davsi - Slashdot User

Comment Tor browser is built on Firefox (Score 1) 147

by davsi on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @11:25AM (#54088765) Attached to: Microsoft's Edge Was Most Hacked Browser At Pwn2Own 2017, While Chrome Remained Unhackable

Given their interest in security and privacy, I'd say this is a significant fact.

Comment Re:In other words. (Score 1) 288

by davsi on Friday August 28, 2015 @06:58PM (#50413531) Attached to: Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes

haha "anonymized"

Comment Re:What's DNTPlus? Is it free software? (Score 1) 319

by davsi on Sunday November 24, 2013 @01:16PM (#45507871) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You?

Here's one discussion, FWIW:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200206

Submission + - Why did dinosaurs grow to giant sizes, while mammals remained relatively small? (insidescience.org)

Submitted by benonemusic on Thursday October 24, 2013 @06:53PM

benonemusic writes: A new study in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that dinosaurs reached gigantic proportions relative to mammals because of differences in their cartilage, making their joints squishier and able to sustain greater amounts of force. Other factors contributed to dinosaurs' larger sizes, including their lighter, air-sac-filled skeletons, and some researchers point out that the sizes of some dinosaurs and mammals were approximately equal, so anatomical differences between cartilage in dinosaurs and mammals may not directly explain why some dinosaurs grew to larger sizes.

Submission + - Facebook Faces PRISM Data Investigation In Ireland (techweekeurope.co.uk) 1

Submitted by judgecorp on Thursday October 24, 2013 @12:34PM

judgecorp writes: Facebook's links to the NSA's PRISM programme could be investigated in Ireland, thanks to the persistence of some Austrian law students. The group has challenged Facebook in Europe as it has its regional headquarters there for tax reasons.

Comment Toxic carbon nanotubes vs. nice-sounding jamz (Score 1) 102

by davsi on Monday September 30, 2013 @06:45PM (#44996907) Attached to: New Headphones Generate Sound With Carbon Nanotubes

I guess it isn't known whether carbon nanotubes are toxic: "These results suggest that carbon nanotubes are potentially toxic to humans and that strict industrial hygiene measures should to be taken to limit exposure during their manipulation." (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041008X0500013X)

Comment Worth a LyX (Score 1) 1

by davsi on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @06:54PM (#39863271) Attached to: Increasing the Usability of LaTeX With Templates

A great, minimal frontend for LaTeX is LyX. I've been using it for years, and I'd recommend it first as a way to get into LaTeX, but also as a time-efficient way to produce documents when the task does not justify working directly on source (which for me is almost always, given the power of LyX).

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