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  1. Re:This is why the public stopped giving a fuck... on The Strange Death of Comet Ison · · Score: 1

    Hell, I've seen meteor showers from an urban backyard. Sure, they have to be particularly bright, but they can be visible. The 2002 Leonids were quite easy to see.

  2. Re:Radiation! on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 2

    Just because something is perfectly safe doesn't mean that Californians won't be scared of it.

  3. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    The Prius can be put into neutral.

  4. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Put the car in neutral.

  5. Re:If not... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    That, and there are easy ways to weaponize your keys.
    I keep my keys on a lanyard. It's about 1.5ft long, clips onto my belt, and is very handy to prevent dropping them and such. I also have a small brass plumb bob on the lanyard. It's a very effective weapon.

  6. Re:You won't have to convince anyone on Scientists Race To Develop Livestock That Can Survive Climate Change · · Score: 1

    They're both "scary".

  7. Re:If you didn't ge the joke in TFS... on Distant Stellar Explosion Helps Map Universe's Dark Ages · · Score: 1

    Of course we had a concept of "Void" at the time, it's written in at least one document from the time (Genesis). There wasn't a numeric symbol for zero, but that doesn't mean there was no concept of emptiness.

  8. Re:Six times? on The Greatest 'Amateur' Astronomer You've Probably Never Heard Of · · Score: 2

    That and we now have interferometers. Keck's interferometer has been mothballed for now, but that effectively made it an 85m telescope as far as resolution goes, but not for light-gathering capacity.

  9. Re:Good to know on Physics Students Devise Concept For Star Wars-Style Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    Asimov did it first in "Breeds There a Man...?", published 1951.

  10. Re:bottom pop up ads on slashdot? on Understanding the 2 Billion-Year-Old Natural Nuclear Reactor In W Africa · · Score: 1

    That's where RequestPolicy comes in. The script might be local, but as long as the content is remote I don't have to see it.

  11. The issue with movies isn't what gets hacked on Researchers Find Easy To Exploit Bugs In Traffic Control Systems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The issue with movies isn't what gets hacked, it's how fast the hacking happens. The hacker sits down at a computer, types some code for 10 seconds, doesn't compile it, and hacks a system they've never encountered before. There's no months of research to find a vulnerability, no scans of the target to find a known hole, just a bit of quick typing and then havoc ensues.

    Real havoc takes work. It takes hours of looking through the output of a debugger and disassembler, running a fuzzer, etc, etc.

  12. Re:Don't forget this Flash 0-day on US and UK Governments Advise Avoiding Internet Explorer Until Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    IE uses an ActiveX plugin for Flash, Firefox uses an nsplugin, Chrome has it built in. So yes, three different flash plugins, and three ways to update.

  13. Re:Actually MORE stressed. on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congratulations! You win another year of editors who don't edit!

  14. Re:Maybe they should ask corded phone manufacturer on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    Audiophiles don't use low-grade stuff like Monster cables. They use stuff like Audioquest at the low end (eg http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Cobra-Audio-interconnect-cables/dp/B000F1Z81U) and more expensive stuff. Yes, >$300 for a 2m pair of XLR cables is on the low end. Monster is below the low-end of the Audiophile range.

    Of course they don't actually work any better in a normal environment, and no one puts their stereos in a place where corrosion-resistant connectors matter. If that sort of thing is important the internals of the (unsealed) equipment will corrode first anyway. It's purely a status symbol based on appearance.

  15. Re:Camera vs. Password on Australian Law Enforcement Pushes Against Encryption, Advocates Data Retention · · Score: 1

    But the law can still require you to permanently store any ephemeral keys. PFS only works if the ephemeral keys are ephemeral.

  16. PFS does have a key. It's ephemeral, and is ordinarily deleted after use, but the government can certainly require people to store all ephemeral keys.

  17. Re:Backport\Upstream? Seems unlikely on OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    Their theory is that they need an SSL system for OpenBSD. They're not trying to build it for other platforms, and the extra code adds complexity (and can contain vulnerabilities) so they're not going to maintain it. They're cutting out unnecessary cruft. That cruft may be needed for some users, but OpenBSD doesn't have any use for OS/2 support.

  18. Re:Hindsight is 20/20 on Theo De Raadt's Small Rant On OpenSSL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OpenSSL's code is a mess. Go, read it.

    Now that you're back from your stay in the sanitarium, would you like to consider that rewriting it might be a better choice than auditing? Yes?

    Let's just make sure Nyarlathotep isn't on the dev team this time...

  19. Re:diminished placebo effect on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    No. Telling the patient they're receiving a placebo has been shown not to reduce the effect at all.

  20. Re:Meh on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 2

    Biometrics are great to replace usernames. They can be the same everywhere with no ill effects, if an attacker learns the data/username it's not a problem, they're public, etc. They're terrible at replacing passwords.

    So of course they they get used to replace passwords.

  21. Re:Nearly Unbreakable on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aaah, I see you've used Oracle.

  22. Re:adware is malware on Microsoft's Security Products Will Block Adware By Default Starting On July 1 · · Score: 1

    Which is why the answer is not a hosts file, but a local (caching) DNS server. It also has the benefit of not slowing down DNS lookups when you get a massive table of blocked destinations.

  23. Re:Two drives not feasible for laptops on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    I use an SSD and an HDD for my desktop.
    Of course, /home is on the HDD. For Windows you can do effectively the same thing with NTFS Junction points, so that C:\Users is on the HDD, not the SDD. Probably best to do the same with Program Files and such as well.

  24. Re:solution on Ad Tracking: Is Anything Being Done? · · Score: 1

    Self-destructing cookies is a good addon. (For Firefox.) It deletes cookies made by a tab when you close that tab, and can be set to save the cookies for each site as desired.

  25. Re:Can I vote for.. on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it also had "Far Beyond the Stars." That alone pulls the series average way up.