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  1. Re: Or take away her gun on YouTube Will Increase Security At All Offices Worldwide Following Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    OK, so imagine a scenario where the guy at pulse nightclub showed up with a knife instead, or the shooter at parkland only had a baseball bat, or this woman showed up with a machete or the guy in Las vegas had a crossbow. Sure some people would die, but nowhere near as many. It's not just the violence, it's the tools too.

  2. I have not tried it. But I suspect it is way easier to get a gun illegally in the US than it is in europe, if only for the fact that there are so many people from which one could be stolen.

  3. Finally ! on US Suspects Listening Devices in Washington (apnews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The good news out of Washington is that someone is listening to the electorate at last.

  4. Reds out of bed on US Suspects Listening Devices in Washington (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    rouge towers huh, - that just has to be them commie pinkos...

  5. Re:The point is to make an end run on The Gig Economy Keeps Growing, But Worker Benefits Aren't (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not minimum wage, but there are a lot of laws and an competent legal system to help small businesses arbitrate disputes, secure payment etc.

    I believe there should be more help for entrepreneurs in the shape of efficient socialized healthcare, so people can be entrepreneurial without putting their family's health on the line.

    Maybe there should be fewer laws supporting regulatory capture

  6. According to the Economist there is significant rent seeking in the US healthcare industry.

    And a mind boggling set of layers that push funds and rebates back and forth between them, skimming profit as they go.

    Let's hope someone like Amazon can come in and clean this us into a straightforward, more transparent and more efficient architecture

    My take away from reading the article was that it seems incredible to me that someone had not stepped in before

  7. Re:an anecdote from a Comcast technician on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 1

    of course I don't know what the mod was. But I don't think the rpi can go that fast. After all the ethernet connects to the cpu over USB2 and the wireless isn't that fast. Maybe they sandwiched a special interface card to the top, but if they can do that they can probably do without the pi.

  8. it has already started to address the problem on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Since the first step is knowing you have a problem, science has at least made the first step. It has also identified at least some of the causes of the problem.

  9. Ha that's great !

    I figured I had it coming when I asserted duck logic where, intentional or not, if it blew up with such force it is effectively a bomb. But I never thought anyone would challenge the existence of reality. I'll have to get back to you on that when I've finished reading Roger Penrose' book. Though at my current rate of reading, that may be ten years out.

    I suspect that a definition for a workable reality could be created though, whether a workable test for objectivity can be created... hmm I dunno. Maybe all I can hope for is integrity..

  10. Re:I wonder if authorities are being stupid on DIY Explosives Experimenter Blows Self Up, Contaminates Building (fdlreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't sound like the kind of thing that would be interesting to try as a chemist though, the guy had quite a chemistry education and apparently was not trying to build a weapon.

  11. beliefs on DIY Explosives Experimenter Blows Self Up, Contaminates Building (fdlreporter.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The man just blew himself up with explosives he made yet...

    local reverend believes 28-year-old Morrison was "not a bomb maker,"

    I wonder if the reverend believes anything else that flies in the face of reality

  12. I would attach more blame to Facebook for allowing people to pull a stunt like this

  13. Re: A loss for children. Adults, not so much. on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Maybe t-R-u's demise will help along some mom and pop toy stores that have gone out of their way to stock things that you might not find elsewhere and who know something about what they are selling.

  14. Re:And why would anybody in the future care? on A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is '100 Percent Fatal' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It will work perfectly and in 30 years time the brains will be revived for sale as childrens' toys. Maybe placed inside some kind of earthenware container so the kids can grow chia on top, or set up with an audio output and made to tell stories like a kind of damp version of alexa.

    Maybe it will come with a range of colored hermit-crab like shells or as the controller for a special lego kit with motors and lights.

    It can wonder how long it will be before it winds up where the goldfish went.

  15. duplicate news seems to spread fasted on slashdot though !

  16. you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off on One Single Malicious Vehicle Can Block 'Smart' Street Intersections In the US (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    get rich quick: rob a security van, block the streets with a malicious smart car, escape through the sewer system.

  17. another innovative idea for a business, that's why he's paid the big bucks. to come up with ideas like this, no-one had ever thought of invasively tracking private lives before. Hooray for creative management.

  18. Re:Several decades? on Google Unveils 72-Qubit Quantum Computer With Low Error Rates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect there's a difference between "can eventually" and "actually does today"

  19. I wonder if they will only be usable to listen to music from other apple devices - or somehow enhanced when used that way.

  20. Or you could make smalltalk with the counter staff and maybe learn something about humanity and shared values. The world really could become a better place by you talking about the weather. Living in the home of the brave isn't just about making the place more like ancient Sparta.

  21. Re: from a Russian standpoint on Slashdot Outage Update · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia internet slashdot you

  22. Re:Also on Slashdot Outage Update · · Score: 1

    Glad your'e back up after getting slashdotted. Thanks

  23. Apache on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    so it's an apache project now ?

  24. gee it's lonely being the only slashdot user. Now I know what it feels like to be uid 1 ?

  25. Re: More like $15-$25 vs $500-$1000+ on Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    And in driving herself transferred the risk to everyone else on the road at the time. Way to go...