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  1. Re:Only $160 if they really cared on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    I remember reading that it was denied when some asked. I could find this link but that`s it..

    http://www.sciencefriday.com/blog/2010/09/airport-screeners-denied-radiation-badges/

  2. Re:I'm so (NOT!) surprised.. on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that so far, death is riskless, and you won`t be getting back up. That`s it, until we manage to create zombies..

  3. Re:Call me a Luddite... on The History of the Videophone In Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    You should take the matter in your own hands and fix it up yourself, think about the childrens you would be saving!

  4. Re:These guys are actually innovating on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 2

    The Roadster is much closer to the Elise SC (performance wise, at least), which retails for around 70K$

  5. Re:Wait just a second... on New Apple Multi-Touch Patent Is Too Broad · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was on the university website, along with all other project for that course. And I found most of the information from which I built it from the web too.

  6. Re:Wait just a second... on New Apple Multi-Touch Patent Is Too Broad · · Score: 1

    Multi touch interfaces have been around for quite a while. Hell, I made a 4 inputs custom driver for windows XP in 2003 (that`s all I could manage from the free samples I had ordered, but it could have scaled upward if I had wanted to) and implanted some generic gesture recognition.

    So, a device which detect a gesture to change a page on a portable device is a limited implementation of what I was able to do with my implementation. But then, I built that from previous research which had gone much further already. Anyway, the US patent system just seem so broken.

  7. Re:Don't pay for power anymore on SCOTUS: Clean Air Act Trumps Emissions Lawsuits · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The most commonly found here are:

    Wind power
    Hydro power
    Solar power

    Depending on where you live, scratch some off, pick one of the remaining.

  8. Re:Not a Flaw on EG8 Publishes Report In Noninteractive, Nonquotable Format · · Score: 1

    Well, if people actually took the time to look it over, they`d notice that there is a lot of videos embedded, and as it`s put forward, you would have had a degraded experience anyway, should you have browsed a simpler web site without flash support.. Anyway, it`s not as bad as it could have been :)

  9. Re:I'm a file sharer/downloader on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 1

    They had to find a way to make some money out of that thing..

  10. Re:I'm a file sharer/downloader on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 2

    That`s what 90% of people think!

  11. Re:Dear Customers... on RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised · · Score: 4, Informative

    I remembered reading about this, and the failure mode were quite important to me. Let me quote wikipedia on this:

    Section 4.1.1 of the specification describes additional attacks that may require mitigation, such as differential power analysis. If a product contains countermeasures against these attacks, they must be documented and tested, but protections are not required to achieve a given level. Thus, a criticism of FIPS 140-2 is that the standard gives a false sense of security at Levels 2 and above because the standard implies that modules will be tamper-evident and/or tamper-resistant, yet modules are permitted to have side channel vulnerabilities that allow simple extraction of keys.

  12. Re:Umm... on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    They still have, usually, 1 retry, and a few weeks storage before it`s being destroyed. I`ve shipped goods worth around 50 bucks for 30+ bucks overseas. If it should return, I would have to pay 30 more bucks, and the content of the package (being software based & all) including the box is less than 5$, so I have no reason to accept that the package be sent back to me in case of non-delivery: this is not my problem!

  13. Re:Umm... on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    For an envelop, that is true. Small packages requires the sender name & address mostly so that they can know who sent it in case of problems when going out of country.. (as if!). Anyway, at least from Canada Poste and from USPS, you need to accept to pay return fees if undeliverable if you don`t want it destroyed. I`ve had it happen a few times over a few hundreds shipments.

  14. Re:How do you mean destroyed? on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    If the sender agreed to pay for that..

  15. Re:Photos not allowed during police actions, citiz on Apple Camera Patent Lets External Transmitters Disable Features · · Score: 1

    Active autofocus (either IR or ultrasound) usually provides lower quality focus than passive systems. Cameras might have a focus assist in low light, but then it usually requires you to be quite close to the subject. Anyway =)

  16. Re:Photos not allowed during police actions, citiz on Apple Camera Patent Lets External Transmitters Disable Features · · Score: 1

    LOL yeah I was thinking of this one for my second post =) Their utilities has declined as the now common cameras are not sensitive to the UVs anymore.

    IR Pass Through filters are the ones used to obtain those nice winter looking trees.
    IR Cut Off filters are used to prevent the sensor from being overloaded, and usually there`s one already being used.

  17. Re:Photos not allowed during police actions, citiz on Apple Camera Patent Lets External Transmitters Disable Features · · Score: 1

    Using an IR filter is often the preferred way to protect your lenses (low cost, helps for long range photography), so I guess most photographer would refuse to buy such cameras if it was not to work because you are protecting it..

  18. Re:Photos not allowed during police actions, citiz on Apple Camera Patent Lets External Transmitters Disable Features · · Score: 2

    Just put an IR filter in front of the lens, or a tape on the detector..

  19. Re:Winning on EFF Publishes Study On Browser Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    It`s simple: since your representation was not seen before, and that there`s now been 1,559,692 test, you can obtain your minimum number of bits (the maximum is unknown) as being the log (1,559,692 ) / log (2), the exponent to 2 required to obtain so many tests..

  20. Re:Not for long... on New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update · · Score: 1

    At least 2 millions minecraft users beg to differ!

  21. Re:Love this ... on Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled · · Score: 1

    The only way to be sure would be to nuke them to orbit ?

  22. Re:GMO scientists, who do you think you are? on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 1

    Don`t take me wrong, I was merely pointing the fact that even with the basic inbreeding we are unable to prevent those unintended consequences and we`ve been at it for thousands of years..

  23. Re:GMO scientists, who do you think you are? on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 2

    Like cats ? We`ve been working on them for centuries, interbreeding them.. Now we have some nice eyes colors with specific forms and `hair colors`, that please the human eyes, but they develop tons of problems later in life. I`d call that unintended consequences.

  24. Re:Without porn on Anti-Porn Facebook Page is Deleted, Then Restored · · Score: 1

    Don't give them ideas!

  25. Re:LinkedIn on Massive LinkedIn IPO Raises Dotcom Bubble Concerns · · Score: 1

    That might be what your network looks like, but mine certainly isn't. (might also depend on where you live, cause if there's 30% unemployement rate, those who joins will most probably be the unemployed, while the employed don't really need to keep it up)