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  1. Really? Do y'all only wear your clothes once and buy new cars every year?

    I know you meant this as sarcasm, but...

  2. Re:Did cavemen do this? on Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually agree. If it was written "Your hacked" though I wouldn't be so sure.

  3. OpenBSD is pretty good. Way fewer default security holes historically, as well as fewer fundamentally-insecure features that the design of the system's basic functionality relies on.

  4. Well, I know how to do it. I just can't get anyone to believe me, because much higher-paid corporations (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft) regularly fail at it even when paid millions.

  5. Re:Strange on Samsung Group Offices Raided By Korean Prosecutors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe we set a really bad example and now everyone is trying to learn from our mistakes by cleaning their own houses?

  6. Re: Genuine question on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I looked this up once and was unable to find any recorded examples except the one time when the person on the ballot who won the vote was dead 2 weeks before the election took place.

  7. I've worked with some low-quality touchscreens in my day too. You might be surprised how badly a cheap resistive touchscreen can go out of whack in hot weather.

  8. Re:Automated Wardriving on Facebook's Latest Experiment: Helping You Find Free Wi-Fi Hotspots (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right, its an obvious trap.

  9. right idea, wrong chemical on US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    My guess is its more to do with reduced dietary sugar intake across the board. Studies showing statistical correlations between dementia and high-sugar diets have previously been reported on here on Slashdot.

  10. Re:Really? on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I read this in Cartoon Donald Trump's voice.

  11. Could this be related?

  12. Re:Never underestimate the power of on Tesla Acquires SolarCity: Little Can Stand in Elon Musk's Way When He Wants Something (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you've forgotten that Amazon's business plan also required losing money by the truckload for the first several years they existed. Now, children grow up in a world where its laughable to think they might not have gotten the opportunity because investors were too afraid of the nebulous risk of backing a store that only does business online.

  13. Re:TLDR on 'Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sharing an idea makes it valuable.

    Sharing a fire makes it costly.

  14. AFAIK CentOS uses systemd now too.

  15. That's the first thing I thought too. It reads like RedHat is claiming to have invented some new revolutionary open-source business strategy to quickly cover up the fact they just figured out what everyone else already knew.

  16. We should block LinkedIn here in the US too.

  17. I gotta admit I'm having trouble feeling sorry for LinkedIn here too. They've run afoul of US privacy laws too. We just don't seem to have any teeth in our privacy laws here.

  18. Re:The ultimate in postmortem narcissism on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    We're talking about saving human lives and you're talking about what a waste of electricity that is. Get bent.

  19. Re:The ultimate in postmortem narcissism on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    More pressing than free actually. The less of it we use the more we just waste as it bounces off into space...

  20. Re:Understandable, but foolish on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, in a sense, though I think anthropologists would probably look at it differently but its only temporarily really anyway. Obviously re-integration into society would be the civil, moral thing to do after curing their diseases - both mental and physical. They all signed up for exactly that, after all. These are all people who want to see the future.

  21. Re:Problem ... on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman" - i forget which episode.

    Its all relatively new research, but they can replace the water with something that doesn't form ice crystals in the first place, they can flash-freeze fast enough that ice crystals can't form, or they can just regulate the temperature at the tiny point where all cellular activity stops but is actually slightly above the point where the water actually freezes. As far as I know this is all just newly proven techniques - I don't know if anyone has actually put any of this research into practice commercially, but my point is that you're wrong that "freezer burn" is still the leading roadblock to applied cryonics. That's old news.

  22. Re:Understandable, but foolish on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This is great. Now try the same thought experiment while pretending your soul isn't made of trash. Imagine you're a scientist hundreds of years in the future and you finally now have the incredibly valuable and rare opportunity to talk to a real live human from the ancient world, freshly awakened as though they'd been teleported directly from the past.

  23. Re:Problem ... on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You haven't researched this since 1970 have you? There's ways they've figured out to freeze bodies without causing the cellular damage.

    Of course, still nobody has been successfully revived yet, AFAIK but that is as theoretically solvable of a technical problem...

  24. Re:The ultimate in postmortem narcissism on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The really incredible part to me is the cognitive dissonance that lets jaded cynical defeatists like you vehemently argue against ubiquitous solar power installation and then turn around and drop this type of garbage argument while forgetting its only relevant as a consequence of your horrifically twisted, greedy and morally bankrupt world view.

  25. Re:Color Me Skeptical on Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Most the rakes I see on sale these days are actually made with plastic tines. This is only really a concern for people with 30 year old rakes.