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  1. Re:This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a study about domestic violence in the public.
    While people always reacted when some man hit a woman in public, they often laughed about the man, when a woman hit him, even when it was a lot more serious.

  2. Re: This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And then there are people, who refuse to identify.

  3. Re: already patented on Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention (allpriorart.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is, do you want to make money or do you want to prevent patents? The second one is easy with this machinery.

  4. ... how most Internet of Things devices were invented.

    > A device for interconnecting the buttering of tcp-aligned toast for a network-aware breakfirst.

    > Wearable bluetooth-capable scarf designed to fulfill the modern needs of internet connected fitness tracking on the go

  5. Why do you need the tape? on The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Let's face it ... your face ist mostly boring. They may take a funny photo of your mimic while watching porn, but that's it.
    The more important part is the microphone and in most laptops it's not that easy to disable it in hardware.

  6. Symmetric blocking for asymmetric friendship on Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like the same mistake, that twitter made.

    Good thing: You do not need to follow your followers
    Mistake: When somebody blocks you, you cannot read his tweets, either. Which is strange, because blocking in an asymmetric medium should just be an ignore list.

  7. of kde connect. Nice integration with KDE, working on some other DEs as well.

  8. Simcity 2000 Easter Egg on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    You know the cross hair to center the map? Try clicking on the helicopter flying over crossings. If you have catastrophes enabled, it will even start a fire, else it just will crash into the ground and a new one will appear later

  9. Re:flight simulator on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    And flipper in word97

  10. Re:Updated Policy: on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    except for some people writing their own serialization.

  11. Re:Updated Policy: on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    [no name], but not in the name color, but in some gray.

  12. Re:More f'ing advocacy research... on Female Computer Programmers Make $0.72 For Every Dollar Made By Male: Study (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    When they have a citation for this (as the "well established" REQUIRES in a scientific paper), it's a valid statement.

  13. I think a lottery should be "buy a ticket" and "win or lose later". For example simple lotto just works by buying in advance and then watching the draw on TV. There is almost no chance to cheat (maybe if you work for the lottery ... but then you may have a lot of other immoral options as well).

  14. Re:Too late on The Internet of Things Is a Surveillance Nightmare (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy. No Cloud. Why does your smart shoe need a cloud to communicate with your phone? Bluetooth is enough. Why doesn't your wlan lightbulb talk to your router as accesspoint, which can communicate with your mobile phone (some manufactures offer free dyndns with one click)? Why does it always need to use a cloud? One Cloud? At least two! The lightbuld talks with its manufacturer, which sends pings to google, which sends it to your phone as push message.

  15. Of course. But this takes a lot more efford and you still have the chance, that somebody fixed your "small bug" before you finish your evil masterplan.

  16. Snowden is fighting against people, who have the source for software, where he does not have the source. This makes it even worse for him.

  17. Re: "Couldn't be sure" on Snowden: What Happened In 2013 Couldn't Have Happened Without Free Software (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Think the other way round: try to sneak in a backdoor in opensource.

    1) You're never sure, who reads the source and finds it. And when this will happen
    2) It can probably be attributed to you in some way
    3) The big security does not come from the source alone, but from the open development process. Go, read the Linux source and look for security holes. Much work? Indeed! But now go and look at the commits from today. Read the summary, read the code, check if it seems to match, watch out for possible security hole. This can be done and this is done by many people.

    On the closed source side: You get from time to time one big update, no code at all. If you want to make yourself some work, you can try to disassamble the binary. People do so and people find security bugs and backdoors, but it's a lot more efford.

    And the third thing: If you already suspect something, you can go and read the corresponding code of the misbehaving part, while you are still without source when using closed source.

    So yeah, nobody has a guarantee for no backdoors, but it's harder to sneak one in.

  18. gnupg.org

  19. If Facebook would not have bought Whatsapp on Facebook and Whatsapp Discontinue Support For Blackberry (canadajournal.net) · · Score: 2

    Blackberry Users would now still have one of the two apps.

  20. Re:What's the problem? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    But but but but but these women are the reason, why no women wants to do this type of work!

  21. Why is this sexism? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The women weren't forced, no female vistitor was excluded and i think microsoft themself treated them with respect, no idea if some visitor wasn't respectful.

    Or do we need to have transgenderfluid entertainers only?

  22. Where's the fucking problem? on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? · · Score: 1

    Encryption: Use a tool with PGP. duplicity is fine.
    Decrytion: You have a usb key with the private key, protected by a strong password. If you need restore, you can copy the key where you need it.

  23. Conclusion: Make it impossible to hack your users on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Make sure, not even you can hack your users.

    - All security must be real, not only security by obscurity (even obscurity of a signing key)
    - All software updates and installations must be approved by the user
    - Remote Unlock Features need to be strictly opt-in

    Then the FBI can try to push a malicious update to my iPhone and i can just decide not to install.

  24. Re:auto-refresh sucked. Beware UTF8 injections on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    I doubt you even get all umlauts from english sites.

  25. Re:Always wondered... on VPN Provider's No-Logging Claims Tested In FBI Case (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The main problem is another: The police stands in your door, sounds angry and you admit everything. No need for further investigation, they are witness in court and the decision is only what penalty you will get.

    Okay, some people may have a pokerface and be prepared. But most are not.