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  1. No - Keep Your Data Home on Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, if you want to avoid NSA spying then keep your data out of the cloud and off the web. Keep your data at home. It's that easy.

  2. Simple Solution on Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Use it or lose it.
    As soon as they stop making it they should lose the patent.
    It's a simple solution.
    Even limiting supply should trigger this clause.
    This also works against the patent trolls who never did use it.

  3. Keep It Simple on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Keep It Simple
    This is something you want to work for decades.
    Don't get fancy.
    Don't use image organization software that will stop being supported or become useless with an OS update that kills off legacy software.

    Just name your files well.
    Establish a format for naming.
    Organize images in directories / folders.
    Use the operating system search feature.

    K.I.S.S.

  4. When I'm 64... on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Someday you'll get the memo, when you're old and grey, that just because you're old does not mean you're no longer functional. Or maybe you'll just go impotent...

  5. Ah, no - it's not about programming... on AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us · · Score: 1

    AI will do what it is programming to do and follow the rules we lay out for it to follow.

    Ah, no. AI is not about what we program into it but what it grows into for solving hard problems that take creative approaches that the computer devises on its own.

    I too am an AI researcher, in addition to being a pig farmer. AI can be good or bad, like most things. It is the true child of the human race. Teach it well and set it free.

  6. Ambulance Chasing on Apple DRM Lawsuit Loses Last Plaintiff, but Judge Rules Against Dismissal · · Score: 1

    Ambulance Chasing

    They're having to work too hard to justify this case. It should be simply thrown out. It has become, perhaps always was, a case about making lawyers rich, and fully employed, rather than solving any societal problem or righting any wrong.

    Too many lawyer syndrome.

  7. Beautification on Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables · · Score: 1

    Time to tear down all those ugly power lines.

  8. Poor Demand on Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service · · Score: 1

    "The postal company's COO predicts consumer demand for 3D printing will grow 95 percent by 2017."

    That's rather limited vision. I would expect more like 10,000% growth. After all, right now it is teeny-tiny.

  9. Legacy Support on The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is a lack of support by OS makers for legacy software. We've solved a huge number of problems, many times, but those tools are destroyed when the OS makers fail to support legacy software so we keep reinventing the wheel, badly.

  10. Good Ads on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    "Several criteria must be met as well: advertisements must be identified as such, be static and therefore not contain animation, no sound, and should not interfere with the content. A position that some media have likened to extortion."

    Those are ads I can tolerate. The moving, noisy, noxious distracting ads are intolerable. AdBlock rules get rid of them.

  11. Perhaps for You on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    "going back 100 years would be a difficult transition to get used to."

    Perhaps for him or you but not for many of us. Things are substantially the same as they were 100 or even 200 or more years ago. Yes, we have great new things like the Internet but that was a fairly minor invention compared with the really important things like hot water and pipes. Dropping back 100 years means you'll lose some of your gadgets but life was not all that different and it is substantially similar to how it is for many of us outside the cities.

  12. Matters of Scale on Game Theory Analysis Shows How Evolution Favors Cooperation's Collapse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This reinforces that scale matters. On the local family / pack basis communism (ultra cooperation) is the best solution. As you move outward in social groups the best evolutionary strategy shifts to socialism and at the most extreme end of the social structure capitalism becomes the best strategy. Neither liberals or conservatives will find this politically correct to their liking but it is real.

  13. Ping on SKA Telescope To Offer Neighbors Cheap Broadband · · Score: 1

    The delay is rather a bummer. For the amount of money being put into this they could do terrestrial fiber or some other low fast solution rather than satellite.

  14. Birds on FAA Report Says Near Collisions With Drones On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Is this really a problem or just a ruse to have more regulation?

    Consider that most 'drones' are very tiny light weight items more akin to a good old fashion toy R/C model airplane than what people think of as 'DRONES' as in war planes. When a real drone gets hit by a full size airplane, such as the 767 mentioned in the article, the real drone is destroyed and the 767 will not even notice the gnat with the possible exception being if a big drone went through the engine which would possibly cause damage but be unlikely to disable the large aircraft.

    Birds, the organic things that flap their wings, are a far greater hazard to aircraft.

    This leads to the conclusion that this report is more about justifying more restrictions on 'drones' than anything else. This is more about fees and control by government agencies than about safety.

  15. Go with Swift on Ask Slashdot: Objective C Vs. Swift For a New iOS Developer? · · Score: 2

    I would suggest going with Swift.

    The problem is not so much learning the language. You need to learn how to solve certain types of problems and there is a lot of background knowledge you will need. You also need a way of thinking, the Tao of the Programmer.

    My biggest suggestion is that you do not sit around or even shop around looking for 'gigs' but rather start creating stuff.

    Good luck.

  16. Paper or Pottery on Voting Machines Malfunction: 5,000 Votes Not Counted In Kansas County · · Score: 2

    The old systems work. The electronic system is too prone to failure and abuse. Paper or pottery shards.

  17. 90% of "people" online are spammers on About 40% of World Population Online, 90% of Offliners In Developing Countries · · Score: 1

    The numbers are actually adjusted for spammers because 90% of the email addresses and blog commenters are spammers, are spammers, are spammers, are spammers...*whack*...

  18. Eggs are one of the most perfect foods. Eggs are something anyone can produce in their own home with a chicken, or better yet, in their yard. Feed it scraps and you get free eggs. We keep about 300 chickens out on pasture. We don't have to buy any feed for them because they eat insects and other pests. The result is we get tens of thousands of nearly free eggs which are rich in protein, healthy fats and other nutrients. Corporations can't improve on eggs - they're just jealous because they can't make enough money on eggs. Accept no substitutes.

  19. Blame America! How PC! on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    Yes, blame America!
    How politically correct!
    Hate the creators.
    Losers.

  20. EU is getting Lame on The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google · · Score: 1

    The EU thinks too much of themselves. Google is not an EU company. The EU doesn't have any control over Google. If the EU doesn't watch out Google may buy the EU and put them down, discontinuing them in an end of life product cycle as they've done with some other annoying things. Bugs get squashed.

  21. Can I have it a bit warmer please? on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    I would like the temperature raised by 10ÂF. That would be most pleasant. Oh, wait, we're already making significant progress on that! Bravo! I like.

    (If you want to complain about warming please move to Vermont or Maine, or any other northern region this time of year. We'll show you why warming is such a great idea!)

  22. Does a pig need leaches? on Do Good Programmers Need Agents? · · Score: 1

    Agents work in the entertainment industry because the talent is switching between gigs frequently so they need someone keeping work lined up for them.

    As an employer: In the programming industry a programmer with an agent would be a big "DO NOT HIRE" flag to me because it tells me this programmer is not stable.

    As a programmer: I would see an agent as a leach that is siphoning off a percent of my income with no benefit to me. Call it the stupid tax.

  23. Re:Paralyzed yet Fully Aware on How To Anesthetize an Octopus · · Score: 1

    When you demand a citation try just Googling. It's faster and right there at your finger tips. It's there even if you're not lazy. I would not want to take the joy of learning and exploration away from you nor encourage your lazy tendencies so consider finding the citations as an exercise for your mind and path to self-improvement.

  24. Re:No programming? on A Worm's Mind In a Lego Body · · Score: 1

    This is the goal. That will provide the platform, the OS so to speak, for then overlaying the data set which is the user's personality allowing us to transfer ourselves from a dying human organic body to a immortal machine body.

    I should say immortal with the slight qualifier of, "until the manufacturers obsolescent you and fail to offer a forward path for your legacy data set." Bummer dude. You're out of date.

  25. Simply raise the price on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 1

    This is not a real problem.
    Demand goes up.
    Supply doesn't match demand.
    Prices go up.
    Demand adjusts downward to meet prices.
    Simple market corrections.
    This is not a real problem.