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  1. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    If you do not agree to the ads requirement in the EULA, then extra features like refrigeration will be unavailable but do not worry, your new LG refrigerator makes a fine cabinet.

  2. Re:Let me know when you win that war on drugs? on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    Anything you say can and will be used against you. Keep your trap shut.

    This is the literal truth. Anything you say which can be used in your defense is hearsay.

  3. Re:Repeatable as Fuck on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    Chromatic aberration was also fixed in software.

  4. Re:Nothing unconstitutional about this on Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers · · Score: 1

    I do not doubt this is happening but I am surprised there has not been more direct evidence. All it takes is one forged certificate that could only have been signed by a certificate authority or one example of network equipment with a designed in exploit. I assume the NSA makes considerable effort to hide what they are doing but there are capable interests who would seem to benefit from revealing it.

  5. Re: And any idiot with a soldering iron can bypass on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    In the case of a smart gun though, the item is stolen and *then* unlocked later at leisure. Given how simple firearms are, that will not be a difficult operation.

    Gun safes work great for protecting firearms as well but not if the thief either has time to work on it or can carry it off whole to a more private location.

  6. Re:And any idiot with a soldering iron can bypass on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    It is more applicable to law enforcement officers where the statistic is well measured. Of course this is the group that is exempted from smart gun legislation.

  7. Re:going off-grid on Tesla Logged $713 Million In Revenue In Q1 and Built 7,535 Cars · · Score: 1

    Good thing the gas furnace works when the power is out . . .

  8. GMC Quality on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Having experience GMC "quality" first hand, I am positive that they can screw up an electronic ignition key even worse than a mechanical one.

  9. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    Like other federal powers, it will be justified as affecting interstate commerce:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

    Parts of the drone "moved in or otherwise affected interstate commerce", right?

  10. Re:I don't know but there for Aliens. on Understanding the 2 Billion-Year-Old Natural Nuclear Reactor In W Africa · · Score: 1

    Although that's an interesting idea for the disposal of nuclear (fission) waste for an advanced civilization, I tend to believe that the energy required to melt rock and integrate melted fuel rods to a dilute enough concentration not to harm natural life would be cost prohibitive. In addition, any civilization THAT advanced would undoubtedly be able to get better efficiency out of their reactors before zipping away.

    I agree that they would have better things to do with the waste but they could bury it in a subduction zone. That will eventually dilute it just fine with molten rock.

  11. Re:This is just the beginning... on Scientists Give Praying Mantises Tiny 3D Glasses · · Score: 1

    Stage 6: Scientists postpone mantis DNA tests indefinitely and equip new test subjects with rifles.

  12. Re:Don't look at DARPA for the Prius of motorcycle on DARPA Develops Stealth Motorcycle For US Special Forces · · Score: 1

    A pure electric drive train, motor probably built into the hub of the rear wheel eliminating drive chains/shaft.

    Especially on an off-road vehicle, you probably want to keep the electric motor on the frame and couple it to the wheel to avoid raising the unsprung mass.

  13. Re:Been done on DARPA Develops Stealth Motorcycle For US Special Forces · · Score: 1

    You ride that into a restricted area, see how well you do. We'll go to your funeral.

    Or meet you back in time.

  14. Re:good on How the Code War Has Replaced the Cold War · · Score: 1

    Instead of WoW, worry about the national infrastructure. Imagine all the SCADA devices insecurely connected to the Internet going down more-or-less simultaneously. No electricity, natural gas, or water distribution systems, no sewage treatment, etc. After a few hours/days without electricity the backup systems would start dying, so no phones or Internet either.

    An easier target would be the banking and government systems. Just screwing up social security transfers would be effective if slower.

  15. Re:About time! on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    I tunneled IPv6 for years on AT&T. It is only recently that they have started actively blocking it. Coincidentally, this occurred right about the time they started offering upgrades for money to support it.

  16. Re:About time! on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    It would help if some ISPs, namely AT&T, had not started actively blocking IPv6 tunneling.

  17. Re:Commodore Amiga 3000T on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    I would say Tektronix oscilloscopes from before Danaher bought them but the oldest test instruments I have that I regularly use are ESI 250DA impedance bridges.

  18. Re:Thuktun Flishithy on Saturn May Have Given Birth To a Baby Moon · · Score: 1

    Maybe we spotted The Foot.

  19. Re:and you'll go blind on Saturn May Have Given Birth To a Baby Moon · · Score: 1

    You've a wicked sense of humor, Darth Vader!

  20. Re:Can they pay back the $$ they stole? on US Takes Out Gang That Used Zeus Malware To Steal Millions · · Score: 1

    . . . and they'll usually seize any assets that they can prove were from the crime.

    That happens whether the person is charged with a crime or not and the burden of proof is on the person to prove that the seized assets were *not* involved in a crime.

  21. Re:BUT, More RAM please sir... on Raspberry Pi Compute Module Release · · Score: 1

    Ummm.. So provide a chip and mount one on the board? Surely BMC has a part in mind for this. Or are you saying NOBODY makes a way to connect the BMC part to 1 GB of RAM?

    As far as I can tell from the sparse documentation available, the BCM2835 lacks an external memory bus so a different processor with a different package and/or pinout would be necessary. This makes sense for a chip intended for embedded controller applications.

    I have no idea if Broadcom makes a suitable alternative. Their web site reads like a marketing brochure promising everything without details about what they actually make and sell. They would never be my first choice and they remind me of dealing with nVidia.

  22. Re:Flamebait on TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA · · Score: 1

    If other reports are to be believed, the NSA actively sabotaged encryption standards like IPSEC. All they had to do was prevent something effective from being adopted and becoming widespread.

    http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

  23. Re:..and we need this technology why exactly? on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 1

    The lifespan of the LEDs is great. The ballasts on the other hand last about 6 months where I am.

  24. Re:Kind of an empty gesture on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 1

    Tektronix had a run-in with Fluke over this before 2000 with their recently introduced handheld multimeters which were black with a yellow rubber guard. Tektronix changed the guard color to black or blue and then later Fluke bought their handheld multimeter division and discontinued them.

  25. Re:Kind of an empty gesture on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 1

    Since when is a friggin' multimeter a "safety device?"

    Multimeters are safety devices in the sense that they are often used to measure potentially lethal unknown circuits. There are different safety ratings which specify how much of an overload the meter must accept without failure or even improper operation. This is why the current ranges use (or should use) specially rated fuses which seem outrageously expensive.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    It was a long time informal standard to associate the color yellow with specially rated or ruggedized multimeters which is no doubt why Fluke adopted it for most if not all of their meters even if they did not meet any enhanced safety specifications which is deceptive at best not that plenty of other manufactures did the same thing. That standard has been deprecated by misuse so red or orange has become the new informal standard (also commonly misused) and of course Fluke marks their ruggedized and intrinsically safe meters in an alternative color style as well. I wonder if they will get a trade dress designations which include orange and/or red at some point.

    The Beckman HD series of ruggedized multimeters from the 1980s are the first ones I remember that really took advantage of industrial strength yellow.