Comment what's the address? (Score 2) 231
give a link to this friggin' BTC address, for example on blockchain.info (that's the only interesting piece of information here), apart from that it's a joke news.
Comment Re:Ignorant clod (Score 1) 371
Soon it will be behind a wall 3 meters from me, in the other room. All cables are just long enough.
Comment Re:No. 404 is important! (Score 1) 79
wow, thanks. I need to check it out (replying only to "mark" your post in my comment history ;)
Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs 518
retroworks writes "Dr. Gary Becker (University of Chicago) and Julio Elias (Universidad CEMA, Argentina) wrote a thought-provoking editorial in last week's WSJ, arguing that the prohibition on voluntary sale and trade of human organs is probably killing people. In 2012, 95,000 American men, women and children were on the waiting list for new kidneys. Yet only about 16,500 kidney transplant operations were performed that year. 'The altruistic giving of organs might decline with an open market, since the incentive to give organs to a relative, friend or anyone else would be weaker when organs are readily available to buy. On the other hand, the altruistic giving of money to those in need of organs could increase to help them pay for the cost of organ transplants.' Paying for organs would lead to more transplants, the article maintains. 'Initially, a market in the purchase and sale of organs would seem strange, and many might continue to consider that market "repugnant." Over time, however, the sale of organs would grow to be accepted, just as the voluntary military now has widespread support.'"
Comment Ok, that pdf.. (Score 3, Funny) 59
is the weirdest presentation that I ever saw on slashdot.
Comment Re:The providers are a bigger problem than the pho (Score 1) 156
unless the phone contacts first to wifi, then to other blackphones nearby forming a mesh network (that can be possible, but initially unlikely, due to low popularity of blackphone), then finally to some of available celltowers (not necessarily the one with strongest signal).
OpenBSD Looking At Funding Shortfall In 2014 277
Freshly Exhumed writes "Today the OpenBSD mailing list carried a plea from Theo de Raadt for much needed financial aid for the OpenBSD foundation: 'I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise all of this is simply unsustainable. This request is the smallest we can make.' Bob Beck, of the OpenBSD Foundation, added: 'the fact is right now, OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on.'"
The electricity bill in question is $20,000 a year for build servers located in Canada.
Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? 383
Mars729 writes "GUIs are walled gardens in that features available in one piece of software is not available to other pieces of software. However, there is software out there with command-line options that can make software features accessible to power users and programmers. Some important ones I have uncovered are:
- Exiftool: A command-line application that can read/write almost any kind of metadata contained in almost any filetype
- Imagemagick: This and similar software like GraphicsMagick is a full-feature toolkit for displaying, converting and editing image files.
- Irfanview: Like Imagemagick but faster, although it has much fewer features.
FFMpeg: For video files - VLC: For audio and video files
- Aspell: A command line spell checker
- Google Static Maps API: A URL with coordinates, markers, zoom levels and other options to show a custom map from Google Maps. (I just uncovered this: no need to learn KML!)
Less useful but still useful are command shells. These provide file management mostly. I believe some of them may allow for sending and retrieving email messages. Also useful but less accessible and with a steeper learning curve are software with APIs and scripting. Examples would be Visual Basic for Applications in office software and groovy scripting for Freeplane. What else is out there?"
Comment This could be true (Score 4, Interesting) 284
Well, since Apple is aware that whatever they claim can be sooner or later verified by checking Snowden data, they could be telling the truth.
New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution 1010
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Reuters reports that thirty-three percent of Americans reject the idea of evolution and believe that 'humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time' rather than evolving gradually through a process of natural selection, as described by Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago. Although this percentage remained steady since 2009, the last time Pew asked the question, there was a growing partisan gap on whether humans evolved. The poll showed 43 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Democrats say humans have evolved over time, compared with 54 percent and 64 percent respectively four years ago. 'The gap is coming from the Republicans, where fewer are now saying that humans have evolved over time,' says Cary Funk. Among religious groups, white evangelical Protestants topped the list of those rejecting evolution, with 64 percent of those polled saying they believe humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time."
Comment Re:Regarding missions to Mars (Score 1) 35
no, I'm not, so here it is: http://janek.kozicki.pl/base.php
Comment Regarding missions to Mars (Score 1) 35
I think that you should check out my homepage, see signature.
Comment Re:food (Score 1) 641
but only volunteer humans.
Using non-volunteer humans as experiment subjects is highly unethical, and I hope that it is illegal everywhere.
BTW, we are not eating chimps only because their food is not tasty.
Using non-volunteer humans as experiment subjects is highly unethical, and I hope that it is illegal everywhere.
BTW, we are not eating chimps only because their food is not tasty.
Comment food (Score 2, Insightful) 641
I'm sorry but there's no difference between livestock (chicken, cows, horses, etc...) and experiment sujects (mice, chimps, dogs, etc...)
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? 174
An anonymous reader writes "A week ago, Slashdot was asked, "How do you protect your privacy?" The question named many different ways privacy is difficult to secure these days, but almost all of the answers focused on encrypting internet traffic. But what can you do about your image being captured by friends and strangers' cameras (not to mention drones, police cameras, security cameras, etc.)? How about when your personal data is stored by banks and healthcare companies and their IT department sucks? Heck; off-the-shelf tech can see you through your walls. Airport security sniffs your skin. There are countless other ways info on you can be collected that has nothing to do with your internet hygiene. Forget the NSA; how do you protect your privacy from all these others? Can you?"
