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  1. Re:*obliged* to think in words? on Computer Program Reconstructs Heard Words From Brain Scans · · Score: 2

    Conversely, if electromagnetic radiation is getting out, electromagnetic radiation can get in.

    If the computer program can detect the electrical brain signals corresponding to a word, then the reverse algorithm can send electromagnetic radiation to the brain that mimics the signal corresponding to the word. If strong enough, that could override naturally occurring electrical signals in the brain.

    Those tin hat guys may be on to something...;-)

  2. Quid Pro Quo? on Swedish Supreme Court Refuses Appeal In Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 1

    So has anybody heard any news lately about DOJ and IRS investigations of banks in Switzerland being used as tax havens?

    Just a thought to get the rabble thinking deeper. Realpolitik is sometimes like that 3D Star Trek chess game combined with submarine warfare.

  3. Re:Well, it's called "Defense" on Ongoing Attacks Target Defense, Aerospace Industries · · Score: 1

    There is NOTHING that can defend against the failure of the wetware in the system architecture...

  4. Re:Wow, does that PR stunt even work anymore? on WikiLeaks To Ship Servers To Micronation of Sealand? · · Score: 1

    Good idea, so they fly a flag of convenience, like the Liberian, as many commercial vessels already do. Most vessels that fly no flag are pirate vessels...

  5. Re:Great! on SmartCap Reads Brain Waves to Monitor Workers' Fatigue Levels · · Score: 1

    The day they start brain scanning prospective employees in America, that's the day I drop out of the modern world and go live in the back-country. It's bad enough now you almost have to have a Facebook account and pee in the bottle first. Screw that, at some point enough is enough, go pack sand Herr Employer, and while you're doing that build your own fucking widget, :P

  6. Re:Makes takedown far easier ... on WikiLeaks To Ship Servers To Micronation of Sealand? · · Score: 1

    Please explain the concept of British dominion of the Falkland Islands then.

    Another idea is that this would not be piracy in the sense of Jolly-Roger flying Somalians. This would not be running drugs, trafficking in humans, or all those other crimes that would allow a vessel to be boarded. This at most would be digital contraband, and somebody would think of sinking ships and killing humans over it?

    The perspective seems mighty twisted, IMHO.

  7. Re:Power Consumption on DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power · · Score: 1

    Thanks, it's been a while, LOL...

  8. Re:Uhm... on Hijacked Web Traffic For Sale · · Score: 1

    Ghostery feels left out...:-(

  9. Re:Power Consumption on DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes and actually very simple (SI units),

    P = C*V^2*f where P is power in Watts, C is capacitance in farads, V is voltage in volts, and f is frequency in Hertz. C is kind of hard to measure, and is dynamic depending on processor load. A design value can be determined from processor data sheets.

    Power is only consumed in MOS transistors during transitions, to the value I = C*dv/dt, where C is the overall transistor capacitance to the power supply, in this instance. If dv is 0, ie, at a stable logic level, then I must also be 0, and hence power dissipation must be zero due to Ohm's Law, P=I*V.

    At 1.3V and 2.8GHz, the dv/dt multiplier becomes 4.73*10^9, significant for a 100-million transistor microprocessor even if overall capacitance/transistor ~femtofarads.

  10. Re:Article summary on Indian Site Offers Reward For Googler Vandal · · Score: 0

    You sho that ain't Redneck?

  11. Re:Slashdot won't report this on When Viruses Infect Worms · · Score: 0

    The sad part is even the nerd hero ... uses a Mac.

    Which is actually 'nix on the inside. So your point is?

    OMG, have you even bothered opening a terminal window on the Macbook, before showing off your ignorance like a two caret wedding ring?

  12. Re:Cluelessness is limitless. on Federal Judges Wary of Facebook, Twitter Impact On Juries · · Score: 0

    ... The TV/Movie drama of jury consultants carefully hand picking juries just doesn't work in most cases because each side has a limited number of challenges, and there has to be huge money riding on the trial before its even worth the cost. ...

    What I've seen in my neck of the woods is cherry picking from the jury wheel. You can tell sometimes if you look at the seated jurors at the time voir dire starts, and the alternates seated in the gallery. It's pretty slick, and not visible to a casual observer, because they wouldn't know what to look for. This is an urban community, BTW, with a moderate sized (>50K) jury pool. I see it because I've done political campaigning in the community and kind of have an idea of the demographics of the population.

  13. Re:Organized trolling campaign by GreatBunzinni on Federal Judges Wary of Facebook, Twitter Impact On Juries · · Score: 0

    Some you just have to respond to, LOL, like somebody's espousal on another thread about the N word. The best way sometimes is humor, like with #LBGTfacts. On /., it's a little harder, but it's been stopped on other boards, like CNET, especially spam. Fools betray their real IP address/domains with spam :evil grin:

    Personally I feel it is just another brush stroke on this communal textual art we create with a keyboard and screen. Part and parcel of the experience, and it takes only a fraction of a second to scroll past once you see it. It's like a bad smell in a room, eventually you don't notice it.

  14. Re:Organized trolling campaign by GreatBunzinni on Autonomous Vehicles and the Law · · Score: -1

    No, Nigga is a term of endearment. Nigger is a word I learned in the deep (and I'm talking swamp reeking, cotton-mouth snake infested, teepee creeping), Deep South. The kind of places where the definition of virgin is any girl who can run faster than her brothers.

    Funny thing was like a fucking curtain going up, the minute you crossed the tracks (I shit you not, Milton, FL, Whiting NAS, 'Nam era) to the dark side of town, that's where the fun, and partying, and intermingling with some fine Sisters really began. As long as you left your redneck cracker ass shit north of the tracks. And I'm as white as a ghost, LOL.

    The girls called me Nigga, BTW, because the good lord dun made a chimera...;-)

  15. Re:Stick to Playing Angry Birds When On The Jury on Federal Judges Wary of Facebook, Twitter Impact On Juries · · Score: 0

    Sorry guy, she's already booked for the evening. Dinner date with the judge after adjournment... You didn't really think that short dress was for you, did you?

  16. Re:lol.. on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 0

    LOL indeed! Last I remember of NT was a very cantankerous beast that wouldn't fucking run anything correctly but ecosystem programs.

    "Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix "
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

    Try a bigger worm on the hook, please...;-)

  17. Re:Hrrm on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 0

    You forgot the header files too...;-)

  18. Re:Proof you are 100% wrong per your request on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 0

    Operating a server that gets regularly attacked from all over the world, I can assure you that the breakage is only temporary at best. Case in point, Anon attack on DOJ website post-Megaupload fiasco. They where very successful in DDOS, but actually couldn't do shit to the servers to cause permanent damage.

    To do that you have to administer the "kiss of death" as root. It's not as easy as lay people think to get root access if the individual setting it up knew what they were doing.

  19. Re:Hrrm on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 1

    ... (and biometric is the biggest joke of all).

    Explain please. I worked on a very secure military installation east of Colorado Springs. You had your retina scanned, locked in a bomb-proof slightly bigger than coffin-sized box, as you keyed in a pin and were weighed. This while being watched by the biggest grunts I have seen in my life with M16's. If the biometrics didn't match the pin, the grunts would escort you out of the box. The sign on the wall in big bold letters says "USE OF DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED".

    Joke? That was the only for real security I have seen in my life. Any spying done on that base is an inside job or a contractor. So in the end, your last statement is true, but #3 is still only partially correct. The best kept secrets are those that can be hidden in plain view. Obscurity sometimes is a hole that invites a peek. An example is hidden SSIDs.

  20. Re:Broken on Android too on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 0

    What out there AC. Latest news is the fucking faggots have these special wands now that they shoot glitter into your eyes with and blind you. It's been all over Twitter...

  21. Re:In other words, on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 0

    Hey, you didn't do too bad, Hitler wasn't mentioned till a good ways into the posts... Reductio ad Hitlerum is something I've been watching lately, after becoming aware of Godwin's Law. It seems to be true if there are enough posts on a controversial topic.

  22. Re:Some people don't need this on Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads · · Score: 0

    Um, so where can one get these "google glasses". I've been on-line like fucking twenty years and haven't seen an ad for them yet. See what happens when you block the pop-ups. Now I'll never be able to buy a pair, dammit...

  23. Re:AdBlockPlus on Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads · · Score: 0

    Ghostery and NoScript are also excellent solutions, BTW, for Firefox. I don't get ads at all when I browse. If I need to use something, like /., I just enable the scripts that pertain to posting/viewing. Everything else goes to eat shit.

    When news sites try to inundate me with unwanted advertising (A Channel commercial, prior to the image of a man with his brains dripping out in Syria), I ditch the ad using Download Helper to view just the news video, not the ad one.

    So this is kind of an evolutionary process...
    Ad -> block -> new ad method -> new blocking method -> iterate

  24. Re:except google on Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads · · Score: 0

    I think you're jumping the gun there. With an Iowa win of eight votes, no wait a loss by 35 votes, then a flip-flopping electorate in South Carolina voting the Newt, the more than likely outcome November 2012 is Obama #2, not Bush #3.

    The Republican Party just doesn't seem to be able to get their shit in one basket this year, hence they can probably kiss Election 2012's ass goodbye, at least for POTUS.

  25. Re:In other words, on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 0

    That actually worked really well with the USSR...