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  1. It's getting scary on Coddled, Surveilled, and Monetized: How Modern Houses Can Watch You · · Score: 3, Funny

    I went to the hospital a while back and they started collecting all sorts of private data. They even insisted on getting a blood sample, probably for some kind of DNA database. Then, when the doctor left me alone for a minute I looked on the counter at his clipboard and there it was. The smoking gun. He had PAGES of information on me. So be warned, the government is already doing everything it can to monitor the population.

  2. Slashvertisement on Duolingo is a Free, Crowdsourced Language Learning App (Video) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Holy Slashvertisement Batman!

  3. Will they understand their surroundings when they get shoved up his ass?

  4. Re:A step backwards on Ask Slashdot: Replacing Paper With Tablets For Design Meetings? · · Score: 1

    We all check our emails and do other stuff online anyways. Chances are that at any given time only three people in the room actually care about what is being discussed.

  5. Re:Ayup on Ask Slashdot: Replacing Paper With Tablets For Design Meetings? · · Score: 1

    All 30 of them really need to see the full RFI log? Use a projector or get a big TV. Load up the logs and now everyone can see the logs. Nobody's taking any real action in a meeting anyway, they just need reminders on what to do afterwards.

  6. Re:Non-compete agreements are BS. on Amazon Sues After Ex-Worker Takes Google Job · · Score: 1

    Then too bad. Employers don't own their employees and they're free to go work with someone else.

  7. Re:waste of time on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 1

    They don't work once you get even a moderate amount of traffic. Traffic in one direction can monopolize the roundabout and traffic from other directions can be stopped for hours. There's basically no control whatsoever.

  8. Re:waste of time on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 2

    Whoosh!

  9. Re:waste of time on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, the furthest along are gasoline engines. 100% of all research funds should go to increasing fuel efficiency.

  10. Next stop contempt on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    He'll have to call their bluff by not providing the password, and they'll probably hold him for contempt. Then there will be a public opinion campaign to have him released.

  11. Re:For Starters... on Don't Want Google In Your House? Here Are a Few Home-Tech Startups To Watch · · Score: 2

    Nothing wrong with 'getting acquired' as a goal. Not everyone wants to run a big business. If I had a successful business and Google wanted it I'd sign so fast the ink would burn. Then I'd spend the rest of my life stress free.

  12. Re:Why isn't time dark matter? on Mysterious X-ray Signal Hints At Dark Matter · · Score: 2

    Time is a four sided square universal time-cube, not dark matter.

  13. It's usually a computer problem on Why Software Builds Fail · · Score: 1

    We've found that builds fail for three reasons: coding errors, dependency issues, command line argument mistakes. If you're a developer you should check these three things when your builds fail and you'll likely find the issue.

  14. Re:CPR on What Happens If You Have a Heart Attack In Space? · · Score: 1

    CPR to save drowning victims has a success rate above zero.

  15. Re:Finite chance? on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 2

    Wait until you see these guys split up a bill for lunch.

  16. What gets corrected? on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 2

    Presumably this happens all the time for light so what we've measured as the speed of light is correct, it's just that the true universal speed limit is higher and only neutrinos travel that fast. So we should find out that speed and use the speed of neutrinos when doing relativistic corrections.

  17. Re:Numbers on World's First Large-Scale Waste-to-Biofuels Facility Opens In Canada · · Score: 1

    Well somebody's got to be the first at bat. Hopefully others will follow and they'll do better, and so on. Nothing is perfect the first time despite what your abstinence-only educator told you.

  18. Re:Are thieves that selective? on Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This isn't to prevent theft of the phone. It's to protect theft of the information stored on the phone, which is generally far more valuable than the phone itself.

  19. Increase efficiency on US Wants To Build 'Internet of Postal Things' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Increase efficiency by shutting down your operation and letting private companies take over.

  20. Re:Brick and Mortar stores are going to love this on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    Nothing they can't put in a normal app.

  21. Re:Brick and Mortar stores are going to love this on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    How exactly would this phone make it any easier?

  22. Re: wi-fi on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 2

    Microsoft says you shouldn't need ac. Just roll down the window.

  23. Re:VIDEO??? on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised AOL doesn't have a link on their homepage for you to click on. Remember, 'clicking' means left mouse button and 'right-clicking' is the right mouse button.

  24. Re:I can't think of a better argument... on Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If your backups are sitting right next to your active files they aren't backups. They're just copies sitting there.

  25. Re:Amazon Apps already for iOS and Android. on Why Amazon Might Want a Big Piece of the Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    I just tested it out. I went to Amazon, downloaded the AppStore app and ran it. Others may have had to change the security setting to allow 3rd party apps but I already had done that. I could walk my grandma through the steps to install it.