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  1. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes. If you are charged with the murder of Bob, by shooting him, and you can prove that he was dead from a heart attack, the most they can charge you with is desecrating a corpse, which wouldn't stick if you could prove that he was alive when you shot, and dead when it hit.

    Hacking doesn't have to have an effect, though. It's not a crime to make a plane divert. It's illegal to try, whether or not you succeed. So that's different.

  2. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 2

    The article claims that the actual lice hack was done with default usernames and passwords. If that's true, the CEO of the airline should be in jail for 10M counts of criminal negligence.

  3. Re:Is that even correct ? on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    That their "proof" is targeting a stationary black, soft object as the demonstration of capability. If it were as good as people say, why aren't they detonating an incoming HE artilllery shell at 2 km range? When they can do that, I'll believe it's something other than a David Copperfield demonstration.

  4. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    The only reason you would take cash regularly from a drug user is if you are supplying him with drugs.

    QED

  5. Re:Why the hell is this on Slashdot? on Book Review: The Terrorists of Iraq · · Score: 1

    Nerds are interested in politics. This is news for nerds, not tech news. That you confuse the two is your problem, not Slashdot's.

  6. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 1
    Nope. She was named, as Jane Doe.

    Again, that seems pretty unlikely.

    Sure, it seems pretty unlikely, but that's how it works. That was one of the delays with Hans Reiser. They "knew" he did it, but if they named a time, and they were wrong and he could alibi our for it, they'd never get a conviction. That's why they took so long, so they could narrow down the crime so they charged him with the right one the first time, or a murder could walk.

  7. Re:I never pretended it would help for a long time on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    You spin and cool your weapons, and make them as reflective as practical and this system won't do any damage. When the power is 100x or so, it'll be able to do real damage. But by then, there will be more countermeasures.

  8. Re:Is that even correct ? on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 2

    When we spend $10T on this, the "bad guys" will spend $10k on making their rockets spin gently, increasing the time to kill by a factor of 10, allowing a much smaller number of rockets to saturate the defensive capability of a laser system.

    And after their $10k system nullifies a $10T system, and the $10T system is replaced with a $100T system, they'll install cooling lines within the rocket that better distribute the heat, nullifying the next step.

    When they use internally-cooled mirrored rotating targets, then let me know. But when they use soft, black targets to rig a "pass" for a mostly useless system, this is more a story about military waste than cool tech.

  9. Re:It's about money. on North Carolina Still Wants To Block Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    Since the government does it, whether they should or shouldn't, they are bound to do it equitably. Abolishing marriage would be one way, and the other is allowing interracial marriage, or gay marriage, or whatever "undesirable" minority that's demanding human rights these days.

  10. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 4, Informative

    The affidavit simply states that Chris Roberts told the FBI agents he was able to hack the avionics of the plane.

    It's not illegal to be "able" to hack something. A crime is an illegal act, done at a specific time and place. You can't charge someone with having killed "someone" unless you name that someone. You can't even charge them if you have a name of the murdered, unless you have a time and place named.

    You can get a warrant for someone "able" to do it, and they did. If they arrested him, the charge should specify what he did that was illegal, and when and where it happened. I haven't seen a pic of the actual arrest paperwork, but the media stated it was for hacking a specific flight. This means that the media reports are that he was arrested for actually having caused a flight-path diversion mid-flight by controlling (at least part of) the flight control systems from his passenger seat.

  11. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    If it is drug-tainted, it's up to you to prove you didn't get it by selling drugs to a drug user. That's how Civil Forfeiture works. It's not illegal to have drug money, but it's also not illegal for the government to take it and never give it back.

  12. Re:Sooooo...... on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    The movie marquis at the time listed it as Rambo (at least in the US, where I was at the time). IMDB indicates that most of the rest of the world listed it at Rambo II. The working titles (As in the used titles, not the pre-release titles) were: First Blood, Rambo, Rambo III, and Rambo. IMDB and other places where character limits don't apply list Rambo II differently. But I didn't check the references, because I was there. I remember the ads and marquis. The posters make "First Blood Part II" look like a subtitle, not an extension of the title.

    Rambo V is rumoured to be in production (or pre-production, the exact timing is hard to work out).

  13. Re:Sooooo...... on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    More was added to the definitions because the "villain" could be the main character, with the "hero" being the opponent. To help clear up that, the definition of protagonist is more complex than you assert.

  14. Re:Won't save most of the 4000 lives on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    The tech is there to get a 80000 lb truck to perform like a car. The issue is cost. Dead people are acceptable, so long as we save 1/10th of a cent on our Wal-Mart purchase.

  15. Re:Good for them! on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 1

    Yup, less grinding, but real-time based training that leaves new players unable to "catch up" no matter how hard they try, or how much time they can spend playing.

  16. Most people don't find a way to stop driving to work when the price of gasoline goes up 5%. Usage doesn't drop for small changes in price. A 200% increase for a period of a year will cause carpools to start up at work, and people trading in their suburbans for Priuses, but 5% here and there has almost no effect on usage.

  17. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    Does it establish that a drug user sweated on your money? If your money tests positive, then it should be seized, right?

  18. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    Nope, a guy driving to California to buy a car he bought on eBay took cash. It was confiscated because the cop said he thought he drove from WI to CA to buy drugs. Which is absurd. There are plenty of drugs in WI, IL, and every state on the route. There was no suspicion of actual criminal activity, other than a cop's unsubstantiated hunch.

  19. Re:It's not a failure, this WOsD on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are ignoring the racial component. Blacks having relations with white women was one of the reasons on the congressional record that drugs were made illegal. And if drugs weren't illegal, how could we keep so many black people in prison? So many are in for drug-related offenses, or got longer sentences for a previous record that includes drug charges. If drugs were all made legal, and the prisons were emptied, then we'd have blacks out on the streets, sexing up our white womens.

  20. Re:Good for them! on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 1

    If you want to beat the boss in Street Fighter, you have to "grind" the lower fights to get to the boss fight. Much like if you want to fight the raid bosses in WoW, you must "grind" the gear to do so.

  21. People like different parts of the game. Who are you to judge?

  22. Re:Good for them! on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 1

    Every game is grinding. Grinding the combo in Street Fighter to get the win. Or the people grinding Sims. Or just about any game.

  23. How about this for an example of supply and demand. If a radio station ran a promotion tonight, for $0.20 for a gallon of gasoline. How would that affect your weekly consumption? For most people, that wouldn't change the amount they purchase or consume for this week. Similar effects are seen with milk.

    You are confusing "oil" and "gasoline". When you learn the difference, feel free to start reading the posts again from the top. Though, I expect you to keep arguing against what nobody ever said, so you can declare a "win" in your mind with an argument nobody is having with you.

  24. Re:Biased by 20th century tech on On the Taxonomy of Sci-Fi Spaceships · · Score: 1

    Fighters will be replaced with AI missiles in space.

  25. Re:Missing new classification... on On the Taxonomy of Sci-Fi Spaceships · · Score: 1

    They had it, they just didn't deploy them due to hubris. They only sent one squad of the thousands. That's all that was needed to kill the rebels. The rebels just had the deus ex Millennium.