third time.

  3. Svefg cbfg! on BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Svefg cbfg!

  4. Re:Truth hurts on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 1

    Indian = someone from India.

  5. Re:Stupid interlligence on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    If you are on a urgent mission, you wouldn't be pulled over by the police. You would dial 999 and talk to the police operator and tell them you are being followed by a police car, where you are, and that you are on urgent national security business. The police dispatcher would then confirm this with GCHQ/MI5/MI6 and contact the police car. You'd probably be then instructed to let the police car overtake you, and it would then go ahead of you with big flashing lights to help clear your path.

  6. Re:Where? on EU Committee Issues Report On NSA Surveillance; Snowden To Testify · · Score: 5, Informative

    RTFA: The former US National Security Agency worker would testify by interactive video link from Russia, where he has been granted temporary asylum.

  7. Re:Methane should be the priority on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 1

    That's the thing though, Methane is pretty short lived. To me that makes it low priority since we can "fix" it by slaughtering all the cows later when things get really bad from all the CO2 being released from Coal Power stations. Something which stays in the atmosphere for a long time like CO2 is the high priority since the longer we take to lower our emissions the longer we are pumping huge quantities of it into the atmosphere which takes a long long time to go away. Methane is in equilibrium with its sources since the lifetime is so short, so if we lower the emissions we will lower its concentration within a few years. Methane isn't the highest priority.

  8. Re:Nail them to the wall on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about, they didn't steal anything. They just pressed "refresh" on the PayPay website a few thousands times a second to make the website unresponsive.

  9. Will the Government Listen? on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This makes perfect sense. If an angry mob smashes up some shops fronts, but police only catch 14 people you wouldn't charge them with the total damage of the entire mob, as well as the cost of upgrading security to protect against an angry mob in the future. You would charge each individual according to the damage they actually did. In this case a single person using LOIC doesn't really do any significant damage at all. You could charge them a 1/1000 of the cost of overtime for personal to deal with the attack, and the extra bandwidth they caused the company, but its madness to hold them responsible for the damage done by the entire swarm. In a cynical POV, this is also an excellent way for PayPall to remove themselves as a target when the PayPal14 are found guility.

  10. Re:Ooops! Got it frozen with compromising display. on Yota Phone Launches With Secondary E-Ink Display · · Score: 1

    I've had LCD displays crash "on" on my Android and the only way to turn it off was to remove the battery physically. Some phones have non-removable batteries making this an existing problem.

  11. Finally! on Yota Phone Launches With Secondary E-Ink Display · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been asking for one of these for years. Battery drain on a LCD screen is too high for a phone, eink makes a much better screen.

  12. Re:Can you be serious? on Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle · · Score: 2

    As a one-off payment to kickstart better healthcare, which results in better health of workers and then more output, so you can spend more on healthcare...etc.

  13. Re:Only for business on EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the EU there are laws keeping roaming charges down. Often they are less than the cost to use your own phone in your own country!

  14. Re:I don't see a problem.. Follow the... on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 2

    I agree, why don't people report bitcoins as stolen property. Then if anyone else tries to spend them they can be flagged as stolen and a court order made to force the current holder to turn them over to the legal owner, or pay damages if they refuse. Bitcoins are far more traceable than gold. If mining pools refused to add stolen bitcoins to blocks unless the transaction fee was >1BTC it would become infeasible to hide them by splitting them into many small transactions.

  15. Women outperform met at social engineering on Phone Calls More Dangerous Than Malware To Companies · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else notice the graph showing the women in the contest outperformed their male counterparts? Women were substantially better at the live call portion of the exercise, but also better during the pre-call information gathering phase.

  16. Why code, when you are use a workflow tool? on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 1

    Use KNIME and you can probably do 90% of what you want by dragging and dropping a new nodes and joining them up. KNIME does all the complicated memory caching for large filesets for you, and you can write your own Java functions to plug into it if you need something special.

  17. Re:A thought on Security Researchers Want To Fully Audit Truecrypt · · Score: 1

    Well what I meant was if you wanted to know who was behind it, you could make a shell company who then illegally re-license TrueCrypt and wait to get sued. What could possible go wrong??

  18. Re:A thought on Security Researchers Want To Fully Audit Truecrypt · · Score: 2

    Well they would have to come forward to launch legal proceedings, wouldn't they?

  19. Re:Cost hasn't been dropping for a long time on XPrize Pulls Plug On $10 Million Genomics Competition · · Score: 1

    Another factor is the experimental costs don't include the computation costs of assembling the sequences afterwards. At the moment this is probably comparable to the experimental costs for hardware, electricity and paying someone competent to do it. (Turning a few Terabytes of ~100base pair reads into one whole 400 megabase genome isn't trivial.)

  20. From the article on New System Propels Satellites Without Propellants · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Electromagnetic formation flight (EMFF) gets around this propellant problem by turning the satellites in a formation into electromagnets. By using a combination of magnets and reaction wheels, spacecraft in formation can move and change their attitude and even spin without propellant. Satellites can change their polarity to attract or repel one another, turn, or shift their relative positions in any manner that doesn't require changing the center of gravity for the entire formation." So its all about formation flying, the satellites will pull/push off each other to remain in the correct formation. They will still needs propellent to move the whole cluster, but they can stay in formation without using any fuel.

  21. Re:Bad metric on Dogs Trained To Sniff Out Ovarian Cancer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well it depends on the cancer, I don't know about for Ovarian in particular, but for prostate you often find cancerous tissue, but it is so slow growing it wouldn't be a threat unless you lived to be over 100, and as such the side effects of treatment are much worse than the cancer would have been. These sorts of slow growing non-threatening cancers wouldn't ever produce symptoms, and so wouldn't be diagnosed without a screening programme.

  22. Bad metric on Dogs Trained To Sniff Out Ovarian Cancer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "When it's caught early, women have a five-year survival rate of 90 percent" - this is true for nearly all cancers even if there is no treatment. The fire-year survival rate depends MOSTLY on when you diagnose someone. And if you have a high false-positive in your diagnosis then you get a really big boost to the five-year survival rate. Screening programs boost the metric, but they don't necessarily boost actual survival, as the fire-year time starts from diagnosis.

  23. Uncertaintiy principle and Foruier Transforms on Proof Mooted For Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The uncertainty principle is the same as taking a Fourier transform of a sound pulse. If the time of the wave is short then the uncertainty in the frequency is high, and you get a large width in frequency space. If the wave is on for a long time, you get a nice sine wave and the uncertainty in the frequency is low, but the uncertainty in the time is now high. The maths for momentum/position of electrons comes out the same as time/frequency of sound waves. You get the uncertainty principle with non-quantised waves anyway, its not magic!

  24. Re:No 'run-on-the-bank' with bitcoin on California Sends a Cease and Desist Order To the Bitcoin Foundation · · Score: 1

    Actually since you can sign messages from bitcoin wallets, a bank could sign a message saying you have a certain amount of bitcoin credit available to you. They could do this several times over for the same coins, and act just like a bank in the real world. The only question if would anyone accept promises of bitcoins in the same way as promises of dollars. There is nothing about bitcoins that prevents notes being used, in the same way as gold as a currency didn't stop bank notes.

  25. Bitcoin miners are in breach of the law? on California Sends a Cease and Desist Order To the Bitcoin Foundation · · Score: 2

    From the wording of the letter, it sounds like bitcoin miner's could be breaking the law of California as they are engaged in money transfers by including other people's bicoin transactions in the block the add? Will bitcoin mining be illegal in the state of Califormia? (Without a licence) Or could you mine without including any transactions just to get the 25Coins?