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  1. Darwinian innovation? With nuclear reactors? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1
    The problem is, our reactors are not big enough. Even if they go kaboom, they're unlikely to wipe humankind out.

    If you want true Darwinion innovation, try nuclear weapons instead...

    Or what did the article author mean with "For any technological development to be possible, the technology needs to drive itself with the fuel of Darwinian innovation". Given the nature of the subject, maybe he should have picked a .. humm... different wording.

  2. I fed the large green Chamaeleon some dodgy food.. on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 0
    and some months later it took the bait.

    Several years later it finally keeled over, taking down its bald rider with it. Yeehaah!

    GPL 3 rocks!

  3. Just post the name of the judge on German Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding · · Score: 0

    Just post the name of the judge, and be done with it. Other will contribute home address, place where his kids go to school, etc, and from there we can move on.

  4. Google is doing that? => No cookies! on Bursting the Filter Bubble · · Score: 1

    I didn't even know that google is doing this. One more reason to kill their cookies often (or not accept them in the first place...)

  5. Re:Stupid media bait on Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone · · Score: 1

    As soon as it lands, they throw a blanket over it (making the camera useless), or they just ignore the camera altogether. Then they break the drone open with a bit of violence (it won't be difficult, since weight is a big issue for the drone), and they're off.

    If it lands, it's at the point where it's going to deliver the package anyways. So why bother with blankets and breaking it open, rather than just wait 30 seconds for it to "voluntarily" drop its package? Unless the point is to steal the drone itself, rather than its cargo...

  6. At least they can hide it though.

    So well that even the rightful owner will only find it several months later...

  7. Re:Classical man-in-the-middle on European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack · · Score: 1

    But in any case, shutting down the public Wifi at the European Parliament will not help with this problem. They'll fall into the same trap in their hotel room, when they mistake the router that the hacker in the room next door has put up for the "official" Wifi of the hotel, even if the hotel never actually had an official Wifi...

  8. Re:what makes this white hat? on European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack · · Score: 1
    Personally, I'd guess acceptance of bogus mail server certificates rather than unencrypted protocol.

    Nice job marketers! You've managed to completely confuse users what a certificate is for, and why it matters. Hint: it's not about trusting the server that you're talking to, it's about trusting the path from you to the server!

  9. Re:They did the right thing! on European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack · · Score: 1

    Yes there is. Pay attention to the certificates. They are there for a reason.

  10. Classical man-in-the-middle on European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack · · Score: 2
    Might help more to educate the users what a certificate is, and why it is bad to simply ignore/dismiss those dialog boxes that say "certification authority for this certificate not know. Clicking 'ignore' could potentially allow a malicious person to eavesdrop on your conversation with the server, including passwords, dirty laundry, ..."

    I'm 99% percent sure that the hacker didn't attempt anything smarter than set up his own doctored openwrt Wifi access point in a well-traveled location, with a man-in-the-middle on it, and without even bothering to make a particularly good forgery of the mail server's certificate.

  11. Re:Visa Waiver on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    You don't fill it out on the plane anymore. You fill it out in advance electronically.

    Interesting to know. Then indeed, it could catch issues such as this.... if people don't go "in the olden days we could fill it out on the plane, so nowadays it's certainly ok to fill it out the night before departure"...

  12. Re:too many possible jokes on ESA's Long-Term Plan To Investigate the Invisible Universe · · Score: 2

    hmmm, I think this "invisible universe" is about things at a great distance, way beyond the orbit of Uranus!

  13. Re:So you won't need to waste time on FB on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1

    Honestly honey, I didn't mean to say that. It was google!

    And this is different from what Google mail does already now exactly how?

    A friend of mine has a gmail account, and on occasion sends out really bizarre mails (mails littered with asterisks, with completely messed up quoting, with subject line completely unrelated to the contents, ...), and when called upon it, claims the mails looked normal when she sent them out, but that "google must have messed them up afterwards". Ok, for the asterisks, this sounds believable, but not for the rest.

  14. Re:Visa Waiver on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Visa Wavier

    Is that the small yellow cardboard form that you fill out in the plane, where they also ask you whether you had any Nazi past?

    you get asked about you mental health when filling it out. If you had attempted to commit suicide and you are still on medication for the condition, then I can't see how you can tick the no box and not be lying. I presume you would them be informed about the extra procedures you would need to complete to enter the US.

    At which point it would be too late anyways, as these "extra procedures" cannot be completed instantly, so her cruise would still have been ruined.

  15. Re:Don't start a cruise from the USA on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of cruises that will leave from Britain, mostly Southampton.

    To the Carribean? Maybe, but that'll tack a couple of uninteresting days at the beginning and at the end, which you might not want.

  16. Re:England on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1
    No, I attempt to keep half of them in the house and half of them in the car. Obviously.

    But forgetful how I am, it doesn't always work out like that. Especially since I've got an odd number (3) of bags. So there!

    O, and the car is in an underground garage.

  17. Re:Taking exception to a statement in the summary on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    and the people who design them don't *want* the contents to degrade.

    Why? Wouldn't that cause the landfill to uuhh... fill up, and become unusable? (and unusable for everything else too, because who wants to build on top of trash?)

  18. Re:Taking exception to a statement in the summary on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1
    Ok, so we can't really know how long they'll actually last.

    But that doesn't mean that they'll decay faster than the current estimates.

    They could just as well last much, much longer. Such as a thousand years...

  19. Re:Good riddance on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    The problem with re-usable cloth bags is that you have the carry the bastards around while you shop, and I find that annoying.

    Folded up at the bottom of your cart? Hardly noticable...

  20. Re:The cost and use of plastic bags on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    So if I did go cloth or, heaven forbid, paper, I'd still have to buy plastic bags to put in my trash cans.

    You use less trashbags than you get grocery bags (think about it... empty packaging takes less space then full. And stuff that goes into the glass or cardboard container doesn't take any space at all in your normal trash).

    So, you can still use recycled bags. Just don't use them every time, but only, say, 3 times out of 4. And if you're of the forgetful kind, the ratio works itself out all by itself :-)

  21. Re:England on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    What value are they serving in your house?

    For use when shopping at the small superette within walking distance, that's open on Sunday mornings?

  22. Re:United States on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 3, Insightful

    3. Generic bags. Lets not use them as as an advertising platform. you want bags that you can use tastefully at any store.

    I never had any problem pulling out a bag of a competing supermarket out of my pocket at checkout. Or a bag with father Christmas on it in the middle of the summer. Who the hell cares? Grow a skin!

  23. Hm, they might see more than they bargained for... on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    32 tall, unmarked SUVs to better peer down at drivers' hands,

    Need I say more?p. Good thing you need to be 18 to get a driving license, or else those cops might get them into hot waters themselves...

  24. Re:Get a new landline (or better yet, cut the cord on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1
    Did this once when being deluged by joe-job bounces from Bellsouth.
    Complaining to abuse@bellsouth.net didn't help.

    So I set a forwarding to automatically send back all bounce to abuse@bellsouth.
    Didn't help

    Next step: forward it to a couple of random bellsouth employee adresses found using Google
    Didn't help either

    Then, same thing, but this time with their customers.
    Problem fixed in less than one afternoon!

  25. Re:Food for thought on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    Makes sense. After all, the Men's Room is where you bring your beer to, but usually only after you've "used" it...