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  1. Re:Second Amendment Issue? on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    So... $200 tax stamp required, along with finger prints (another $75) passport photo ($10) and a 3 month to 2 year wait for your request to be processed. For each algorithm you want to use.

    Of course, they could always close the registry to new additions, like they did with machine guns in 1986 and create an artificial limit... "Hey, I have a domain and a SSL certificate. Before the closure you really couldn't sell 'em since they had no real value, but after the closure it is gonna cost you $20k".

  2. Re:18 machine guns? (Yawn!) on Small and Heavy Arms Traded On Facebook By Libyan Militants (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh, about what 2 local-to-me FB groups had for "gun for sale" posts up until the recent policy change... I even bought and sold a couple via them. Only 2 machine guns listed in the whole time I remember... buddy of mine bought one of them, he's still waiting on his tax stamp but the FFL/SOT he's using for the transfer has a range so at least he has "visitation rights" until the stamp comes in. I should buy him a "stamp collector" t-shirt....

  3. Re:trumpet winsock:win95:cygwin bash:win10 on New Windows 10 Preview For PCs With Bash, Cross-Device Cortana Released · · Score: 1

    The gnu32 utils have been around for forever, has/had bash as well as many of the textutils and fileutils

  4. Re:It's all a toy on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Almost any first gen technology product is probably closer to "toy" than "game changer". If a version 2 makes it out the door, you may have something...

  5. As evidenced by the various hacks, exploits, and exposures being alive certainly doesn't prevent your "private" data from becoming public...

  6. Umm... at death, nothing really needs to be private... I've seen plenty of dead folks, and not one of 'em was embarrassed...

    On top of that, a 13 year old can't sign a contract, etc. So in theory, the father (or kid's mom) is the "owner" of the phone...

  7. Re:Apples and oranges on PHP, Python and Google Go Fail To Detect Revoked TLS Certificates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC it is either the http wrappers for the various file functions (file_get_contents, etc) or cURL in PHP that needs a special argument for a self-signed certificate, and it throws an error if you don't use the argument. Wouldn't something similar work for a revoked certificate? Assuming the back end code was updated to do the revocation check?

  8. Re:tragedy in the making on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Cops have been shooting guys with knives for a long time. It is trained into them (and for good reason) that someone with a knife in their hand can cover 20 feet and cut/stab you before you can get a pistol out of the holster and fire.

  9. Re:generally illegal on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope still available. Just taxed ($200) and have other associated costs (finger print fees, FFL/SOT transfer charges, waiting for a looong time to get checked out, etc) - same as a machine gun, short barrel rifle or shotgun, destructive device (grenade launcher, etc) and so on.

  10. Re:A derringer as a concealed carry? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The mouse gun you have with you is better than the .500 BoomenLouder you left at home because it is too big, too heavy, too hard to conceal etc

    That said I wonder if he has an ATF Opinion Letter on his design - disguised guns can fall under the NFA and require a tax stamp and associated BS

  11. Re:Why would anyone use JavaScript?! on New Attack Discovered On Node.js Package Manager npm (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aside from that, why are libraries pulled in dynamically from the intertoobs on a production server? Why aren't the libraries packaged like Perl CPAN stuff, or PHP PEAR stuff, to be downloaded (and signature verified?) to the server or dev machine and accessed only locally? Heck a tar.gz file with a posted list of hash sums would be more secure. This is all old hat stuff that has been solved in multiple ways, no reason at all for it to be an issue now.

  12. Re: Hyphens in last names? on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My daughter had some social issues with a class mate when she was in the 4th grade. We told her don't worry about it, in high school she'll get whats coming in the form of karma. The other girls name? Jenny Swallows.

    Here we are 6 years later, and yes, Jenny does have quite a lot to deal with at school....

  13. Re:YouTube on Unofficial Answers: Why Does YouTube Seem So Biased? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    No, watch it reduce to the lowest common denominator. With more access from more places (cell phones, etc) by more people, and the ability for "most folks" to publish something without knowing HTML, how to FTP pages up, etc.

    What is different from me using the resources of facebook, twitter, etc. as a publishing platform vs. renting a Linode vs. hosting my own on my DSL line (my ISP doesn't block ports)? Heck back in "the good old days" us dial up users had to use other hosting anyway, sometimes provided by the ISP or some place like geocities....

  14. I don't admin any windows machines, so I'm not sure about a remote desktop client. But I do have a usable SSH client for the iPhone - look in the app store for "ServerAuditor"

  15. Re:Burning coffee machines? on The Internet of Things Is a Surveillance Nightmare (dailydot.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The wife asked me why I wear my gun when I'm just hanging around the house. I looked her dead in the eye and said, "the motherfucking decepticons". She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster, it was a good time.

  16. Re:In practice on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    Eh, a few local apartment complexes offer a shared connection, as does a local retirement home. I've not heard of any issues, they are maintained by the local provider (Cox Cable)

  17. Indeed. While I'm a Linux guy, Android phones have never seemed "right" to me. But iPhone seems to be OK to use as a phone, other functionality isn't really in your face until you want it. That or I've just gotten used to it. But my iPhone 4 is getting old, and while physically it is in great shape (still 24+ hours on a full charge, no cracks, etc. in screen) I'm stuck on an old version of iOS and almost out of space with my mp3s and pix of my kids... But the form factor on the iPhone 5 and 6 series sucks. I *like* the 4/4s form factor... so maybe I'll be happy and be able to get a new phone...

  18. Re:In practice on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    Yah, you'd think in this day and age a HOA or Condo Association would be all over a shared network

  19. Re:Turs out the US of A is no different! on US Government Pushed Many Tech Firms To Hand Over Source Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Think so. Heck, this year I'll change and vote for Kang instead.

  20. But... patents != copyright on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But the patents aren't copyrighted code. Sure, they could create an implementation of the patented method and Freely license that code, so that anyone who licenses the patent could use that code as a reference/starting point/as-is. But freeing the patents could affect other products ...

  21. not faster.... but rather on Why Buses Need To Be More Dangerous · · Score: 1

    A bus doesn't need to go faster for in-town stuff... plenty fast for that already. Well, except that one that can't go below 50mph...

    The reason a bus takes forever to get across town that may take you 20 minutes in a car is that they are stopping every half mile to pickup/drop off passengers.

    If a bus route system is designed with multiple "hubs" - where multiple routes intersect - then having a few buses doing nothing but "hub to hub" runs without any stops in between could probably make things better in some cases.

    Example - here where I live the "main" central hub for most routes is down town, and a second exists out at our mall 6 miles away. But any bus traveling from down town to the mall area could potentially stop 10 times between those 2 points to drop off or pick up passengers. So to go from down town to the mall area and then out to a local community college, you have up to 10 extra stops (at 2 minutes each lets say) and then the mall to the college there are 4 or 5 more stops. This route would take 20 minutes by car, but with the bus not only do you have that 20 minutes but you also have a potential for up to 15 stops at 2 minutes each ... which doubles the time the ride takes.

  22. Re:Whelp, no more YouTube for me on YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads · · Score: 1

    No errors for me, but I'm blocking based on DNS info using the list maintained at http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

  23. Re:Yeah, um, not so much on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order."

  24. Not open source, but Freely licensed - Creative Commons, etc.

    Most OERs I've seen are free as in beer, not as in speech, and most you can't host yourself. So students end up having accounts on 5 or 6 different providers and depending on their class load they may have 3 or 4 different places to "go to school" online.

  25. Re:Huh? on DARPA Wants Ideas On Weaponizing Off-the-Shelf Tech (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Yup. They are looking for the "what is available today that wasn't 30 years ago" and basic insurgent/resistance/guerrilla tactics.