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  1. Re:Wavelength on UK Researchers Build Micron LED Light Based Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    It doesn't stop them from sniffing if you have windows. You could still aim a very sensitive camera at the room. It does make it harder and much more expensive through.

  2. a few ideas on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have 3 solutions.
    First is to misspell names. Science has proven that you can unjumble all but the first character.
    john.doe@company.com
    jhon.doe@company.com
    jnho.doe@company.com

    Second one is to increment the punctuation. This may be a bit confusing, but at least everyone has their correct name.

    john.doe@company.com
    john,doe@company.com
    john_doe@company.com
    john-doe@company.com
    etc.

    Third idea is to have them share. Why do they all need their own? Things will be addressed to the correct name. If don't want to share emails, just change your name.

  3. Good on Time Warner Boosts Broadband Customer Speed — But Only Near Google Fiber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is what healthy competition is supposed to do to the market. Now, we need google fiber in more cities and the average speed and price of internet will get better for everyone (unless you live in a rural area).

  4. Re:So why the hell does Flash get a pass? on Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default · · Score: 1

    I hope they still load automatically, they wouldn't be nearly as useful if i needed to click to use them.

  5. Square? on Google Pledges Pi Million Dollars In Pwnium 3 Prizes · · Score: 1

    Squarest? -1 troll? I would have gone well rounded.

  6. This looks shopped. on Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 · · Score: 2

    This is back when "I can see from some of the pixels" was a valid complaint.

    source:
    I have seen quite a few shops in my day.

  7. Re:This is why developers are not sysadmins on Github Kills Search After Hundreds of Private Keys Exposed · · Score: 1

    I don't think that would be easy to implement. In git you add and commit your changed to a local repository, then push them back to github. Somehow cutting them out later would give you really cool errors. They would need to catch them on your commit locally. The real question should be why those keys were placed inside the project directory, and not somewhere like ~/.ssh/

  8. Wont anyone think of the copywrite infringement!?! on Twitter's Vine App Ready To Bomb Internet With GIF-Like Videos · · Score: 2

    Wont anyone think of the copywrite infringement!?! Most pirates on YouTube already break films into sections, this wont help the trend. I don't want to watch 1200 segments for a 2 hour movie.

  9. Re:Ban them! on USPTO Asks For Input On Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Is their recourse for us when the patent office patents nature? On a side note, anyone want to help me patent a system that exchanges gases in a fluid using two expanding and contracting sacs?

  10. GAH on UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless · · Score: 1

    Cookies are optional. They are little text files that your computer sends as part of the request when you request a page from a webserver. They can only be accessed from the domain that wrote them. If you are concerned, you can turn cookies off in every major web browser made since the 90's. I just checked, and currently Slashdot is using 8 cookies to track me!

  11. Re:"JUST" 12 light years? LOL. on Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    Thats a qood question. Assuming some sane acceleration for a spacecraft, and assuming that they will need equal time to decelerate, how long would it be to travel 15 light years?

  12. Be Careful on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They arn't particularly easy to modify without making them hard to update. And updated common web software like that makes you an easy mark for hackers once they put out the next revision. I record all the 404s to our website and you would be surprised how many go to addresses of admin pages on things like WordPress. So if you do go that route to save time, but it on a different box and make it a priority to keep up to date.

  13. Re:what could go wrong on More Drones Set To Use US Air Space · · Score: 2

    Just don't open any ports and hacking is much harder. Also don't install a web browser with java and flash plugins on your aircraft.

  14. Been done on Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time · · Score: 1

    What if you could compress a video clip into a single image? - Animated Gif.

  15. Did this already on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 2

    I did this once in dwarf fortress... Protip, it creates a lot of FUN.

  16. Re:Nuke the site from orbit on Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? · · Score: 1

    http://www.dban.org/ Nuke it from a boot disk. Its the only way to be sure.

  17. Crushing the Competition on UK ISPs Ordered To Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every single artist on the promo bay should sue the monopoly for anti competitive business practices.

  18. Re:Really? Pangolin? on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance · · Score: 5, Funny

    We do need more Australian animals. Ubuntu 19.04 : Dangerous Dropbear

  19. Re:First they came for the women on Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked · · Score: 1
  20. Re:A Tesla? on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    They figured out how to clone Nikola Tesla in their 80:20 time. Everyone gets one.

  21. antitrust anyone? on Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger · · Score: 1

    Next we should block torrent outright. That should put a kabosh on those guys trying to download Linux via torrent.

  22. ftfy on Solid Buckeyballs Detected In Space · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They are made up of 60 carbon atoms arranged into a hollow sphere, like a soccer ball.

  23. Re:ICE on Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I would too, but most likely you are dead already.

  24. Re:I applaud this. on Film Studios Seeking Complete Block of Newzbin2 in the UK · · Score: 1

    i2p? Theres a ppa for that.

  25. You could.. on Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading? · · Score: 1

    You could use a k nearest neighbor algorithm to compare dial positions. The problem is that you would need pictures of all the possible dial positions to use as a training set, and the camera couldn't be moved much, or it would error.