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  1. Mandrake is so hot now on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 2

    In addition, you can get Knoppix which incredibly allows a full system to run of a CD-ROM!

  2. Who has a low ID?

  3. Right so... they've solved it, or the news is faked? The demo is thawing meat without damage.

  4. The claims they're making implies that's a solved problem. /me shrugs

  5. Re:Choosing Google considered harmful on Google Pulls the Plug On Its Pixel Laptops (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps people like Linus wiping Chrome OS and installing Linux is part of the problem. Of what benefit is that to Google? Tablets and smartphones are more locked down leading to better data collection.

  6. Come on Google on Google Brain Creates Technology That Can Zoom In, Enhance Pixelated Images (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At least make the world a better place...
    by making this a MAME scaler.

  7. Just hold the phone up to the light and angle it til you see the smear pattern. Usually facial oils make a nice even coating on it leaving a pretty clear smudge pattern of the unlock slime dragging pattern.

    Now to eat lunch!

  8. Re:Not dead, just a zombie on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    3D will always cycle back now and then as long as it requires the glasses.

    I wonder if VR and AR will stick around on this current rise or if the headsets again limit use to a small subset of people.

    It's like video phones. They seem obvious and the tech keeps improving, but fundamentally I hate having to change my clothes, fix my hair, shave, etc... before making a call; so it never really catches on.

  9. Could have just left a couple vulnerabilities sprinkled in odd places and used poor hashing practices. He'd have complete deniability as it looks just like 90% of websites out there.

  10. Re:And not the first on South Korea Prosecutors Seek Arrest of Samsung Chief Jay Y Lee For Bribery (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's one nice thing... on the other hand... would be nice if the United Nations Human Rights Committee could get those 700+ Jehovah's Witness boys out of prison for declining their army invitations. S Korean govt won't budge.

    Still many basic human rights violations going on over there.

  11. Ironic results on Japan Researchers Warn of Fingerprint Theft From 'Peace' Sign (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    As Japanese photos gradually become less peaceful...
    British photos gradually become more well behaved.

    Assuming people stop holding up those 2 fingers.

  12. Re:What does this have to do with tech? on Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh yeah the looks they give you.
    I suppose deep inside they feel like it devalues their life choices. Some can barely fathom it. "But WHY??" Yes why give up the most meaningful thing in YOUR life? Because it's mine, and I find meaning elsewhere.
    (And I don't think a kid will save my marriage ;-)

  13. Re:Maybe he does support those values on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    What I find interesting there is the use of all capitals in LORD. That has a very specific meaning in many Bibles, as it typically represents the Tetragrammaton. I wonder how that winded up in translations of the Quran. It has to come from a different base word, obviously YHWH would be doctrinally awkward. Perhaps it was "allah" originally.

  14. Re:Never saw the point of github on Building a Coder's Paradise Is Not Profitable: GitHub Lost $66M In Nine Months Of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you going to stop Geoblocking?

    It's easy enough. Flag repositories containing keywords like "OpenSSL", "AES", "RSA", etc...

    That should open up a big chunk like say 60% of your projects immediately open to outside view. Then go through the projects which were flagged manually, sorted by downloads and popularity and just review that it's indeed not for export.

    And if a few get through now and then and need to be blacklisted... so what?? Slashdot isn't geoblocked and there's plenty of one line DeCSS Perl decoder sigs and random things like that.

    Better to deal with those as they come up than slicing off huge chunks of the planet.

  15. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Grammar saves lives.

    Let's eat, gramma!
    Let's eat gramma!

    https://matthewsavides.wordpre...

    Nice pic
    https://www.facebook.com/Lets-...

  16. Re: Possible explanation on FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like some local cryptographers having fun.

  17. Re:Better Idea on Netflix Finally Gets Download Option (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not? Look how well Google Books worked out.

  18. Re:Is this news? on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not making this up you morons. Here's another story with the same info this goes back to 2005 at a minimum.

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...

    Did I bring anti-drug politics into this? No. I'm simply pointing out this isn't new info, perhaps the specific instruments and scan details are better but the concept is quite old.

  19. I remember in the mid 90's in high school they showed us pictures of exactly this. They had scans of normal brains showing their blood flow, compared to the brains of various drug users. They looked like Swiss cheese. Some looked like carved out pumpkins... each drug had its own appearance.

  20. The other edge of the monoculture sword. on iOS 10.1.1 Is Causing Battery Issues For Many iPhone Users (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Having very few hardware devices makes testing and deployment easier, but a huge swath of your customer base may be hit when a bug gets through.

  21. Re:Tomorrow will be interesting... on You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    D'oh! Serves me right trying to use big words.

  22. Re:Tomorrow will be interesting... on You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    It's good for masking actual intrusions. Distracting the IT guys from the data exhilaration going on.

    It's also useful for stopping up bank transactions long enough for the undo window to expire on fraudulent transfers. Say you do some real estate fraud and trick someone into wiring $200k to the wrong account. Doesn't do you any good if they catch it and roll it back in a day. Do the transfer, DDoS the heck out of the bank... that's well worth $15k a week.

    Script kiddies don't pay that kind of money to laugh about taking Walmart down for a few days. There's real money behind this stuff.

  23. Re:Real world disconnect... on US Regulators Seek To Reduce Road Deaths With Smartphone 'Driving Mode' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the comments. There's no reliable way to do this except asking drivers to voluntarily opt-in. Since this isn't accomplishing anything at all, most likely they'll want phones to auto lock when they detect a certain speed, or some kind of signal perhaps bluetooth, how will passengers use their phones then?

    If it's user initiated, it does nothing. If it's system mandated, there's no way to distinguish drivers from passengers. Making something a law doesn't make it magically work in the real world.

  24. If you've seen "Pretty Woman" this actually makes sense!

  25. Real world disconnect... on US Regulators Seek To Reduce Road Deaths With Smartphone 'Driving Mode' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm just guessing.... that maaaaybe these legislators don't ride the bus often?