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  1. Re:Fine. Prove it, asshole. on A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy · · Score: 1

    Is it free? Do you broadcast? The proof is in Big brother/ robinson island. Enough people will line up for one minute of fame.

  2. Who is the marketeer? RTC disney on A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy · · Score: 1

    I bet the marketeer is some kid that got trained playing Rollercoaster tycoon 3 and now can do that al in a "real"(but fabricated) world.

  3. The real question is why. on Nagios-Plugins Web Site Taken Over By Nagios · · Score: 2

    Why did nagios take out the server out the hands of the community. Was there a fight in the community? Is this just a "it is named nagios, so it is ours"? Want do to some subscribtion? Sombody in the community took to big consulting fees?

    At first it looks like that nagios has a name to loose, and more work to do by maintaining a lot of plugins and a extra site.

  4. Re:LEDs are a terrible idea on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 1

    In some countries the shutter should (was?) mandatory to prevent abuse in the locker rooms...

    And to make it clear; LEDs should be a hardware feature, not a firmware feature.

  5. Almost. there. on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hardware feature I would like to see:
    -LED on when camera is taking pictures/recording.
    -LED on when microphone is recording.
    -Looking like a normal phone, If it screams PRIVACY phone, one might think ik have somthing to hide.

    Software features:
    -Restrict apps to a sandbox without telling them that. (feed apps fake data instead)
    -Some kind of firewall/virtualiszation between apps i use at home and work and real private part.
    -Secure boot. rootkit prevention. Including option by bypass the secure boot for open source mods.

    Marketing features i would like to see:
    -Real use cases. (like work/home phone virtualisation.)
    -privacy is always a tradeoff. being online means giving away some of your data. what trade offs are made?
    -Access to some more technical details HOW the pricay part is implemented and what has not been implemented.
    -Respected names from the pricacy industy who did have to do something in the design/implementation phase. trust is important.

    and ... open source... so useful parts can be reviewed and ported to populars android mods.

  6. Re:Freeloaders on The Role of Freeloaders In Open Source Communities · · Score: 1

    Yes.. that is right.

    developers do not care about users. They are just a statistic that is needed to get to the very small percentage users that manage to report a good reproducable error report, create some overrated documentation.

    And the stats are pretty accurate: for every 100 binary download there 1 one source download in my expierence. after that i am not sure who of those 1 percenta actually compile and look at the source.

  7. The earth is round. on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    On related news: the earth is round,

    round like a pancake.

    PS, the acticle starts nice, and simple, and then it introduces something called vacuum energy, which is a catastrophe in current observervations of the real world.

  8. Re:Vacation. on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 1

    Just one thing. Work password one would store in a work containers. However to start accessing that one first has to log in to windows domain.....

    after that keepass can dot its work... after that...

  9. Vacation. on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 2

    The real story:

    You have a good password, that changes every 2 months. It is complex, and the previous password does not look like the current password.

    Then you come back from a 2 week vacation and you have only 3 tries to remember your password.

    happens way too often.

  10. Shaking hands. on Headhunters Can't Tell Anything From Facebook Profiles · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows that the handshaking and the first impression at the start of a interview detemines 75% of the talk. Looking at the facebook first impression is equal. Any test would give better results.

  11. Re:Men are a minority on Headhunters Can't Tell Anything From Facebook Profiles · · Score: 1

    Nope, it is more complex than that. In the US the ration for working age (15-65) is 1.0

    For babies there are more males, for elderly there are more females.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio

  12. Re:Is this news for anyone? on Not All Bugs Are Random · · Score: 1

    or in other words:Let it be someone elses problem.....

  13. Re:looking in the wrong place on The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon · · Score: 1
  14. Re:The story isn't over on The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon · · Score: 1

    They can charge the US what they like. it would never be a penalty, but money for service.

    In this case polishing the statue, making some more pictures of it in front of the chines space buggy would be far more valueable. (and adding a list of the challenger/discovery flight crew, to point out the failure of the NASA flight program)

    And yes, of course make a 3d scan for a copy/reproduction of it.

    And as of the outer space threaty, if someone finds out a way to make a profit from space mining..... well see Iron Sky (2012)

  15. Re:Does it filter this site? on UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites · · Score: 1

    Wel.. NSFW, that is for sure. That kind of site is the result of the censoring of dicks in japan. So they decide to show something else there. tentacles are not forbidden.

  16. Re:Useless Article on UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites · · Score: 5, Informative

    What is relevant is that the default nanny state setting is “Default Safety“. Almost everythin is blocked in the parental cotnrol setting. I think as a parent you have to manuall add sites to that filter to have anything that resembles the internet.

  17. But if... on Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    I you can roll your own machine from scratch that is fine.

    If however you hire some specailiast to make the machine, and he uses of the shelf components then you have added 2 modes of attack.

    example: Snowden was hired by the NSA to increase the internal security of the NSA.

  18. deliberate maliciousness on Ford Engineers Test 'Predictive Logic' To Improve Cruise Control · · Score: 1

    Why bring up that point.

    If the road database is not correct, the only result is that some extra fuel is burned because the predections were wrong. En even then i think that not a lot is won this way. (compare the combusion engine efficiency of a Volt and a prius and you can see ford still has a huge gap to fill)

    The driver still is fully responsible.

    The fully automated prototypes still have lot of scanners and cameras to do the 100% automatic driving.

  19. Re:i'm all for it... on Ford Engineers Test 'Predictive Logic' To Improve Cruise Control · · Score: 1

    Hmm, That is not the issue. on a crowded road, there are 100 cars. If one of those drivers is not using Cruisecrontrol, and not paying attention, all the cars behind him have to break. And since the road has less capacity below 70 km/u ( ~50 mph) a traffic jam is created.

    Conclusion: the cruisecontrol has to be mandatory to solve the problem.

    Modern cars just need 3 extra buttons (on/off, up, down) to implement cruise control anyway. Motor control is electronic anyway. with normal cars margins and priceup those 3 buttons would cost 100 dollar/euro.

  20. Re:Why wait until now? on Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India · · Score: 1

    The same way as nokia thinks that they can deduct any exports of software (dodge the taxes) and pay 0,001 % of that in ireland. And suddenly this does not work. Recently the dodging of taxes by moving the profits arround between serveral countries is more and more frowned upon by politician.

    The trouble is that no country can stop it first: they will loose and other tax evasion countries will smile. india is quite brave, even if the result may be that the nokia factory will be closed as result of this.

  21. Re: I'm too stupid for this currency. on How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Nope, if you do "stupid" (like not securing your pc) thing they might not cover it.

  22. Re:In Soviet Russia, Phone compiles YOU! on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    That works just fine if you stay under the radar. I bet the 1000 china clones are also paying no royalties.

    As soon as you reach the size of samsung/htc lawyers know how to find you and explain the judge it is only a loophole.

  23. Re:I'm too stupid for this currency. on How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works · · Score: 1

    think about it:
    SOmeone hacks your computer.
    siphons away your money from your backaccount (keyboard snooping your password or something like that)
    The numbers on your bank account are away.

    Not different.

    The bank might help you or not. You are at their mercy.

  24. Re:On the Early player advantage on How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works · · Score: 1

    The first post messages are unsiged posts using recycled electrons.

    Bitcoin uses electronic signatures to tie up the electrons and is thus wastful to the environment. Except if you use the residual heat from the miner asics to heat your house. ;)

  25. Re:What about FAT32 on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 2

    One of the points of a SD (or SDEX) card is that you can read it very simple in an other device. By formtitting it it in JFFS2 or YAFFS you cannot read/exchange the card in windows. Inconvinent, but technically possible.