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  1. Re:Now for the Federal Charges on Man Who Protested TSA By Stripping Is Acquitted By Judge · · Score: 4, Funny

    From what I have heard http://www.kgw.com/news/Naked-fliers-attorneys-ask-for-acquittal-162908166.html, Mr Brennan maybe fined up to $11,000 and be put on the no-fly list for interfered with the screening process. I don't know if this is a legal issue for the courts or if he can just be administratively found guilty, but I hope TSA knows when to walk away. It seems to me that he was helping the screening process by ensuring no contraband was on his person. I suspect that if I were on a jury I would find him innocent.

  2. Re:Wow, there is an app for that on Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data · · Score: 1

    I have a steel business card case that I use as a wallet since I hardly ever carry cash anymore. All of the card readers I've used at various buildings will read my door pass (RFID?) right through the case as long as I hold it a little closer to the reader.

    Thanks, I also have a steel business card case. I guess I can scrap that idea of easily blocking out the readers.

  3. Re:Oh NO not US on Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies · · Score: 1

    I don't believe the US or Israel has admitted to any attack, so the US can continue to deny

    Oh? Really?

    They may be saying that they released it "by accident", but I'm pretty sure they've acknowledge they built it.

    I checked your link, it does not say the US Government announced that it had used cyber tools to attack Iran. It was a report that said unnamed US Government officials said the US Government had used cyber tools to attack Iran. Sorry if you don't understand the difference.

  4. Oh NO not US on Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies · · Score: 1
    After a while Iran gets to blame the US and Israel for every thing that goes wrong, whether they did it or not. Poor programmer, oh no not me, someone else caused that problem.

    (On the other hand, in Iran's eyes, they may think the US has declared war.)

  5. How wear resistant on New Film Renders Screen Reflection Almost Non-Existent · · Score: 1

    Nice, it sounds excellent. My only concerns would be price, Sony licensing it out to others, and how well is it going to hold up to daily wear and tear? If the surface is that special, then the top edges of shapes on the surface maybe subjected to rapid wear. This could defeat the effect and you could be in a worse boat than if it didn't have the coating at all.

  6. Wow, there is an app for that on Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data · · Score: 1
    I am behind the times! Apple will be jealous! Can it read through my tin wallet?

    I wonder what the range is, which I realize it is a function of the phone, but a ball park. Are we talking 10 cm, 50 cm, 1 m?

  7. I notice that there's no mention of Wyden's party affiliation in the article. Must be that liberal media trying to hide the good deeds of the Republicans again.

    --Jeremy

    Ok, OK, he is one of Oregon's Democratic Senators. Does that help?

  8. Private Industry IS doing fine on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 1

    Is it would appear that President Obama was right. If the H1B visas are being snapped up quickly this year, and if it isn't local, state, and fed government causing it by their layoffs, then private industry must be doing fine, partially caused by hiring the cheapest available workers it can and so making improved profits. Isn't this how Bain Capital worked? (Don't tell the media, it would confuse them.)

  9. And this was at work. on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Dandy music, I glad the audience was paid to be there.

  10. Re:Pick one on Committee Offers Scenarios for Japan's Energy Future · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yep, nuclear, coal, oil and natural gas are the only 4 cost-effective methods of large-scale power generation, especially in a crowded region such as Japan. Solar panels are not yet cheap enough and wind requires such a large area (so do solar panels but they could be mounted on roofs).

    Those of us who live in the northwest of the United States, or western Canada, might argue that hydro belongs on your list. There aren't many big hydro opportunities left to develop around here, but hydro plants we have seem be cost efficient.

  11. Re:The problem is the concept of 'banning' things on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 1

    It's ridiculous for lawmakers to even engage in this whack-a-mole game.

    Instead of banning substances, we should be banning behaviour.

    If you want to get high in the privacy of your own home and eat a half-ton of Oreo's while watching the whole of Lord of The Rings extended expanded Director's Cut, you go right ahead, sir, have a nice day.

    If you choose to attempt to drive while stoned/drunk/wasted/incompetent/texting then you're guilty of a new offence called 'Driving Like A Dick' and can be prosecuted for that.

    If you choose to walk through a public space shouting your arse off about aliens, then you're guilty of a new offence called 'Acting Like A Dick' and can be prosecuted for that.

    Equip all police officers with video cameras. Have them show the video in the trial and the magistrate decides whether the cop was right to make the arrest.

    For number 2, most U.S. states already have that one covered with reckless driving.

  12. Re:when will we learn? on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 1

    All one has to do is look at the US drug schedules to realize that they have no realistic basis.

    I mean, THC is ranked as having a higher abuse potential and danger than cocaine. Psilocybin is ranked higher than amphetamines. Peyote is ranked higher than opiates.

    I'm sure it's just coincidental that all the intoxicating substances that grow wild with little human intervention, that have been used spiritually and medicinally for tens of thousands of years, are rated as being "more dangerous" than the opiates that make up the bulk of the pharmaceuticals in use around the world today. It's not like the companies selling the legal recreational drugs like alcohol and tobacco are putting money into keeping these things scheduled in this unrealistic way or anything. Oh, wait...

    Wait up a minute. Look at all the people that spirituality (religion) has killed and and tell me that religion is harmless.

    Past that I agree that "do gooders", "business", and "governments" aren't necessarily out for the general peoples good.

  13. Pretty Sweet on Rare 'Annular Solar Eclipse' Tonight · · Score: 1

    We ended up in Redding CA to get to clear skies, but worth it. Can't wait for 2017!

  14. Re:Only half on Superflares Found On Sun-Like Stars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You realize, of course, that we're really only seeing half of the flares. That's because we can only see the ones that happen to be facing us. It's just like with pulsars: there's undoubtedly a lot of them out there that we'll never detect simply because we're not in the path of their output.

    Probably less than half, maybe a 1/4 to 1/3. You aren't going to see the ones on edge. It could also depend on how often we look at each star and how fast they rotate relative to us.

  15. Re:So What? on Kodak Basement Lab Housed Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    There are small research reactors all over the place. Your local university might have one. .

    You mean the one down the road or the one where I went to school?

    I haven't visited the one down the road, but my school had a TRIG 3C (or adaption of) and had a neat blue glow when it was running.

  16. Re:Surprising... on Kodak Basement Lab Housed Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Well, 3.5 pounds might be a bit of a problem. Costco only stocks it in the 50 lb containers.

    Don't drop it on your way out to the parking lot.

    You mean the ones in the one gal can? (That part of the store always seems warm to me.)

  17. Re:Legality? on North Korea Jamming GPS Signals In South Korea · · Score: 1

    Noob question here: apart maybe from frequency allocation, is there an international law or equivalent regulation on signal jamming?

    I think that North and South Korea are still at war, so its not like it an act of war. Rather this is just part of the ongoing struggle.

    We will skip the part about the armistice treaty in place.

  18. Pound symbol on South Korea Plans Hashtag-Inspired Skyscraper · · Score: 0

    Folks, This should be in the United States! It is the symbol of the overweight American.

  19. Re:No surprise on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 1

    my favorite part is that slashdot (and wired) picks this up five months after it was news. much more thorough (and timely) article at techdirt: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/08225217010/breaking-news-feds-falsely-censor-popular-blog-over-year-deny-all-due-process-hide-all-details.shtml

    YOU should have submitted it earlier. I think that is how this site works.

  20. Re:IPv6 support on Bug Busters! OpenBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Edit: Specifically, "IPv6 code was merged into NetBSD in June 1999, and is part of NetBSD."

    http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/ipv6/

    So there.

    Okay, checked out that page. Seems to be more of a history lesson on IPv6 support in NetBSD. One key thing I noticed - all the BSDs, be it FreeBSD or NetBSD seem to prefer the autoconfiguration as far as IP addresses go, and typically don't support DHCP6. So anyone who has issues w/ EUI-64 is SOL. They mention that routers can't be autoconfigured, and that nodes should not be manually configured. But this is one of the reasons that DHCP6 is more important in IPv6 than DHCP4 was in IPv4.

    I went back to check, KAME seems to have been imported into the kernel and released at 2.7, which was back in 2000. Not long behind NetBSD. http://www.openbsd.org/plus27.html

  21. Re:IPv6 support on Bug Busters! OpenBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Oh, NAT doesn't work w/ IPv6 - if one follows any discussions on IPv6 here on /., one would see that. The only time NAT is involved in IPv6 is when it comes to translating addresses b/w IPv6 and IPv4. For some OBSD activities, such as load balancing, one would have to do those things w/o NAT, since it's not there in IPv6.

    I don't know that NAT doesn't/can't work with IPv6. As I remember there was no NAT for IPv4 when I started messing with it either. I expect that someone will or has created a NAT for IPv6. They will claim security if nothing else(, or they will create it because they can. Long live the spirit of the Internet.)

  22. Re:IPv6 support on Bug Busters! OpenBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I have used OpenBSD running IPv6 through pf. Same rule seem to apply, but I am not sure that NAT works with IPv6. Don't know, haven't tried DHCP6. I think OpenBSD imported the same KAME IPv6 as Free and about the same time. The packages being able to support IPv6 have trailed.

  23. Re:I still think CD sales tax for hollywood is wea on French Elections Could Affect HADOPI, ACTA · · Score: 1

    CDs have been known to hold songs, so everyone who buys cds must be forced to pay tribute to Hollywood! This is so weak. I use CDs to backup my code, but I still have to pay off the RIAA/MPAA because they legislate.

    Hmm, you must be Canadian.

    On the other hand since you have already paid tribute, I presume you can copy all the songs you want.

  24. Well this could be a bad thing on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do we keep the Internet running? Come on, this is about priories.

  25. Re:The terror threat is low on Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify · · Score: 1

    Hmm, threatening the public... what is your identification number citizen? (Oh sorry, yes we all ready have you on file.) Please go stand in that line.