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  1. Justice of Ukraine is trying to charge the hacker on Five Charged In Largest Hacking Scheme Ever Prosecuted In US · · Score: 1

    Here is the text in Russian language from Ukrainian news website:

    http://dumskaya.net/news/odessit-prinyal-uchastie-v-krupnejshej-hakerskoj-028307/

    The alleged Ukrainian hacker claims legitimate business hosting business and right violation.

  2. What to do? Give a good advice, please. on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    Russia is in a very difficult position. The USA is a big and complicated place.

    Keep Snowden and it will get economical sanctions. It is the last thing Russia needs right now. Extradite him and it will get in the same can with dubious political forces.

    Certainly, an apartment with a large balcony could be built in the transit zone of the Sheremetyevo airport. Still better than a cellblock.

    Or what? A brilliant idea, perhaps?

  3. Re:better and cheaper solution on Norwegian Town Using Sun-Tracking Mirrors To Light Up Dark Winter Days · · Score: 1

    Or a very large discotheque mirror ball on the mountain.

  4. better and cheaper solution on Norwegian Town Using Sun-Tracking Mirrors To Light Up Dark Winter Days · · Score: 1

    Several stationary mirrors-walls with different angles, using pieces of broken mirrors placed into the cement. Sort of mirror mosaic.

    Could be built by inhabitants themselves. No need for a million dollars or electricity.

  5. human nature on NSA Utah Data Center Blueprints Reveal It Holds Less Than Thought · · Score: 0

    There is a saying: "a translator always translates as it is profitable for the translator".

    The same is with this data eavesdropping and collection. It may be used to collect and trade commercial secrets in order, well, to gain money.

    The people, who open other people letters, were always considered sneaks and dastards. That is why it has always been necessary to obtain the specific court decision for each sustect to do it.

    Was it really necessary to change it? The damage, which this global carpet-eavesdropping and voyeurism is creating for the moral image of the USA, is enormous. And also for the US companies.

  6. Re:energy and commands by cable on Self-Assembling Multi-Copter Demonstrates Networked Flight Control · · Score: 1

    Silent non-vibrating micro-turbine on a quadrocopter and we will live in a different world. But so far I have only a heavy inefficient battery as an energy source for my quadrocopter.

  7. Re:energy and commands by cable on Self-Assembling Multi-Copter Demonstrates Networked Flight Control · · Score: 1

    Gaz power is OK, but too noisy, plus vibration.

    Cable is heavy, but there will be no batteries' weight. And by cable we can send up unlimited amount of energy, say, from a running car lighter socket.

    Cable would interfere with photography on a normal quadrocopter, but if it is assembled from several ones as it is shown on video then cable will be at the side.

    What we need is to lift it into the air in a calm clear day and make aerial images of a city district. To do it via satellite costs millions or even billions in the long run, as after 2 - 3 years imagery is outdated.

    But a system with a cable could be cheap and readily available. I mean not a free entertainment flying but lifting an HD camera high into the air in perfect weather for industrial imagery.

  8. Re:energy and commands by cable on Self-Assembling Multi-Copter Demonstrates Networked Flight Control · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am an amateur pilot of a quadrocopter and a cartographer of www.osm.org . A battery is not the way to go. It lasts 10 - 12 minutes.

    The same about wi-fi; it is 50 - 70 meters into the air and "signal is lost".

    To send a satellite into the space for cartography costs millions. But a stable quadrocopter with a cable of 1 kilometer or at least 500 meters would allow to make aero-imagery suitable for cartography cheap and fast .

    Balloons with helium are messy and unstable.

  9. energy and commands by cable on Self-Assembling Multi-Copter Demonstrates Networked Flight Control · · Score: 2

    It is very interesting in a sense that it may allow to supply energy to the drone by cable from the ground.

    For example, to make imagery for cartography from the height of 1 or 2 kilometers. The problem of a battery is very short flying time. A cable from ,say, a car cigarette lighter socket is another story.

    A single quadrocopter has not enough stability for a cable.

  10. It is not what I asked for ... on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wanted a computer, not a registration of an account in one more "social" scheme.

    I mean why I must register a Microsoft account to use a computer? I remember as we were told that it is "impossible to separate a browser from an OS".

    Now it seems it becomes impossible to separate an OS and social network.

  11. Re:I am so embarassed ... on Ask Slashdot: Will the NSA Controversy Drive People To Use Privacy Software? · · Score: 1

    Skype was used by some people for "Skype sleeping" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skype%20sleeping .

    Some people do have to travel to get a work done. Sometimes for weeks or months.

    It will never be the same anymore after there is a suspicion that a third party is watching or recording.

    I am not sure about a personal encryption software but there will be definitively a behavioral tectonic shift now as people know for sure that it is watched and recorded. Or at least can be watched and recorded at will by some obscure organizations.

  12. I am so embarassed ... on Ask Slashdot: Will the NSA Controversy Drive People To Use Privacy Software? · · Score: 1

    ... that I still do not know what to think of it.

    I thought that the "Skype" had a strong encryption. I did not know that my conversations with my spouse were supervised and recorded. Gosh ...

  13. Teaching English and computer science in Russia on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1
    The US security services eavesdrop using computers. What a secret!

    On the other hand, a native English speaker and in addition a computer engineer could be very useful in the Russian educational system.

  14. Re:WOPR on Fear of Thinking War Machines May Push U.S. To Exascale · · Score: 1

    Viruses were on Earth earlier than humans and will last longer than humans. But mass traffic violence was created by humans and it is completely preventable.

    Why should cars and motorcycles have the speed of 320 km/h if the limit even on highways is 120 km/h? Or have a look at youtube at the recent documentary about night street races in cities. It is not a flu definitely.

    I think that for such racing there should be separate specialized polygons. And such cars shall be banned on roads and streets. There could be other effective measure to prevent millions of death and injuries each year, but it would be very hard to implement, as this violence and risk taking are part of human nature.

    Recent research shows that primates are innately aggressive, sometimes murderously, even without a cause. It is sort of a genetic error of evolution.

  15. Re:WOPR on Fear of Thinking War Machines May Push U.S. To Exascale · · Score: 1

    Still there are night races, there are cars and motorcycles capable of making 300 km/h in seconds (while speed limit is times less).

    Pacifism made wars impossible. Still primates are innately aggressive. So sociologists say that the mass global traffic aggressiveness substituted a World War 3. The figures of killed and injured corroborate.

  16. Re:WOPR on Fear of Thinking War Machines May Push U.S. To Exascale · · Score: 1

    Actually, the World War 3 is going on already. Nearly 3,400 people die on the world's roads every day. By 2020 it will be about 5200 every day (1.9 million per year) http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/index.html

  17. Re:do something about hurricanes on With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations · · Score: 1

    People used to have as a popular entertainment watching how lions eat prisoners of war on an arena. Sometimes it was hundreds of lions eating thousands of people shows.

    But this attitude, the natures of people themselves did change.

    Overeating unhealthy food, turning cities into enormous parking lots, in general, - leading environmentally excessive lifestyles is the new challenge of humanity. The alternative is a catastrophe. It started to happen already, say, in Louisiana, in Fukushima, etc.

  18. do something about hurricanes on With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations · · Score: 1

    Drive less, walk more. Dry clothing outdoors as opposed to in an electrical drier.

    Wear shorts in hot weather and consequently use less air-conditioning.

    Buy smaller houses or apartments.

    Eat mostly vegan food.

    And there will be less hurricanes, as less energy released into atmosphere. Those that come will be less severe.

  19. Re:A public library on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Work On Projects While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Have a security cable for your laptop too.

  20. A public library on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Work On Projects While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    They usually have WiFi. Read WiFi policies. Sometimes it is not allowed to participate in online discussions on some topics.

    In French a library is une bibliothèque, in German - eine Bibliothek.

  21. Re:What's worse on Eric Schmidt: Teens' Mistakes Will Never Go Away · · Score: 1

    Women are abused en mass everywhere, even in the 1st world countries. The consequences of this abuse does not disappear. Probably this is why some women are so aggressive and cruel while driving.

  22. Re:Makes perfect sense on Google Acquires Kite-Power Generator · · Score: 1

    His parents graduated the Moscow State University. It is the best university of the former Soviet Union.

    They paid for the education zero, as it was a custom at that time.

    Not that the USSR was a fun place, but nevertheless it was not a bad education.

  23. Re:Wheel wearing on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheels Show Damage · · Score: 2

    Add to this radiation. There is no magnetic field around Mars.

  24. petrol/gas engine on Quadcopter Drone Network Will Transport Supplies For Disaster Relief · · Score: 2

    What is needed for quadrcopters is a small quiet petrol/gas engine. An electric battery has got too little energy. Usually it is just 10 - 30 minutes.

  25. Operetta singer on Russia Captures Alleged American CIA Agent In Moscow · · Score: 1

    He looked more like operetta singer in this blond wig.