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  1. Re:Battery Case? on Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? · · Score: 1

    mugen power makes a lot of extened battery models, I can even get one for my blackberry Q10. they make your phone a bit thicker but more than double runtime.

  2. this is why all exploits should be announced first as a working exploit kit or working worm kit posted anonymously to 4chan. over and over again companies spit in the face of security research and threaten researches with civil and criminal prosecution for discovering their shoddy work.

  3. Re:That is, until... on Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky · · Score: 1

    A tail might work, but bird shot or target shot will work better and be more reliable and be cheaper

  4. kite on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    just fly a kite up to it and let the kite string foul the drone. $5 kite takes down $500+ drone. also a kite with a bit of wind can move faster than most drones so catching it shouldn't be much of a problem.

  5. Re:use much lower resolution data on Privacy Alert: Your Laptop Or Phone Battery Could Track You Online · · Score: 1

    set the line of ok/excellent to 100% so it's always in partial conserve except when plugged in, or go into advanced config and tweak it to force conservation at all times.

  6. Re:use much lower resolution data on Privacy Alert: Your Laptop Or Phone Battery Could Track You Online · · Score: 1

    no, it's for your device to make requests/demands of content providers.

  7. Re:That is, until... on Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky · · Score: 0

    If you are going to shoot at it with a pellet gun, skip the hassle of trailing a thread and just shoot it directly with the pellet or BlackBerry or .22LR

  8. Re:And so can fire hoses on Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky · · Score: 1

    If you weren't on a list before, you definitely are now.

  9. Re:First autonomous murder? on Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    sure we can, all you need to know is their IMEI, GSM encryption has been horribly broken since forever. ennough semtex to ensure a kill would certainly fit on a drone. not exactly a hobbiest project but any suitably funded terrorist group or government should be able to whip one up quick

  10. use much lower resolution data on Privacy Alert: Your Laptop Or Phone Battery Could Track You Online · · Score: 2

    so why not set a sequence of battery states rather than actual %. "excellent" "ok" "poor" "critical" with 'excellent' being defined as ok to use as much resources as the application would like, 'ok' would be a request to minimize unnecessary utilization 'poor' being an enforced power restriction mode and 'critical' being an explicit warning that failure is imminent and data being handled may be lost instead of saved. The thresholds themselves will vary based on device and user settings. for example my blackberry cuts off radio signal below about 7% battery and so should export 'critical' around 10% shortly before it ceases communication and it refuses to turn on the camera light below around 17% (exact % point varies i think the actual decision is based on current battery voltage data not exposed to the user) so around there should trigger poor. there should be a setting of when to request lower intensity web pages on the power or browser settings that would tweak the excellent/ok point, and of course on a charger would put the device into excellent.

  11. Re:First autonomous murder? on Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    a lethal trap that hunts you down is a pretty big threat.

  12. Re:disappointing on Japanese Scientists Fire the Most Powerful Laser On the Planet · · Score: 1

    or enough to flash boil 2 ml of ice water in a picosecond

  13. Re: Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 2

    Even "gangbangers" and criminals have first amendment rights, even with a warrant. There is no such thing as a warrant to silence someone.

  14. Re: Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's totally different, Polanski is white

  15. tldr on Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty · · Score: 1

    tl;dr: their domain went down and it took a little while for the new ones to float to the top of google.

  16. Re:Tidal? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    I believe him that it's not about the money, over the last few decades our methods of listening to music have gotten more flexible but also often worse quality. From vinyl to q track to casette then a reprieve with CD followed by degradations with MP3 and minidisk (R.I.P. in piss)

  17. Re:Farther-reaching implications on Bitcoin Snafu Causes Miners To Generate Invalid Blocks · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it was SMART to use it to buy illegal drugs, just that there are a lot of people selling drugs over the internet who accept bitcoin as payment.

  18. Therac 25 on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ever heard of a Therac 25?

  19. Re:Farther-reaching implications on Bitcoin Snafu Causes Miners To Generate Invalid Blocks · · Score: 1

    And this is where it gets to the hard part, the interface beween Bitcoin mathematics theory and the actual real world.

    i don't think it does, anyone who is paying attention already knows that's it's mostly rubbish and that it's main virtue is that you can use it to buy illegal drugs online.

  20. Re:FPGA anyone? on Brain-Inspired 'Memcomputer' Constructed · · Score: 1

    it sounds to me like an ASIC with lots of memory built in

  21. Gemini Game on Someone Will Die Playing a Game In Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    that's the plot of Gemini Game by Michael Scott (published in 1997)

  22. Re:Avira is a PUP itself. on Avira Wins Case Upholding Its Right To Block Adware · · Score: 2

    avira scans files that get executed. if your AV scanner defaults to trudging byte by byte through a terabyte of movies and MP3s, that isn't a good thing. maybe for a monthly scheduled scan at 4AM monday morning.

  23. Re:Let a D-9 Cat and two fire engines lead the par on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 1

    buy a couple of those armored bulldozers the Israelis use to flatten Palestinian houses.

  24. Re:well done. on Samsung Cripples Windows Update To Prevent Incompatible Drivers · · Score: 1

    or linux, my PC is a tool not a toy

  25. Re:Higher Deposits on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    many places in the US have anti-landlord laws that cap security deposits to a certain multiple of rent