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  1. Re:Sirens? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    They don't need sirens, only lights. Police under certain circumstances also travel silent when approaching a situation, and use lights and caution to navigate through traffic.

  2. Asia-Pacific Markets on How to Avoid a Target-Style Credit Card Security Breach (Video) · · Score: 1

    I've been working on a very large commercial web account for the past nine months, and have had a fair amount of exposure to merchant transaction security. Australia has been using chip readers for quite a while now, and for transactions under $100, you just tap the card to a glass covered reader -- faster than cash especially with the readers where all such transactions are instantly approved; above that, the chip goes into the reader to accept a pin and the balance is verified over a high-speed network. In Singapore, for web transactions, 3ds-auth is very popular; in addition to your card details, you redirect to a page on a 3ds provider, and enter additional details that no merchant would ever have access to before you redirect to confirm your purchase. Now, MasterCard and many major Australian banks are hosting a very nice implementation of a credit card vault, which you redirect to, answer 2-3 layers of security questions, and the merchant never stores your card details nor ever sees your CVV so there's nothing on the site to steal. (PCI audits ensure the merchant doesn't do something really stupid like store card details in exception logs, etc.). Additionally, CyberSource performs a layer of fraud protection.

  3. Re:Those aren't drones! on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    PULL!!! Drifting to the left.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk47saogI8o

  4. keep taking surveys on the issue on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 1

    Given enough time everyone will have heard they're going away from surveys.

  5. A lot of reasons on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    Low bandwidth. Small screen. Basic keyboard. No mouse. Poor html and Javascript compatibility. Poor developer tools. An immature relatively crap platform makes for a poor user experience.

    I'm a consulting commercial Web developer with decades of experience and mobiles take easily twice the time to deliver.

    (This message typed from my phone and hating every word of it)

  6. Re:Not enough, on Alan Turing Pardoned · · Score: 2

    She should have posthumously censured all the legislators who voted for the act in the first place, as well as the person who lodged the complaint.

  7. If you've never seen PE film when raining on UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites · · Score: 1
  8. Foreplay Neandertal on Genome of Neandertals Reveals Inbreeding · · Score: 1

    Ma? You awake?

  9. Basic design patterns being discussed on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    I'm just seeing an observer pattern with publishers and subscribers. It's been done time and again in probably all the major languages. In the .NET space, using aspect-oriented decoration and an expression store, both of which are declarative, well understood, and promote reuse, this concept is already covered. Regardless of the platform, any implementation is going to be constructed in the context of the domain being addressed, and I believe any one-size-fits-all approach would lead to a confusing mess.

  10. One bourbon, one scotch, one beer on Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain · · Score: 1

    Alcohol-fueled courage is best courage.

  11. Re:Cross language - what .Net gets right on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 2

    .NET backend + javascript front end, job done. It's mature, feature complete almost to exhaustion, and turns modern-day developers to focus on business requirements and integration.

  12. Re:Eve Online on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 2

    I've been subscribed for about nine years, and in that time I've been involved in some of the most famous and massive wars, advanced to become an accomplished solo pilot, and during that time started a business that pays my subscription and ship costs with minimal time investment. If you want to hang out in civilised space, it's going to be about as boring as a 9-5, but if you go out into the frontiers, then it picks up the fantasy aspects and player interactions that make it rewarding. What tuned the corner for me was naively venturing into dangerous space and the adrenaline rush of being shot at. One goes into many fights not knowing the outcome, and its that uncertainty and the element of handing my fate over to the haze of the battlefield that still gets my hands shaking and heart pounding at times.

  13. Re:They should upgrade the warning ... on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    Standard issue warning light on the Pinto as I recall.

  14. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    Barack?

  15. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 0

    Darwin called. RIP to your genetic line. Jewish by any chance?

  16. Dead man switch needed on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 2

    As it helps reduce road fatigue, this seems a really good thing. However, it should require some sort of feedback that says when a driver is unresponsive in some way, the car pulls over and parks.

  17. The devil you know on Stronger Winds Explain Puzzling Growth of Sea Ice In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it's tough to decide which outcome is preferable -- avoiding the next ice age, or making it inevitable. As the southern ice sheets expand, more solar radiation is reflected back out, and when a tipping point is reached the ice age takes full hold until it basically exhausts itself of the ability to increase further and bounces back the other way. Which is more survivable? My money is on warmer.

  18. Bravo on New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" · · Score: 1

    I freely downloaded a set of Bach organ works that were donated to the public domain, and they're a treasured part of my extensive collection. It's unfortunate in a sense that top grade recording interests such as the Vienna Philharmonic will endure a reduction of their royalties, but the main repertoire of classical music has been out of copyright in some cases for centuries, and I applaud this direction.

  19. hELLO!!! on Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone · · Score: 0

    yEAH i'M IN THE toilet! The TOILET!!! No!! Just finished. Tchao!!!!!!!!!!!

  20. More benefits of camping on Camping Helps Set Circadian Clocks Straight · · Score: 1

    Typically you also are biking/hiking/fishing/swimming. By the end of the day a tin of beans or instant pasta is delicious, and when you've had a tin of coffee and it's pitch black, you're well exhausted. Pretty much anything that breaks up your sedentary cycle every couple/few months is guaranteed to nudge you into a better lifestyle.

    Disclaimer: I broke the sedentary cycle some years ago, and do 'difficult' grade hikes with full packs 3-4 times per year. And lost 14 kilos in the process.

  21. Pick your poison on Lower Thermal Radiation Input Needed To Trigger Planetary 'Runaway Greenhouse' · · Score: 1

    While this may be true, I'll take warding off the next ice age in 10,000 years if global warming is the cost. Between the two, higher sea levels is a no-brainer.

  22. Re:My opinion shifted also on According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans · · Score: 1

    My government? Smug much? I live on the other side of the pond.

  23. My opinion shifted also on According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans · · Score: 1

    The part where he disclosed domestic spying is one thing. However, when he disclosed details of surveillance on foreign governments, he fell into the same category as Assange's misguided nonsense, as in he is in fact a traitor. Foreign governments may not like it publicly, but they do it too. Geopolitics are a nasty game, and spying is a necessity.

  24. Re:What's this then? on US Director of National Intelligence Admits He Was Wrong About Data Collection · · Score: 1

    It's not a democracy, it's a republic, and has always been. A republic suppresses the rabble, by design.

  25. Re:Outsourcing on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    If you do this and go postal, publish a manifesto on your way out :)