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  1. using tor on windows, bad idea! on Windows DRM-Protected Files Used To Decloak Tor Browser Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    trusting your tor traffic to a closed source OS?

    what could possibly go wrong...

  2. It's slowing down, and not spinning faster on Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand this:
    "And just as a spinning ice skater speeds up when she pulls in her arms, so the Earth spins faster when its poles are less compressed"

    Less compressed is spreading out, so the spin would be slower, not faster.

  3. technique presented some time ago as stegosploit on New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    And that technique can go way further.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Re:Erlang? on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    why do you think they put a full linux kernel on windows? Because the NT kernel cannot run bash in a good way. So instead of putting a good fork method on the NT kernel they just added the full linux kernel with it's well working fork and other stuff.

  5. add malware to your linux environment: goto Win10 on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux is still not on the desktop, so how can we get the tremendous experience of a malware ridden OS?
    Well just use Win10 instead of linux as base OS, and you have it all.
    No need anymore to push linux for the desktop to get the full virus treatment.

  6. sketchup, photoshop, visio ? on Fedora 25 Now Available -- Makes It Easier To Switch From Windows 10 Or Mac (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes there are alternatives, but why don't publishers publish their software on linux?

  7. one of the biggest fake news sites uncovered on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should push this as separate story out on slashdot
    https://slashdot.org/submissio...

  8. Warning: humans! Avoid if at all possible. on Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This video makes the round in intergalactic circles.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    And now it happens, this awful species is on the point to spread out and infect other worlds.

  9. should be legal to DDoS companies with own gear on AVTECH Shuns Security Firm and Leaves All Products Vulnerable Without a Patch (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    There should be a legal exception that it is allowed to make your, and other people's, devices phone home to the original manufacturer with Gbit speeds.
    The less they patch or the more they produce shitty hardware, the bigger they need to invest in anti DDoS measures.
    At some point it will be cheaper to simply patch the stuff.

  10. rPi's CMOS is 3v, and TTL is 5v. OK, it's possible to connect on output (i.e. Neopixels) but officially not TTL.

  11. no fear of skynet yet, because no self-refueling on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm not aware that drones or robots are able to refuel themselves without any human action. So the moment they run out of energy, the robot revolution will be dead. Same goes for weapons, I'm not aware of a factory building bombs fully automated and auto-delivering them to an airfield to be robot-mounted onto the drones.
    We just need to keep virus away from the nuclear weapons, but I doubt there's today a virus spreading via 8" floppy disks.

  12. the could just give it to openstreetmap ... on Amazon, NVIDIA and The CIA Want To Teach AI To Watch Us From Space (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Just crowdsource the problem. That's all what openstreetmap people want: high resolution satellite photos.

  13. Kaspersky's checker is quite intelligent on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Way better than what you currently find on normal websites.
    They should just make it easier to integrate the thing on your own webpage.
    https://password.kaspersky.com...

  14. Yes backspace goes back
    But backspace at the same time also closes the page/form you are on.
    I think there is no program which closes your dialog form when typing backspace.
    Sometimes ESC does.

  15. Re:Feedback Loop on Tesla Owner in Autopilot Crash Won't Sue, But Car Insurer May (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    only that google's method will not scale. And does it adapt to road changes?
    Sometimes it's like the roomba vs neato arguments :-)
    Future will tell.

  16. worldwide arcade video game scores on Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch (lachniet.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a module to put into your own arcade cabinet to share your scores online. Turning any arcade machine into an IoT device. Currently the arcade machines upload scores, but it is not possible to connect to them from the net.

  17. 17 story high, how many football fields? on NASA: Revolutionary Camera Recording Propulsion Data Completes Test (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Come on, this is a science article, and you are even not able to use metric, or at least some imperial measure.
    No, stories. WTF???

    How many statues of Liberty is that? So I can multiply with 92.99

  18. Re:A children museum needs be be for adults on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Children's Computer Museum Look Like? (yourobserver.com) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Probably a website. on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Children's Computer Museum Look Like? (yourobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    oh, oh.
    Education should not be free?

  20. Linux vs the other OS on A Smaller Version of Raspberry Pi 3 Is Coming Soon (pcworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Just compare:

    "Linux"
    vs
    "Microsoft's Windows 10 IoT Core"

    Linux wins for size and simplicity!

  21. Nodejs version shit on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    This is so braindead. Whoever thought this out must be sick.
    I wanted to install some software to control my cromecast.
    First install: the nodejs in the repository is too old.
    oh well, just upgrade my linux, it's kinda old...
    Next install: the nodejs in the repository is too new!

    WTF? And of course the "too new" message is displayed via 500 lines of error stack dump.
    Well this is exactly how you get people to embrace and use nodejs, NOT!

  22. It's called backsapce not backpage! on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I hated it on MSIE and I hate it everywhere where I encounter it.
    Firefox is nice: typing something on a form and the backspace functionality is disabled.
    Still I would like it to not even exist.

    Why not ctrl-left oder something similar?

  23. Yes with these conditions: on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    * the running cost should provision for plant recycling and waste treatement and waste storage costs
    * in case of radioactive leakage making living impossible, populations in this area should get new equivalent housing from the government/state comissioning the plant

    Oh this will make today's way of doing nuclear impractical? Well so be it.

  24. London Tube is over 100 years on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    why is is a reason for BART being over 40 to be obsolete, whereas the Tube with over 100 years of operation is doing really well.

  25. lazy today: how many meters? on Scientists Are Developing the World's Biggest Wind Turbine With 656-Ft. Long Blades (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    slashdot should have an automated Imperial to ISO converter...