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  1. Exactly this. Once a reliable and scaleable cryptographic standard comes out based on quantum computing, you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be either for government/military-use only, or available to the public but riddled with backdoors. FWIW, Brandis and Dutton are two utterly inept politicians. Both are gaffe machines, and one may actually be a sociopath. I don't know if they fully appreciate the gravity of what they are advocating.

  2. Re:Cynical much? on SpaceX Livestreams Sunday's Rocket Launch (space.com) · · Score: 1

    re:"other options not yet considered" sig relevant

  3. Re:Stop getting in the way of natural selection on Self-Driving Cars Are Safer When They Talk To Each Other (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    We've already seen this with tesla's denials of responsibility for owner confusion about what autonomous means. A mesh network of self driving cars is a fat "hack me plz" target. I'll pass, thanks.

    In the most recent case of a Tesla crash, the driver had ignored all safety warnings to put his hands back on the wheel and was speeding to boot, and the accident itself was ruled the fault of the other driver due to a traffic violation. As well as that, Tesla's are sports cars, not everyday vehicles, and everyday vehicles would benefit immensely from V2V. The cost would be miniscule in comparison to infrastructure like the roads they drive on, and could save thousands of lives every year once this is mainstream and implemented in the majority of places and vehicles. As for the mesh networking being compromisable, so what? They'd still be safe, they just wouldn't be safer.

  4. > wtfamireading.jpg

    *wtfamimasturbatingto.gif

  5. Holy crap, you're right. Is this a thing? 'Ad homonym'? Someone cal Merriam, Webster too!

  6. Re:So what are the stats on /.? on 34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    *3.
    I'll claim that 10th out of 10 case

  7. Re:So what are the stats on /.? on 34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. It's hominem, as in person. 2. Claiming ad hominem whilst AC is laughable. 2. In 9/10 cases, if your opinion isn't worth putting a name to, its probably bullshit.

  8. Re:Mathematicians don't let mathematicians do drug on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points for you and ShanghaiBill. Couldn't be more correct, unfortunately.

  9. Re: Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    'Transparent' does not mean - take years to respond to FOIA requests

    I take it you've read Donald Trump's tax return then?

  10. And so it begins.... on Hackers Steal $31 Million at Russia's Central Bank (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:I don't understand on Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What does this have to do with Trump.

    They should change this site to trumpdot.org!

    Finds a non-Trump article on Slashdot, complains about how everything on Slashdot is related to Trump.... Well you're not technically wrong, you're just stupid.

    Relevant sig

  12. Re:shotgun more effective on 'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Birdshot at 40 yards should do the trick.

    If you're 'trick' is to trigger a potential explosive payload. Read TFA.

  13. Re:I buy lots of ebooks - Cheap "unix" books on HB on O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1
    I use this bookmarklet as a way of quickly searching for ebooks online when i see something I like. Bookmark this in Chrome and thank me later.

    javascript:(function(){window.open("https://www.google.com/?q=filetype:pdf+OR+filetype:epub+OR+filetype:mobi+"+encodeURIComponent(prompt('Enter the book title/author/ISBN','Start typing now')))})();

  14. China&Russia vs World or China vs Russia vs Wo on China To Build a Solar Plant In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I wonder how this would be making Russia feel, having its BFF help Ukraine wean itself off Russian energy...

  15. Re:Price? on Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    In Australia (and other locations where the majority of livestock isn't raised coastally), I could imagine the real issue being transport and distribution of the feed. There are a lot of livestock farms within 100km of the ocean, but the majority of farms there would have to undertake seaweed feed for their livestock to make inland distribution viable, or the inverse, where inland stations would be a much larger customer that would grow a business to a size large enough to be able to afford to consider coastal distribution to more numerous, smaller farms. That being said, I'd be interested to see the comparison in emissions of grass-fed vs grain-fed vs seaweed-fed livestock. Most livestock in Australia is grass-fed, and as such produce a healthier and more nutrient-rich meat than the grain-fed variety, so you'd also have to take into account the gut microbes of the and nutrients of the final product before the economic case of seaweed would even come into question.

  16. Re:If confirmed, does this make it realistic? on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the usual format of an EM drive?

    Usual implies it has been around long enough for trends to emerge. So far, I imagine theres only one prototype, with no current real-world applications.

  17. Re:Losing their minds on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you read any other media than just Slashdot? Comparitively, the coverage here has been tepid.

  18. Re:I would recommend it on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Poor AC is so misunderstood. Personally I found it hilarious. (source: Poe's Law)

  19. Only 50 years out of date. Nice one.

    And yet still relevant. (see 'last 15 years of Australian politics')

  20. Re:Nice of them to take Election day off on Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump's Win (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have the hack a voting machine to influence an election result.

  21. Re:Show us the data on Mark Zuckerberg Says Fake News on Facebook Affecting the Election Is a 'Crazy Idea' (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's a bias against real news. TFA was regarding a propensity to display entirely fake 'news', from dubious sources with clickbait-ey, ad-loaded websites. eg.Putin has access to alien weaponry?

  22. It wasn't called the White Australia policy for no particular reason.

  23. Can confirm. Whatever you do, don't claim refugee status.

  24. Re:There is also a shortage of sarcasm quotes on Bitcoin Boosted by Safe-Haven Demand After Trump Victory (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A volcano mid-eruption would be less volatile than President Trump. I mean, we KNOW what will happen with a volcano... Trump though....

  25. Re:Long time bitcoin user on Bitcoin Boosted by Safe-Haven Demand After Trump Victory (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right, if there was a 'bitcoin volatility index', today would've been classifiable as stable. The Trump effect on global markets is no joke though. In Australia, where US is the 4th biggest trading partner, the share market has lost $35bn in a day. Also, gold has spiked, it gained over $50 p/ounce, over 4% in the space of 4hrs.