mjwalshe - Slashdot User

Comment coercion is the flaw (Score 0) 129

by mjwalshe on Sunday May 31, 2015 @05:35PM (#49810823) Attached to: China Unveils World's First Facial Recognition ATM

How do you stop people being kidnapped and force to withdraw the cash - obviously the standard for university research in china Is fucking abysmal. Presumably they have a way of detecting a severed head being held up to the camera or did they not fucking think

Comment Re:Good luck (Score 2) 129

by mjwalshe on Sunday May 31, 2015 @05:32PM (#49810795) Attached to: China Unveils World's First Facial Recognition ATM

Are you insane giving out your pin to you bank account is the most stupid thing I have ever heard

Comment Intersting but.. (Score 1) 234

by mjwalshe on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @07:21PM (#49778449) Attached to: Elon Musk Establishes a Grade School

How is this different to the old apprentice at 14/5 the problem was that you spent the first year filing and making the tea

Comment Re:The trick... (Score 1) 246

by mjwalshe on Thursday May 14, 2015 @04:29PM (#49692817) Attached to: Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph

I believe film of in philby is still used to demonstrate this to SIS trainees

Comment Re:$30 (Score 1) 515

by mjwalshe on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:38PM (#49677171) Attached to: Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project

Yes but those are so hedged around with restrictions and there a tiny number of those tickets

Comment Re:Work stays at work! (Score 1) 776

by mjwalshe on Monday May 11, 2015 @07:32PM (#49668909) Attached to: Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day

think the Fuck you pay me rule applies in this case

Comment Re:Short Answer: DON'T (Score 1) 353

by mjwalshe on Sunday May 10, 2015 @07:11PM (#49660543) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work?

Employment law basically going right back to master and servant acts that predate the Independence of the USA

Comment Re:$30 (Score 1) 515

by mjwalshe on Sunday May 10, 2015 @06:27PM (#49660341) Attached to: Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project

London to Edinburgh is around $250

Comment Re:little-known programming language (Score 1) 267

by mjwalshe on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @05:12PM (#49624445) Attached to: Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language?

I raise you LINQ :-)
A super rare Unisys Language

Submission + - EM Drive is now a real thing (nasaspaceflight.com)

Submitted by thayfen on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:24PM

thayfen writes: NASA’s Johnson Space Center has successfully tested an electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive in a vacuum-- we now have the potential to reach the outer-planets in months-long time-spans! Corporate America wants to build a pipe-line to Titan :(

Comment Re:honey trap (Score 1) 64

by mjwalshe on Monday April 27, 2015 @07:38PM (#49565101) Attached to: The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop

They probably trust Murdoch as much as they trusted Maxwell - which is to say not at all.

Comment Re:Damn... (Score 2) 494

by mjwalshe on Sunday April 26, 2015 @05:00PM (#49556241) Attached to: Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead

There was overt religious discrimination well after ww2 Kennedy had a lot of problems for being a catholic

Comment Re:Most american's are so blissfully ignorant (Score 1) 686

by mjwalshe on Thursday April 23, 2015 @01:59PM (#49538983) Attached to: Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden

some probably thought they meant prince Harry

Comment Re:Boomer Redux? (Score 1) 686

by mjwalshe on Thursday April 23, 2015 @01:31PM (#49538661) Attached to: Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden

Its never trust a hippie as the punks say

Comment Re:Sigh. (Score 1) 114

by mjwalshe on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:34PM (#49505665) Attached to: DIA Polygraph Countermeasure Case Files Leaked

Probably because Hoover liked them - a very good example of having your police force become over mighty and getting involved in areas that should be done by a stand alone agency ala MI5.

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