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  1. Re:meh on Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    her lawyer should have told her that the border agents have that authority... as bad as it sounds...

    That's debatable. Customs and Border Protection decided for themselves that they had the authority to search cell phones without a warrant, but that's being challenged in court.

    The judge brought up the the similarity to a 2014 case where the Supreme Court held that police have to obtain a warrant to search a cellphone and refused to dismiss the case, so there's a reasonable chance of justice prevailing.

  2. Re:Why would anyone buy a DRM-infested POS on Amazon's Kindle Voyage May Be Over (cnet.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:not very intelligent on IGN Pulls Ex-Editor's Posts After Dozens More Plagiarism Accusations Surface (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    If he's the looser or loosers, he could probably get a job in an old-folks home opening jar lids for them.

  4. Re:not very intelligent on IGN Pulls Ex-Editor's Posts After Dozens More Plagiarism Accusations Surface (kotaku.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the most part, he didn't copy from articles. He copied from YouTube videos. That's how he got away with it for so long.

  5. Re:He's a Hard Worker on US Bosses Now Earn 312 Times the Average Worker's Wage, Figures Show (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    People get paid based on the value they produce.

    Except they don't and they haven't for many decades at this point.

    CEOs didn't suddenly start producing 17.6% more value in the last year while all the employees only produced 0.3% more.

    The jobs of all the workers in all the companies encompassed by this study haven't massively turned over, so they're producing the same proportion of value that they were a year ago. If they were being paid based on the value they produce, the CEO's salary should go up by the same percentage as everyone else, rather than 58x as much.

  6. Re: Okefenokee on FCC Admits It Was Never Actually Hacked (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, that link was fucked up. Here it is in better form.

    http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

  7. Re: Okefenokee on FCC Admits It Was Never Actually Hacked (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you be more wrong?

    The "attack" happened in http://thehill.com/policy/tech...">May of 2017 after John Oliver put up a website called "GoFCCYourself" which redirected to the comment page for net neutrality proceedings.

    Also, Trump was elected in 2016, which is not two years later. The inauguration was in January 2017 which was still a few months short of two years later.

  8. Re: Assassination? Or Hoax? on Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet all you're going to get is "Trump is doing great. Hillary would have been worse" no matter how improved their conversation skills are. That doesn't make for an interesting conversation.

  9. Re: Assassination? Or Hoax? on Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, let them keep doing it. It makes it clear that they're aren't interested in any sort of intelligent response lets everyone know to ignore them.

  10. Re:Bitter much? on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's more likely that it was written by someone with an MBA who adheres to the typical MBA mantra of improving the bottom line by replacing better paid, experienced employees in favor of inexperienced people who accept far less than the market rate for the position. They tend to be almost as cult-like as the anti-vax crowd, latching onto any and every justification for their belief regardless of how ridiculous or misinformed it may be.

  11. Re:Finishing the summary.... on Who Owns the Moon? A Space Lawyer Answers (theconversation.com) · · Score: 0

    You're severely underestimating how hostile the moon is to life as we know it. Even the dust will fuck you up.

  12. Re:Impressive on Google's Loon Brings Internet-By-Balloon To Kenya (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The minimum monthly wage for an unskilled laborer in Kenya (which is more than a lot of rural Kenyans make) is less than the $50 monthly cost of the cheapest plans from the two existing satellite internet providers.

    Launching satellites is expensive and customers have to pay quite a bit to make that worthwhile. Launching a balloon is a hell of a lot cheaper.

  13. Re:Not a big deal my ass on Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Voting machines decide who gets a huge amount of power in our government. Backdoor access via a software package whose source code had been leaked and exploited, leading to the manufacturer recommending that it be removed, is huge goddamn deal.

  14. Re:Vote count and election results not changed on Special Counsel Mueller Charges 12 Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking Democrats During 2016 Election (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no allegation in the indictment that gravity exists, yet you aren't floating off into space even though you jumped to a conclusion with all your might.

  15. you're simply walking down the battlefield with a full dress mirror?

    The soldier of the future

  16. An MBA's work is never finished. on AT&T Wants To Overhaul HBO, Says It Isn't Profitable Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    John Stankey is an MBA who was in charge of DirectTV over the last couple of years while it's been hemorrhaging customers. He introduced the DirectTV Now streaming service which was supposed to boost profits. So far, it's only helped to offset the number of subscribers lost. Unfortunately, since it's a lower cost service, their profits have tanked.

    Now they've acquired HBO and they want to make it cell-phone-friendly by cutting episodes to 20 minutes in the idiotic hope that doing the same thing will produce different results.

    How will AT&T produce more shows without reducing quality? Stankey said that AT&T and HBO will have to "figure [that] out."

    "I have an idea! Make more shows and more money! No, I don't know how to do either of those things. You guys have to figure that part out. Anyway, my work is done here. I'll take my bonus now!"

  17. Nobody could have foreseen that a system with a 98% false positive rate in trials would fail to work properly when rolled out.

  18. Re:Big liability issue and eula will not save them on Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen the video or interview where he said that, but yes, if he said that, he was lying. The car's sensors are active and it will brake and try to avoid hitting things, but the person with the cell phone is in control of when it moves and what direction.

  19. Re:And? on Microsoft Teases New Outlook.com Dark Mode (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is the least important thing Slashdot could have posted about

    Apparently you haven't scrolled down far enough to see the post about some analyst saying the new iPhones will be available in a "plethora" of five colors.

  20. Re:Big liability issue and eula will not save them on Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com) · · Score: 2

    Using summon is just you driving our car remotely, so you're the one who is liable.

    You use a phone app with buttons for forward and reverse to make the car slowly move forward or backward. You also have to be within ten feet of the car while you're doing it. If the car runs over a kid, it's entirely your fault.

  21. Re:Just this verson? on ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windows 10 as a whole isn't ready for prime time. It's a huge leap backwards in usability with more eye candy than a strip club.

    It also offers access to a much wider variety of viruses than a strip club.

  22. Re:Fermi Paradox is useless on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    Why is SF always speculating on us finding the remnants of a long gone alien civilization? Or them coming to meet us? Why couldn't we be the first ones to reach our current technological state?

    Because finding nothing out there but more rocks would just be more of the same.thing we've already experienced. More of the same is never going to be more interesting than finding something new and different. Finding any life on another planet, even if it was just microbial, would be more interesting than finding another rock.

    Besides, finding evidence of an alien civilization, even if it's long gone, would send creationists into the most hilarious series of apoplectic seizures the world has ever seen.

  23. Re:That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You're bragging about digging through the trash for used lottery tickets.

    I don't know if you're subtly trolling or if you're actually clueless enough to think that other people will envy you in some way.

  24. Re: The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    There isn't a 1978 equivalent of Love Island

    Sure there was. It was called "The Dating Game" and, while it didn't show sexual scenes, the questions and answers were filled with innuendo. As a bonus, one of the bachelor contestants was a serial killer.

  25. Re:Simple question on Personal Flying Machine Contest Gets 600 Entries (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    This effort would be far better invested into improving already proven technologies like electric cars

    Competitions like this are meant to spur innovation from smaller teams of people who might not otherwise develop their ideas into working technologies. A $1 million grand prize is a big deal to those people.

    Already proven technologies already have companies investing billions into them and thousands of people working in R&D. $1 or $2 million more or less in funding isn't going to make any significant difference for them.