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  1. Fall of the Romaine Empire on CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sad.

  2. Helpful on Russia Jammed GPS During Major NATO Military Exercise With US Troops (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was nice of Russia to make the exercises more realistic.

  3. Re:Or they could just buy on Amazon Is Reportedly Working On a TiVo-Like DVR For Live TV (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    or TiVo...

  4. Arguing that your property is worth less than what the government is estimating, for the purpose of trying to lower your property taxes, is standard procedure everywhere. Apple doing it doesn't make this tech news.

  5. Unfortunately, it isn't clear whether the hotel was inspecting the rooms of all guests or just Defcon/BlackHat attendees. I'm assuming the former, since the Vegas shooter wasn't involving in the CompSec scene. Since this hasn't been reported widely, it could be just selectively enforced as most security theater.

  6. Every town needs one of these on LeBron James Opens STEM-Based School For At-Risk Students In Ohio (sbnation.com) · · Score: 2

    From the article:

    How does the I Promise School differ from any other school?

    The school will operate with a longer-than-normal school year, with a focus on accelerated learning to bring kids up to speed who otherwise might be lagging. In addition, there is a focus on combating factors outside of the classroom that could cause children to struggle.

    Services are available to help students deal from stress related to parents who are struggling to make ends meet. In addition there are activities to prevent the kids from having too much idle time and potentially getting into trouble.

    The school also provides services to families, which include job placement assistance for parents and an on-site food bank that will allow parents to pick out foods they can prepare at home.

  7. Joule Box on Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1
  8. The best approach is to slowly entangle the resource (human consumers of your platform) until they can't conceive of living without it. i.e. boiling the frog by raising the temperature slowly. Once the general population considers participation in a social media & cloud computing framework a sign of normality and lack of participation a sign of criminal deviance, then success is assured. Once upon a time, there was a great outcry about the mass of data collected by credit agencies on ordinary people; now people actively seek participation in the credit system and quickly forgive even the most catastrophic failures of trust.

  9. Not the Droids you are looking for on Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Surgical robots are electro-mechanical systems that are manually controlled by the doctor using controllers. They dampen movements to turn human hand movements into finely controlled robotic movements. This isn't Star Wars and surgical droids don't perform the operation autonomously. For the google-impaired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Insurance... on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Algorithm: At an arbitrary chance of dying, withhold or delay insurance approval of a select (expensive) set of treatments. Business Rationale: 90% of an average person's lifetime medical costs are in the last year of life. Of that figure, another 90% of the costs are in the last 3 months of life. Optimizing the cutoff for medical treatment will maximum profits.

  11. I look forward to my free years' worth of Facebook Premium (tm) as compensation. (/s)

  12. ICON (USA) on 3D-Printed Public Housing Unveiled in France (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  13. It must have been a CIA plot to discredit Putin and embarrass the Russian People. Ask anybody in the Russian media.

  14. This is a good example of why visual sensors are insufficient for autonomous driving.

  15. Bad Summary on Apple Might Discontinue the MacBook Air (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The linked article from Digitimes is titled "New MacBook to boost LCM orders for GIS" and the first statement is "Touch panel maker General Interface Solution (GIS) is expected to land more LCM (LCD module) orders from Apple, which reportedly plans to release an entry-level 13-inch MacBook in the second half of 2018, according to industry sources.". Nowhere does the article state that the MacBook is being discontinued. #clickbait

  16. Not enough time to make an insightful first post on Arbitrary Deadlines Are the Enemy of Creativity, According to Harvard Research (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Curse these deadlines!

  17. Re:Well, actually ... on Apple's iPhone Throttling Will Reinvigorate the Push for Right To Repair Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "$79, plus $6.95 shipping, subject to local tax". Surgically removing the phone from your hand and therapy for smart phone withdraw is not included.

  18. Fake Video "Testimony" on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real threat will be fabricated "video surveillance" footage and other "proof" used to "prove" or "disprove" anything the editor wants. What do you believe when everything you see can plausibly be called "fake news"?

  19. Customer vs Investor on Another Crowdfunded Startup Takes Customers' Money, Then Shuts Downs (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Customers get product. Investors get paid a share of the profit after all the costs. Unless the Crowd sourcing agreement made commitments regarding when the backers got product, then the backers get their product (their 'profit') when the company can afford to distribute profits.

  20. Re:A lot of people don't understand cats on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. We have a kitten that plays fetch. (He drops it your hand about 50% of the time.) This one and a couple others are as talkative as dogs and will follow you around the house. The key is high socialization.

  21. Re:Pick a patrern for your passwords on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 2

    I used that technique until someone used my password from SiteA to guess my password for SiteB. Sorry, this isn't a clever solution

  22. Psychological Warfare 101 on Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump's Win (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Strike when the Enemy is confused or off-balance. Post-election depression makes the target more emotional, more vulnerable to phishing.

  23. Advertising... on Mirai Botnet Attackers Are Trying To Knock Liberia Offline (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey Look! We took an entire country offline.

  24. Good for You! I took the full 4 years, I tried 18 credits one semester, but it just wasn't sustainable with a full time job.