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  1. What are /.'ers using for interactive video conferencing to replace Adobe Connect?

  2. Re: What could possibly go wrong? on Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Sending images that include your face that you don't ever want to be associated with your identity to a company that is investing millions in facial recognition tech to identify users? What could go wrong? And that boyfriend who posts a slightly cropped image won't be blocked using hash matching.

  3. > The university's actions will ultimately lower their annual $5.83 billion budget by just 0.1%. well, I can certainly see why they would risk the unavoidable disruptions, loss of direct control, loss of continuity, loss of institutional knowledge, etc

  4. gloves, grease, dirty hands..? on New Smart Gun Company Hopes To Begin Production This Summer · · Score: 1

    tell me again - how does this nifty tech read your fingerprint through your gloves or other coating?

  5. Re:Massive Respect for Wendy Seltzer on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    Wendy Seltzer is spot on about the slippery slope of degrading the line between content and carriage. The entertainment industry has always been years behind end users and tech innovation, neck and neck with Congress in most cases. Oh that we could only have more savvy folks like Miss Seltzer in senior roles in government.

  6. Precise time to double on 45 Years Later, Does Moore's Law Still Hold True? · · Score: 1

    The graph in Moore's article clearly predicts double the number of chips every 13 months. Nine "doublings" in 10 years.

  7. Game over on UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well I guess that's it for the bad guys. Now they'll have no way to register their evil domains.

  8. Re:100% Accurate, Nearly All of the Time! on Spinal-Fluid Test Confirmed To Predict Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Probably meant they predict near zero rate of false positives.
    Ahh, statistics; in the hands of amateurs, any conclusion is possible.

  9. Re:Free-ish Speech on China Explains Internet Situation In Whitepaper · · Score: 1

    Complete Freedom of speech... with the minor exception that (from the whitepaper): no organization or individual may produce, duplicate, announce or disseminate information having the following contents: being against the cardinal principles set forth in the Constitution; endangering state security, divulging state secrets, subverting state power and jeopardizing national unification; damaging state honor and interests; instigating ethnic hatred or discrimination and jeopardizing ethnic unity; jeopardizing state religious policy, propagating heretical or superstitious ideas; spreading rumors, disrupting social order and stability; disseminating obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, brutality and terror or abetting crime; humiliating or slandering others, trespassing on the lawful rights and interests of others; and other contents forbidden by laws and administrative regulations.

  10. Re:Welcome on UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA · · Score: 1

    Given the uncontrolled collection process - guarantee this study will provide some unique data on tolerances for folic acid and lactose in DOGS AND CATS and not just in students.

  11. Seriously? - How about CXAP? on How Would You Usurp the Web Browser? · · Score: 1

    The new trend: Closed-standard Xml Acquisition of Patents That seems to be catching on pretty well lately.

  12. Peroxide based TATP on Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Well I guess someone thinks liqued bombs on a plane might work: A Pakistani woman just tried boarding with bottles that MIGHT contain explosive material: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/17/airport.evac.ap/i ndex.html The problem is.. they say in the article that the womans bottles were detected by way of a canine hit. TATP is peroxide based and dogs can't sniff peroxide based explosives...