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  1. Re:The real point of what Detroit has to offer... on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And nothing that Detroit has to offer except being close to Canada would appeal to me, and that's just not enough. Doesn't matter what they pay me or what conditions that are offered, it's probably safer to go to Afghanistan anyway.

  2. "Soylent Green is people!" on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Makes me think of Soylent Green.

  3. Re:The basically already do this now. on You Might Rent Features & Options On Cars In the Future · · Score: 1

    The belt chime is there for a reason, now we just have to tell the local cops and the insurance company that you tampered with a safety feature.

    And the thing done on cars today is to prevent DIY installs of features unless the function is enabled in an ECU. That way you tie customers to the service department - and that's where the car manufacturers today make their money, not on the car sales.

  4. Re:Tricky situation... on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    And still - that shouldn't be a reason for unreasonable searches.

  5. Re:Don't take the purple acid on Data Analysts Attempt To Predict World's Largest Music Vote, Again · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or watch the European Song Contest, which is about the same thing.

  6. Community owned dark fiber on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Convince an ISP To Bury Cable In Your Neighborhood? · · Score: 2

    Create a community that owns the fiber and puts it down. Offer access to the ISPs to the dark fibers and tell them that here you have the fibers, now just connect us at this central point.

    Just make the correct contracts and it should work out. That strategy has been used elsewhere in the world.

  7. When everything else fails. on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The answer is adult content.

  8. Re:Working hard on What Makes a Genius? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The difference between a genius and a mad man is thin, but obsession with a problem is what both "suffers" from.

    Another thing that's different is to work hard on a problem, then sleep on it and then approach the problem again from a new angle. The brain will sort out a lot of stuff while you are sleeping.

    Trying too hard on a problem is often ineffective. Sometimes it helps to take a walk.

    All this is what also makes many geniuses seem eccentric - they do stuff the way that suits them best, not by following the beaten path.

  9. Re:My capacity for advertising has been exceeded on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    I agree - ad blocking is not about denying the income for web sites, it's a survival strategy.

    Add to it that for older people they have a very hard time to distinguish between what is an ad and what is the real content, they are easily tricked into shit sites.

    As for adblockers - if a site doesn't work without the ads, then that site isn't really worth a visit. If all sites starts to do this then the adblockers needs to be upgraded - possibly to fake that ads are viewed, but that they actually are just downloaded without being played/displayed.

    I'm just waiting for the ability to do regexp filtering on cookies too.

  10. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, just an ordinary fraudster, not terrorist.

  11. Extrapolate. on DNA Detectives Count Thousands of Fish Using a Glass of Water · · Score: 1

    And you can use the same method at the sewage stations to be able to count the number of individuals in a town or city, then separate out the DNA of everyone that's there illegally and track them down.

    Nobody will be safe from our civil masters.

  12. Re:Reminds me of TRESOR on TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification · · Score: 1

    That is only one option when it comes to hiding the key. I foresee that we will have an arms race, and one alternative would be to change the key storage and keep a decoy key in the standard location just to confuse.

  13. Re:Encrypt The RAM? on TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification · · Score: 1

    The problem you have is that the decryption key is stored in RAM when it is accessed using a password.

    But if the PC has been powered off then the key is not available in RAM.

    However if there is a trojan in you PC then it may have the ability to read the decoded key and upload it somewhere, which means that the NSA or other authority may be able to dump the readable contents of your hard disk if they ever get their hands on it - or through the trojan.

  14. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    And the results are hardly surprising. If there wasn't an advantage in that kind of formation the birds wouldn't have been using it.

  15. Re:Path dependent decision making. on Why Transitivity Violations Can Be Rational · · Score: 1

    Forget about Chuck Norris and Rajnikant, look at Bishnu Shrestha instead.

  16. Re:Simple summary on Why Transitivity Violations Can Be Rational · · Score: 1

    And it's a bit like when you are eating - if you love roast beef with mashed potatoes and have had that every day for a month, then you would pick something else just to get a change as long as you know it's edible, you may even be willing to pick food that you usually avoid.

    The point is that nature has provided some species the ability to get bored with a certain food to ensure that there is a variation in the intake of nourishment and avoid deficiencies and dependability on a certain source.

    Species that lacks this has a tendency to become very specialized and therefore has a higher risk of becoming extinct.

  17. Re:Who let this guy on a computer? on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 1

    You mean the holes that the pigs have made to create a mud bath?

  18. Re:Politicians like these on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 1

    Which emphasizes the use of condoms is a good thing.

    Of course - since he's Irish then he's probably a catholic, so that means that a condom probably wasn't an option.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKFa6sVH_1k

  19. Don't forget Hitler and his henchmen. The trend seems to be that Putin is going the same direction, just with a lower profile. Under the cover the crackdowns on the opposition are the same.

  20. Re:Leave it to a politician to blow hot air on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 1

    Obviously the Irish Politician has had too much Irish Coffee...

  21. Re:Z-Wave on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Use Z-Wave for the light controls, install empty conduits with pulling lines so you can add additional wires when needed. Better with blind outlets prepared for use in each room, then add wiring as needed.

    B.t.w. CAT-5 is yesterday, today it's CAT-7.

    If you have more than one floor - make room for a distribution panel on each floor.

    With conduits and data wiring you can add slave controllers for Z-Wave if there are problems with the radio propagation.

    And be careful with the installation, think many times because the next resident in the dwelling may have different ideas.

  22. El condor pasa on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Enough said!

  23. Re:Now we're in trouble... on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as they have emergency lights on the vehicle it should be OK.

    Speeding without indication to other drivers would be to cause unnecessary danger, and it will of course cause someone to cut them off just because as well as some cops stopping them instead.

  24. Re:And that's why they're extinct on Extinct Species of Early Human Survived On Grass Bulbs, Not Meat · · Score: 1

    And if they are extinct - maybe it's because their diet was too specialized?

    It's a relatively common factor that a species that goes extinct is too specialized. Of course there are other factors involved too.

  25. Re: i hope people with SCADA systems learned. on Hackers Gain "Full Control" of Critical SCADA Systems · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that you now and then see ads that are infected.

    Makes me wonder how many ad servers that serves ads with a hidden bomb that we haven't seen yet because it waits for the right conditions.