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  1. Re:Has any petition resulted in actual action? on We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    even worse:
    Disban the TSA? here's a response from the head of the TSA
    Legalize a drug? Here's a response from the director of drug law enforcement
    They don't even have a disinterested person (or someone capable of fulfilling the request) respond.

    What we need is a petition system for congressional bill consideration.

  2. Re:Does it matter? on The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Root for each maintaining their separate Linux environments then using QtQuick as their standard. It's something most are trying. That way with any corporate result, users win.

  3. Fusion! A/C, Sterling on Manipulating Heat Like Light · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How did this one get missed? Fusion's biggest problem is heat management.
    Thermal Diodes: Hook this to a solar collecting sterling engine for a considerable performance boost.
    That sounds like passive Heating & Air conditioning. Maybe society will use technology to reduce its power consumption overall.

  4. Re:Importance not related to Windows on Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important · · Score: 1

    I have seen many consider NFS (sharing-side) laborious versus RDP and seeing the files where they are.

  5. Re:Internet speed does make a difference on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 2

    Download Torrents sequentially with QBittorrent. @ 5%, if the time remaining < show length, then VLC will play it to the end. The download speeds don't appear to change between sequential and regular modes of QBittorrent. Linux may be needed b/c Windows file locking may mess this up.

  6. Re: Firefox is not sandboxed! on Firefox 18 Launches With Faster IonMonkey-Enabled JavaScript, Built-In PDF Viewe · · Score: 1

    Exploits need impl. holes or local trust, while Firefox provides neither.
    Firefox patches exploits fast. IE sandboxing mitigates damage post-exploit when they have a slow security response: browser data is still at risk.
    Fast-patching is the better bet for me, but I'd like both.

  7. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1
    I support metric everywhere except the ridiculous Celsius system as I see it as more arbitrary. Usual applications of temperature apply to human comfort & dressing where
    • 100 = Too Hot for any dress code and
    • 0 = Too Cold for any dress code.

    Most importantly, this provides more values in-between (where 1 degree difference can usually be felt).

  8. Re:No persuasion required on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    We don't even have phones on our desk now. What should I give people?

  9. Re:why can't metro apps run in a window on windows on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I think that's irony, (then) "great" multitasking of Win 3.1 cemented the fascination with Microsoft Windows over competitors. Windows 8 disposed of one of the greatest advantages they ever provided.

  10. Re:Get rid of it... on Defending the First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    How so?
    Recipies aren't under copyright, yet their sharing encourages many people to buy cable (Food network) and visit Pinterest. Original, good paintings are of a high value unrelated to copyright paperwork associated (i.e. stolen paintings). There is value in open source & free media. BSD (licensed free for any use with only attribution) runs the Internet and backbones millions of jobs. Abolishment would only be dire to stagnant copyright "holders", which would make for a more productive society with fewer lawyers & administrative overhead.
    How many artistic creators make a living off copyright? Not those at the "starving artists" sales selling originals. Not the few handpicked music millionaires (they're no-longer just making a living which playing for clubs could provide). Web developers don't need copyright. Business software contracts would be purchased regardless. High budget movies make their money in theaters (handled by contracts). Low-budget movies never afforded copyright litigation AFAIK.

  11. Re:Not that dire. Let us not exaggerate. on Defending the First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    Software accomplishes something. It must be built with labor skilled in the art (extreme outsourcing has mostly failed). If copyright was gone, businesses still must have support contracts & updates. The legalese structuring is beside the point.

  12. Re:What about retina? on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 1
    I (for one?) want a tablet that isn't an "untrusted sources" checkbox away from being completely a walled garden. Linux's future is ARM now that Microsoft has the x86 master lockout key, so someone must start into tablets. Unwalled, un-interpreted tablets should have advantages too.
    If I was Mark though, I'd pursue an effort with Google to turn "Android 5" into an Ubuntu platform so:
    • - key infrastructure didn't need interpreting (audio mixing, video codecs)
    • - GNU userland exists
    • - Real boot speed engineers could work on Android
    • - Android with Wayland reduced duplication
    • Android could be developed on Android with existing tools.
    • The richness of Linux tools will be available on every Android device
  13. Far simpler on How Do YOU Establish a Secure Computing Environment? · · Score: 1
    If you're the most important __ in the world, maybe. Otherwise,
    • run Linux
    • rely on the peer review for trust of highly-frequented software from cryptographically-good sources (meaning use the distro repos).
    • Code-review rare software for networking calls (as that's the only likely data exit you have)
    • Use open-source net drivers for USB eth devices. That way a card can only react to shutdown requests (USB reduces damage requests scope).
    • Get a hardware router/firewall to allow those "dangerous packets" to happen only on requests you initiate
    • Physically secure your hardware, don't create your own software security holes
  14. Re:Not really on Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? · · Score: 1

    The next leap is clearly greater use of light. By comparison, electrons are slow. We're getting fiber optics to people, next is chip-to-chip comm. Later, some processing may be possible with light. Going quantum will take a while and before we are there, it will be worth it to pick up the "easy" gains from light.

  15. Re:We can fix this problem on Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ · · Score: 1

    "Web of Trust" systems would be a required basis to prevent compromise problems. I see many solutions to a botnet (group compromise) problem:
    - Consider peer lifespan: How long has this peer been known-good?
    - Consider change pattern: did google.com just change in the 2 places you trust, but not 15 others?
    - Sign the data: Pull a whole block of name resolutions signed by "Google, MS, Apple, US, EU, & China" trusted keys, & only consider updates signed by a similarly-large group that mutually doesn't trust each other.

    SSL doesn't need DNS if you have pre-trusted roots. It trust chains can be be complex without a need for DNS.

  16. Re:Except that it's not on Open Hardware and Software Laptop · · Score: 1

    Would you trust a network card with a Chinese binary blob to run it? My strawman could have a much bigger backdoor than the average blob'ed SSD.
    The difference is also what we give the future: "Greek Fire" in ancient times won them many battles, only we have no idea how they made it today.

  17. Re:that will make RMS happy? on Open Hardware and Software Laptop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's just a flicker in time like DOS vs Apple ][. HTML5 & the open web is the standard. For example the preferred graphing calculator for many isn't local, but Wolfram Alpha. Then local apps are only a manifest file away, like Firefox OS does.
    Sure native's faster, but HTML5's write-once, run-everywhere (a feature no one else can offer now) is big.

  18. Re:uh huh on DARPA Begins Work On 100Gbps Wireless Tech With 120-mile Range · · Score: 1

    With wireless links of that capacity, the competition for ISPs would be through the roof. For that matter, if the regulation allowed it, darknets may start forming (think Open wifi that doesn't connect to the regular internet). That's the best case, if setting-up a router made you a peer on a network of peers (all independently owned), there would be no ISP.

  19. Re:How do you bring a Linux system to a test? on Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box? · · Score: 1

    The reason I was given in College was they didn't want any devices with memory so that we would need to know our own formulas. To use a TI Calculator, the teacher wanted to verify we wiped it before the tests.

  20. Re:Modern Luddites on Is Technology Eroding Employment? · · Score: 1

    This is right, building on it..
    The latest technology is always at a premium, thus driving earnings into an ever-decreasing minority of the population who can benefit from it (i.e. Concentration of wealth)
    Is "the pursuit of new products" endless? This makes an ever-growing economy is required for stability.

  21. Re:On noes! The satellites! on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    Some people are working on that: Helen OS is an effort to get Linux drivers running in a microkernel. They already have the entire Linux OS as a user process there, but breaking it into pieces allows more.

  22. Re:come on on Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ · · Score: 1

    Business plans can be "more-dead" or "just crippled" depending on the impact of patents they go up against. HTC was sued by Microsoft's weak portfolio, so the plan of selling Android phones was just crippled.

  23. Snag Blackout on Flexible, Fiber-Optic Solar Cell Could Be Woven Into Clothing · · Score: 1

    Sorry to post late, snag blackout.

  24. Re:Flawed causal reasoning on Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. Anyone think that a stressful life that forces you try multi-task to try to catch-up may cause the depression?

  25. Re:Profit making motives on Golden Spike Working On Private Moon Flights · · Score: 1

    The moon? If I'm in space & throwing nuclear waste in a preferred direction, what about that giant fusion reactor warming everything (the Sun)? As a bonus, it actually has a use for radioactive material.