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  1. they own the switch why are they asking on British Pirate Party Asked To Pull Pirate Bay Proxy · · Score: 1

    They probably own one of the hops along the way, so just divert the traffic. Re-route all traffic through the mitm site and log everything, sue everyone. Give RIAA the 2 million+ hits every day and let them go to town. Sue everyone, make it all public and give them everything they're asking for. Then give all that money from the suits back to the artists, they will be so grateful. Throw a million of people in jail and bankrupt all the pirates. IP address = person/family. Sue the fuck out of each and every one that uses that IP and if they can't afford the fines throw them in jail. The end goals of RIAA + MPAA will make everything better again and the world will be just and fair. Order will be restored.

  2. Re:And after that day on Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Soviet scientist community offered him a home near Russian research facilities too. Bohr was the kind of guy that would walk up to the white house, knock on the door and ask to come in to talk to president about sharing atomic bomb information with the Soviets. Also, he would visit New Mexico and do the same to convince Oppenheimer the sharing of scientific advances in nuclear fission with the Soviets. Bohr was one of the only forward-thinking scientists at that time on the ramifications of developing the bomb and felt that by sharing the information there would be less suspicions by Soviet scientists thus quashing an arms race. He probably lit a fire under Oppenheimer to begin thinking seriously about ways to prevent Nuclear annihilation and proliferation. If anyone's interested more in this stuff I recommend reading American Prometheus which is an Oppenheimer BIO.

  3. Re:I've got a way around this on Verizon To Throttle Pirates' Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    or starts with a P and ends with a ROXY? or starts with OPEN ends with WIFI? or starts with SERVER and ends with RENTAL? or or or

  4. sentencing on Lulzsec Member Raynaldo Rivera Pleads Guilty To Sony Pictures Breach · · Score: 3

    Possibly 5 years in Jail and $605k in fines is the guilty plea bargain. Sound like a deal to me, go ahead and reciprocate by doing the same time and paying each user who was hacked by Sony and their drm rootkit.

  5. What's the point.. on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    ...if a driver needs to be behind the wheel? I mean yeah it's great and all you don't need to put your hands and feet anywhere but if you're supposed to be alert watching that the car doesn't make a mistake then what's the difference? You still can't text, read the paper, play cards, eat dinner, whatever - or can you?

  6. exploit yes, virus no on New IE Zero-Day Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 5, Informative
    This exploit has been targeting chem and defense companies. The thing about these exploits is that they typically are just a method to drop the actual payload which is usually a virus or trojan. In this case it looks like the payload is Poison Ivy, which was added to NOD32 AV defs back in 2008. Yes, the attacker could compromise the machine and get admin shell, but the majority of the time they’re installing a keylogger or other virus which NOD32 will catch.

    From TFA:

    First, a file named “exploit.html” appears to be the entry point of the attack, which loads “Moh2010.swf”, an encrypted Flash file that it decompress in memory.

    According to AlienVault's Jaime Blasco, the payload dropped is Poison Ivy, as was the case with the previous Java zero-day. Poison Ivy is a remote administration tool (RAT) that was used the Nitro attacks that targeted chemical and defense companies. Interestingly, after exploitation, the attack loads “Protect.html”, a file that checks to see if the Web site is listed in the Flash Storage settings, and if it is, the Web browser will no longer be exploited despite additional visits to the malicious site.

  7. Re:Evernote for Note-Taking on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 1

    I prefer workflowy to evernote. it takes list-making to the next level

  8. workflowy? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 1

    I just found workflowy.com - great for creating lists in a way evernote cannot. Seems like it would be great for taking notes.

  9. Re:The future will be printed, not forged. on An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible · · Score: 1

    For those who are unfamiliar with sintering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88BPmL8cGAo

  10. The banks take all the work out of investigating on Who Needs CISPA? FBI Has a Non-Profit Workaround · · Score: 1

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-26/wall-street-tracks-wolves-as-may-1-protests-loom.html This post reminds me of this article. The banks are doing the investigations and identifying people who they feel may be a threat and passing the information on to police. I guess it's totally legal for them to do this, but if you were arrested for a crime, would your conviction be based on evidence gathered by police or by the "firms"?

  11. just a touch on things to come on The Lytro Camera: Impressive Technology and Some Big Drawbacks · · Score: 2

    Imagine when cameras suck an entire event in it's full 3D life-like quality. So you have a dome of some sort, it has millions of high res cameras with full Lytro effect, kind of like a retina. And you can almost go back in time when you stick your head in the flexible LED chamber complete with eye movement trackers and brain control motive predictors. Or just use glasses and 3D earphones. Things will focus as you look at them. You could even insert keystrokes into a virtual terminal embedded into the stream. Not unlike tron or something because you pull all senses into the stream somehow, in any manner you know of to play back at some point when the technology can catch up. I've been tripping on how cameras are kind of like time portals - albeit only into the past, but they way they catch "reality" and hold it, is to me a little creepy.

  12. HDMI fasteners? on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One concern I have with HDMI are the connectors in PC's and how they are fairly easy to disconnect and damage. Also one of my HDMI cables became damaged because of a sharp angle. Sure there are adapters and alternative cables like these http://www.smarthome.com/81271/HDMI-Cable-with-Secure-Connection-Screw-in-Fastener-15-Feet/p.aspx , but they are not the standard. I've never really had a problem with screwing in VGA or DVI connectors except for the random stripped screw.

  13. Populate the oceans on Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking · · Score: 2

    Learning how to live underwater would teach us how to live in space, and will get us used to living underwater on planets/moon such as Europa. Since 3/4 of the planet is covered in water, maybe we can spread "West" into the ocean? It's prettier down there anyway and chicks dig dolphins. Running out of air down there would be less consequential than in a vacuum. Most likely we will be shooting for a planet outside our solar system only if it has water. High radiation levels etc would be easier to avoid underwater, and I think it would take a long time for oceans to evaporate should global warming become global boiling.

  14. Accuracy and difficulty on Ask Derek Deville About High-Altitude Amateur Rocketry · · Score: 1

    To what accuracy is the thrust nozzle lathed? In the rocketry movie October Sky http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132477/ I recall that the nozzle/motor was the most important build. Which component required the most math/sweat/swearing?

  15. Valuable contribution to graphine on Getting Closer To Using Graphene For Electronics · · Score: 1

    If the US wants to vault ahead of other countries making the next generation of computers we should be taking a damn hard look at graphene and get low cost manufacturing functioning for this, what I believe, is the most exciting prospect in computer technology. I think this is the closest we'll ever get to a superconductor with quantum properties using extremely low power and temperatures and it's really ingenious how the scientists have been inventing technologies to explore graphene. I applaud the strides that have been made by these researchers; in my book they deserve the multi-million dollar contracts. Not the sports stars and celebrities...

  16. I, for one, welcome... on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    ...our Canadian Government Scientist Muzzling Overlords! Thanks to them I can happily enjoy my media-induced pleasure place in peace. Excuse me now while I clean the blood from my orifices.

  17. no, wait, don't stop it on 1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact In ... 2182? · · Score: 1

    With advancements in medicine and the declination of our environment, I for one, am looking forward to ending my artificially enhanced 212 year old life in the blaze of a fiery meteoroid blast!

  18. LIGO on X-Ray Burst Temporarily Blinds NASA Satellite · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the burst was close enough to LIGO for it to pick up a Gravity Wave? That's the theory anyway that gravity waves should be measurable in association with GRBs... But waves in the ocean travel much slower than the wind that creates them, so maybe there's a lag between the event and the actual measured wave.

  19. Skateboarders on Should Cities Install Moving Sidewalks? · · Score: 1

    Skaters would have a good time using moving sidewalks! Probably hit like 50mph coming off those things.

  20. Re:How will they know when to cut it? on Cutting Umbilical Cord Early Eliminates Stem Cells · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will it continue to pulse while only attached to the placenta? For example, is it possible or beneficial for both the baby and placenta to be outside the mother for a while?

  21. natural? on Copernicium Confirmed As Element 112 · · Score: 1

    So what I don't understand is if this particle would ever naturally occur? During the big bang? In a supernova? And if not then why continue to spend money and time on the task of building bigger and bigger particles? What use will they be if only to exist for a fraction of a second?

  22. Hey if it extends battery life... on NVIDIA Shows Off "Optimus" Switchable Graphics For Notebooks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...I'm all for it. But by how much will it extend the battery life? And when they say it will "Drastically" change the notebook market I doubt that; netbooks folks won't care about 3D and Desktop Replacement folks don't care if their machine is plugged in. Mabye in a smaller segment of mobile gamers this will make a difference.

  23. ssl on Nmap 5.20 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    what would be the purpose of printing an sl cert? it has been a long time since i'e used nmap an now i'm cuirious to see the gui. thanks for the post.

  24. Osprey conversion on DARPA Kick-Starts Flying Car Program · · Score: 1

    I say just slap a 6 wheel chassis under an Osprey. I mean that conversion will cost less than converting a HUMVEE right? And the wings and blades of the Osprey fold down anyway. I can't imagine the Osprey being any bigger and bulkier than an MRAP or another one of those mine resistant vehicles.

  25. Our IT shop was compelled to use IBM's TurnOver on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? · · Score: 1

    The software is specialized for programming, has a cludgy fat interface and we suffer through our monthly timelogs. That is all.