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  1. Re:Just leave my microbiome alone on Your Personal Data Is On Your Phone -- In the Form of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is people changing (upgrading?) their phones every six months . That really does not make sense. I can make a PC last for 5 years ( with linux) . The cell phone industry is a profit oriented pseudo innovative group of capitalists who dont care . The phrase "too many standards to choose from" is most reflected in the cell phone industry.

  2. Re:Not creepy (at all) on Seat Detects When You're Drowsy, Can Control Your Car · · Score: 2

    I wonder if additions like , alarms for texting , talking on the phone , receiving fellatio can be caliberated into this seat . That would be a nice addition . The no. 1 reason for most road accidents is lack of attention . "eyes on the road and hands on the wheel"

  3. P2P helps movie buffs outside the US on Economist: File Sharing's Impact On Movies Is Modest At Most · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are a lot of movie buffs in countries where good foreign and hollywood movies are not released. Video libraries are poorly equipped for the niche films and are usually expensive. P2P provides these people with movies they'd wanna watch . I dont think that'd hurt the industry much .. maybe they'll get a few foreign fans .

  4. 1 pass with 0xff
    5 random passes. /dev/urandom is used for a secure RNG if available.
    27 passes with special values defined by Peter Gutmann.
    Rename the file to a random value
    Truncate the file

    viola ! .. no more naked selfies

  5. What is this android thing? on Want To Ensure Your Personal Android Data Is Truly Wiped? Turn On Encryption · · Score: 1

    Is the a public booth around here ? -- Richard Stallman

  6. Re:Translation (Rough) on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 1

    That makes me imagine , what if people like Steve Jobs were running after jobs with their resume? There is something fundamentally wrong in this whole thing . There is something fundamentally unstable . You are just being exploited by someone whi inturn is being exploited by someone else .. something is wrong..

  7. Re:Seriously, an iphone? on Chinese State Media Declares iPhone a Threat To National Security · · Score: 2

    What is an I phone ?
    -- Richard Stallman

  8. Problem traced on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Firms Using Malware-Laden Handheld Scanners · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Chinese manufacturer installs the malware on the Windows XP operating systems embedded in the devices.

  9. Re:His epitaph in future years: on Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University · · Score: 1

    When Torvalds said that "microkernels are like masturbation. It feels good but you dont get anything done" . I wonder if he was right . The folks at HURD are still kinda .. shagging with their kernel.

  10. Re:This is scary on Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep In Brain · · Score: 1

    Right, but anesthesia or a wrench is not exactly the "kill switch" that this seems to be .

  11. This is scary on Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep In Brain · · Score: 2

    But needs deep brain electodes so I guess it wont be easy to pull off .. But with advances in implant devices , zzz (shivers )

  12. Re:To form supermassive blackholes on What Came First, Black Holes Or Galaxies? · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... -- 265 solar masses

  13. To form supermassive blackholes on What Came First, Black Holes Or Galaxies? · · Score: 0

    There need to be supermassive stars . Like this one which is 265 solar masses ! . Chandrashekars limit tells us that a star will collapse into a black hole at >= 5 solar masses . I somehow always imagined supermassive giants collapsing into black holes and galaxies forming around them . The question is is ther only one supermassive star in a galaxy ? or per galaxy? . What if another massive star in a galaxy goes supernova and collapses. will it disturb the gravitational balance?

  14. OMG! on DARPA Developing the Ultimate Auto-Pilot Software · · Score: 1

    Thats what was flying Flight 370 !!

  15. Re:Not a surprise on Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow .

    --- Linux Torvalds

  16. Re:Fakes on 44% of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted · · Score: 1

    yeah garbage man .. they just dont know what BIG data is.. and they dont care .. Ignorance is bliss . AFAIK big data is a form of evil feeding on the ignorant ..

  17. Re:Fakes on 44% of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted · · Score: 1

    Twitter and microblogging in general have limited use. I dont think anyone would be interested in knowing what you ate for breakfast today . For example ,the only twitter feed I see some sense in following is probably "Richard Stallman" ( the fact that I dont follow it is another thing . ) . So to think of it , twitter is meant to have more "followers" .. The stats are kinda predictable ..

  18. Useless - rather make better headlamps on First Glow-In-the-Dark Road Debuts In Netherlands · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, some things (like animals and pedestrians) require some means of illumination at night.

    Right. Also, this cant work on overcast days . I really don't see the point of it . I'd say they'd rather invest that effort on headlight technology

  19. Fragile on AT Black Knight Transformer Hits the Road and Takes a Hop · · Score: 1

    Special ops? those engines/motors couldnt take a 7.62x39 mm bullet (popular militia / rebel round) . The whole crate would come crashing down . Add armour , the weight will be too much for sustained flight .. Looks very nice but IMO it's got a long way to go before it gets practical.

  20. there is a man called on $250K Reward Offered In California Power Grid Attack · · Score: 0

    Morpheus .. and trinity and the etc .. who have to occasionally take down power grids . they live somewhere in the maintenance line.

  21. Hulk hogan could code too on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Possible . With a lot of effort a team of bright minds could teach hulk hogan to do some java . But then , who's gonna fight the undertaker??

  22. Re:For the Swarm! on The Graffiti Drone · · Score: 1

    Which would mean a dozen nozzles .. The recoil .. I'd be surprised if they can achieve any form of art unless there is some AI component involved.

  23. It's obvious that on Canada Introduces Privacy Reforms That Encourage Warrantless Disclosure of Info · · Score: 1

    "Rights" in general is a carefully crafted illusion created and controlled by the 2% to make the other 98% believe that they are all equal in the constitution or some other similar book which itself is the part of the illusion. . Let me give an example. In the COMMUNIST world !!!, 2% of the population controls every aspect of the 98% . The same holds true in the democratic and other crapcratic world .

  24. Re:If this were a road trip on NASA Setting Up $250,000 Mars Lander Competition · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the real money is in the samples .. imagine how much a kilo of martian rock would be worth in the black market .. .. ya know collectors stuff .. couple of hundred mils atleast

  25. Re:Memories on Born To RUN: Dartmouth Throwing BASIC a 50th B-Day Party · · Score: 4, Funny

    And have spaghetti for breakfast