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  1. Re:Encryption is useless on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... it could very well happen that one day I'll go out guns blazing, literally.

    Ah, yes, the American Dream.

  2. Re:Something similar on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    rm -rf doesn't actually delete the files. It's the linux counterpart to windows "quick format" lets wipe out the table and index, but not the actual data

    My understanding is that rm will unpick the daisy chain of linked blocks allocated to the files and move them to the free list. I don't think there is any easy way to reconstitute removed files. Do any of the fancy new *fs do anything different? Mind you, I once used unlink as root unwisely and was able to recover an entire directory tree from lost+found. But that's a whole different mechanism.

  3. Re:Fuck him on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am completely willing to bear these risks and costs. It is my cost for freedom, I know that, *history* knows that, and I will bear them. If some fucknut strafes the local shopping mall while my daughter is there and she's killed, that is my cost for her and everyone else to be able to live a life without ID and to go have fun at malls and all sorts of things in life.

    Statistically in the USA that shooter would most likely to be acting alone and no amount of snooping would stop him. (But that's a whole different discussion).

  4. Re:I'm all for language changing over time on Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    An unsecured system is insecure. If you look at a dictionary for "insecure", it will give different definitions for when applied to people and things.

  5. Re:Cashless society push being driven by NIRP on Why We Should Fear A Cashless World (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.The deputy head of the Bank of England made a speech last year saying it might be necessary to abolish cash to make negative base rates work.

  6. Re:Celts on The Irish Not of Celtic Origin? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you read the article.One of the arguments is that the Celts spread out from Ireland and not the other way around.

  7. Re:Then he's doing it wrong. on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If his model says that Earth should not exist, then there's something wrong with his model.

    Exactly. Made me think of the "bumblebees can't fly" meme.

  8. I think you meant to type LBBT. Was just going to comment on that.

    Has proofreading also been banned (ganned?) in Indonesia?

    I think you mean poofreading.

  9. Re:Mars is impossible on Congressional Testimony Says NASA Has No Plan For the Journey To Mars (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Step one, for any of this, is to build a "permanent" for real ship.

    A Ship that you can point in a direction and go. A Ship with a rotating section for artificial gravity. A Ship with a multi mega watt power source A Ship with several smaller vehicles for going to and from a planet etc.

    Shooting people up there in a tin can that will burn up or be turned into a hut just isn't viable. Take the time to do it correctly.

    Step zero: find a trillion dollar budget.

  10. Re:Have I Missed something? on 1 In 3 Home Routers Will Be Used As Public Wi-Fi Hotspots By 2017 · · Score: 1

    FTFA :-

    the research highlighted the consumer benefits

    This benefits the owner of the router how exactly?

    RTFA: "Nevertheless, the research highlighted the consumer benefits that the policy offers, such as free or reduced-fee access to the operator’s homespot network."

  11. Does anyone but the most optimistic of geeks really believe that autonomous road vehicles will make much of an impact on private transport in the next 50 years? Come back when it can fly and dodge the kids on hoverboards.

  12. Just want to drive on Consumers Expect Their Cars To Become Mini Data Centers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't want any data interaction with my car. I just want to drive from A to B.

  13. Recharging or on load? on Explosion-Proof Lithium-Ion Battery Shuts Down At High Temperatures (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a 14 Ah Li-on whose safety instructions say not to leave it unattended while recharging. That can take up to 16 hrs. What am I supposed to do? Sit in and watch it all day? So I bought an army surplus ammo box to charge it in which I hope would contain any chemical fire. Most of the safety instructions I found on line referred only to the fire risk while recharging, not overheating when on load.

  14. Re:WTF is the "Cookie Law" on Attackers Abuse Legitimate EU Cookie Law Notices In Clickjacking Campaign (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here in UK, we're having a referendum this year or next on leaving the EU. It's this sort of bureaucratic nonsense that pushes people to vote to leave.

  15. Re:Because it's the best on Java Named Top Programming Language of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It won because it's the best programming language. You can go cry to your mama about that if you want.

    And Java 8 has IMHO completely refreshed the brand from a programming perspective. I'm really enjoying Java again.

  16. Re:Carbon free power on Last Operating Magnox Nuclear Reactor Closes · · Score: 2

    According to EDF, the carbon footprint of a nuclear power station – the average level of greenhouse gas emissions it is responsible for over its lifetime, from construction to decommissioning – is about 16 grams of carbon dioxide-equivalent for each kilowatt-hour of electricity it generates (gCO2e/kWh).

  17. Negative interest rates on Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It · · Score: 1

    Just wait until stagflation cuts in and the central bank wants interest rates to go negative. In a cashless society, you can't have a run on the banks. You can't get your cash and keep it under the mattress. You have to keep it in a bank and pay the bank interest to hold your credit.

  18. regiolith? on Apollo 17 Soil Matches Ancient Earth's Ocean Ridges In Water Content · · Score: 1

    Is that the same as "regolith"

  19. Re:What I Don't Understand... on A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's say there are 5M Muslims in USA and 40M in Europe and lets say 0.001% of them are radicalised by stuff on the internet and moved to commit violent acts. You do the arithmetic.

  20. Dungeness shingle spit on As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    The two Dungeness nuclear power stations (Kent, England) are built on the tip of a huge shingle spit. They employ trucks to move shingle from one end of the spit to the other to try and keep it in place like some labour of Sisyphus. That plan was deemed ok before anybody knew about projected sea level rises. Instead of abandoning the site, the owners are optimistic about getting permission to build a third station.

  21. Re:"we still have a ton of people writing Java and on Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? (cheney.net) · · Score: 1

    10 years ago I was writing Java and C++ but the ratio is growing monotonically. In 10 years time I would expect to be doing only Java but maybe in a more expressive dialect. Still with a keyboard-like input device but not with a mouse. Some people will still be editing PHP in notepad.

  22. The Bank of England chief economist recently argued that if we needed negative interest rates cash might have to be abolished. Add a security angle and it might yet happen.

  23. Re:Five years... on LibreOffice Turns Five · · Score: 2

    Five years and it's still junk. Barely compares to MS Office 2000.

    It's ok. It's not wonderful but it's not junk. It does the job for free on *nix and Windows. Go buy MS Office if you want.

  24. Re:Science and Christianity are NOT compatible on Scientists Have Spotted the Signs of Flowing Water On Mars · · Score: 2

    Wrong. This is the stance of the Roman Catholic Church, which is larger than any other Christian denomination by an order of magnitude. The principle that all truth comes from the Bible and that it is *literally* true is known as the sola scriptura heresy, and is limited to a handful of Protestant branches.

    The truth here is the reverse of what you believe.

    You forgot the politics of the Reformation. Sola scriptura is a Protestant idea that the lay person can access the word of God in the vernacular bible. The Catholics call this a heresy because truth is what Rome says it is, not what silly lay people want to believe. On the other hand, Bible literalism allows you to be fundamentalist when laying down the law. It's always about power.

    But that's going way off the point. Yes, some Christians can be good scientists, much as it grieves me to admit it.

  25. Re:Weigh it up. on EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US · · Score: 1

    US laws do not exist outside US territory.

    But US companies work outside US territory and the government wants their data. Look at the Microsoft case where an NY judge demands their data from servers in Ireland.