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  1. Re:Rio Tinto has done this for a while - Australia on Autonomous Dump Trucks Are Coming To Canada's Oil Sands · · Score: 1

    Effectively it makes more mines profitable creating jobs. Its the same counterintuitive thing that automation creates jobs, everybody else can go back to hunter gathering.

  2. Weeell .... Priorities? on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 1

    We need some real numbers. If there is only a 50% chance of being hit by a city shattering meteorite in the next 10,000 I don't think it is worth bothering. I know it will suck if it landed in my backyard or even my front porch, but it is not worth it. There are other things we should spend money on like super volcanoes or massive earth splitting earthquakes or even rogue killer bees that spread zombie viruses.

  3. Jealousy on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    As it works out, the "jocks" end up in jobs that are like filling supermarket bags. The "nerds" not only have amazingly interesting jobs, but in their personal lives actually are the ones that do the extreme sports, the travel, the arts. There is this mindset that people can either be creative or analytical. The reason this idea exists is because most people that think this are neither. So most people read about fashion or follow sport but do nothing in their lives. These people need bread and circuses. The rest Live life with a capital L. Good coders among them explore the world in a badly lit basement if they have to. Let the rest watch fox news upstairs.

  4. Give me comparative numbers on The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested · · Score: 1

    Give me comparative numbers, what is the trend ? What can I do with a "24%" which sounds like a very high number.

  5. Commerce might work where Democracy fails on Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations? · · Score: 1

    Google and Microsoft are loosing contracts in Europe unless they can prove that NSA is not in their pants. That will take new laws

  6. Choice ? on Is Choice a Problem For Android? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Android offers choice only to tinkerers. Everybody else simply walks in a store and buys a phone that looks shiny. iPhones are having a bit of a problem in that they offer almost a single choice which was the same as that from a few years ago. You can't have a bigger screen for example. Mobiles have achieved appliance status. Who cares about fragmentation ? There is fragmentation in car models as well and fancy cars that have weird ways to switch on. After you master it, you run with it for years. You don't care if the car in the opposite traffic works differently. Fragmentation affects developers, who now have massive budgets to overcome it. There are hundreds of thousands of apps, most people use only a few and the rest they simply forget to delete after they are downloaded. So there are enough that work well out there.

  7. Betteridge's law of headlines says ... on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    NO

  8. Does not make sence on Leaked Manual Reveals Details On Google's Nexus 5 · · Score: 2

    It mentions Bluetooth 4 (page 11) as well as 3 (page 8). It has an entry Java "Android do not support JAVA" (Page 11)

  9. it starts one way but ends another on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    Very simply our standard of living = (production - consumption)/(numbers of citizens) Robots increase production, which is good.

  10. Sounds like ... on NSA Abandoned Project To Track Cell Phone Locations · · Score: 1

    Well it sounds like they are simply trying to reveal truths of lesser value to redirect attention. I think they have poisoned the perception. The game is that do they think it is worth repairing ? They probably decided ti simply live with this perception.

  11. Hand aimed on New Real Life Laser-Rifle Cuts Through Metal Like a Blowtorch · · Score: 2

    Hand aimed would be more accurate. The harness is bit of a giveaway. I wonder what that piping attaches to. Nice toy though

  12. Re:Oh for crying out loud on Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1

    Spam scanning is worse. It scans multiple people and combines their behaviour in how they treat the email. It reads the content and profiles the user and the content to figure out if it is spam. Do we want spam back ?

  13. Re:That's incredibly creepy on Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case · · Score: 1

    You terrorist !!

  14. Re:Yep on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 2

    Ultimately trying to hack in multitasking is a very difficult thing to do. Android has done it properly from scratch simply riding on the shoulders of linux. Apple wanted to make sure the experience is guaranteed so it slowly introduced task switching, and now it has to hack it in. Price to pay It is funny, bit Linux and IOS are at at the 3.11 stage in different ways.

  15. Walled garden got a roof on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    Well I wonder how apple users will relate to this walled garden business now.

  16. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    There is not much original in that thinking, there is the concept of disruptive technology. It is always sounds great for a company to stick with the premium product with the high margin. The problem with that is that you leave your rear unprotected.

    Companies come in that offer cheap, crappy copies of your product. Now while they are doing that, they get better and better at doing what they do. They also capture a part of the market that you are not interested in. This market also get's more and more sophisticated. Suddenly as it turns out a nice sunny morning, you are not that much different and this other company is starting to offer a product that is as good or better than yours and they are established in their market and you are cornered in a market that has no profit any more. You sell a phone for $1000 dollars, they sell a phone for $50 and there is not much difference in the phones.

    Let alone all it takes is a disruption on behalf of the underdog ... and your single point of failure is realised.

    The only defence is to create a buffer on its rear, but apple might have left it for too long. Much like their founder, he left treatment for too long believing he can handle his condition by "natural" means

  17. Why blunder ? on Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan · · Score: 1

    Why is such a great question " what action by Assad could possibly prevent an attack?" be considered a blunder ?

    It is a standard and classic question to test if somebody is honest in the reasoning.

    "What will it take to change your mind ?"

    If somebody answers "nothing" you know they don't believe in their words

  18. It makes business sence ... on Google Speeding Up New Encryption Project After Latest Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    Major contracts have been canceled or put on hold as nobody trusts any company based in the US. Google has to make us believe it. Fluf won't go as far

  19. Re:This is news, how? on Silicon Beach Startups Spawn From the Ashes of MySpace · · Score: 0

    you guys DO know where silicon comes from, right?

    The local titties ?

  20. Backdoor to one is a backdoor to all on John Gilmore Analyzes NSA Obstruction of Crypto In IPSEC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If NSA has a backdoor to anything, it simply allows for a backdoor to everybody. It is not like the backdoor would be wired to an NSA IP address. Ultimately it creates a disservice for the country.

  21. Daaaa Whaaaat ? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 2

    I have always simply right clicked on the toolbar and select"open closed tab". The shortcut has always been there to see, I could not bother to memorise it.

  22. Re:War on Information imminent? on NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences · · Score: 1

    "Do you think that Snowden will prove to be the trigger to the 3rd WW?"

    Ammm NO

    I didn't realise that Betteridge's law of headlines applies to blogs

  23. Bait and ... on Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked · · Score: 1

    Bait and ... hit the switch ... lights out

  24. Re:I get to bust this one out again. on San Francisco Fire Chief Bans Helmet-Mounted Cameras For Firefighters · · Score: 1

    Pick up a helmet you plick ... it easy to say. If you want them to do everything safely in their business, they may as well wait to the fire goes out by it self. Its a high risk job, with shortcuts and quick decisions with some bravery. Mistakes might be made. You wont be making those mistakes, so you can be judgmental. Don't call them

  25. Amm .. that is fair enough. Its not out of their own pocket but if these guys run on a limited budget and a single court case can blow the whole budget ... they may as well return to picks and shovels if they can avoid being sued.