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  1. Maintain a spaceship fueling port?

  2. Re:It's like Louis Pasteur said: on Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow, that is why I never go to the gym. Chemistry.

  3. Re:No Physical Access on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Security Review Tales · · Score: 1

    That's actually really cool.

  4. Re:Make sure 4096 bits is 4096 bits on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Security Review Tales · · Score: 1

    How did that CEO die, and was it horribly?

  5. Re:Is that a normal denomination? on Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I could not find a way to break $100 in NY on a weekend. I was at Stanton and Ludlow... Where would you do it? I'm serious, no shop would take our money.

  6. Re:Without having read the article on Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System (illinoisblockchain.tech) · · Score: 1

    OH. Well if that's the case, then yes it is a worthless endeavor. I just figured the new births would be voted on by peers who knew of the event and trusted the signature of the parents.

  7. Re: Without having read the article on Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System (illinoisblockchain.tech) · · Score: 1

    It's not boring.

  8. Re:Is that a normal denomination? on Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Of course you can get them from ATMs... it is Switzerland.

  9. Re:Is that a normal denomination? on Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It is fucking outrageously inconvenient. I almost starved in New York because nobody would take $100 bills. Had to wait until the banks opened on Monday just to get a bagel.

  10. Re:Without having read the article on Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System (illinoisblockchain.tech) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Bitcoin use SHA1 hashes? That's the whole house of cards waiting to fall.

  11. Re:Without having read the article on Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System (illinoisblockchain.tech) · · Score: 2

    No longer have to rely on The State to believe who the list of people is. I think that is huge.

  12. Re:Without having read the article on Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System (illinoisblockchain.tech) · · Score: 1

    There has already been a hash collision demonstrated.
    What you get from a SHA-1 collision, in a blockchain ecosystem based on SHA-1, is that you can fake votes to make an illegitimate transaction legitimate.

  13. Re:Gotta be honest here on One Man's Two-Year Quest Not to Finish Final Fantasy VII (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't play games so I didn't know it. Certainly not going to click on TFA, either. So it helped me although in a pointless way.

  14. Re:When it lies, or doesn't say what it wants on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    It's true that I can't read; but your design would be wrong. In your design, I would continue brute forcing passwords on locked accounts until I see the "your account is locked out" response.

    2fa does help and with multiples factors a lot of this nitpicking goes away.

  15. Re:When it lies, or doesn't say what it wants on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    Oracle here again. If the username/password combination is correct, but the account has recently been subjected to a brute-force attack, (i.e. it is locked out), then there is a very good reason to hide the fact that the password was correct.

  16. Re: When it lies, or doesn't say what it wants on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    If the attacker can guess the correct password in 5 tries, then yes, it would be bad. Hence, additional controls like password complexity rules.

  17. Re: When it lies, or doesn't say what it wants on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    That is incorrect. Because in your solution, an attacker could continue to brute-force the passwords on accounts even after they are locked out.

    That keeps out the legitimate user while letting the attacker continuing his work.

  18. Re:How do yellow dots work in B&W printers? on Researcher Wants To Protect Whistleblowers Against Hidden Printer Dots (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Those can't be used to print fake currency so the feature was never required.

  19. Re:Called a black and white PHOTOCOPY on Researcher Wants To Protect Whistleblowers Against Hidden Printer Dots (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't they always image every document copied??

  20. Re:As an stupid American... on London City First In UK To Get Remote Air Traffic Control (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    City of London is a part of London.
    The airport is fairly near that part. The name of the airport is ICAO:EGLC, IATA:LCY, London City Airport.

  21. Re:Rideshareing on Two More Executives Are Leaving Uber, Drivers May Unionize (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

    I think if I have had conversations with 175 Uber drivers, and you know a number of people who drive for Uber... then there is a big difference between the number of drivers we have each had contact with.

    I don't care what Uber's marketing materials or business plan or IPO documents said. My claim is about what drivers consider to be their job. And I'm sure it differs by region and over time, but I think you cannot possibly claim to have a well qualified observation of what drivers think based on what you have written here.

  22. Re:Rideshareing on Two More Executives Are Leaving Uber, Drivers May Unionize (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's your idea, that the job was never intended to be full-time.

    What we are discussing is our observations of the Uber drivers and how they see it. You are not making sense, and writing like a shill.

  23. Re:Rideshareing on Two More Executives Are Leaving Uber, Drivers May Unionize (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I have taken around 180 Uber rides, in London, San Francisco, New York, Paris, Moscow, Munich and Boston. In London, every Uber driver appears to treat it as a full time job. I ask them and they tell me the long hours they work, often complaining if I let the conversation go that way, how Uber has reduced their remuneration to where they claim it is almost not worth it anymore. (note, they always say "almost":)
    Addisson Lee had to re-scramble their business model, to account for all of their drivers leaving for Uber. They had bought up and consolidated mostly all the "mini-cab" i.e. limo driver companies. These were generally full time roles.
    In Moscow, I got the same driver for every single trip, for the entire week. He was in a suit and tie with sunglasses... I think I must have been the only Uber customer in town so he just hung around my hotel and workplace.
    In New York, one of my latest drivers talked of how he quit his trucking job for Uber - remarking how he is treated better by Uber customers than by his contacts in the shipping industry.
    The only outlier I can think of that supports your observation is Boston, where I was picked up, at 4AM by a guy who claims his primary job is writing. I had to wonder, who gets out at 4AM to do side work? Well, for a creative person you never know.

    None of my or your observations "change" the concept, but very very few of my observations support the concept that your observations are supporting. So, at a minimum I would have to say those Uber drivers you know, and I, are not driving and riding via Uber in the same localities, at the same time.

  24. Re:Alright, where do I get it? on Millions of Records Leaked From Huge US Corporate Database (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    One record at a time!

  25. He has decided not to procreate, and he will be keeping to his word, for ever and ever. He also thinks the kids that other people DID have, should fuck off.