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  1. Re:So, if Apple "rolled out a patch" for this ... on Serious Flaws In iMessage Crypto Allow For Message Decryption (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Looks like old messages can still be decrypted. So, I guess the answer is yes/no depending on what messages you want to look at.

  2. Re:Similar happened with anon.penet.fi on GhostMail Closes in September, Leaves Users Searching For Secure Email Alternatives (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think you misunderstand his concern. Fox News gets bent out of shape about something, and a Fox News watcher (perhaps several!) decides to "Do Something About It! (TM)". Fox News here is merely an example of the pulpit, it's the parishioners that you have to watch out for.
     

  3. God clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.theonion.com/articl....

    The Onion, but not satire or humour.

  4. Re:Rule of law on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 1

    "War", by Gwynne Dyer

    Episode 2 - "Anybody's Son Will Do".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Dilbert strikes again (last panel) on Slashdot Asks: What's Your View On Speed Reading? · · Score: 1
  6. Even if correct, your calculations are not relevant. The energy extracted is chemical, not mechanical.

  7. Probably depends on what you are doing with 's' in the loop. For example, if 's' is used as the parameter to a function, then it can't be hoisted, since the function *might* change 's' to be a different length.

  8. Re:Time shifting on YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads · · Score: 1

    No reason (other than horsepower) why they can't splice on the fly with an ad just as targeted as whatever they show at the start.

  9. Re: And? on Supercapacitor-On-a-Chip Now One Step Closer (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    By *volume*. By weight is going to be much, much worse.

  10. Re:What's a DLL? on Researcher Finds Tens of Software Products Vulnerable To Simple Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Literally the FIRST hit on Google leads to this:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    tl;dr - it's not really a problem to force an arbitrary process to load a DLL, *if you are an administrator*. As noted elsewhere though, if you have the power to inject, you already owned the machine, so why bother?

  11. Re:Less protein? on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Plants typically do not use atmospheric nitrogen - it is an extremely stable molecule, too difficult to break apart and combine to make other things.

    Instead, plants use other nitrogen compounds, many of which are created by bacteria, or are applied from fertilizer. Plants are nitrogen limited by the availability of biologically useful nitrogen, not atmospheric nitrogen.

  12. It doesn't matter what they *want* - it only matters what they can *do*, and time and time again it's been shown that the TSA's actions are entirely ineffective. It's security theatre at it's finest, a pointless waste of time and money for everyone involved.

    That's why we are 'worried' about it.

  13. Re:Refers to Observable Universe Only on How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? · · Score: 1

    The surface of a sphere is *unbounded*, not infinite. There's a lot of overlap, but I'm not even sure you can say that all infinite things are unbounded.

  14. Re:Canada on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 1

    "Waste" in the sense that an overwhelming majority in Quebec means that even if they get 1/3 of the total votes, they won't get 1/3 of the seats, because they are under-represented elsewhere.

    Remember, in an election, you don't want to win 80-20, because that usually means you lost somewhere else 20-80. You want your supporters evenly distributed, so you win as many ridings as possible with 50%+1. Of course votes aren't transferable, and we don't have gerrymandering like in many US states, but that's the logic.

  15. Re:Dava Sobel on John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the A&E creation?
    https://www.youtube.com/playli...

  16. Re:Dava Sobel on John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero · · Score: 1

    The website for the Royal Observatory has a couple of pages on maritime time-keeping:

    http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/...
    http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/...

  17. Re:The good news that no one reports on Followup: Library Board Unanimously Supports TOR Relay · · Score: 1

    Smallpox was eliminated because the only host was people - there was no external reservoir to re-infect the population. Alas, not true for almost all other diseases - for example, rabies in bats and foxes. Often the disease has only minor or even no effects in these other hosts, making it even harder to eradicate.

  18. And her name is... on DARPA Working On Robotic Satellite Repair · · Score: 1

    "Melroy"

  19. Re:In order to work on Only Self-Awareness Can Keep Drones Out of Do Not Fly Zones · · Score: 1

    But is that blacklisting the rest of the world (but in millions of pieces), or whitelisting a few racetracks? The drone problem is far more akin to the former.

  20. Re: Not this shit again... on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps the device is *inside* the cage, and the cage is used to negate outside influences....

  21. Re:Impractical on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    You're still wrong. North America is 240, center tap single phase for residential. All you have to do is look at the power transformers hanging off the poles - they are fed from *1* high voltage line.

  22. Re:For me it's Windows NT 3.1 on 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Win 9X didn't run 'on top of' DOS. This explains it better than I ever could:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnew...

  23. Re:They should go on In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree · · Score: 2

    The 'system' is almost certainly the Mark I eyeball. I think you underestimate the configuration difficulties.

  24. Re:David Weber on Giant Lava Tubes Possible On the Moon · · Score: 1

    'Dahak' trilogy. An OK read, but a bit frustrating since the story-line was abandoned - huge unresolved plot points.