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  1. TANSTAAFL on Facebook Successfully Tests Laser Internet Drones · · Score: 1

    This is going to be great for people in rural areas, developing countries, and others who otherwise would remain hostages to the poor reliability and high latency of radio and satellite internet.

    Zuckbook will never give us great unwashed unfettered Internet access, but only a one way trip into the bidding paddock for advertisers to assess us - the product - a monetary value.

    And to think FB will not be vending everyone out to all the state security organs of the world for 30 Ag is utter cluelessness.

  2. Re:Flawed on MIT Debuts Integer Overflow Debugger · · Score: 1

    The one problem with their method is that it can only detect overflows in one direction

    and that one of the modules has already dropped out.

  3. Uh-huh on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    I know several airline pilots, they are told to fly even when they are very tired or when sick.

    And how many of them are Germans working in the Eurozone? Just because Corporate America willingly puts profits ahead of people's lives, doesn't mean it's universal behavior.

  4. Cubs Analogy on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Maybe Jezza finally did go too far, but the Beeb (and BBC America) will deeply rue this decision financially, and the 'victim' will go down in history being about as popular as this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bartman_incident

  5. Racism on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Greenwald is right. Had even one of his parents been of Middle Eastern origin, the state organs of security and the corporate media would be shouting "Terrorist!!". But since he's German (read: White), the 'T' word isn't even uttered, just mental illness.

  6. "Thousands, Standing Around" -- Thomas P. M. Barnett

    I've always wondered if he meant the obese clone army of Blue Shirts, or Security Checkpoints being a target-rich bottleneck.

  7. Truer words never spoken on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 2

    "The people who tend not to vote are young, they're lower income, they're skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups. There's a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls."

    This is the one downside to health care advances: the geriatric gentry like DICK Cheney will hang around far too long, doing out-sized damage to every facet of our existence.

  8. Parallel Construction on How Police Fight To Keep Use of Stingrays Secret · · Score: 1

    They also use this garbage lying theory called Parallel Construction, which if they explained it to time machine transported Founding Fathers, they would fall upon them like a pack of ravening zombies, as they would see this for what it is: Tyranny.

  9. The real threat of a GOP-controlled WH & Congr on ICE Tells Reporter Its Secretive Drone Program Isn't Newsworthy · · Score: 1

    If the GOP again controls both the White House and both houses, the first thing they will do is outright eliminate the Freedom of Information Act or make it so toothless as to be irrelevant. After all, there's an endless, profitable war on, you know.

  10. Homeless limo drivers appear! "Home, Jeeves; and keep it above 90!"

  11. Remainder of quote on Hertz Puts Cameras In Its Rental Cars, Says It Has No Plans To Use Them · · Score: 1

    "That's for the hackers to figure out!"

  12. Pass on NASA Wants Your Help Hunting For Asteroids · · Score: 1

    The constant 'Pew-Pew-Pew' sounds would keep me awake at night.

  13. Shark Tank on Elon Musk Pledges To End "Range Anxiety" For Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    My SO loves watching Shark Tank (which I despise, but try to keep to myself). A telling indicator of how busted the current system is that these millionaires (who apparently just don't *quite* have enough lucre yet) always ask the same question: "Do you have a patent?"

  14. Clean Coal, on UN Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign · · Score: 2

    Military Intelligence, Virgin Birth...

  15. Okay on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    Still fascinating that no one can agree on the origin of the once slang 'OK'.

  16. Re:Replicator prototype on New Molecular 3D Printer Can Create Billions of Compounds · · Score: 1

    They will have to shut this down HARD, to keep us from manufacturing pharmaceuticals and recreational drugs wihout the permission of IP "owners" or our frankly insane drug law enforcers.

    Wow: Big Pharma's *and* Big Moral Cop's worst nightmare. Here's hoping, anyway.

  17. Re:Wind and Solar Converge on US Wind Power Is Expected To Double In the Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I still am not sure why (where the land isn't good enough or worth trying to improve for farming) solar isn't co-habituating with wind farms just to take advantage of the already built power infrastructure. Maybe not enough capacity when both are at or near optimal generating conditions?

  18. Literally WHOOSH on LAPD Police Claim Helicopters Stop Crimes Before They Happen · · Score: 1

    Yes; you don't try to cut the fence of the police state prison camp right where the guards are standing - and that is EXACTLY what LAPD is doing to poor (read: minority) neighborhoods.

    Tired of the endless WHUMP-WHUMP-WHUMP? well, turn white and rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bootstrap!

  19. Overhead bathroom fixture with heating element on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 1

    I have an overhead bathroom fixture that is a combination light / exhaust / heater. I'd love to replace the tungsten with an LED, but I'm concerned if an LED can hold up to a hot environment such as this without failing or - worst case scenario - catching fire due to overheating.

  20. Seat belt switch on Endurance Experiment Kills Six SSDs Over 18 Months, 2.4 Petabytes · · Score: 2

    This reminds me of the systems they tried to impose in the early 70s' US cars: if the seat belts weren't latched, the cars would not start. No, not just an annoying bong for a brief time; the freaking engine would not even turn over. And this being completely analog, system failures happened quite a bit. But fear not! If there was a failure, there was an under hood button you could push to bypass the system. Once. A one-time use, then you had to tow the car to a dealership for a new box. As most everyone by-passed this insanity, the system was quickly dropped.

    Here's hoping Intel also comes to their senses about their one-time recovery window (hopefully with some well-deserved threats from the FTC).

  21. Canaries on OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit · · Score: 1

    In all seriousness: who are these institutions? And do they have bullet-proof methods to warn everyone when (probably not if) they receive NSLs to ignore and keep certain code in place, upon pain of PMITA prison time?

  22. Cracks on Man 3D Prints a Working 5-Speed Transmission For Toyota Engines · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like it already has a crack in the shifter retainer plate and the housing below the shifter (visible in one picture but not another). Also seems odd that he didn't seem to go through the whole pattern, but just first to second. Maybe the printed clutch failed.

  23. 3D Printing on Why We Need Free Digital Hardware Designs · · Score: 1

    I suppose it is well-nigh impossible to ever 3D print semi-conductors, but I hope someone is at least researching the concept.

    I think printing your own guaranteed backdoor-free hardware would be a far more important blow for freedom than 3D printing yet another killing machine.

  24. Next up for Google Nest on Google Nest Rumored To Be Moving Into Audio · · Score: 1

    Pod Bay door control.

  25. The really troubling part on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 2

    If every OS and system on the planet is merely your plaything, you are now not just a government agency but a standalone entity that can completely self-fund without leaving a trace, and thus answerable to no one, most especially mere elected civilians.

    And if the Senators or POTUS get uppity, well no one that achieves those offices are innocent, thus they are completely blackmailable, if not subject to out and out threats (especially their families).

    I think this is the main reason every man that now becomes President ends up with gray hair, regardless of their age.