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  1. Military helicopter got irrelevant on Civilian Drone Crashes Into a US Army Helicopter (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can damage a multi-million US$ military helicopter with a 200 US$ drone, then it is time to change paradigm.

  2. The move from Spain government seems rather stupid. It would have been easy to let the referendum happen and consider it unconstitutional, or illegitimate if few people attended.

    Now Spain government appears as fighting democracy, I am sure that it pushed many people in Catalonia toward independence.

  3. Significant market on London Has Decided To Ban Uber (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    London is a significant market for Uber

    But since Uber looses money on each course, loosing a significant market should be a good news on the finance front, shouldn't it?

  4. Not connected bees on Move Over Connected Cows, the Internet of Bees Is Here (cityam.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand theses are not connected bees: RFID tag are not online device, you need bees pass near a RFID reader to get some information from them.

  5. Re:So, can they build themselves? on Scientists Create World's First 'Molecular Robot' Capable of Building Molecules (scienmag.com) · · Score: 1

    DNA does not permit you to specify the position of molecules

    DNA encodes the map to make enzymes, which can do much more than DNA itself

  6. Re:It's illegal to sell ads to foreigners now? on Facebook Will Share Copies of Political Ads Purchased by Russian Sources With the US Congress (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Yes, this sentence is quite weird. What is that law that prevent selling ads to foreigners? Can it even be compatible with the various trade agreements US signed in the last decades?

  7. Superhuman intelligence on Google's AI Boss Blasts Musk's Scare Tactics on Machine Takeover (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Somebody is going to produce a superhuman intelligence

    My fear is not about a superhuman intelligence, but on humans taking decisions on inputs from an AI they consider superhuman intelligence

  8. The only motivation I can see to such a hair splitting speech is that Google wants to market itself as an AI company. Otherwise, who care about what company is AI or not?

  9. TGV on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    To get an insight of how things can go bad at high speed, look at french TGV accidents

    The most serious accident was acheived by derailing on a bridge because of excessive speed during a test run. Other accidents with deaths involved level crossings. Obviously none of these two case can happen with hyperloop.

  10. The reverse engineering lectures page lists "Modern Vulnerability Exploitation": stack and heap overflow, format strings. Yeah, modern!

  11. PSA: Google Will Delete Your Android Backups If Your Device Is Inactive For Two Months

    Qhat does "PSA" stands for in this context?

  12. Here is my bid: you cannot secure that stuff, just unplug it from the net.

    Where do I collect my $50 million?

  13. MacOSX is oddly absent from the paper. If it had no flaws, it would have been worth a mention, so what? Not interesting to test?

  14. Bubble effect on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Bubble effect is still there with RSS, because you only have the news from the sources you configured. But at least it does not reinforce itself, as an algorithm would push on you the news it decided you should like.

  15. Firewalls and anticirus whitelisted on Google Chrome Will Soon Detect Man-in-the-Middle Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    This includes both malware and legitimate applications, such as antivirus and firewall applications

    It would have been a good opportunity to warn the user about security software that intercept SSL. There is a real security hazard here, as we have no idea how good theses SSL client implementation are. Does it properly validates certificates, for instance?

  16. High tech solutions on Equifax Breach Provokes Calls For Serious Data Protection Reforms (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is weird to see proposal to introduce high tech solutions to fix the reliance on SSN: cryptography, biometry... All that solutions will have flaws

    Another option could be to look at the numerous other countries in the world, where knowing your SSN has never been enough to get a credit on your behalf, or to sell your house.

  17. Using electric vehicles is nice, but that require extra power generation. What are they planning?

  18. Political change on Ask Slashdot: What's a Practical Response To the Equifax Breach? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That sad story could be used to ask for political change.

    There are countries where knowing someone's SSN is not enough to get a credit on his behalf, why US residents could not enjoy similar protection by law?

  19. Then illegality is everywhere in EU, sine EU charter does not encourage ignoring referendum results.

  20. the Presidency has worked hard in order to make the proposal for the new copyright Directive even more harmful than the Commission's original proposal, and pushing it further into the realms of illegality

    "Illegality" is the wrong word, as these people are writing what will become the law. "Illegitimacy" seems a better word to describe laws decided on behalf of the People but against its will.

  21. AI joined the recent overhyped buzzwords: MOOC, 3DTV, AR/VR... When the dust will settle, a few will certainly use it, but we will hear much less about it.

  22. Suspect vs obvious on Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    People looking for a healthier diet should worry about plastic in fish indeed. But here we speak about suspected problems for which we have no much data.

    On the other hand, we have a lot of data about unhealthy stuff that is very common in people diets: trans fats, refined sugar, fried food. First try to reduce that, and think about plastic in fish next.

  23. Input from elders on Will Millennials Be Forced Out of Tech Jobs When They Turn 40? (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    Millennials may see the experience of today's older workers as a cautionary tale, and usher in cultural changes

    You mean younger generation considering input for their elder? That may happen after they matured enough, but that will be too late then.

  24. Re: no thank you on Researchers Discover Enzyme That Harnesses Light To Make Hydrocarbons (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    Bilan is carbon neutral

    Where does the removed carbonyl group goes? I wonder how you are going to avoid a CO2 molecule to be emitted in the end.

  25. How old is the time when the signal was sent (that is: how far is the sender)?