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  1. Re:Belief on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 2

    10 years out of date? I lived in Israel between 2009-2011, I was a block away from the Beersheva preschool hit in Dec 2008 which first taught me about what rocket attacks were like. It sounded like a suitcase dropping on the ground. I don't know what it's been like since 2011 first-hand, but Wikipedia/current news tells me it's closer to my recall then yours. >90% are Qassams, because they're cheap, the launchers look like irrigation equipment, and the launcher team can scatter immediately after firing before the Israeli helicopters.

    Here's a picture from Wiki of that Qassam hit
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    and yeah, the alarms work great, but people want active defense measures. Iron dome does that for them.

  2. Belief on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 2

    The rockets being sent against Israel are small, sporadic, unguided, and mostly lack the range to hit major population centers (Tel Aviv). On the rare occasions it does hit a building, it won't destroy the building but will gut a room.

    If the Iron dome is effective, great. If the belief of the people is it's effective, even better, especially for politicians in power. Pretty much what the article says.

  3. Re:And how many do they need? on RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage · · Score: 1

    Government is an enterprise like any other.

    It's users are arguably less technically savvy.

    Can you imagine the cost with establishing a secure 1 million user network, where Linux isn't an OS but more probably some disease that was eradicated back in the 1800s. Training would cost so god damn much, take a year or two.

    Sure, probably don't need IIS servers. But users need to be on Windows.

  4. hack the planet on CanSecWest Presenter Self-Censors Risky Critical Infrastructure Talk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    knee-jerk reactions are the norm not the exception to security disclosure, and I doubt he has some leeto 0-day to destroy the world with.

  5. Actually worse

    You have super-cleared individuals, cleared individuals, or non-cleared individuals.
    And who becomes cleared depends on how much paperwork your willing to push to do it.

  6. Re:Living paycheck to paycheck? on The Cost of the US Government Shutdown To Science · · Score: 2

    You and third world dictators love their slushfunds. Government auditors don't though.

  7. Oh look the d word on Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "However, the diet was also important for creating the right conditions for the lean twin's bacteria to flourish. A bacterial obesity therapy seems unlikely to work alongside a a diet of greasy burgers."

    Guess what, proper diet still required. /surprise.

  8. Re:Seems to be a systemic problem. on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    Agreed, first week out of the gate it was a feature stripped train wreck that also crashed every half hour.

    The problem I have with Google products is the one of constant reinvention. Every 6 months - 1 year they roll out the next Gmail, due to the next "A-team" developer group working on reinventing web email.

    Youtube post google-buyout is the worst, they reinvent the website, ignore the actual common problems people experience from the service. They just now, in the past month, added a play icon to show which tab was playing a video. They will never fix the oddities with the buffering and streams until they actually sink some serious dev time into HTML5 (and better) video player logic. I personally have to fight with my Youtube quality setting because it doesn't understand how and when to switch quality settings.
    But god help them they'll redesign the way you can roll over videos on your intro page. Every god damn update.

  9. Disprove = free paper on Request to Falsify Data Published In Chemistry Journal · · Score: 2

    Analyze that elemental analysis, if it's obviously fabricated publish short refuting paper in a better journal

    Or offer ACS to print it if ACS is the best in the industry, boom name recognition and easy paper.

  10. Re:That's Impossible! on Apple Hit By Hackers Who Targeted Facebook · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Introducing the new Viri virus scanner, for only $30 it will prevent all infections and coo to you while it does it!

    Scan different

  11. Chinese no-names to the rescue on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive SOHO Crime Deterrence and Monitoring? · · Score: 1

    1. Something like this

    http://www.chinavasion.com/china/wholesale/Surveillance_Security/Security_Gadgets/Motion_Detection_Camera-GSM_Mini_Camera

    2. With another something like this

    http://www.chinavasion.com/china/wholesale/IP_Cameras/Outdoor_IP_Cameras/IP_Security_Camera_720P_HD_Dual_IR_Array/

    It will give you MMS, recording in 720p, and ability to yell at them in korean to get out of your store.

  12. Re:How was it broken into again? on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive SOHO Crime Deterrence and Monitoring? · · Score: 1

    Right, could be insider threat.

  13. Cloud on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 1

    Just what I need, the reliability of Amazon cloud systems in my vehicle.

  14. 20 million government project? on Feds Offer $20M For Critical Open Source Energy Network Cybersecurity Tools · · Score: 5, Funny

    "interoperable, scalable, cost-effective advanced tools that do not impede critical energy delivery functions, that are innovative and can easily be commercialized or made available through open source for no cost."

    Choose two.

  15. Never should have happened on Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It never should have happened in the first place. Ethanol uses absurd amounts of energy to produce because you have to boil water from it
    (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329132436.htm)

    This is not something we can tech out of. It's always going to be wasteful and one of the worst possible fuel choices for vehicles.

  16. Re:PC Load letter on Architecture Firm and ESA To 3D Print Building On the Moon · · Score: 2

    Inflatable/expandable structures are weaker, leak more, and have more points of failure than a rigid pre-defined structure. It's one of the reasons why the ISS is the shape it is.

  17. Re:Tom Lehrer said it on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    I've never seen this before, This is why I come to slashdot, references to great things before my time

    Link to his performance: http://http//yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/24/2110217/responding-to-us-gambling-law-antigua-set-to-launch-pirate-site#www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mwfULpr6bE

  18. "continue to search for and find other deposits" on Rare Earth Elements Found In Jamaican Mud · · Score: 5, Informative

    You make it sound like China is the only place in the world for Rare Earth metal deposits. The United States has the largest known deposits of Rare Earth metals, with mining plans in the works as we speak.

    Most important part of this story is extraction of rare earth metals that does not harm the local environment / still profitable

  19. Re:Toby in 'West Wing' was right... on Air Force Sends Mystery Mini-Shuttle Back To Space · · Score: 1

    Toby would have shit himself already when we started drone striking U.S. citizens in Pakistan.

  20. Re:Certainly has a legitimate track record on Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He's advertising to sell to one of the big 0-day sellers in the world. Probably get a lot more than 60,000 for something this useful

  21. To answer OP on Shanghai Hosts Its First Maker Carnival · · Score: 2

    It's like a Kinect, takes 2D image and cuts out the bits that don't look like a hand.

    I didn't see anything exciting, new, or innovative in there, all of it has been done (probably patented)

  22. Unwarranted police trespass? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 1

    Shoot 'em.
    Defend your castle if they don't leave when asked.

  23. My state just lost 70% of all residents SSNs on Cash-Strapped States Burdened By Expensive Data Security Breaches · · Score: 2

    3.6 million SSN lifted, governer claims it was encrypted.
    I'm 80% sure it's unsalted, sha5 or less strength, just because it's a state run operation.

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57541481-83/millions-of-ssns-lifted-from-south-carolina-database/

  24. I'll go tell the ex-wife on First Mammals Observed Regenerating Tissue · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can regenerate my balls now

  25. calling it now on Star Wars Fans Fix Up Luke Skywalker's Home · · Score: 4, Interesting

    George Lucas will promptly sue him and everyone involved for copyright infringement

    http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/5/12/george-lucas-owns-the-universe-a-timeline-of-star-wars-copyright-battles