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  1. A service that allows free encrypted phone and video calls and uses the contact list and phone numbers in order to make the calls? With no revenue generation? The only reason Facebook bought the company in the first place was because the users allowed access to their contacts. Other than that, the company had negative value.

  2. Re:Time to Sleep on Key West Moves To Ban Sunscreens That Could Damage Reefs (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Reddit thought the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/Uplif...

  3. Las Malvinas son Argentinas on Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With Plastic (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Argentines can clean it up, since they say the Falklands are part of their territory...

  4. Legality on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just because something was signed into law by Obama, doesn't mean it can't be found unconstitutional. Sounds like Russian Bots and anonymous incels have infected slashdot. You can tell by the high ID numbers.

    I'm sure giving the president the ability to unilaterally deploy nuclear weapons seemed like a good idea at the time, too.

  5. You know, like numchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!

  6. Is someone with an MA in Sociology applying for a job at Starbucks still considered "blue collar?"

  7. Only the best software developers on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I work in an industry where everyone hires the best. And by best, I mean highest keyword score matching fake resume for a employee who is different from the one who interviewed who is willing to work for 60K a year.

  8. Great Esperanto Podcast on Freakanomics Radio on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    There's a great podcast about Esperanto on Freakanomics Radio...

    http://freakonomics.com/podcas...

  9. Every morning on We Can't Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO (wired.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First thing in the morning, every morning.

    1. Did he start a nuclear war?
    2. Did he resign?
    3. Brush teeth.

  10. My wife's family uses it on More Than One Billion People Use Facebook's WhatsApp Service Every Day (whatsapp.com) · · Score: 1

    WhatsApp is really handy, and not as a replacement for texting. You can make phone calls anywhere with good quality, sure, but everything does that. Where whatsapp excels is in groups, where all the messages go to everyone in the groups, and most people are in multiple groups. So my wife has a group with her siblings, and one with her family, and one with her cousins, so you wind up having these continuous threads of conversations, which include texts, voice memos, pictures, links, etc. More like a slack conversation, as they are persistent in nature.

  11. Re:$13 and hour and my car is a tax write off? on Leaked Docs Provide An Unprecedented Look At Income Of Uber Drivers (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you meant a "lawful good" accountant. In my experience, most accountants are "chaotic neutral."

  12. Fire 20% of workforce.
    Get bonus based on money saved.
    Use money saved to perform stock buyback.
    Sell individual options based on increase in value from buyback.
    Repeat until hired by another company to be CEO.

  13. I am an Engineer on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an ABET accredited engineering degree in Computer Engineering.

  14. I swear I read it as "planet" and not "plant" on Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria That Can Colonize Most Plants Discovered · · Score: 1

    So when do we start terraforming?

  15. Re:Meh... Give me access, I own your computer on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Well, if you read the article, you would have read this:

    ". A team of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, experimenting on a sedan from an unnamed company in 2010, found that they could wirelessly penetrate the same critical systems Miller and Valasek targeted using the car’s OnStar-like cellular connection, Bluetooth bugs, a rogue Android app that synched with the car’s network from the driver’s smartphone or even a malicious audio file on a CD in the car’s stereo system. “Academics have shown you can get remote code execution,” says Valasek, using hacker jargon for the ability to start running commands on a system. “We showed you can do a lot of crazy things once you’re inside.”

    So they are talking about remote execution through external interfaces and then directly to the CAN bus.

  16. My resume is my only marketing material on Reasons You're Not Getting Interviews; Plus Some Crazy Real Resume Mistakes · · Score: 2

    As a software consultant and occasional contract employee, in all cases, the resume is what gets me hired, and the phone interview is just a safeguard to make sure I'm a real person. Often the interview turns into a technology bull session with the developers making sure that I have the correct industry understanding and not whether I have done the things I stated I could do. I clearly communicated that fact to them already. In my resume.

  17. Targeted Coupons on Don't Build a Database of Ruin · · Score: 1

    Three weeks ago at Target they auto-printed out coupons for jock itch medication and then the next week I get coupons for hemorrhoid medication. So I asked my wife about it and she said, "Yeah, it moved. How did you know?"

  18. Re:DSN on the Internet ? on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    Worked DSN recently. Yes the data is encrypted from SV down to the RGS all the way to the MCS, where it is decrypted. The encryption is optional.

  19. Valmet on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: 1

    Valmet is a contract automobile manufacturer. In the early years, almost all Porsche Boxsters went through final assembly at Valmet. The engines were produced in Stuttgart.

  20. Re:I guess it's not really competition on Canonical To Divert Money From GNOME · · Score: 1

    I guess that's why people read totalfark instead of slashdot.

  21. Re:Flamebait on Canonical To Divert Money From GNOME · · Score: 1

    What? KDE doesn't get a cut? The HURD doesn't get a cut?

  22. I guess it's not really competition on Canonical To Divert Money From GNOME · · Score: 1

    If Banshee disables Amazon, then theoretically that would increase the sales to Canonical's MP3 store. So by disallowing Banshee from doing this, basically Canonical is saying that their 75% cut of the affiliate money from people willing to buy MP3s from Amazon is more profitable than the direct sales they would get from people willing to buy from their no-name MP3 store. In the spirit of the original article, I tried to be as confusing with this post as possible.

  23. Sorry China on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    I guess we screwed up guys. Apparently having a solid security model also allows the government to put in monitors and back doors at superuser level that a normal user cannot bypass.

    Free as in...speech?

  24. If the feedback doesn't alter the DNA... on Scientists Discover Proteins Controlling Evolution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the feedback doesn't alter the DNA itself, then there's no "smart evolution." It's just an evolutionary consequence to a gazillion random mutations. As an "improved natural selector" it seems less so, as the consequence of this is that organisms are more able to adapt to changing conditions. If the conditions change rapidly enough, maybe the feedback effect allows the organism to live, but not thrive, allowing for further random mutations to allow it to outperform its peers in the new environment.

  25. Edit on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 0, Troll

    Michael Kaminski's The Secret History of Star Wars, Third Edition is a free, thoroughly unedited, unprofessionally written and unreadable e-book that brings together a huge amount of literary detective work to sort fact from legend and reveal how the story really evolved."

    FTFY