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  1. 3 headlines combined on Sophisticated, Targeted Breakins Uncovered · · Score: 1

    from today:

    1.) IT: Sophisticated, Targeted Breakins Uncovered
    2.) Bionic Hand Makes it to Market
    3.) First Robotic Drone Squadron Deployed

    Poor skilled crhackers will pwn a bionic hand. Then the bionic hand will hack them into getting root on the UAV squadron. Then $300 will be demanded for returning control of the AGM-114 and Paveway II loaded UAVs.

  2. patents aren't for companies on Patents Don't Pay · · Score: 1

    They're for individual inventors so that they can innovate.
    Goliath companies have much more resources and can clone the ideas if you guys get your way.

  3. Re:VIVA MEXICO CA.... on Bill Gates Drops To Number 2 · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen any posts mentioning that Microsoft made more than just BG rich.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen#Philanthro py for example.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallace was another Microsoft philanthropist.

  4. camera-free zones on Permit May Be Required For Public Photography in NYC · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great place to hold a political convention.

  5. so much for this business: spoofcard.com on CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal · · Score: 1

    http://www.spoofcard.com/ found it via cruel.com so caveat emptor.

    Mitnick's The Art of Deception mentions how he did some demo callerid spoofing on a talk show.

    What's next? Spoof ip addresses becoming illegal? After all as other poster said all you need to spoof callerid is your own pbx.

  6. that's a hell of a box on The Sopranos Ends With a ... · · Score: 1

    Adiabatic sun-protection-factor 10^8 membrane is more like it.
    In other words, a 1990's style blackhole is required for macroscopic quantum entanglement.

    Great ending, btw. Good tunes, good times. Thanks, writers for re-working the #1 movie.

  7. there is another possibility on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 1

    which is that in poorer parts of the world, selling email addresses is more profitable than Internet network integrity.
    That is to say, sniffing email addresses off the routers with no collusion on the part of your paid services.
    Or the email servers that you are communicating with.

    instantspam09319467@hotmail.com

  8. Polish jokes are not bigotry on Polish Fans Held By Police For Movie Translations · · Score: 1

    nope.

  9. subscene.com is comprehensive on Polish Fans Held By Police For Movie Translations · · Score: 1

    found it with the usual search engine.

  10. don't be a Slashdot strawcommenter ~ Re:O Rly on Global Internet Censorship On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Skype is encrypted by default, not to mention stealthy (uses port 80 plus p2p-ish networking).

    Once upon an Internet, Bill Clinton signed an executive order classifying encryption as munitions.

  11. the fark.com "I blame [fill in the blank] thread" on Gamers Grapple With VA Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    was priceless.

  12. Slashdot difficulty setting: 5 on Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies · · Score: 1

    Responses to this article may not include the name Orwell or references to 1984 or the many, many, many derivative fictional works.
    That would be like a 1,000,000 Slashbot users having highvoltage kneejerk reactions to every flying robot drone article by quoting Asimov's laws of robotics.
    Which he used as a plot device to crank out pulp fiction at a record rate. The only robot he ever used was his toaster. A plot device people, ...

    Oh, I'm the first to mention Orwell and 1984. oops.

  13. for precedence (?) on Typing Patterns for Authentication · · Score: 1

    I'll just mention the opposite idea, which I've never got around to bothering with.
    If you voip a lot, this idea might come to your attention.
    Pattern analysis of your typing, and then decoding that typing to extract passphrases.
    Known plaintext correlated with typing audio, [imagine the scenario], could be helpful.
    As they say, "Working code trumps all theories."

  14. links on NASA Probe Validates Einstein Within 1% · · Score: 4, Informative

    sciency details:
    http://cosmicvariance.com/2007/04/15/dragging-on/ (4:33 p.m.)

    Also of interest if you're into this sort of thing, what Beyond Einstein programs will be cut?
    http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/2007/04/beyond _einstein_iv_showdown_in.php (April 4)
    sad if you compare sticker prices to the $10 billion per month on the Iraq adventure.

  15. Mind How You Talk on Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching · · Score: 1

    Lip reading is an art, so computers should be able to do it if anyone bothers..

  16. closed source graphs on Security — Open Vs. Closed · · Score: 1

    The text labels on those graphs are illegible.

  17. no futurists at Slashdot apparently on Your House Is About To Be Photographed · · Score: 1

    1.) Let's spin the clock dial ahead 15 years.
    2.) All affluent citizenry can see most any passive electromagnetic radiation. Satellites can too.
    3.) ???
    4.) Science fiction

    Options for 3.) seeing who has tumors, looking through walls, etc.

  18. not this shiat again on Cheap, Safe, Patentless Cancer Drug Discovered · · Score: 1
  19. Bad TV = Good for you on Are TV Pharmaceutical Ads Damaging? · · Score: 1
    Since you're less likely to watch. Even if there was a subscription version of television without advertisements, the latest shows have a very high rate of camera angle jumps (easy enough to count them yourself.)

    Cut & pasting from my blog since a day-old /. story will never be looked at anyway:

    I think that the serotonin hypothesis is one that is supported by evidence, and is a just a first stab at reducing the nearly supernatural complexity of neurotransmitter soup. To something where researchers can grab ass about their theories with actual studies. But it is bad for common sense about what is meaningful.

    The first cite is a review of internal research:
    J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2000 November; 25(5): 481-496.
    "Neurochemical and metabolic aspects of antidepressants: an overview"
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?ar tid=1408023&blobtype=pdf

    PLoS Med. 2005 December; 2(12): e392.
    "Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature"
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcg i?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1277931

    PLoS of course is the open access journal, probably even less threshold than http://arxiv.org/help/submit . In response to the PLoS paper, hell if I watched television, I'd need medication too. From the PLoS paper: "the fact that aspirin cures headaches does not prove that headaches are due to low levels of aspirin in the brain." Also:

    "When the published and unpublished trials [from a FOIA request] were pooled, the placebo duplicated about 80% of the antidepressant response; 57% of these pharmaceutical company-funded trials failed to show a statistically significant difference between antidepressant and inert placebo. [...] This modest efficacy and extremely high rate of placebo response are not seen in the treatment of well-studied imbalances such as insulin deficiency, and casts doubt on the serotonin hypothesis."
  20. Slashdot grow some huevos: on Become the Fifth Space Tourist · · Score: 1

    This should have the censored "forks and spoons" patent icon associated with it.
    'Twould be fair play.

  21. Brilliant! on Survey Indicates ID Theft May Be Diminishing · · Score: 1

    Identity theft illustrates the difference between accidental systems and designed systems.

    Provide a design proposal for a national system that provides authentication for every social networking site, every ssh, every sftp, every login domain, every banking website, every email account.

    The system design principles:
    1.) All users will have a single universal password for all of these authentications.
    2.) The user may not change their password unless something unusual has happened.

  22. quote is wrong on Web Honeynet Project IDs Attackers · · Score: 1

    http://www.dshield.org/ collaboratively collected ip addresses that were showing up in log files. At first you could search broadly but probably due to the various worms with backdoors such as CodeRed, they switched it to just looking up 1 ip address at a time.

  23. some numbers on The Impact of Immigrant Innovators · · Score: 1
    Graph 5a is "Immigrant Groups Founding Engineering and Technology Companies in California." India is out in front at 20%, followed by Taiwan (13%), and China (10%). This time, Mexico makes the chart, but with only 1% [...]
    via http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/study-25-millio n-mexican-americans.html
  24. Re:Why do we ... on Why Do We Use x86 CPUs? · · Score: 1

    Why do we drive on the right side of the road in some places, left in others?
    Do people who drive on the left side of the road, walk on that side in pedestrian spaces when passing, or in swimming zones? Fascinating.

    Why do most screws tighten clockwise?
    Most people are right handed, so more power in that direction. You hurt your wrist counter-clockwise. More screws are tightened than loosened.

    Why do we use a 7 day calender, 60 second minutes, 60 minute hours, and a 24 hour clock like the Sumerians instead of base 10?
    60 and 360 and 24 are easily divisible. Degrees are based on astronomy so divisions are imperative.

    Why do we count in base 10 instead of binary, hex, base 12?
    Too obvious.

    Why don't we all switch to Esperanto or some other idealized language?
    Esperanto wasn't as good as a natural language. Too dry to write books in. Nah, I'm lying. Maybe we'll see a fourth generation artificial natural language used for the semantic web.

    Or if you're familiar with the story: Why are the Space Shuttle boosters the size they are?
    No, you tell me.

  25. parody on Gaming's Biggest Blunders of 2006 · · Score: 1