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  1. Re:"I am about to be killed, tortured, or exiled," on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually he didn't. When he was in the US he used the site and now he is back in Saudi Arabia where he doesn't use the site. But he is afraid that what he did in the US will be exposed and will be punished for it in Saudi Arabia.

  2. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    I'd modify your analogy a bit. Imagine your door lock breaks and you don't fix it for a month. Then someone comes along and steals your stuff. Your insurance isn't going to cover it because you didn't take the necessary precautions to secure your premises.

    But if your lock broke, you fixed it the same day, and then a month later you were robbed the insurance would cover your losses as you took the steps needed.

    In both cases the burglar would still be wrong for stealing your stuff.

  3. Great idea on Group Seeks Test For Geoengineering Tool To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Let's put a bunch of salt water into the sky where it will probably fall down on land as rain. Granted it will be a very small amount but if it's done a lot and only from one spot you could start impacting some crops.

    Water evaporates from the ocean leaving the salt behind (and a bunch of other things). If they are going to do this they should at least evaporate the water before sending it up even though it would require a lot of energy. I just think that tossing up a lot of salt water into the atmosphere isn't that great of an idea.

  4. Re:We already have a great tool on Group Seeks Test For Geoengineering Tool To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 2, Informative

    And when the plants die the CO2 is released. You only hold the CO2 for a while in a plant unless it gets buried in special circumstances or someone comes by and turns a tree into a house.

  5. Re:Firewalls? on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 1

    That will take care of you at home but it won't help you when you take your laptop to work or the coffee shop. Or it won't stop you phone or tablet from sending info when your away from home either. I'm assuming that they are sending information back too since it's all one OS now.

  6. Re:These companies keep giving us reasons on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 1

    I have my Synology NAS running the torrent client but also have it set up so it's connected to my VPN. Then I started up the proxy server and have all my browsers connect to the NAS which routes everything through the VPN.

  7. Re: These companies keep giving us reasons on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 1

    How about running Unity 3d on the Mac and the others in VirtualBox on the Mac too? It's not really getting rid of Windows since you are just running it inside an app but if you wanted to move from Windows as your primary OS this might be an option.

  8. Re:Well, nice but that was not the problem... on NASA's Hurricane Model Resolution Increases Nearly 10-Fold Since Katrina · · Score: 2

    I thought the problem was the many decades of managing the Mississippi which led to the ongoing disappearance of the marshes plus the development of the city on a very low area that was likely to flood.

  9. What I'd like to see on Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    Whenever a politician comes out with a statement like this I would love to see some group go in, hack them, and post everything they have on the web. And I mean everything. Financial statements, e-mail, browser history, text messages, documents, and anything else that they can get their hands on.

    Show them that this is what they are asking us to do and see if they are still willing to go through with it.

  10. Re:How do people not understand on Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    Yes, but encryption isn't going to help you keep the meta data private. It will only let you keep the contents of the message private (or at least help keep it private). If you call someone and speak in code then nobody else will know what the two of you are talking about but the phone company will still have the meta data about the call (the number you called, the number you called from, start time, call duration, etc).

  11. Re:Defendants have a clear defense... on Movie Studio Sues Individual Popcorn Time Users For Infringement · · Score: 2

    Yes, but then so is the movie company for making an Adam Sandler movie in the first place.

  12. Office doesn't play well with itself on Italian City To Dump OpenOffice For Microsoft After Four Years · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they calculated how much time people spend trying to fix formatting errors in Word that just appear when working in it. I always found it so frustrating to work in Word because the formatting would screw up and there was no easy way to fix it. Maybe they've fixed it now but I doubt it. That's why I always liked WordPerfect because you could always do the reveal codes and see exactly where the problem was. The reveal codes in Word didn't help at all.

  13. Re:Real numbers on Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that $32k was cheap but it's a lot less than $40k especially when you consider when the $32k is Canadian which is approximately $24.5k US today.

    So I was wondering where the difference was coming from. Does the US have a big import duty on the panels? Or is Texas not friendly towards solar and have a lot of red tape and fees to try and stop it? Are there not a lot of installers there which is driving up the price?

  14. Re:Real numbers on Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof · · Score: 1

    Why is it so expensive? Up here in Ontario I can get a 10 kilowatt system installed for $32k + tax. There's no government rebates but if you set up with the microFIT program you can get the tax back and it pays you around $0.35 kWh (or $0.38) guaranteed for 20 years. The installation price includes everything: panels, permits, inverter, labour, extra meter, etc.

  15. Re:Fast adoption certain! on Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll break 10% adoption of Marshmallow before they announce Nougat.

  16. Re:Can the enemy actually shoot down the F35? on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 2

    There was also the fact that the US wanted to keep the F22 to themselves and then the F35 is allowed to be sold to their allies so that they would keep air superiority. At least that was the theory.

    I agree that they should have just made one jet for the Navy and if the Air Force wanted it then just take off anything that wasn't needed (if it made it cheaper). Then make a (S)VTOL version for the Marines and the British using as many common components as possible (wings, landing gear?, cockpit, sensors, etc).

  17. Yes, 5G is needed on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 1

    Yes, because you really need 5G over 3G for a pipeline monitor to send "There's a leak"

  18. Re:Stupid people on Ecuador Declares State of Emergency Over Volcano · · Score: 1

    People live near volcanoes all over the world. They also build cities where hurricanes repeatedly strike, in flood plains, where tornadoes are likely to hit, etc. And when their homes are destroyed repeatedly they rebuild, usually asking for the government to help them out because they were surprised that such an event happened.

  19. Re:False dichotomy on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    The president is nowhere near as powerful as most people think. When it comes to the budget the best they can do is negotiate with Congress how to allocate the high level funds. There's no way they would go through every small program offered by the government and see if it's needed. Yes they could set up a panel to go through but that's what the auditor (whatever you call it down there) is for. The problem is that every program that exists has been created was done so with political support and you can't kill it because it still has someone from Congress or the Senate getting upset. So just putting one person in as president isn't going to change things.

  20. Re:Lead in Soylent? That explains a bit. on Health Watchdog To Bring Legal Action Against Soylent Over Lead, Cadmium Levels · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's slipping in some Mercury in his drinks? It would explain so much.

  21. Re:There is no reason for any drought to continue on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Farmers have responded by pumping water from the aquifers at an unsustainable rate. The farmers with more money have been able to drill deeper wells to get more water leaving poorer farms behind. Yes, they have invested in water saving technologies but they are still using too much.

  22. Re:Dear Slashdot on 'My Name is C.H.I.P. and I'll Be Your $9 Computer Today' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are taking after the BBC which for some reason if you go on the mobile site doesn't use Flash but on the regular site does.

  23. Re:So how many lawsuits have been filed so far? on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 2

    You know that EULA that you didn't read but accepted? I'm pretty sure that there's something in there that says they are allowed to send information back to their computers.

  24. Re:WTF does that mean? on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    The summary just posts a link to a generic article about copyright. However media companies usually have blanket license agreements with providers that provide them rights so that they don't have to ask every time they want to use a video or audio clip. So mostly likely CNN has an agreement with Google that lets them use and transfer videos from YouTube. And CBC has the agreement with CNN that lets them use their clips for 10 days. (It's probably a reciprocal agreement that all news organizations have.)

  25. More challenging on Drone Racing League Receives a $1 Million From Miami Dolphins Owner · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have them fly in the open and across people's backyards. It'll be an extra obstacle once the buckshot starts flying.