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  1. If people are prevented to die... on Fighting the Number-One Killer In the US With Data · · Score: 1

    from heart disease, what will they then die from? And how much will that cost?

  2. horizontal waste on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 2

    Why is the new design wasting so much of horizontal screen real estate? The design should leverage the full browser window!

  3. don't do hackathons on Preventing Cheating At Hackathons · · Score: 2

    Why does everything being fun have to be turned into a competion where there's an incentive to cheat?

  4. same automation kills markets on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 1

    The same automation technology will have placed so many people out of work who then no longer can afford these cars.

  5. Re:Terminate contract instead? on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I learned recently that this already exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

  6. honey pot profits on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    Set up honey pot cars, catch the thieves, charge them for the honey pot expenses and some more: Profit!
    Self-financing mechanism to reduce car thefts.

  7. Strauss-Howe generational theory on Should the Power of Corporate Innovation Shift Away From Executives? · · Score: 1

    According to this theory, the millenials are a "hero (civic)" type of generation and actually not really authority phobic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_(book)#Hero

  8. Re:continuously stating to not having received an on Judge Orders Google To Comply With FBI's Warrantless NSL Requests · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just learned this is called a Warrant Canary.

  9. continuously stating to not having received an NSL on Judge Orders Google To Comply With FBI's Warrantless NSL Requests · · Score: 1

    What if I stated daily that I have not received an NSL. When I receive an NSL, my daily statements would seize. This way I would comply with the NSL, but it was obvious that I have received one.

  10. Re:To circle the globe on USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams · · Score: 2

    And your point is?

  11. reputation-based crowd-sourcing of enforcement on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Traffic enforcement should be crowd-sourced, with reputation-based ranking like the Slashdot moderation system. If there's no one documenting a traffic violation, there's no problem. The more people are in the vicinity to documenting it, the more expensive it gets for the violator. Reputation management to maximize honesty. The system will be fine-tuned as it gains more participants.

  12. crowd-sourced traffic enforcement on San Diego Drops Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    Once our cars are as "smart" as our phones today, traffic enforcement can be crowd-sourced.

  13. But will it work in fog/rain/snow? on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 1

    I'd guess not.

  14. Re:Oh Good on Will Your Next iPhone Be Built By Robots? · · Score: 1

    Who will buy all the shit, if they don't make money?

  15. Re:TwinView on KDE Multi-Monitor Control Getting An Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Still too many clicks.
    Unable to store a successful config and reproduce it with a single hot key.
    After long time fiddling with nv-control-dpy and xrandr I have a somewhat working solution, which crashes the X server every time I go from my home config to my office config.

  16. economic impact? on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    If there's no need for drivers anymore, where will those people who used to be drivers make their living of?

  17. Re:How to decide the fate of helium on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    So in your mind what should be the only legitimate sources to draw from for entertainment?
    And isn't entertainment a lot about making an audience feel better than their objective reality would actually warrant?

  18. sailmail on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 3, Informative

    As a cheap way to do email: http://www.sailmail.com/

  19. cel nav on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    Besides buying all these gadgets, I'd learn celestial navigation as a backup when all your electronics are getting fried by lightning.

  20. message is still in transition! on Judge: Cops Can Impersonate Owner Of Seized Cell Phones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As a sender of a message I regard the message to be in transition until it reaches the recipient *I* intended. Therefore it should be treated as the interception of a message in transit when the wrong person reads of an end device which is not hers.

  21. economics on Strong AI and the Imminent Revolution In Robotics · · Score: 1

    Problem is that a good portion of the population won't be able to afford this technology, because their jobs got automated by the very same technology.

  22. Ansible? on Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles · · Score: 0

    Is this finally the ansible?

  23. plausible deniability on Boeing Preparing an Ultra-Secure Smartphone · · Score: 2

    Phone should have a "plausible deniability" mode where it appears like a regular, non-secure phone, easily giving up lots of details to any browsing / scanning attempt, while hiding all secure content.

  24. Ansible? on The First Universal Quantum Network · · Score: 1

    Still no ansible I guess.

  25. Re:questionable units on BOSS: The Universe's Most Precise Measurement · · Score: 1

    No, that's different. The meter and the pyramids do exist simultaneously.