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  1. trust USB's at trafe shows? on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    and a USB stick given away at a trade show is automatically good.

    woah... they're should be even more suspect...

    http://www.scmagazine.com/ibm-distributed-infected-usb-drives-at-conference/article/170862/

  2. Re:I hope... on Obama Nominates Merrick Garland For Supreme Court (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    In this case the candidate is anti-2nd amendment, so he doesn't belong on the court.

    But he's not as pointed out earlier in this discussion...

  3. Re:Probably using a CHAMP-WB on US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    the board just provides the modulation to the signal BEFORE it goes to the power amplifiers for transmission.

  4. Aluminium scratch resistant? on Simple Method Yields A Wrinkly, Durable, Water-Repellent Coating (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    could have fooled me...

  5. Well I hope he's in a safe house... on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    people who cross the Clintons have a tendency to wind up dead

  6. Re:NASA on NASA's IBEX Observations Pin Down Interstellar Magnetic Field (astronomynow.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One result of this would be more cosmic rays possibly reaching the Earth.

    which would lead to more clouds and possibly rain... increasing the Earth's albedo and reflecting more solar energy back into space

  7. Re:Uh... let me think about it on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, Google Maps for me ALWAYS shows the fastest route as the default choice with the next two fastest routes...

  8. Re:Nerve connections for muscles on Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise · · Score: 1

    temporally and/or spatially complex tasks

    that would include free weights... which again is resistance training... but a heck of a lot harder than using a weightlifting machine where the weighs are constrained to a simple fixed axis of motion...

  9. Re:Nerve connections for muscles on Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Brain cells and associated nerve connections are necessary to operate muscles. If you exercise more, or perhaps even hone a skill associated with exercise (playing basketball or tennis perhaps), then you would also expect the brain to grow connections associated with these activities.

    so why then doesn't this work for 'resistance' training? After all, you are exercising muscles.

  10. Re:And PI == 3 on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    then they'd be ending anonymity for cash transactions as well.

    That's next on the agenda... but they're having problems finding a good enough 'sell' for doing it...

  11. But, but, but... on China's Chang'e 3 Lander and Yutu Rover Camera Data Released · · Score: 1

    according to the wingnut con theorists, the Americans were kicked off the moon by the aliens that were already there...

  12. Re:Firefox already has built-in ads. on Adblock Plus Blocked From Attending Online Ad Industry's Big Annual Conference (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    (I've been using Chrome, like everyone else).

    Bollocks...

  13. Re:Raspberry Pi 2 on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    the new Pi Zero blows my old laptop (that ran Suse 8.0 into the weeds...

  14. Re:How does space elevator save energy? on Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator (space.com) · · Score: 1

    because the potential energy of an object coming down can be used to raise the potential energy of an object going up...

  15. Design for recycling and repair on On iFixit and the Right To Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    should be mandated from the top...

  16. Re:Regulation please on DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Take for example, I myself need corneal cross-linking to halt the progression keratoconus, which has been done safely in other countries for about 17 years now. A company called Avedro is lobbying really hard to get it approved so that they can start selling the equipment and drugs required to perform the procedure, but the FDA has continually denied it every year, instead opting to just wait until you go all out blind and then get a corneal transplant as their current preferred treatment option.

    That would be because some other company already has the market cornered for corneal replacement and doesn't want an alternative that avoids this to take hold...

  17. Used to service Data General Nova 4X on The Intel 4004 Microprocessor Turns 44 · · Score: 2

    had a 16 bit 'processor' made by using four of these chips in parallel...

  18. Re:And yet..... on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    because the "shoe bomber" and the "underwear bomber" were stopped by alert passengers.

    and they were also both 'walked' through security by CIA agents...

  19. Well now, how to define unbreakable... if it truly is unbreakable, then it would take infinite processing capability an infinite time... Now if it only takes infinity MINUS one day, then it is breakable...

    Careful, you may not like what you get...

    I truly suspect that what they really want is backdoors put in...

  20. anyone else completely confused by the summary? on Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    what the fsck is 'twitch'? Does anyone really care?

  21. Panic over, it's down and on the ground... on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    the news article linked to has had it's content updated...

  22. Re:The freedom of not having a car on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    all roads except motorways... denoted in the UK by having blue signage.

    "253
    Prohibited vehicles. Motorways MUST NOT be used by pedestrians, holders of provisional motorcycle or car licences, riders of motorcycles under 50 cc, cyclists, horse riders, certain slow-moving vehicles and those carrying oversized loads (except by special permission), agricultural vehicles, and powered wheelchairs/powered mobility scooters (see Rules 36 to 46 inclusive)
    Laws HA 1980 sects 16, 17 & sch 4, MT(E&W)R regs 3(d), 4 & 11, MT(E&W)(A)R, R(S)A sects 7, 8 & sch 3, RTRA sects 17(2) & (3), & MT(S)R reg 10"

  23. Mod parent up... :)

  24. Re:The freedom of not having a car on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1
    "Traffic jams aren't fun either, but at least I have some room to move."

    traffic jams? Nah... just filter past them on my e-bike...

  25. Re:The freedom of not having a car on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    4 kilometres? That's a very easy cycling distance... no need to even get sweaty if you just pootle along at say 10 mph...