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  1. I'm not so sure its about domestic gun posession so much as profits. Easily redistributable 3d printer plans for disposable guns seriously undercuts the market for the vast majority of gun sales - home defense. The small handful of people who buy guns to shoot them all day long aren't actually going to be affected, and neither will the total availability of guns in any significant way. When in doubt, follow the money.

  2. Re:Funny on W3C Set To Publish HTML 5.1, Work Already Started On HTML 5.2 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't see anything funny about that. Get ready for the bad old days of massive browser implementation incompatibilities to come back with full force when Google and Apple inevitably turn on each other and start playing tug-of-war with the standard while trampling Mozilla in the process.

  3. Re:10 years ago... on Reddit Brings Down North Korea's Entire Internet (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Also, someone would have managed to at least mirror the sites before they went down.

  4. Re:someone probably died for this mistake on Reddit Brings Down North Korea's Entire Internet (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Probably, if they've even figured out the problem yet.

  5. Pointless showboating and serious deja vu. on Microsoft and Sony Are Debating Over Whose Console Really Offers 'True 4K' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you guys remember them having this argument already once? Neither of them even have current consoles capable of doing that at 1080p in all games. What makes anyone think either of them will be capable of actually doing it at 4k? Buy a Nintendo ffs. Ignore these goons.

  6. Creepy. on MIT Scientists Use Radio Waves To Sense Human Emotions (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet it stops working if I wear a tinfoil suit.

  7. Note to ATT: on AT&T Is Phasing Out the U-Verse Video, Broadband Brand (fiercetelecom.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you phase The Anime Network and the rest of the free network on-demand channels back in for HD DirecTivo users, please? (By that I mean please fix the bug that has persisted with it for the last 3 years that DirecTV seemed too incompetent to even diagnose. I know you have a lot more tech support resources, this should be a really simple one for you guys, and you would look like heroes.)

  8. Re:Why can't you write-protect your goddamned phon on Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any App On Your Android Phone Using A Backdoor (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately you probably lost 90% of your audience at "think."

  9. Not actually an example of irony. on Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any App On Your Android Phone Using A Backdoor (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ironically, the device...

    I think you mean predictably.

  10. Re:Jail Them on FCC Republicans Refused To Give Congress Net Neutrality Documents (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    *sigh

    Throw the assholes in jail.

    Seconded. And let's figure out who has been bribing them and throw them in jail too. I'm sick of every single government agency being completely crippled by internal corruption.

  11. Re:Almost changed my mind on Wheeler on Why The FCC Chair Says Set-Top Box Reform Proposal Could Change (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you have to fish this hard for a motive. He's the most obvious one to bribe if you're opposed to net neutrality and have $Billions at stake. The most obvious sign of him being bribed would be basically an about-face on some or another of his his previous core policy decisions. You can make a line here by connecting far fewer dots than you have.

  12. Re:Good Lord... on A Woman Is Suing Her Parents For Posting Embarrassing Childhood Photos To Facebook · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I suspect this issue goes far deeper than some nude baby photos. She probably is experiencing harassment from them on a nearly daily basis because they think that she is their property and they have souls made of shit. I can fully sympathize with eventually being fed up with this illegal, abusive treatment and deciding that there is nowhere else to turn but the law. Seriously. You don't seriously consider taking your parents to court as an adult if they were fair and good to you your whole childhood.

  13. Re:Loose Ends Being Tied Up? on Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How much you wanna bet most of those people were involved in robo-signing, or some other form of shenanigans OTHER than creating false accounts?

    Yea, the phony accounts are just the tip of the iceberg.

  14. Re:Can Slashdot stop post IBM advertisements? on IBM Launches New Linux, Power8, OpenPower Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    This is gonna change some shit man. The success of the Raspberry Pi has proven that CPU performance is not everything.

  15. Re: How is this possible? on Pokemon-Themed Umbreon Rootkit Targets Linux Systems On ARM and x86 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually yes, manual installation of a program that runs in userspace to an otherwise remotely un-compromised system does imply physical access, when you're talking about Linux.

  16. Why are there so many trolls on this one? on OpenBSD 6.0 Released (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Leave OpenBSD alone!!

  17. Re:points of interest on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Its massively inefficient. Its probably the least efficient use of electricity ever invented actually. It works without a fuel tank though. People are only really excited about its potential for space travel because of that. See, if it works entirely on solid-state electronics, without needing fuel reserves, then in theory you can power this from outer space forever just on solar radiation. Up until now, all other rocket technology was limited in range by the physical weight of its own fuel.

  18. Yaaaaay! Favorite Java 8 feature of all! on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Uninstall

  19. You guys are all talking about the wrong story. on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    All of you are wasting time arguing about whether its inherently good or bad to live this long. I just want to know what he's been eating, and how much cardio he gets in.

  20. Re:What kind of pain will it work on? on Marijuana Provides More Pain Relief For Men Than Woman, Says Study (psypost.org) · · Score: 1

    Headaches are usually caused by dehydration or eyestrain. Smoke, much like alcohol or caffeine, will mostly make both of those things worse over time. The best medicine here is typically preventative measures; stay hydrated and remember to blink more.

  21. Easy to do yourself at home. on Satellite Images Can Map Poverty (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Waste of resources. We already have this data. All you have to do is find any place for which Google Maps doesn't store full-resolution pictures.

  22. Re:Good enough that people won't stop doing it... on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm so sorry.

  23. The hiring choices outlined by this article are going to lead to another article at some point in the future, to which I will feel compelled to once again post the comment: "Should have hired me instead, assholes!"

  24. Good enough that people won't stop doing it... on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... despite that I keep telling them not to, but never good enough to save their business plan or their company from disregarding my wisdom.

      - Agile/scrum, anything related to it, inspired by it, or even remotely like it, and the mindset of managers who advocate it.

      - "continuous integration"

      - "devops"

      - server-side javascript

      - giving every single person in the IT department the root server access

      - using microsoft "solutions"

  25. Re:Check the EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard on Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype? (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Mod parent up.