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  1. Re:Monitor the Airwaves on Drones Used To Smuggle Drugs Into Prison · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bluetooth is short range, and R/C uses audible signals on CB channel 14 or so.

    Generally, these days RC uses the same 2.4 GHz band as Bluetooth, but not at Bluetooth energy levels or protocols. They tend to have a range of up to a few kilometers. Can probably easily be extended if needed.

    But as others pointed out, these things are often quite autonomous and don't need a control signal anyway.

  2. Re:Lol, sure on CanSecWest Presenter Self-Censors Risky Critical Infrastructure Talk · · Score: 2

    Well, do tell. How would it make you more secure to let everyone now about them?

    If it were your web browser, you could upgrade it to the latest patched version.

    But how do you upgrade your local power station?

  3. Re:It's not bad security. on CanSecWest Presenter Self-Censors Risky Critical Infrastructure Talk · · Score: 2

    No - security through obscurity does not work. You are better off fixing security holes and making it public, preferably with open source so that everyone can see that its fixed and look for other weaknesses.

    That works for you chat program or web browser.

    Doesn't quite work that way for your power grid infrastructure.

  4. Re:Stills seems like it has to be an inside job on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    unless someone was simply not doing them

    Well the scary part is that this option is actually plausible, given the level of incompetence shown elsewhere.

  5. Re:Why the negative doomsday tone? on Apple Closes OpenNI the Open Source Kinect Framework · · Score: 1

    That one doesn't connect to iOS devices either, though. It's just a Kinect clone.

  6. Re:BitCoin has complete record of transactions. on Amazon Coins and How the Definition of 'Crypto-Currency' Is Getting Too Loose · · Score: 1

    Yes. There are suggestions for how to deal with this but nobody has bothered to try and actually implement them yet.

    Currently, it is a bit over 14 gigabytes in size.

  7. Re:Take medicine away from the wizards on Apple Rumored To Be Exploring Medical Devices, Electric Cars To Reignite Growth · · Score: 1

    When they entered the mobile phone business, they kicked the bottom out of pricing for third party developers.

  8. Re:Use Cisco instead... on S. Korea Diverts Network From Huawei Networks · · Score: 1

    What makes you think it will be used only for that?

  9. Re:Do you really want to know? on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    So since he would need the UK's approval for being extradited from Sweden too, he'd be perfectly safe going there, since they wouldn't give it.

  10. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Swedish law requires him to be interviewed before he can be charged. Of course they are going to issue the extradition request before charging him, otherwise they could never issue a single extradition request ever.

  11. Re:Several oddities on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Feel free to quote the appropriate law.

  12. Re:Several oddities on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    The EAW is for someone who has actually committed a serious crime and been found guilty and/or bount to court appearance.

    Why do you believe this?

  13. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Why do you think they can do that for Sweden, but couldn't do it for the UK during the long time he was staying there?

  14. Re: or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    You seem to have conveniently forgetting him happily saying in the UK for quite some time before running to the embassy, without apparently a single fear he would be extradited anywhere.

    Or, of course, that he went to Sweden of his own free will in the first place. No fear he'd be extradited then.

  15. Re: or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could try responding to things I actually said, if you're going to the effort to click "Reply" on my post.

    And perhaps you could explain why the Swedish government would while the British wouldn't, since he was quite happy to stay with them for a long time.

  16. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Prosecutor Marianne Ny must ... start treating him as everybody else who is under suspicion.

    It's in the summary, you know.

  17. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So you're saying his request to be treated like everybody else is actually a request to be treated different from everybody else?

  18. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Like, you know, "everybody else" would have to do?

  19. Re:"...as we migrate our audience..." on Target's Data Breach Started With an HVAC Account · · Score: 1

    I tried telling you once already that there is no longer any way to see replies to your posts, making discussion impossible and the comment section unusable.

    But if you're using beta, I guess you wouldn't know, because you never saw that you got a reply.

  20. Re:Is the source code included? on North Korea's Home-Grown Operating System Mimics OS X · · Score: 1

    Exactly, but, it also means that he is in violation, for passing the binaries on without being licensed to do so.

  21. Re:Is the source code included? on North Korea's Home-Grown Operating System Mimics OS X · · Score: 1

    I suppose that is true, but it assumes that North Korea had given the leaker that offer, which they probably did not. In that case, he can not pass it on, and thus, they would both be in violation of the GPL.

  22. Re:heating building and burning fuel on The Bitcoin Death Star: KnC Plans 10 Megawatt Data Center In Sweden · · Score: 2

    How about how much Visa burn as energy to secure its network?

    Per transaction handled? Far, far, far less than the Bitcoin network.

  23. Re:Sorry, I just don't get what you are ranting ab on Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No way to see replies to your comments, no way to link to your comments to check by hand. Discussion is impossible.

  24. Re:donotwant Slashdot Beta on QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks · · Score: 1

    Commenting is certainly not an afterthought.

    Then why is there no way to see replies to my comments, and no way to jump to my comments to post further replies? That makes it impossible to actually keep up a conversation. All you can do is shout into the void.

    Commenting is currently unusable on beta. It is an afterthought.

  25. Re:Pfft on The Bitcoin Death Star: KnC Plans 10 Megawatt Data Center In Sweden · · Score: 2

    That describes practically every data transaction we do involving money in this world,

    No, it does not, in any way.