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  1. Re:Makes me think about North/South Korea border on Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard · · Score: 2

    The DPRK already flies "drones" with cameras over the border. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo...

  2. Re:Think about the children! on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    Nah, he probably just offers his guests some room temperature Soylent 2.0. It saves all that time that would have been inefficiently used to socialize.

  3. Re:These changes... on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    I cook on an induction heater. Not sure how to do that efficiently with DC.

  4. Re:They aren't revolutionizing shit. on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    Mostly, like the protein powder they use.

  5. Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    DICE could sell it to Vice.

  6. Re:Finland is next on Vancouver Area Teen Sentenced To 16 Months For Swatting · · Score: 1

    FREE JULIUS 2015.

  7. Re:MATLAB - Quite useful on The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google · · Score: 1

    It's very good until you need to use it outside of the matlab ecosystem which happens quite frequently because of the cost of matlab and the sluggishness of tne runtime environment. You end up having to rewrite most of your work.

  8. no on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't see the point. You can get jerry maguire on blueray.

  9. Re:Name and Shame on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    It's not like there aren't already rbl systems like this, and it's not like they're already abused on a daily basis by posioning them.

  10. It's 2014. on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    Why is this still happening like it's 2005.

  11. Re:3 cars plus one techie w/a persecution complex on Smart Car Tipping Trending In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    No. They're cars with petrol engines that get about 6 l/100km. Merces-Benz owns Smart and sells Smart Cars in the US market to offset all the E- and M- class cars which get around 9 l/100km in the CAFE. Personally, I'd feel safer driving in a Trabant 601 than one of these pieces of shit.

  12. Greenpeace on Google Co-Opts Whale-Watching Boat To Ferry Employees · · Score: 1

    Maybe Greenpeace can pick up the slack and blockade them.

  13. Re:"Under 40"link - pic of Saturn!! on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    ok

  14. Re:Upsetting the Apple Cart on FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service · · Score: 1

    Yes. You can download the raw data as an ascii file. People have written their own scripts that generate their own genealogical reports from that file.

  15. Re:Upsetting the Apple Cart on FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you will run into the case where a condition is so rare that an imprecise test will give you more false positives that the population size of what you're testing for. I don't see that as a failure of the test, just a consequence of probability.

  16. Re:Upsetting the Apple Cart on FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service · · Score: 1

    It confirmed things I knew about my health and ancestry. It's not like they're running a faith healing operation here. All they had to go on was a vial of spit and a barcode.

  17. Upsetting the Apple Cart on FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can see why cheap and reliable genetic testing you can do without the intervention of medical industry is frightening. For one hundred dollars you can find out if you have markers that put you at elevated odds of hundreds of conditions. If this came from the traditional medical, you would have to go to a doctor who would release the results to your insurance company, it would cost about $1000, and you wouldn't even get to see the results yourself unless the doctor wanted to show you something.

    I've done the 23andMe testing and it has been of value. I'm not in close contact with much of my extended family and have almost no contact with the family on my father's side. It doesn't claim to diagnose or treat diseases or traits. What it does do is tell you if you're at elevated odds for a few select conditions, along with heritable traits. This is can be invaluable if you don't know that much about the medical history of your family.

  18. Re:Blockbuster DID take streaming seriously on How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix · · Score: 1

    They partnered with Enron for bandwidth and content delivery. Rip.

  19. Re:How about safety for other traffic participants on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    80 km/h. Think metric.

  20. Re:132mph = 416hp? What? on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    HP (kW) is power. There are other factors which determine top speed. The 0-100 k/hr time of 5 seconds means it's probably more a limitation of the suspension and weight distribution than the gearbox or engine. Your POS 94 V6 mustang probably feels like it's going to explode at that speed if you go around a curve of more than a 1 degree.

  21. A-List Spear Phishing on Limo Company Hack Exposes Juicy Targets, 850k Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 2

    That's hot.

  22. Re:popularity? on Inmates Program Logistics App For Prison · · Score: 1

    I hope you get jailed for your CFAA abuses and have to eat gruel from communal bucket.

  23. Re:Wait a minute.... on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    He hired a GPS tracking firm to independently document his time. They can get subpoenaed. Assuming, they could get a grand jury to indict him and they are willing to extradite him for a moving vehicle violation.

  24. Re:Americans CAN NOT DRIVE!! on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    Calling someone a nazi for telling the truth. lol never change america.

  25. Re:Americans CAN NOT DRIVE!! on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    American drivers are unsafe at any speed. They don't understand concepts like the passing lane, only passing on the left, traffic flow speed, shoulder checks and turn signals. They also have unsafe cars; safety inspection is up to the state and it's not mandatory.