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  1. Re:Paranoid much? on Researchers Turn Smartphone Vibration Motor Into Microphone To Spy On You (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "especially because there are far easier ways to spy on most people" You mean like the purpose built microphone on every smartphone?

  2. Re:Retracted.... no story here on Apartment In US Asks Tenants To 'Like' Facebook Page Or Face Action (business-standard.com) · · Score: 2

    Forced to retract is different than retracted. I find it easy to believe an idiot in management approved this. I find it easy to believe an idiot in management quickly tried to unapproved this when he got his ass handed to him by the internet. I think extraordinary evidence is required to believe "the true management" didn't know about this when the public outcry is this great.

  3. Re:Free market and other fairytales on Cable Industry Threatens To Sue If FCC Tries To Bring Competition To Cable Set Top Boxes (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    It was never a free market. It is a locally legislated monopoly.

  4. Sounds cheaper than going to the theater on Peter Jackson and JJ Abrams 'Back' Sean Parker's Screening Room (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    This is much cheaper than going to the movie theater if you have kids. Baby sitter and movie tickets are easily 50$. Add in cost of food or drinks it swings even more towards the staying home. Also, you can have as many drinks as you want and not have to worry about driving. Even if you don't have kids, 4 adults watching the movie and this is cheaper than a theater.

  5. Re:Some jobs will always be safe on Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    If we can have Robots that make everything for nothing, including themselves, then we will be in a Utopia as no one will have want for anything. If there is a dictatorship (economic or not) that keeps people from having things that are no longer a scare resource, that is a problem that has nothing to do with robotics.

  6. Just a reminder... on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Just a reminder, when your fuel injector goes tits up, you just replace the fuel injector. When your timing belt/chain breaks ("digital" or mechanical), you replace your engine.

  7. Re:Still ignoring the issue on A Crowdfunding Site To Help Pay Patients' Medical Bills · · Score: 1

    Infant mortality rate was also about 600% higher then too. (Source:Humanprogress.org)

  8. Wake me... on Computer Beats Go Champion · · Score: 1

    Wake me when he beats Lee Sedol. There is a signficant difference in skill level between a European champion and someone like Lee Sedol.

  9. They just don't get it.... on Developing 3D-Printing Tech for Cars (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    They just don't get it... The advantage of 3D printing is that you can print 1 of something with no upfront cost. The problem is that printing one is costs the same per print as printing1,000,000 of something, meaning there's no economy of scale. When cars are made in the hundreds of thousands, economy of scale is the difference between a 200K honda accord and a 20K honda accord,

  10. Re:Why IoT ? on XSS Can Take Down Your IoT Wind Turbine (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    These items don't need WAN access, they really just need LAN access, though to most people that's the same thing. It's a lot easier if I can remotely check the status and health of the turbine from the ground rather than having to climb a tower and plug in a USB cable.

  11. They missed something crucial on New Wearable Tech Translates Sign Language Into Text (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    There's something they've missed here that is crucial, and it's called user acceptance. The user of the device (the deaf person in this case) must want to use the technology. You would think that this would be wildly popular with the users from the outside looking in. However, there is a very real deaf culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Many deaf people do not believe there is anything wrong with being deaf and actively reject those who seek treatment to cure their deafness. I suspect this will be viewed as an attack on their culture.

  12. Re:Bad practice. on Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you wear gloves when you touch your mobile device, they generally steal your finger prints along with the device.

  13. Re:Okay, I'm going to need a lot more. on How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    The ones that don't contain documents are generally dismissed rather quickly. When you release a treasure trove of documentation, it tends to back up your story.

  14. Re:Maybe they don't even use RF on Edward SnowdenTalks Alien Communications With Neil deGrasse Tyson · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You can communicate at or near the noise floor. You'd never know you were hearing anything.

  15. Re:Get used to it, this is the future on Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most · · Score: 2

    Or put away a little money every month so when you fall on hard times? Although if I could really turn off and turn on the more expensive parts of my life at no penalty when I needed extra dough that would be kinda sweet.

  16. Re:Why not ... on Apple To FBI: Encryption Rules Out Handing Over iMessage Data In Real Time · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. This is the data apple has, it's the data being requested, the fact that neither apple nor the FBI can do anything useful with it should be of no legal concern to apple.

  17. If you read the article on Gaming Computers Offer Huge, Untapped Energy Savings Potential · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you read or even browse the paper, all he really says is if you use newer components, they are more energy efficient. Which is like well, pretty much everything else on the damn planet.

  18. It depends on Ask Slashdot: Do You Press "6" Key With Right Or Left Hand? · · Score: 1

    It depends on the program. The programs I need to input a lot of numbers, my right hand is on the keypad. The programs that need a lot of mouse input, it's the left hand that hits all the numbers.

  19. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 0

    So in other words, they do help you lose weight as long as you don't change your other eating habits.

  20. I'm okay with this to an extent on Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly, I'm kinda happy that third party software can't continuously listen to my microphone.

  21. Re:And yet 15 years later... on Computer Science Enrollments Match NASDAQ's Rises and Fall · · Score: 1

    How about adding a coefficient of determination value (R squared) to the summary on anything claiming a correlation between two things?

  22. Re:Insurance? on SpaceX Rocket Failure Cost NASA $110 Million · · Score: 1

    While a good argument, it's entirely moot. SpaceX is not going to eat the cost of insurance. They'll simply buy the insurance for NASA and add the cost of the insurance (and the costs involved with hiring someone to deal with the insurance) to the cost of the launch. NASA can buy insurance direct or it can use a middleman (SpaceX), in the end, NASA is paying for it either way.

  23. How else would they? on How Uber Takes Over a City · · Score: 2

    I mean seriously, why is this a surprise? How else are you going to fight a legislated cartel except with lobbyist? They would be fools not to have lobbyists, and quite an army of them, if they're going to go after an industry that's as heavily legislated as taxis.

  24. Re:seems kinda pointless on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    Yes, this will be used by private employers. However, it will also be abused by the police until a supreme court decision comes out of it one way or the other.

  25. Any vote from the house on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 1

    Any vote from the house, from it's very definition, should have no affect on the 4th amendment, save for a vote on a constitutional amendment. The very idea that a vote on a law by the house would give power or remove power from the 4th is an insult and an attack not on the 4th, but on the constitution its self.