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  1. Something clear on Tim O'Reilly and the 'WTF?!' Economy (Video) · · Score: 1

    Something's happening here; what it is ain't exactly clear

    This is just latest class warfare incarnation.

  2. Re:Useful fusion on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    Considering how much coal and uranium there is, let alone wind, solar, hydro, wave, tidal, geothermal etc, such a thing is so far off as to be ignorable for a few generations.

    Are you sure you are able to harvest that sources without oil available?

  3. Useful fusion on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    The real question is: will fusion achieve real energy production before our civilization collapse because of power source exhaustionN

  4. Re:The solution is cloud computing. on Ask Slashdot: Capacity Planning and Performance Management? · · Score: 1

    Migrate to the cloud, either public or private.

    Yes, I heard it would make you rich, make your wife come back home, and moreover it cures cancer.

  5. Investment in renewables? on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    It is quite hard to understand why they did not massively invest in renewable energy sources since Fukushima: wind and solar are obvious, but for islands in a earthquake zone, tidal and geothermal should be interesting to harvest.

  6. Re:free movement of currency on Cuba Uses Big Data To Help Tourism, But Their Networks Lack Capacity · · Score: 1

    Cuba holds a large reserve of US$ because of remittances.

    This means some cubans have US$, but what about Cuba's central bank reserves? This is what matters when a free-traded curency is under attack.

  7. free movement of currency on Cuba Uses Big Data To Help Tourism, But Their Networks Lack Capacity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Free movement of currency means speculators can attack your currency. A country can deal with it if it has big change reserves, just like Russia a few months ago. I do not have hard data on Cuba, but I do not see how they could hold hundreds of US$ billions in their central bank, given that they have been embargoed for decades.

    Therefore I am not sure free movement of currency is what Cuba needs right now.

  8. Re:Submission title is very misleading! on Hacker Shows How To Fabricate Death Records · · Score: 1

    They don't ask you, they query the hospital or the municipal government office, where the master of the certificate is stored in some mouldy binder in the basement.

    In my experience, they do ask you to get the document. But it does not make any difference, as if they fetch the document on their own, you can still give them someonelse's identity.

  9. Slashdot categories on French Killers Inspired By Breaking Bad TV Show · · Score: 1

    A real crime story filed in the entertainment category?

  10. Re:Submission title is very misleading! on Hacker Shows How To Fabricate Death Records · · Score: 1

    people are very well documented in Europe at both national and local level.

    I suspect there are loopholes. For instance if you loose your ID card, you are asked a birth certificate to establish a new one. Obtaining the birth certificate of someone else is not difficult, and it does not have a picture on it (even if there was one, it would a be a toddler). Therefore I do not see what prevent someone from obtaining an ID card with someone else's identity.

  11. Election on Hacker Shows How To Fabricate Death Records · · Score: 1

    Making fake identities for long enough would be a way to hack an election

  12. Re:Sure it can work on Starting Now At Netflix: Unlimited Maternity and Paternity Leave · · Score: 1

    what if you only have five employees at your business?

    This is why thins kind of policy is a good candidate for being socialized

  13. Security updates on SDN Switches Not Hard To Compromise, Researcher Says · · Score: 1

    Given the amount of security updates we had on Linux servers those days, it is not surprising a lot of vulnerabilities exists in embedded Linux systems.

    It would require a lot of work from distribution maintainers and system administrators to keep that stuff ahead of the vulnerability curve?

  14. Incidents on FAA Has Approved More Than 1,000 Drone Exemptions · · Score: 1

    There were incidents with drones, but did that ones fly with a FAA exemption? Or were they unwarranted flyers?

  15. The resultant curve (pictured below) on Using Math To Tune a Video Game's Economy · · Score: 1

    The resultant curve (pictured below)

    Where is it?

  16. Re:Why is that illegal? on Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money · · Score: 1

    The scam artists of the world would de-fund ISIS in about a year

    Don't forget ISIS now control some oil production. That makes their pockets quite big.

  17. How does it works? on Want To Fight Climate Change? Stop Cows From Burping · · Score: 1

    What is the mechanism at work? TFA just says 3NOP increase digestibility. How?

  18. Words on Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies · · Score: 2

    Adding random concepts as characters seems weird for alphabetical languages, where there is a limited character set used to form many words.

  19. Per-user result on Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    How to enforce a local law on the global Internet? My first thought was for the poor judges that will have to settle on that topic. Perhaps we need a judge appreciation day.

    Then I realized this problem can be easily addressed at technical level. It would not be difficult for Google to tweak google.com search results depending on user localisation. They already do this for ads.

    Or they could just redirect any EU user to its national google domain, like google.fr for a french user.

  20. BIND update on System Administrator Appreciation Day 2015 · · Score: 1

    And this year sysadmins are grafted by a BIND update just in time for sysadmin day.

    Happy patching sysadmin day!

  21. Sinking island on China's Island-Building In Pictures · · Score: 2

    The funny point is that once you kill coral by dumping tons of sand on it, the island will not raise anymore with oceans. They are going to need a lot of sand to keep the island afloat.

  22. Librarians on Tor Project Pilots Exit Nodes In Libraries · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is astonishing how mindset about computing can vary among librarians. On one hand we have the one that set up TOR exit nodes to save our privacy, and on the other hand we have the one that purchase strongly vendor-locked and opaque proprietary library softwares.

  23. No surprise? on EBay Is Shutting Down Its On-Demand Delivery Service · · Score: 1

    It may come as no surprise

    In other words, this should be a non-news? Please tell me why I should have expected the demise of a service I did not know about.

  24. Storing the data is the easy part, Glusterfs should do it just fine. The point I am curious about is backups: how do you backup such a volume?

  25. As I read the requirements, I have the feeling open source is not the within the goals.

    It is more like an early Unix source license, where the ones that pay have access to the source, can modify it, and exchange with other licensees