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  1. Re:No opt-out on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that Google could have made Glass completely indistinguishable from normal glasses? Where would they have put the screen?

    Most likely it would be a small mirror that projected in to a VRD and not use a screen at all.

  2. Re: Far from harmless fun... but on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 1

    That's the thing. the article never says if the tokens where empty or not. If he charged $50 and put $40 on the token (or whatever he wanted to charge as a handling fee) then he most certainly would be transferring money. But if they where empty I see your argument.

  3. Re:Very Old News and Acknowledged by Bitcoin Devs on Bitcoin Perfectly Anonymous — Until You Spend It · · Score: 1

    One of the ways that you can increase anonymity with Bitcoin purchases is by issuing a different hash key for each different kind of transaction

    Unless you are part of the mining pool that mined the coin you spent yourself you still can be "tracked" by getting the information from whomever you got your initial coins from (be it thru subpena or coercion).

  4. Re:Windows 8.1 is just a service pack on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 1

    I would not call anything that bumps the kernel a minor revision number "just a service pack".

  5. Re:Pros/Cons on EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is fine with it, they even bundle the software in to windows server to do it yourself!

  6. Re:Yes, better than a Kinect on Fuel3D Start-Up Promises Affordable Point-and-Shoot 3D Scanner · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is a good image example on their page comparing the two. The left image is their scanner, the right is the kinnect.

  7. Re:No way on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    It was never explained why timeloads only get 12 regens. It may have been a law, not a fact of their physiology. Like a very, very, very, long Logan's Run.

  8. Re: No way on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    I have 3 words for you: K-9 and Company

  9. Re:or, you can do what I do on The Coming War Against Personal Photography and Video · · Score: 1

    But then I would be living in Jersey... I think I rather stick with the totalitarian dystopia.

  10. Re:Open IPv6 Mesh With Distributed Atomic Actions on DRONENET: An Internet of Drones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1. The same way they tax cars, require them to be registered with a yearly registration fee.

    2. Don't let anything fly anywhere, set up traffic corridors that are not near trees, power lines, and give enough space for a drone to correct itself after it gets hit by a strong wind gust.

    3. Again the same way you do it with cars. You make rules and laws and if people break them there is a penalty.

    4. The similar people who don't care if they live near a busy noisy street. And these will be electric, the nosiest part of any moving device is the engine, being electric instead of gas, there will be minimal noise. For one crashing in to your house, yes it could happen, but the safety level would need to get pretty high if people started to use these for widespread use. No one would ship with them if there was a 1 in 10 chance you would loose what you where delivering. For the ones that do crash the government can require liability insurance to be on them, just like cars.

  11. Re:not feasible on DRONENET: An Internet of Drones · · Score: 1

    Everything does not need to be a Heli- variant. If standards are in place you could go with a much more efficient normal flight and solve the landing via ILS or a VTOL system on the drones.

  12. Re:Please Explain on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is if you want GMail to query another POP3 server and pull it in to GMail, this allows you to do things like use the GMail Web UI for servers that only support POP3.

  13. Re:Editors... on Nintendo Puts a Bedtime On Wii U Content In Europe · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's the point! During the daytime you can not download games rated PEGI 18+

  14. Re:Get a signature PC on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 1

    How about AutoCAD too? Heck almost all products from Autodesk, there is a FOSS equivalent but it is severely lacking. You can't get a support contract for 99% of the FOSS equivalents so when you do have a issue with the software you can't get it resolved nearly as fast.

  15. Re:Even more interesting... on Kaspersky's Exploit-Proof OS Leaves Security Experts Skeptical · · Score: 1

    Is how McAfee SiteAdvisor flags your site as exhibiting "Risky Behaviour", warning me before even visiting ...

    Damn websites with their skydiving and their investments of money in fly by night businesses!

  16. Re:Nerds Ruining Entertainment on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 1

    Also the version on Audible is very good too, each book has a forward recorded by the author himself. Audible has the entire "Lost Fleet" series and it's sequel series "Beyond The Frontier". The book released this year, a new sequel series, is not out on audiobook yet.

  17. Re:Clever but stupid? on High Security Handcuffs Opened With 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys · · Score: 0

    I would not be surprised if a counterfeit key would fall under the category of "lockpick" which is illegal to posses in some jurisdictions.

  18. Quote from the article on Netflix and Google Make Land Grab On Edge of Internet · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This could help companies like Netflix get high definition video to consumers, and it could possibly bring down subscription rates for high speed internet, subsidized by the content providers.

    BWHAHAHAHA!

    Thanks for that, I needed a good laugh.

  19. Re:Big Brother? on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    The use of a motor vehicle is a privilege, not a right, and it can be rescinded at any time by the state you live in

    Almost. The use of a motor vehicle on a public road is a privilege, not a right. Driving around your own property (or other private property, assuming permission of the owner) is your own damn business.

    Maybe you should read the rest of the paragraph before trying to tell the GP he is wrong

    The use of a motor vehicle is a privilege, not a right, and it can be rescinded at any time by the state you live in. Because of so-called motor-vehicle compact laws, you will probably not get another license in any other state. Anything that happens on public roads is their business. If you have a problem with that, you can pay to build private roads and pay for the maintenance of those roads with tolls.

  20. Re:Euthanize XP on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Any way on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Causality, Relativity, FTL Communication. Pick any two.

  22. Re:Or... on Defending Your Cellphone Against Malware · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I was not showing malware, I was showing a "Remote Exploit". It does not matter if you wanted the remote exploit to happen or if some infected website did it. It is running executable code on your device that was not through the app store, which you asked for a example of and I gave. And let me put that quote you took out of context back in to full context. Emphasis mine.

    There's always a first time, but I think there's a good chance the security impact of these vulnerabilities will remain theoretical. Despite JailbreakMe 2.0 being open sourced after an updated version of iOS was released, which would have made it relatively easy to modify the code into an attack, I didn't hear about any such modification except a proof of concept that showed up much later.

  23. Re:Or... on Defending Your Cellphone Against Malware · · Score: 3, Informative

    It has been patched but this has happened already.

  24. Re:GPS Accuracy on New Mexico Is Stretching, GPS Reveals · · Score: 1

    Isn't consumer GPS artificially liimited in accuracy?

    Not artificially, economically. It costs a LOT more to get real-time sub 1m accuracy without post-processing. For what you are using the gps for (navigating a turn on the street 90% of the time) 1-5m accuracy works fine. You can buy high end equipment (we are taking more than $1K) and get realtime data in the 1 inch range. For 10-20K you can get to the millimeter range.

    Which would you buy to use in your car, the $50 GPS, or the $900 gps with the only additional feature it has is if you go to the menu that actually displays your lat/long you get a few more decimal points?

  25. Re:Why? on Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 2

    pre-flood I would have agreed with you, but the cheapest 1TB drive on newegg is $120. (interestingly the 2TB version of the same model costs only $10 more)