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Comment Re:Not sidestepping (Score 1) 88

What the FAA does not allow is any unlicensed aircraft (which includes models, balloons, kites, gliders, rockets and probably tennis balls), tethered or not, to be used directly or indirectly for commercial purposes.

So, does this mean professional tennis tournaments are forbidden in the US? So, how are these guys able to skirt the FAA regulations?

Comment What a tangled mess! (Score 1) 88

(At the risk of being modded redundant...)

Just imagine these on a crowded ski slope, when every other ski runner has these. Not only will they tangle with each other, but also with the overhead ropes of ski lifts.

And if your particularly unlucky one stretch of tether might get tangled behind a rock while another stretch of the same tether gets tangled around a fellow skiers neck. No, I don't want these on any slope where I am skying. Even if the FAA don't have jurisdiction, hopefully the resorts will forbid them.

Comment Re:Any Memory?? what judge will go on just that? (Score 2, Interesting) 415

Yeah that's my real worry about all this child porn stuff - "everyone" turns their brains off and starts getting their pitchforks ready to lynch you.
Guess how convenient this is if the powers that be want to get rid of inconvenient you...

The NSA has a huge stash of child porn just for this purpose...

Comment Re:sure you want to go with 'undead' ? (Score 1) 283

Oh, Slashdot. When will you build a monorail?

The monorail will come. After all, Lyle Lanley already has "given" Springfield a nice highschool. Moreover, he has refurbished the site of the old nuke station into a wonderful university campus teeming with life. He'll be glad to "give" the city a mono-rail, after all the time it is being talked about!

Comment Re:Thats not fair to those users (Score 1) 92

Calling them stupid is not fair, I think. A majority of the older generation,

Actually, the older generation are not the worst offenders. They are often surprisingly mature as far as risks in technology go.

The worst offenders are actually the facebook generation, who are so accustomed that they need to completely open up their browsers to play a game that they won't give any second thought if a malware site asks them to do the same.

Comment Re:Financial Natural Selection (Score 2) 92

That's like me leaving out a box of jewelry on my front lawn with a note saying that only Alice should take it and then getting upset when it's gone and Alice tells me that she didn't get it

It's more like you're hiding the box in a good hiding place ("under the huge rock at the end of Elm's street"), telling Alice about the place. But then Alice naively asks Mallory "do you know how to get to Elm's street, you know the one with the huge rock at the end?", and then everybody acts astonished when Mallory beat Alice to the chase...

Comment Re:If it is linked, it is public... (Score 1) 92

If the user just clicks the link like a normal person, there is no problem.

This is also assuming that the user uses a "normal" mail program where you can actually just click on the link. Apparently, this is not necessarily possible in some of the Microsoft offerings.

Also, if the link is too long, the mail program may break it in 2, and not consider the whole thing to be the same link.

Comment Re:Hey (Score 1) 80

and whoever implemented the integration had the bright idea of hardcoding the forum password for everyone as username+123456, and then just having the eBay login page issue a hidden POST request behind the scenes to authenticate users to the community forum section.

... which means that even if the salt had been something else than +123456, it wouldn't really have been more secure, as that "hidden" POST request would have been present in some web resource (html, javascript) downloaded to the end user's browser...

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