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  1. This is stupid drama on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    If you want to prevent the NSA from snooping communications, come up with better protocols.

    I don't know why we don't just post a public key URL in the DNS records, and when making a request over this HTTPS-NEW connection you provide a public key as the first MIME part. Then you can have secure communications.

  2. We need a mime header on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    I think we should add a public-key-requested header to MIME, so that it can be built into mail clients. If the user adds a public to to their account then with a checkbox or button can choose to attach it to the mail. The user can supply their own key or one can be generated.

  3. Re:Genders need to be static across regenerations on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    I love that episode. But the hint that they can choose to change sex during regeneration is... an interesting one. Other than that hint we've always seen them come back the same gender. I'm willing to write that one off as a joke, because it's always some kind of mystery to the doctor what kind of person he is. If they could control it even a little, that's a pandorica.

  4. Genders need to be static across regenerations on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    What we do know from the series so far is males stay male, and females stay female.

    If genders were dynamic then you would wind up with some very inconvenient time lord marriages. They could end up the same sex depending on how the regenerations go. What do you do then? Suicide until you get a compatible one? It definitely would cause psychiatric issues if they ended up preferring one particular set of equipment. What happens when they die giving birth ans switch sexes?

    It opens too many well, boxes, that would make a mess of the show. NO TRANSGENDER DOCTORS PLEASE. And if they do go through with it, it will be seen as copping to some social equality agenda. Don't politicize our show and trash it in the final regeneration.

    Thank you.

  5. Casein on First Ever Public Tasting of Lab-Grown Cultured Beef Burger · · Score: 0

    The main protein in milk and meat is casein. However casein has been linked to adverse health effects. So just as when people say "scientists invented new way to grow mice? Just what we need, more mice!" I have to comment that casein isn't the protein we should be culturing for. From a health perspective a bean burger is much better for you, safer (ground chuck is the riskiest meat from a contamination perspective) and is in my experience just as yummy or more-so if you don't like that rubbery meat texture.

    Before you get all on me for seeming like a vegan, I still eat about 8oz of beef a week. I'm transitioning off of risky and unhealthy foods, but I don't think I'll ever be able to give up meat entirely, That said, the american diet is still emphasizing the wrong foods by orders of magnitudes.

  6. DEA already gets the data on Other Agencies Clamor For Data NSA Compiles · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The DEA is getting the data and then falsifying the source of the data. And not telling the court or anyone about it. To protect national security is one thing, but to conduct non-national security operations using the data seems to me to be a blatant violation of the constitution.

  7. So if you pit a hole in a wall.... on Pinholes and Plastic Wrap Make Solid Walls "Transparent" To Sound · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The sound goes through. Oh this is such a break through! No one ever thought of this! No one would ever think that a hole might alter the optical properties as well? Well it does! You can see through a wall with holes in it! It's amazing!

  8. So what if you are in a plains state? on Death of Trees Correlated With Human Cardiovascular & Respiratory Disease · · Score: 1

    Or a desert state? These places should stand out like sore thumbs. But Colorado - far from a forested state enjoys some of the best health and lowest cancer rates even though there is increased background radiation from the mountains.

  9. $70 high def, doog quality on Dashcams Going High-Def, High-Tech · · Score: 1

    I use this 720p Dash Cam id $70. I prefer dedicated hardware because there isn't much of a secondary market for them like there is for [stolen] cellphones. I've used other, cheaper versions of "high def" cams and they aren't or they frequently require resetting. This one only needed 1 reset in weeks of 24/7 use.

  10. Re:Just like the SAT on Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India · · Score: 1

    The problem he pointed out is that there are parts of every graph where the non-multiple case applies. This refutes the "every score is a multiple" theory, unless multiplication was not the final step. If there is a step after multiplication, how are bonus points awarded?

  11. Running a dash cam in America.. on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    The most it catches are cops running red lights. Sure, it saved my butt in an insurance claim, but by occurrence it catches cops being bad.

    I want to start a blog: copsbehavingbadly which will highlight bad police action caught on camera.

  12. Hugh Laurie on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Admit it, he would make the perfect doctor...

  13. Re:How about a non-exploding nuke? on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    The van allen belts will collect and coalesce the ions right back onto the planet.
     

  14. How about a non-exploding nuke? on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Nuclear explosions in space are particularly dangerous to space equipment. What if we use a nuke that doesn't explode per se with one that gets really, really hot. Either turning it into a soft blob that conventional weapons can blast apart, Or hot enough to vaporize the material (likely) iron,and create a jet to alter its orbit.

  15. Hardware vs Software on Facebook Cancels UK Launch of HTC First · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It looks like decent hardware. I hate to see the losses to HTC because Facebook's platform isn't ready. How about this: sell the hardware with stock Android. Make it a nexus phone.

  16. Re:It's all BS. on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    Diet soda has aspartame and other chemicals in it which actually make me feel worse - run down and lethargic. And the consensus is I am not alone in that reaction.

  17. It's all BS. on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been in software development for 15 years now and I never had any of the stuff provided. And I'm glad they didn't. I'd be a fat turd now with diabetes. And the caffeine rush only lasts for about 15 minutes. So it's a myth. You'd be better off putting the money towards better tools, or a in-house better tools program (unassigned work time) so developers can pursue pet projects.

  18. Subliminated ice boulders on Weird Geological Features Spied On Mars · · Score: 2

    If you figure each put was made by a chunk of ice, which laid on the surface to trap blown debris, then subliminated away, you'd get something like that. The one to the right with ones inside of on pit would have been made by a ice boulder fracturing apart then its parts sublimating away.

  19. It's not constant change, but the barrage of email on How LinkedIn's Project Inversion Saved the Company · · Score: 2

    That bothers me. In the beginning sure, I knew those people. Now, the emails have been for the last several years that I might know people that I have absolutely no idea of how I would even know. It looks desperate, LinkedIn.

  20. Chia Pet your civilization on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    Currently, with the understanding we have, we find it hard to move matter. So why not just transport a minimum amount of yourself (DNA) to other worlds and set up a replication shop. Grow your own civilization at the destination. It's far cheaper and more interesting that way, because when you do meet in the middle, or finally make it there, you'll have close but not-quite distant relatives.

    Also, I suspect at some time we'll be able to quantum entangle enough particles to construct our DNA remotely and initiate civilization by remotely.

  21. Re:We need better web tech PERIOD. on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    Agreed

  22. We need better web tech PERIOD. on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    I find it rather abhorrent that the "Web Development" has become a mish-mash of technologies: HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS and extensions: DOM, AJAX.

    As a software developer this is a nightmare scenario. When we program computers, we should be programming for the web or directly on the client in a unified way that hides the intricacies of the base technologies from the developer. Imagine writing a program not knowing where it was going to run? Because you just wrote what it should do, and some compiler took care of mapping the concepts to whatever tech the client had available. C# kind of delivers this, but it is way too translucent that you're writing a web app when you are.

    There is a toolkit called Wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt) that is C++. What is Wt doing with C++ on the web? It's allowing you to program your application in an object-oriented way, and the koolhit takes care of mapping things to HTML, JSS, CSS for you! Now, C++ isn't what I would have chosen, but it's a good start. But the fact that you can effortlessly write a WebApp in C++ is nothign short of amazing. And on top of that you can have your functions exported to JS for execution by the client for Ajaxing. (Not ideal that you see that, [leakage] but very cool that you don't have to know JS or AJAX)

    If we stop standardizing, fine, but whatever we evolve to has to be (mandate, not conlcusion) a metric fuckton better than what er have now.

  23. MS, MS and the company that lost control of Java on Competitors Complain To EC That Free Android Is a 'Trojan Horse' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are complaining they can't get revenue from it.

  24. Dude, she and the dinosaur riding man are fiction on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain That Humans Didn't Ride Dinosaurs? · · Score: 0

    "I have a wonderful and beautiful girlfriend who treats me right in every way" - there's your April fool's right there.

  25. Re:HORRIBLE for Doom or Duke on DOS Emulation Arrives For the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Having had LAN parties that long ago. (yeap) I can say my 486DX2/66 was able to run Doom fine. However my friends's 486DX/33 was noticeably slower, around 15FPS. Castle Wolfenstien was doable on a '33 though.