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  1. Huh? on Millions of Smart TVs Vulnerable To 'Red Button' Attack · · Score: 1

    Since this is SLashdot, I didn't bother reading the article - so, I am sure there is an obvious answer.

    How does someone with a LOW BUDGET even have 10's of thousands of smart tv's in range of an RF signal?

  2. Re:Something that's always bothered me... on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts · · Score: 2

    You have a serious issue with time frames. In one case you are referring to plate tectonics which move over periods of millions of years. On the other you are referring to our causing changes in the next 100 years that are equivalent. Then you say since they change would have happened anyway in the next million years or so, why is everyone upset at it happening in the next hundred years or so...

  3. Fed Up with useless security on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    I am 65, on SS, broke and live 10 miles out in the country with just my wife and no one else within miles. I am FORCED to enter a password to use my computer. After entering a password that is displayed as dots so my wife (who has all my passwords) can't see over my shoulder and steal it, I want to see my email, so I get to enter another password which she also knows and is displayed as dots - so I don't know if I typed it right or not, even though to get to my email client I had to log into my computer first. I then want to play some MMO games and of course have to log into them, even though I am accessing them from a computer that only I have access to and have already logged into. Then I step out of the room to get a cup of coffee and when I get back I get to log into the computer again, because someone decided it might not be sage to have my computer in my house out in the country 10 miles from anywhere unattended for 5 minutes.

    I go through this all day every day - and NONE of it is helping me be safe and secure from all harm... In fact it does almost nothing to help me be secure.

    Then I am told that I need to have different passwords that look like 12xfeg^&*snbtr for each account I have anywhere, so I am secure. I am expected to change my password (sometimes forced to change it) once a month into something I have not every used before and also can't remember. Then I am reminded that writing down my password could lead to plagues and pestilence, so I am expected to use passwords that no reasonable person could possibly remember and told not to write down and when I type them in they are displayed as dots to protect me...

    I would like the option to OPT OUT of all this bullshit. Entering passwords 20 or 30 times a day is more than a little silly. It is well past time that we have secure connections and biometric security on my computer - worst case.

    Then people wonder why passwords like 123456 are so popular.

  4. Re:insurance issue on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    This is not a problem with DNA testing, this is a problem with the insurance companies, which need to be done away with. They bring NOTHING to the game when it comes to healthcare delivery and add a significant cost, as these concerns show, they often inhibit healthcare delivery. The answer to that is simply universal single payer healthcare.

  5. Re:Pricing on Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 · · Score: 1

    $99 USD is without memory, it looks like, so the article is extremely misleading. I always ignore any product that the company feels requires misleading advertising to promote - and that seems to be most products lately...

  6. Price is ambiguous on Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 · · Score: 1

    It appears the price is $99 for the board with slower CPU, and another $99 if you would like to have memory with that board...

  7. "understanding" on Crows Complete Basic Aesop's Fable Task · · Score: 1

    There is no evidence of "understanding". They simply learned a behavior.

  8. What are you doing - pray tell... on NVIDIA Unveils Lineup of GeForce 800M Series Mobile GPUs, Many With Maxwell · · Score: 1

    Other than professionally modeling or doing video editing, or playing #D games - what use does a average person have for discrete graphics today?

  9. Whistle blowers on US Intelligence Officials To Monitor Federal Employees With Security Clearances · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The best way to prevent leaks like those that have happened lately is to have a REAL, RESPONSIVE, FUNCTIONAL whistle blower program so people do not have to take the law into their own hands.

  10. True innovators on Slashdot... on UK and Germany To Collaborate On 5G · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems a significant number of the readers here would rather say "64kb is all the memory anyone will ever need", because they are too lazy to try and think rather than just knock any and every innovation mentioned on Slashdot.

    As far as 5G - "why" the answer is use (consumption) will always expand to fill capacity. The question is not WHY the question that needs to be answered is how can we put that additional capacity to use.

  11. Not a 4 line solution - I call BS on Wolfram Language Demo Impresses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The traveling salesman tour - is NOT a 4 line solution. By that definition I can write "Run Linux" and have a one line operating system.

  12. Sigh, in your dreams on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 1

    That would work until your local county commissioner figured out he could get kick back by ignoring service complaints and anything else the ISPs wanted. As long as a for profit company is running things they will find ways to provide the least for the most cost.

  13. Nope, still not working for me on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 1

    As of 11:30 Saturday, it was still not any faster and still doesn't complete for me. Took about 20 minutes to get all the way through for me and my wife. And at the very end after reviewing and signing, I get an error and it never verifies my ID. So, no change from last month ... yet.

  14. Re:Obligatory Poverty Comment.... on NASA's Robonaut Gets Its Legs; Could a Moonwalk Be In Its Future? · · Score: 1
  15. 45% of all statistics are made up on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    brump bumb

  16. Re:California on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The President has a sworn duty to defend the constitution. If the President believes a law in unconstitutional he is required to NOT defend it.

  17. Re:If you cant get a law passed on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    I see that while advocating the assassination of the President of the United States you were too much of a coward to use your name.

  18. Pretty expensive "deal" on Tesla To Build Its Own Battery-Swap Stations · · Score: 1

    Think about this for a second. First they advertisae they are making an Electric car that is MUCH less expensive to drive than an internal combustion engine.

    Then they let you use a fully charged battery for MORE than a tank of gas to go the same distance.

    Then they want their new battery back or else you pay a $10K penalty.

    If you comute a lot, and most in CA do, then doing this daily for a year (5 days a week) you will have paid $20K for electricity alone, since you still have your worn out old battery at EOL.

    No thanks...

  19. Public admission of being wrong on Apple Goes Back To EPEAT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I commend Apple for saying in public "we were wrong".

  20. Self Selected groups on Cognitive Software Identifies America's Brainiest Cities · · Score: 4, Insightful

    'Since our analysis controlled for age, the reason they score well is not simply that they have a lot of young people,' says Sternberg. 'Instead, our analysis seems to show that users living in university communities tend to perform better than users of the same age in other locations.'"

    Since the groups were self selected, ie. they decided to participate, maybe people living in college towns have more time or are more interested in playing.

  21. STUDY BACKED BY GOOGLE on iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps? · · Score: 1

    For those that don't want to read the article and disclamers...

  22. Opps... on Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users · · Score: 1

    n/t

  23. Re:Slavery is great! on Apple Announces Most Profitable Quarter in History · · Score: 1

    Then if it is that easy, I assume you will be posting a billion a week profit soon.

  24. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    And the moment you did this and reduced profit at all you would be sued by stock holders and fired by the board.

  25. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    And as CEO of Apple what would you do differently?