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  1. AG: (insert here) hurts the procecution of crimes. on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    I prepared some bullet points for you:

    a.) The right to remain silent ..
    b.) An execelent lawyer ..
    c.) An accused non-black person ..
    d.) The right not to be tortured ..
    e.) A non-coloured or coloured rich person ..
    f.) The right for a due proccess ..

    Now who wants to play attorney general bingo and wants to degrade freedom and civil rights a lot more?

    Btw. for option e. I think about an ex-football player & comedy actor - there is another chance for bingo .. it has something to do with professional athelete and the processecution of crimes. (Einstein - James Dean - Brooklyns got a winning team .. children of thaledomite)

  2. Re:How did they solve crimes before Smart phones?? on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    Simply by doing good -old- police work:

    #option1
    They got a "confession" hand written without spelling errors from an illiterate black guy. The problem with missing evidence and nagging civil rights lawyers solved itself after 12-20yrs. on death row.

    #option2:
    They looked the poor white guy in the eyes and stated in the court that his eyes confessed the crime - and the jury sentencend him to death. Simply a bullet proof case.

    Btw. these ramblings might sound like jokes from a fuzzy kafkaesk film like "Brazil" but the sad thing is they aren't!

  3. Germans == socialists country / not communists on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    (Warning: the subject is ironic)

    Germanys economic system is a cross breed between capitalism and socialism. With changing ratios.

    It's coined as
    "soziale Marktwirtschaft" / "social market economy"

    or since the "Energiewende" / "energy transition" / (green energy revolution)

    coined as: "Ãkologisch-soziale Marktwirtschaft" / "eco-social market economy"

  4. Drinking Age - 18 - on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hi,

    the drinking age is 18 .. meaning .. Vodka, Barcardi, Tequilla, ..

    Our national iconographic singer songwriter and essaist "Otto" described the joys of drinking in his epic song

    "Wir haben Grund zum Feiern!" / "We need to party!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. "Restricting Access to DNA" R.O.F.L. on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 2

    You want yeast DNA?

    Lick your hand.
    Lick your feet.
    Lick your *beep*.

    And the best thing D.N.A. is a puzzle, but a very logical one.

    When you have watched bio engineering students doing their *basic* experiments with basic yeast you will be astonished what they can achieve by just playing around.

    DNA is a perfect self assembling puzzle you will quickly see how things work out.

    Basically what I want to lay out is that there is not just even the slightest chance of succeeding to conceal that information from drug makers, because they will find out otherwise because in DNA if it works .. you can redo steps or start variations and your own research.

    So yes, the cartels will find a way and hey .. they won the war on drugs haven't they?

    Also in case genetic engineering is too complex there is still Afghanistan.

    1.) So you have many (and I mean many) "underpaid" bio engineering students.

    2.) Decent equipment makes everything easier, but you can built that equipment, that knowledge cannot be subdued(it's too widespread)

    3.) You have "fungus"(yeast) DNA everywhere

    4.) Variations - If you want to find an unknown strain .. go to a brothel, public toilet, the more cultures clash .. the more variations you will find in one spot.

    5.) you have scientific journals (and you also have a black list of crap journals)

    6.) Money = Resources (Hey we are talking here about drug cartels that have no problem to just loose cocain worth being 200 mUSD)

    7.) We have a black pharma market that produces counterfight - and at a 50% chance high quality - drugs for old mens problems from industrial scale made basic chemicals. And nobody can stop them - or wants to.

  6. Re:Wouldn't using this if it were seized... on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    It's all about the question that the definition "seized" and "going to be seized". are clearly laid out.

    If the tool is installed to automatically prevent access to the data on that pc - you are not tampering with evidence.

    The computer does it on it's own. Also when police comes to you, and you see them your pc is not yet seized, so all actions up until the moment when they take something away are ok.

    You should not have a remote connection to the pc (via umts modem, infrared or else) that you use to access the PC remotely and delibirately shut this then seized computer down.

    However if you would have a system that automaticly modulates a certain flicker pattern onto your incandescent light bulbs(*) light emmissions, that then would be picked up by a light sensor ..

    and locks the pc if the certain pattern is missing would be a good antitheft tool wouldn't it ? The easier way is using an IR emitter and an IR receiver (LIRC)

    (*) Which is quite easy as it's an ionized gas, and everything what is over 100Hz won't be noticable by you but a sensor can.

    Disclaimer:
    only personal oppionion, no legal expert, get quallified legal counsel.

  7. Re:Content management systems on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 1

    Mostly outdated version of Joomla and Wordpress play the bigger role.

    But the answer is: "no" opensource is not by default secure. The projects are comprised of people with different coding skill sets, some lower, some higher. Also feeling the need for fixing possible weak points is unevenly distributed.

    sense for security
    For example last week I was on a bussiness trip and the hotel had free wifi.

    1.) the wlan had no PSK WPA2 encryption

    2.) the login page were you enter your credentials
    to confirm the MAC-Address was "http" totally 100% unencrypted .. forcing https .. lead to the server answering "no ciphers"

    3.) yes it was MAC-address fixed after the login (no additional cookie) and the MAC-address is nowhere to be known except inside the unencrypted over the air traffic and everything else is there.

    Also everyone knows the MAC can't be spoofed or !?

    The wlan was offered by a third party service, commonly used by many hotels. The credentials are pinned to the room number.

    So it's common sense that this provider applicates the highest security standards to protect it's customers.

  8. Summing up + Translation(babble to information) on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 4, Informative

    And removing the "text extending babbel":

    1.) Don't get a pirated copy of "DirectMailer" - because it's infected and will trojanise your server.

    2.) keep your server and especially it's services updated - check your Joomla and Wordpress installation - and additionally to that the themes you installed.

    - the white paper says that the researchers think that these were the most likely vectors

    - the article puts faith on the thoughts of the researchers

    Translation:
    The infected server were so extremely outdated that the researchers didn't know where to start to search. Some believe to have seen active kernel versions dating back to 2000 and even further and surrendered the computers to archeologists to study ancient server setups.

    3.) an antivirus on freebsd or linux system is pratically useless in detecting recent malware - they need at least 5 yrs. of cultivation

    On windows the infection base is much greater. However the idea of "quarantining" software of problematic origin for a certain period of time and early virustotalling it, should be considered.

    lesson: no cracked software on linux/freebsd system

  9. New on EBAY: Gamers keyboard(macro enabled) on Game:ref's Hardware Solution To Cheating In eSports · · Score: 1

    Anti cheating techniques are successful at first, then there is the circumvention, nothing is bullet proof however using certified hardware in an controlled enviroment is a good start.

    For online gaming high stakes = high interested = much energy leading to:

    a.) broad band solutions for common cheaters
    b.) specialised expensive hand crafted cheats

    History:
    1.) Nvidia looking glas hack - driver version detector+screenshooter
    2.) dummy OpenGL dll wrapper - file scanner+screenshooter
    also solved rat auto fire.
    3.) game engine hooking - game engine hooking detector - game engine hooking detector unloader - detector for this - special cheat drivers running top priority - special anti-cheat drivers running top priority ..

    What I want to say:
    Cheating has evolved and ever will. Console play perhaps is now free of cheating because the stakes are too low and the dangers are too high.

    Raise the stakes, get a horde of chinese DRM hackers flipping bit by bit till the consoles break, have cheating enabled again.

    guess for the future:
    FPGA & DSP + CV enabled cheating - looping through the DVI/HDMI signal capturing at 50/60Hz 1080p (the grabbers for this res & freq. is affordable) automatic object recognition.
    feeding in commands direct into the mouse and keyboard.

    AntiCheat would be statistics & pattern based.

    AntiCheat: for direct signal capturing: using 4k
    Anti AntiCheat: splitt mirror or (two) cameras with an angle and polarized filters (->3D) and CV again lower res but who cares..

    The evolution is about to start, again!

    Irony:
    I call the Google Car a cheater car ;)

  10. Flashlight: enables near relativistic speeds .. on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    from "The hobo guide to travelling the galaxy"

    After a certain amount of many many many yrs. and hopefully not your energy source running out you will have gained mass by speed without jogging and not by eating:

    but relativistically which is why it is sooo hard to reach even near relativistic speeds[1].

    So with this "flash light" with a certain amount of power and energy (and direction) you can travel the universe.

    Back to topic:
    So the described idea is basically that of a "photon gun" or flashlight or microwave gun

    Micro waves are "also" part of the electromagnetic spectra therefore we can ask them "wave" or "particle" and they will answer "trans" and decide politcally correct in a s(p)lit to interfere into a figure of light and shadow.

    But therefore the laws of physics still apply:
    Photons have a mass equivalent to their energy the energy of a photon can be descbribed by it's frequency, the higher the frequency the higher the energy the higher the mass and if there is mass there is an impulse.

    final advise to travel the universe with a flash light, a wodden back plate and some mylar sheets:

    And for goods sake if you're in space use a monochromatic high power photon gun (L.A.S.E.R.) or a (M.A.S.E.R.) or a Magnetron for propulsion. Not an old flash light!

    And use some solar sails where solar sailing is ultimatly cheaper.

    rubber bullet point
    And if you want to be initially driven by your friend standing on the moon shooting with objects at you, demand (s)he takes elastic objects like a rubber ball and make sure to have your solid deflection plate perpendicular to the intended flight vector but between you and the "ball" otherwise your journey start will be painful or deadly (but it would work, however not that good)

    And if you think after all these experiments that you have violated the laws of physics .. No you don't have.

    physical bullet points to rubber ball propulsion
    The rubber ball will transmit force when hitting you and when bouncing off instead of an inelastic object (Elastic collision)[2].

    - "solar sails"
    - photonic impulse

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
    [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

  11. All your Cookies are belong too U.S. ? on Firefox 37 Released · · Score: 1

    Just in case you forgot to mention.

  12. Re:Disabling Heartbeat - scroll down! on Firefox 37 Released · · Score: 1

    darn I meant to scroll down on this page
    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Advoc...

  13. Disabling Heartbeat - scroll down! on Firefox 37 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hi,

    anybody being annoyed to be asked over and over and over again?

    My stance is, if "fucking" developers can't feel the vibe of the users or lack common sense, they should not develop software for common people. ..Rate me - shape me - anyway you want it - as long as I'm alive..

    If Picasso would have also asked the people if they liked his early works, he would have commited suicide and not created something great.

    Disabling Heartbeat

    We understand that any interruption of your time on the internet can be annoying.

            open about:config
            set browser.selfsupport.url to ""
            enjoy the rest of your day!

  14. Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m on Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster · · Score: 1

    Please lay out the physical principles on an engineers level! Stating something isn't simply possible because it simply is a newer design isn't engineer worthy. (it's the why'se and becauses that count)

    And actually, argumentation that fails to adress the Y's mostly stinks.

    1.) a backup generator, when not running hot but been put in "warm" start condition, will NOT fail to start ?
    - it has a chance of not starting
    - it has a chance of producing an /internal/ grid fault when being connected to the internal grid

    Yes, even when a backup generator is not flooded it can fail. Ohh yes, and a backup generator chances of failing are even better when subjected to earth quakes.

    And another poster corrected you on wave height.

    Also the coast line in Fujian "looks" a bit shallow don't you think ?

    2.)
    the advertising anouncement you posted does not state much of the information you "suggested".

    Especially the term "much more adequate fashion"
    meaning it's conventional but has more fail safes built into.

    Again please don't try to suppress physics.

    You need to actively pump coolant into the reactor and in this case it means sustain the operation of all three cooling loops.

    If one loop fails you have safety margin, increasing the energy amount in one cooling loop == make it hotter but this gives only time to fix something.

    And this means pumping pumping and pumping and then vaporizing water.

    There is no hint given at certain intercoolants like salt or low temp. melting metall, or even a free convection style cooling of any kind.

    3.)
    "The ACP1000 is a pressurized reactor in a large dry containment, that can contain a molten core without overpressurizing the containment."

    Please don't try to alter physics, if your inner cooling loop is broken - which is - if the link is correct on that detail - water, can separate Hydrogen from Oxygene your reactor can go boom.

    Heat something up, it expands, encase it and you have increased pressure.

    The only solution would be to "vent" which will vent radioactivity into the air. - only true for inner most loop.

    And as you stated yourself it's a pressureized reactor - here comes the Y for the pressure, increase the boiling point of water, because when water boils it looses it's "wanted" moderating function inside the reactor, and it would drastically increase it's volume = in a containment building up pressure.

  15. Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m on Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster · · Score: 1, Informative

    And you are only concentrating on one point, you find inconclusive, and this is your basis to call everyone to shut up?

    If you would have taken the time, and glimpse at a satellite image of that region, you might have recognized that the surrounding area has a nice beach style "ramp" on the west side.

    a nuclear power plant needs cooling == fresh water
    a tsunami will suck all water from the beach for approx 30s
    a tsunami will struck down the surrounding grid (== fukushima)
    a failing over flodded backup generator is bad (== fukushima)
    an emergency stop of a nuclear reactor will need after cooling or it will melt the core (== fukushima)

    And this is why it remains a very bad idea to built a nuclear reactor at a tsunami site, because a nuclear reactor needs a functioning infrastructure to safely operate.

  16. Death Star - Control Limbo! on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 2

    If that mission is worth a crusade:
    I now wish I had a death star I could fly to Pluto and blast it to pieces!

  17. "I Want Legal Right To Snoop On NSA Data" on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    If they let me do it, they can do me!

  18. Re:chlorine? on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    The question is in what composition you have chloride, for example your 12" LP (polyvinylCHLORIDE) won't kill anyone except you play Xena the Warrior princess.

    But this is why you should read the security warnings because you can get a reaction working to set chlorine(that from WWI) free.

    Bleach
    What is used in bleaches is HClO not Cl2, HClO is called hypochloric acid - strong oxidizer.

    Pool
    Yes, in big pools chlorine (enclosed in steel gas cans) is used.
    Yes, it can be set free by acident.
    Yes, there are emergency plans and safety precautions.

  19. It's the missuse of chemistry. / Abusing science. on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 2

    Most chemical weapons were not invented to be weapons at first, but during the era when chemistry evolved, many compounds were created to be used in chemical processes, to produce things like poly vinyl chloride (for the old folks modern 12" LPs are made of this)

    Phosgene for example. Till today is produced in tons and tons and tons. And this very day today you had a 100% chance to touch things or ingest things(medicine) were produced using phosgene or familiar compounds.

    Not weapons kill people, people kill people, but this is not ment as a let go for engineers and scientists to use this as an excuse.

  20. The Revolution (DIVX) was ~1998/1999 on The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube · · Score: 1

    So there were moving pictures - from - the internet and sound.

    And even before that was the "realplayer" and Flash was its honorable successor/competetor to the title security desaster(Realplayer got also ported to linux!! - yes and it worked).

    And yes it was live streamed, I can remember that Tina Turner concert on Realplayer .. Tina was the most beautiful moving pixel I have ever seen!

  21. Re:Sounds like a business opportunity... on Study: 8 Million Metric Tons of Plastic Dumped Into Oceans Annually · · Score: 1

    Actually your thought is a very good one, but if we miss that opportunity, and not convert the former "crudeoil" into CO2 ;)

    landfill
    But the landfills are actually unused energy reserves however during the last 40yrs. you will find there "Teflon" like compounds that when burnt will react to HF (fluoridic acid) which is very nasty stuff as it will etch your plastic to fuel machinery

    And that's the problem.

    (most "plastic" which could be PVC, PE, PP, etc.. is made from oil - in future it can be made from ethanol -> PE )

    And thinking further:
    Plastic is conserved CO2 so we should turn CO2 into plastic bags. It would be better to store/conserve it that way than to pump it into unreliable caverns.

    CO2 dump at home in your private drawer. Called the bag stack.

  22. "ingenius tipps for an optimal system" on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    this is not a typo it's the from german hard translated headliner of the Sep/2014 monthly of the german Chip Linux magazine.

    it also stated
    - adjust unity
    - remove crap
    - increase speed

    So, yes, most distros are either a heavy crap loaded like a lenovo-compaq-hp-acer craptop, or are uncomfortable as hell-

    I stopped being aggrovated, I just started to use FreeBSD some 15 yrs. ago. when Mandrake turned bad and gotten fuzzier each release.

  23. Advise on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Engage 5th-8th Graders In Computing? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1.) don't be an asian helicopter mother
    - you are not their parents

    - best way to engage most children is when they have fun taking things step by step, with fun and encouragement

    - some kids want a challenge, those are eager, give them a challenge they can handle, be present, wait for the question, don't explain things they want to tackle themselves

    2.)
    show them how they can let their computer + learned skills work for them
    - understand what they are doing in school (don't introduce partial differential equations to a 5th grader except they ask you to do so)
    - explain their current topic on math with the help of excel (no VBA)

    -sine, cosine tables, sine charts etc..

    3.)
    The computer is a tool, make it a place to toy with things

    4.)
    - don't be ProfX
    - use your empathy
    - but actually the best choice would be to empower them to tackle their current tasks, a little surplus of knowledge won't hurt
    - don't present big problems, demonstrate how you can approach a - school-world-problem by breaking it down,

    These are computer/programming skills: to understand a problem, breaking it up into small understandable pieces then describing the whole problem, formulate a solution approach and testing that method.

    With the help of a useful tool called computer+software.

  24. There is no single method. on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? · · Score: 1

    There are multiple.

    1.) simple sftp reachable cloud (very cheap, no need for special cloud software)

    2.) root server (you can get these with ~4tb space minus the OS) for arround 20â (you don't need a power horse) even a vserver is ok, if it has the space and you can sftp into it
    traffic is mostly multiple times storage cap

    3.) having offsite sftp storage is great the connection+login/pass is encrypted + save the ssh-fingerprint and check for manipulation, only filezilla needed to retreive all data

    otherwise you can automate many things like offsiting your archive hashes / etc.. via script, curl can pop3s and smtps your data.

    With tcls "expect" you can automate sftp backups and automatic storage.

    4.) Multiple independend hosts are also a nice idea

    5.) -> Test your backup system Encryption
    I suggest everything you store offsite and also onsite should be encrypted.

    Everything you store offsite should have at least two layers of strong encryption using different crypt-algorithms

    1.) AES or twofish/serpent

    2.) additional to that
    That big archive should be split into 50-100mb chunks of data and encrypted with their own hash hash value as key value
    you need to store the hashes

    3.) encrypt the hash lists

    4.) store them in cheap or free email accounts

  25. FreeBSD - tutorial inside on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 1

    Hi,
    I've written a tutorial for installing freebsd on an encrypted root using a serial console. That should actually explain some things.

    http://forums.smallnetbuilder....

    Otherwise:

    Get an installer image:
    https://www.freebsd.org/where....

    The release version is FreeBSD-10.1

    try the memstick image
    a "cp FreeBSD.img /dev/sdX" will copy it to stick

    While you install:
    don't install the package ports, you will get the freshest ones
    through portsnap

    Add an "admin" user make him member of group "wheel"
    because that user can ssh and then "su" to root.

    When you have installed FreeBSD

    a.) run portsnap fetch extract
    - after this your ports tree is up to date

    b.) run freebsd-update fetch install
    - after this your FreeBSD-system is up to date

    c.) kill sendmail-demon
    - after this you will feel no change at all

    d.) installa samba via ports(verbosive) or via pkg add samba

    you install things using the ports collection by enter the directory /usr/ports
    where you choose the category for example the midnight commander can be found under "/usr/ports/misc/mc"

    you start the installation using make install
    afterwards you can do a make clean
    or make distclean.

    ports is "just" make-scripts

    Hint:
    svn is included in the FreeBSD base distribution
    it can be called via svn-lite

    So you can also checkout the current freebsd-head (FreeBSD handbook says how), browse the /usr/src directory or where yyou will then recognize that every command's source has a separate directory with make file etc..

    Meaning you can now play with the source of the base distribution(userland) and kernel

    FreeBSD is fun, and a base system really has a small footprint.