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  1. Re:Why? on World's Largest Amphibious Aircraft Goes Into Production In China · · Score: 1

    "Island communities" in China sounds awfully familiar... Taiwan?

  2. Re:CrAssphage on Newly Discovered Virus Widespread in Human Gut · · Score: 1

    That sounds like the name of a type of a virus that infects operating systems instead of humans.

    Maybe one is already in development...

  3. Re:Bitcoin, rent, tor on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do With Half a Rack of Server Space? · · Score: 1

    For tor, if who you rent the server from has a policy for exit nodes, run some non-exit nodes

  4. Well, only ONE of his leg is prosthetic on Amputee Is German Long Jump Champion · · Score: 1

    I would guess advantages can only be properly quantified if both his legs are prosthetics because when you have one real leg the capabilities of other leg has to be adjusted to match the real one.

  5. How would that be even helpful? on Report: Nuclear Plants Should Focus On Risks Posed By External Events · · Score: 0

    Withstanding earthquake at one particular strength does not mean it can withstand all earthquakes. And it probably isn't going to be helpful in a lot of cases as well, because where are you moving the whole thing away when you know there is an earthquake/tsunami coming? Japan is a bunch of islands for crying out loud. And you probably have to stay connected to the grid while you are moving it out of immediate danger. So until you have high-speed mobile plants fooling around external risks are probably not going to mean much to disaster-level events as we have yet technology to stop nature from dealing damage to us.

  6. hm... "ssometimes" on When Spies and Crime-Fighters Squabble Over How They Spy On You · · Score: 1

    Yay for serpentspeak!

  7. Well, to be fair... on eSports Starting To Go Mainstream · · Score: 2

    If people classify chess as a sport, so should these things, no? But then again, When will we see simultaneous exhibitions with esports where one guy fights against 30-50 people and win?

  8. Re:Is that what it is come down to? on A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that browsers that has no need for image capability would skip most image generation/handling functions.

  9. So the idea is that.... on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 1

    If people are illegally sharing stuff, then get 4 pieces of paper, print stuff with ink, and mail it to them? Why bother wasting the ink, paper and postage to send the letters if no further actions are to be taken?

  10. In the paper... on A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting · · Score: 1
    The following passage is found in the paper:

    The easiest effective defense, then, is to simply require user approval whenever a script requests pixel data. Modern browsers already implement this type of security | for ex- ample, user approval is required for the HTML5 geolocation APIs. This approach continues the existing functionality of <canvas> while disallowing illegitimate uses, at the cost of yet another user-facing permissions dialog.

    Does that sounds like lack of common sense or...? I would imagine that the user is the most vulnerable link of the entire system. Permission dialogs never work as a security sanity check because people simply click ok/yes/agree most of the time. Or the web site can witheld data until the user agrees to pixel extraction.

  11. So it has come down to this on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    Is it
    People who can heavily influence the rules bend the rules for personal gain, people who don't get to influence the rules cheat
    Or
    People grew up in capitalist areas bend the rules for personal gain, people who grew in communist area cheat
    ? I can't quite tell which case it is and they both describe the results well

  12. Is that what it is come down to? on A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting · · Score: 3, Funny

    Skipping all images to avoid tracking? Back to ncurses it is then

  13. Sounds like someone is already manipulating the count because they don't want you to see how it is done. Seriously, come on, you can use these in an airgapped settings (USB sticks back and forth?) so hacking should never have been an issue if your system is otherwise clean.

  14. They actually believer that can work? on Utility Wants $17,500 Refund After Failure To Scrub Negative Search Results · · Score: 2

    I would imagine if Brand.com is actually effective Rick Santorum would already have used it back in 2012.

  15. More measurements! on New Technology Uses Cellular Towers For Super-Accurate Weather Measurements · · Score: 1

    What about UV index or temperature or humidity? I meant if they arent measured on the same spot as everything else then the usefulness of those will suffer

  16. Next question on Chimpanzee Intelligence Largely Determined By Genetics · · Score: 1

    I am sure "Is it gender linked/dominated/driven?" would be asked next

  17. Re:51? on US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking · · Score: 1

    Still 50. Guam and other places are like the Virgin Islands where they don't get to become incorporated. Maldives just become one of those unincorporated places.

  18. Hm... on US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when did the US got power to arrest people in Maldives? Does that mean they can just go into arbitrary countries and arrest people arbitrarily?

  19. Re:We should expect some wingnuts to say... on How Did Those STAP Stem Cell Papers Get Accepted In the First Place? · · Score: 1

    I am saying the Journal should put up some funding to reproduce the results. It can be random testing or all the papers, but the journal should invest in keeping its own reputation of being fraud free, no?

  20. I wonder... on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 1

    How long would it take to regulate fracking? Hopefully it won't take forever to do that.

  21. We should expect some wingnuts to say... on How Did Those STAP Stem Cell Papers Get Accepted In the First Place? · · Score: 2

    "See, this is exactly why we oppose stem cell research. They are all frauds."
    Seriously though, I would have imagined that the papers should only get published if the results themselves were reproducible. Somehow those are skipped and the whole peer review system is in trouble. At the end, I would think whoever reviewed the papers should also be disciplined.

  22. Re:Attribution on Western Energy Companies Under Sabotage Threat · · Score: 3, Informative

    Anywhere from Eastern Europe (UTC+2, 7AM-4PM) to Myanmar (UTC+6:30, 11:30AM-8:30PM) would also be reasonable, no?

  23. No airgap? on Western Energy Companies Under Sabotage Threat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would have thought some of these should be airgapped for security reasons by design? Is it so hard to go to work these days that you have to hook it up to the outside?

  24. Bash on nano on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I don't usually code except on bash (and possibly my ever increasing proxy auto config), and I prefer nano (I got used to dos before switching to linux) over most editors that needs xorg for easier sudo when needed.

  25. So... on Study: Rats Regret Making the Wrong Decision · · Score: 1

    "Oh drat." - Said the rat who got caught in the mouse trap