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Comment Re:No (Score 0) 421

Thing is... that even when you are not filming me, I can not be assured that I am not being filmed.
Ever heard of RAT? Remote Access Tools? So even when you are not aware of actually filming me, someone else actually might. They can even switch off that little LED that signals: Hey I am filming!
Sorry... what did I say again?
There should be a little red recording light?
Never mind! FU if youre wearing it. Hopefully for you it is, the evidence of the attack is on a disk and the judge will tell me: YOU SHOULD LET OTHER PEOPLE FILM YOU WHATEVER THE SITUATION ! ! !

Comment Re: Slashdot: news for nerds who... (Score 1) 421

Nice one! Let me elaborate on that theme a bit further:

Slashdot: News for nerds who value their privacy and that of others
Or
Slashdot: News for nerds who value their teeth because they might bump into someone who actually DOES dislike new technology.
Or
Slashdot: News for nerds who value their teeth because they might bump into someone who actually likes new technology AND knows what it might do AND values his/her privacy and has no way of telling you are filming them without their consent.
Or
Slashdot: News for nerds who got rid of gmail because of privacy concerns, who actively block cookies, trackers, google-ads because of privacy concerns, who use xquick instead of google because of privacy concerns, who (after all that effort) do not want to impose Googles tech on others (with or without consent).

Comment Re:No (Score 2, Informative) 421

No is the short and straightforward answer.
The longer more thought through answer should be: No-no-no-no-no-no-no-Hell-no!

There are way to many camera's as it is today, no need for privately owned ones as well.
There should be a little red 'recording' light on there. So you can go about as you are when not filming me, or get a sub-retinal version for free if you start filming me without consent.
I feel no need for others to film me with a wireless webcam straped to their faces!
So the answer should be NO. Period.

Comment Re:My Toyota has had this since 2004... (Score 1) 151

That is absolutely true. The whole idea of navigation, wether it is on land or at sea is that you take measurements. From a practical standpoint it doesnt really matter wether that is from celestial bodies (natural or man-made) or from known landmarks.
One of the problems a sumarine (whilst being submerged) has is that it can`t do any measurements of that kind. Like LORAN-C, GPS, INS, landmarks, celestial navigation et cetera. So angle, distance and time are the main navigational tools. The main skewing factor there is drift. When in a body of moving water (mainly tide induced) you will move, say north to south, with that water without a way to find out you you are drifting. So sonar is another thing they use to avoid hitting the sea floor. Also using sonar wit a good map gives you some idea of where you are if there are some known "submerged landmarks". Again this is, as you said, a measurement. Also it is a tell-tale-sign for the enemy :-)
Actually, these two techniques (DR, mapping the surface while comparing it to a known map) are two of the seven measurements a typical cruise-missile uses to be... dead on... so to speak.

By the way, when talking about navigation, "a measurement" like shooting a sun or star is called "taking a fix". NavLeetSpeak :-D

Comment Re:So, this is what Slashdot has become? (Score 2) 306

Oh, and Jimmy Carter once sent his jacket to the dry-cleaner with a paper with the detonation codes still in one of the pockets. Just so you dont have to write a 'news article' on that in the near future...
I got both pieces of info via QI (Quite interesting), wich is normally considered a quiz, but for the author it is probably a news show...

Comment you must be kidding (Score 0) 78

A system that has a flaw? You! Must! Be! Kidding me!
There is no such thing as a flawless system, never has been, never will be. One could say that a flaw is an intrinsic part of any system.
When AES256 is in place and people use 12345 as a password for example.
Usually the flaw = human failure.

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