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  1. Re:Next up... on Giant Survival Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year On an Iceberg · · Score: 1

    The niagra falls every knows is in Canada, the buffalo side or american side isn't as impressive.

  2. Re:it's hard to patch hardware on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    Tens of thousands of unupdated bluray players beg to differ.

  3. Re:Fairly easy way to protect data. on Good: Companies Care About Data Privacy Bad: No Idea How To Protect It · · Score: 2

    The problem is step 4 is the issue.

    using encryption correctly with access controls, is all but impossible with current OS's.

    Very few OS's have the access control setup to properly limit. Most current forms of Access control assume a greater and greater level of access with each level. That still creates accounts which can access everything. You don't want that.

    What is needed is an access level system that lets you install updates, maybe move files, but not read them. This way the system admin can't access your secure data period. He can move it, but he can't actually read the file itself. That way upper level executives who demand access to everything can get access to the data but not install malware. Even then there needs to be access level to restrict data from all but certain levels. So Accounting department can access your credit card information but the executives above them can't.

    So a Mandatory/need to access form of Access control, not the pyramid type system used in place today where each person is a on a level, and a few at the top get everything.

  4. Re:Clickbait on Researcher Discloses Methods For Bypassing All OS X Security Protections · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not quite it is more if you have a good approved app and If that app has a security flaw, you can use that flaw to hijack the OS.

    Still it seems stupid. It is like saying you have permission to run scripts you can run a malicious script.

  5. Re:well, why wouldn't they? on House Bill Slashes Research Critical To Cybersecurity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So why increase military spending?

    450 billion for a plane that isn't yet flying gets an increase yet you bitch and moan over 1 billion. Talk about pinching pennies to waste hundreds.

  6. Re:Giving the customers what they want on Netflix Is Betting On Exclusive Programming · · Score: 1

    yea I noticed the extra 12 minutes of tv show time while watching Daredevil on netflix.

    The episodes seem just that much longer.

  7. Re:1 million dollars per family? on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 2

    That same lot and house 10 miles from Boston $500k. 25 miles from Boston $300k

    yet we expect people in such cities to survive on minimum wage so we can get our morning Starbucks.

  8. Re:Judicial rules? on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Shh. you might make sense. Where Assange is concerned common sense, and legal standing aren't allowed.

    on Slashdot if you assume anything other than men in black are out to get assange you will be modded into oblivion and trolled hard.

    The simple fact is Assange destroyed wikileaks all by himself. notice how they aren't publishing leaks of any kind of quality for the last several years. His ego got to big, and he burned himself. now he doesn't have any credibility with anyone but conspiracy theorists.

  9. Sure EA doesn't upgrade anything. slashdot Beta would never have existed.

    not to mention the DRM would prevent AC's from getting their frosty piss.

  10. Re:Photo realistic? on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    on a bad youtube video on my tv, I had to do a double take as the scene i was watching could have been in ROTJ.

    on my computer yea I agree it looks awesome but I can see the differences.

  11. Re:Help me out here a little... on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 1

    where do you live?

    national grid charges me for electricity, and line charges. The line charges is for updates and the grid.

    National grid charges me for pipes, and actual gas flow too for natural gas. again two lines items and forces a minimum bill all the time.

    Solar won't replace all your power. therefore you will be billed no matter what. Solar's main point is to lower your daily bill, and usage. I can see them separating out line charges separately from usage completely.

  12. Re:I'm shocked, I tell you! on FBI Overstated Forensic Hair Matches In Nearly All Trials Before 2000 · · Score: 1

    it is a list of options.

    Truth, --obvious
    Justice -- also obvious
    The american Way --Not obvious this is where money talks louder than truth or justice.

  13. The ship also isn't radioactive any more yet that is in the title too.

    Ocean water currents for 50 years removed and moved around the radioactive particles. This rendering the ship as safe as any metal structure under water for 50 years.

    I don't understand why we don't bury radioactive waste in sealed drums in the marina a trench. It is a safe non accessible location.

  14. Re:A first: We should follow Germany's lead on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One step at a time. First you do the churches no one likes. Then you do the churches very few like. Then you wait a couple of generations and you can do blanket associations across all churches.

    Your way leads to revolt. My way takes 2-3 generations but is done peacefully.

  15. Re:Physics on The International Space Station (Finally) Gets an Espresso Machine · · Score: 1

    True but you have 16 times as many of them.

    Whatgets me is the rotational section of the station was scrapped. While zero gee expiraments are nessecary we also need centrpidal experiments for endurance.

  16. Re:Why is it even a discussion? on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Informative

    You probably have one ISP to choose from. What if they dislike Slashdot and charged you extra for visiting Slashdot?

    Comcast is doing that right now to Netflix. You the customer who pays an ISP has to pay three times for the same bandwidth because your ISP doesn't like the content of what you are viewing. That is the only reason.

  17. Re:Good guy HBO on Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Funny I am the opposite I don't want to own it. I want to rent it. Why. Because once watched I probably won't ever watch it again at least not for another decade. I have been ditching dvd's since I rarely rewatch them. Exceptions are made I own several series. However most are once and done.

    Then again I am smart enough to remember the movies the first time.

  18. Re:Does anybody realize on Google Battles For Better Batteries · · Score: 1

    apparently you don't realize gasoline burns, and desiel is fairly easily turned into a giant bomb as well.

    Sources of stored energy are bombs. Every single one. The difference is if you can pull that energy out over time or only all at once.

  19. Re:Cutting edge journalism on Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google takes 6-9 months to release updates to their devices. It took 5 weeks for my nexus 7 to get the update.

    Google should ask apple how to transmit updates to lots of users at once.

  20. Re:checkmate on A Data-Driven Exploration of the Evolution of Chess · · Score: 1

    First piss is a tradition like the cowboy meal option, and stupid people complaining about how it was back in the day when they weren't really paying attention back in the day.

    My uid is much lower than yours so I am right.

  21. Re:here's the benefit on Has the Bitcoin Foundation Run Out of Cash? · · Score: 0

    No foundations no updates, no updates means no patches. Means no expansion as bitcoins run out.

    As it is you need to measure goods in the ten thousands of a coin. I can't wait to buy a pack a gum for .0000003 bit coins.

  22. Re:Smartphone power on Tiny LIDAR Chip Could Add Cheap 3D Sensing to Cellphones and Tablets · · Score: 2

    Not quite true. Current 747 have a higher cruise speed and reduced fuel usage compared to the 1969 model. It isn't breathe taking difference but it does exist. Basically all new business jets run at mach .95 instead of the mach .6-.7 of 30 years ago. Why not faster well fuel usage goes up, and viable flight paths go down due to supersonic restriction laws.

    Like batteries we are at limits of chemical energy storage. Even hyper velocities are tough to maintain at a practical level. Improvements are only coming slowly. Without a major energy breakthrough we are going to be hitting some major roadblocks in the future.

  23. Re:Needed for automated cars. on Tiny LIDAR Chip Could Add Cheap 3D Sensing to Cellphones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Drones is the obvious use actually. The next ar parrot will be able to do indoor mapping. Heck even if data collection and processing needs to be offloaded rescue, fire, hostage negotiations even real estate could all benefit.

  24. Re:Evolution on Microsoft Celebrates 40th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    But computing isn't going to change much in the next ten years. 15 maybe. The biggest changes coming down are merging interfaces consoldidating and standardizing interface features. I don't see the desktop and file metaphors going anywhere soon.

    Hopefully we will move back to cross platform connectedness. However that is a long road. Why can't iCloud work with other browsers?

  25. Re:Oh this is easy .... on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Never had one to begin with. I was never comfortable with the fact anything posted on Facebook became face books property. Oh sure they added some weasel words around it but it is still there.

    While I occasional miss some good stuff I never miss the bad and stupid.