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  1. Re:So who is behind this? on FCC Proposal To Limit Access To 5725-5850 MHz Band · · Score: 2

    U-NNI (5 GHz) bands aren't just "a," they're also "n" and the only option for "ac." Want to run open source on an 802.11ac AP, better get one quick.

  2. Re:So who is behind this? on FCC Proposal To Limit Access To 5725-5850 MHz Band · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Yep. And the summary completely misses the part which is likely to upset most /. users:

    Accordingly, we are adopting the proposal in the NPRM that manufacturers must take steps to prevent unauthorized software changes to their equipment in all of the U-NII bands

    That may effectively put an end to all the Linux based APs (DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, etc.)

  3. What about the ISP? on Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice · · Score: 2

    They contributed at least as much. And, a few backbone providers. This guy was just a single hop, they contribute many.

  4. Re:John Smith? on Ask Slashdot: Hosting Services That Don't Overreact To DMCA Requests? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    " you can take them to court and give them an expensive lesson in copyright law and the DMCA law."

    Sure, expensive for both parties.

  5. Re:Ethics on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 1
    Reading is fundamental.

    Because the two academic authors merely designed the research and wrote the paper, they would not seem to have been involved, then, in obtaining either data or informed consent.

    - idem (original all caps emphasis removed to avoid /. lameness filter)

  6. Re:Disclaimer? on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's your email address? Because, I want to send you an email with a giant disclosure at the end which says you owe me $1 million if you read the email.

  7. Re:Ethics on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 1

    So, your point is that you can't point to any foreign laws which have been violated, either.

  8. Re:Ethics on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 4, Informative
    Cites, please? Because I have one which counters that claim.

    Importantly -- and contrary to the apparent beliefs of some commentators -- not all HSR is subject to the federal regulations, including IRB review. By the terms of the regulations themselves, HSR is subject to IRB review only when it is conducted or funded by any of several federal departments and agencies (so-called Common Rule agencies), or when it will form the basis of an FDA marketing application. HSR conducted and funded solely by entities like Facebook is not subject to federal research regulations...

    - Everything you need to know about Facebook's manipulative experiment

  9. Re:What is old is new again on Philips Ethernet-Powered Lighting Transmits Data To Mobile Devices Via Light · · Score: 1

    Want to elaborate? Like with some facts and not just a blanket dismissal?

    It's been done using a PIN photo-diode. I make no claim that it could be done with a 20 year old consumer camcorder, but there were pro cameras with 1/20,000 shutter speeds available. Whether that applied on a frame or pixel basis, I don't know, so I'm not willing to dismiss the possibility out of hand, as you do. It's believable to me that there were commercially available cameras capable of doing it.

  10. Re:Why can't on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    You'd be likely to notice that yourself if it were significant, without getting a letter from the ISP.

  11. Re:What is old is new again on Philips Ethernet-Powered Lighting Transmits Data To Mobile Devices Via Light · · Score: 1

    An NTSC video camera records ~480 scan lines every 1/30 second. So, a full scan line would represent about 1 bit at 14400 bps. If you recorded a de-focused LED, so it was recorded full frame, you'd get the bits if the sensor were fast enough (i.e. didn't integrate over the time between scans). If rx/tx were different colors, you could probably get both at once. It should be relatively easy to decode, but you'd be missing some bits during vertical retrace.

  12. Re:Why can't on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 2

    Why can't the ISPs just kill the caps and let customers know in a not so threatening letter, "hey I think you have a problem Did you know your port is lit up at 80% capacity 24-7 if you do that's find but if not there is probably something really wrong on your network"

    Thanks for letting me know, but since there's no cap, I don't really care and it's not worth my time to figure out why and to fix it.

  13. Re:Funny on 30% of Americans Aren't Ready For the Next Generation of Technology · · Score: 1
    I thought the same thing...

    nearly 30% of Americans either aren't digitally literate or don't trust the Internet.

    That should be 100%, because if you're digitally literate, you don't trust the Internet.

  14. Re:Boards or ROM's on Grandmother Buys Old Building In Japan And Finds 55 Classic Arcade Cabinets · · Score: 1

    If I ever need neurosurgery, I don't expect to have it done by an old video arcade machine.

  15. Re:News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters.... on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 2

    " half the posts are simply wrong"

    ...and the other half are mistaken.

  16. Re:Gee Catholic judges on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    I've actually read the Constitution. Perhaps you can point out where it promises that others will pay for your contraceptives, I must have missed that part.

  17. Re:One non-disturbing theory on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    Fish which aren't eaten, die or rot, which would release the plastic. Some amount would just be released in fish poo (or does it simply not get passed?). This article mentions the possibility that it sinks to the ocean floor in poo. All of that would end up back in the ocean.

    If it's in the food chain, much of it should get concentrated near the top. How many pounds of plastic in an average shark's belly to sequester "millions of tons" of plastic?

    There's also the fact that they may simply be looking in the wrong place. The article starts out "plastic should be floating in the worldâ(TM)s oceans..." But not all plastics float. The ubiquitous PET soda bottle has a density greater than salt water (1.3 vs 1.03), and they're trawling near the surface looking for it.

  18. Re: Haters gonna hate. on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    the citation doesn't appear to include the costs of those "large scale energy storage" facilities.

    Seriously? At a national or regional level, that cost is a minimal increment.

  19. Haters gonna hate. on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 0

    The entire rebuttal is based on wind power not being a constant source.

    That, of course, in turn assumes that the power generated can't be buffered, such as with batteries or forms of large scale energy storage. And it's not as if there doesn't already exist a nationwide power distribution system which can move energy from one area to another, depending on generating capacity and usage.

  20. Re:So that is why they are slow on FBI Issued 19,000 National Security Letters In 2013 · · Score: 1

    So fuck the FCC
    Fuck the FBI
    Fuck the CIA
    Livin' in the motherfuckin' USA

    --Steve Earle

  21. Re:Private entities? on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cops working for private corporations (e.g. sidelining as concert security) are not performing as public servants, and are personally liable for their actions. This should be no different.

  22. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    I'll give you a break, and assume you're a product of public education and therefore unable to read.

  23. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    I agree in philosophy. But pragmatically, US society has decided to force participation in health insurance. So, prohibit unhealthy activity (as in this case), or tax it as an insurance surcharge. Why should people who live healthy lifestyles subsidize those who don't?

    My personal view is that people should simply be held responsible for themselves, and caring for those who can't is an opportunity for private charity - vote with your dollars, in effect. Governments are formed to provide for a common defense of liberty.

  24. Re:Not the data I was looking for... on What's Your STEM Degree Worth? · · Score: 1

    You you really want them to average in tech workers without degrees, like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg?

  25. Re:Wrong decision on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    "over-the-air cable TV"

    There's a patent, or marketing opportunity, or something to be had there!