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  1. I see no problem with them... on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    As long as ALL the police and military are required to have them and use them. If they completely trust these firearms to be 100% reliable and safe, then I will.

    But I guarantee not one cop on the planet will use one. Their reliability is suspect which makes their safety also suspect.

  2. Re:secure from what? on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    Please tell me what apps you sideload that are must haves that you cant get on the play store. because everyone I know that is huge fans of side-loading are simply pirates that are too cheap to actually pay for their software. I would love to find this source of apps that are must have but not available on the play store.

    I have yet to find a software repository of legitimate and great apps for side loading. the only time I use it is for my own junk I compile for dinking around with arduinos.

  3. Re:secure from what? on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    And its one of the only attack vectors because you turn off a significant portion of security in order to side load.

    Side load, and re-enable your app loading security back to play store only to significantly improve security on your device.

    The other way is to root it and install a adblocking hosts file. a LOT of the crap is coming as ad payloads.

  4. Re:papers, please on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    Me: Lets see if you can take it from me, bring it little girl!

    Too many people roll over at the slightest threat of violence. IF someone threatens you, that is your invitation to go nuclear. and i mean nuclear... Step 1 rip their ears off, it's really easy to do, 90% of the big bad guys will freak out badly and run away. the 10% that dont are what you really worry about.

  5. Re:Have you ever heard the phrase "off-site backup on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    If that happens, it's an opportunity to start life as a international Spy....

  6. Re:Have you ever heard the phrase "off-site backup on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    Or a real fire safe. I have one, 16 hour DATA rated which is higher than needed for paper. it's also waterproof, but I dont know if that waterproofing is still intact after 16 hours in a fire, so all the documents are in sealed TyVEK envelopes just in case.

  7. Re:Overly Paranoid on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    Which is stupid as hell, a SS card is trivial to fake, utterly trivial. I never carry mine, I memorize the number and that is all I am willing to give up, NOBODY get's my SS card as an "ID" mine is old enough to say, "illegal to use as identification" the DMV can look up my name and look at the photo on the screen, I have pushed the issue at the DMV before for a replacement license. I forced the lady to get her supervisor, and I asked, can you see my photo on your screen? "yes" do you want to pull on my face to make sure it's not an ultra real mask? "I'll authorize this replacement"

  8. Re: Slow follower on Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells · · Score: 2

    Because some people love bloat, slowness, and crashes.

  9. Re:Bummer. on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    I have a stamp that says "return to sender" for junk mail. the USPS get's to eat that.

    They are not working for me, but the spammers, then screw them.

  10. Re:Oxymoron on White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics · · Score: 1

    The same thing here. All the poor live in homes with lead contamination. And the government will not force landlords to take care of it. Lead poisoning makes kids dumber and violent. Simply forcing slumlords to remove lead from all homes they rent, would make a huge change, as large as we saw by going with lead free fuel.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
    http://science-beta.slashdot.o...

  11. Re:Oxymoron on White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dude, go talk to people in a black community, they highly distrust anything to do with politics and government. It's because 9 times out of 10 the Government has screwed their community.

    Inner cities dont get ANY tax dollars for rebuild of roads and infrastructure, their schools dont get squat, etc... If it was FAIR, then all tax dollars in the state set aside for schools would be doled out at 150% rate for any school district where the income is below 30% line, 100% for middle 30%, and 50% for the above 30%. Yes that means rich fuckers can pay extra for their kids schooling, most send them to private schools anyways, so rich districts only need 1/2 the schools. there is a drastically higher rate of special needs kids in low income school districts, as in a 60 to nearly 100% increase in special needs schools compared to other districts. Why? because special needs kids are fucking expensive. Even a middle class family will get destroyed by having a special needs kid, it means that one parent MUST be attending to that child all the time. So a family that had the potential of 2 working parents now has only 1 plus a child that takes huge amounts of the resources.

  12. Re:If it ain't broke... on HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose · · Score: 1

    What moron would sign a contract with a vendor like that, you have drooling morons working as management for your company?

  13. Re:An even simpler experiment on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    Mercury would easily work, and simply using two containers with a sealed edge lip for 1/4 of the face so you can simply tip the top container to get the fluid flowing down the tube then right it's self again. Why two? because it's easier to repeat the experiment over and over without having to re-transfer the mercury to the first container again.

    Had a professor do this exact demonstration with mercury (sans vacuum) to shame a student that claimed that atmospheric pressure was required to at least start it.

  14. What morons though that? on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    Honestly, Who in the world could have ever though that anything but gravity was the cause.

    Now we have to go through a whole scientific method for this instead of publicly shaming stupid people?

    Any 6 year old can do a scientific demonstration of gravity causing a siphon to work. 2 cups and a 2 foot length of tubing.

  15. Re:Bank them on Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life · · Score: 1
  16. So they know what to work on.... on Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life · · Score: 2

    It seems that if they can figure out how to reduce or stop the "stem cell exhaustion" then you probably could significantly extend a persons lifespan, problem is you need to do it early in life. the old rich guy will be too late, he will stay old rich guy. But start with a newborn and suddenly things change. if you can even reduce the exhaustion rate by a tiny 20% at birth, you are looking at a 20 year lifespan extension from a 100 year life, not a lot but the benefits would be throughout the life. the no longer healing as well when you hit 35, the feeling not as fast when you hit 40... etc.. Imagine the regenerative abilities you had as a kid, deep nasty cut healed within days, at 45 a deep nasty cut heals in a few weeks. extending the super healing of the body from stopping in the teens to stopping in the late 20's would be remarkable.

    And that is if you only find a way to slow the burnout, if you found a way to have stem cells regenerate themselves, I dont think you found immortality, but you would have 70 year olds with the body of 40 year olds but with 30 years more wisdom.

    My question is what new diseases will we discover? I am sure there are things lurking that we call harmless, but maybe have a 70 year gestation period....

  17. Re:longevity worth it? on Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life · · Score: 1

    And it's also wrong. a glass of red wine daily has proven benefits.

  18. Re:This is good news... on Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life · · Score: 1

    Yes, we are doomed to go instinct any day now, babies are a rare thing.

    http://www.worldometers.info/

  19. Re:Bank them on Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life · · Score: 1

    Real respect is dragging grandpa's corpse to several pubs for a last night of drinking with family and friends.

  20. Re:I like the concept on Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies · · Score: 1

    Only to out of date energy companies. Most have already installed smart meters that log and report back everything. I can tell you when my wife used the coffee maker and toaster in the morning and when she left for work by looking at the power use graph online from my meter.

  21. Are they going to fix them first? on Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies · · Score: 2

    NEST's generate a lot of heat that make them keep the house colder than actually set, they cause you to use more power in summer and warm climates. Have they pushed out a firmware that fixes this major flaw with the devices?

  22. Re:If it ain't broke... on HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose · · Score: 1

    My boss will be screaming at the vendor, they are not allowed to push any updates until we approve them.

  23. Re:Hot firmware on HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose · · Score: 2

    I wait until I HAVE TO install a firmware update. Unless there is a major problem that will cause the server to explode, you dont update the firmware.

  24. Re:source-based not the problem on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    No extra equipment needed, just increase the bandwidth pipe like they should have. 90% of the problems are the fact that the backbone is heavily oversold to increase profits. most of the backbones are not even being utilized at 20% all they have to do is call up their backbone provider and ask for more, no gear needed.

    When I worked at comcast they were notorious for that. Grand Rapids MI had a single OC12 coming in that was at 10% Util because they were targeting a 100X oversell point. They figured customers would not complain about bandwidth during heavy times until they hit 100X oversold.

  25. Re:Comcast lowered bills? on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Cocmast deliberately damages VoIP traffic, they increase the dwell time in the cable modems to completely degrade VoIP that is not theirs... adding a DSL line and VoIP reliability went up drastically, so now we have DSL just for the VoIP phone system, we get more for less money than the crap Comcast offers for their crud-tastic phone service.