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  1. Re:Importance on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 1

    You killed one person or 800'000, you did it, you're guilty of genocide.

    Examples following this lead can be pushed to the absurd... it only shows how this is absurd as well.

  2. Re:The only fix for vampire draw on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 2

    A full and complete list of ingredients in products is not ot be mistaken with a warning label. For some persons, such as those who have intolerance to specific additives such as colouring or conservatives, this information is very important and useful.

  3. Re:It's a trap! on Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' · · Score: 1

    Correction:

    It's all but not a trap.

  4. Re:Standby power on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    I bet the average television is "old" by the standard given in wikipedia.

  5. Re:Yowzers! on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    You like numbers without perspective? Lets have some more, we could write further sensationalistic pseudo-journalistic articles on the internet.

    There are about 114 million TV sets in the USA. In average they use about 10 W of power on standby. Let say they are on standby 20 hours per day... I let you calculate how much electricity was wasted there in the same period.

    hint: it's more in a day than all the model S sold so far. Perspective helps to understand...

  6. Re: kWh/day is stupid. on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 2

    Maybe then, he should not post at all. I wouldn't cut anyone some slack for bypassing and abusing a moderation system.

  7. Re:The only fix for vampire draw on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is ridiculous. How would this be in anyway have a basis for a lawsuit? Unless it is explicitly denied and hidden by the maker, which it isn't, why would you even consider that?

    How about your TV. It also uses power while off... should we sue there? Your phone? Your laptop? How about your (traditional) car? It also slowly drains its battery while its parked in the garage... and I bet the car makers don't even recognize it officially. Should we sue?

  8. RPN on Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? · · Score: 1

    If you are used to RPN, stick with RPN. That's the mot important advice I can give you

    For test, i always used the HP 32s or the good old HP 11c
    Someting like the 32s is close to your 48, so you will be using it intuitively and fast

  9. Re:Hope and Change!!!! on US Gov't Circulates Watch List of Buyers of Polygraph Training Materials · · Score: 1

    It's exactly what I am saying... That the US political spectrum is not the same as in the rest of the planet.

  10. Re:And everyone on Slashdot cares about Cisco on How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know who is interested in cisco, but you missed the big picture.

  11. Re:Hope and Change!!!! on US Gov't Circulates Watch List of Buyers of Polygraph Training Materials · · Score: 1

    I know your a flamebating troll... But anyone considering Obama a left wing politician needs to go out of America and take a look at the world. Even for Canada, the nearest country to American from the geographical and political and social point of view, Obama could be considered a far right politician.

    Just mentioning that, giving this troll some food (for thought).

  12. Re:Mayan Calendar on Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun · · Score: 2

    On top of that, the Gregorian calendar is also soon coming to an end. It can only mean bad things...

  13. Re:Global warming.. on Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun · · Score: 1

    Just sayin.. you're warmed..

    You missed one half of an m...

  14. Re:this is not good news on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    That depends what you consider a broken window to society. Loss of a few job or crime and emprisonment.

    That's pretty much where the difference lays between Scandinavian contries and America.

  15. Re:this is not good news on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    There are jobs that, as a society, we should be happy to cut. Of course, every job lost is a drama for someone. But one should not lose sight of the big picture. What do these jobs represent and what is the gain of losing them. One should also consider the impact of a (almost) crime-free nation on the job distribution and on the economy. Although it is unclear to me which comes first. Jobs leading to lower crime rate or lower crime rate leading to better economy and to more jobs.

    But you were sacrastic, right. Right?

  16. Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    No. We just want to label them "bad".

  17. Re:There is no free lunch on How Silicon Valley Helped the NSA · · Score: 2

    There is no free lunch

    It depends. From the point of view of the company CEO accepting to help the NSA or other agencies, there might be a lot of free lunches. That all that counts, right?

  18. Re:Oh christ... on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. You're welcomed...

  19. Re:communication versus infection on Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate · · Score: 1

    Why isn't plausible. To infect the machine you'd need physical access to it. Once you have physical access, you can gain enough information about the hardware and software to craft a very specific attack for this combination or the few combination your are targeting.

    You need to think about the context. Why is the machine "air-gaped" and why would someone want to infect such a machine. I think the answers to those questions are obvious. Now, even if you have physical access, you might not be able to get data out (audit, security, what ever). Bridging the air gab with audio to a less secure machine is quite ingenious. You'd only have to infect the two machines and voilà.

  20. Re:communication versus infection on Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate · · Score: 1

    I don't believe market share is relevant. This seems to be a specially crafted attack for a very specific task. You're mistaken to think virus and rootkit writer always want to reach the biggest pool possible.

  21. Why would I die if I put a computer in vacuum? In fact, I'll do that all the time...

    And vacuum might even be ineffective. What if the sound waves get transported outside through the materials?

  22. Re:dup on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 2

    Yes! This post regarding an article published yesterday, citing a NASA report from octobre 2013, most totally be a dup from august 2013.

    If you are so clever, I bet you are clever enough not to read something that doesn't fit your personal interests or something you've already read about, maybe in some other context. But maybe you should read this article and the report cited to see how far this is from a dup.

    But I suggest you skip the Journalistic touch and jump direct to the NASA report. I found it quite interesting - not just the part about the copper needles.

  23. Re:Sabotage on Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? · · Score: 2

    I guess it's kinda fun to force the children to enter the house through the pigsty and then blame them for dragging shit in.
    That surely enables an happy family.

  24. Re:But But... on Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought a year was supposed to be the time it takes for a celestial body to complete 1 revolution around a sun in a solar system.

    That is one definition of the word "year". Of course, without further context, when one talks of years, he refers to years in the referential of Earth. Not Mercury years, nor Jupiter years or even dog years. You must be slightly trolling loosing this from sight.

    As it so happens, a year in our solar system alone varies from 88 earth days to 250 earth years. But hey - let's not let facts get in the way of a good strawman.

    As this, again, might be correct, it completely disregards the usual context the word years is used in, thus biding it to one of its multiple definitions. A dictionary can be found at your favourite book shop. Context not.

  25. Re:Good luck on MEPs Vote To Suspend Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    How about the "business industry". They tend to travel a bit.