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  1. Am I the only one who is scared about the fact that these clueless fuckwits have enough data on us to diagnose which of us has prostate cancer?

  2. Re:If you put it that way... on Apple Patents a Paper Bag (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Basically they've patented reinforcing a paper bag because bleaching it makes the paper flimsy. Of course the rest of the world was quite happy with brown paper bags!

  3. Re:Quantum encryption not communication on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    And also wtf has this got to do with Teleportation?

  4. The Irony is that the only way to reliably preserve evidence that someones posted the photo's to the internet is to snapshot it on the wayback machine :)

  5. M$ is probably just trying to make Open Source Software as bloated as their own products

  6. I'm not an Apple fan but I do seem to recall Jobs being responsible for bringing us the Apple Mac and Pixar amongst other things.

  7. Re:With the way the world is... on Bank of America Analysts Say There's A 50% Chance We Live In The Matrix (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It would appear we may well be "The Ghosts in the Machine"

  8. Re:Why? on None of Your Pixelated or Blurred Information Will Stay Safe On The Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm just reminded of the case (About a decade ago) of a pedophile who published photo's of himself abusing children with his face obfuscated by the photoshop swirl tool. The police desperately wanted to ID him but couldn't deobfuscate the photos so they published them minus the abuse sections hoping that members of the public might identify the man based on his surroundings. Of course the public not being utter fucknuggets quickly deswirled the photo and published it on the internet. I never did find out how long the guy survived.

  9. My God on Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's full of stars!

    *Queue* Richard Strauss

  10. Re:and before too long.. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait for the robots to unionize then there'll be 6 times as many jobs for humans as robots refuse to do degrading jobs that violate their inhuman rights

  11. However boring and banal it is on EU Court Blocks Brazilian Company From Trademarking Sound Of a Ringing Phone (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's still more interesting than the latest Apple Conference

  12. Basically Instagram is dragging itself screaming and kicking back to the nineties :|

  13. Re:Empty threat on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's amazing the morons in EU\EC think they can harass US companies and not evoke a response from the US.

    Actually it's Ireland's illegal tax code they are after which should effect Google, Facepalm and all the rest too

  14. Re:Well duh. on FTC Warns Consumers: Don't Sync To Your Rental Car! (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a job for USB Condom! http://int3.cc/products/usbcon...

  15. Re:Or maybe they know something we don't ... on Amazon Suddenly Stops Selling Student Loans (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the timing is it possible they were targeting Undergraduates as most of those will have their loans by now

  16. I work in Higher Education on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt my CEO would notice if you fired him!

  17. Re:Have to lie down in the bed you make on Confirmed: In an Unprecedented Move, Samsung Recalls All Galaxy Note 7 (yna.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    Well its not like they haven't had their own share of tax evasion scandles

  18. Mine makes a great hand warmer :)

  19. Re:Why the heck on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Because if they hadn't used it would be all dark and you wouldn't be able to see

  20. Re:more and more and more on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The Kessler Effect (AKA Kessler Syndrome) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:I always use tabs... on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I only use tabs in bars

  22. Re:Oh yeah? Then what are you gonna do about it? on Apple CEO Tim Cook on EU Apple Tax Case: 'Total Political Crap' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't a fine this is the EU telling Ireland to collect the tax it is owed

  23. Re:Goodbye Windows. on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Goodbye Windows. on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is trying to become the place to go for cloud hosted computing and while they know they are way behind apple and google right now

    WTF? Apple has very little cloud presence. Google are the trying to catch up M$ and Amazon on providing cloud services. The two front runners in the cloud are Amazon & M$ and you didn't even mention Amazon!

  25. Re:Why the heck on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Why does ANYTHING need a Flash video????

    It's the only way to combat Ming The Merciless