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  1. Re:Bigotry on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Used to be people used AC to divulge info that could jeopardize their jobs.

    Transgendered isn't the same as transvestite. Any man can dress up as a woman and make dubious claims, but a psychologist won't be fooled by it. As such, you've succeeded in trolling Slashdot in your ignorance.

  2. Re:No license == sending poison to your users on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 0

    At any time the developer, or his employer, could sue, and there's nothing the user could do.

    You have to be smart, avoid pyramid scams, and and not be a jerk if the dev asks you for a reasonable donation/attribution. If you are a tolerable human being you will have no issues reusing this truly free code.

    It's like a old boys' club where women fit in just fine. You work on stuff that has hack value and when you abandon the project, which you inevitably do since that is your privilege, you give the spoils away instead of letting them rot. - You instinctively know what a 'transaction cost' is so you have abandoned the law in favour of your own sense of morality, because you understand that lawyers are leeches on the veins of society.

  3. Re:Eric Schultz on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    You talk as if that's the end of it. The genius required to orchestrate a the 'digital Pearl Harbour' is commonplace amongst hackers. Lawmakers idiotically presume technology is on their side, but unless you actually sit your ass down and learn how to work it it's not under your control.

    It really is a matter of time before someone flips out and starts reading old issues of Phrack Zine with a list of names and intent on mayhem.

  4. Re:Eric Schultz on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    Then you frame them for child porn. Simple. And welcome to the Internet!

  5. Re:Book review on Julian Assange Says Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Are "Witch Doctors" · · Score: 1

    ...there's no reason to open Air Traffic control to hackers.

    1. That's not how hacking works.
    2. It's already open.
    3. The reason it is open is because people thinking like you just did.

    Without a scheme like one-time pads or public-key cryptography and mandatory, regular infosec training you can impersonate someone or something that the pilot wants to listen to and influence their actions even to the extent that you are effectively controlling the plane. Then if you redirect a passenger jet over e.g. NK all sorts of hell would ensue. Maybe even another war, and when you can only ask "who benefits from war with NK?" to catch the perps unless there is another leak.

    This isn't a theory. The details of the vulnerability have been publicly disclosed but the businessmen responsible for fixing their broken system appear intent on sitting on their thumbs until something bad happens which forces them to unplug said digits.

    It's probably bad form to both specify a 'payload' in the same sentence as the vulnerability, so I'll leave looking that up to you, dear leader.

  6. Re:Rendezvous with Rama on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 1

    That is the book which taught me English! I got it for Christmas with a PC gameand thought I'd get some clues to the puzzles by reading it. Didn't, but it's still some of the best Sci-Fi I've ever read.

    I sat in my bed at night with an English dictionary, captivated and unable to sleep because I had to know what happened next. =D

  7. Re:Surprising? on Pentagon Ups Hacking Accusations Against China · · Score: 1

    What the Russians do when it's time to negotiate is they tout some kind of unfairness in their media for a few months and then just in time for the meetings they forgive but don't forget. Usually it's just a plausible fabrication they believe they'll get away with, but they do it so often it's kind of a ritual by now.

    Or maybe the Pentagon really is ignorant enough not to put "botnet" and "proxy" together. Who knows. Not my tax euros.

  8. Re:Sinkholes? on Weird Geological Features Spied On Mars · · Score: 2

    Maybe. Ice could melt, even evaporate due to the low vapour pressure and leave a void behind. Viola, sinkhole without groundwater.

  9. Re:Fault line? on Weird Geological Features Spied On Mars · · Score: 3, Informative

    No tectonics. The planet's core is supposed to be frozen, because it it so much smaller than Earth.

  10. Re:This may be important for quantum gravity on Fermi and Swift Observe Record-setting Gamma Ray Burst · · Score: 2

    You must be a ton of fun at parties.

    I might be missing something, and you might be new here, but I usually leave CHA as it is and just count on natural 20s.

  11. Re:one more distraction while driving on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    I did it on the CALO project when Siri first hit the news. - He appears to be the lead for SRI's contribution to the CALO project. I don't know the extent of that contribution.

  12. Re:one more distraction while driving on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    ...and in belated review my form was badder than it should. Point still stands.

    "In the first four years of the project, CALO-funded research has resulted in more than five hundred publications across all fields of artificial intelligence. "
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO

  13. Re:one more distraction while driving on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 0

    Something else that was established through long-standing research was all the discrete software that makes up Siri. Quoting Wikipedia, bad form but meh:

    Siri is a spin-out from the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, and is an offshoot of the DARPA-funded CALO project.[35][36]

    So Siri's "marketer" is much more accurate than "creator". Moreover it's really stealing the credit of someone else's collaborative and state-funded work. - You can build your own Siri-like platform as weekend project or two since it's based on FOSS.

  14. Re:I wouldn't start that journey from here on Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker? · · Score: 1

    They have no obligation to tell you anything, even if you are a police officer in your own country.

    You must be new here. =)

    Hello, I'm looking for my long lost brother. I'm 80 years old and we were together in Auschwitz. Have you heard about Auschwitz? No? Could you do me a favour and look it up? I'll call you back. By the way we only barely survived and have been separated ever since...

    OP is probably right asking for help with this stuff. Social Engineering is fun, profitable and perfectly legal, but it certainly isn't easy for the uninitiated.

  15. No license on Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have uploaded the meagre, puny code that I've written in a small number of projects without bothering with a license. I expect people to steal it and be quiet about it, because I am the noise floor of github.

    Frankly for most projects on github (1.7 million is not a small number of computer software projects), legalese is a bother. It is simply uncouth and considered harmful.

  16. Re:Board malfeasance on Dell Signs Agreement To Cap Icahn's Share Ownership · · Score: 1

    For example, it makes no sense for a little old lady whose retirement fund holds shares in BP to be held responsible for the failure of their GoM drilling rigs.

    Undoing my moderation for this;

    Doesn't it? Is it really fair for her to neglect her responsibility as an elder in the community for the sake of convenience and profit? If so, the floating ice sheet method of retirement appears equally good.
    If she is too infirm to make decisions to this end, someone else should be managing her wealth. If not, I profess that she should still be considered legally responsible for her actions which are buying, voting with dollars, exercising power. - I poo-poo your 'little old lady' rhetoric.

  17. Re: Response on Why French Govt's Attempt to Censor Wikipedia Matters · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you include my evil in you list! I'm Discordian, you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:intimidation on Why French Govt's Attempt to Censor Wikipedia Matters · · Score: 1

    Wikileaks does not come to my mind, but the government response to wikileaks does.

    Bradley Manning didn't have the humility not tell someone he did a good deed, and in this world it isn't a joke when you say "no good deed goes unpunished".

    It is information warfare. Do the math. Work in the dark.

  19. Re:Watch your clauses, people! on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 1

    I wish there was a smaller unit than bits.

    Baud. It's baud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud

    Yes I am a wizard. And no, I'm not granting you any more wishes.

  20. Re:Nokia and HTC should merge... on Nokia Officially Lists Patents Google's VP8 Allegedly Infringes · · Score: 2

    Don't kid yourself. That yacht is the form of the insanity that his anti-cancer and anti-boredom drugs caused. Ugly as sin.

  21. Re:Show me the money on Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    ham radio

    "In the Bridgeport area, also struck hard by Hurricane Sandy, members of the Greater Bridgeport Amateur Radio Club were called into action.

    John Russo, GBARC president, tells Examiner.com that 25 volunteers were deployed over the course of a week, assisting the Bridgeport, Stratford and Red Cross operation centers.

    Hams also provided information to help FEMA with damage assessments, he said."

    - http://www.examiner.com/article/ham-radio-s-response-to-hurricane-sandy-is-reviewed-and-praised

    Forming coalitions and raising funds in a disaster area is difficult, you ignorant motherfucker.

  22. Re:multicellular cluster computing on Living Cells Turned Into Computers · · Score: 1

    Except that your neurons don't use boolean logic.

    This is not True.

  23. Re:So did I, about four months ago. on Six Months Without Adobe Flash, and I Feel Fine · · Score: 2

    I just tried it. It's beautiful, and I learned how to use - for std I/O. Thanks!

  24. Re:Two Month without adobe pdf and I feel .. on Six Months Without Adobe Flash, and I Feel Fine · · Score: 1

    Try MuPDF for size.

    Press 'I' to invert colors, Shift-W to scale to width. Indispensable for when you have a headache.

  25. Re:So did I, about four months ago. on Six Months Without Adobe Flash, and I Feel Fine · · Score: 4, Informative

    I noticed that Gnash wasn't cutting it though for the few things I was trying to use it for (basically Youtube and the occasional stupid game).

    That WAS ages ago... as you said. I see Gnash is a little CPU-hungry, but playback has been smooth for me. I don't miss Adobe Flash one bit.

    There's experimental GPU acceleration in the works too.

    youtube-dl

    is nice too, if you don't mind the lack of streaming. I'm not actually sure why playback doesn't work on partially downloaded files.