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  1. Re: DIY test on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    thank you, I do believe I will! :D

  2. Suggested reading on Ask Slashdot: Capture the Flag Training · · Score: 2

    The Fugitive Game, by J. Littman (9780316528696).

    Um... that's it, really. Unless you got time, in which case you could pick up The Art of Intrusion, The Art of Deception, or Ghost in the Wires (all K. D. Mitnick).

  3. Re:Pixie Dust on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 1

    tallow, suet and similar animal fats/derivatives already have uses which saturate supply (candles, soap, lubricants, paper additives, food). You want to divert that to feed your car? As hemp goes, that'll never happen as long as there are trees to supply plant fibre for the paper industry.

  4. Re:ESSO on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 2

    my bad

  5. wait'll the bioethics zealots see this on Scientists Coax Human Embryonic Stem Cells Into Making Insulin · · Score: 1

    ....aaaaand it'll be gone.

    (for "bioethics zealots" read: "GSK shills")

  6. Re:Pixie Dust on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 3, Informative

    any idea how much yield acreage is involved in producing just one gallon of biodiesel?

    Here's a clue: soybeans yield 127 gallons per yield acre, but that's not what's used because soybeans grow too slowly. Oilseed yields about a quarter the amount of raw oil (pre refinement) but it grows five times faster. If you stop looking at it there, oilseed looks like a good deal. BUT, then you come to refining it into biodiesel where your net yield drops to about 8% of what you'd get with soy.

    127 gallons is about ten tanks in a small family car. How many eleven gallon tanks are rolling about in the United States? Several tens of MILLIONS? A total conversion to biodiesel would require every square foot of land area on the planet given over for oilseed production.

  7. Re:ESSO on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 0

    newp, Shell is Exxon-Mobil, ESSO is Standard Oil (from "S.O.")

  8. Re: DIY test on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    yes, I'm the cunt who takes what he's paid for and is thus entitled to - unlimited data plan.

  9. Re:Missing the point... on The Malware of the Future May Come Bearing Real Gifts · · Score: 1

    that's the point of the trojan - you don't know or care what the real payload is, you're only interested in the kim kardashian nude photos.

  10. Re:DIY test on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    mod parent up. I find a newish torrent with a dozen or so seeders will saturate my connection (7MBit cellular).

  11. Re:Pirated software on The Malware of the Future May Come Bearing Real Gifts · · Score: 2

    which is one reason I don't use Steam (sorry to burst your "everyone" bubble, even my KSP is standalone) - when I buy software, I own that particular instance; fuck clickthru license terms, try Doctrine of Sale.

  12. Re:but useful software is not cheap to make on The Malware of the Future May Come Bearing Real Gifts · · Score: 2

    http://botcrawl.com/cnet-downl...

    From 2013:

    "It’s now verified that CNET bundles malware with their downloads in order to monetize free products and services. To add more, CNET has been sued by numerous software manufacturers for bundling malware with installments of their distributed software, even without notifying the developers. This often causes victims of CNET malware to report the legitimate software they downloaded from the distributor as unethical."

    I stopped using cnet in 2011, the first time I ever came across Webget which nearly bricked my system.

  13. Re:but useful software is not cheap to make on The Malware of the Future May Come Bearing Real Gifts · · Score: 1

    uh... no, that would be illegal in most developed jurisdictions. Download.com is full of scumware of all shapes I can absolutely confirm.

  14. network connected medical devices on The Malware of the Future May Come Bearing Real Gifts · · Score: 1

    anyone?

  15. Re:You are highly confused on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    what the fuck are you drivelling on with beards? And FYI, arbitrary definitions is what the legal system fucking FUNCTIONS ON.

  16. Re:You are highly confused on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    piss off, if a fetus were a person with human rights then abortion would be murder hence illegal across all jurisdictions signatory to the UN Charter on Human Rights.

  17. Re:The Conservative Option on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    ebola isn't communicable until the carrier is symptomatic.

  18. Re:They'll have rights on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    until they take their first breath, nope.

  19. Re:They'll have rights on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    the British Government already did that with the institution of the Court of Protection: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/...

  20. Re:Chimps have rights, babies don't on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1, Troll

    here, I'll fuck your head up:

    Until it has taken its first breath, a fetus has NO RIGHTS. It isn't even a person in the legal sense. It is an "event". A transient condition on a woman. Legally it is in the same class as a cancer. If a court decides it is to be forcibly removed and reared in a whitewall institute, there is NOTHING the mother can say, nothing ANYBODY can say on the matter, the decision is made and nobody can claim to represent the event's rights because a: it is not human and b: it has no rights.

    source: vast legal experience including background in cases similar to the Paccieri baby snatch, where the fetus was taken to order to feed the adoption market.

  21. simple test on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    they already do this for humans: mental capacity.

    It's a legal test: if the subject is found capable of litigating for himself, then he is "granted" the opportunity to assert his rights - which, it would then be assumed, he is aware of. If he is found not to be capable (which is the point of the test - it is not intended to find capacity, it is intended to find lack of capacity), decisions are made for him. He has zero input in decisions which directly and profoundly affect him.

    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/...

    Even by the scope of the test, it can easily be demonstrated that chimpanzees and other apes are legally incapable. If this case succeeds we will have handed the apes the fucking keys.

  22. How I'd do it on Gmail Security Is a Problem For Tor Users In Repressive Countries · · Score: 1

    This is extremely dangerous, and for those who heard the whoosh, I'll try to explain why by describing how easy it would be to identify/locate someone with nothing more than a Google authenticator code. Google will ALWAYS cooperate with the authorities in whatever countries they operate in.

    OK, so let's assume for a second that the authorities know that an email address exists and that it's used for nefarious purposes like planning a lawful demonstration and/or it's yours. Google sends an authenticator code to your subscriber number which is registered in your name. Now the authorities know where your phone is (and can in fact track it in real time down to three feet - they could pick you out in a moving crowd using a cellular ping) and working on the assumption that it's always in your pocket they can move to apprehend you or send in a blind assassin to kill whoever's attached to the handset. The technology exists to do either.

    A burn phone (it's not a burner phone, there isn't a CDRW drive attached to it) is one which is purchased anonymously, used once then discarded - phone, battery, SIM, the lot. Separated and discarded. I've found need to use burn phones, you need disposable cash in some countries as you might find that you can't buy a phone without $10 (or equivalent) of calling credit. It's very difficult to track a device that isn't powered hence isn't sending a signal anywhere.

  23. Re:We eat smarter animals all the time... on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Sieg - HEIL!

  24. Re:The return of support for 16-bit Windows progra on Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Xbox One Controller Support · · Score: 1

    This too, but you'll still need CPUIdle or similar or you'll end up with a completely locked system. APM *does not* play nice.

  25. Re:huh on Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Xbox One Controller Support · · Score: 1

    I can see that going down well for the Star Wars #7 trailer... o.0