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  1. Everyone with a cellphone camera... on Court Case To Test Legality of Recording the Police With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    ...needs to start recording cops at every opportunity. Do this even if the cop is just standing on the corner. Make sure they see you.

  2. Re:Not the Higgs on Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt · · Score: 1

    I've not noticed that Fox is worse at science reporting than average for general media (which is not to say that they are good at it...)

  3. Re:And of course... on Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt · · Score: 1

    The Higgs is predicted to exist in a certain energy range which the LHC will eventually explore completely. If it does not find the Higgs there it does not exist (though other interesting things may).

  4. Re:And of course... on Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt · · Score: 1

    Where did you publish your theory?

  5. Re:Budgets on Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt · · Score: 1

    > A son-in-law looking for a job?

    No. Those are very expensive.

  6. Re:And of course... on Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt · · Score: 1

    When they don't find it at Fermilab, and they don't find it at the LHC, they'll just say we haven't got enough power yet, and we need to build another one with even more power.

    1) The Standard Model predicts that the Higgs will be found within a specific energy range. The LHC is powerful enough to explore that entire range. Therefor if the LHC does not find the Higgs it does not exist.

    2) Finding the Higgs is not the purpose of the LHC. It's merely one experiment.

  7. Re:Funny/interesting addresses on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    > Is Cisco eating their own dog food for IPv6?

    The DoD told them they had to if they wanted to continue to bid on defense contracts.

  8. Re:Funny/interesting addresses on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    They can put anything they want in the rightmost 64 bits. That's all part of their local address.

  9. Re:Why just one day? on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    All of these sites have IPv6 support. However, they have their nameservers configured to return only A records except when queried with special names such as ipv6.google.com (in the case of Google it is slightly more complicated). The reason for this is that there are some buggy end-user systems out there that are on IPv4-only networks and will hang if they get a DNS reponse that includes both A and AAAA records. During this test these sites have configured their nameservers to return both A and AAAA records, in order to determine how many such systems there are (and to smoke out any other problems). If there turn out to be very few (1 in 1,000,000, say) they will soon make the change permanent and many other sites will follow. Otherwise, we have work to do.

  10. Mod parent up. on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    n/t

  11. Re:Eastern Standard Time? on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    It's actually from 0:00:00 UTC Wednesday through 23:59:59 Wednesday.

  12. Re:hah..what on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    Im not sure about this because i havent been keeping tab...

    This is clear.

    but i thought widespread nat'ing pushed ipv6 the way ofnthe dodo

    Fortunately, you are quite wrong. The horrific kludge that is LSNAT is such a PITA for ISPs that they will go to DS-Lite to avoid it, and nothing but IPv6 can handle the coming mobile explosion.

  13. Re:So what on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    is anybody able to browse to these sites using ipv6 all the way through?

    Yes. Those of us who have free IPv6 tunnels from sixxs.net or he.net, among others.

  14. Re:Is it Stupid or Evil? on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    A terrorist can also grab some good family man, tell him his wife and kids will die a horrible, painful death, and load him up with C4 -- or tell him they need to smuggle something -- whatever.

    The IRA used both those methods successfully decades ago.

  15. Re:Is the risk really that big? on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    > Especially since even babies can be added to the list.

    The "no fly list" is a list of names, not people. The natcops see a couple of mentions of a name in "intercepts" and leap to the conclusion that a villain is about to use it as a false identity.

  16. Re:Well on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    Are you calling security theater and keeping the larger set of sheep from panicking and not flying impractical?

    It's the theatre that frightens people. They conclude that things must really be bad to necessitate such extreme measures.

    Unfortunately, those who decide on the measure are people too...

  17. Convenient. When they find your name on the List.. on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    ...they can simply close the end seals and turn on the gas.

  18. Re:Frist to get jailbroken... on How Apple's iOS Went From Insecure To Most Secure · · Score: 1

    I feel that way about Debian. It's an exaggeration, to be sure, but the mindset is the same. If I can't manage it with apt, why bother with it?

    Because you can package it and then manage it with apt (if it's worth the trouble).

  19. Re:I'm just curious on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    > ...gravity affects antimatter the same as matter.

    Likely, but untested.

  20. Re:The Incredible Powers of Ten on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    > And what if their work doesn't involve base ten numeracy?

    Then we'd call them reporters.

  21. Mod parent up. on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    n/t

  22. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    ...we could potentially produce at least 1 milligram of antimatter per year at a cost of only around a 10 million dollars.

    Does that include capture and confinement?

  23. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    Your impression is most definitely very mistaken.

  24. not just Microsoft or Google or Yahoo. on Schema.org — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Agree On Markup Vocabulary · · Score: 2

    Right. You've got to include Facebook.

  25. Hunt the Wumpus on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe Animal.