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Comment Re:Below Germany? (Score 1) 221

The Nazis were a political party therefore very few Germans were Nazis unless you're trying to suggest it was impossibly large. Of course, this is different to support as most Germans saw it as a good change in a time of depression at the start, but then the censorship started, along with persecution.

Comment Re:Rollup monitor, not computer (Score 1) 159

Well they wont be changing, there is fundamentally no change you can make - the whole reason they are terrible is because the keys are flat, and they have to be quite simply if you want to roll it up.
Only solution is perhaps keys that expand when it has rolled out, but to me that is a 1 time usage thing (automatic deflation would be more difficult and slow)... Although having said that, a material that responds by changing molecular structure when subjected to an electrical current would be effective for this (im not 100% if this is an existing material or concept, but I seem to recall it from somewhere)

Comment I find it hard to believe (Score 1) 1

that the robots would use wireless functionality when the massive insecurity of it is considered - after all, extending on the author's idea, what if someone writes a program that causes a robot to attack all humans it comes into contact with, then set up a broadcast tower in a car that hacks and uploads on the move.

Submission + - Robots May Lead to Lawsuits against Programmers (asimovs.com) 1

cpu6502 writes: Robert Silverberg wrote a recent editorial about the dangers of robots & legal consequences for their programmers and engineers.: "Consider malicious kids hacking into a house that uses a robot cleaning system and reprogramming the robot to smash dishes and break furniture. If the hackers are caught and sued, but turn out not to have any assets, isn’t it likely that the lawyers will go after the programmer who designed it or the manufacturer who built it? In our society, the liability concept is upwardly mobile, searching always for the deepest pocket."

Comment Re:Old? (Score 2) 66

True, but when you consider it uses a fake flash installer rather than a browser specific bug which can install the trojan/virus without their knowledge, it is shown to be rather basic. Not only that, but if there was an actual ecard, the number of reported instances would be less (so those that know they have the newest version of flash wouldnt be alarmed), so their program is less likely to end up detectable, at least for a while.

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