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  1. compression vs extension on Biodegradable Fibers As Strong As Steel Made From Wood Cellulose · · Score: 1

    I recall wood structures work by compressing wood, while steel structures extends steels. Does that mean there are situations where this new fibers cannot replace steel? Or is it always possible to swap extension for compression for any design?

  2. Re:It's about time on Apple To Be Investigated By the EU Over Tax Affairs · · Score: 1

    This is the EU telling EU countries that they cannot use tax incentives to compete with each other to attract business. Apparently the job of the Competition Commissioner is to stifle competition.

    They want pure competition between businesses, and between states. States are still pushed to compete with each others by lowering taxes for all businesses.

    You can think about EU commission like competition fundamentalists. Follow their way and EU will not able to pay for maintaining its own roads.

  3. Re:Also... on Recommendations For Classic Superhero Comic Collections? · · Score: 1

    Do Slashdotters recommend Windows, Mac OS X, or FreeBSD for this purpose?

    NetBSD viwth /bin/ed?

  4. Why brag about it? on Did Russia Trick Snowden Into Going To Moscow? · · Score: 1

    If this happened the way Boris Karpichko tells us, what is Russia's interest to brag about it?

  5. War on terrorism on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the war on terrorism logic. Even the cops are afraid and see military grade enemies everywhere now.

  6. Re:Warned about this years ago. on IPMI Protocol Vulnerabilities Have Long Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    It says

    Error: Unable to establish LAN session
    Get GUID command failed

    Does that means there is no IPMI service, or that there could be one but not with NONE authentication?

  7. Is IPMI enabled? on IPMI Protocol Vulnerabilities Have Long Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    Is it the kind of beast that is enabled while you never enabled it? Is there a way to test whether there is an IMPI service available from LAN? Would nmap -sU -p 623 $hostname be enough?

  8. There is something wrong with the summary: 25 to 75 MHz is not within the gamma ray spectrum.

  9. Outrage to the king on Thai Police: We'll Get You For Online Social Media Criticism · · Score: 1

    Times are changing: at least they did not arrest him for outrage to the king.

  10. OpenVPN on New OpenSSL Man-in-the-Middle Flaw Affects All Clients · · Score: 1

    Is OpenVPN affected?

  11. No partiot enough? on Bill Blunden's Rejected DEF CON Presentation Posted Online · · Score: 1

    I just had a look at the 94 slides. The content is interesting, and contrary to what was said, it is quite well sourced.

    That presentation dismiss China spying being led by the government, then notes that damage claims on US economy are crazily high and not well backed. The last part of the presentation deals with US spying, how it got out of US People control, and how banks also ran out of US People control.

    IMO this was turned down because it criticize the US political system. No patriot enough, or not patriot the way our masters want us to be. At least it is interesting about DEF CON organizers' minds

  12. If we add all the job creations and GDP increases that various EU projects claimed to induce, today we would have 400 million jobs filled and a 50% GDP growth per year. But the reality is that EU is in recession and unemployment is high.

  13. mail in transit on Google Announces 'End-To-End' Encryption Extension For Chrome · · Score: 1

    The report showing how much email is encrypted in transit is about SMTP/TLS usage. But as I understand, this is security theater since certificate validation is not done. Most SMTP implementation work without a CA root repository, and therefore cannot assess the peer identity.

  14. Re:Who owns the pipes? on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: 1

    If I understand your point correctly, government cannot enforce the general interest because the political system is rotten.

    This does not make regulation or public ownership irrelevant in the general case (it worked fine in other places and in other times), but it just means US democracy is kinked and has to be fixed for anything good to happen on any front.

  15. Re:Who owns the pipes? on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: 1

    Public service can fill any role that is not well done by private businesses. There is no natural law against it. The rule of thumb must be the general interest.

    And I do not advocate for a USSR-like economy. For instance, France within 30 years after WWII had many industrial activities within the hand of the government, and nobody called it a socialist experience.

  16. Who owns the pipes? on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: 2

    It seems obvious to me that pipe owner has an advantage when it comes to deal with what and how can transit.

    This can be solved by (1) regulation, (2) competition, and (3) public ownership of pipes, whether as personal property (in premise), associations, municipality, state or federal level

    I see people dismissing first and third solutions because government involvement should be inefficient, but that is just ideology. Public service can be efficient and economically sound. Regulation can work. It just depends how it is done.

  17. Yet another calendar on Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods · · Score: 1

    Why anyone should use it?

  18. Ruin my high-performance databases on Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases · · Score: 1

    At first glance, I red "Ruin" instead of "run". I must be biased.

  19. Humans are social beasts on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    Printing a human from DNA makes no sense, as sociability is what makes us human. Clones raises isolated from human kind will probably be a big awkward failure.

  20. Laser on Hunt Intensifies For Aliens On Kepler's Planets · · Score: 1

    If they use laser for communications, we will have a hard time seeing them.

  21. Antitrust investigation? on Amazon Confirms Hachette Spat Is To "Get a Better Deal" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shouldn't this fuel an antitrust investigation? The mere fact they can pressure a publisher by not listing their books means free market failed.

  22. General Practitioner on Wikipedia Medical Articles Found To Have High Error Rate · · Score: 1

    they recommend your General Practitioner as a more reliable source

    They mean the kind of doctor that is of aware of anything new in medicine since he graduated 20 years ago, except for drugs that big pharma advertised?

  23. 21st century way of warfare on B-52 Gets First Full IT Upgrade Since 1961 · · Score: 0

    It's an effort to bring the Cold War era heavy bomber into the 21st century way of warfare

    You mean, make it hackable?

  24. Re:Innovation? on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Then perhaps they could start by laying off the CEO? A CEO without a strategy is just a useless cost.

  25. Innovation? on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Don't they have a strategy? Some innovation that they could invest on to stay ahead? That would be more promising for the future than reducing workforce.