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  1. EFF testing new Privacy Badger tool on Opting Out of Big Data Snooping: Harder Than It Looks · · Score: 5, Informative

    EFF is launching a new extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger automatically detects and blocks spying ads around the Web, and the invisible trackers that feed information to them.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

  2. Lucas Banned For Life from Star Wars Franchise on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    The moves, announced by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, are the most severe sanctions the league has ever levied against a Franchise owner.

  3. Clint Eastwood in "FruitFlyFox" on Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked · · Score: 2

    Dr. Baronovich: "You must think in Fruit Fly."

  4. Only one thing missing on College Grads Create Fake Tesla Commercial That Elon Musk Loves · · Score: 3, Funny

    Should have ended with "See your New Jersey Tesla dealer today!"

  5. We've done this one before... on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Slides vs White Powder on Physics Forum At Fermilab Bans Powerpoint · · Score: 4, Funny

    I keep the house a bit on the cool side to enhance her bullet points when she begins her presentation.

  7. US Military: Powerpoint Makes Us Stupid on Physics Forum At Fermilab Bans Powerpoint · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "The Military's Enemy Within: PowerPoint"

    http://www.newser.com/story/87...

  8. Re:Hand out the PP slides after the talk. on Physics Forum At Fermilab Bans Powerpoint · · Score: 5, Funny

    But... but... explain to me how you can get a chalk board or white board to go "whooooooosh" when you go on to the next set of bullet points! I don't know about you but if it doesn't go "whooooooosh" I've lost everything salient and important about what you've presented. Oh ya one other thing... how do you get neat visual effects like folds and crinkly dissolves to happen with a chalk board or white board?

  9. Slides vs White Powder on Physics Forum At Fermilab Bans Powerpoint · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wife and I have communicated exclusively with PowerPoint slides for the past 21 years. A chalk board would just make a mess.

  10. "Laser" is just the marketing hook buzzword. It could be replaced in this story with "Cosmic Ray", "Neutrino", etc. as people find ways to get the desired "quantum" properties.

  11. Re:What's the solution? on Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration Because of Linux GPU Bugs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AFAIK the Mozilla folks have not had the same complaints about Linux graphics drivers, have they?

    The solution is to avoid using the Google Chrome browser, unless you like being spied on all the time by Google. Load up Firefox with a completely fascist set of add ons and do your best to browse safely.

  12. Quick Discharge batteries? on Sulfur Polymers Could Enable Long-Lasting, High-Capacity Batteries · · Score: 1

    FTA: 'The best performing copolymer consisted of 90% sulfur by mass. Batteries using this copolymer had an initial storage capacity of 1,225 mAh per gram of material. After 100 charge-discharge cycles, the capacity dropped to 1,005 mAh/g, and after 500 cycles it fell to about 635 mAh/g. In comparison, a lithium-ion battery typically starts out with a storage capacity of 200 mAh/g but maintains it for the life of the battery, Pyun says.' So, situations in which a massive blast of current is required could benefit quite well from these batteries. I'm thinking like sitting at light on Mulholland and turning a knob on the Tesla's dashboard that is graduated in 1960's TV Batman style: Low-Medium-High-Zowie!

  13. Re:Already Lost on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 1

    Let's not worship the P-51 without acknowledging some deadly flaws: P-51 pilots didn't dare get into a low-altitude dogfight. The slogan of Mustang drivers faced with low altitude combat was "Shit and Git!" or more politely "Boom and Zoom!" because even lower grade Luftwaffe fighters could wipe it out in tight turns down low. The supercritical wings of the Mustang were actually a hindrance down low in the thicker air in tight turns. So, while the P-51 with Merlin engine was a game changer, it had its faults.

  14. Re:ANDROID != LINUX on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1, Informative

    1. install or use a terminal emulator or console app
    2. at the prompt type "uname -a"
    3. observe Linux kernel information

  15. Mother Nature Seems To Love Irony on Pine Forest Vapor Particles Can Limit Climate Change · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The blight of the Mountain Pine Beetle has caused collosal damage to the pine forests of western North America, thwarting any supposed vapor particle limitation of climate change:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Debacle? on The Emerging RadioShack/Netflix Debacle · · Score: 1

    We've talked before about commercial web site glitches and the ramifications on consumers, but it seems to me that the same thing would apply in this case, with RadioShack being completely culpable. One other thing: TFA doesn't indicate any sort of Netflix legal action at this point, so maybe this supposed "debacle" isn't all that important to them.

  17. Re:September of last year on Astronomers Catch Asteroid Striking Moon On Video · · Score: 2

    Cut them some slack. It takes a long time to spin up a cover story for what was obviously not a natural occurrence. It was actually a weapons test conducted by the

  18. Re:My favorite was "Stripes" on Harold Ramis Dies At 69 · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has ever paraded in uniform for tinpot martinets and sadistic drill instructors completely splits a gut over that hilarious parade square scene! Boom shukka lukka lukka boom shukka lukka lukka!

  19. Re:Egon Gone on Harold Ramis Dies At 69 · · Score: 1

    I blame the mistranslation of the Russian subtitles on that Italian-dubbed rip I got in an alley in Seoul! (hee hee, with a little bit of disinformation my plan to NOT look like a complete asshat fool on /. is working perfectly!)

  20. Egon Gone on Harold Ramis Dies At 69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    He crossed the beams!

  21. Re:Proof dogs talk: on Dogs' Brains Have Human-like "Voice Area" · · Score: 2

    At long last, after years of cutting-edge experimentation, enormous expense, and groundbreaking surgical techniques, a team of scientists conducts a press conference featuring their most successful patient, Shaggy, who has been given the linguistic equivalence of a 10 year-old child. To each and every question posed by the eager reporters, Shaggy replies in delight:

    "I'm a good boy!"

  22. Plagiarism on Book Review: Survival of the Nicest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Buddha is really pissed at Stefan Klein and has hired a battery of lawyers to sue his ass off.

  23. TL;DR just the list in plain text, please! on US Plunges To 46th In World Press Freedom Index · · Score: 2

    wget https://rsf.org/index2014/data...
    cat index2.csv|awk -F ";" '{print $3" "$2}'|sort -n

  24. SystemVd - beware! on Ubuntu To Switch To systemd · · Score: 2

    I got SystemVd on vacation in Thailand and now I'll never be able to spawn child processes again.

  25. Re:Excuse me... Excuse me?!!! on Many Lasers Become One In Lockheed Martin's 30 kW Laser Weapon · · Score: 1

    If a fighter plane is blown up over Kentucky, a family in Oregon or South Carolina need not worry about the debris falling on them. An errant 30kw beam of coherent light would be dangerous even in far away places.