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  1. can't we all just get along... to block China? on Github Under JS-Based "Greatfire" DDoS Attack, Allegedly From Chinese Government · · Score: 3, Insightful

    knock them off the web for 12 hours, open it up... if they continue, block 'em again...

  2. last one didn't work out, either on Japan To Build 250-Mile-Long, Four Storey-High Wall To Stop Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    kinda like any engineering project, I guess... pick the maximum incredible external threat, and design resistance to... uh, wait, the budget got cut HOW MUCH? OK, well, guys, let's pick the maximum credible external threat we can protect against 80% of the time for under $7 billion. make it modular so we can truck 'em in. seaming with tape is OK if we have to.

  3. racks, equipment, wires... filing my patent now on Facebook Sued For Alleged Theft of Data Center Design · · Score: 2

    correct me if I'm wrong... but didn't this whole concept of racks, equipment, wires, central power come from the telephone company 100 years ago?

  4. there have been network impairment tools forever on Facebook Engineering Tool Mimics Dodgy Network Connectivity · · Score: 1

    at least in Internet years. we don't need one more that lays advertisements and not-friends on top of the test data.

  5. DUH! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    Google is a business. those other guys are competitors. "mine is better and cheaper." Flo had to get the idea from someplace for that riffleboard.

  6. my password: jamitfool on NZ Customs Wants Power To Require Passwords · · Score: 1

    and I won't be travelling to New Zealand, thanks.

  7. fantastic! start dumping plutonium in the hole on No Fuel In the Fukushima Reactor #1 · · Score: 1

    that ought to take care of all the problems, right?

    never mind methods...

  8. but I don't WANT to get faced on Google: Our New System For Recognizing Faces Is the Best · · Score: 2

    how about instead, when Google face recognition blinks green, it provides the SSN and path to school for Sergey or Larry, instead of me. doesn't that sound appropriate?

  9. the kicker is "simultaneous" operation on Full-Duplex Radio Integrated Circuit Could Double Radio Frequency Data Capacity · · Score: 2

    the conditions of test in the abstract listed were not mentioned. this is routine in cross-polarization (transmit vertical, receive horizontal) or in time-division (squintillions of telco, digital TV applications) multiplexing. but if this was going to happen on one little dinky antenna in the side of a smartphone at the same time on the same chip, the echo cancellation algorithm on chip would be the size of a SUV. and echo cancellation is sort of TDM all in itself.

    I'll believe it when the flying pig hands the document off to my unicorn for translation.

  10. Throw Up on Not Quite Dead: SCO Linux Suit Against IBM Stirs In Utah · · Score: 1

    somebody take a wagon load of hickory stakes and a box of silver bullets to Utah and kill that vampire once and for all !

  11. this whole "security" thing is bogus on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 2

    there is no such thing as security any more using the common models and parameters. got to step it up, without fallback to silliness like 512 bit keys. the bigger problem is nobody has been bankrupted and sent to jail yet, so the impetus is not there to fix it as the first priority of business.

  12. be vewwwy vewwwy qwietttttt... on NASA Wants Your Help Hunting For Asteroids · · Score: 1

    I'm hunting asteroids

  13. printing photographically is different on Ask Slashdot: Video Storage For Time Capsule? · · Score: 1

    the filtration banks are CMY for positive prints off positive media. for positive prints from negative media, you use RGB filter packs. for wacky shit, rules are out the window, including the "correct" chemical packs for each type of media.

    I don't think you want to make 3xBW Technicolor type storage for a time capsule, you have to do everything three ways and figure out what to do with filters, sync, etc. good stable dyes on a polyester base in a low-humidity sealed container not subject to temperatures way outside shirtsleeve weather should last at least 100 years.

  14. they need Anonymous for that kind of response on NSA Director Argues For "Red Button" Autonomy Against Unattributed Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 1

    so they need to play nice;

  15. and the ones in every room of Scotland Yard on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    will be on the satellite in 4D 24x7, with a round-up channel streaming the "best of bastards" on a loop.

    sauce for the goose...

  16. so quiet on Self-Driving Cars Will Be In 30 US Cities By the End of Next Year · · Score: 1

    all you hear is the occasional "thump-thump." occasionally muted screaming if somebody gets caught in a fender.

  17. boing-boing-boing. kangaroo court. on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    reason being, what evidence have they got that they want out in the public domain, feeding the 24x7xscrew-it, we-never-blink news cycle?

    "May it please the court, I have ten million intercepts the defendent had access to. But you can't look. Oh, no, secret secret, we already shot the custodian of the documents."

    "Counselor, that's all you ever say."

    "Judge, I got a rifle on you, too."

    nah, this can't be a fair trial. stay safe. stay gone.

  18. Fool. those are entertainment companies on Deutsche Telecom Calls For Google and Facebook To Be Regulated Like Telcos · · Score: 1

    whole different business. just because Warner and Fox and Universal used film and books and TV channels to push entertainment doesn't mean Google and Facebook can't use OC192s to push entertainment. sit back, sell your fiber per bit at retail, and enjoy it.

  19. Harris can put this experience to use on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    when they stop making spyboxes, they can make firewalls. Da Gummint taught them a lot.

  20. I would say "look until you find the CEO" on How Do You Handle the Discovery of a Web Site Disclosing Private Data? · · Score: 1

    but that's putting you in bed with the weasels.

    take some IT guys out for lunch with their laptop, show them how to lose their appetite. on a company computer.

    things will happen at a good rate of speed.

    if yoiu happen to have one of the security guys along, that will seal it quickly.

  21. mod up as God +350 on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    ISIS just needs a little minding. Waves of drone attacks like starlings in migration ought to keep them dodging instead of slicing.

  22. better question... is the dress on or off? on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    One Genuine Internet Point, redeemable wherever Genuine Internet Points are honored, for the correct answer.

    now everybody move on with their life.

  23. Ethernet port on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    if you have to, use WinFTP to barf over your filesystem to a new folder on your updated machine. then pick and choose, or just dump it all into a flash drive.

  24. happens all the time, even around you on Vandalism In Arizona Shuts Down Internet and Phone Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    meth heads have all the concentration and none of the frontal lobe action, they even try to steal live high-tension lines. which are aluminum around a steel core, nothing there but electrocution, folks.

    my sleepy little weekly has a copper theft just about every other week when it's not cold enough to kill outside. cut open a container, clamp the wire to a bumper, and GO! that's even easier than breaking into a vacant house and cutting all the wire and plumbing out, although the little darlings probably are stripping that 24 gauge for days before they can sell it as bare wire.

  25. come back when you get airworthy certification on Researchers Create World's First 3D-Printed Jet Engines · · Score: 1

    as in 10,000 hours between minors, and 50,000 hours between major rebuilds.