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  1. Re:Not autonomous? on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 1

    Actually its the other way around - UAV are the new name for drones. Just with all the bad press UAV have been getting, they're back to flying the user friendly drones and not those evil UAV.

    We've been using drones as target aircraft for years (sicne the 1950's) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Drone

  2. Re:Hard drives warranty on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    Some other countries (eg. most of Europe) have a "fit for purpose" condition in consumer law.
    What this means is if you sell a high end product then it is expected to last longer than a cheap product. So if you bought a high spec top end laptop then its expected to last longer than a no-brand $150 one. So even if the warranty only says 1 year - it can be argued that its "not fit for purpose" and you can get it replaced/fixed/refunded.

    eg. Cellphone with 1 year warranty but sold on a 2 year contract. The carrier expects the phone to last 2 years as thats the period of contract they sold with the phone, so if the phone fails in that time then you can claim it was not fit for purpose.

  3. Re: how can you not play an audio file? on Why Steve Albini Still Prefers Analog Tape · · Score: 1

    Torrent will only backup what is popular.
    If something is unpopular then it won't get duplicated across the torrent seeds and so will be lost.
    The best method is to use as many formats and medium as possible - tape, CD, SSD, etc.

  4. Re:Not much worry with a source build on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Anything which is restricted in software can also be compromised by software.

  5. Stored for 10 years - until they add a new HD on Florida Town Stores License Plate Camera Images For Ten Years · · Score: 1

    Well I suppose they can always add another HD and extend the storage period.

  6. Re:Google PRISM on AOSP Maintainer Quits · · Score: 1

    You need to expand it a bit.

    If you want to stay out of PRISM don't use or contact any US services, or services from the Five Eyes (FVEY - USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), or services provided by companies with US parents, or comms links routed through any of the FVEY allies.

    Or, you can accept you're going to end up in PRISM somewhere and carry on using those companies and services feeding the data in, but with the knowledge that they will be passing on the info.

  7. Re:Onward to ruining other stuff on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 1

    "Klaatu Barada Nikto"

  8. Re:Peter Capaldi is regeneration #13 on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    The Valeyard IS a specific version of The Doctor.

  9. Re:Peter Capaldi is regeneration #13 on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    I thought they'd said that John Hurt was the Valeyard - who is the penultimate renicarnation of the Doctor.

  10. Do a Romana or Corsair spinoff on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    We've had female timelords before in earlier Dr Who storylines.
    Why all the sudden need to change the sex of the lead character - why not just do a spinoff. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.
    A nice self-contained mini-series expanding the storylines for Romana (who stays female), or The Corsair (who changes sex).

  11. Re:Doctor Tucker or Malcolm Who on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Or waving a can of Tennents Export Lager in one hand.

  12. Re:How'd the government know what they were Googli on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    And how did you obtain the encryption keys? Online transfer?

    Think about this - if you're using end-to-end encryption, VPN, etc - then this will be seen within the traffic they are monitoring and throw up a flag.

    If you're going via a foreign VPN then that puts you outside domestic monitoring and so open to foreign powers aswell as your own governments enhanced snooping.

  13. Re:Hang on... on Moscow Subway To Use Special Devices To Read Data On Passengers' Phones · · Score: 1

    Disney World resides in its own Disney controlled district (Reedy Creek Improvement District) which provides all the main services (fire, utilities, roads, etc) but not police who are from Orange County & Florida Highway Patrol.

  14. Re:The hashes are salted (BUT NOT PROPERLY) on Ubuntu Forum Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Well they can try and use the same username & password on other forums.
    They can try and use the same password on your email address.
    If they get into your email, then they can request password resets for online banking, paypal, etc.

    This is why you don't use the same passwords on different systems.
    If you have your own domain, then use different email addresses for each site filtering into a central inbox. This also makes it easier to track where spammers get your address from.

  15. Re:hard to even parody on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 1

    He only claimed problems with the combined MMR vaccine - single vaccines were and are still available and didn't cause problems.
    So you could refuse the MMR and get single Measles, Mumps & Rubella vaccinations - more injections, more cost but still providing protection. Its the idiots who didn't get any alternative vaccination after refusing the MMR that are the idiots.

    He's still a complete dick for not getting his research reviewed and duplicated and self-promoting himself as the leader of a movement. A leader who just so happened to have links to a company making the single vaccines he wanted people to go to rather than the combined shots.

  16. Parrots also copy on Imitation In Dogs Matches Humans and Apes · · Score: 1

    Parrots are intelligent enough to watch what you do and copy your actions to duplicate the effect.
    You cannot leave keys near my parrot as he will get hold of them and try the keys in the padlocks on his cage until he unlocks them. He knows this as he's seen me do it.

  17. Who needs the local police? on ACLU Study Says Police Cameras Create Database of Our Movements · · Score: 1

    A group of private individuals could do the same - and who is to say they don't already?

    Companies already use plate tracking for permitting cars into their parking lots - nothing to stop them pointing them at the street outside and recording the movements of vehicles outside their sites.

  18. Re:Come again? on Citing Snowden Leaks, Russia Again Demands UN Takeover of Internet · · Score: 1

    Also, any nation can choose to route its internal comms through an external 3rd party country who does all the snooping and then returns the snooped info to the nation state.

    eg. France routes all its internal comms via Belgium who snoops it and then passes the info back to France. Belgium routes all their internal comms through France who pass the snooped info to Belgium. Both countries aren't snooping on their own citizens and is only obtaining legally snooped info from a foreign state.

    Most transatlantic cables are terminated in the UK.

  19. common carrier status on Irish Supreme Court Upholds 3-Strikes Rule For Copyright Violation · · Score: 2

    If the ISP is actively monitoring the information carried and acting upon it, then surely they should lose their common carrier status and be liable for damages.

    eg. Why only monitor & block copyright sites and not trojan/malware sites?

  20. Re:Repeatedly gained and lost knowledge? on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    The main cause of lost knowledge is willful destruction.
    Myan & Aztec knowledge - we have so little because the Spanish destroyed it.
    Greek knowledge was destroyed by the Romans, who then realised their mistake and tried to save it.

    A lot of the Greek knowledge moved east as the Romans expanded.

  21. Re:Already Been Invented: Fired Ceramic Tablets on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    Actually very useful - were they wiped out by a disease caught from unwashed socks (as telephones weren't invented then)?

  22. Re:Had this in the UK for years on Automated Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records On Drivers · · Score: 1

    They don't even need vans these days - most traffic police have ANPR camera built-in, so they just need to park up and point the vehicle towards the traffic they want to scan.

  23. Re: Who are the "Metropolitan Police"? on Meet PRISM's English Little Brother: Socmint · · Score: 2

    The title says they're "English" and there is only one English Metropolitan Police - aka "The Met"

  24. Re:How fast would it be going? on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 1

    Actually they started looking at using full fission reactors (space capable submarine reactors) rather than RTGs for outer planet ion drive craft.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Prometheus
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Orbiter

  25. Re:Future regulation on California Sends a Cease and Desist Order To the Bitcoin Foundation · · Score: 1

    I swapped half a pig for some brick laying and potatoes.
    Does that mean a pig is now a unit of currency as I used it to buy goods and services (off the same person).