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  1. Well .... O for Android Oreo seems fitting.

  2. human factor on Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems · · Score: 1

    I worked in a county jail for a few days. The jail was new. Guards were still getting the hang of the door system operated from a single control room. These two prisoners in the hall, mopping the floor were joking about how doors would open and shut for no reason (guards learning how to use the system). As on queue three doors in a row open up. The two prisoners and I could see cars freaking driving on the road next door. One of these guys taps his mop to the window of the control room, points at the "road to freedom". The guard closed those doors pretty fast and was visibly embarrassed. Good times. :-) NEVER underestimate the human factor. USB keys! Sheesh!

  3. wrong turns on Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte · · Score: 1

    You could say that if this many celebrate your death, that you have taken a few wrong turns in life.

  4. Re:the creative team is middle of the road on King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV · · Score: 1

    I am going to fully agree with this. Three movies full of that "week old road kill roasted over an oil drum fire by a paranoid schizophrenic hobo" please. Now the next Q: How will they put 7 books with so many sub stories, climaxes, details etc .... into three movies. Peter Jackson did it with LOTR but I have a hard time seeing anyone doing this with the dark tower. The audience would have a very hard time understanding unless the stories were simplefied, condensed into something understandable (please don't!).

  5. Re:TV shows in countries other than the US ? on King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV · · Score: 1

    I probably see the same thing as you. My point is. Many people will see the movies outside the US. They may very well never know that a large part of the story is told on a different medium. How many will find their way to a website, an illegal download etc... whatever it takes to see those two in-between parts? I would say, make three, heck, four movies if that is what it takes.

  6. TV shows in countries other than the US ? on King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV · · Score: 1

    How will the TV shows be handled in countries other than the US. I live in the Netherlands. We will probably get the movies in the movie theaters. I doubt the TV series will broadcast here at the same time as in the US. Usually it takes months if not years for TV shows to appear on TV here. So most likely We will see movie #1, then a long wait of nothing, see movie #2, the first TV series may (or not) start airing here. Then we get movie #3 and then after a long wait .... TV series #2. Point: it will be all out of sync. Just curious how that will be handled.

  7. Re:This is exactly what America needs. on Is Simplified Spelling Worth Reform? · · Score: 1

    I agree. American, or more specifically, US culture seems to be obsesed with simplifying things. Cars are used for pretty much everything, getting married and then divorced can be done in a drive through. I don't even know where to start on the long list of things that corporate America has stuffed down the throat of the consumer in the name of "better", "easier", "les energy consuming" while all of it ends up being a variation on "selling a product that enables you to become lazier and dumber".

  8. Re:Obligatory joke on Next-gen Robot Toys to Fetch Beer · · Score: 1

    now if someone can imagine a beowolf cluster of these ..... yes, I think we'll have alle the obligatory jokes covered

  9. guts on Hacking Santa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The sheer guts of linking to an mpeg straight from the frontpage of slashdot... it is mind bogeling.

  10. Re:difference on Gravitational Wave Detection Imminent? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    My mistake

    Let me put is this way: how do you callibrate something like this. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they know very well what they are doing but I'm just curious.

  11. difference on Gravitational Wave Detection Imminent? · · Score: 1
    are sent down two identical 2000 feet long tubes

    How do you guarantee that the two tubes are identical in length to begin with? If I would imagine that even the slightest difference will be a problem. Is there some form of callibration ?

  12. Google is frightening on Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You have to admit though, is knowledge = power (in this world it is more like: info = power) then moving a lot of info into everyone's hands (as in "into the hands of the corporations who will use it to make a proffit at the expense of .... us ? ") is a bit scary

  13. See it in realtime ... in the Netherlands on Using Cell Phones to Track Traffic · · Score: 1

    Nice, but you don't get to see it in action .... the Dutch do the same thing in the provice of Brabant and the info is published online instantly: http://actueleverkeersinformatie.brabant.nl/ -- use the capcha to see realtime traffic flow and speed.

  14. Re:yawn on Broken Links No More? · · Score: 1
    Could it be that the press is a sensationalist bunch out to get as many hyped headlines out as possible ?

    'shit, that's not gonna get very far'.

    :-) I'll force myself to use that line every day for the next week.

  15. done on Honeytokens: The Other Honeypot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Our company uses this trick. There are 'honey-addresses' in our database. (a correct address belonging to an employee, with a completely wrong name) As soon as anything arrives at one of those adresses we know someone has made illegal use of an address from our database. Whatever gets send tells us who. Legal action follows ....

  16. Lot's of noise but .... on Phoenix Unveils Anti-Theft BIOS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a computer gets stolen, thieve removes the harddrive, sticks it into a second computer (with an older BIOS) ..... and reads the disk. How does this Hot New Protection from Phoenix protect business information/secrets ? a full-disk encryption seems to be more effective

  17. dupe ? on Should You Hire a Hacker? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    uhm, dume maybe ? I read this already yesterday ?