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  1. Re:Simple solution on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    When the cop is parked across the street from the bar, that becomes a lot more difficult.

  2. Re:What It Is Made Of on At Oxford, a Battery That's Lasted 175 Years -- So Far · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just don't use "tar". :-)

  3. Re:so ask the truck driver where he got his stick on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    Smarter stations kept a tally of the volume sold by each pump. They know the capacity of the tanks, so therefor they know how much should be in the tank. (check it once a day to make sure)

  4. Re:Not teleportation on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Always get your receipt!

  5. Re:Isn't that how the transporter works? on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    These days we do it all with green screens and cgi.

  6. Re:Isn't that how the transporter works? on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    The "pattern" (transporter trace) is, for the lack of a better term, the assembly instructions for reversing the matter/energy conversion. In theory, with enough energy (or equiv block of matter), a person could be replicated. It's the same way they make parts, food, etc. It's also the way Riker ended up cloned (in a very hand-wavey manner in the story) via an "energy reflection" during a beam out through a storm.

  7. Re:No one 3D printed a house on Shanghai Company 3D Prints 6-Story Apartment Building and Villa · · Score: 1

    In the US, the concrete alone is more than that.. still sitting in the bags or trucks.

    Let's remember this was done as a stunt in China, where they build entire freakin' cities that no one lives in.

  8. Re:Hello insurance fraud on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 1

    This assumes a "black box" in every car, they all have sync'd atomic clocks, and they're recording data like an F1 on-board telemetry recorder. (all three are not true, btw.)

  9. Re:Wrong direction on FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number · · Score: 1

    YOU have an established "business" relationship with your daughter's school. When their idiot mis-programmed robot calls ME, then we have a problem. As it's a 100% automatic announcement machine, it is an absolute god damn pain in the fucking ass get it "fixed". (yes, I've had this bullshit with the Wake County Schools. And there's some charter school in Durham that calls my freedompop number.)

  10. Re:design flaw with placement of antenna on Lost Beagle2 Probe Found 'Intact' On Mars · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing, but if the panels don't deploy, it won't have enough power to talk for very long.

  11. Re:You want to protect your data? on Simple Rogue WiFi Hotspot Captures High Profile Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you 100% certain the cnn.com you think you asked for a page is actually cnn.com and not some i'm-gonna-fill-your-browser-full-of-malware spoof?

  12. Re:pfsense on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 2

    SMF pre-dates the Oracle purchase. I used Solaris 10 on exactly ONE system. After a few weeks of dealing with SMF (and the lie that it replaces all the shell scripts -- hint: it doesn't; it just hides them somewhere else) I installed linux and microwaved those DVDs. Too much like the windows registry. Too easy to leave all manner of crap in it. Far too easy to "hide" shit in it. Too much bloat and always running shit.

    I know a lot of UNIX(tm) admins. None of them like what became of Solaris. SMF was an attempt to fix what wasn't broken. ("if it's not broken, break it.")

  13. Re:pfsense on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 2

    Then you end up with sysvinit AND various bits of systemd installed at the same time. A lot of shit lists systemd as a requirement, thus It. Will. Be. Installed. It's like plymouth on Ubuntu (splash screen crap); it's buggered into to a thousand things so it cannot be removed. (you can choose not to run it, but it's always installed.)

  14. Re:It's official ... on Asus Wireless Routers Can Be Exploited By Anyone Inside the Network · · Score: 1

    It's often not the real amount of ram, but idiotic low limits on the connection table size -- 2048, 4096 -- even when there's plenty of ram for a larger table.

  15. Re:It's official ... on Asus Wireless Routers Can Be Exploited By Anyone Inside the Network · · Score: 1

    would have been catched by proper code auditing.

    By what process? automated software, maybe as it's a suspicious comparison -- in fact, the compiler should emit a warning (0 isn't a void*). a human reading the code, unlikely.

  16. Re: Just force them already on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    Manufacturers aren't going to support every device they've ever made for hundreds of years. You're lucky if your android phone/tablet/sandwich maker is supported for 2-3 years. They move on, and they don't maintain lock-step development of their hardware releases. (if you do get an update, it'll be months later.)

  17. Re:Presumption of innocence on Indiana Court Rules Melted Down Hard Drive Not Destruction of Evidence · · Score: 1

    Without the drive in question, we have only his word as to its "failure". The rules governing the preservation of evidence does not require the evidence be known. In the case of electronic storage, it is assumed to be evidence until inspected and found to be otherwise.

    If we're talking about a drive he hadn't used for several years, then I'd have to side with him (as did the court.)

  18. Re:So, what do you do with your college degree? on US CTO Tries To Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Well, seeing as no one makes them anymore, that problem will fix itself in due time.

  19. Re:The Stupidity of Human Greed on Bots Scanning GitHub To Steal Amazon EC2 Keys · · Score: 2

    Doesn't matter if their nuclear road flare gets their instances shutdown before a single shitcoin is mined. Given the speed of CPU hashing, even 1000 instances would take days to amount to anything. (the fastest dedicated miner does 6TH/s, and it would take a week to generate 0.5BTC -- worth about $150)

  20. Re:Don't get your hopes up. on The 5 Cases That Could Pit the Supreme Court Against the NSA · · Score: 1

    The correct answer in Heien is obviously to say "NO" to the f'ing search. If a cop has probable cause (or a warrant), he's not going to ask, he's going to cuff you and search away.

    And the interpretation of "one brake light" is news to every single badge in the state. (It's the #1 BS reason to stop someone when fishing.)

  21. Re:Don't get your hopes up. on The 5 Cases That Could Pit the Supreme Court Against the NSA · · Score: 2

    Find the alternate universe where Gore won and tell me how that turned out. I would be hard pressed to say we've ever had a good president. (Historically, we've had some really entertaining ones, but "good"???)

  22. Re:You are factually incorrect. on Sony Sends DMCA Notices Against Users Spreading Leaked Emails · · Score: 1

    Unless both parties took step to secure the email, it would be hard to prove such privacy applies. Email is stored as plain text on every system it passes through. And in many (most?) cases, flows between systems in plain sight. Your own email application is also likely passing traffic in the clear. ('tho tls/ssl are far more common these days, very few MTAs use an encrypted local store.)

    It would be further invalidated by the fact that company resources were being used for private personal communications. (Sony would legally own such "privileged" communications.)

  23. Re:Because no one ever ... on Bitcoin Gets Its First TV Ads · · Score: 1

    And how is this any different from a real bank? Do you really think your bank has the cash on hand to close every deposit account? (answer: hell. no.) The cash plus debts owed to them (aka the loans they've made with your money) should (and for any healthy bank, does) exceed deposits. If everyone closed their account(s), the bank would default, and [in the US] the Fed (FDIC) would have to step in to cover the mess (up to the FDIC limit of $250k)

  24. Re:Delays ? on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    I have, but our flight landed 10min late in a terminal 2 miles away.

  25. Re:Not true on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    It's an FAA requirement... if you aren't on the plane, your bags aren't to be on it either. Obviously, there are mistakes and failures to enforce it. Yes, it's merely more Security Theater(tm): (a) people most certainly will blow themselves up for their cause, and (b) aren't they supposed to be inspecting all this luggage?

    (It's a bit stupid when you learn you can (or could) buy "air cargo" on commercial passenger craft. I once joked about flying an order from Bojangles to Oregon.)