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  1. Re:Great, crash the drone into things. on Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Nope, deauth works on encrypted wifi, too.

  2. Re:Seems fine to me. on Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    Hope you realize that in modern countries, almost every single establishment is currently recording you on tape inside AND outside their establishments. That includes public transit, public streets of all decently-big cities, every single supermarket, theaters, yada yada...

    Might want to also be fighting that one off.. ya know, where you know they are recording you - rather than a user that is probably not recording you at all.

    (I do not own or use any device like Glass, for the record..)

  3. Re:Seems fine to me. on Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Actually its "you're not allowed to use *any* wifi network in the range of my device because you're using device X which I decided to ban"
    That's why jammers are illegal - and this is pretty much a jammer as well if you forget about the technical details.

    Sure I dont like privacy invading devices, but Glass and "drones" aren't necessarily used as such. In my experience they're in fact very rarely used as such.

  4. Or 1h.. on 3D-Printed UAV Can Go From Atoms to Airborne in 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    In other news, a non-3D printed equivalent UAV can be made from zero to flying in about 1H... and has been so for years.
    It will also probably fly better.. all you need is a block of EPP foam and a hot wire (the cut itself takes 5min, full build about 1H)

    so yeah.. it says 3D printer QUICK it must be worth some ads-prints publish!

  5. Re:Laughable CYA Maneuver on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 1

    actually most of the equipment people have can be taken over, its not trivial tho. basically all that "1k" stuff which is channel hopping isn't encrypted or anything. if you find the hop algorithm, which is often not that hard, you can indeed control the aircraft.

  6. Re:I saw this on HAK5. on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 1

    not all "drones" are the parrot.

  7. Re:First amendment only applies to our friends on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 1

    At Mozilla there's one difference tho, you don't enrich the CEO *that* much. There's no stock actions. He did not get a package. All he gets is a slightly higher salary than you do.
    If anything, you work to the benefit of the Mozilla Foundation (which owns Mozilla Corporation - and Eich is CEO of that.)

    Their recruiting ad is in fact mirroring this with "Don't work for the man, work for mankind."

  8. Re: Options? on NASA Puts Its New Spacesuit Design To a Public Vote · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know right, the most important thing in space is to look cool, not convenience.

  9. Re:Ready or not on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    recognizing is not ok, actually. you'll recognize your friend or anyone significant. you won't recognize someone you barely know yet cross every week.
    automated face recognition will (and already does - in case you haven't seen the zillion of cameras on the streets of all countries big cities)

  10. bullshit titles are bullshit on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    oh yeah that's "the world which isn't ready". not advanced enough!
    right.

    in other news, the world's also not ready for mass murder. eventually people mind will be advanced enough so that this idea will become accepted - when we'll evolve!

  11. Re:Jailbreakingg on The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco · · Score: 1

    note that "pirated" games these days generally offer an option to disable or bypass the socalled freemium crap (ie inapp purchases where you have to spend hundreds in order to play the game at all). i'd rather pay $10 from scratch, than being hagged into "rating", "liking on facebook", "paying item X, Z, Y for $100+ that are artificially required to enjoy the game. sometimes its way more than $100.". It's an horrible model.

    Heck even games such as battlefield and what not - which costs much more to produce, takes longer and more people "only" cost" about $100 with all DLCs every 3 month for a year or two included. And people hate DLCs.

    I therefore fully support pirating any game following this model (then again, i don't have an iphone, and i don't really play games on android, so i'm an angel. still, i get the idea.)

  12. eBay's right - yet wrong on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 1

    As you guys point out - Amazon gets a much better *marketing* from claiming they want drones. Doesn't matter if they can do it or not (obviously as of today this is technologically impossible to have this work in a reliable fashion, and probably not in 5 years either).

    And in that, they're right, ie, they're getting fame, customers, money, even thus it's a cheap marketing lie. So since money is all that matters, they're "right".

    However, eBay's right too, drones are currently a fantasy, and focusing on what you can do today is what Amazon does too. What a company does and communicate is often very different. eBay's CEO being honest is what i'd like from every company, but isn't what is going to work for them unfortunately.

  13. FirefoxOS on Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation · · Score: 1

    The apps already run everywhere (well, Android, FirefoxOS, Firefox Desktop), already are one-click-to-use on FirefoxOS, and also they don't require you to be online to use them. And they're not pushing an agenda. Just sayin'.

  14. Re:Windows 8.x is horrible! on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 1

    or you can just install classicshell

  15. Re:um on AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less · · Score: 1

    Since dual cards (SLI/CF) of the top of the line from AMD/Nvidia barely put out 30fps at 4K in recent games, i'm guessing, we need better video cards, not worse.

  16. Re:Anandtech Fucked Up on AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less · · Score: 1

    according to many other tests the 290 and 290X in fact heat more and thus have beefier fans than their geforce counterpart (the 780 and its cousin the titan) - and that, by a rather large factor.
    If you don't care for a little noise tho, the AMD is a pretty good value right now. My 780TF is nearly silent under load. I choose the noise - but if i had a really good case, i'd be tempted.

  17. Re:White House? on Fleet of Drones Maps a Mountain in 3D · · Score: 1

    1300mhz / gps jamming, - that's all

  18. haveged? on Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All · · Score: 1
  19. Re:The old days on The Chip That Changed the World: AMD's 64-bit FX-51, Ten Years Later · · Score: 1

    that's just not true tho. yes you can throw $$$ and get whatever is called a "gaming pc". it'll work; but you won't know what you bought and/or why.
    you also won't have the best price/performance ratio.

    10, 15 years ago, you could do that easily if you wanted to. the information was there. it's not true anymore.

  20. Re:Don't think so on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 0

    The issue is supporting a company attempting to undermine linux by making unpopular choices, such as "its not invented here so we'll do our own project", or "yeah we're leveraging our popularity to basically beg you to donate at every page" (when i saw that one i donated to several other distros instead), yada yada.

    the main difference for me beside moral issues, is that many other distros work just as well if not better without any corporate backend driving the things. it's users driving it for other users.

    as for an alternative to ubuntu with xfce, of course, there's a bunch of community based debian derivatives, including debian itself

  21. Re:what about decryption keys on Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default · · Score: 2

    Most of the people will have "google managing their keys". Which means google has both keys and data. Which doesn't really help more than before.
    For users who are advanced enough to set their own keys, nothing changed.

  22. Re:If no root, no Android. FirefoxOS anyone? on Steve "CyanogenMod" Kondik Contemplates The Death of Root On Android · · Score: 1

    Yeah using linux on your machine makes zero sense!
    Having the freedom to use any os on the hardware you own makes zero sense!

    Nice thinking there.

  23. Re:If no root, no Android. FirefoxOS anyone? on Steve "CyanogenMod" Kondik Contemplates The Death of Root On Android · · Score: 1

    Yes/No.
    It's a classic argument. Next one will be "nobody uses root so lets make sure its never possible to root the device"... and bang, that's the point.

    Expect thats the current defacto way to get full device access. The APIs that "replace" what "root is used for" give you only very specific access, not full access like root currently does.

  24. Time to use pillows.

  25. Re:Ouch! on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    its funny how you don't realize that the EU countries spy just as much as the US. How naive.