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  1. Re:In-window popup autoplaying video ads with soun on Actual Results of Crimean Secession Vote Leaked · · Score: 1

    You seem to be implying that everyone is always on a computer which they are allowed to modify in any way.

    This. I'm at work right now, and the best I'm allowed to do here is run Chrome (the alternative being IE). No Firefox, no NoScript (which is what I normally use at home).

    To other posters: I'm aware of, and sometimes read, Soylent News. Thanks for the other various suggestions as well. Sniff you jerks later!

  2. In-window popup autoplaying video ads with sound? on Actual Results of Crimean Secession Vote Leaked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously, DICE? I'm sitting here looking at the first few comments, hoping for a little clarity and maybe even some insightful discussion - you know, Slashdot style - when the window contents scroll up and a video ad, with sound, starts playing.

    I am done with this piece of shit website. How do I delete my account?

  3. Trade secrets, not patents on Zenimax Accuses John Carmack of Stealing VR Tech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What we're dealing with here is a trade secret dispute. Zenimax alleges that Carmack was privy to inside knowledge of Zenimax's work on VR tech while he worked there, and now he's allegedly run off with that knowledge and given it to Oculus VR.

    Think of it like the formula for Coca Cola - it's not patented, never has been, but it's protected by trade secrets law. If someone works for Coca Cola and discovers/absconds with the formula, and then sells it to, e.g., Pepsi, then that person violates trade secrets laws by doing so. But if Pepsi independently discovers or reverse engineers Coke to discover the formula on their own, without relying on Coca Cola's inside knowledge, then more power to them.

  4. Re:wouldn't matter if it weren't canned on Snowden Queries Putin On Live TV Regarding Russian Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but there is far more reason to think that Putin is lying, because he's been telling bald-faced lies to the entire world as recently as the past couple of weeks (concerning Ukraine). At least in the US, our politicians tell their lies in a gray area such that fact-checkers give numeric ratings to indicate just how untruthful a statement is. Putin just tells outright lies as if he believed them to be completely true and reasonable himself.

    Or, phrased another way: In Soviet Russia, Putin fact-checks you!

  5. Re:victorian clerks.. on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 2

    The Executive chair, which should be the most luxurious, is almost always the most uncomfortable but it's always covered in slippery leather.

    Clearly, the Executive chair is just for show, since he'll be out at the golf course all day anyway.

  6. Re:The President doesn't micro-manage this stuff on Obama Says He May Or May Not Let the NSA Exploit the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    This is about technological implementation, and it's part of NSA's purview as a spy agency to explore technologies that further their ability to do their job. Part of that is discovering weaknesses in cryptographic systems which are trusted by the people you want to spy on.

    The NSA also plays a counterintelligence role, and they're falling short of that if they don't take action to notify developers of a widely used Internet infrastructure utility that their software contains a critical exploit. If they can exploit it, so can the spy agencies of any other government with the skills to do so.

  7. Maybe someone else will? on Interviews: J. Michael Straczynski Answers Your Questions · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only way to get HD versions of the episodes would be to re-render every single CGI and comp shot, and Warners will never, ever pay to have that done.

    I just want to say one word to you, just one word.

    Plastics.

    I mean Kickstarter.

  8. Re:Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    Lucy in the sky with diamonds

    Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the lead pipe.

  9. Re:Tesla on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 3, Funny

    and has found the accelerator...which is usually non-functional because I'm out of gear.

    It's not non-functional. It makes you sound awesome!

  10. Re:Demand all you want on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 5, Informative

    (The Soviets saw Star Wars as a complete joke.)

    Not true. Gorbachev was scared shitless over SDI, and it was really the only big sticking point in negotiations that could have reduced nuclear weapon stockpiles far more drastically in the 1980s than what actually happened. The Soviets responded to the threat of SDI by ramping up production of ICBMs and nuclear warheads, on the theory that it would be cheaper to overwhelm SDI with ridiculous numbers of targets than to try to devise a technological countermeasure or to produce an SDI of their own.

    For reference, I highly recommend this book.

  11. Re:Babylon 5 on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    Also, none of the movies were particularly good. The series is, full stop, better than star trek; But the movies were meh at best.

    Are you kidding? B5: In the Beginning was amazing, to the point where I'm torn when introducing someone new to the series whether to show them ITB first or just start with the Season 1 pilot.

    That said, Legend of the Rangers, with its Tae-Bo based human interface scheme, was horrible.

  12. Re:Pleeeeeeeease? on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    I would totally buy its brains out. I'm warming up my Kickstarter account as we speak.

  13. Re:Well ... what do you expect on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As I recall it, Saddam said the UN inspectors were welcome, as long as there were no American inspectors there, because he was convinced they were CIA spies.

    No, Saddam didn't want the inspectors there because he didn't want actual evidence to get out that he didn't have WMDs. He was more afraid of Iran than he was the US, and he said as much after he was captured and before he was executed.

  14. Orange alert?! on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 1

    The capital is on its sixth day of an 'orange' smog alert â" the second-highest on the scale â" with the air tasting gritty and visibility down to a few hundred meters.

    You mean it can get worse?!

  15. Re:A traveling salesman built-in is cool I guess.. on Wolfram Language Demo Impresses · · Score: 1

    The solution it comes up with is correct (it includes/excludes the links you mentioned), but for some reason it's drawing the graph incorrectly.

  16. Ctrl-C Ctrl-V on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    OMFG, Timothy, did you really just copy and paste that paragraph without bothering to edit it? You didn't even bother to cut out the stock quotes from the middle of it.

  17. Cognitive dissonance on Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vulnerable devices are any device that is running a version earlier than 4.2 (in which the vulnerability was patched) which is a staggeringly large amount of the market.

    The vulnerability is in Android itself rather than the proprietary GMS application platform that sits atop the base operating system so it is not easily patched by Google.

    But apparently not so difficult as to make it impossible? Is there something I don't understand here, or was this summary just horribly written?

  18. Re:Nutritional value ? on Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years · · Score: 1

    I still have a collection of really tiny Tabasco bottles. One with every meal, you know.

    An old Army Special Forces sergeant once explained to me that before an op, they would take a bunch of MREs apart and toss out all the extra things they didn't need, like duplicate silverware and such, and pack the rest up to take with them. But they always made sure to take some Tabasco, because with a little bit of that, "you could eat the crotch out of a dead camel."

  19. Re:Is this the begining of the end for BTC on More Bitcoin Exchanges Forced Out of Sync After Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not just the exchanges that have to have confidence behind them. The exchange (or, at least, some Bitcoin owner out there) has to have confidence in the short seller as well. This is because the short seller borrows BTC to sell on the exchange. The short seller is then expected at some point to pay back the lender in BTC to cover the loan. Because of the additional routes for anonymity that Bitcoin provides, the short seller could abscond with the non-BTC currency as long as they can launder it, leaving the lender high and dry.

    As you noted, regulations, law enforcement, and substantial recordkeeping on the part of brokerages keep this from being particularly successful in normal equities trading. If nothing else, a brokerage might require a short seller to keep cash on hand sufficient to cover the short sale, and then call in the debt if it looks like their cash on hand is coming close to being insufficient to cover. (Some brokerages let you use a margin account for this as well, if you have good credit.) The short seller would then be unable to run off with the cash because the brokerage would not release the funds until the short sale is covered. This is a solution that some Bitcoin exchanges might have problems with, because they would be keeping government-issued cash on hand in a customer account as well as BTC, which opens up several other cans of worms.

  20. Re: Why are network providers allowing FORGED pack on DDoS Larger Than the Spamhaus Attack Strikes US and Europe · · Score: 1

    Filtering ingress packets with RFC1918 source IPs may be useful in some circumstances, but it doesn't help in amplified attacks.

    The source in these cases will always be a legitimate uninfected machine that is just doing its job (such as a DNS or NTP server). The source IP will be whatever IP the requester expects to see, such as the destination IP of the initial request.

    In amplified attacks, the forgery occurs in the initial request packets, all of which have the source IP of the DoS target, which must always be an actual external IP. This is where egress filtering is useful, because none of these requests should have an IP outside of the subnet serviced by the egress filter.

  21. Re:Resurrecting Technocrat.net on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me that I might have a shot at a 5-digit user ID?

    Sign me up, dude! :D

    (But seriously, sign me up.)

  22. Re:This is missing critical information on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 1

    The USGS says that daily overall water use in the US is 410 billion gallons.

    Basically, if this report wanted to have meaningful statistics, they would have focused on small watersheds and communities currently stricken by drought, to look at the water usage of the community as a whole and of the fracking taking place in that area.

    Also, beta sucks.

  23. Re:Radio Shack Ad Best So Far on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 2

    I can't figure out where Radio Shack is going to get the money to renovate all of their stores after they blew their wad on a Super Bowl ad.

  24. One potential market for this software on Proof-of-Concept Malware Captures Every Tap On Smartphones Or Tablets · · Score: 2

    This will be great news for all those people who think they aren't getting nearly enough information through Facebook about their friends' Candy Crush exploits.

  25. Project Vulcan on World's First Magma-Based Geothermal Energy System · · Score: 1

    I bet I can get them to pay me.... one million dollars... not to go through with this plan.