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  1. Re:Really expensive on 'Space Freighter' On Its Way to Resupply International Space Station · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the capability of supplying liquids & gas will arrive soon and won't cost 1.9B to develop. On the other hand, why go with the complicated automated solution when the cheaper method works? It's not like these happen every other day and automating it will save you manual labour, i.e., astronaut-man-hours.

  2. Re:Really expensive on 'Space Freighter' On Its Way to Resupply International Space Station · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason they are against it is plain and simple: "They're not in control of it". All of these small private companies have managed to beat Boeing and Lockheed with a fraction of the budget and pork barreling and they don't like that fact a bit at all.

  3. Re:Efficiency Depends On What You're Effishing For on ESL — a CRT-Based Replacement For CFL Lights Without the Mercury · · Score: 1

    For those very cold days, add a thermostat controlled heater circuit. Why waste energy for 330 days for the 30 days with enough snow to get the signs obscured?

  4. Re:Look at brighter side on Sci-Fi/Fantasy Artist Jean 'Moebius' Giraud Dies At 73 · · Score: 2

    People like Dresden Codak are following his footsteps so not all is lost.

  5. Re:Thank you, Moebius on Sci-Fi/Fantasy Artist Jean 'Moebius' Giraud Dies At 73 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ferdinand Moebius has been dead since 1868.

  6. Re:Efforts towards the next Enterprise on USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage · · Score: 1

    Since Bush Sr. got his carrier, the next one is bound to be a Clinton but I am afraid of the CVN-81 GWB, it might start bombing some random country and start yet an other war.

  7. Re:Good on SFPD Breathalyzer Mistake Puts Hundreds of DUI Convictions In Doubt · · Score: 1

    In UK, the 2nd test is done because law demands it. It has to be made. At any point the driver can refuse or ask for a blood test instead but the first one will lead him/her to be arrested for the charge of driving under the influence of alcohol and blood tests hardly come negative if the person refuses the breath test.

  8. Re:My hard drive ... on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter if your disks are encrypted or not. Anyone has root level access can have a peek at your terminal buffer extremely easily.

  9. Re:How is this *really* a problem? on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 1

    Any unlinked (deleted) but still open file can be easily accessed via /proc until the process terminates. These files do hang around a lengthy amount of time.

  10. also a vector for local attacks on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 1

    As a user I hope that the root of the machine cannot see what's on my screen, security, privacy and else, you know, stuff...

    cd /proc/25044/fd
    Check for deleted tmp files.
    lrwx------ 1 hakan hakan 64 2012-03-08 21:32 24 -> /tmp/vteDN7ZAW (deleted)
    lrwx------ 1 hakan hakan 64 2012-03-08 21:32 25 -> /tmp/vteHZ7ZAW (deleted)
    lrwx------ 1 hakan hakan 64 2012-03-08 21:32 26 -> /tmp/vteQZ7ZAW (deleted)

    Let's have a peek, head 25 gives me:

    hakan@photon:21:28:40:~$ find .
    . ./.mplayer ./.mplayer/gui.pl ./.mplayer/gui.history ./.mplayer/gui.conf ./.mplayer/config ./.mplayer/gui.url

    That's exactly what I had typed on my just-installed-about-to-be-uninstalled gnome-term instance.

  11. Re:Ever heard of swap? on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 1

    Seriously? Who doesn't use encrypted swap these days?

  12. Re:Yet another reason to switch to KDE permanently on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 1

    Although Behdad is behaving irresponsibly, Konsole is also affected hence KDE.

  13. Re:How is this is this different to shell history? on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 1

    You offered to work around the flaw, not fix it. Completely different things.

  14. Re:Not a bug on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 1

    My browser cache is not stored on /tmp for all to see. It's stored on ~/ and that's more likely to be encrypted (thanks to Ubuntu and other distributions which make it very easy).

  15. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    I also have a hidden Slashdot Code of Conduct which states that any commenter must to buy me a beer even if they post on a completely unrelated topic I'm not even reading. Since I don't want to become an Alcoholic, I'm not enforcing it so there, you're lucky.

    I cannot believe that any documentation drawn up bby only one seide and can be subject to change with no input from one party can be enforceable. If my employer wants to change my contract, they have to negotiate with me until both of us agree on the changes. Otherwise either of us will have the option of terminating the original contract. One thing they cannot do is enforce the new contract w/o my acceptance. It's the law, I can't see why it would be different for a policy documentation.

  16. Re:Slow Nerd Day? on Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use · · Score: 1

    /me looks at my collection of company-supplied and privately owned backpacks: Yes. One even can carry 4 of the 15" garden variety comfortably and have space.

  17. Re:WARNING! SOULSKILL POSTED THIS ARTICLE! on UK Plans Private Police Force · · Score: 2

    And not only that, the main bidder will be G4S, which has already killed an innocent man unlawfully and so far managed to get away with it with all parties being released under bail. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/jimmy-mubenga). Worse, his death has not changed any policies and more killings are bound to happen.

    And the Tories want to give more power to these clowns.

  18. Re:Life imitating art on UK Plans Private Police Force · · Score: 1

    There's a good Fry & Laurie sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfghLQE3F4

  19. Re:At least on Voting System Test Hack Elects Futurama's Bender To School Board · · Score: 2

    I wonder if I smell a rat. By discrediting the voting system so close to an election they can either discourage people from voting or open it to challenges later on, especially if it goes the other way from what they want or, finally, parachute an expensive, closed-source system by simply stating "this one stinks, here's a proper commercial system" (Diebold anyone?)...

  20. Re:At least on Voting System Test Hack Elects Futurama's Bender To School Board · · Score: 1

    First to check is if the vote rigging is in a significant number. Today, at the local pharmacy, I signed my NHS prescription merrily with yesterday's date and a couple of days ago signed a more important document with the wrong month, no one noticed. Mistakes happen. If the mistakes happen more than the average, the alarm bells should start ringing.

  21. Re:Highway lights??? on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    oh, btw, the number of terrorists "caught" by a camera in UK is a grant total of zero. Nada. Zilch. Big-O. The whole surveillance society is a massive scam perpetrated by the right wing to the rest of the society.

  22. Re:Highway lights??? on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    Average speed cameras might help. I would back them more if I could trust the pigs, sorry, the bullies, sorry, i believe the latest term is the Feds for some weird reason, and believe their statement of only using the data for traffic enforcement purposes - which is a clear lie. The cameras are already being used to capture terrorists, unpaid road tax, insurance etc., and could be used for a lot worse so easily.

    Anyway, w/o requiring a tin-foil hat... I used to live in Cambridge and work at Huntingdon. The A14 between those two used to be horrible during rush hour, even if I was going the opposite way of most of the people (into Cambridge during the mornings and out during the evenings while I was doing the opposite way) but regardless, the average speed people tried to attain was around 85mph in early 2000s. There were loads of speed cameras, people used to break hard, overcompensate and then the usual waves of traffic jams would occur almost immediately. Around 2005 the average speed cameras were implemented between Huntingdon and Cambridge and the average speed went down to a realistic value of 65-70 and was consistent. You could get onto A14, cruse down to Cambridge w/o a single traffic jam. It just worked.

    But I would I trust the police? No way.

  23. Re:Highway lights??? on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    When I have my glasses on, I can't really see well during the night so I make sure that I'm wearing my lenses. Also a new pair of glasses probably would help, the optician in Specsavers is trying to sell me a new frame for the last three years now.

  24. Re:Highway lights??? on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    It's time to get a new visor, they're cheap, just get one. Not worth risking your eye sight nor putting yours and other people's lives in danger. (Got three bikes and three helmets, should get a new visor for myself soon).

  25. Re:Highway lights??? on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    Not only motorways, even small A roads have them if they have been resurfaced recently. There's a section near my place and every time I ride down that bit, I keep thinking I shouldn't have left the SLR and the tripod back home. They would look pretty cool in a long-timed shot. I guess they're now cheaper than the old cats eyes.