rHBa - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Only when properly calibrated! (Score 5, Insightful) 295

by rHBa on Sunday January 15, @08:40PM (#38709820) Attached to: DHS X-ray Car Scanners Now At Border Crossings

For its part, Homeland Security says the dose is safe and based on commonly accepted government standards (PDF) established by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement, which would permit 2,500 scans a year for each person. CBP's specifications also require the manufacturer to "perform an evaluation of the potential effect of radiation exposure on public safety on the proposed system." In addition, a CBP representative told CNET that the machines are currently only used in secondary inspections (most people go through just the primary inspection).

I think, as a good will gesture, the Director/CEO of the TSA and his family should undergo 2,500 scans a year.

Then I'd think about believing it's safe.

Comment: Re:Bogus premise (Score 1) 591

by rHBa on Saturday January 14, @05:30PM (#38701154) Attached to: The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred

But I'm evil in your worldview. And you are both stupid AND evil in mine.

Not really, I think he's just worried that this is the same as the way animals in a pack interrelate and he likes to think the human race has risen above that.

Comment: Re:Rules? (Score 1) 130

by rHBa on Tuesday January 10, @04:24PM (#38656168) Attached to: Protecting Your Tablet From a Fall From Space

My mistake, I was thinking competition rules, only water and fine sand is allowed as jettisonable ballast.

Comment: Re:Rules? (Score 5, Informative) 130

by rHBa on Tuesday January 10, @01:47PM (#38654040) Attached to: Protecting Your Tablet From a Fall From Space

The only thing I'm legally allowed to drop from my paraglider is water, that's over inhabited or uninhabited space

Comment: Why so high? (Score 5, Insightful) 130

by rHBa on Tuesday January 10, @01:27PM (#38653712) Attached to: Protecting Your Tablet From a Fall From Space

Wouldn't it reach terminal velocity from a few hundred meters?

Comment: Re:And you choose the NFL as your example? (Score 1) 257

by rHBa on Monday December 19, @11:08PM (#38430316) Attached to: NFL: National Football Luddites?

Ahem... wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_(American_football)#Equipment

Comment: Possible to preserve stability and security? (Score 1) 283

by rHBa on Monday December 19, @04:46PM (#38427278) Attached to: Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet

Correct me if I'm wrong but IF it were possible to implement this safely, it'd probably require massive changes to all servers/clients on the 'new' internet.

Looking at how long it's taking to roll out IPV6, I'm guessing this won't happen in a hurry (especially considering the political[international] complications).

Alternatively they could just break the internet!

Comment: Those who control the SPICE, control the world (Score 1) 164

by rHBa on Tuesday October 25, @05:23AM (#37829266) Attached to: Public Supports Geo-Engineering

n/t

Comment: Re:What permissions do you need ? (Score 1) 185

by rHBa on Tuesday October 26 2010, @03:02AM (#34022154) Attached to: Firefox Extension Makes Social-Network ID Spoofing Trivial

I always thought you had to put your wireless NIC in monitor mode to do this, a la airodump/wireshark etc...

If the addon can do this for any wireless enabled computer capable of running firefox then I'm impressed (especially on Windows), it usually requires specific wireless cards and aftermarket drivers for it to work.

If that isn't the case how does this plugin capture data not aimed at your local IP address?

Comment: Re:Take it a step further... (Score 3, Insightful) 591

by rHBa on Sunday October 03 2010, @10:12PM (#33780970) Attached to: Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads?

Isn't this what private trackers do already?

Yes, they require a server (tracker) to limit access to members only but that functionality would just be shifted to the social networking site.

If you're planning to do this without a tracker then how do you prevent people outside your friends list from joining the torrent (assuming they manage to find a copy of the .torrent file)?

If you have friends list big enough to make bittorrent worth while it's quite likely that someone will leak the torrent file to someone they trust who may share it with someone else THEY trust etc, etc...