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  1. Thepiratebay.sx fills a needed nitch on The Pirate Bay Is 10 Years Old: 'We Really Didn't Think We'd Make It This Far' · · Score: 2

    I like a place I can download stuff I read about on /. the http://thepiratebay.sx/ fills that need.

    Like when Aaron Swartz uploaded JSTOR http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2254204/release-of-33gib-of-scientific-publications 35 gigs of some of the driest stuff I've read, but I was able to.

    Only click on the magnetic links, anything else is... well different.
    Secondary link http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/6554331 not as "funny looking" as the link in the /. article (which is still good).

  2. Re:And this is impressive why? on Mozilla Launches Persona Identity Bridge For Gmail · · Score: 1

    BTW for those that want a different browser, mind a suggestion? Try Comodo Dragon for those that like the Chromium based and Comodo Ice Dragon for those that prefer the Gecko way of doing things as not only does it have none of the phone home stuff (any and all extra features are opt in and both ask during install and can be turned on and off in settings if you change your mind) but the extra features are all based around increasing security,

    I use Comodo firewall It's been rated the best and it's worked very well for me.

    At some point Comodo started pushing this GeekBuddy bullcrap even if you select not to install it, it would install a mini version,
    then pop up reminders of it. When Comodo went with a different GUI that was so confusing (more so than normal)
    I couldn't trust running it as I wasn't sure of it's configuration -almost like I should start paying for help.

    Comodo is now at Version 6.0.260739.2674 I still run 5.3.176757.1236 as it's much more intuitive than the lastest versions
    and as mentioned appears to work just fine.

    I was all for giving Comodo Dragon Browser a try as long as this GeekBuddy doesn't tag along. Just don't like the Opt in feature
    of paying for a more secure browser. Just as well it would have to be very special to replace my Opera.

  3. Would you subject yourself to radiation for buck$ on Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's the same everywhere there's a nuclear reactor, it needs to be maintained on a yearly cycle.

    In this area a person used to make very good money being used for their exposure. You go
    in do a job until you reach your weekly radiation limit (300 mrem / 3 mSv), then do nothing until
    you are usable again; for a yearly limit of (3 rad / .03 Sv). At which time your let go as it's
    temporary work which your not able to perform any more.

    These temporary jobs were during the summer outages and lasted a few months.
    with the chance it could become a permanent position, which many did.

    Would you work for NSA if the money was very good, as opposed to being used for your exposure at a nuclear
    plant that produced Plutonium for intent of blowing people up? If you needed work be it temporary or a job with a substantial
    increase in your income, I'm sure a lot would.

  4. Upper Case or not? on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 2

    Even now I'm not sure if letters need to be entered as shown ie: some letters are upper case, some lower case.
    I'm leaning towards it doesn't matter.

  5. Re:Drug Patent on Open Source Drug Discovery Prompts a Fundamental Heart Failure Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I was wondering how long a drug patent lasts right now and if it is tied at all to how long it took to research whatever the drug patent is for?

    Drug patent's don't expire anymore, and if a generic is available they are able to restrict it's purchase in the US.

    Modafinal is the generic name and can't be purchase in the US, Provigil is the brand name and was due
    to lose it's patent in 2012. Nuvigil was released at that time and I can't find a reason but the patent has
    been extended to Provigil to some time in the far future

    Modafinal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil > Provigil >
    Nuvigil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armodafinil generic is Armodafinil

    Both are the same chemical structure. Not sure if you can purchase Provigil anymore, Nuvigil is cost prohibitive - say $20 a pill in the US.

  6. Lipstick on a pig on Japan Launches Talking Humanoid Robot Into Space · · Score: 1

    It's basically a toy - less than a foot high, I think - it responds to basic verbal pre-programmed commands.

    "modelled on a beloved Japanese cartoon figure, Astro Boy, it would be quite wrong, indeed grossly offensive, to describe it as a toy."

    -"You can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it's tail, spray it with perfume, but it is still a pig."

  7. Re:Almost all students of orca believe... on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 1

    Missed a closing tag.

    Killer whale attacks on humans

    "On April 1, 1989, Nootka IV of Sealand of the Pacific pulled her trainer, Henrietta Huber, into the whale tank after the 6-year-old female bit down while the trainer had her hand in the mouth of the orca in order to scratch its tongue. Huber needed several stitches in order to close her wounds"

    Not one of the "almost all" students of orca.

  8. Re:Almost all students of orca believe... on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 1

    Do you sit in a classroom with an orca at the board?) and polled them at a scientific level? Even if they did, what does "almost all" mean?'

    There were bits of fishy stuff in two of the articles I read as well

    I remember reading of Daniel Dukes the person who was found dead apparently swimming with Tillikum but that's all I read, it was a very short piece.
    Got a lot more from their local paper but the way it was written kept me looking for the next literary er whatchamacallit's

    http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/
    marijuana-smoking drifter with a string of petty arrests. (drug addict)

    a worn-out Florida Department of Motor Vehicles identification card. (it doesn't work anymore?)

    had to scale a 3-foot-high Plexiglas barrier (Must of been a very small person)

    On Christmas Day 1998, he was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession in Marion County.(addicted drug addict)

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/
    The National Geographic refers to Daniel Dukes as a drunk (highly unlikely - but gives one an "ah ha, I see")

    "There is strong circumstantial evidence that Tillicum may have killed again," I went on. "He was moved to SeaWorld Orlando,
    where a drunk climbed in over the wall one night and was found drowned in the whale's pool the next morning."

    Just after that is this:
    "This second case, the 1999 death of Daniel Dukes, was more ambiguous, because there were no witnesses." (don't think there were many in Daniel Dukes's
    case either) ,/p>

  9. It's all in the preparation on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Fried Ants are the worst, hours later I'm still picking legs out out of my mouth.

    Chocolate covered Grasshoppers are just horrid, not the Grasshoppers but the Chocolate.

    Areas where flour isn't stored properly (Philippines, Azores, Viet Nam (for me)) small Beatles will get into it
    At first I'd pick them out; then just didn't care. Spread butter or gravy over the bread you never knew.

  10. Re:Solution to the dupes on Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Let's attach a tazer to each of the "editors",

    All in favor say "aye"!

    aye,

    Goto 2:00 in the video and pause
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7-JZq0YxsM#t=2m00 (set up correctly but doesn't work)

    Now imagine you've asked an editor are they sure this isn't a dupe, Then start the video
    -First thing that came to mind - could be a lot of fun.

  11. iiiii on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 0
  12. Orson Welles' masterwork "1984" will teach them all they need to know about how computers have changed their society.

    Marked as off topic I feel it dead on,

    Chapter 2: Naked in the Sunlight: Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned

    1984 Is Here, and We Like It Footprints and Fingerprints Why We Lost Our Privacy, or Gave It Away Little Brother Is Watching Big Brother, Abroad and in the U.S. Technology Change and Lifestyle Change Beyond Privacy

  13. Re:Bottle - Genie? on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 2

    If you follow the phrase "Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobiliser" you get:

    That link I didn't post, it comes with the copy and paste kinda neat, kinda freaky. A self writing copy and paste so I don't get it wrong.

    Enamored so by the self writing javascript I posted the wrong address
    https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity13/session/attacks and what this ruling blocks.

  14. Re:Bottle - Genie? on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 1

    So how is anyone, courts included, meant to unpublish something?

    It's happened already.

    Today I had a chance to read about zero day vulnerability in vehicles but passed on the article cause I've read it already. or similiar (BlueTooth). A link from a site that has handles current headline news. It's been removed from that site and the sites history.

    Google has this but it links to a 404,

    Full Hacker News - Svay
    svay.com/projects/FullHackerNews/?l=linux-kernel&m...q=raw?
    18 hours ago - You can't manage this competition while sipping margaritas all day from your ..... of a single address,
    followed by zero or more delimiter and single address pairs. ...... The cars are protected by a system called
    Megamos Crypto, an algorithm ... Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobiliser – without the ...

    If you follow the phrase "Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobiliser" you get:

    London, July 27 : A British computer scientist, who cracked security system of cars including Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis, has been banned from publishing an academic paper revealing the secret codes as it could lead to the theft of millions of vehicles. - See more at: http://www.newkerala.com/news/story/47249/scientist-banned-from-publishing-research-containing-luxury-car-security-codes.html#sthash.fJvoQSgv.dpuf

    That link I didn't post, it comes with the copy and paste kinda neat, kinda freaky. A self writing copy and paste so I don't get it wrong.

  15. Moon sets the U.S. into motion on Indian Army Mistook Planets For Spy Drones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When the U.S. installed one of the first Radar stations to catch Russian missiles as they came over the hemisphere. The Moon set off one of the first alerts, was a tad too sensitive.

    Best cite I can come up with; but a common snicker when I was growing up.
    http://nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/accidents/20-mishaps-maybe-caused-nuclear-war.htm
    "The rising moon was misinterpreted as a missile attack during the early days of long-range radar."

  16. Re:Is a way to change permissions on the android on Study Finds iOS Apps Just As Intrusive As Android Apps · · Score: 1

    After it became illegal to root a device,

    Where did that happen? It is perfectly legal for me to gain root on any device I own, never mind what any EULA might state.

    Looks like Jan 26th 2013 - http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/144204/unlocking-new-mobile-phones-becomes-illegal-in-the-us-tomorrow The /. article summery says "While this doesn't apply to phones purchased before the window closes, this means that after 1/26/13, for any new mobile phone you purchase, you'll have to fulfill your contract, or break the law to unlock it."

    I feel the same way you do, if and when I get a new phone I'll be rooting it, it's a security thing. One of the sites I use is still going strong http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org./ You just can't get say a firewall for you phone from Google Play store anymore.

  17. Re:You click first. on Muon Neutrino To Electron Neutrino Oscillation Conclusively Shown · · Score: 1

    CP-violation

    I was a little scared to click that link. This is the Intertubes, after all.

    Yet it's got that one line that explains everything so nicely "or, as the analogy goes, some reactions did not occur as often as their mirror image."

  18. Re:Wetsuits on Rethinking the Wetsuit · · Score: 1

    Honest question. Why use wetsuits in WA at all? I've lived in Perth, WA, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to put on something extra since it's so damn hot all the time.

    And I was going to answer; are you nuts it's bloody cold.
    WA is the abbreviation for Washington State (U.S.), only going to Google Earth (I really did) to see where in Washington Perth was did I find resolution.

    To a recent post of mine on /. were replies of "only in the U.S. was it true", not the rest of the world as I had implied...sigh...

    And yes, sharks.... but they are less annoying/dangerous than the local Christians who writes letters to the editor in the local newspaper, explaining why sharks should be exterminated because they're not part of God's plan.

    And to think they waste good fish scraps for chum.

  19. Re:Avoid using anything from Google on Google Is Bringing Chrome Remote Desktop App To Android · · Score: 1

    Please avoid using anything from Google. I have considerably reduced my usage of gmail, google drive, and my android tablet .... Please DO NOT give them additional access to your computer, phone etc. They already know too much.

    For Windows, Chrome has a service to keep Chrome updated, I've always disabled the ability for it to phone home and install anything at anytime and don't run Chrome anymore because of it.

    FireFox has started the same thing, the service is called "Mozilla Maintenance Service" which I've disabled. I use FireFox for BattleField 3 only, Opera is my browser of choice.

    As a rule I disable the updating of any program, flash tells me when an update is available, Java updates I catch as they are mentioned, and Windows updates I wait to see how many computers are taken down first.

    Google is still my search engine, http://www.dogpile.com/ used to have a neat page called SearchSpy where you could watch what people were searching for in real time, you learn a lot watching that and more aware.

  20. Re:Is a way to change permissions on the android on Study Finds iOS Apps Just As Intrusive As Android Apps · · Score: 1

    On Android you can use the XPrivacy module for the Xposed framework to spoof permissions to apps - i.e. fake location data, fake phone number, fake contacts, etc.

    Very nice program.

    XPrivacy Android 4.0+
    http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320783
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.bokhorst.xprivacy

    Requires Xposed to be installed first.
    http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401

    I'll see (how / if) this works on my U.S. Motorola Xoom

  21. Is a way to change permissions on the android on Study Finds iOS Apps Just As Intrusive As Android Apps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But you have to be rooted.

    After it became illegal to root a device, Google store remove anything that interfered
    with another programs ability to do what it does, firewalls, adblockers, HOSTS files, permission changers...

    From the AdAway site:
    AdAway is not available on Google Play! It was removed by Google due to Violation of section 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.
    Please install it from F-Droid. https://code.google.com/p/ad-away/

    My XOOM tablet is rooted (jailbroken / mine) I have the old "permissions" from Google play
    that does change permissions of a program, as well as having a firewall and a HOSTS file installed.

    Can't vouch for it as it's a very quick search but http://code.google.com/p/android-permissions/ claims to be able to do this as well.

    To see what information an Android program can send, goto www.Rovio.com and read the Tos and Privacy Policy
    it's a fav site of mine showing what's collected. Rovio.com is Angry Birds for one, ASTRO file manager reads
    the same way both very popular programs.

  22. Re:Practicality? on Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells · · Score: 1

    As cool as this would be *now*, given enough generations these mutations will disburse (ever wonder why so many people have blue eyes?)

    Well not till you mentioned it, so I checked out of idle curiosity. Using carefully selected words for the search:
    how many people have blue eyes

    Blue eyes are indeed becoming less common in the world. One study showed that about 100 years ago,
    half of U.S. residents had blue eyes. Nowadays only 1 in 6 does. http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask355

    2% of the population has green eyes. It's the rarest eye color. 8% has blue, or a variation of blue like violet or grey.I guess the rest has brown or hazel. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_in_the_world_have_blue_eyes

    Approximately 8% of the world's population has blue eyes http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question79523.html
    which references http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color#Blue that makes no such claim.

    8% is the answer most often given.

    As for the mutation for blue eyes.
    According to a team of researchers from Copenhagen University, a single mutation which arose as recently
    as 6-10,000 years ago was responsible for all the blue-eyed people alive on Earth today.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-511473/All-blue-eyed-people-traced-ancestor-lived-10-000-years-ago-near-Black-Sea.html

  23. Re:Facts - can you try some please.... on Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC · · Score: 2

    Everyone was aware of the impending Mt St Helens activity... for about sixty days, including a state of emergency declared over 30 days before the main event...

    Camping that weekend, breakfast heard an explosion and I joked Mount St. Helens blew. Packed up
    and left the valley about 5:00pm when we saw the sky. Living in Texas I've seen tornado clouds and what it looked like.

    Stopping in for more beer I asked whats with the weather, and told it was Mount St. Helens.

    No emergency devices, no radio alerts nada thus the first part of the sentence
    "When Mount St. Helens blew nothing happened announcement wise,"

    Now build up, and afterwards there's lots of stats and stuff; but it was the evening news on T.V. we learned anything of the event itself.

    Second part of the first sentence "and there were a lot of complains about it." brought about this radio alert of something that
    mattered little to anybody outside of a very small radius.

  24. Mount St. Helens on Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC · · Score: 1

    When Mount St. Helens blew nothing happened announcement wise, and there were a lot of complains about it.

    A few days (week?) later Mount St. Helens burped, the local radio advised everybody about it, giving all sorts of
    useless information. then the emergency broadcast was set off, it was the same lines word for word of
    the news alert yet not a recording. Local station didn't want to be scooped, and the ones that activate the alert.

    I was on my back repairing the car yet still floored over it.

    And the burp? Didn't do anything or bother anyone not on the mountain itself.

  25. Re:Northern lowlands, result of ancient collision on Ancient Mars Ocean Found? · · Score: 1

    I would assume leaving the Northern side lower as a result.

    Ah duh, rewritten and that was removed, then pasted the draft.