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Submission + - LASIK with current medical improvements - yay or nay? 1

Submitted by stonedead
stonedead writes: I have been contemplating getting a LASIK surgery done on both my eyes. I am 26 years old and code for a living. I am near sighted and optical power required to correct my left and right eyes are -5 and -6 dioptres respectively. Considering the article on Slashdot today about a guy getting LASIK to enjoy VR, I am more curious about this.
I could find an Ask-Slashdot about this 12 years ago: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/...
I would like to know how much has this technology progressed since then. I have found a couple of forums that advocate the LASIK while some sites are completely against it (lasikcomplications.com for example). What is the opinion of the Slashdot crowd?

Submission + - Visual cryptography on postage stamps

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Have you heard of personalized postage stamps? You pay the value of the stamps plus a fee and the post office prints official stamps usable for postage which show (almost) anything you can put into a jpeg file. An Austrian Tibet supporter found out what 'almost' means. He submitted a picture of the Dalai Lama with the text 'His Holiness the Dalai Lama', but the Austrian post office refused to produce these stamps. Stampnews and the Neue Zuercher Zeitung reported that this had been due to pressure from the Chinese embassy in Vienna.
Now there is a video showing how visual cryptography has been used to get around this attempt at censorship.

Submission + - Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Beginning with the Chrome 38 Beta it's now possible to watch Netflix without any Wine/Silverlight plug-ins but will work natively using Chrome's DRM-HTML5 video capabilities with Netflix. The steps just involve using the latest beta of Chrome and an HTTP user-agent switcher to tell Netflix you're a Windows Chrome user, due to Netflix arbitrarily blocking the Linux build.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 175

by SpzToid (#47630473) Attached to: Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email

I'm reminded of one encrypted E-mail provider in this regard. They did nothing wrong, but were given the choice between having people face jail time or hand over data... I still use them...

For a moment there, I thought you were talking about , Lavabit. (That citation is from Google's cache, of their website, that explains why they chose to go under)

Comment Re:It's a TRAP! (Score 1) 175

by SpzToid (#47630247) Attached to: Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email

Did you not understand the part about the plebs taking responsibility, or not, for their own keys (private and public), in the post that you replied to? The plebs can barely understand how to manage their own passwords, let alone the legal ramifications of what it means to be a Safe Harbor.

Submission + - Experimental Drug Compound Found to Reverse Effects of Alzheimer's in Mice (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: While there has been progress made in the fight against Alzheimer's, our understanding of the dispiriting disease remains somewhat limited, with a definitive cure yet to be found. The latest development comes at the hands of researchers from Yale's School of Medicine, who have discovered a new drug compound shown to reverse the effects of Alzheimer's in mice.

Submission + - Oracle Database Redaction Trivial to Bypass (threatpost.com)

Submitted by msm1267
msm1267 writes: Researcher David Litchfield is back at it again, dissecting Oracle software looking for critical bugs. At the Black Hat 2014 conference, Litchfield delivered research on a new data redaction service the company added in Oracle 12c. The service is designed to allow administrators to mask sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or health information, during certain operations. But when Litchfield took a close look he found a slew of trivially exploitable vulnerabilities that bypass the data redaction service and trick the system into returning data that should be masked.

Comment Re:We're only talkin' two Red Line subway stops (Score 1) 205

by SpzToid (#47613691) Attached to: MIT Considers Whether Courses Are Outdated

Then you won't be saving time, or money, commuting between MIT and Harvard by using your own private car. My point had to do with the proximity of the two universities and what realistic, low cost, and frequent transportation options between classes exist, relative to the text of the article; and I provided citations for others.

Comment We're only talkin' two Red Line subway stops (Score 2) 205

by SpzToid (#47612807) Attached to: MIT Considers Whether Courses Are Outdated

Not to discredit, but to clarify TFA:

While students at MIT and Harvard do cross-register, the logistics of travel from one campus to another limit the extent to which this is practical. Online makes it possible for students to take classes from across universities more conveniently.”

We're talking two subway stops. Or they can rent a bike, which are all over the place and very well maintained: http://www.thehubway.com/stati...

Comment Re:This is how we learn (Score 0) 150

by SpzToid (#47606483) Attached to: Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk

As a working stiff seriously just trying to keep up with my rent, I'll ask the Slashdots, is this idea kickstarter worthy, because I can't actually finance the application myself at this time? As always, I'll set the default answer at NO. But oh so how I wish I was proven wrong, yet there's that cynicism kicking in again. Have a nice day y'all, and thanks for the complement, while I get back to bulking SSL certificates. Ho hum.

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