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  1. Attribution works here? on Air Force Looking To Beef Up Spacecraft Network Security · · Score: 1

    Unlike other cyberattacks, that one probably needs the attacker to show up. You need a good antenna, which I suspect is visible from spy satellites. If attack can be attributed reliably, then ballistic defense is possible.

  2. Re:Google spectrum database on Google Tests White Space Spectrum For School Broadband In South Africa · · Score: 1

    You mean they deployed sensors everywhere in the US?

  3. EU Double standard on UK Privacy Watchdog: 'Right To Be Forgotten' On the Web Unworkable · · Score: 2

    Of course when this is about free market and destroying states as economic actors, there is no problem with member states different sensibilities, democracy can be trumped for the good cause. When we come about protecting citizens against megacorporation, it seems to be different.

  4. Google spectrum database on Google Tests White Space Spectrum For School Broadband In South Africa · · Score: 1

    How is Google spectrum database fed? I did not find the information on their site.

  5. What platform? on Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone? · · Score: 1

    I don't care what phone platform

    AFAIK there is no JS API for I/O pins, which means it has to be handled by a native app. On iOS you cannot run your own apps, except if you root the device, therefore I would say that one care about the platform: iOS is not hack friendly

  6. Bitcoin historically high on Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    We are told bitcoin is historically high. Is it the right time to sell in bitcoins? Odds are high it will go down.

  7. NetBSD on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 1

    Why Linux, after all? If you want to learn about system administration, NetBSD is a good choice. It is not a good choice if you are looking for a desktop OS, however: it can be done, but it is not done for you.

  8. Re:Not complex; not broken; not meant for enterpri on A Truckload of OAuth Issues That Would Make Any Author Quit · · Score: 1

    Frankly, anyone who thinks the OAuth draft RFC is complex, should choose a dozen or so documents from the SAML protocol suite, relax in a hot bath, and read through several hundred pages of THAT claptrap.

    Indeed the spec is huge, but it works extremely well. I must confess still do not understand why OAuth exists since we have SAML

  9. No fraud on Most UK GPs Have Prescribed Placebos · · Score: 1

    There is no fraud here: placebo are efficient, sometime more than some drugs, and with fewer side effects

    For instance, if you have high cholesterol, and your doctor gives you diet advices and a placebo, you will be healthier than the one that will get a statin anti-cholesterol drug, which is inefficient at preventing heart attacks, and will destroy your muscles, push you toward diabetes, and increase your chances of getting a cancer

  10. Re:I've been waiting for this... on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    Sure no one know: what pairs are you talking about?

  11. API on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    I understand the application sets up its sockets as usual, and the kernel add TCP extensions for MTCP, and use them to negociate with remote endpoint and startup the subflows. This is transparent for the application, but is there any way it can inspect what is going on? I think about some kind of generalized getpeername(), which would allow the caller to get information about all subflows in use.

  12. Re:Evade censorship or crapy network workaround? on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    But home computers? No way. Not unless things have changed very, very dramatically there recently.

    I see no way they could have changed, the country still being on embargo

  13. Dumb question, nuclear deterence still apply on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    This is a stupid question. A country may wonder if hacking is an act of war, but without any doubt, replying with missiles is indeed an act of war, calling for further escalation

    Who are the possible enemy here? China? Russia? Both have nuclear weapons. Of course they have less than NATO, but still enough to blow up the whole planet, therefore nobody reasonable would ever consider bombing a hacker from theses countries.

  14. France position on Iraq war, oil lobbying on Could Twitter Have Stopped the Media's Rush To War In Iraq Ten Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    There were also a lot of commercial interest with USA at stake, hence it is not that clear that french diplomatic position was leaded by oil interests. Former french president Jacques Chirac wrote in a book that he was subjected to an intense lobbying effort against the french position on Iraq war. Most industries wanted him to side with USA.

    Moreover you have to consider relative oil importance in France, given that most of electricity is produced by nuclear plants. France could probably do a war for uranium (and perhaps this is the reason for France being in Mali right now), but not sure it would for oil at the moment.

  15. Re:Yoani Sanchez is not next door blogger on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    As a friend of mine once said, "There are two types of information available on Cuba: pro-Castro propaganda and anti-Castro propaganda."

    Plus the first hand experience you can have as a tourist...

  16. Re:Evade censorship or crapy network workaround? on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    Network coverage? Unless things have changed drastically in the past 7 years or so there are probably only a handful of Cubans in the entire city of Havana that even own a computer of any kind.

    If people have no access to computers, then the whole flash drive story is a nonsense

  17. Re:Yoani Sanchez is not next door blogger on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    Well, at least the french version of wikipedia has the same questions (and note that even UN does not have as much translations), and some answers.

  18. Evade censorship or crapy network workaround? on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 2

    Perhaps flash drive helps evading censorship, but I wonder if the widespread usage could not just be a workaround for poor network coverage. Everyone use a flash drive when hit by network connectivity problems.

  19. Yoani Sanchez is not next door blogger on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yoani Sanchez is obviously not an independent blogger, as she can afford translation of her blog in 20 languages. She must be backed by some bigger entity, but which one? And in what extent does she speaks for who is paying?

  20. 59 percent rating? on EA CEO's Departure Might Be Good For the Company · · Score: 2

    On Glassdoor, his 59 percent rating was 9 points below the average

    Someone can explain me this sentence? Visiting glassdoor web site does not enlighten me about this 59% rating

  21. Is there somewhere a technical overview of what GRID is? Wikipedia seems unaware of it.

  22. Re:How about... on Stricter COPPA Laws Coming In July · · Score: 1

    I understand that law is here so that Facebook helps you being a responsible parent, instead of wrecking your attempts at it, as it would naturally do if there were no law.

  23. Re:When government does things... on West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' · · Score: 1

    it never works out. They don't even need to publish a report to tell me how awful and expensive it is.

    Don't be too harsh on US government. It does an excellent job at protecting private property.

  24. Here is the next bubble on How To Bet Money On Your Future Success · · Score: 1

    Will it burst before or after student loans bubble?

  25. 16000 USD on How a Programmer Gets By On $16K/Yr: He Moves to Malaysia · · Score: 1

    This is around the minimal legal wage in France. Many people live with that. It is not easy not comfortable, but is quite common.