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  1. Re:Can disrupt? How about INTENDED to disrupt! on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    even if were a product available to the public it couldn't be because it is *designed* to interfere with radio communications at a fundamental and highly targetable level.

  2. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 3, Interesting

    which ones allow them to proactively interfere with radio frequency communications?

  3. Re:DANGER! Longer days, throw out the moon! on World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK · · Score: 1

    this is going to go the same way as the Bristol Tidal Barrage. That thing was a month away from construction starting, that was just a bunch of anchored floats. Know what stopped it?

    Some fucking retard claiming that it would kill the surf!

  4. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 4, Insightful

    how about the right to privacy in communication and freedom from unlawful* interference in personal, family and associative affairs as guaranteed by not only the US Constitution but also the UN Declaration of Human Rights?

    *for a metric, read: "any activity which does not meet standards of the Statute Law, or moral or societal standards of behaviour"

    Also consider the fact that the Constitution ofthe United States specifically limits the function of Government to that which is SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED by Law; any activity which is NOT specifically legislated for is in fact ILLEGAL for Government to carry out. As always, the Constitution wins out absent an Amendment, ergo warrantless wiretapping or active unlawful interference in communications is unconstitutional hence ILLEGAL.

  5. not "collateral damage", it's by design on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 2

    One of the documented functions of StingRay is as a local cell jammer (more specifically, a DOSbox). This it can do by several methods: by intercepting cellphone signals by imitating a tower and redirecting those signals to dev/null; by flooding an area with local RF; by causing any or all phones in a given area around it or around a target phone to flood RF... Stingray is so small it can be carried in a pocket.

    (I've seen one, it's about the size of a Motorola GP200 and called "Gossamer", made by the same corporation that makes Stingray II (the current rackmount system)).

  6. Re: This couldn't have anything to do with... on That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was · · Score: 1

    *prefer. I think the battery in my keyboard's going...

  7. Re: This couldn't have anything to do with... on That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was · · Score: 1

    you'd split her in half, you fool. I refer to hold something I can *see*.

  8. Re:DANGER! Longer days, throw out the moon! on World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK · · Score: 1

    I don't think the energy fraction for even 100% demand satisfaction can be measured. It'll be below the noise floor for even a quantum processor.

  9. Re:A giant lagoon dam on World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK · · Score: 0

    that will already be considered, and the site selected to minimise the impact on marine migration routes, measures already taken to minimise physical risk to fish with mesh over ducts (also to prevent ingress of debris into the turbines), other screamingly obvious answers to non-problems.

    I mean, fish can cut themselves on coral reefs! Get down there with a sanding block and round off those corners!

  10. Re: This couldn't have anything to do with... on That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was · · Score: 1

    sure, if you consider this side of fucking starving "a great body". Personally, I'd refer her to a clinic for eating disorders and start dripfeeding her on hamburgers. If you can see your own RIBCAGE you're fucking UNDERWEIGHT.

  11. where did they do the survey?? Sandy Hook? on That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was · · Score: 1, Funny

    Taylor fucking Swift?? Come on! That is so Middle America Teen Pop bullshit!

  12. take it above EVERYBODY'S heads on How Do You Handle the Discovery of a Web Site Disclosing Private Data? · · Score: 1

    Go directly to your FSA (or FBI) field office. This shit has the potential to cost MILLIONS if not dealt with IMMEDIATELY, and you could be implicated having knowledge of such vulnerability and not reported it to competent authorities.

  13. Second Life location "Bluepill" on Ask Slashdot: Whiteboard Substitutes For Distributed Teams? · · Score: 1

    This was an application of the "Coven" research done between 1995-1999 among several European school partners. Was shockingly successful, back in 2003. Don't know if it even still exists... had whiteboards, an auditorium, a poster gallery (with video walls and Powerpoint scrollers), you name it.

    Citations: Steed, Tromp &al.

  14. Re:neither on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 0

    then you're fucking colour blind or your screen isn't properly calibrated.

  15. neither on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    it's sky blue and muddy brown.

    See, I went with the definitive and used a CALIBRATED COLOUR PICKER.

  16. Re:Windows 7 doesn't need ISOs on Microsoft Finally Allows Customers To Legally Download Windows 7 ISOs · · Score: 1

    they said in 2012 that there's not going to be a SP2, instead in 2013 (I think around February?) they did a SBSL rollup of 90-someodd patches that killed a fuckload of machines because some of those patches were blacklisted as known to break shit, and MS hadn't bothered to exclude them or apply the hotfixes for them.

  17. Re:Windows 7 doesn't need ISOs on Microsoft Finally Allows Customers To Legally Download Windows 7 ISOs · · Score: 1

    windows 7 is on service pack 1.

  18. Re:Quality of the solution. on Invented-Here Syndrome · · Score: 1

    AKA "feature creep".

  19. Re:Quality of the solution. on Invented-Here Syndrome · · Score: 1

    whatever happened to the time when code stood on its own with the ONLY dependency being an interpreter?

    Or am I just that OLD??

  20. Re:WTF with the /. Interface?!?!? on Banned Weight-loss Drug Could Combat Liver Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 1

    think they're trying the 7" phablet look, rather than a 2.5" squint screen. Either way, yes, this shit fails.

  21. Re:not fit for human consumption on Banned Weight-loss Drug Could Combat Liver Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 4, Informative

    water isn't a rust remover, neither is sugar syrup.

    The amount of phosphoric acid used in cola is so minute it's barely detectable, but yes it is an active corrosive and yes it does cause demineralisation of tooth enamel.

  22. just FYI on Banned Weight-loss Drug Could Combat Liver Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 5, Informative

    The drug is dinitrophenol. From the medical texts:

    DNP is an ATP inhibitor, which means it prevents cell mitochondria from synthesising ATP from simple sugars. Taken in excess, DNP can cause cell death by starvation and organism death by hyperthermia (it causes an imbalance in the proton gradient which results in the release of large amounts of heat). The good: you'll be thin. The bad: you'll be dead. But at least you won't be cold.

    Industrial uses include a precursor to sulphur dyes, and a component in liquid and plastic explosives. The US FDA and the UK's Food Standards Agency have both condemned DNP as a dangerous industrial chemical that should not be taken internally. Doses as low as 20mg/kg (in humans) are shown to be lethal (http://dx.doi.org/10.1081%2Fclt-200058946).

  23. Re:Pull the disk on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    yeah going by the information it's a 3/20 SL variation with a 2.5"x1/6" IDE (it'll have "IDE" stamped on it somewhere!), stocked with a 40MB. The 160 would be a factory optional upgrade.

  24. Re:file transfer on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    TL;DR. I keep it around because:
    a: it still works,
    b: it does what I need it to do,
    c: it happily also drives my RAID daughterboard, stack of six drives, DVDRW, optical interface, composite capture board, mixer board, and ten USB heads,
    d: has an ECP parallel port onboard and +5V RS232 on a rattail,
    e: I plain can't afford to be chucking the thing into landfill and forking out for new equipment because some marketing drone tries to convince me that it'll save me £0.25 over the next five years in electricity.

  25. Re: file transfer on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    it's a bit late to be worrying about replacing the fan when the thing's on fire...