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  1. Video of thieves using that method to steal a car on Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Informative
    "Police in West Midlands, UK have released footage of criminals stealing a car by relaying a signal from the key inside the home, to the car in the driveway."

    https://youtu.be/bR8RrmEizVg

  2. The Correct Plural of Octopus, ask the editor on Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    The Correct Plural of Octopus from an authoritative source - Merriam Webster https://youtu.be/n4PWP8uL-1o

  3. Guacamole on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Replace My Netbook? · · Score: 1

    I have not found anything like that either so...
    For the size form-factor I use an iPad Air with a cover that has a built in Bluetooth keyboard.
    For a larger screen and better keyboard I use a ChromeBook.
    I have a Linux and a Windows VM in "the cloud" that I connect to from those devices via Apache Guacamole https://guacamole.apache.org/
    I installed Debian Linux on my EeePC and I use it for command line access to the Linux VM via ssh and occasionaly I run Firefox (via 'startx' because there is not enough space to install a full window manager).

  4. not Windows, The Doors - Come on Baby Run Linspire on Lindows Resurrected! Freespire 3.0 and Linspire 7.0 Linux Distros Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    https://youtu.be/V4-Z_nJvGsM Come on Baby, Run Linspire!

  5. The WHO have already ... on The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    recognized Pinball Wizard since 1969

  6. Perhaps he should try ... on Lock Out: the Austrian Hotel That Was Hacked Four Times (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    not connecting his email reading Internet browsing PC to his hotel door lock system?

  7. Would it not be wonderful to know that there is life out there, even if the probe they sent had been en route for millions of years?

  8. Get off my lawn ... on Celebrating '21 Things We Miss About Old Computers' (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 2

    Those are not what I would call very old :-)
    The first computer I learned to program was originally built in 1966 and later donated to our university in the mid '70s http://2eo.blogspot.ie/2007/12...

  9. this printout is from an IBM 1403 on How the IBM 1403 Printer Hammered Out 1,100 Lines Per Minute (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I found an old printout among some old maths books. Our school was close to the NUIG university engineering building and the professor had invited our maths class to learn how to program the IBM 1800 computer. This was one of my first programs. http://2eo.blogspot.ie/2014/04...

  10. Why limit the solution to 2D maps on paper? on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why limit the solution to 2D maps on paper? You can get a much better visualization on a computer, e.g. https://earth.nullschool.net/

  11. It should look like this ... on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Children's Computer Museum Look Like? (yourobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    full of children learning how to make computers do fun stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Banana equivalent dose, for scale on Photos Show The Lingering Radioactivity At Chernobyl And Fukushima (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    To give a non-specialist a good understanding of what radiation levels were detected they should calibrate in units of banana equivalent dose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. End-to-End encryption Chrome extion - when ? on Gmail's Encryption Warning Spurs 25% Increase In Encrypted Inbound Emails (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    I downloaded and built there End-to-End Chrome extension. I reported a few bugs and they were quickly fixed. Then I waited for Google to finish the development/testing and announce it to The World, but two years later there is only silence on that. No news since 2014 https://security.googleblog.co...

    To paraphrase XKCD, I have been posting my public key for 37 years now but nobody has ever asked me for it or used it for anything as far as I can tell.

  14. End-to-End on What Gmail's New TLS Icon Really Means: Email Encryption Is Still Broken · · Score: 1
    I downloaded the end-to-end code https://github.com/google/end-... built it and ran some tests. I reported one bug to them (no biggie, just a mismatch with some libs they depend on). They were quick to respond, update their build and thank me. However there hasn't been any activity there for months. Yahoo had joined in and said they were putting it into production (but I don't use their mail so I have not seen it).

    Has anyone any idea what's happening with Google End-to-End ?

  15. math book written by a teenager on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Her dad has a love of maths and is a lecturer in a local university maths department. She writes about how he encouraged her interest in maths at a young age and about her own research.
    In Code: A Mathematical Journey
    by Sarah Flannery
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/...

  16. book: The Psychology of Computer Programming on Twitter's Tech Lead On Making Software Engineers More Efficient · · Score: 2

    Those who have never read "The Psychology of Computer Programming (Weinberg, 1971)" are doomed to re-invent small parts of it over and over and over. http://www.geraldmweinberg.com...

  17. it's been done before on Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware · · Score: 1

    and the paper was presented at DEFCON https://www.defcon.org/images/...

  18. beware the Digg effect on June 30th Leap Second Could Trigger Unexpected Issues · · Score: 2

    When you change a forum against the wishes of the users you risk the Digg effect. Please undo the "Share" change.

  19. Re:Can they compile from source? on Microsoft Lets EU Governments Inspect Source Code For Security Issues · · Score: 1

    Even then it would be easy to inject the backdoor when compiling as explained in the classic paper "KEN THOMPSON - 1984 - Reflections on trusting trust" https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~gange...

  20. Re:Error 1201 on Apollo 11 on Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair · · Score: 1

    Error 1201 was not enumerated but luckily someone had read the system documentation https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a...

  21. WALL-E on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 4, Funny

    you should watch WALL-E next, while pondering that question

  22. Carefull Now ! on Irish Legislator Proposes Law That Would Make Annoying People Online a Crime · · Score: 2

    Down with that sort of thing!

  23. Re:For work - You had ONE job... on Cracking Passwords With Statistics · · Score: 1

    When the "bad guys" manage to download the password database from a Windows domain controller in your company (and that can happen) then they will be able to crack some of your previous 12 passwords that it stores in the history. Then you will be an easy target because they can predict your password from the history because you did not bother to comply with the company password policy. You were negligent.

  24. unlimited? on Amazon Announces Unlimited Cloud Storage Plans · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if Kim Dotcom has an account yet?

  25. Obliterate? on Laser Takes Out Truck Engine From a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.