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  1. Re:Cannot unsend an email on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    If you act fast enough

    GS could, if they wanted to, put a 30 minute delay in their outgoing email, or maybe a second step through a web form to authorise outgoing mail. It could be set to hold messages going to known non-professional domain names.

  2. In other news on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    There is an ad for gmail business on this page.

  3. Re: Impressive on 3D-Printed Material Can Carry 160,000 Times Its Own Weight · · Score: 1

    Yeah I wonder what its support length is.

  4. Or using a proper list manager on US Marshals Accidentally Reveal Potential Bidders For Gov't-Seized Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    ezmlm works fine for me.

  5. Re:Surrprised it is so hard on Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator · · Score: 1

    It would be pretty poor if the VM couldn't be compiled for i686 or AMD64.

  6. Surrprised it is so hard on Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator · · Score: 2

    Android apps already run on Linux. Why can't I just fire them up on Ubuntu? The VM should br portable.

  7. Re:far enough on The Andromeda Galaxy Just Had a Bright Gamma Ray Event · · Score: 1

    As an Aussie I vote for frying the Arctic.

  8. But can I still use XOFF? on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    I would be lost without it.

  9. Re:parent delays on Tux3 File System Could Finally Make It Into the Mainline Linux Kernel · · Score: 4, Funny

    took 14 years to rewrite it to avoid parents!

    A lot of these linux developers are pretty young.

  10. Re:As an old OpenVMS fan, this isn't... on Tux3 File System Could Finally Make It Into the Mainline Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    As versioning goes, FILES-11 was barely good enough to be called built in un-delete. Nowhere near as good as just checking all your files into git.

  11. Re:She'll lose on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 2

    But from the users POV the apple device and all its infrastructure is gone. They got a new phone. Why should they have to switch off stuff on the old phone?

  12. Re:The former iPhone user is an idiot. on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    Why don't you reply to this post because that person seems to have tried to unsubscribe from iMessage.

  13. Re:Nokia on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    I am sure Microsoft will find a way to fuck up Nokia phones.

  14. The General doesn't get it on Gen. Keith Alexander On Metadata, Snowden, and the NSA: "We're At Greater Risk" · · Score: 1

    By putting back doors in our communications infrastructure, the NSA is creating an attack vector for enemies to use.

  15. Re:What were the pings then? on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    Specified frequency is 37.5 kHz ± 1kHz

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

    Search teams picked up two signals on April 5 at a frequency of 33.5kHz before two more were received three days later at 27kHz.

    While both are significantly lower than the 37.5kHz frequency black box beacons are designed to emit, the April 5 signals are still possible, down perhaps to weakening batteries or the 'vagaries of deep-sea conditions'.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

    Buoys tend to move around and some get lost, so that could account for the 27kHz signals.

  16. Re:What were the pings then? on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Wasn't the main evidence against northern path. on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    We don't know they were undetected, and in any event, primary radar is short range. Without transponders it is fairly easy to evade.

  18. Re:What were the pings then? on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    From an electronics perspective this is pretty strange. Stable oscillators are easy to make.

  19. Re:What were the pings then? on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    Turns out there are submerged instruments in the ocean which broadcast at ultrasonic frequencies, and the signals didn't actually match the frequency of a black box pinger anyway.

  20. Re:Shot down? on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    If you had said that Singapore shot the plane down I would believe you but I doubt the Indonesian military would get out of bed fast enough to shoot down an airliner. And the Singaporeans would just say yeah we shot it down so what? I know from personal reports that sg keeps aircraft idling on the runways ready for a situation like this.

  21. Re:Data anomaly on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    Because nobody flies south into the Indian Ocean.

  22. Re:Wasn't the main evidence against northern path. on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    Until officials provide more information, the claim that Flight 370 went south rests not on the weight of mathematics but on faith in authority

    Wasn't the main evidence against a northern path the fact that the plane would have to have flown over some (unlike Malaysia) heavily monitored airspace?

    I reckon you could use terrain masking along the Himalayas.

  23. Re:Not so.... on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    uplink transmissions from the aircraft are doppler compensated

    So surely the argument based on the doppler data is bogus, which is really the point of the article.

  24. Re:Strange, indeed on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    They had two young Iranian guys with stolen passports and they ruled out their involvement in a few days. Thats either quick work or misdirection.

  25. Re:A firearm that depends on a battery? on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    This device is clearly aimed at organisations which need to control who uses their tools. When they hand out a vehicle, it needs a key to operate it. Thats a safer way to go than just allowing anybody to get in and go. Similarly, they want to control who uses their guns.