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  1. Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 2

    What is R&PG? Wikipedia did not help me parsing that acronym.

  2. Re:What about ornithorhynchus? on Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed · · Score: 2

    I was not sure about the common name. In my native language, which happens to be french, the common name is Ornithorynque. Now you can troll french speakers for being natively pretentious :-)

  3. EU crisis on Rich Countries Suffer Less Malware, Says Microsoft Study · · Score: 1

    Now we can test that model for prediction. EU brain dead leaders decided to cure the public debt crisis by austerity (instead of printing the money that is too expensive to borrow, raising taxes for the wealthier, or whatever alternative you prefer). This is killing the whole continent economy, drowning entire countries into poverty. Will we see a malware surge in Greece, Portugal, Spain?

  4. Re:What about ornithorhynchus? on Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed · · Score: 2

    If it lays eggs then it's not a placental mammal (is that right? I think that's right).

    It is difficult to be sure about anything for this odd creature. It has venom (for males only), electric field sensitivity, 5 pair of sexual chromosomes... If nature proceeds from an intelligent design, then the creating intelligence was probably intoxicated the day it created ornithorhynchus

  5. What about ornithorhynchus? on Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed · · Score: 1

    The Ornithorhynchus is a mamall but lay eggs. How does it relates?

  6. How real is it? on Digital Pen Vibrates To Indicate Bad Spelling, Grammar and Penmanship · · Score: 1

    There is a prototype, but the first generation is expected mid 2013. What is the prototype really able to do?

  7. dup? on Economists Argue Patent System Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    Isn't this a dup from september 2013?

  8. Loosing money on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    The Postal Service has been losing billions of dollars each year

    It is not loosing money, it is just that the user does not pay the full price of the service. The remaining part is subsided through taxes because a cheap postal service was decided to be in the general interest

  9. Use SPF as a hint on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle SPF For Spam Filtering? · · Score: 1

    You can use SPF as a hint. A bad SPF record could trigger longer greylisting delay, therefore lowering the ability of a spammer to reach destination before been known by blacklists. milter-greylist allows such setup.

  10. Berne convention on Copyright Claim Thwarts North Korean Propaganda · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For whoever is interested, North Korea signed Berne convention in 2003. Foreign author copyright has therefore a meaning for them.

  11. ASLR for HTTP headers? on Researchers Devise New Attack Techniques Against SSL · · Score: 1

    One of the attack requirements is to find the target data at a fixed offset in the SSL packets. This is the case for session cookies, which aresend back and forth in HTTP headers Set-Cookie and Cookie.

    Why don't we just randomize HTTP headers order? Such a defense, inspired by ASLR for native programs, seems cheap to implement, and would make the attacker life more difficult. There could even be padding HTTP headers inserted at random places. Something like X-Padding: foobarbuz

  12. Re:There was a time? on The History of Visual Development Environments · · Score: 1

    an IDE is only beneficial for large projects with complicated build or deployment procedures with more than a couple developers.

    Well, there must be other constraints to the projects you experienced. NetBSD has a source repository of more than 6 millions LoC, more than 200 developers scattered worldwide, it targets 16 CPU types. And nobody use an IDE when dealing with it.

  13. Re:You haven't invented time travel yet ... on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 1

    If time travel ever is discoverable, where are all the time travelers?

    Perhaps they vanished in a parallel reality? If you travel to the past, you will change the future. Like a butterfly causing a storm, a single breath will change the future, and your future you will not be yourself anymore, which imply that you are not you anymore.

  14. Que se vayan todos on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 1

    some multinationals may find it better to simply 'move out' to a country that doesn't compromise their business models.

    This is an usual counterargument to any regulation: if you do X, then multinationals will go away. We should not get impressed. Let them go away and never come back: other actors will grab the market they leave behind.

  15. Re:slideshow-like article (NOSCRIPT = NO SITE) on The Top Paying Tech Companies For Interns · · Score: 1

    And I suspect there are at least 21 pages (I threw the towel on page 2)

  16. slideshow-like article on The Top Paying Tech Companies For Interns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Am I the only one to find annoying these multiple-page, sliedshow-like article?

  17. Re:HADOPI on $616.57 Three Strikes Verdict Cost RIANZ $250,000 · · Score: 1

    French President François Hollande ran his campaign with the promise he would abrogate (abolish) the HADOPI three-strikes law. Yeah, we've seen how that worked out, right, French voters?

    If that was the only new presidency missed opportunity, we would be happy

  18. HADOPI forbirds this in France on Free Wi-Fi: the Movement To Give Away Your Internet For the Good of Humanity · · Score: 1

    In France, we have this insane HADOPI law that would punish open Wi-Fi networks by a 1500 euros fine. As far as I know, nobody has been fined yet, though?

  19. Re:Microsoft ranked higher than Mozilla on Mozilla Named 'Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy' · · Score: 1

    Whether that faith is warranted or not is subject for another discussion.

    I understand: trust is a faith-related notion, not a rationale one.

  20. Re:Microsoft ranked higher than Mozilla on Mozilla Named 'Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy' · · Score: 1

    For companies overall: Microsoft #17 Mozilla #20

    Yes, I saw that. This is surprising; Anyone can explain why one could have more trust in Microsoft, a for-profit company, than in non-profit Mozilla foundation? At least Mozilla does not have a financial interest to betray its users

  21. Finder on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    What else?

  22. Re:The Purchasers?? on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    Copyright is guaranteed by the Berne convention. I think one would have a hard time finding anything in WTO and WIPO subsequent treaties that says how to trump the Berne convention.

  23. Re:The Purchasers?? on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    So are the purchasers still pirates?

    I understand the Antiguan seller will be fine with Antiguan law, and Antiguan law will be fine with WTO treaties. But the purchaser outside of Antigua will not have obtained a license from the right owner, and therefore the purchaser will be a pirate for its local law.

  24. Re:Podevin and du Jardin on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    I guess pot de vin refers more to an aubergiste than a viticulteur. The later deals more with barrels than with pots.

  25. Podevin and du Jardin on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 2

    What wonderful names for researchers in agricultural field: Podevin translates from french into "pot of wine", and du Jardin translates into "of the garden"