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  1. They say the big bang event could happen, but with what probability during a time period? If we consider eternity, it is amazing it happened only once.

    Or perhaps there have been mini big bangs inside our known universe? Or other universes beyond what we can observe?

  2. Re:Not a law on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    I'm simply amazed by the amount of people actually "believing" or giving credit to this. Just one question though: HOW ON EARTH would they actually enforce this so-called "law"?

    And moreover, it would be very surprising to see this government doing anything in favor of labor. François Hollande was elected as left wing but pushes a right wing agenda much more aggressively than any previous right wing government

  3. Not a law on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    I have read the original article in french from Les Echos. I understand this is not a law but an agreement between employers and labor unions for the IT sector.

  4. OpenData on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Come on, public data published in .xlsx...

  5. what is the point of IDS? on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    What is the point of IDS? If you detect an attack, your private keys are compromised and the game is over.

    And then you try to recover, you make new keys, renew certificates, revoke the old one... but since certificate revocation is quite broken, you never recover. An attacker that stole your old private key will still be able to masquerade as the legitimate server.

  6. Re:Thank you for the mess on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 2

    But the problem here is that no downstream distributions (either Linux or *BSD) were notified in advance. As a result there were no patch available for older versions that just had bugfixes backported, and no binary updates.

  7. Re:The spokesman for the AHA said... on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    Plenty of governments, from revolutionary France (...) have actively suppressed religion

    Revolutionary France was fighting the church more than religion. They attempted to create supreme being cult to reduce church influence

  8. What threat? on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    What threat do you face when you spend alone 50% of worldwide military expenses? And it skyrockets to 80% if counting NATO allies.

  9. Is OpenVPN affected? on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    Someone knows if OpenVPN is affected? The tests do not work on it since it uses TLS in an unusual way.

  10. Thank you for the mess on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have to thank the security researchers that chose to break the embargo on the news before OpenSSL coordinated with downstream project.

    Thank you for the mess, guys!

  11. What about a law on Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market? · · Score: 1

    Patches exist. A big country could pass a law to force MS to publish them in the sake of national interest, or pay a huge daily a fine (or give up the market in that big country).

  12. Re:It would be interesting to do the same with "Go on It's Time To Bring Pseudoscience Into the Science Classroom · · Score: 1

    God itself is not incompatible with science. Genesis and miracles described in the Bible are much more troublesome.

  13. IPFilter/PackerFilter on NetBSD on Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? · · Score: 1

    IPFilter or PacketFilter on NetBSD. I am a bit redundant since it was already proposed for OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but NetBSD was missing :-)

    I must add that BSD are good systems to learn. They take no initiatives and most of the time stick to common Unix tools instead of reinventing the wheel. That means for instance that knowledge acquired on NetBSD can be useful on Linux

  14. Re:OK, but... on NSA Confirms It Has Been Searching US Citizens' Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    It's all a question of perspective.

    I would say it is a question of territory: it is not the same thing to blow up an invader in your own country, and or in the invader's country.

    It is also a question of nationality: it is not the same thing to blow up an invader and to blow your fellow nationals

  15. horizontal propagation on How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake · · Score: 1

    I understand we can build cancellation structures for waves that do horizontal propagation, but what about vertical propagation?

  16. Re:OK, but... on NSA Confirms It Has Been Searching US Citizens' Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone that disagrees with power. Americans fighting UK army for independance would probably be called terrorists by today's standard.

  17. So childish on The 3D Economy — What Happens When Everyone Prints Their Own Shoes? · · Score: 1

    From TFA

    the government carnage will soon follow. How can it not, when only old people pay sales tax, fewer citizens obtain their incomes from traditional easy-to-tax jobs, and large corporate taxpayers start folding like daily newspapers? Without big business, big government can't function.

    This is so childish! Indeed, many things in government will cease to function if nobody pays for public goods. Roads, schools, justice... how will that be provided with 3D printing?

  18. Re:pay someone to do it on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: 1

    If you lack both skills and money, it seems you are busted. Perhaps you have the available time to acquire the skills?

  19. Re:So get rid of him on CISPA's Author Has Another Privacy-Killing Bill To Pass Before He Retires · · Score: 1

    Well, before using the rope, you could first stop voting for that kind of person.

  20. pay someone to do it on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: 0

    We speak about open source. Bugs can be fixed does not mean you can fix it. If you cannot, then perhaps you could pay someone to fix it?

  21. Indeed, since we do not have many real information from the country. Most of what we hear is propaganda from North Korea government, and imagination from western journalists.

  22. Come on, it was a hoax

  23. Easy to read on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, elegant code is easy to read. Functions are short, you can look seem all function body on a 25x80 terminal. Function and variable names are coherent and self-explaining, style is uniform, and comment exist where they are needed.

  24. Re:Science v. People on Physicists Produce Antineutrino Map of the World · · Score: 1

    Faced with a choice between clean, safe power for people (France's nuclear power plants)

    That is true, but there is one problem: France has no Uranium Uranium supply in its own territory. What I do not know is how much reserve is available, in case of a supply problem (because of a war in supplier country, for instance)

  25. Communism beaten on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Air pollution kills more than communism did!