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  1. Re:Funny on Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys · · Score: 1

    While they may find a hack. I expect like a lot of vulnerabilities, they are hard enough of a hack to keep you safer using this method then the previous ones.

    If you want to get into a hotel room, there are ways to do it. Heck if you really want to get in, bypass the door all together and punch threw the sheet rock.

  2. They may not know yet. on SpaceShipTwo's Rocket Engine Did Not Cause Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    How dare an article not jump to a conclusion before they are facts to back it up. You must be watching too much Cable News.

    I know we live in the internet age where we demand information right away. However some things takes time.

    Make sure they are keeping the investigation productive, but stop pressuring people to find who to blame so we can do a token fire of that person, then carry on like nothing has happened.
     

  3. Re:They tried to raise prices 20% unnanounced on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    The main reason I have cable tv is that is my areas best/affordable way to get internet.
    I would welcome alternatives to Cable in Rural areas.

  4. Re:Yes, but on Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nearly everything in the media is Knee-jerk.
    No one has the time to really dig threw and sift threw the facts and see both sides of an issue. We Want Good Guys and Bad Guys. No gray line.
    It is nice and neat and easy to know where you are at.

  5. Re:Not a chance on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    Business supports it, but it really comes down to the customers.
    Hooking you app to your bank account is a bad idea.
    1. Overdrafts are expensive and annoying. With CREDIT card we can pay some or preferably all of it back when it is more convenient. If you can't get your drugs because your bank account is empty and you will get paid tomorrow, you lost a customer.

    2. Setup. A lot of personal questions online, which is scary to fill out online, Then it takes time to setup. Then as you point out too much of your info in a server that you really don't know how secure.

    3. Ease of use. An app is bulky. and you have to show your screen to the person scanning it. All in all bad. with Apple pay you scan and beep in and you don't need to show what is on your screen to no one.

    In general the stores hate Credit Card Processing fees... However they need to deal with it because customers like credit cards better.

  6. Re:Well, that's cool I guess on It's Official: HTML5 Is a W3C Standard · · Score: 1

    But there is not an official standard to point to when your least favorite browser isn't rendering properly.

    The neat thing about following a standard, is you get standard results.

  7. Re:Microsoft Works? on Microsoft Works On Windows For ARM-Based Servers · · Score: 1

    Exactly I would go for the full version of Office.
    For the server, I would really would like Microsoft provide a better library for interacting with office files then interop

  8. Re:So no iPhone support on Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App · · Score: 1

    Or you can try again with better description, or a little tweaking.

    This anger is because someone said YOUR CODE WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH! The shame, the horror, you are the best coder in the world, and Apple said no!

     

  9. Re:China is more capitalistic than the USA on First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China · · Score: 1

    You are confusing increasing growth, with bigger.

    China has been so far removed from capitalism for so long that small-medium steps in that direction cause major changes. In China there is still the Government overhead to make sure you don't cross the line, which is rather rigidly set. In the US we hear about the rise in socialism but it is just because we had so little before.

  10. Re:So no iPhone support on Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App · · Score: 1

    But if you app fails the Apples check do we really want your app?
    I mean most of the reasons are due to quality issues or the product that is misleading.

  11. Re:Not enough lasting value on Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App · · Score: 1

    That and your app isn't as cool as you thought it was.
    I have need Apps on the App Store for some relatively small niche markets.
    I expect there are a lot of apps that say customized for your friends and family. Say an app that syncs your and only your schedule with the other peoples phones.

  12. Re:What will it take? on What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? · · Score: 1

    Money.
    Money to pay the Political Parties.
    Money to pay for the governments.
    Money to pay for the insurance companies.
    Money to pay the local governments.
    Money for advertising
    Money for paying off special interests groups.
    If there is left you can put some money into making the vehicle work better.

  13. Re:So they got their reservation using deception? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    Exactly these groups are so tied up in the belief of the grand conspiracy, that if you were to silence them it will only feed to the core belief.
    Have them talk, make an ass out of themselves. Then point out the flaw in nearly every point.
    Hitler was a big fan of evolution... He was also a big fan of Art and Literature. Some say the root to Hitler Evilness is due to the artist in him, trying to make the world perfect in his vision.

    So Art is evil.

    What I would much rather see, is setting up ground rules for the debates, cutting people off if they make arguments that fall as invalid. Such as intimation, making a broad assumptions.
    So if they could backup their claims then let them go at it. Otherwise they are just ranting.

  14. Re:AI isn't the future. on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    "will come across to Assimilate, Exterminate, Delete or Upgrade"
    Not to mention Dalek's and the Cybermen. Which I have implied in my original post.

  15. AI isn't the future. on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    It is putting genetically modified brains in a cybernetic bodies, that is the future!
    Science Fiction has countless examples of AI going wrong. But no accounts of evil cybernetic life forms, that will come across to Assimilate, Exterminate, Delete or Upgrade those inferior humans.

    Like all things new (Technology, Process, Ideology), you need to judge your invention with an ethical step back. Are the rewords greater then the risks. Can the risks be further mitigated? Is this invention acceptable with our current culture.

  16. Re:No thanks. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    However do you really trust your bank that much? And how much anger/fear/frustration do you have to insure because the POS systems are a POS.

    Having an app for every store is just stupid. Because most people will not go to a store enough to justify the time to setup the app. So they will use their credit cards and the stores will pay for the fees anyway. And when they get hacked like Target and Home Depot, they will get the blame not the bank.

  17. Re:industrial computers on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 1

    I would say use a high end server to do the processing and send the output to a lower end more robust system.

  18. Re:52,000 to 58,000 years ago? on Oldest Human Genome Reveals When Our Ancestors Mixed With Neanderthals · · Score: 1

    9 month before that the excuse of beer goggles came up.

  19. Re:New Object on Astronomers Find Brightest Pulsar Ever Observed · · Score: 2

    My hypothesis is how black holes often work like a gravitational lens for light, they could be located in the right spot that in essence focuses the xray energy right onto our location.

  20. We need a whitebox mobile device. on Raspberry Pi Founder Demos Touchscreen Display For DIY Kits · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of the things I am missing is the idea of a whitebox mobile devices. so you can build your own phone and your own tablet.
    It may not be Sexy as an iPad, but you can configure in ways to get what you want out of it. More speed, more memory, better video, or huge battery life...
    That is what made the PC popular, was the fact that you could get a PC configured for what you need it for. A cheap low end box, to a high end system. Was all possible.
    This also allowed for a bunch of small companies to start building computers.

  21. Basic Medical Technology 101. on DHS Investigates 24 Potentially Lethal IoT Medical Devices · · Score: 1

    Data Protocol: HL7 While 3.0 is XML based, almost everyone uses v.2 which is a multi-row Pipe (Technically is is definable, but everyone uses pipes) delimited file.

    How the data is transferred.
    There are two common ways to transfer HL7 data.
    File Drop and read,
    Push via a non encrypted TCP/IP.

    Most healthcare systems try to put in VPN and separate networks in place to minimize the damage. But if someone was on the network they could say data update new dose, on the OBX.

    We need to get technology to support encryption better. But health care system are notoriously decades out of date.

  22. Re:All the movies had women in business on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    That and everyone has their strong and week points in coding.
    I have seen code that has no structure what so ever and is just spaghetti code, then I have seen code that is so overly structured that you have no idea where that glitch is residing in because the error is in a base class of a class that has been extended into an other class which is wrapped in a bunch of other classes.

    If you go back to your old code you will often find that you go to yourself why did I do it that way!
    The solution to you now is simple and easy, while at the time you had a complex set of things going on.

    Also we get scope creep and people providing information who demand that you do something a particular way, or assign similar tasks to different people, because the business requirements are different however the coding is nearly identical and a simple IF condition with 3 lines of code is all that is needed for one method or the other.

  23. Re:All the movies had women in business on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    You know you can probably save a lot of those thousands and thousands of hours trying to figure it out, if you just got up and asked someone they may have solved that problem in the past.
    That is the biggest problem I have with Coders, They think they need to be anti-social and figure it out themselves. However there is often a team of other people around them who can help work out these problems faster and better if they chose to be a bit more social about their work.

  24. Re:'Bout time on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 1

    No need for the anti-capitalism rant.
    In general the parent is right. The governments generally are better for Infrastructure based jobs, Because an infrastructure benefits all people. Corporations when left to do infrastructure are not as good as it, because they need to be large enough to maintain a wide area, and having remote areas being far more expensive to maintain. Meaning less dense area get extremely expensive.
    The government getting funding via Taxes means everyone is a customer so everyone is paying for everyone internet access, allows for a more efficient use of funds.

  25. Trade off and flame war. on Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance? · · Score: 1

    Nothing like a difference in opinion of what trade offs some one chooses to cause a flame war.
    Performance vs battery life. Some people want a responsive device while they charge their phone daily so it isn't an issue. Others want there phone to charge less option so they use it more.
    The thing is people use their devices differently and have different habits so they accept different trade offs to best meet there needs.
    But so many people feel that just because someone has their preference it is threationing theirs too.