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  1. Re:Warning on Movie Studio Sues Individual Popcorn Time Users For Infringement · · Score: 0

    Or just live in a jurisdiction with a sane copyright mentality.

  2. Re:Like All Defenses... on 'Privacy Visor' Can Fool Face-Recognition Cameras · · Score: 1

    Just walk around with an osculating-frequency EMP burst generator.

  3. I thought what I'd do was... on 'Privacy Visor' Can Fool Face-Recognition Cameras · · Score: 2

    ...I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

  4. Shellfiish? on Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies · · Score: 2

    The allergens listed are all common in children. The most common allergen for adults is shellfish, which isn't mentioned in this (apparently short-sighted) proposal.

  5. Re: Hum? on "Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? · · Score: 1
  6. Cool. on For £70,000, You Might Be Able to Own an Enigma · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know a guy who worked at Bletchley Park, and he said that they could never crack the luftwafe code because it was a true OTP implimentation. The pilots were literally issued a little one-time pad before flight, with letters on a grid of co-ordinates, and then instructions sent from ground ops would simply be pairs of x/y co-ordinates so the pilots could just look at the pad and see the message out. For each new message they would tear off one page and have a new arrangement of letters.

  7. That's not where your solution lies. on Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked? · · Score: 2

    You just need one b0xen on an ethernet cable to the one unblocked port on a hardware firewall, and ideally onto a separate line from your ISP. Put glue in all the usb ports and legacy ports, or just remove them. Remove the wifi chip from the board, lock the case and and set it up with a basic install of your primary OS that re-flashed to a known state at midnight every night. Put this box in a visible, public area where users who have to leave your cordon are forced to do it in front of everyone else and through a secure separate pipe. Scale up with more dumb terminals as needed - old tech that's folding out of regular use in production is a good, cheap source for these boxes.

  8. Two Words: on Twitter Yanks Ads UK Activists Say Could Trigger Seizures · · Score: 0

    Blink Tag.

  9. FTFY on Twitter Yanks Ads UK Activists Say Could Trigger Seizures · · Score: 0

    "Twitter is dangerous, as it could potentially produce narcissism in people who have cellular packet-radio telephones."

  10. Re: Like the nazi used to say on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the sense of enlightenment that allows people to claim that things they no longer use are still "owned" by them. Maybe in an abstract, capitalist sense, but in the real world, once you abandon something, it belongs to everyone. Use it or lose it.

  11. Re:No local intelligence on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the mercury itself, which could be made into Hg(CNO)2.

  12. Re:Which can be used to X. on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    Right? Maybe he wanted the mercury so that he could make it into Hg(CNO)2

  13. Re: Like the nazi used to say on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes it does. That's the beauty of the commons. Abandoned things belong to all of use. Especially mercury switches, which are likely the only way this kid can get mercury to experiment with.

  14. Re:So corporatism merging with government. on Running a Town Over Twitter · · Score: 1

    "Please sign up for this black-box-code, third-party service so that you can know if the trains are running on time." :p

  15. So corporatism merging with government. on Running a Town Over Twitter · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other words, fascism.

  16. Re: SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Hacking Team Hacked, Attackers Grab 400GB of Internal Data · · Score: 1

    I have a friend who lives in a Condo in Toronto and his residential pipe is 100/100 for 40 bucks a month, and they offered to boost it to 400/400 for an extra 30 bucks a month, but he has no need for that much speed. (Note, this is atypical for Canada, but it's the same building Deadmau5 used to live in, and he augured to bring in a high-end ISP.)

  17. Re:Whole computer. on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 1

    Right? He was in a special needs class, and I think they thought it would make him feel good about himself (Which it totally didn't.) You have to remember that this was an era when they had only one computer tech for the whole 1500 person school, and he was also a shop/electronics teacher, but there were tons of kids runniung around who knew a lot about computers.

  18. Re:Seems to work. on Army Exoskeleton Prototype Helps Soldiers Learn To Shoot · · Score: 1

    Ok, you made me lol. Well done.

  19. Seems to work. on Army Exoskeleton Prototype Helps Soldiers Learn To Shoot · · Score: 1

    I guess they should just wear them in the field.

  20. Re:no bailout in sight, Bexit unavoidable on Bitcoin Snafu Causes Miners To Generate Invalid Blocks · · Score: 1

    At least they create it out of something.

  21. Re:How much electricity was used last month to min on Bitcoin Snafu Causes Miners To Generate Invalid Blocks · · Score: 2

    However, in electricity usage per Bitcoin, the Bitcoin system is infinitely more efficient. In fact, the credit card network is just a transaction network. It has zero efficiency at actually producing dollars.

  22. Just what we need. on Brain-Inspired 'Memcomputer' Constructed · · Score: 0

    More shitty words we can't pronounce. Thanks a lot, science.

  23. Whole computer. on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 1

    Not me, but a friend. In high school the best computer in the school was a 386SX. They decided to upgrade it to a DX by adding a maths co-processor to the main board. So the ordered one, and when it arrived, they gave it to my friend to install for some reason. Now, the chip had one corner cut, which you are supposed to line up with the cut corner on the socket, so you know it's seated the right way. Of course, my friend put it in completely backwards (because it fit an any direction.) So he tries to boot up the computer and nothing happens. So he looks at it again, and realizes the chip is in backwards. So he turns the box off, pulls out the co-processor, rotates it 180 degrees and puts it back in the socket. Unfortunately, misfiring it in the wrong direction had toasted the chip completely, and when he put it into the socket in the correct orientation, the socket locked itself shut, as it's supposed to do. But, since the chip was fried, this effectively locked the motherboard in an unbootable configuration with a dead shop. Sigh.

  24. Reminds me of the old Windows upgrade model. on The Unintended Consequences of Free Windows 10 For Everyone · · Score: 1

    Where you would buy the cheap "upgrade" CD for the new version of the OS, and when it asked you to insert the CD from the old version for verification that this wasn't a new instal, you just pointed it at its own root directory for an immediate pass.

  25. Re:Milk? on Woz To Be Immortalized In Wax · · Score: 1

    In fact, they have his actual body! In Soviet Russia, wax museums you!