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  1. Upper limit on Bell Labs Fighting To Get More Bandwidth Out of Copper · · Score: 1

    There will be an upper limit anyway, but I cannot find any insightful document on it: what is the typical analog bandwidth of copper wires?

  2. Detailed report on French TV Network TV5Monde Targeted In 'Pro-ISIS' Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    Detailed report on the hack (in french): http://www.breaking3zero.com/cyber-attaque-contre-tv5-qui-comment-pourquoi/

    I note the malware was able to spread from user's PC to broadcast server, which suggests some kind of OS monoculture.

  3. Speed up on FAA Allows AIG To Use Drones For Insurance Inspections · · Score: 1

    They say it will speed up they pay process. It will also speed up the reason-for-not-paying process.

  4. How does this kind of law can block Tesla from creating 100% privately owned subsidiary company to offload what they are not allowed to do as a car builder?

  5. At the other end of the spectrum on The Democratization of Medical Diagnosis and Discovery · · Score: 1

    Here we enlighten doctors that believe a knowledgeable patient is a good thing.

    At the other end of the spectrum we have some doctors that learned nothing since they graduated 20 years ago and seem to feel threatened with patient's knowledge. What doctor flavor did you encounter most often?

  6. Re:Isreal on Why the Framework Nuclear Agreement With Iran Is Good For Both Sides · · Score: 1

    Israel isn't actively involved in exporting Islamic terrorism around the world.

    Indeed, Israel role is different: their behavior actually create terrorists wannabe in middle east

  7. Never trust the compromised on Google: Less Than One Percent of Android Devices Are Affected By Harmful Apps · · Score: 1

    What do they actually count? When a device was compromised, the attackers should cover their tracks and the device should be difficult to identify as being compromised.

    In other words, there is no "compromised' flag to easily identify on devices. Which leads to the question: what does Google's number mean?

  8. You will succeed on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 1

    You are concerned about the well being of your coworkers, hence I think you have good chances to succeed at improving it. Just do not loose the mindset.

  9. That information is useless: you are not going to impersonate Obama because you have his passport number.

    By the way I am surprised diplomatic missions have to show a passport.

  10. Money on IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Money seems a bad metric to choose a job. Once it pays enough, having an interesting job is quite important, since you are going to spend at least 8 hours a day at it. Job security can also be another important point: who cares a high wage if you are going to be fired within 2 years and remain unemployed after that (hint: another technological bubble exploded)

  11. Supported browers on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 1

    Their supported browser page tells they cope with IE 6, 7, 8 and Netscape 7.

    That looks like a joke, but I have already seen recent websites carrying this kind of requirements. Is there a modern framework that produce that?

  12. Good on European Commission Will Increase Use of Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I believe this is the first time I consider an European Commission move on something to be positive.

  13. Re:NSA funded? on Amazon Announces Unlimited Cloud Storage Plans · · Score: 1

    I was about posting exactly that. Please mod parent up!

  14. Contributions on Ask Slashdot: What Makes Some Code Particularly Good? · · Score: 1

    There are many axis for rating software. One of them is how easily a newcomer can contribute. It measures simultaneously code clarity, architecture choices, software usefulness (who wants to contribute to something useless?), maintainers mindset...

  15. Re:CipherList on 'Bar Mitzvah Attack' Plagues SSL/TLS Encryption · · Score: 1

    I know elliptic curve in Dual_EC_DRBG had a backdoor planted by the NSA. I am not aware of any problem with elliptic curve usage in ECDHE. Do you have a reference to a document telling otherwise?

  16. CipherList on 'Bar Mitzvah Attack' Plagues SSL/TLS Encryption · · Score: 2

    Good CipherList for OpenSSL based applications: ECDH@STRENGTH:DH@STRENGTH:HIGH:!RC4:!MD5:!DES:!aNULL:!eNULL

    Next step is to add !3DES

  17. One one hand, I am convinced school should teach basic skills and that there is a lot to improve there.

    On the other hand, I came to computing because of that the exact same kind of initiative in the 80's. The difference with today may be that it was not so obvious to have access to a computer at that time.

  18. Brain blood barrier on New Alzheimer's Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function For Mice · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The brain blood barrier is not just a fence against bacterias (evolution would have gave us blood barriers for other critical organs). It is also there to prevent neurotransmitters to leak or to break in.

    For instance, eating dopamine does not increase dopamine in the brain. If you want to increase dopamine, you can either take a drug that prevent it from being cleared, or eat a precursor that can cross the barrier like Tyrosine, or closer, L-dopa, but here the brain remain capable to regulate dopamine increase.

  19. It was not that complicated on Report: NASA May Miss SLS Launch Deadline · · Score: 1

    It was not that complicated to launch stuff during the space race time with USSR. Was NASA killed by quality control procedures?

  20. Federal recall on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    Mandatory voting seems nice, but another game-changer would be recall procedure at federal level.

  21. Blocked sites on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Blocked sites are: jihadmin.com, mujahida89.wordpress.com, is0lamnation.blogspot.fr and alhayatmedia.wordpress.com.

    But the system is incomplete: smaller ISP do not seems to be blocking them right now. Perhaps the government forgot to tell them about it.

  22. Grown up on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? · · Score: 1

    As a third year, she has already some good expertise in her field, and access to professors for what she does not yet know. Does she really need daddy's help here?

  23. FOIA rules on ICE Tells Reporter Its Secretive Drone Program Isn't Newsworthy · · Score: 1

    Please enlighten me: the law really requires FOIA requests to target stuff that are new?

  24. Who used sarin? on New Compound Quickly Disables Chemical Weapons · · Score: 4, Informative

    Summary says: "Syrian military allegedly launched sarin gas rockets".

    It is not that obvious who used chemical weapons. We have evidence rebells used sarin

  25. Tools, motivation on Ask Slashdot: What Can Distributed Software Development Teams Learn From FLOSS? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IMO, tools are a secondary problem. Many FLOSS project succeed with just e-mail and a distributed version control system (even plain old CVS). Motivation if the key point of FLOSS: people really want their contribution to get upstream, and that push them to make a lot of efforts. This may be difficult to reproduce with employed developers that may not care much about the project.