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  1. Re:You pretty much covered the options on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    Was this military? Hard to imagine anyone else with this level of paranoia.

  2. Re:An NDA works and makes for Target to sue on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, or just email yourself a zip is the easier way. Whether on or off site it's pretty damned hard to stop the code escaping if someone wants it to escape. If you lock your systems down so hard it can't escape you might make life miserable for developers actually trying to test and deploy your code. Unless you are working on the launch systems for ICBMs I would say don't bother.

  3. Man, if I'd known.. on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If I'd known there would be this much free pussy for selling out the US, I would have beat him to it long ago.

  4. Re:DQ'ed on To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot · · Score: 1

    It's hardly a special case. Rather the case of cubes with an odd as opposed to even number of divisions.

  5. Re: 18 years? on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Easy yes. But sounds hard to a government manager.

  6. MUSLIMS on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    Seems odd to me that Anonymous would care so much about Muslims, but who knows when it comes to an anonymous groups.

  7. Come on... Almost all acquisitions are crap. Take the Apple take over of Beats. Did Apple need the branding kudos? Of course not. Did they need the expertise to make a music streaming service or a pair of headphones? Of course not. 99% of acquisitions are complete nonsense.

  8. Re:Erh... folks? You're going the wrong way. on Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Don't you just love it when the theories of the religious sceptics are way harder to believe than the idea they are trying to refute?

  9. This is new by outlook standards. Most outlook bugs have a 30 year livespan.

  10. Re: Oh shut up already on Should a Mars Colony Be Independent? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That assumes that our technological advancement will progress over evolutionary time scales, which I doubt severely. Look at the rate at which we use the earth resources. The depletion is not on those time scales.

  11. Re:Age ain't nothing but a number on UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the point is, the seriousness of the supposed offence is greatly skewed in people's minds by the terminology used. Gang of pirates?!?! OMG. A few geriatrics who enjoy karaoke? YAWN.

  12. Follow the money on Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    Follow the money. There are too many people whose lives depend on supposedly discovering something, for it all to be good science, and not enough actual things ready and waiting to be discovered. Universities are machines for producing studies on things that don't need studying and proposing hypothesis that don't need proposing.

  13. Re:Just like AA batteries , household cleaners, et on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    Not even on the same level as production of Pu238

  14. Re:Wonder if this can be used for some more items on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    It's that .1% of time after the plane crashes that really matters. The NiMH batteries last what.... 30 days? A lot of searches have lasted a lot longer.

  15. Re:Need to protect it well. on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    I've seen Back to the Future. You an make time machines with Pepsi and aluminium cans. BEWARE!

  16. Re:What a criminal on Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Really. And what court was this proven in?

  17. Re:What a criminal on Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Yah right, because the consumers of string quartet music are hanging around in shady forums ready to pounce and rip off the music. Come on get serious. String quartet music is a dime a dozen.

  18. Re:What a criminal on Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    While your story might enact some sympathy the reality is that these files are traded in thousands of forums so getting if off mega wouldn't solve much. Plus it is actually hard for companies to police this stuff. Copyright infringing material goes up on YouTube millions of times a day, and nobody is prosecuted.

  19. Re:Just build a wall, ok? on TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends what device you are thinking of bringing in. Plus there are more high value targets available inside the stadium than in the line.

  20. Well, if the 2nd factor is on a different device then you just significantly raised the stakes of anyone wanting to compromise you.

  21. Re:I can't get it to stop trying to make me use 2F on Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have a phone, but you have an Internet connection and are geek enough to access slash dot? Lol.

  22. Yup. The rules that govern myGov are rubbish, and if you make a mistake, it is unrecoverable, and you have to start again.

  23. Re:myGov is a nightmare. on Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Very cynical to say it has to be that way. I think it is that way because they appoint ladder climbing bureaucrats to run these things rather than domain experts, and thus they always get rubbish results. But I don't think it has to be this way.

  24. Nonsense. The whole identity check thing is theoretical only. Often it's ignored, and if you've got reason to not be checked, you'd just steal the SIM off the shelf, because there is little security over them. The security check is just the government fooling themselves.

  25. Hypothesis? on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The author suggests it's not a theory but a hypothesis. But isn't having an hypothesis part of science? How far would science get without them?