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  1. Turkey needs regime change on PayPal To Suspend Business Operations In Turkey Following License Denial (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Turkey is an increasingly unacceptable "ally". We need quick regime change, think Spec Ops. Ergodan needs exile asap. How evil can our "allies" get before we recognize them?

  2. To kill a centrifuge on In an Age of Cyber War, Where Are the Cyber Weapons? · · Score: 1

    You just need to understand critical speeds, resonances, and that you shouldn't suddenly change the speed of the rotors. But in _To kill a centrifuge_ Langner describes some games with pressures as well. Adding random valve openings and closings in a refinery, gas plant, sewage plant, etc. will look like intermittent failures and just as hard to 'debug'. Eventually you'll hit a particularly nasty set. Errant monkeys playing with your PLCs. But it must be a slow day at Tech Review..

  3. To attract goats, torture a goat on Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery · · Score: -1, Troll

    The predator does something that attracts its prey. Does this surprise you? Morons. Spock, help me. The only times the quality of life (GDP/capita) has improved is during plagues and industrial revolutions.

  4. Look up PAL. I think Bellovin is the CS expert.

  5. Moron on Bomb Defuse Simulator 2013: a Head-Tracking Tech Demo · · Score: 1

    You're a moron. Any freshman can design a detonation system and perform the chemistry to null your system. Folks in glass empires ought not fly drones. Do the math.

  6. Speaking as a cat.. on Changing a Single Gene Allows Mice To Live 20 Percent Longer · · Score: 1

    As a cat I can confidently state that all of Domestic Felineness would welcome these new, slow mice, with open paws. When will these be introduced into the wild?

  7. Re:Really, rabbits for milk? on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 2

    And they give voluntary consent really easily...

  8. Re:Really, rabbits for milk? on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 1

    Well you also get meat for the grad students and you can sell the fur. When I was in grad school I tried to interest the PI in lobster research.

  9. Re:Have you ever tried to milk a rabbit? on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 1

    You could build something that consumed carrots and autodetected when a rabbit entered, then fired up the juicer. You'd need some kind of refridgeration source for the rabjuice, either ice or dry ice replaced daily or some power supply. Then you would not need to press a button only refill carrots weekly and harvest rabjuice at same time, if refridgerated. (Or visit the station more frequently for fresher rabjuice.) .... cf Simpson's rat-milk episode

  10. Re:Really, rabbits for milk? on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 1

    Eeeeewww :-) Plus, rabbits don't bite, only scratch And, they multiply like, um, rabbits

  11. Re:Oblig ... on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 1

    I'm not clear: is there glow in the dark cheese? That would be an awesome hack, either fluorescent (GFP) mould or some other chemiluminescent pathway. Some fungi are phosphorescent, right? Is someone working on that gene-cluster? To be served in uranium-glass bowls, of course. (U-glass fluoresceses intense green under UV)

  12. Re:NOT GLOW IN THE DARK! FLUORESCENT!!! on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 1

    So the rabbits and cats should be wearing UV shades. BTW, this will mess with their vision (by introducing visible light into their retinae) during fluorescence. We look forward to the rabbits escaping and their progeny's distribution monitored via fluorescent owl-pellets. Good science.

  13. cognitive science on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have limited infoprocessing resources. You spend some on a conversation, its less for driving. Conversations can be more distracting than ethanol. Its pretty simple. I've told my wife and kid to shut up when I'm concentrating on a new route. Know your limits.

  14. Re:Odd stereotype .... on Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured · · Score: 1

    Well, Julian was doing pretty well last year..

  15. Re:Streisand Keys on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 1

    PS When can I get a T-shirt with the key and algorithm on it? My DeCSS shirt is getting worn.

  16. Streisand Keys on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 1

    VW doesn't get the Streisand effect, eh? When engineering fails use the (violence implied by the) law? Reverse engineering is not only protected, but essential to survival. Security by obscurity is a comedy plot not an assurance policy.

  17. He's not the first on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    He's not the first Look up, "Obama, Sweden called, they want their Nobel back, they're transferring it to Snowden" or similar. Been out there for months. See something, say something. Folks in glass empires shouldn't fly drones

  18. Use ephemeral pseudonyms on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Cloud Privacy Risks To K-12 Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Each student should have a pseudonym eg myelemschool_grade2_31415@gmail.com which should be burned after use. Simple.

  19. Re:Check your logs & tune your content. on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Non-Profit Look For In a Web Host? · · Score: 1

    LOL "unless it was made 10 years ago" in which case it would likely be a hell of a lot leaner. WTF is wrong with a simple static page? The profusion of modern crap is just bling, and worse -unsearchable, highbandwith, often difficult to use and unaesthetic, and hard to work with if you have modified your fonts or display params or you're using a suck touchpad. \end{ vent } Elegant design is when there's nothing left to remove.

  20. polio? on UnGrounded: British Airways Attempts to Bottle Some Startup Spirit · · Score: 1

    Polio was almost extinct before the US decided to use polioworkers as a ruse to catch UBL. Now, polioworkers are killed in pakistan and polio is back. Enjoy. And I thought B&MG were malaria-afficionadoes, not polio.

  21. The LED should be an AP on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    The LED light could be modulated to carry data, completely separate from its dimmability.

  22. Re:Unintended uses on Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches · · Score: 1

    WTF, isn't there an app for this already?

  23. Onstar for phones on Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches · · Score: 1

    When someone hacks Onstar (tm) and bricks a few thousand cars on a long weekend, perhaps some folks will get a clue. OTOH, some folks would approve of a govt kill switch in their computer. Evolution never sleeps.

  24. Old school metadata on What Can You Find Out From Metadata? · · Score: 1

    I went to MIT 82-86. Dr. Peter Elias let us (teenabers) look at his credit card bills. So we could figure him out. We could. What a forward thinker. The more things change... the more corrupt they get :-)

  25. Manager biodiesel on Should the Power of Corporate Innovation Shift Away From Executives? · · Score: 1

    You can often turn a manager into 10-20 L of biodiesel without anyone noticing..