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  1. From the article: "these layers don’t contain blood vessels or nerves". As someone who suffers from corneal neuralgia I can tell you with considerable certainty that the cornea does contains nerves. In fact it is one of the most sensitive parts of the body. Go ahead hold your eye open and touch your finger to your cornea. Do you feel that? Nerves!

  2. Re:If every website adopted https... on Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They get the IP address but they do not get the URL. The TLS hand shake occurs prior to the HTTP request being sent.The URL will be encrypted on the first request.

  3. You cannot sign with MD5, you hash with MD5. on Oracle to Block JAR Files Signed with MD5 Starting In April (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Presumably they mean that they wont accept RSA signatures over MD5 hashes.

  4. Re:QR Code? on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? · · Score: 2

    I tried storing a key file in a QR code and my experience was that once you get above 800 characters none of the QR code parsers can reliably parse the data out of the code.

  5. Re:What is up with their flickery as f**k website on Skype Co-Founder Launches End-To-End Encrypted 'Wire' App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They are trying to sell this so hard. Matrix style animations, links to security "white papers". Its just end to end encryption. Any 2nd year CS student can write this.

  6. Re:What is up with their flickery as f**k website on Skype Co-Founder Launches End-To-End Encrypted 'Wire' App (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Its better after you remove their #animation div. Shakes head.

  7. What is up with their flickery as f**k website on Skype Co-Founder Launches End-To-End Encrypted 'Wire' App (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Surprised didn't have a seizure just scrolling down their main page.

  8. Re:Attributing it to private industry... on Google Is Lighting Up Dark Fiber All Over the Country (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine you would rather the gov didn't build any roads near your house either. Just have an open market for road building companies to build the roads where the market dictates.

  9. Perhaps if their ads were not so intrusive. on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Currently the front page of wired has an auto play video that takes up the top 1/3rd of the screen.

  10. Re:Protein from plants, not animals on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 1

    I am saying that your claims about how tofu is made are entirely fabricated. Also your claim that "Soy beans are one of the very few plant proteins that are a complete protein" is factually inaccurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. Re:Protein from plants, not animals on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 1

    Tofu is not fermented. It is processed but no more so than the process of making cheese.

  12. Re:Unsettling science on US Gov't To Withdraw Food Warnings About Dietary Cholesterol · · Score: 2

    3 data points does not make a pattern significant.

  13. Perhaps he should make his software easier to use. on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Like so many encryption schemes it is still too difficult for the man in the street.

  14. Didn't know you could encrypt things with SHA-1 on Why Google Is Pushing For a Web Free of SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    Poster says "phasing out support for certificates using SHA-1 encryption" SHA-1 is a hash function not an encryption function.

  15. Re:One correction on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 1

    That horse has left the barn. The states are federated, the USA might as well be a single state. Why do we even bother thinking of states as individual legal entities any more.

  16. It all about the monopoly on Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group · · Score: 1

    The ISPs have a defacto monopoly. Net neutrality is them trying to exercise their monopoly. We shouldn't be going after net neutrality, instead we need to break up the monopoly that is behind it.

  17. Re:If Comcast were Exxon on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    Possible solution: Modify the netflix player to acknowledge every packet it receives with a response packet of equal size sent to the netflix servers. Now the comcast network would be sending as much to netflix as netflix send to it and their would be balance in the force.

  18. Is "gender dysphoria sufferer" an option? on Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Slashdot being a prime example of bad on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    But the regular desktop version wont work on your iPad. Take for example JQueryUI a popular javascript UI library. For the most part won't work on mobile devices.

  20. Re: Slashdot being a prime example of bad on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 2

    Without exception every site I have developed for the desktop has failed to work on a mobile browser initially because of some limitation of the mobile browser. This includes modern Chrome on a tablet.

  21. Re:They didn't pack a 3D printer? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    "50kg of force on every wheel" How do you get that? Since when was force measured in kg.

  22. Re:Human soceity not ready for this on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: 1

    I think you have misunderstood the meaning of the word sentience. Sentience is the capacity to feel not the capacity to reason. Your position that "Animals will never progress to sentience" is not a widely held belief. It is generally accepted that animals can feel and can suffer and are therefor sentient. For example: 'In 1997 the concept of animal sentience was written into the basic law of the European Union. The legally-binding protocol annexed to the Treaty of Amsterdam recognizes that animals are "sentient beings", and requires the EU and its member states to "pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals".' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience#Animal_rights_and_sentience

  23. Re:Human soceity not ready for this on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: 1

    Perhaps but it is a question of degree. You don't typically hear people arguing that 3 year olds should be tried as adults. If this were the case just about ever kid pre-school would be likely have a long criminal record for assault.

  24. Show us the terrorists they've caught on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 1

    I can come up with a better way of catching terrorists than the one they are currently employing. Do nothing. It will catch you just as many terrorists. What has been the benefit to the citizens of the USA for all the money that has been spent and all the privacy we have lost. Show me the terrorists. Show me the plots that have been foiled. Seems to me like all this money has been spent to prevent hypothetical terrorists. Or in other words to defend against an enemy that does not exist. The current system that costs so much and invades so much isn't catching terrorists either.

  25. Re:Human soceity not ready for this on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: 1

    What about humans who have developmental disabilities that prevent them from ever mentally progressing from the level of an infant? We still consider these beings to be persons even though we are confident they are not ever going have the mental capabilities of a human adult. And yet we don't consider them to be responsible in the way we consider adults responsible. I think a case can be made that there are chimps that have greater cognitive abilities that some developmentally disabled humans.