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  1. Re:This solves what? on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    It is either/or.

    The device could partition the video into arbitrary chunks and encrypt each independent. It cold also make one or more sample-streams (e.g. 1 frame per second and/or 1 per minute) for longer keeping or even archiving. Not always you know 30 minutes after an event the importance of evidence.

  2. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    The evidence of existing gods is exactly the same as the evidence of non-existing gods: nothing. If you derive without evidence an opinion it is a belief.

    A theist is someone who beliefs the first opinion, an atheist beliefs the second opinion, both requires faith. An agnostic realizes the fundamental problem of no evidence and abstains from belief.

  3. Re:Reduce your fat intake on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    Ban Pizza

    Pizza hasn't necessarily a high joule value. Double cheese or other fat causes the joules. I make my own vegetable pizza with wholemeal dough and relatively sparse cheese. These are delicious and have not more joules than any other normal warm meal.

  4. Re:It's not the rocks you've got to worry about on California Professors Unveil Proposal To Attack Asteroids With Lasers · · Score: 1

    Now consider all the wars, genocides, and random violence that humans have inflicted on each other.

    These real threats have the unfortunate feature of being changeable and measurable. Going against asteroids has no immediate measurable effect and is therefore a perfect venture for any politician.

  5. Nitpicking for beginners (unsuccessful) on California Professors Unveil Proposal To Attack Asteroids With Lasers · · Score: 1

    To quote No_one:

    no one, no-one or noone, an English indefinite pronoun

  6. Open Source on Ask Slashdot: Programming / IT Jobs For Older, Retrained Workers? · · Score: 1

    If you hit a wall because of your age, what is with contracts to enhance OSS? No one can deny the opportunity to work within this field.

  7. Re:The problem with averages on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    Calculus is a very simple part of math. Even I'm not applying it often directly it shows perspectives on things.

  8. Only for health? on CES: X PRIZE Could Make Star Trek-Style Tricorder a Reality (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The standard Tricorder from ST was a general-purpose analyzer. The medical variant wasn't the main type.

  9. Re:httpS on Nokia Redirecting Traffic On Some of Its Phones, Including HTTPS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nokia has certificates pre-installed to make a man-in-the-middle attack. From the article:

    From the tests that were preformed, it is evident that Nokia is performing Man In The Middle Attack for sensitive HTTPS traffic originated from their phone and hence they do have access to clear text information which could include user credentials to various sites such as social networking, banking, credit card information or anything that is sensitive in nature. In short, be it HTTP or HTTPS site when browsed through the phone in subject, Nokia has complete information unencrypted (in clear text format) available to them for them to use or abuse.

    So this is the worst privacy nightmare.

  10. Re:Oh, now this is fucking brilliant on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 1

    I guess, a baby-like doll would do. If cars would get likewise computers to brake for babies, a robber could safely run across a highway to leave the non-doll-carrying pursuer behind. 2:0 for the doll-wearing bad guys.

    Such a proposal raises the question about intelligent life on earth.

  11. Re:Ah, but they didn't think of something on Carrion Flies Used To Find New Species · · Score: 1

    Species can't be dead but rather they can be extinct.

  12. Re:Fuck the US on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 2

    So hate on the US government all you want, just realize that most US citizens don't like them either.

    If you don't like something you don't vote for it. Most US citizens vote for the two major parties so they seem to like them. There are other parties to vote for so there is no excuse.

  13. Re:Not realistic on Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 1

    You might want the OS to change, but you don't want to change how the OS is signed.

    If you can't change the signing than you can't install your own OS without relying on another (untrustworthy ?) party. See how long it has taken to sign a simple linux shim-bootloader.

  14. Concealed defect on Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It should be mandated that any restriction on a general purpose computer has to be stated clearly as such on the packing, otherwise it would a intentionally concealed defect.

  15. Re:What a crappy article on Britain Suspends Exploratory Drilling of Antarctic Lake · · Score: 1

    The British scientists decided to abandon the mission after trying for 20 hours to connect two holes in the ice that were needed for the hot-water drill to work, said a BAS spokeswoman.

    Without a connection between the two holes, the hot water would seep into the porous surface layers of ice and be lost, reducing the pressure and rendering the drill ineffective

    I RTFA and all I can say is "Huh?"

    The next sentence explains it, they have not enough water in reserve to compensate:

    The team tried to melt and dig more snow to compensate for the water loss, but without success.

  16. Re:value of time? on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    In Germany there is a kind of tax on blank media like CD, DVD or USB-sticks to compensate for *legal* private copying. You are legally allowed to copy for your own friends but not for people your known only to share with.

  17. Re:Idiocracy on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    Conceded, average is the word I should have used. IQ defined so that 100 is the average IQ. Median is a complete different thing, it is the middle value (50% percentile).

  18. Re:Actually on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    Which goes to show you that of course IQ tests are horrible at measuring intelligence.

    It's even weirder, there is no generally accepted definition of intelligence. So IQ tests are really bad at measuring something undefined and the paper applies this to some unmeasurable (dead) entities. I'm going to read tea leaves to evaluate the significance of this ;-).

  19. Re:Idiocracy on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that the median I.Q. of the United States of America has declined two points to 98.

    Since I.Q. 100 is defined as the medium I.Q. of a comparable population, the absolute number of I.Q. is meaningless for comparison between different times.

  20. Re:Ah... Yeah... on The Survival Machine Farm · · Score: 1

    I would include semi-automatic, automatic and bolt action rifles and pistols both design and manufacture, along with appropriate ammunition

    What kind of civilization is in need for automatic rifles? The kind "harvesting" neighboring states. No thanks.

  21. Re:Ah... Yeah... on The Survival Machine Farm · · Score: 1

    You don't understand what he is doing. He is creating the civilization-stack top-down. He creates the high-level machines and than the necessary tools to build them and so on.

  22. Re:Configuring/tweaking on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you rent a ready-furnished flat, you don't move any piece of furniture? If I use a workbench for a longer time, I arrange the tools for my convenient use. Doing otherwise, accepting a choice of someone who knows nothing about me and my work, would be insane. All people are different so elevate "one size fits all" to a dogma like gnome is doing amounts to ignoring reality.

  23. Re:Unstable? on Black Hole's "Point of No Return" Found · · Score: 1

    Even without coffee this was a really insightful explanation. I would have to go back to university to study GR to grasp the influence of this geometry of space but the graphs provoke a dim understanding of the unstableness (is this a word?) of an orbit. thanks.

  24. Re:Unstable? on Black Hole's "Point of No Return" Found · · Score: 1

    gravitational tidal stresses exceed any known material tensile strength

    Tital stress for a free falling object is finite at the event horizon. The more massive a black hole is the lower the differential gravity at the horizon.

  25. Unstable? on Black Hole's "Point of No Return" Found · · Score: 1

    What does unstable mean? I hadn't thought an orbit can be unstable outside of sf-movies ;-). How does an atom in orbit loose energy to fall into the black hole? Gravitational or electromagnetic waves?