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  1. Re:Lower Receiver? on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 1

    The day the Stasi come to collect your registered guns,

    People with this attitude express it with the fervent hope that it will happen. I suppose mainly, so they can experience going out in a blaze of glorious he-man bullets, Peckinpah-style.

  2. Two Walled Gardens on Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan · · Score: 1

    When one walled garden just isn't enough!

  3. Re:Try it in the EU first on PayPal Will Be Able To Robo-Text/Call Users With No Opt-out Starting July 1 · · Score: 1

    A massive fine awaits any business that attempts to behave in this way in the UK.

    But in this thread, we're only talking about consumer rights in the Third World, aka the United States.

  4. Related on nmap Maintainer Warns He Doesn't Control nmap SourceForge Mirror · · Score: 1

    To just refer this matter to law enforcement. They're putting together bundles specifically to shove spyware down people's throats. It's being done in such a way as to make uninformed users think they're the official page. I'm not normally one to say stuff like this, but sourceforge needs to have a visit from FBI and/or FTC over this.

    More to the point, would it really be that hard for an even more nefarious third-party to change out the Sorceforge shovel-ware for truly dangerous malware? Do they even offer hashes to check the installers they've 'improved'?

  5. We now know where little Bobby Tables interned last summer.

  6. Star Trek meets Dickens on Building Amazon a Better Warehouse Robot · · Score: 1

    As corporate-profits motivate more and more replacement of humans with automation, societal attitudes about employment are still moored in the Industrial Revolution age.

    If you don't have a job, you're a bum - doubly so if you are a man, just to pile on the Puritanistic guilt.

    I can't recall where I saw it - perhaps the Daily Dot or the Daily Beast, but it was a map of the most common job in every state of 2015 America. The most common in total for the country? Truck Driver.

    In about ten years, the only jobs left will be in the private riot police squads, trying to hold back the tsunami of the unemployed assaulting the One-Percenter citadels to extract their revenge.

    Quite a few in that mob will also have CS degrees.

  7. Too Late on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only the rich will be able to afford it. So you die with 75 and they with 300. They will feel like god like creatures.

    Judging by Dick Cheney's attitudes and continued existence, they already do.

  8. Can't wait ohwait on Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to get...
    oh, yeah... Verizon.

  9. "No problem" on GM To Offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto API In Most 2016 Vehicles · · Score: 1

    "We have a spare channel on the braking CANbus; we'll just patch it into that."

  10. Said and unsaid on DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect · · Score: -1, Troll

    Right now you have just about every law enforcement officer across the country aware of his open warrant and are looking for him

    "After we found out he is a black man that allegedly killed a white family - oh, and their maid, I guess."

  11. Past Tense? on NSA Planned To Hijack Google App Store To Hack Smartphones · · Score: 2

    "NSA Planned..."? Where is the proof they did not go ahead, or are still planning to, via moles or NSL-threatened insiders?

    Such a headline gives the impression we safely dodged a bullet, while still in the midst of a massive firefight (and our side only has sparklers and rubber bands).

  12. security is easier with a small footprint than a large one.

    a small footprint is easier with no security.

  13. More pointedly on Critical Vulnerability In NetUSB Driver Exposes Millions of Routers To Hacking · · Score: 1

    You should also state (based on their response to this vulnerability), the institute will nullify their degree if they are found to be purchasing Netgear products.

  14. Re:Fourth power rule of thumb on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 3, Funny

    A 200 pound bicycle causes one ten-thousandth of the wear that a 2000 pound car causes, which means cyclists' contribution to road wear would likely be too small to collect.

    Except for the impact divot they leave when someone doors them.

  15. The real reason on Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television · · Score: 1

    To make Gene Munster throw himself out of a window.

    Once his demise has been confirmed (with some steak-driven technology), the plans can continue apace.

  16. Law and Order on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    'Law and Order' isn't just a comforting phrase for all their terrified cracker constituents; it is justification for making piles of cash directly or indirectly from the Prison-Industrial sector and their allied corporations ranging from laundry services, the shittiest possible, Puritan-approved prison food, to usurious fees charged to inmates daring to call their families (and vice-versa).

    Profit!

  17. Taliban on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 0

    When it comes to women's rights, the 'modern' Republican party is most closely aligned with extremist Muslims such as the Taliban. The saddest part is that both camps have brainwashed a good chunk of women in their sphere of influence to actually believe this subjugationist horseshit, mostly those raised by women-hating patriarchs.

  18. Libertarians on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Libertarian is just short hand for 'Bring on the post-apocalyptic waste-land. I'm tired of paying taxes and I have enough weaponry to impose my will on others.'

  19. Effing LOL on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Feminists (to be clear, the rather extreme ones that control much of the media

    "... who make sure they and their sisters continue to be paid ~25% less than their male counterparts..."

  20. Why Texas? on Construction At SpaceX's New Spaceport About To Begin · · Score: 1

    Why Texas? ZERO REGULATION. Hell, your fertilizer plant can nearly wipe out a town, and the fine ends up being about the same as a speeding ticket (as workers are as expendable as LOx).

  21. Nuclear Power Plants on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of nuclear power plants: everything is great when brand-new; everything functions, maintenance is top-notch and top-priority.

    But in the fullness of time (and the penny-pinching greed of both privately and publicly-held entities), along with all too human facets of complacency and sloth... that is when the shit comes down. In this case, more than just figuratively.

  22. Walk the walk on Study Reveals Wikimedia Foundation Is 'Awash In Money' · · Score: 1

    Nonprofits don't generate shareholder returns, this doesn't mean that they are prevented from enriching executives via compensation packages.

    Exactly. If this is a noble pursuit for humanity, everyone's salary / package / compensations should be posted - most especially Mr. Wales, who isn't exactly pure as the driven snow.

    After all: information just wants to be free.

  23. Philip Zimbardo isnt doing science on this, hes regurgitating talking points from evangelical american christian leadership. porn addiction, insufficient masculinity, and "the vidja games" are all bitchcraft perfected by the likes of James Dobson and focus on the family as surrogates for their collective concern that america is "changing" and they dont like it.

    All this shit boils down to what they see coming: the White race becoming a minority within God's Own Country (USA).

    From the very beginning, the anti-abortion movement has not been "Save the babies!", but rather "Save the WHITE babies!!"

  24. Consumer Reports on Study Reveals Wikimedia Foundation Is 'Awash In Money' · · Score: 1

    According to an older story [wikipediocracy.com] at Wikipediocracy, the objections seem to be partly that fundraising campaigns are expressed in a dire "We need money now or the lights go off!" kind of tone, when that really isn't the situation.

    The same could be said about Consumer Reports. I continue to be a member, but I do tire of their endless (and not exactly zero-cost) mailings begging for money. Surprisingly, they also are intentionally (IMHO) fuzzy in conflating subscriptions to the magazine with their requests for money for Consumer Reports [Foundation].

  25. Meta on $9 Open Source Computer Blows Past Crowdfunding Goal · · Score: 1

    I'll soon be creating a Kickstarter to fund the creation of a crowd-sourced funding system. Stay tuned!