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  1. Re:Good luck with that on Secret Service Testing Drones, and How to Disrupt Them · · Score: 1

    #3 -> you have to know it's coming and be able aim/fire at it. How fast can you identify, track, and shoot down something when you don't know what you're looking for and where it's coming from? Plus they'll probably come at night, when it's hard to see.

    #4 -> See above.

  2. Re:Good luck with that on Secret Service Testing Drones, and How to Disrupt Them · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could shift everything 100 feet to the left in case of emergency. Would that work? It probably wouldn't be reliable - it depends on how the drone is using GPS.

  3. Good luck with that on Secret Service Testing Drones, and How to Disrupt Them · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are two ways they could do this, as far as I can tell:

    1. disrupt the onboard electronics to kill the power
    2. spoof GPS so the thing goes somewhere totally different

    You could do #1 as well by having nets spring up/out - basically have a physical barrier. The question is how would you deploy anything fast enough to catch an incoming drone? Even an energy weapon needs time to find, track, and fire.

    #2 is easier, because most drones today use GPS. Just have the white house have a GPS signal that overloads anything the drone has. In fact, they could fuzz DC out of GPS, which would be the safest option.

    #2 will cause drones to use an inertial system, which would then be hit with #1.

    Really, they need a perimeter of cameras to track any fast moving objects from 1 mile out right down to the white house. That would probably give them enough time to figure out the vectors so they could actually do #1.

  4. NSA memory controller hack on Exploiting the DRAM Rowhammer Bug To Gain Kernel Privileges · · Score: 1

    Geez, who knew that writing 'NSA' to 0xdeadbeef over and over would give you kernel access? Those NSA guys really broke into everything.

  5. SPOD is from NeXT on Classic Mac Icons Archive Bought By MOMA · · Score: 1

    The SPOD is from NeXTSTep. I remember seeing it often when using the old magnesium cube.

  6. Another Democrat blaming bush for Democratic shortcomings!

    God damn, grow some adult pants and take responsibility for your decisions.

  7. Re:FDE on Android doesn't work as of yet on Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices · · Score: 1

    "If it ever becomes the default on consumer phones, for liability reasons or for whatever, the first thing people will learn is how to disable it so they can save battery power."

    You mean consumer phones like the iPhone?

  8. Telecommuting sort of sucks on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work in an office where you can work at home. It's much, much better to work in the office. There's a lot of cross-talk, which makes our product(s) better.

    That said, WFH is good when you need to get stuff done that's task-specific.

    As a blanket policy WFH can work, but if everyone works from home then you have strong online collaboration tools. For a place the size of Yahoo WFH across the board is a "I don't feel like working" policy.

    Yahoo was stagnating for years, so it's unclear what these people who were WFH were actually doing. If they were kicking out killer shit than the policy would be justifiable - but they weren't.

  9. Re:"It's hard, so we won't do it" on The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've done all that. It's really not that hard to estimate, unless you don't pay attention to how long it takes to do stuff. It's not like you're trying to figure out how to fuse atoms, and have to build the manhattan project from scratch.

    Writing something new is more difficult, but when you break it down into chunks it becomes easier. You do have to have a good understanding of how you work.

    Just like anything, it takes practice. If you have enough people estimating you can bayes the answers, sort of.

  10. "It's hard, so we won't do it" on The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Part of being a software professional is understanding how long it takes for you to do things

    If you don't know how, go read a book. It's not hard. The money that's used to pay you depends on your estimate being somewhat correct.

    Imagine how upset you would be if you asked for your paycheck, and payroll said "we're not sure when we're going to pay you, but it should be sometime soon."

  11. It's always a bad sign on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 1

    "Your stuff is a f*cked up as Windows, so we might as well use Windows."

  12. Systemd benefit: malware on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 1

    One good thing about a startup daemon that controls everything is it's much easier to compromise than a hodgepodge of manually configured and custom tailored systems. With systemd it's target once, compromise everywhere.

  13. Nuke China and India to save the Earth? on NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts · · Score: 0

    I'm not exactly sure what the scientists are recommending. Is "reducing carbon emissions" a code word for "killing everyone who isn't in a Western country?"

  14. They work, and fill a need on New Encryption Method Fights Reverse Engineering · · Score: 0

    Vertical markets have severe problems with unauthorized software use (ie: piracy). This will make cracking that software much more difficult.

  15. This is C, not C++ on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    "Cleanup resources using destructors"

    Good luck with that.

  16. SmartThings has a panic button on Ask Slashdot: Panic Button a Very Young Child Can Use · · Score: 1

    It's a bit heavyweight, but SmartThings has a panic button and via an IFTT integration can SMS you when it's pushed.

  17. Recursion practicalities on AP Test's Recursion Examples: An Exercise In Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    For most stack machines recursion is bad because the stack cannot grow without bounds and you have no idea where that boundary is. That's the practical problem with recursion.

  18. Scopes: like iFrame based dashboards, but better on Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps · · Score: 1

    iframes good, apps bad. Because integration between iframes is easier than integration between apps...right?

  19. Why not? It's the truth on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Other media organizations are afraid to post the video because "people might get the wrong idea."

    Basically, they are afraid that people will start going all anti-Muslim. Well hello, most Americans should be pretty familiar now with the "all terrorists are Muslims, but not all Muslims are terrorists" idea.

    Videos like this will show people exactly who is on the other side. This isn't a fake propaganda video, this is what ISIS/ISIL wants people to see. I suppose it doesn't fit into the worldview of the left-leaning media, who believe that diplomacy, talk, and hugs will cure any conflict, and that conflicts are due to misunderstandings between rational people.

    It should be pretty clear that burning someone alive in a cage wasn't a misunderstanding.

    When faced with this pretty brutal challenge to their worldview, the left basically says "screw it" and ignores it. It doesn't fit the narrative.

  20. What device are you using? on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Your iPhone can't lock up for 10-30 seconds, as that would activate the watchdog and kill the app. What's really happening?

  21. Guess they learned from Apple/iPhone on Google To Compete With Uber, Uber To Explore Autonomous Transportation · · Score: 1

    After the bad blood generated with the Apple iPhone stuff, google realized that they can't just compete with companies that have google employees as board members.

    I'm surprised Apple didn't sue Schmidt for breach of fiduciary duty, now that I think about it. At what point was he going to tell the Apple board about Android?

  22. What about crafting and art classes? on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    Will there be a bill to address the gender imbalance in the art and craft classes as well?

  23. Enterprise drives have stronger magnets! on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    They have stronger magnets because they need to write that data more harder than normal drives.

  24. Transporter + a friend/colo on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? · · Score: 1

    Get a transporter and put it in a friend or family member's house.

    http://www.filetransporter.com...

    Supposedly it'll sync all your files automagically.

    And you can host your transporter, too.

    http://transporterhosting.com/...

    don't know much about it except that it works.

  25. Just like other organizations do? on Comcast Ghost-Writes Politician's Letters To Support Time Warner Mega-Merger · · Score: 1

    Form letters have been a part of every advocacy campaign. This is news?