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  1. Re:"The Empire State Building" on Nanoscale 3D Printer Now Commercially Available · · Score: 1

    but 'nanonians' just doesn't have the same ring...

  2. Re:First Post on The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk On Innovation · · Score: 1

    if you think 'hash' instead of 'checksum', md5 is fast, generates enough bits to avoid collisions (in fact, enough bits for /. to mix in the blocker's UID and a couple of bytes of secret salt to help prevent exhaustive searches), and despite having some weaknesses in the collision resistance, is still quite solid against hash->source backtracking.

    The hard part, I would think, would be adding database space for the per-account block list.

  3. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    I dunno. belief that there is definitely no god seems like an unprovable matter of faith to me.

  4. Re:For a guy who claims he doesn't record... on Adjusting to Google Glass May Be Hard · · Score: 1

    the term 'permanently' is indeed significant. see also dash cameras.

  5. Re:Where should we start? on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    that sounds like about as minor a problem as keeping the browser up to date. Or java. Or flash. Or virus definitions. Is there a particular reason to believe that key management will be handled more effectively?

  6. Re:Think you may want to look at his logs on Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    I misspoke. "Every single" was never mentioned. But the article does express that they'd rather have the scanner than have to do more patdowns.

  7. Re:Think you may want to look at his logs on Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    actually, reading the article, having the scanner means they don't have to do patdowns on every single flyer.

  8. Re: translation on CAPTCHA Using Ad-Based Verification · · Score: 1

    visit hell. I want to emigrate.

  9. Re:Kopimi on TPB Files Police Complaint Against CPIAC for Copying Website · · Score: 1

    ah, okay. so it will boil down to a battle of opinion about what aspects of the site TPB could reasonably be expected to want copied.

  10. Re:Kopimi on TPB Files Police Complaint Against CPIAC for Copying Website · · Score: 1

    I haven't been able to find the actual license associated with kopimi. Do you have a pointer?

  11. Re:AKA Google drives Bitcoin Into Mainstream use on Google Looks To Cut Funds To Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it has to do with whether the business is international? MS, Sony, Nintendo have customers on multiple continents, and probably want to just be able to say "it's 1200 points" everywhere without having to dynamically figure out the local currency. Gift cards at Starbucks and McDonald's are almost certain to get used in the same country they were purchased though.

  12. Re:Sadly on California Cancels $208 Million IT Overhaul Halfway Through · · Score: 1

    You'd think, but when the contract was awarded, it was to a company in Texas, not CA (EDS was a Texas-based company before HP bought them).

  13. Re:This is news? on Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't force him. If, after the 5 years in prison I'd give him, he wants to take the vaccine instead of losing his car and license for life, that's a choice. If he doesn't, fine; if he's caught driving with no license and a stolen vehicle, 5 to 10 will be the best he can expect.

  14. Re:This is news? on Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers · · Score: 1

    Dont necessarily have to sentence them to receive the vaccine involuntarily. Give them a choice, vaccine or no license (for driving drunk; if they actually damage someone or something in the process, make it 'no car'). Ideally, 6 months of vaccine time would break the habit. If not, a repeat offense can go to "your license is contingent on being on the vaccine for the rest of your life".

  15. Re:Good first step on EFF Proposes a Working Code Requirement For Software Patents · · Score: 1

    It has. The patent is supposed to include enough information for a skilled practitioner to build the invention. Software patents in particular have been allowed to ignore this for a while.

  16. Re:no fair price for you on OUYA Android Game Console Available In June · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Meaning at 1.5AU Mars Is In The Habitable Zone on Updated Model Puts Earth On the Edge of the Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    yeah, I had misremembered the estimated mass of the asteroids. Oh well. We could still do the atmosphere thing, but with 0.38 gravities at the surface, I'm not sure how long the air would stay on Mars. May be better to just go straight to the Venus plan.

  18. Re:Meaning at 1.5AU Mars Is In The Habitable Zone on Updated Model Puts Earth On the Edge of the Habitable Zone · · Score: 2

    Well, given a thousand years or so we could probably dump enough asteroid material on it to bring the mass up. By then, we should have enough fusion tech to scarf hydrogen from Jupiter, fuse some of it up to oxygen, fuse more up to nitrogen, and combine the rest with some of the oxygen for water. Then seed with microbes, algae, etc; that ought to take another few hundred years. But after all that, sure, Mars ought to be nice.

    And by the time that's done with we could probably set up a Nivenesque drive system on Neptune and use it to pull Venus out to the habitable zone and get started on it. :)

  19. Re:Less demand on Hard Drive Revenue About To Take a Double-Digit Dip · · Score: 1

    no, but supply will.

  20. Re:See an IP laywer. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? · · Score: 1

    The collective will just breed more lawyer drones.

  21. Re:WeMo vs. high current devices? on Turning the Belkin WeMo Into a Deathtrap · · Score: 1

    ah, I hadn't realized the difference in load types made that much difference to the relay. Thanks :)

  22. Re:Worst thing: Synchronize them! on Turning the Belkin WeMo Into a Deathtrap · · Score: 1

    ah, there we go, true movie-plot scale thinking. Bravo!

  23. Re:WeMo vs. high current devices? on Turning the Belkin WeMo Into a Deathtrap · · Score: 1

    true, but 1500 watts is only 12.5 amps at 120 volts; that's not a whole lot of current to switch.

  24. Re:Internet tradition on EU Citizens Warned Not To Use US Cloud Services Over Spying Fears · · Score: 2

    wild ass guess: It's .net, so it's handled by DNS servers the US can control, so they can get the domain to map to a monitoring proxy that forwards connections back to the real server but logs it all. And depending how the certificates are set up, perform man-in-the-middle decryption.

  25. Re:Go with usernames. on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    I think it boils down to "okay, you may not be able to deal with their name, so just take whatever unique ID they're willing to tolerate and go."