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  1. Re:PC equivalent? on Five Alternatives To Snapchat · · Score: 1

    on android, as far as I can remember (but I've never used official images, cyanogenmod or equivalent), vol- / power was the combination to take a screen shot

  2. Re:Sorry, correction . . . on Five Alternatives To Snapchat · · Score: 1

    if by free you mean "free and open source", they're not "unexploitable". The only thing that is IMHO guarateed is the chances for a quick fix in the case of an exploit are higher!

  3. Re:Open source? on The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory · · Score: 1

    As the chronic gambler should know that the casino wins on the long run.
    The thief knows what would happen if he's caught.
    He's point, I think, is not about less or more secure. either is as likly to incroporate bugs a the other. It is about the chances of finding a vulnerability and the time it takes to fix it.
    With open source, If you happen (or know someone) find a vulnerability chancesa re you can fix it right a way, report/submit a patch. As for a closed source, all you can do is report and wait (slashdot is full of articles about that).
    if there's a choice between blaming someone for a problem and avoiding the problem, avoiding (when possible) is always the winner strategy.

  4. Re:Why, oh why? on Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora · · Score: 1

    I didn't know, I removed everything gnome 2 years ago. I switched full time to kde (always had both installed). If and when kde will require that too, I'll switch to something else (enlightenment may be, since it was my 1st choice years ago).

  5. Re:Why, oh why? on Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora · · Score: 1

    to each his own :). Isaid gentoo b/c, I use it (I don't even remember since when), still no systemd forced down my throat (KDE4 seems to not depend heavily on it, and frankly don't care for the desktop env, the only utility it has -for me- is keeping multiple windows open on the same screen, -heavy terminal user-)

  6. Re:Why, oh why? on Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora · · Score: 1

    Well, he did say "switched to arch from fedora", Linux user was a fair assumption, hence gentoo (which if I remember correctly can run a *BSD kernel).
    As to why would he wants to? I don't know (and I don't care). It was a simple suggestion.

  7. Re:Why, oh why? on Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora · · Score: 1

    gentoo, or something gentoo based, like sabayon?

  8. Re:real socialism on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 1

    45% of what and 15% of what?
    I have 50$/day I loose 15% (7.5$), there go my lunch for the day. I have $1B I loose 45% ($450M), it's a lot of monney but I still have $550M to spend.
    Taxe brackets may need some rearangement, but I doubt he was talking about your relativeley modest income!

  9. Re:We vote on leaders not lightbulbs on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    howcome adding a resistor will worsen efficiency? adding the resistor will drop the current so will the power (since the voltage is the same). (genuine question there)

  10. Re:Sounds like it worked on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1
    as I said .. "possibly".

    You could try to do a clean shutdown, but then, say, some cleanup code tries to allocate a string to write persistent data to a database, fails, and writes garbage into the database instead.

    clean/graceful crash is just that. If an operation you depend on fails, try to recover or exit in a clean fashion.

    In most cases, 'just crash' is the better choice.

    in production systems it never is (or at least the very last resort).
    Also making assumptions may lead to something like this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Notable_launches
    try doin somthing like this : ....
    i = some_calculation function_that_might_return_0();
    return res = 1000/i;
    what would happen if it = 0, and that piece of code is part of some control software for a say a rocket or a plain.

  11. Re:Sounds like it worked on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1

    ok, I'm no expert but I had few courses in programing. and I remeber that if you did somthing like this you'd get a very bad grade:
    int *p ;
    p = malloc (sizeof (int));
    *p = 1 ;
    free (p);
    the reason was : what would happen if malloc fails. The answer : possibly all hell will break loose. The lesson was don't assume, always check!!! in C++/JAVA it's is even easier: there's that thing called try .. catch

  12. Re:PDroid on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1

    even paid for apps can and will gather info.
    Take cable TV fort instance .. paid for (a hefty sum sometimes) and still there's almost as much ads as content! paying doesn't magically aleviate or rsolve th problem. it is as you said " because people (generally) are basically lazy, stupid, greedy and short sighted." that we are in this situation !

  13. Re:Key exchange on CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption · · Score: 1

    pgp == static key. as this system of theirs dynamic keys : forward secrecy : no single key would be used twice.
    if I store all encrypted messages and at some point I compromise the pgp key, I get access to all past/future -assuming you don't notice-- messages. In the case of their system if I compromise a key I get access to 1 message
    https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/

  14. Re:Other problems (not MITM but end-to-end) on CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption · · Score: 2

    except in this case the "secret" is public knowledge : public key finger print.

  15. Re:engine produces what's needed on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    *100amp @14 volts

  16. Re:engine produces what's needed on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1
    there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect. is it efficient may be not.

    The engine is mechanically connected to the wheels, so whatever the engine produces propels the vehicle. There cannot be any "extra" energy. The system can produce more energy by pressing the gas pedal further, using more gas.

    the net ouput at the drive shaft ( while my car is idling car if the AC compressor goes on I notice that the engine loses few rpm. On the road, I notice also that I need to press harder on the pedal to get the same speed (engine RPM). An alternator on a car can generate 50 amps at 12 volts (may be more but that's ~2hp at max capacity , since nothing is free is needs at least that amount of mechanical energy), what can this generate in term of electrolysis, how much fuel is consumed to generate that much energy.
    the point is not to replenish the full tank, merely extending it. If burning the whole tanks yields a few grams (to move the vehicle few meters) it's not worth it but if it can produce say 1/4 of a tank that 1/4 max distance with a tank gained.
    the electricity can come from different sources too, heat (muffler, engine block, which can help cool it -if it is a combustion- ) wind (small wind turbine, at highway speed ), braking (divert energy to shorten breaking distance, like engine braking with manual transmissions or some other contraption) ... etc.

  17. Re:2 lbs of H2 alternator 1 lb of H2. CnH2n on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    there is (sun, wind, heat ). but bot enough apparently.
    but what would be the point of having more electricity in a car that do no require more.

  18. Re:I had to think twice, but no, except braking on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    the question is, how much does the engine produce, how much is needed to propel the vehicle. ICE do it relatively well (alternator and much of the pumps -mechanical and electrical) but at the expense of MPG. may be by adding something to the breaks it would be better
    all in all it looks like a differential eq which has a solution ... now is it practical or not I can't say (I'm no expert in chemistry).

  19. Re:2 lbs of H2 alternator 1 lb of H2. CnH2n on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    well, diverting some of the energy to power the alternator, it doesn't have to be a perpetual motion (which is supposedly impossible). just a way of extending, if a tank will run out in X hours or X miles if left alone without additional production, it'll run out in Y hours/ Y miles (where Y >> X), at that point you'll have to fill it in some way or an other (just like with ICE cars, gas stop). or what you said :)

  20. Re:expensively. oil comes from dirt on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    I meant electrolysis not hydro... , and it was a simple honest question, no point.

  21. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    The problem with fuel cells however is the energy chain. Electrolysis is not a good way to create hydrogen because most countries, or at least the US cannot keep up with electricity demands (at least currently) should cars and other products be switched over. The primary way hydrogen is manufactured now, if my data is still current is through natural gas. And therefore this doesn't get us away from traditional carbon issues. The potential of hydrogen is possibly good intermediate storage, or at least another vector of energy research we can pursue.

    how about creating it in the care using some kind of alternator to generate the electric current needed to for the hydrolysis?

  22. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    it can be obtained from water (Hydrolysis) no?

  23. Re:Time to start on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 1

    not even you can decrypt the message once encrypted with the other person's public key. The only key capable of that is the private key of the recepiant.

  24. Re:My Quick Rundown on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 1

    #4: TV/Internet Equipment Fees: Overblown. The break-even point on buying your own equipment is ~2-4 years of ownership, assuming you never have a problem.

    modems (DSL, not DOCSIS: see below)? if not free rental it's a rippoff (new 50-70$ used 5-20$, they last years).
    TV boxes? well, may be. But the thing is if you want this or that tv/cable internet provider, you need their box,
    you can buy your own (except if you bought it used from an ex customer of the same company) sot they charge what ever the hell they can get away with,
    especially when they control usually a very large proportion of the market.
    (where I live we have mainly 2 big companies : cable (videotron) VS sat (BELL), rpices a re almost the same, the deals too).

  25. Re:Crazy tech? on Leaked Manual Reveals Details On Google's Nexus 5 · · Score: 1

    a large(sessor) camera is not a requirement for that. doable with a compact point and shoot (not as noticiable nor beatiful but still).