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  1. Re:No thank you on Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App · · Score: 1

    True. Our methods to bring technology to the mass market are currently broken.

  2. Re:Windows or everyone? on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 1

    Yes it used a default password list.

  3. Re:Windows or everyone? on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 1

    There was even an almost pure UNIX botnet, that has pinged every ipv4 address in the world.

  4. Re:WhatGoes Around on Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis · · Score: 1

    You can try to not build shit this time by making security a top priority: First tear them down, then build them up. But operating an overaged plant isn't a good idea.

  5. Re:Implications for copyright? on A Brain Implant For Synthetic Memory · · Score: 1

    No you won't be abled to do thought crime, as you will get DRM into your implant. Everything you know will be uploaded to google, and then the "rights owners" can browse through the thoughts of humanity to find and delete "infringing content".

  6. Re:It's not the US that is the problem! on Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis · · Score: 1

    And which country are China and India producing for?

  7. Re:Too late. Fission 80,000 times safer than hydro on Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis · · Score: 1

    The problem about nuclear is not about how many people it has killed, but about how many it will kill.

    Some people want to hide nuclear waste deep in the mountains, hoping it doesn't harm them. I think this is a very stupid thing to do, as one day perhaps we will figure out how to get rid of nuclear waste (like having cheap safe rockets to send it to sun), and then need it. We know far too few about geological stability to decide for this step.

    Don't take me wrong -- I think nuclear fusion is a great technology which will perhaps one day give us almost free energy. But until then we shouldn't destroy our future with fission.

  8. Re:yeah, every linux user reaches that point... on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    Thats what ubuntu is for.

  9. Re:More information on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 1

    correction: the paper covers an older generation of the chip. The new one is of course smaller.

  10. More information on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 1

    Here is a paper covering this chip, and a press release about the chip.

  11. Re:Why contraception on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 1

    Thank you this was very interesting. Didn't knew, that insulin, being a hormone, was needed in such amounts, contrary to contraception hormones. I guess the insulin reservoir contains mostly (>99%) water?

  12. Why contraception on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 1

    This chip can be very useful for people who have to take in stuff regularly, like diabetes patients, for medical reasons. No insulin syringe into the leg needed, a simple app on the watch of a diabetes patient is enough. If it has direct access to blood, which I doubt, the chip can even perhaps detect too high blood sugar and automatically react, replacing the function of a pancreas.

  13. Re:you can't get away from on Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies · · Score: 2

    You cannot choose whether the IOT comes to your work, and already now you are obliged to have a smart meter in the EU. And the companies will enable IOT features whether you want it or not, like the gsm modem in intel chipsets. It will be like planned obsolescence: you don't want it, but have no choice.

  14. Re:I've always thought on Researchers Develop New Way To Steal Passwords Using Google Glass · · Score: 1

    I can only agree when you have a keypad that only has one code (one user), and you use it daily. Otherwise the used keys get worn out, which can help possible intruders. For a 4 digit PIN you will have 4!=24 possibilities instead of 10^4=10000, and even less when one digit occurs twice.

  15. Re:agree on Tractor Beam Created Using Water Waves · · Score: 1

    ... but I admit, it would be impressive to have a video actually showing the pull effect.

  16. Re:agree on Tractor Beam Created Using Water Waves · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, with a video, you have a reliable proof for every theory.

  17. Re:Taggant on IEEE Launches Anti-malware Services To Improve Security · · Score: 1

    Try pdf.js -- it is the implementation of a pdf reader in one of the most secure code execution runtimes -- a js engine. It is slow and lacks much pdf features, but for these slides pdf.js is enough.

  18. Re:Is it cross-platform? on IEEE Launches Anti-malware Services To Improve Security · · Score: 1

    I've thought that with windows store Microsoft people wanted to solve this problem, but unfortunately they have only enabled this mechanism for metro apps. I hope that rumors are right about windows store apps being abled to also run on desktop windows.

  19. Using cable1:
    $./cable1 "/&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)\!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^" "random garbage" "valid perl"
    valid perl

  20. If Netflix, then DRM too on Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules · · Score: 5, Interesting

    DRM also makes "information less available". Finally a bill that makes EME, HDCP and alike illegal!

  21. Google has patched only version 4.4 on KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can understand if Google wants to force vendors to update to the most recent android. However, from a vendor perspective, what's so hard about backporting this patch to, say, android 4.3 and below? Is there a contract with Google forbidding this? Do they get money from NSA?

  22. Re:My thirst can only be quenched... on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    How many sugar drinks do you need to drink at once for getting an overdose and never be thirsty again?

  23. Re:detection on Saudi Government Targeting Dissidents With Mobile Malware · · Score: 1

    This link has even more information.

  24. Re:What's so Hard to Understand? on An Army Medal For Coding In Perl · · Score: 1

    So that someone even noticed he was more productive, didn't freak out because he did something different, didn't freak out because the different thing involved "programming" *AND* gave him a medal... seems pretty remarkable.

    Companies like ORACLE or SAP live of this increased productivity of their customer companies. Increasing productivity is one of the major reasons for use of computers in business.

  25. Re:"Almost" works? on Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Call me a troll, but if any company other than Google unveiled this phone, and it didn't even boot during the demo, I don't think the reaction would be as positive.

    What about Microsoft?