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  1. Re:Its not about intelligence on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Pertinent to the PETA are crazy loons discussion.

  2. Re:The rest of the conversation ... on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Prions, how do they work?

  3. Re:What do you expect? on Test Version Windows 10 Includes Keylogger · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're testing. You're not using it in a normal manner.

    You're bug hunting.

  4. Re:Suicided on Downtown Project Suicides Shock High Tech Community · · Score: 1

    You've watched too many movies and/or played too many games.

  5. Re: What's the point ? on Downtown Project Suicides Shock High Tech Community · · Score: 2

    There are literally millions of people that wish they could have the chance like that these folks had

    Exactly. They got that chance, and they failed. You don't see why that might put them in a bad enough place to consider suicide?

  6. Re:WHY WHY WHY GO TO WEST AFRICA???? on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 2

    Helping people, maybe?

  7. He walked through the exit. That means he left the secure area. Theoretically, he could have grabbed something that had not been screened, and taken it back in. that's why it's such a no-no - nothing or nobody that has not been screened is supposed to cross that line.

  8. Re:No he didn't on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 1

    ... in Australia?

  9. Re:Android version req - long time coming on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    You do have the option to disable these apps, however. My phone came with a bunch of Google Play Music/Games/News shit I don't want, and Google+ stuff. The apps are all disabled, now, excepting a few that I do use such as the actual Play store, gmail, etc.

  10. Re:Can someone explain how someone is exploited? on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    My very first sentence included that. "You need to have a network service listening that passes data to bash" though I suppose your DHCP client isn't technically listening.

  11. Re:Can someone explain how someone is exploited? on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    That sounds right from the things I've been reading since.

    If you DO use those headers to pass things to your code (eg cookie handling with the Cookie: header)... bad stuff can happen there when you go to use the cookie later on in the script.

  12. Re:Can someone explain how someone is exploited? on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 5, Informative

    You need to have a network service listening that passes data to bash (or arbitrary shells, though that would be far rarer). For example, an Apache HTTP server using bash as a CGI to process requests.

    In general this is a bad thing, with a few exclusions for items that require it by their very purpose - for example SSH.

    Note however that in the SSH example, the 'passing-stuff-to-shell' is post-authentication - so if they can exploit it, they can already log in as you anyways and do what they want.

  13. Re:Typical Government Hypocracy on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Really? Operational security is a concern for you on a daily basis? Foreign states might try to coerce, corrupt, or disappear you?

  14. Re:Should we? on Could We Abort a Manned Mission To Mars? · · Score: 1

    The mantle is available, as well. We don't dig very deep.

  15. Re:Should we? on Could We Abort a Manned Mission To Mars? · · Score: 1

    It's not just the science. If you don't see that yourself, I don't know how to make you see.

  16. Re:Supply & Demand on NVIDIA Begins Requiring Signed GPU Firmware Images · · Score: 1

    That's the question I ask myself, and I don't have a satisfactory answer. I use the proprietary drivers.

  17. Re:Supply & Demand on NVIDIA Begins Requiring Signed GPU Firmware Images · · Score: 1

    Yep, unless you've got one of a quite small list of well-supported cards. Those are not so powerful these days, but if you've got one then you're still worlds better off than with an Intel.

    I've tried... two ATI (back then) cards, one I never got to work, and the other found all sorts of interesting ways to crash and malfunction. Have to admit I haven't tried again since - the devil you know and all that.

  18. Re:Supply & Demand on NVIDIA Begins Requiring Signed GPU Firmware Images · · Score: 1

    Working with a complex scene in Blender with a Intel "graphics" is about as fun as rubbing sandpaper in your eye.

  19. Re:So offer a cost effective replacement on Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market · · Score: 1

    HTTPS, as a protocol, seems fine. The flaws seem to have been specific implementations of the protocols, or with their algorithms (reminder that HTTPS is modular in that regard).

  20. Re:You know what this means on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    Annoyingly, my astigmatism makes me see three of the damn things for every one - that wavelength seems to pass right through my glasses without any refraction.

  21. Re:You know what this means on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1
  22. Re:You know what this means on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    You don't even need those.

    Grab a sharpie or other permanent black marker. A few coats with this will dim the LED without blocking it - just keep adding coats until it's as dark as you like.

    Make sure you give it time for the coat to dry - just scribbling on it won't do - mark, wait a moment, mark, wait, repeat.

  23. Re:You know what this means on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    What color LEDs are in your room?

    Blue LEDs are terrible. They are so prevalent because they look "futuristic" and they are cheaper to produce, from my understanding.

    Red LEDs would likely be the most innocuous.

  24. Re:You know what this means on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    He's not joking. The light sensors on your retina are kept in a feedback loop, and all it takes is a single photon interaction to nudge that loop and cause activation.

    Granted the photon has to hit the receptor - but many receptors are connected to a single... ganglion? Not sure what neural cell it is - but receptors are ganged so that a single photon interaction in any one of them is detected.

  25. Re:Use a power bar and save money. on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    Yes, because allowing my stuff to consume a tiny fraction of their normal draw is the same as "rolling coal."