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  1. Re:Sure on SpaceX Wins FCC Approval To Deploy 7,518 Satellites (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not so much the permission to be in space, as much as it is to handle all of the elements involved with getting up there. The means fuel, contracts with companies that want you to put stuff in space for them, etc...

  2. Would you go? on Mark Zuckerberg 'Not Able' To Attend International Disinformation Hearing (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would anyone go sit around being grilled, if they didn't HAVE to? Seems totally unreasonable to me. I wouldn't go either - sitting around, looking like a dick.

  3. Re:Don't try that in Europe on Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We Americans have no choice. None of us know where the private company stops, and government begins. ...or if there's a difference at all.

  4. Re:Or, just don't be stupid. on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't download from porn sites

    pffft. you'll have better luck telling folks to not have actual sex with dirty people. Viri are going to spread via sexual desires - always.

  5. ...the only way they can know that it would work is to actually disrupt a NATO military exercise.M/quote> Nah, they could test this on their own GPS equipment due to the way the jamming works. There's a really good bit of information about it here.

  6. Re:unlike music? on Food Taste 'Not Protected By Copyright,' EU Court Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dunno about that. If you look at music as though the air (that is vibrating) is the meal and the vibrations (notes) are the ingredients. Then copyrighting music is literally no different than cooking a dish, and forcing it to be eaten in a specific manner or order, like maybe a push-pop, then copyrighting the whole "process" as a "thing". That's all music is: vibrations in the air, in a specific order. So maybe one could copyright specific meals, where said meals have specific dishes, comprised of specific recipes.

    Next thing you know, you're not allowed to cook mashed potatoes, green beans, corn and pork chops, without some equivalent to the RIAA coming to check the recipes of each dish.

  7. Re:The adults of this civilization on Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yikes! I'm sorry to hear that. Obviously not all SWAT guys are as I said previously.

    Maybe I should have just stated that I respect my local SWAT guys more than my local street cops.

  8. Re:The adults of this civilization on Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I've generally had a distaste for "cops" in my area. These are the street officers that stumble around trying to "be a cop", and end up just being unreasonable people. However there are other police officers that do more skilled work, investigative work. Most of them are reasonable people. And when it comes to specially trained officers, like S.W.A.T., they're always a little bit cocky, but have an overall respect for all human life, and are very reasonable people.

  9. To be fair...

    Fifty supercomputers that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second (if such a device could ever be made) would, in theory, require about 3×10-to-the-power-of-51 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space.

    The thing to point out there is that exhausting the entire 256-bit key space is one way to skin a cat.

  10. Dunno, but certainly finite.

  11. Re:Answers to the questions on Hitman 2's Denuvo DRM Cracked Days Before the Game's Release (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    The question:

    Does DRM make financial sense to include in titles if they risk being cracked before release date?

    My answer (re-worded for you):

    The purpose of DRM is to prevent people from redistributing and restrict the ways copying happens. So if people are still able to do this, then the purpose of DRM has been defeated, causing the DRM to be pointless. So the answer, also in my last post, is "no".

    You haven't been paying attention. They don't keep doing it. Actually this is a very new trend in the industry.

    Man, you lost all possibilities of respect from this community here on slashdot with that comment. You simply need to look up DRM and when it started. I think it was 1983, but let's see what wikipedia says...

    In 1983, a very early implementation of Digital Rights Management (DRM) was the Software Service System (SSS) devised by the Japanese engineer Ryuichi Moriya.

    At least we agree on the last item, even if you don't know what the word "inverse" means.

  12. Re:True art? on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Art is communication, but to the heart, rather than to the head.

  13. The aim? Primarily it's about reducing the danger to troops during combat

    Maybe point that thousand-million-dollar idea into preventing wars to begin with?

  14. Re:True art? on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Art can't have a definition. You should do the study that you mention regarding artist's intent vs viewers perception. I think you'd be surprised at the process, and the result.

  15. Answers to the questions on Hitman 2's Denuvo DRM Cracked Days Before the Game's Release (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Does DRM make financial sense to include in titles if they risk being cracked before release date?

    The purpose of DRM is to prevent unauthorized redistribution of digital media and restrict the ways consumers can copy content they've purchased. So no.

    Conversely, does releasing games early to selected customers make financial sense if it results in the DRM being cracked before release?

    They keep doing it, so it must be worth it to them. The inverse of this would be to ask: "Does it make financial sense to purchase a game, if it's just going to get old (boring) later anyway?"

  16. Re:True art? on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    At first glance, that's one of the kindest responses on Slashdot that I've read. :)

  17. Re:A Depressant you can't regulate on Researchers Say Social Media Can Cause Depression (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    much like how things currently work with those with substance abuse issues.

    Yeah, because THAT'S going really well.

    Now for the statistics:
    Inpatient treatment costs $3,200 on average. 73% of addicts complete treatment and 21% remain sober after five years.
    Residential treatment costs $3,100 on average. 51% of addicts complete treatment and 21% remain sober after five years.
    Detox costs $2,200 on average. 33% of addicts complete treatment and 17% remain sober after five years.
    Outpatient drug-free treatments cost $1,200 on average. 43% of addicts complete treatment and 18% remain sober after five years.

  18. Re:True art? on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    In art, significance is toyed with. In this way, art is simply pointing out the absurdity in significance, in a significant way.

  19. Google's traffic is encrypted, but what does that matter if it's routed incorrectly? AFAIK, encryption is only a means to detour an attack. However if the stream of data is captured, it can be hacked at until the encryption is solved.

    Besides the obvious implications involved with the above, there is also the possibility (get your conspiracy-theorist-bashing-vocabulary prepared) that these things (re-routed to the bad-guy countries) happen by design, in order to blame some out-of-reach entity for whatever shit-storm of fuckery happens next regarding, god only knows what.

  20. Re: Repeat after me on Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Copyright is a type of intellectual property, an area of law distinct from that which covers robbery or theft, offenses related only to tangible property. Not all copyright infringement results in commercial loss, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that infringement does not easily equate with theft.

  21. Re:True art? on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Art is seen, not made. That means that when "true art" "happens", it's because there's an observer. There doesn't have to be a consciousness behind the creation, but there has to be a consciousness behind the observation. This is why clouds look cool to some, and not others. Also why so few can see that stupid bear in the clouds that you're trying to point out.

  22. Routers with vulnerable Broadcom UPnP stack are mostly based on Broadcom chipset. You can check how many manufacturers use Broadcom chipset here (search for Broadcom, brcm or bcm).

  23. Re:Work close to where you live as a priority on Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny you that you mention that. The place is so overcrowded, that their shit LITERALLY washed up on shore one day (not to mention that this was only one instance where the feces made it to shore). It was washed up on the beach for MILES.

    There's a video of it here. In the end, the city blamed it on Canadian geese! Ahh Fairhope, AL - home of the rich and tame-us.

  24. Re:A Depressant you can't regulate on Researchers Say Social Media Can Cause Depression (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Worst thing is, you can't regulate it.

    Then it's time for the people to regulate themselves. One could write software that monitors usage on certain social media websites or apps, and that could send an alert or disable the app after so many minutes. Give the software away for free.

  25. ...and now back to our regularly scheduled program...