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  1. Me: "Yeah, but it was A CHICKEN. You are a HUMAN. Shouldn't that count for something?"

    Learn the answer at any Chinese restaurant.

  2. It's accounting.

  3. Have you tried moving the right-hand slider to the left of the zero? It doesn't eliminate that influence, but it seems much less overrun.

  4. Re:So this means no ... on Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... in the Czech Republic.

  5. Re:They eat up the more or less real stores on Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was designed by GE in the 1960s. If you look today at the safety record of cars designed in the 1960s, you might be nervous about cars, too. People putting up road blocks to building new nuclear plants to replace the old ones and then using the failure of the old ones as a reason to put up even more road blocks seems to me very much like the people who cut the funding for government agencies and then use the poor performance that results from the inadequate funding as a reason to cut the agency funding still further.

  6. Re:Strange Definition of Homelessness on More Than One-Third of Schoolchildren Are Homeless In Shadow of Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not turn it around and call the people actually on the street "homeless" and the people renting in high density occupancy "housing challenged."

  7. Based on the logic of the parent's assertion that having income tax deducted from your paycheck means that you, yourself, are not paying taxes, the answer to your question is simple: hire an accountant to pay your taxes for you.

  8. Re:Double edged sword on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 2

    How is a permanent backdoor into the operation of my vehicle any better an idea than a permanent backdoor into my security products? If it's there in every person's vehicle to be exploited, it's much more likely to be exploited by bad actors than by the police. Here's something simpler: .50 cal api rounds into the engine block. It's very straightforward and effective.

  9. Re:Amazon could easily be profitable on Amazon Starts Flexing Muscle in New Space (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that you do not get any of that value unless someone else is willing to give you their money for it.

    If only there was a place where one might find people willing to purchase stock...

  10. Re:Amazon could easily be profitable on Amazon Starts Flexing Muscle in New Space (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You're quite wrong. People invest in Amazon by buying its stock. Amazon uses the money to build the company, making the stock more valuable. Investors then sell the stock for more money than they paid for it. The additional money is called capital gains. This works very well. Pick any 5 year period since 2007 and you'll find that an investment in Amazon at the start of that period pays well at the end of it. This is called investing, not ponzi. When the company builds itself into a larger company, the stock is worth more, because it's the same percentage of a larger company.

  11. Only guy complaining? on Uber Lawsuit Alleges Employees Were Misled On Equity Compensation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA makes it sound like this guy made an assumption before he got anything in writing and is suing because the writing didn't match his assumption. If other people also feel they were mislead, it would be interesting to hear about that.

  12. Re:Why they are slow? on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for taking the time to reply.

  13. Re:Why they are slow? on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    If you add a rule like this, what about newer versions of the script? When I first thought about this, I was thinking about how to tell the page that newer versions of the script were ok, but older versions might not work. However, a harder situation seems to be when the older version has a known problem, and so you want to tell the page to allow newer versions, but not be spoofed by malicious actors into accepting the problem version. So, does your server need to subscribe to hashcode updates so that your page only accepts the newest version, or is there a way to accept a range of versions without vulnerability to being spoofed into permitting a problem version?

  14. New ways to attack politicians on The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    or anyone else you don't like. If I'm a hacker in a non-extradition country, I gain access to someone's system and I want them in jail, I just make it look like I'm selling (if I can't get access to their bank account, I can always create a promise of assistance with trafficking) them the use of my botnet, which I then use to attack their rivals. OTOH, if I want to buy the services of a botnet, then I want to first try and piss off hackers online, so I can later claim that my purchase was actually their doing.

  15. Re:For Rent? on The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the problem with a successful botnet protection racket is turf. When a gang runs a protection racket on the stores in a neighborhood, the understanding is that they're the only gang with access to that neighborhood. Unless there's a successful way for one botnet to counter another botnet, protection from paying a botnet not to attack won't work unless you're paying every botnet not to attack.

  16. Re:Too many rich people on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Location, direction, and speed are all things that could be transmitted by an easily retrofitted $40 GPS tattletale device. They'll make everybody buy a device, and provide reimbursement vouchers for the poor. But, they'll get that reimbursement money back 700 fold in traffic infraction tickets issued to people who can't afford self-driving cars.

  17. Paid reviews still ok on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I read the text of that bill, since it's short, and there's no restriction on paying people to leave positive or negative reviews. Sounds like something could be done where an expensive service is coupled with a large bounty (paid to customers only) for positive reviews. Of course, the IRS would want their cut of the additional customer income.

  18. Re:Most power plants run on supercritical steam on Iceland Seeking 'Supercritical Steam' For Power Source (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Should you be interested: Best Practices Manual for Supercritical Thermal Power Plants (pdf) I believe the "rag on a stick" method may have been superseded by techniques like ultrasonic leak detection and thermal imaging.

  19. Re:Machine-learning vision as a backup on Panasonic's New Shopping System Automatically Bags, Tallies Your Bill (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If they require the customers to self-tag for wireless payment, they could continue to attempt to use weight. It would be amusing to see the customer scales at the restroom entrances.

  20. Re:If sellers don't care about bots why should gov on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because members of the government got burned by scalpers?

  21. Because that's how they index their billing?

  22. Re:About to be excited on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I looked and didn't find any. Mucosis (the Dutch company) says SynGEM is a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus. When I did a quick search for whether something that treats RSV might also treat rhinovirus, I didn't find any such indication, but I did find this study on coinfections which certainly suggests so me that a successful vaccine for RSV would be of significant benefit to children under 2 years old.

  23. If it can fold cloths, on Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    then I reckon it can tell whether a given article of clothing is in folded condition. So, they could make a much more valuable robot - one that goes around, picks up all the clothing that isn't folded and brings it to the laundry. Next task: clothing recognition - being able to pull an article of clothing from the dryer and return it to the room from which it was originally collected.

  24. Re:will UPS deliver it in a box? on Amazon Now Sells Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I want mine to deliver itself. Until that can happen, I'll settle for picking up the key in the Amazon locker in front of my local grocery store. The person who delivers the car to the grocery store parking lot can catch a ride back to the city in the Amazon locker delivery vehicle.

  25. But I did not read that they have figured out how to cause a person to produce this antibody. In fact, the article talked about infusing people with antibodies, but not about some vaccine that might cause people to produce the antibodies themselves. I expect that this is being pursued. Until that pursuit yields results, I don't know that this discovery will be able to counterbalance risky behavior very much.