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  1. http://www.adultswim.com/video...

    Here is your blueprint....

  2. The pet's personality is based on how it is treated when it is raised. simply repeat the same treatment and you will get pretty close to the same thing. I had a full breed collie for 14 years, she died of old age and we got a fresh puppy to replace her. now at a year old there are a LOT of identical behaviors in the new puppy as I am raising it the same way I raised the other. You train in the desired traits, and train out the undesired ones. It's all just dog training, you just need to be consistent.

    Now natural breeding adds in randomness. I am sure there is genetic memory that is passed down, as well as training the pup gets from it's mother for the first 10 weeks that you can not influence.

  3. Re:I bet the stream from the Occulus spying... on WhatsApp Enables End-To-End Encryption For All Forms of Communications By Default · · Score: 1

    I have Mark Zuckerberg hiding behind my entertainment center with a notepad and a parabolic microphone.

  4. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's because the people predicting that were rich assholes that did not want their fake investments to fizzle. All banks should have been allowed to collapse or better yet, given the corporate death penalty around the world.

    But then I also thought that propping up GM was stupid.

  5. Re:How Does That Work? on FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The private sector kickbacks and bribes are illegal...

    In the public sector, it's considered normal and expected.

  6. Re:More IoT crap ... on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    I see overreacting without thought is your normal operation....

    got it.

  7. Government systems.... built and secured by the lowest bidder....

  8. Re:More IoT crap ... on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    Way to over-react without having a brain there or even bothering to read past the headline....

    they are shutting off the service, the product will still work perfectly..... except it requires the service. If the company was actually HONEST they would release the firmware as open source and let the community take over. Sadly most companies are not honest and will not do anything like that.

  9. Not Deceptive at all. on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    Free lifetime means free for the lifetime of the product.... that product's life is about to end.

    TiVo and others have fucked over consumers with their "lifetime" promises, nothing new here.

  10. Re: Standard C library... on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 2

    reset the seed hourly based on user input like keys and mouse movement. 100% hackerproof unless the machine is compromised.

  11. Re:Good ol' IBM, cutting out the little guy on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    He sources his pennies from the "leave a penny take a penny" cups at stores.... so his cost is zero.

  12. Re:Except for.... on BlackBerry Makes Privacy and Control Subscription in BBM Free · · Score: 1

    If BB wants to stay relevant... Switch to a PURE android with hardened hardware and OS extensions that warn the users of FBI/NSA/HS fake cell towers, insecure routes, real security like the uber secure android phone out there but at a reasonable price.

    Yes, they need to piss off the worlds governments. but corporations are willing to pay to keep the GOV out of their communications.

  13. REally they only do it now? on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    ITT Tech has been doing that for DECADES. They always lie through their teeth about placement rates. Cripes back in the 90's they claimed 95% of ITT tech students work in the field!

    Note: running a cash register meets their definition of being in the field for EE and CS.

  14. Re:Windows... on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux was NEVER aimed at consumer desktop. It does topple the scientific workstation and server world for windows. I dont see NASA or JPL using windows on anything that matters except for Word, reports, and email.

  15. Except for.... on BlackBerry Makes Privacy and Control Subscription in BBM Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The servers where BB gave the local government the keys to everything.....

    This mostly sounds like BB trying like hell to stay relevant.

  16. Re:Begs the question... on Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 4, Funny

    His job is posting pro Msft comments on Slashdot...

  17. Re:Where was the hardware made? on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Creatively? effortlessly. HP laser printers can run code to spy on things, and if someone was able to slap a tiny extra board in there each printer could simply capture the print job and send it elsewhere disguised as harmless packets or sit and wait for the printer to be returned on it's lease to give up it's goodies, or transmit out of band, etc....

    Copy machines were compromised like this a LOT. Just read the NSA archives on what they have found in our embassy's around the world as well as american offices.

  18. Glad terrorists are stupid... on FBI Wants To Access Terror Suspect's Skype Records (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Because if they simply used H264 video conferencing or SIP voice point to point they would have nothing to subpoena.

  19. Re:Definitely nothing to see here. on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still certain that if every leader and ever rich person in the world was struck down the world would be a better place for about 10 years... until human nature rears it's ugly head and the next wave of scumbags gets power positions and abuses them.

    Humanity at it's core is selfish and loves, utterly loves control over others. Charity and compassion are only for outward appearances only in the bulk of the population. Most will hurt others for their own gain without hesitation if they can do it without repercussion.

    This is the way it always has been, and it's the way it will always be. the rich will always have a boot on the throat of the poor, the poor just needs to get over themselves and like it, or do the really ugly nasty thing so the circle can start again...

  20. Re:Be sure to state the entire truth, please!!!! on 20th Anniversary of Unabomber's Arrest (abc10.com) · · Score: 0

    Just wait for Trump to get elected.... we will reach the levels of evil not seen in a half a century.

  21. need Cash? on Tesla May Need Cash To Deliver On the Model 3, Says Analysts (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1

    Elon has more money than Trump, Gates, and the Jobs family has combined. He doesn't need cash. Plus they have investors lined up around the corner as he has been ignoring them. one call that he is open to investors and they will be falling over each other to give him and Tesla money.

  22. False summary... on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "According to their math, it would take 10 continuous hours of shining a 30 MW laser once a year to eliminate the transit signal in visible light. "

    For a single known direction. It will not mask it for all directions, but only a tiny 2-3 degree slice of the entire 360 dransit

  23. Re:Doesn't matter on FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's also illegal to fortify your home. Honest people have even fewer rights.

  24. Re:Good bye Martin Shkreli on Refrigerator-Sized Machine Can Print Pills on Demand (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not they are out of date, its that the FDA is owned and paid for by big US pharma companies.

    The FDA STILL says that getting drugs from canada for a discount is DANGEROUS!

    Canadian drugs are the EXACT SAME drugs in the USA and made on the same line, their government just doesn't allow the companies to violently rape their citizens on price.

  25. Re:The future of dosage? on Refrigerator-Sized Machine Can Print Pills on Demand (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The funny part is, this machine is nothing special. they have had powdered candy into pill pressing vending machines for 10 YEARS.

    My daughter used to use them on vacation all the time, the kids put in the $2.00 push the buttons to drop in the different color powders and then they press go and it presses the bin of powder into hard candies for them. It is a willy wonka brand.

    So the pharma companies are 10 years behind the candy companies It's very easy to convert the candy machine to a medicine machine. same size pill for everyone, you just adjust the medicine to filler ratio, drop those powders to a mixing chamber and then to the presser, Exactly how they do it in a factory. you could have a rotating die if you just want to adjust pill size, but adding filler is far easier.

    Problem is, their machine either needs to have separate hermetically sealed sections for each medicine, or you will have cross contamination. and who is going to wear the hazmat suit to clean the thing? it will have medical compound dust all over the inside.