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  1. Re:Which City University and 20%? on One in Five of Us May 'Hear' Flashes of Light (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, the half life is 3-5 hours, so your implication that you'll trip on a future occasion doesn't make sense. Citation needed.

  2. Re:What Employee Works Without Pay? on WrkRiot Collapses Amongst Allegations of Fraud (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    She moved to California for this job. There's a certain amount of sunk costs involved in moving that makes the calculus a little trickier than just move back to Texas over a missed paycheck.

    Hindsight shows that it was a bad move, but there are counterexamples of people who have gotten their paychecks a little bit late and had a satisfying time at their company.

  3. Re:Why deposit? on Popular Dark Web Market Disappears, Users Migrate In Panic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Escrow is going to be for the entirety of the purchase. Not all buyers are buying $50 at a time. Some people are buying ounces of cocaine or kilograms of MDMA. Not all vendors will accept escrow on the especially large orders, but they won't have their finger on the withdraw button either. In general, exit scams are harder on the vendors than the buyers because vendors could have dozens of open orders at any time.

  4. Re:Self-respecting drunks on Breathalyzer Bike Lock Stops Drunken Cyclists In Their Tracks · · Score: 1

    Bicycle helmets are not mandatory in California.

  5. Re:New rule on The French Scrabble Champ Does Not Speak French · · Score: 1

    Many slashdotters are opposed to being scrubs. Most house rules are an attempt to make a game more fun by cutting off higher level play. You don't think it's fair that someone learned more 2 letter words than you, so you made up a way to temporarily prevent him from using them after the game started.

    You could have found counters, but you didn't, because you're a scrub.

    http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book...

  6. Re:Fallout? on NSA, GHCQ Implicated In SIM Encryption Hack · · Score: 1

    You don't remember when the FBI let lulzsec destroy Stratfor hoping that Wikileaks would offer money for the exfiltrated data? I'd be surprised if that were the first company that was destroyed after being used as bait by LEA in the US.

  7. Re:Why do I want to upgrade? on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    It fixed the dialer bugs that KitKat has. The first time I pull up the keypad, it's offset such that keys other than 1-3 are hidden. I have to hit back and then pull up the keypad again to get access to all numbers.

    It fixed the bug where if I type in a long pin on KitKat, the screen stops accepting input. I have to slowdown. My pin is 9 characters.

    There are many UI regressions though, particularly switching to silent/vibrate and back. I hate that every number in my pin gets a huge circle revealing where I pressed. Inconvenient for paranoid people like me.

    I'm going to see if CyanogenMod 12 fixes these regressions when a stable release is available for my phone.

  8. Re:So, what does that make the record ? on White House Responds To Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor · · Score: 1

    That was also largely the result of people unlocking their phones anyway. Direct action works.

  9. Re:Not that I have anything to worry about but on When FISA Court Rejects a Surveillance Request, the FBI Issues a NSL Instead · · Score: 1

    Send it to many outlets like others have mentioned. Make sure to send it to Cryptome in addition to others mentioned.

  10. Reverse OCR on Research Highlights How AI Sees and How It Knows What It's Looking At · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Reminds me of the reverse OCR tumblr. It generates patterns of squiggles a human could never read but the OCR recognizes as a word.

    http://reverseocr.tumblr.com/

  11. Re:Is SONY breaking the law with this on Sony Reportedly Is Using Cyber-Attacks To Keep Leaked Files From Spreading · · Score: 1

    "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."
    Anatole France

  12. Re:Tell me again... on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    The proper abbreviation for Doctors without Borders is MSF (Medicines san Frontiers). They have employees who get paid! It is not a volunteer organization! The burnout rate is already high. If you told all of their workers that their vacation would be spent in house arrest for the entirety of their break between missions, there'd be far fewer workers. Protip: significantly reducing the amount of workers willing to treat infectious diseases is not a good way to reduce outbreak of infectious diseases.

    Lysol would be plenty for disinfecting a bowling alley. Similar surfaces were found to disinfect themselves after a few hours in the dark!

    Sagripanti, J-L., Rom, A.M., Holland, L.E. (2010) Persistence in darkness of virulent alphaviruses, Ebola virus, and Lass virus deposited on solid surfaces. Arch Virol. 155: 2035-9.

    My friend is a logistician, not a medical doctor. AFAIK, there is no oath for logisticians.

    I have seen no evidence of any health workers ignoring symptoms. The doctor in the parent article followed all the MSF guidelines.

  13. Re:Tell me again... on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    I have a close friend who works for Doctors Without Borders. She doesn't get a lot of vacation. If she had a 3 week quarantine (where would they quarantine her?), her friends and family would see her far less often. Her vacations mid-mission would have to be spent in the country she was working in.

    I'm sorry the owner of the bowling alley will need a few cans of lysol because we didn't have ebola camps for humanitarian doctors.

  14. Re:Trolling the rich on Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join · · Score: 1

    The idea that the person collecting the money might prefer $9000 to a membership.

  15. Re:The spying isn't the biggest issue on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 1

    GSM encryption is terrible, TLS is terrible (Mac-then-encrypt, terrible cipher suites, rollback attacks, GCM implemented incorrectly), IPSec is incredibly convoluted and offers many broken modes (encrypt-only), NIST suite B ECC has fishy constants, AES has horrible side channel attacks in software that allow key recovery from other virtual machines, SHA-3 will have a reduced security level compared to the standard for the sake of 'efficiency'...

    Don't think that just because Dual EC-DRBG is obviously bad that all attempts to weaken cryptography will be equally obvious.

  16. Re:Need to Do More on NZ Professor Advocates Civil Disobedience Against Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I was at dozens in multiple cities. I did street theater, I participated GAs, I did direct action, I marched, I protested, I sang. I was on the wrong end of a baton, a boot to the solar plexus, a cloud of tear gas, and I've gotten a face full of pepper spray. I was quoted (anonymously) in news articles. I was on a committee, I had an affinity group.
    There were many, many people. Sometimes 60k. No one told them what the right and wrong reasons were to be there. People were there because the systems in place did not serve or represent them. For some, that was because the police and prisons were tearing apart their families and communities, for others, it was because their 401k got wiped out.
    As you should be able to infer, the people who lost their jobs and their homes are going to protest differently from the teenagers whose school got closed down. The people who just got out of college with massive debt are going to protest differently from the parents with kids.
    No one was interested in telling people they were there for the wrong reasons, because nearly without exception, people weren't. People smashing windows had good reason to do so, and people doing building occupations had good reason to do so. The media, the police, and the people on the outside generally couldn't understand because it was different than what they know and understand. Politicians who made their career from coming to rallies couldn't understand people covering their faces because to them, protesting was about building a resume or street cred. The media wasn't used to dealing with people who didn't like them or who didn't want to talk to them. Outsiders couldn't understand why people just didn't want to vote some new 3rd party in.

    That doesn't mean there wasn't a structure, that doesn't mean there wasn't a message, that doesn't mean it was incoherent. There were a number of threads pulling people together that weren't apparent in the first 15 minutes and might not have been apparent after a whole 2 protests. They were there and they're still there.
    The police in SF vary, there are ~2,000. I've seen some people who seemed like nice people, at least at the moment. I've also seen some that took great glee in beating people. I've seen some that will look like one at one moment and the other the next moment. You've got to watch out for the 99% of cops that make the rest look bad.

  17. Re:I've my own approach. on NZ Professor Advocates Civil Disobedience Against Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Do you communicate using any platforms connected to the US? Then you're already a target, might as well make it difficult or expensive for the NSA to spy on you.

  18. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works at all, it allows you to express a higher amount of strength. If you take it, and don't increase the weight lifted, then perhaps you'll experience a lower training effect, but no one trains like that, they amp up the weight.

    You're confusing lactate and lactic acid. You might want to go hit the books again.

  19. terrible summary on NSA Utah Data Center Blueprints Reveal It Holds Less Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Did the author of the summary read the article? The article for some reason mentions individualized video feeds for every American which is unrealistic and nothing like the sort of thing anyone has said the NSA is recording. 12,000 PB is far, far larger than the 272 PB estimated to hold all US domestic phone calls for a year, plus the foreign and international calls (which people forgot the NSA captures).

    I recommend people read the archive.org description of the problem of archiving phone calls (TL;DR 272 PB) and DJB's article on cryptanalysis (PDF) (TL;DR NSA isn't stupid).

  20. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    Creatine Phosphate is part of the high energy phosphate systems used for short term, high intensity work. It is used in workloads that last on the order of 2-10 seconds before it runs out and non-oxidative glycolysis becomes the main energy source.

  21. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    One vegetarian who takes supplements does not invalidate the lifestyle any more than an obese non-vegetarian invalidates that lifestyle.

    I was vegan for 7 years and did not take vitamin supplements. I was a powerlifter with a full time job. I've been vegetarian for 12 years now and have been a professional acrobat, amateur gymnast, avid social dancer, and competing powerlifter. I started doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu heavily recently.

  22. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    Creatine improves memory performance in vegetarians. It is something that is found in certain types of muscle that meat eaters eat so if you're arguing against creatine, you're an idiot. Improving the intensity of your workout will lead to long term gains whether or not you continue taking supplements or eating meat. Creatine monohydrate is one of the most effective legal supplements, it's dirt cheap, tasteless, and it works.

  23. Re:As a side note... on NSA WhistleBlower Outs Himself · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Sweden worked out real great for Assange, good choice there...

  24. Re:Say that after you've used one for a work month on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Android is just a marketing term, it's not scientific it has nothing to do with humanoid robots.

  25. Re:What's the escalation in penalties? on Hackers Hack Handcuffs at H.O.P.E. (Video) · · Score: 1

    I'd have to say that when I spent hours in cuffs after being arrested at a political demonstration, I was very jealous of the guy next to me who had released himself from the zip ties. When we arrived at the jail, he just handed the flex cuffs to the deputy and nothing unique happened to him that didn't happen to everyone else. I had tingling in my pinkies for an hour or so.

    Under certain circumstances, de-arrest is possible, which could be a vast improvement in your situation.