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  1. Re:Anyone noticed. . . on No Zombie Uprising, But Problems Persist With Emergency Alert System · · Score: 1

    Oh lighten up. Zombies are hardly believable and it is quite funny.

    If they wanted to be malicious there are far worse things they could have said.

  2. Re: Nobody cares about bitcoin on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The difficulty parameter autoadjusts depending on the number of miners. Less miners = easier difficulty.
    There should always be a new block every 10 mins (on average).

    Also while the benefits of mining diminish, the 'fees' should increase with the use of bitcoin.
    At some point the fees overtake the benefit of finding a new block.
    Remember the fees get paid to the block finder.

  3. Re:The govenment should just double spending. on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    Don't worry they have already just spent that $24 billion on paper clips.

    In the US Government that buys 3 small boxes of paper clips or half a toilet seat right?

  4. Re:14 nanometers should be enough for anyone. on Intel's 14nm Broadwell Delayed Because of Low Yield · · Score: 1

    Photos are easy to use (kinda) and last a long time. Oh and they are definitely smaller.

  5. Re: forbidden from transferring or open-sourcing? on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 1

    Thats the point. Not a lot of effort for that player at all. :P

  6. Re:Good old Oracle/Java on Java Spec Compatibility Weakened Android's TLS Encryption · · Score: 0

    Erm most Android apps are written in Java in their own JVM.
    To improve JVM compatibility they had to copy what Oracle's JVM does.

    100% to do with Java and 0% to do with websites.

  7. Re:Moo on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    LOTR doesn't try to portray its self as realistic.

    Its only when you claim that something is scientifically accurate do the scientists come out and shoot that claim down.
    I quite enjoyed Armageddon (to some extent) however it never claimed to be remotely accurate. Its just a Bruce Willis movie.
    If they claimed it was scientifically accurate though I'd hope everyone tore them a new one.

  8. Re:Scheme?!? on GNU Make 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    His arguments were clear to me. Too many bloody brackets!

  9. Re:Charles Darwin Wrote on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 4, Informative

    Neanderthals had larger brains than us. Your argument isn't terribly effective.

  10. Re:Hey, more FOIA requests Obama can ignore! on Since Snowden Leaks, NSA's FOIA Requests Are Up 1,000 Percent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey it is the most transparent administration in history!

    It just says more about previous administrations than anything else.

  11. Re:Why we have a 5th Amendment on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    Here in Australia they just mail out a sticker to you with your corrected licence.
    They don't replace the licence.

  12. Re:Sounds like.. on NSA Abandoned Project To Track Cell Phone Locations · · Score: 1

    Granted, but this program would be virtually worthless for targeting non-citizens.

  13. Re:Bunch of dopes, these gamers on GTA Online Runs Into an Online Roadblock · · Score: 1

    Whats wrong with spinning up a few hundred EC2 instances? Cheap, easy and no initial outlay.

  14. Re:Sounds like.. on NSA Abandoned Project To Track Cell Phone Locations · · Score: 1

    Recording it permanently does have value however.

    The interesting thing about this is it can't be called legal in any fashion since it could ONLY target US citizens.

  15. Re:Paper works better on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    Same as all the other electronics in the plane. Nothing.
    The skin is a Faraday cage. That is why you've never heard of passengers complaining of that problem and why fly by wire planes don't fall out of the sky.

  16. Re:"personal use" on flight-critical device on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    Bolting it to the plane is even better.

  17. Re:Getting the fingerprint in JS on Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know? · · Score: 1

    Very hard in that case to detect someone intercepting but not modifying anything.

    Best way in that case is to create a 'fingerprint' of what a corporate interception proxy is from the SSL data it sends your server.
    Stuff like supported encryption standards. Not too hard if the user is using a modern algorithm but they connect with a crappy algorithm because you are actually talking to the proxy.

  18. Re:Getting the fingerprint in JS on Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know? · · Score: 1

    No JS cannot get any SSL information.

    Perhaps hash the page you send and check the hash in JS? If they are sending sensitive information then use a JS strong encryption library which adds an extra layer in the browser.

    Again dead simple to break if someone is targeting you specifically, but it would have to be a custom hack for your site.

  19. Re:Why do we trust SSL? on Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know? · · Score: 1

    If you look hard you can detect that very easily. Both the additional CA on your computer and patterns in the generated certificates.

    Yes you do have to be looking for it, but once you look it is dead simple.

  20. Re:Schlameel, Schlamazel on AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle · · Score: 1

    Or the R1 for that matter?

  21. Re:America is fucked ... on DEA Argues Oregonians Have No Protected Privacy Interest In Prescription Records · · Score: 1

    Actually to be unconstitutional there has to be something in the constitution.
    Please cite which section you are referring to.

    You guys over in the US really do treat your constitution like toilet paper.
    On both sides.

  22. Re:Wrong objective. on Mozilla Plan Seeks To Debug Scientific Code · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If the code they are writing looks like bad PHP from 10 years ago then it needs to be exposed.

    What is needed is more *good quality* code being published.

  23. Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Its especially great when you can double/triple click to select a word or a entire line.

  24. Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Having two clipboards is extremely invaluable. It isn't redundant unless you've never exploited it to copy paste two things at the same time.

    I doubt it is a Wayland thing. Something this simple can't just come down to the input architecture.
    It would take all of 5 minutes to re-add it anyway to Gnome if Wayland removed a part it needed.

  25. Re:So what. on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 2

    HDCP will definitely be enabled on the output as well.
    That means it is working by design, you still can't get an encrypted stream.

    Another very common example, audio amplifiers with HDMI.
    They need to decrypt the stream to extract the audio then send it on.
    That is fully allowed by HDCP as long as it sends it on also with HDCP.