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  1. Mindscrew on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Peter Capaldi is credited on IMDB as follows:

    World War Z
    W.H.O. Doctor

  2. Worth less than its debt... on New York Times Sells Boston Globe At 93% Loss · · Score: 1

    That means if the newspaper had been sold at that price including its liabilities, the buyer should have received $40 million. Woah.

  3. Re:Monopole Magnets on Monopoles and Magnetricity · · Score: 1

    And permits building magtubes, don't forget that.

  4. I for one *hic* welcome our new robotic overlordsh on Give Zebrafish Some Booze and They Stop Fearing Robots · · Score: 1

    ...

  5. He died in the game, I assume. on The History of The Oregon Trail · · Score: 1

    The article doesn't clarify.

  6. Coming up next: on Full-Size Remote Control Cars · · Score: 1

    Live Action GTA

  7. Re:What about the Satellites? on National Weather Service Upgrades Storm-Tracking Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    US weather satellites are rapidly dying

    Quick, we need to capture some breeding pairs and start a repopulation program.

  8. Re:Dupe? on National Weather Service Upgrades Storm-Tracking Supercomputers · · Score: 2

    I guess you didn't need a supercomputer for that forecast.

  9. Re:In this scenario, the endpoint is compromised. on More Encryption Is Not the Solution · · Score: 2

    (In particular, if you can put pressure on the provider, why bother forcing them to use weak encryption and then wiretapping? Forcing them to give you direct access to servers and connection data would be simpler.)

  10. In this scenario, the endpoint is compromised. on More Encryption Is Not the Solution · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In that case, indeed, no amount of encryption will save you.

  11. Oh, PLANT, not PLANET. on Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria That Can Colonize Most Plants Discovered · · Score: 1

    Now I'm all disappointed and stuff.

  12. As they say... on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 1

    maintaining a large package repository is like herding a bag of kittens.

  13. Re:Just FYI on Indian Army Mistook Planets For Spy Drones · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sometimes it's really comforting to be in a different hemisphere

    Really? After this headline, it wouldn't even be comforting to be on a different planet!

  14. Why not six hops? on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    If Milgram was right, that'd save a lot of hassle.

  15. Re:Fake Missile on Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways · · Score: 1

    Notice that the sign says "speed enforced", and not "speed limit enforced".

    And there's nothing to enforce speed like being chased by a missile...

  16. Specific Denial on Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways · · Score: 1

    “At CHP we definitely do not have drones. We use radar, lidar, pace, we have planes and we have helicopters, but we do not have drones,” he said. “Along with not having drones we definitely do not have any drones that would fire any type of weaponry.”

    "And along with not having any such drones, we definitely have never used them; particularly not on seventeen occasions to date."

  17. Re:This is settled law, due to auto parts on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 1

    using blueprints

    The problem is that the CC doesn't cover all use, but reproduction, modification and redistribution. It's not a EULA; it expressly only restricts those uses that would also be restricted by copyright.

    2. Fair Dealing Rights. Nothing in this License is intended to reduce, limit, or restrict any uses free from copyright or rights arising from limitations or exceptions that are provided for in connection with the copyright protection under copyright law or other applicable laws.

    3. License Grant. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license to exercise the rights in the Work as stated below:

            to Reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collections, and to Reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collections;
            to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work. For example, a translation could be marked "The original work was translated from English to Spanish," or a modification could indicate "The original work has been modified.";
            to Distribute and Publicly Perform the Work including as incorporated in Collections; and,
            to Distribute and Publicly Perform Adaptations.
    [...]
    4. Restrictions. The license granted in Section 3 above is expressly made subject to and limited by the following restrictions:
    [...]
    You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.

    The question is whether the printed object is to be considered an inferior reproduction/adaptation of the blueprint (like a photocopied book) or just something that the blueprints happened to produce while you were using them (like the output of a program).

  18. Skin-implanted displays on Robotic Skin Lights Up When Touched · · Score: 1

    Instead of smartphones, we could have smartwrists and literal palm pilots.

  19. Reverse canary on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 2

    The idea of explicitly stating that you aren't under a gag order has been addressed a few times, and I'm not sure it works - can you really not be forced to explicitly keep lying about it? After all, you'd have to lie in response to a direct question as well. Otherwise you could just tell your customers to regularly ask you about gag orders.

    However, consider this: If you are not under a gag order, then it is not illegal to lie and say you are. (Except under oath.) Yet if you are under a gag order, saying you are would be illegal.
    Thus, if you publically and untruthfully state (in messages or on your website) that you are under a gag order, then an actual gag order would force you to remove that statement. That removal then becomes the warning.

    The gag order couldn't reasonably force you to tell people about it and not tell people about it.

  20. Re:Harder done than said on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    Well, they know who they sent the letter to, so they could trace it back by definition.

    The only way to leak it and have a chance of avoiding the consequences might be to engineer some kind of plausible security breach. Briefcase with documents gets stolen/left on a train; network gets compromised, etc. Even so, if the timing is suspicious, you'd probably be in deep crap.

  21. Re:The real security theater on Schneier Has Something Good To Say About Airport Security · · Score: 1

    "Probability"? Your claim is based on a model of reality where all airline passengers roll percentage dice to determine if they are terrorists. 80-year-old white grandmother - probability A. 20-year-old minority male - probability B.

    - Any non-random selection algorithm is a known algorithm. This is obvious, because if the TSA is going to profile, they're going to profile the same way you would, and for the same reason.
    - That means a terrorist group knows an older white person is going to pass where a younger black or middle-eastern person is not.
    - There are Muslims (and potential Muslim terrorists - and terrorists of any other religion) with all kinds of skin colors. People keep their ideology in their brain, not on their skin.

    Therefore, a biased system can be gamed.

  22. Re:Low tech solution on Schneier Has Something Good To Say About Airport Security · · Score: 2

    -1 for TSA as racial enemy

    This is a diplomacy check, not combat. Realistically, being the TSA's racial enemy should raise the difficulty, not lower it - just like in real life.

  23. Re:Wow on Swedish Machine Turns Sweat Into Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    They said sweat, not urine.

  24. Two xkcd memes combined on Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words · · Score: 1

    (Memorable passwords and geohashing.)

  25. So let me get this straight on W3C Rejects Ad Industry's Do-Not-Track Proposal · · Score: 1

    They put forward a proposal that would specifically let them track people who specifically said they don't want to be tracked.

    I hope the W3C told them to fuck off in so many words.