Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Effectiveness (Score 1) 134

The point is, by the time a request has been submitted, received and acted on, the content has probably already expired and disappeared. Everything is temporary there. I can't see much actual censorship resulting from any of this. The memory of 4chan is not on the website, it's in the dark corners of its users' hard disks, where no censorship reaches. Enforce takedowns as much as you like, but once an image expires or is taken down someone else will post it, probably under a different name or with a silly face photoshopped in, and so the cycle continues.

Submission + - Hemp fibres make better supercapacitors than graphene (bbc.co.uk)

biodata writes: BBC News is reporting findings published in the journal ACS Nano by Dr David Mitlin's group from Clarkson University, New York.
"We're making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price — and we're doing it with waste."
"The hemp we use is perfectly legal to grow. It has no THC in it at all — so there's no overlap with any recreational activities."
Dr. Mitlin's team took waste hemp stems and recycled the material into supercapacitors with performance as good, or better, than those built from graphene, at a fraction of the raw materials cost.

Submission + - Gaza Tweets Ferguson to Offer Advice on Dealing with Tear Gas (ibtimes.co.uk)

DavidGilbert99 writes: While the Gaza Strip and a small town in Missouri may not look like they'll have anything in common but as a result of police firing tear gas at protestors in Ferguson on Wednesday night, they now at least have one thing in common. As a result of the increased police action, people from Gaza began tweeting people in Ferguson with advice on how to avoid being fired upon and what to do to limit the pain when you are hit.

Submission + - NSA Caused Syria's 2012 Internet Outage

diamondmagic writes: Wired's new profile of Edward Snowden reveals that the 2012 outage of Syria's Internet, in an attempt to spy on communications in the midst of a civil war, was caused when the NSA tried to remotely install an exploit onto a core router. The article continues: "But something went wrong, and the router was bricked instead—rendered totally inoperable. The failure of this router caused Syria to suddenly lose all connection to the Internet—although the public didn’t know that the US government was responsible."

Slashdot Top Deals

After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.

Working...