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  1. Re: If you can't open it, do you really own it? on Apple vs. the Right To Repair (bloombergview.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple store genius: Can I help you?
    Any sensible human: No you cannot.

  2. will ever be connected to the internet directly. AV equipment does not need its own OS.

  3. 'Surveillance and lawful interception' on Harvard: No, Crypto Isn't Making the FBI Go Dark · · Score: 1

    I think I speak for everyone when I say, "Get fucked, FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies."

    If it's not both warranted and public, you shouldn't be able to get it in the first place.

  4. Re:Hire some new coders... on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Other political type stuff that should be accepted:

    Police use clone DNA found at crime scene to recreate offender's facial features.
    Congress requires ISPs to manually censor slashdot posts.
    President to DM fifth ed. D&D campaign in the oval office, accepting player applications.

  5. Re:Regulation; is there no harm it cannot bring? on US Regulators Find Serious Deficiencies At Theranos Lab (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like to think this is true, but are there any patents to back up their tech?

    How do they manage to get by with less material than is generally required, and have they been able to show (through data reproduction) that their techniques get the same results with less?

  6. Re:Do we really need AI lawyers ? on Will Advanced AI Spell the End of Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    Would we allow programming of robot lawyers to omit or twist information? If not, they are hardly lawyers at all...

  7. Re:Not quite illegal on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    True enough-- though typically, one does not have the option of flying outside of 'visual line of site' unless they have a real time camera/transmitter on the device and a portable receiver. I see them as very different sorts of beasts, but I didn't write the document...

    I guess as long as you aren't selling the vids/photos, or selling tickets, it's all groovy.

  8. Not quite illegal on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    In the Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, ‘model aircraft’ are defined as, ‘an unmanned aircraft capable of sustained flight in the atmosphere, flown within visual line of sight, and flown for hobby or recreational purposes.’

    So if you put a fly by wire camera on it, you should still have to register it.

  9. Holistic synergy on (Over-)Measuring the Working Man · · Score: 1

    So we need more cunts a few layers up digging through 'big data' in order to lower the wages of the grunts actually putting out product.

    Boo.

    I cannot wait until this tech is spoofed into oblivion.

  10. The power of a billionaire on Facebook Is Building an 'Empathy Button' · · Score: 2

    is probably insufficient to bring empathy to the internet.

  11. Re:Parody on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Next on Bennet's list:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo

  12. Re:Found the perfect way on Researcher Developing Tattoo Removal Cream · · Score: 1

    The rule I like to follow for tattoos is this:

    Did I want this tattoo 10 years ago, and do I want it now?

    This prevents fads from ending up permanent on me, and gone to everyone else.
    This also prevents undiscerning phases of development from being displayed to the world.

    It should be noted that I currently do not have any tattoos, though I'm getting close to getting something rude tattooed onto my underarm for some unsuspecting medical examiner.

  13. Re:2-factor national ID on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Does the 2-factor authenticator work in the sticks or when the power goes out?

  14. Re:Do not want on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 1

    It will be a short step to requiring identification be carried at all times.

    Well that's categorically false.
    Why don't they force you to carry your SSID or birth cert? And did you 'opt out' of those as well?

  15. Easy on The Tech Industry's Legacy: Creating Disposable Employees · · Score: 1

    Stop letting business majors run your company and stay private.

  16. Re:Baseless fearmongering at its finest on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    Thanks, Tuck. TFA was pretty devoid of source material.

  17. Source? on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    By what means are they attempting to change this 'Federal Rule 41 (b)'? TFA says nothing other than 'They are trying to'. What is the mechanism by which this is accomplished?

  18. Re:Science, not a product on Deep-Frying Graphene Microspheres For Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? I'm pretty sure I could get both a high performance tennis racket and a pair of skis that contain graphene! /s

  19. Re:Is it still October 9? on Health Advisor: Ebola Still Spreading, Worst Outbreak We've Ever Seen · · Score: 0

    MY GOODNESS! According to this chart, it would seem that just around Halloween there we -27.4 deaths from ebola.

  20. Re:Heh... on The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" · · Score: 1

    Yuck. Looks like I wrote the cosmic rays theory exactly backwards. Cosmic rays increase cloud cover(seed clouds). Increased activity from the sun decreases the cosmic ray exposure of the planet, thereby decreasing cloud cover.

    Apologies.

    -h4x0t

  21. Re:Heh... on The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" · · Score: 1

    Concerning divergent hypotheses on climate change cause:
    The article on scientific opinion on climate change (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change) is twice as long as the one for climate change itself. This is mainly because it is a very dear topic that is constantly, erroneously (but effectively) 'discredited' by 'news outlets'. It is very important that the world know, beyond a doubt, that there is a scientific CONSENSUS that climate change is caused by human activity -- specifically the release of CO2 into the atmosphere through combustion of fossil fuels.

    Yes the models need to be adjusted, they will be, repeatedly. But it doesn't change the fact that the problem is somewhere between bad and hellish.

    Cosmic rays, as the previous comment suggests is an example of a differing hypothesis that may explain the same observations, is the theory that decreased activity from the Sun (sunspots and related activity) decreases the protection provided from solar wind and increases the effect of cosmic rays on the planet (reducing cloud formation/cover). This hypothesis has been calculated to contribute, at maximum, 10% of the change we have observed, and, since this is a cyclic process(the ebb and flow of solar activity) on the order of 11 years, historic data can show the effect during previous cycles*.

    *'Cosmic rays, solar activity and the climate',T Sloan and A W Wolfendale, 2013, Environ. Res. Lett., 8, 045022
    Also Check http://www.skepticalscience.co... for this topic.

    -h4x0t

  22. Re:That's Life... on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Imagine the wicked stuff that's evolved to survive gamma ray bursts. Terrifying...

  23. Re:sooo.... on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    I would've been a bit nicer about it, but yeah. Mod up.

  24. Re:A clear pattern on DHS Set To Destroy "Einstein" Surveillance Records · · Score: 1

    The system is broken.

    It has been for a long time.

    I've used to dream of leaving and not looking back and I have the means, but where would that leave this place?
    Down one educated individual.
    Down one tax payer.

    I have no idea what to do.

    I could fight it. I could spend my whole life fighting it. To what end?
    I do not want power. I just want the power that exists to not be abused.

    Could some scientist/engineer out there run on that platform? You'd have my vote.

    Send out mailers to your constituents with randomized logins to your polling web-site. Do what they say. Post the results. Keep public records. Be accountable. Only for 1 or max 2 terms, and then go back to your day job. Please.

  25. Re:the NERVE of them swedes! on Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant · · Score: 1

    Convicted? Gotta catch him first.