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Comment NOBODY has died because of the reactor! (Score 2) 691

All of those people who died were killed by the tsunami or the quake. Okay, technically, there have been a VERY SMALL (like on the order of a few dozen) number of injuries and a few fatalities directly related to the reactors. But those were all among people who were actually *working in* the power plants.

Comment Re:Programmable CPU's (Score 1) 118

How does last year sound? http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/23/0642238/Intel-Launches-Atom-CPU-With-Integrated-FPGA?from=rss Granted, it might be a while before they are commonly found on commercially available boards. And as others have pointed out, If you do it in *real* hardwdare, it will be faster than if you did it in an FPGA. This is more like a customizable coprocessor to the Atom. You could even use it to replace the motherboard chipset, conceivably.

Comment Re:You don't. (Score 2) 107

As was pointed out in the comment I originally replied to, if you allow your phone to interact with an Exchange server, you end up giving the Exchange admins the ability to do a LOT of things to your phone without your knowledge.

Including, erasing everything saved on the phone.

I am not willing to give up that level of control.

If I'm on call, or if my employer wants to replace my desk phone with a cellular one to make it easier to reach me, or they want me to be able to read and respond to email from my phone, I'm perfectly happy carrying two phones.

But if I'm on my own time and I'm not on call, the work phone goes on a shelf, and it may or may not get turned off in the process.

Comment Re:You don't. (Score 1) 107

Thankfully I do not have to read my company mail on my phone for a living. If I had to, I would have paid for one of those HTCs without giving it a second thought.

If the company you work for requires that you be able to read your email on your cellphone, they damn well be providing you a cellphone to do it with.

Comment Espionage Act of 1917 (Score 4, Informative) 919

Since you didn't include a link to the text of the act in question, here is the text of the Espionage Act of 1917.

Section 1, paragraph (e) pretty clearly applies to the person who leaked all of the documents in question.

Section 1, paragraph (d) MIGHT have applied to Wikileaks... EXCEPT for the fact that they provided the State Department with copies of all of the documents that had been leaked, prior to publication.

What's more, not only are they redacting the documents prior to publication, they're redacting the documents EVEN MORE HEAVILY than the declassified versions being published by the Department of Defense.

So, yeah. Granted, IANAL, but I'd say that doesn't apply.

Comment Re:It's possible. (Score 1) 1135

Hey. At least then, the bomb goes off in the airport instead of on the plane, right? I mean, that way, you don't have tons and tons of debris possbily raining down onto a heavily populated area.

Comment Re:It's not "trade" (Score 1) 973

It's called a "Prepaid Card".

Several are listed here. but you should be able to walk into walmart, kmart, target, and many grocery store chains and buy a prepaid MasterCard or Visa card.

And if you can buy the card there, you can walk back in there with the card and a handful of cash and say "Put this money on here." and have them do it for you.

Comment Re:Two types of people... (Score 1) 278

I would imagine that there are two distinct major camps of people that work for Raytheon and similar companies. People that feel that they are doing the right work, and people who just don't think about it at all.

You might argue that they're a subset of the second group, but there are people who have thought about it but can honestly say they really don't care.

To quote Tom Lehrer on Werner Von Braun, "Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department."

Comment Re:!News (Score 5, Informative) 320

Who else would have to foresight to include embedded executable code and a javascript engine in a print document format?

It's even worse than that. Take a good look at version 1.7 of the PDF spec

From section 7.11.4.1 of chapter 13, which is titled "Multimedia Features"

If a PDF file contains file specifications that refer to an external file and the PDF file is archived or transmitted, some provision should be made to ensure that the external references will remain valid. One way to do this is to arrange for copies of the external files to accompany the PDF file. Embedded file streams (PDF 1.3) address this problem by allowing the contents of referenced files to be embedded directly within the body of the PDF file.

And worse yet, quoting from one of the descriptions of flags in table 44:

(Optional; PDF 1.2) A flag indicating whether the file referenced by the file specification is volatile (changes frequently with time). If the value is true, applications shall not cache a copy of the file. For example, a movie annotation referencing a URL to a live video camera could set this flag to trueto notify the conforming reader that it should re-acquire the movie each time it is played. Default value: false.

In other words, you can ALSO embed the LIVE feed from your webcam in a PDF document.

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