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  1. BEER on Man Tries To Live an Open Source Life For a Year · · Score: 1

    http://flyingdogales.com/

    Flying dog is an open source beer. That is a start.

  2. Re:Ridiculous on The DHS's Latest Investment: Terahertz Laser Scanners · · Score: 1

    The paraphrase is :
    often mis-quoted and no defined original.

    That said :
    Door locks have nothing to do with what he was talking about. He was talking about the liberties outlined in the constitution. More specifically he was talking about people who were giving up on the concept of the Freedom in the United States, for British protection.

    Being searched and seized is the 4th Amendment, and that is what the TSA is violating. A belief he was directly fighting for during the British’s invasion. Since at that time the British were searching homes in the area, and arresting people for no reason.

    Why don't you actually research and understand the parallels in this paraphrase to the current events.

    You do know that since the TSA's placement flights have gone down 10%, and car accidents went up 10% as people choose to drive more than flying. The amount of people who have died in this time period in that percent is much greater than the amount that died on 9/11. So who cares if planes get hijacked once in a while? It isn’t worth the cost of the TSA and our liberties. When someone acts up on a plane now, the passengers immediately step in.

  3. Re:Sounds BAD! on The DHS's Latest Investment: Terahertz Laser Scanners · · Score: 2

    So my story actually happened. Freshly washed, I got a pat down when I declined the imagers. I then tested positive for explosives. They took me into a back room for a move advance pat down. Once I passed the more advance one, they contacted the airline to deny me.

    I talked to TSA and airport employees, they all agreed that their CURRENT machines can give positives for laundry detergent and makeup. My assumption is that if there current deployed machine is calibrated to detecting molecules up close gives false positives now, their machine that detects molecules at a range would have a similar calibration.

    Regardless, my point was trace amounts of molecules does not define a motive, and is not probable cause to be searched and seized.

  4. Re:Ridiculous on The DHS's Latest Investment: Terahertz Laser Scanners · · Score: 1

    Equality, everyone should be {insert bad thing here}, no free passes. Great logic man!

    "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety (Benjamin Franklin)."

  5. Re:Sounds good. on The DHS's Latest Investment: Terahertz Laser Scanners · · Score: 4, Informative

    The real problem is the false positives of explosives. Laundry detergent and makeup can actually give a false positive.

    Additionally, explosive residue shouldn't signify guilt. If I have gun powder residue on my shirt, does that make me a terrorist? No. I could have gone hunting, or even brushed against a police officer.

    Explosives Molecules != Terrorist

    But with the TSA it means you will be getting advanced grope down, and will miss your flight. Even if you pass your groping procedure, they may still contact the airlines and see if the airline will deny you.

  6. Re:Not new on Criminals Distribute Infected USB Sticks In Parking Lot · · Score: 2

    I read a study also.

    50% of people will plug the usb drive into their work computer if dropped off in a work parking lot. Even if it is a secure environment, such as DOD.

    90% of those people will open and executable if it has an icon and name of the the company.

  7. Re:How is this an issue? on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that an hour is a constant length a (TimeSpan), and is considered indepentant from the current time (DateTime).

    An hour is equal to 3600 seconds. That is the standard definition of an hour until the last couple decades and not everyone knows that it can actually be 3600s +/- 3s.

    So all the code that says this is wrong:
    DateTime today = new DateTime(now.Year, now.Month, now.Day); TimeSpan day = new TimeSpan(86400000); DateTime tomorrow = today.add(day);

  8. Re:How is this an issue? on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 1

    Today - 24 hrs = Today; Only Today.

    Today - ( 24 hrs + 1 sec) = Yesterday

  9. Balance my engine on Scientists Build World's Most Sensitive Scale · · Score: 1

    Now if they can only balance my rotational mass in my engine this fine.

  10. Awesomeness on 1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting · · Score: 1

    Awesome, no more half wits that fraud their way into office. Screw you Bush.

  11. Re:Citizenship on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    I worked for DoD also. Citizen status is different from Country of Origin. You can get a Clearance if you are born in a different Country, but not if you don't have citizenship.

  12. Re:SSDD on The Ineffectiveness of TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." ~Ben Franklin

  13. Re:Put up or shut up on The Best Streaming Media Player · · Score: 2

    Sorry but media centers are the way to go. Old computer + a HDHomerun + a media center remote = awesome. The setup only takes a long time because the service providers suck at setting up cable cards that are not with their own boxes. If your into it you can do more. But it just takes as long as building a computer, and a little extra time to set up the software. Who doesn't like building custom rigs? If your here you shouldn't be saying building a computer is a waste of time. My media center is 5TB of storage, 3 HD encrypted channels at a time, 2 HD non encrypted, 2 SD channels, Radio, and Netflix. It can record something like 500 hrs of HD content or 4000 hrs of SD. You seriously have months of content. Plus the ablity of using it as a computer, because it is one.

  14. Alex and Me on Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Posthumous Paper · · Score: 2
  15. Re:Immobolizers on The Future of Hi-Tech Auto Theft · · Score: 1

    I guess it really depends on the car, and your knowledge. Alot of cars, you rip up the carpet or remove a panel and the ecu is right there. Then it is as easy as opening a computer case.

    Additionally if you new what the car was before hand by looking at the VIN, you could have an already cracked ECU ready to plug in.

  16. Immobolizers on The Future of Hi-Tech Auto Theft · · Score: 1

    Most cars except for Benz, are really easy to bypass there immobolizations. You just have to open the car's ECU and rip out the immobolization chip. You just get a check engine light on after the chip has been removed.

  17. The Rise of the Plant of the Apes on Researchers Create First Genetically Modified Monkeys · · Score: 0

    Caesar has been born!

  18. Wire Tapping in Two Party States on Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information · · Score: 1

    http://www.rcfp.org/can-we-tape

    So with wire tapping laws, some states require all parties involved to give concent to the recording. These are 2 party states. All other states are 1 party states, which means only one person involved in the recording has to give concent.

    Now if they are recording incoming information within a 2 party state, the sender of the SMS message has to give concent that the message can be recorded. This is reguardless of the contract of the owner of the phone has. Ultimately, anyone who has ever sent a message to one of these phones in a 2 party state could possible sue.

  19. Re:OK, that is it. on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    I am debating if I will continue to donate blood after this. I go ever couple of months. Seems like I am feeding a corp that doesn't have my goals in mind.

  20. Re:Moca on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    The system is seperate from the cable company system. You can actually grab two of these and run a single coax cable between them and they will work. We once used two like this before because they actually have a longer cable distance than cat5 and we had to run a longer cable than 100m. An additional note is that extremely short cables will not work, 6 inches and below are too short anywhere in the coax. It will cause reflection and decrease the single strength. Also, you can have multiple splits in the coax network, and it will still work. Usually you put a Point of Entry (POE) filter at the root of the coax system so it does not leak outside your house.

  21. Re:Moca on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    This is what Comcast and Verison use as their backbone for multi-room DVR. It will give you the most reliable connection. You can have multiple endpoints, and you have have multiple MoCA networks over the same Coax lines. They use QAM channels over 1GHZ that will not interfer with your cable TV. And they will auto detect existing networks, either join them or create their own based on security settings. Additionally you can hang a switch off an endpoint to have more ports at a location.

  22. Moca on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    You don't have to use wireless if you don't want too. You said you have coax. There is IP over coax that has a backbone of 100-250MB/s called MoCA. Just ebay it, they have routers and endpoints. You don't need a MoCA router, just endpoints. They work as a switch where each port can be located off a coax line, and the backbone is the coax network.

  23. Don't get excited yet. on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 1

    First she shows a 16GB card, and only says that the technology supports 2TB. She never said they have one that exists or plans to release a 2TB version. Just that the technology supports it. It is like me saying a 64bit OS supports 8TB of RAM. It may happen in the future, but not any time soon.

  24. Bathroom on Mexico's Recycled Concrete Tube Hotel · · Score: 1

    I didn't see any pictures of bathrooms, but it does make me wonder how they are going to solve that part of it.

  25. Tiger Woods on Man Shoots Perfect Round of Putt-Putt Golf · · Score: 2

    Tiger Woods was excited to try out this course, until he found out it was Putt Putt and not Butt Butt.