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  1. What the problem? on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 1

    Real problem? Haven seen even single reported case in news....

  2. About time for bug fixe on Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better · · Score: 1

    So they finally figured whats wrong with youtube's encoders that make everything look dark...

  3. Just wondering on Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone · · Score: 1

    This comes with built in NSA backdoor?

  4. Sony applies such heavy handed strategy against hackers, what makes them thing hackers dont take glows off and use their own super weapons to fight back? After all nothing is as devious as someone plotting a counter strike in cyber game...

  5. Just wondering on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    Wonder if i should sue those french publishers for using my bandwith without my prior consent for their marketing crap... Im sure 200€/100.000 bytes transferred is fair price for unauthorized use of my bandwith.

  6. Why? on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    Why should they be exempt? That would mean less jobs for professionals since companies would abuse situation... Some smucks would surely be stupid enough to sign contract that says overtime is not compensated...

  7. Sad on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    Funny how feds take any star bossible to spy on citizens. Even laws that were made in time none had even imagined device like modern smart phone...

  8. Because its too damn difficult on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Most likely because ways to contribute are overly complex and difficult to use for non coders... They need to first try figure out how your complex project management system actually works. Do they need signup account for it first, then find right place to submit report, etc... I remember years ago.. when i was new and run into project that had problem with my local charset (some characters were handled wrong) went throw projects website and there was no easy way to send bug report... Ended up mailing one of the developers outside their main project system and asked if he could forward this to right place since i cant figure it out... Looking at most open source projects, that has not been getting any easier for non coders..

  9. Thats easy on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 2

    Because bean counter walk over the engineers... Grid is built cheap as bossible instead of being reliable, maintained even cheaper and that means no alternative routes, no backups... All this in name of Maximizing profits... After all you cant sue them for not delivering, so wheres their risk of this gamble...

  10. Not suprising on Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included) · · Score: 1

    This is just nothing more then Microsoft realizing they are loosing it. They lost supercomputers, they lost mobile markets, now Linux is taking over servers, next battle ground is desktop and Linux is starting to make inroads there also... What choice Microsoft has but try to adapt, if they wish to be in business still in 10 years from now?

  11. People have allready recomended many excellent books... Now if you are going to drag any deadweight electronics there, make sure you bring in means to charge them too. Laptop with empty battery is useless.. So solar-panel or two (bigger the better), inverter, battery and battery charge manager.. And you can charge what ever western not needed electronics use you have... Personally i would look what it-related projects are already there and try help them. Working with actual people will always be superior to any dull book. In fact if you can show that you have managed to come along even with people that you have no common language, might help your career more then any book. If all else fails, just enjoy scenery and piece of quiet you have there, your soon enough back to civilization and hurry..

  12. Re:Here's another project that needs funding on Mars One Studying How To Maintain Communications With Mars 24/7 · · Score: 1

    Anything is bossible. Its only matter of question how much effort and resources its going to take to make it happen.

  13. Interesting problems ahead on Mars One Studying How To Maintain Communications With Mars 24/7 · · Score: 1

    Its not difficult to maintain constant connection, add few satellites in good spots in space to bounce signal throw.. Its bandwidth issue. They want to make reality tv out of this so that's going to take some massive bandwidth between two planets. Video streaming down on earth is sometimes difficult all ready.. Add significant distance between planets that's constantly changing and you have problems...

  14. Interesting on USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs · · Score: 1

    Hmm why rob the bank when you can empty ATM with much less risk of cops catching you. Somehow i would have expected ATM to use something else then Windows or Dos system.

  15. In Finland if you receive item you did int order, its yours to keep. Its sellers responsibility to make sure they ship right stuff to customers. If they want it back well that up to negotiation. Want something i now own, well give me something i think is worth it in return.

  16. Re:ha? on US Military Settles Software Piracy Claims For $50M · · Score: 1

    Whats there stopping this corporation to take some of that money and help develop that opensource solution. Whats wrong with you? Anything government does is away from some private sector people... Example, they could hire private accounting corporation to run the whole tax system.

  17. Goverment on US Military Settles Software Piracy Claims For $50M · · Score: 2

    Its the government, what did you expect :P Government does everything in way its most expensive as possible.

  18. Soon(tm) on Researchers Build Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks In Air · · Score: 1

    If malware dint use it before, its sure going to use it soon enough after this paper.

  19. Re:*world's smallest VCO on World's Smallest FM Radio Transmitter Created With Graphene · · Score: 1

    How do you know they haven't done that all ready? What we see in civilian side is always few years back from Military/Super secret spy stuff. You dont think army spends all that money just for guns and ammunition do you?

  20. Hehe on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Hand up anyone thats suprised US goverment IT systems got hacked once again...

  21. What that software was doing there in first place? on Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View Data · · Score: 1

    So software is removed now, it would be interesting to know what it was doing in those car first place.. Google mus have known they would be world in trouble if extent of their snooping comes out.

  22. One of these claims? Something MAY happen because XXXXX.. Like those people that may escape dont know cops are after them all ready? Seriously what a joke. If their methods are/were so effective then how come there's still pedophiles free? Why aren't they all in jail? Because their methods are not so effective, except spying on all people illegally. People in power will always try to abuse those powers, if not for anything else then secure their own position of power.

  23. So bad development quality on Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 0

    I'm wondering, considering the massive amounts of money Microsoft has, the army of developers they have, just the sheer size of corporation, how the heck they cant write a single piece of software that does not have some exploitable vulnerability in it. With that massive amount of resources at its disposal and they write still crappy software... Almost like hey, lets hide all these deliberate backdoors in all these software we ship...

  24. Re:Do you think they're JavaScripters? on Linux 3.12 Released, Linus Proposes Bug Fix-Only 4.0 · · Score: 1

    And yet they are very much humans and capable of making errors. Where do you think all those bug fixes comes from? If dev's would be such super humans you describe them to be, there would be no need for bug fixes ever, since their code would be perfect from start. Personally i have newer understood why Linus stopped having separate stable with bug fixes only time to time.

  25. All human is inperfection on How Your Compiler Can Compromise Application Security · · Score: 1

    Its humans writing a code, humans are not perfect.. If this tools actually works as advertised, it should make fine addition to us not so perfect coders toolbox. Somehow i would have expected that compiler would warn you about it going to leave piece of code out. But i guess that's shows how little i code actually.