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  1. The best weapon on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    against low altitude quadro drones seems to be a bolas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , it can be made quickly just from boots bound together with shoelaces. I am always carrying a spare pair of boots myself.

  2. Re:cover everything with mirrors on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    Cooling can be chemical, simple and without any "systems" therefore no added complexity. Just to add a statistic fraction to survival rate.

  3. Re:cover everything with mirrors on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    Background of the mirror could be actively cooled, comes handy as a thermal cloak too. As you said, with beryllium, you need to cool only a 2% of incoming energy.

  4. Illusion at work on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 1

    Majority of worker slaves have such positive attitude "I have a good relationship with management" until burned out or not needed anymore. Well, they didn't even notice they and their work are owned. So, a little reality check: a hired man who builds a house does not get the ownership of the house. Or a car. Or an iPad. Making software for hire is no different. Your work should provide a profit for the one who invests in you. If you want the profit you think your work is worth of, quit the job and start your own business.

  5. What is encryption defined by law, exactly? on James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption · · Score: 2

    We can play the word games too. Instead of "encryption", let us start calling that kind of computing a "baroque data formatting" or something else. I am very confident coders can play much better than lawyers.

  6. Do it 21st century way on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster) · · Score: 1

    Instead of printing encrypted (and properly encoded) data on a sheet of paper, you could use a sheet of stainless steel and a laser cutter. Use a common scanner for reading.

  7. On the Dark Web, no one knows you are an AI on Watch DARPA Artificial Intelligence Search For Crime On the "Dark Web" · · Score: 3, Funny

    How long it takes that MEMEX AI will actually start performing criminal acts on Dark Web to justify it's own existence?

  8. Re:Don't we already have conventions? on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Decision algorithms of sea mines were quite complex since the WW1 and WW2, with rules implemented on mechanical computers, clocks and magnetic detectors, such as "explode on third big ship from night convoy running north to south only, don't mind small ships and other directions".

  9. The next stage on Angry Boss Phishing Emails Prompt Fraudulent Wire Transfers · · Score: 4, Funny

    will be CEO of a company forcing or tricking employees to make a fraudulent wire transfer which mimics a phishing scam.

  10. Seek them in space on Meet the Carolina Butcher, a 9-Foot Crocodile That Walked On Two Legs · · Score: 1

    I hope they have built some spaceships before 201 million years extinction event.

  11. Re:Know what's worse? Cleartext. on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Weak, bad or fake encryption is infinitely much worse than none, because it makes people believe they are safe while they are not.

  12. You are doing it wrong on Why It's Almost Impossible To Teach a Robot To Do Your Laundry · · Score: 2

    Probably a fembot or gynoid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... is necessary to do all the tasks correctly.

  13. It's waste of effort on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    The Internet will detect any parental control as a damage and route around it.

  14. Beware of the chert on The Science of a Bottomless Pit · · Score: 1

    The most complicated part of the problem: a passing through Hell, could be a difficult strategy problem, more than an engineering one.

  15. It's true then, what I've been told some time ago. on Executive Director Andrew Lewman Answers Your Questions About Tor and Privacy · · Score: 1

    The style of answers itself is a message: they are already indoctrinated and under control.

  16. Meet the Meat... on DARPA-Funded Robots Learning To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the worst of what could be invented in robotics. If such robot can cut the meat with a kitchen knife, what happens to humanity when it learns from head cutting terrorist videos?

  17. Re:Once more on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    I'm just irritated that someone somewhere thought it was necessary to say TCP/IP card as opposed to network card.

    You don't need to be irritated. There are plenty of embedded network serial interfaces which have actually TCP/IP protocol hardwired in hardware, such as Wiznet W5100 or newer. You can find some on Arduino shields. These are not generic network adapters, as you know them. Fine tools for hacking, though.

  18. Re:What has happened to Linux? on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    looks like Gentoo for you if you really don't want a modern init system

    I have systemd on gentoo since before it was cool everywhere else. Yes, I wanted it early, because I recognized it's possible full potential just by ideas it was architected on.

  19. Re:Translation pls. on Inside North Korea's Naenara Browser · · Score: 0

    Your explanation is seriously flawed https://twitter.com/gilgamesh

  20. Arduino+GSM shield on FBI Says Search Warrants Not Needed To Use "Stingrays" In Public Places · · Score: 2

    Those things are easily detectable with just an arduino with gsm shield, event without connecting to any network or even a sim card, just by dumping the id's and strength information to the terminal and little thinking about the numbers seen.

  21. Reminds me of Lord Kelvin... on Processors and the Limits of Physics · · Score: 0

    "Impossible" is just a state of individual mind, not an objective property of anything. Anyone still believes the machines havier than air cannot fly, just because some authority said so?

  22. RequestPolicy plugin for Firefox on Ad Tracking: Is Anything Being Done? · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... It just works. Together with old AdBlock, no more tracking of me anywhere.