Comment Re:Science flies humans to the moon. (Score 1) 193
Religion paints humans on buildings...
Comment Not bad considering current situation. (Score 1) 31
If this can keep people staying indoors whilst we weather the Corona virus storm, this might actually save some lives!
Comment Author forgot this one fact. (Score 1) 150
1 CD, 1 listener.
1 "music file", many millions of listeners.
Enough said.
Comment Common Sense (Score 1) 622
It's death of common sense that we need to bemoan!
As another poster said, it's just an aid!
Comment To much information not necessary a good thing. (Score 1) 111
Great test if it has good sensitivity and specificity. However, the problem will be that it will yield too much confounding information - the so called 'incedentaloma' but only for viruses. It will lead to people receiving unnecessary treatments for the things that were found.
Should only be used for 'house' like cases where 'odd ball' causes are suspected.
Comment Re:The way the web works in general is bizarre (Score 1) 186
That is just evolution. It works even though how it works may be illogical. Look at the human eye for example, the rods and cones point in the opposite direction to the light source! How 'backward' or wrong is that?! Clearly it works though...
Comment Wrong target! (Score 5, Insightful) 642
Whilst making the pat down more embarrassing may encourage scanner use for the average bloke, average blokes don't blow up planes! So basically this seems like just another ploy to irritate the general public to foster a false sense of security.
Nmap 5.20 Released 36
ruphus13 writes "Nmap has a new release out, and it's a major one. It includes a GUI front-end called Zenmap, and, according to the post, 'Network admins will no doubt be excited to learn that Nmap is now ready to identify Snow Leopard systems, Android Linux smartphones, and Chumbies, among other OSes that Nmap can now identify. This release also brings an additional 31 Nmap Scripting Engine scripts, bringing the total collection up to 80 pre-written scripts for Nmap. The scripts include X11 access checks to see if X.org on a system allows remote access, a script to retrieve and print an SSL certificate, and a script designed to see whether a host is serving malware. Nmap also comes with netcat and Ndiff. Source code and binaries are available from the Nmap site, including RPMs for x86 and x86_64 systems, and binaries for Windows and Mac OS X. '"
Comment Bet it's a Marketing Ploy! (Score 1) 427
Yes, I couldn't resist downloading this to check it out for myself. Not because I'm a Harry Potter fan, but because I'm curious what effect this will have on my wife (who IS a HUGE fan!)
Anyway, for those not in the know, the last few chapters are missing (how coincidental). I doubt it was accidental. What better way to boost sales of the possibly last book than to stage a 'fake' leak where the last chapters are missing!
So what does slashdot think, was it a PLANNED leak, or was it a fan that got too carried away?
Rgds,
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