Comment Re:Ah skype, I'll sure will miss you (not) (Score 2) 61
Thank you for that informational link. I'm sure that you will really manage to help the hundreds of people out there who are looking for such a specific client.
Submission + - WhatsApp verfication check flaw (tweakers.net)
rvw writes: Using a prepaid phone without credit, you can take over another WhatsApp account. During installation WhatsApp asks you to enter your mobile phone number and sends out an SMS to verify the number. Because the SMS is not sent, but is accessible, you can send the SMS via a mobile service, using another phone number. The account is then linked to your phone, and will be disabled on the other phone.
Submission + - TSA: Nailclippers are more dangerous than guns. (redstate.com) 1
HungryHobo writes: When faced with hundreds of soldiers on a military charter carrying assault rifles,pistols and machine guns the TSA personnel decided that while all the guns weren't dangerous the nail clippers one soldier was carrying needed to be confiscated in case he used them to take over the plane.
"approximately 233 people re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns–but nothing that could have been used as a weapon."
"approximately 233 people re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns–but nothing that could have been used as a weapon."
Comment Re:It's not just in the Palestinian territories (Score 1) 496
Actually Turkey's government is starting to become far more openly religious, as seen in the results of their latest referendums. The people there are voting more and more to allow religion to affect the rulings of the government.
Comment Re:i don't want to say "i told you so" (Score 0) 334
i want you to listen to reason: we need to get off oil now, or we will suffer
I know you and I disagree on a lot of political topics, but I'm 100% with you here. I'm a greedy capitalist who's far more interested in my own lifestyle than in a spotted owl, but I want us to get off oil and onto something long-term sustainable, and ASAP. I'd happily encourage Congress to fund a Manhattan Project-style national security-motivated investment to make it happen. Forget about carbon dioxide and all that (even if I do think those things are important) - I just don't want to depend on the good graces of countries who hate us to keep my country running.
Either we invest in alternative energy development now and eat the research costs for the next X years until it comes online, or we wait until gas gets ludicrously expensive and then start research - and then wait X years after that until we can use it. Maybe if we'd taken this stuff seriously in the 70s and 80s, X would almost be up and we'd have viable alternatives available today. Thanks, previous generation.
We are slaves. That is why the "previous generation" fucked us. You don't understand this. You don't have to. All you need to understand is one simple subject: Fractional Reserve Banking. That is the yoke that binds us. All we need do is end the practice of FRB, and we will be free.
Comment Re:But now (Score 0) 349
No, he would get as much or more punishment than we used to mete out to those who murdered in a fit of passion. The prison economy needs grist. I don't know what to hate more: What my country has become, or the apologists for said nightmare.
Comment Re:So... what's the user win? (Score 0) 144
I think the prize can just be having discovered something that might save your life later.
Comment Re:Patent titles in the summary are meaningless (Score 2, Insightful) 243
The problem with ideas is that they seem obvious in hindsight. Prior to that, clearly nobody had implemented it.. so the idea couldn't have been that obvious
You're saying: because something hasn't been implemented yet means it must not be obvious?
I'm saying: Perhaps M$ just got to the patent office first with an obvious idea... (much like the Bell's Telephone)
Since the patent examiners are not professionals skilled in the art It's obvious that they aren't qualified to make the non-obvious distinction, or else we wouldn't have so many of these obvious patents.
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FYI Menus existed in 1995. Menus on a webpage == fnck!ng obvious esp. to any professional skilled in the art of making menus and web pages.
Comment Re:This can't work as it stands (Score 1) 41
Businesses with no patents at all, or those with the most worthless patents (in case you need at least one patent as a membership requirement).
Some ideas clearly are a good match for each other. So, what if...
- an entry requirement into a DPL is a patent that the existing members in the DPL agree would be good to introduce, because it would strengthen the complete suite of patents?
- a scoring system is introduced to allow more "generous" members greater control over the direction of the DPL and a greater portion of the potential profits to the DPL itself (such as licence fees for using the patents in the DPL)?
- DPL's allowed other businesses to use the patents in return for licence fees (or for free, to protect from patent trolls)
- the original patent owner retains the right to add the patent to other DPL's
It seems that a DPL would become a business entity in it's own right.
A scoring system might be tricky to design/define, but I think doable. Different DPL's might also use different scoring systems.
Comment This still existed? (Score 1) 144
I heard about this when it was first announced and cannot believe it still exists/people are still playing this "game"
Anyway this is probably more of a PR smoke then an actual discovery. Drug companies burn through lots of computer time to find potential drug targets most of which do not work. I would expect that a protein (much larger and more complicated then developed drugs) would make the likelihood of its synthesis and folding into the desired structure even less likely to work.
Comment Re:1984 (Score 0) 1238
Well the Republicans think the opposite of the Democrats. So whenever Democrats are in control the Republicans think the end is nigh. When the Republicans are in control the Democrats expect to be treated like the Jews were in Nazi Germany.
They are both wrong/right.
Comment Re:The main danger is (Score 1) 357
They take far more than 30 seconds. The last time I went through one was probably 2 years ago at LHR. You got pulled out of the queue at random.It was optional at the time (go through it or get strip searched) It took about 3 mins but at least you got to jump the queue. Unless the technology has improved a lot then it is still going to take far too long to get everybody going through one.
Spread your legs and put your feet on the dots. raise your arms and put your hands on the yellow dots. Wait a while. Now turn around and do similar. All after you have removed any belongings from yourself.
Comment Re:There are better, quicker ways to phobia relief (Score 1) 126
the taste is just as bad as the smell. guts got in my mouth once when i swatted one too enthusiastically. you must be / have been in southeast asia too - the millipedes are pretty impressive, though not scary. the ~10 inch centipedes, though, are the worst. one crawled into bed with someone i used to know and sent them to the hospital. can't believe how fast and aggressive they are.
and yet, for some reason, i love it here!
and yet, for some reason, i love it here!
Comment Re:And who gets the patent for it? (Score 1) 144
If anyone from Foldit ever even met a lawyer, or uses money to pay for food, then you sign away any rights to any IP you *might* create while playing.
