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  1. Cheaper Solution on Engineer Develops Sonar Alarm System To Monitor Kids In the Pool (newatlas.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Shock Collars and invisible fencing should protect your children quite nicely. And provide a handy guide for your robotic mower, which totally would never kill people instead of cutting grass. /s

  2. Once in court on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    a self driving car will probably have GB of data and video to prove it's innocence (unless it's an Uber killbot)

    On the other hand, if I had a self driving car, you could bet there would be some additional programming that kicks in when needed called "High Speed Chase" if a cop tries to pull me over.

  3. I just assume they are all spying on me on 'Thousands of Companies Are Spying On You' (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Now if someone would compile a list of companies who aren't watching every click and hover, that would be helpful.

  4. I can't afford a friends and family account for all the rats around my neighborhood. /s

  5. Not that it actually matters on Google Removes 'Kodi' From Search Autocomplete In Anti-Piracy Effort (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    but has Google removed kodi/spmc/xbmc from the play store?

    Otherwise it's just lip service to please some advertiser(s)

    I guess there are some people too stupid or in so much of a hurry that if something doesn't autocomplete, they won't know how to actually search for something.

    I wouldn't know, I don't use google for searches, haven't for probably 15 years.

  6. Re:As much as it pains me to say this about Comcas on Comcast Supports Ban On Paid Prioritization, Except For 'Specialized Services' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ....They do kinda have a point. Hear me out. In a prior life, I worked with a company providing VoIP phone systems for companies to bypass the traditional telecom system. One of our biggest issues (somewhat mitigated since in the last few years as I understand) that we encountered in deployments was the ridiculous variability in latency, which is tiny for web browsing but horrible for real-time communications.
      Sure, we turned on QoS and quickly learned that it's pretty much ignored upstream.
    IF real regulations were written to allow prioritization for real-time AV services that were implemented in a neutral fashion, I could support that. Otherwise, yeah, it's Comcrap looking to rake in more bucks. Yawn.

    I guess your business model didn't consider the possibility that ISP's would oversell local bandwidth, and not spend any money building out more capacity.

    The only thing I think I would consider prioritizing would be 911 calls. They're usually important.

  7. Manmade Climate Change deniers. /s

    Seriously, is there weather modeling software that can do some predictive analysis of what this means to everyone else in the region? And what impact this meddling may have on global weather patters?

  8. I'll just close my curtains on Cities Worldwide Spent Over $3 Billion Last Year To Peep On You (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Peep is probably not the word they intend, they mean monitor/spy/track/control.

    It's even more intrusive when you consider that most people have an always on, personal tracking GPS/locater in their pockets and purses all the time.

  9. A Fool and his Crypto Currency on Researchers Discover Flaws in Digital Currency Monero That Could Reveal Identity of Users (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Are soon parted... /s

    There is a reason there is FDIC insurance in the US...

  10. Please define "Offensive".

    Audience matters. What offends one audience, won't offend another.

    If it's anything that could possibly offend anyone, you are gonna be fucked.

    I can't think of a sentence that I could say or write that wouldn't offend someone... (including this one) /s

  11. It would be a shame on AT&T/Verizon Lobbyists To 'Aggressively' Sue States That Enact Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the FCC had enough balls (or a lack of glaring personal financial interest) to start collecting back spectrum licenses from AT&T and Verizon.

  12. Reddit in general on One Percent of Reddit Users Cause 75 Percent of the Drama (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    large subs, with lots of readers seem to have way more trolls per capita than the small technical or special interest subs.

    There is probably also another converse rule, that for the most part about 1% of users actually creates useful posts, and the rest just cut and paste memes or just reading, never posting anything. Or they're sock puppets...

  13. Re:Encryption on Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I wonder if you can store encrypted files on Drive? If so just email the key to the person you share it with.

    You forgot the important step of naming the encrypted videos

    CuteFluffyKitten00x

  14. suicide by self-driving car exceed suicide by cops deaths?

  15. Re:Yes, you should worry! on Dropbox IPOs. Its Founders Are Now Billionaires (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You put a backup HDD at a realtive's house. Or a safety deposit box, or Iron Mountain..

    ( would probably go with a NAS setup with a secure connection from my home and appropriate incrementals/snapshots of things I couldn't just download or rip again..

    Dropbox is where I share stuff, and I really DGAF about security.

  16. As long as it on Dropbox IPOs. Its Founders Are Now Billionaires (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    stays free, I'll keep my family videos and recopies on it.

    If (when) they become greedy and charge me, I'll just move someplace else.

    I don'f totally hate dropbox, at least I can use it on all my platforms. Their linux support was good at first, now it kinda sucks.

  17. To add to the vallue of the CCTV network on British Scientists Develop Wearable MRI Scanner (wcax.com) · · Score: 1

    All non-residents will be required to wear these at all times, you know, think of the children, just to be safe...

  18. Worst possible message on the transporter on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 2

    Buffering

    Buffering

    Buffering

    I never knew why they didn't just use the transporter memory to restore all the red shirts...

  19. Re:The death of Web 2.0 is here on Craigslist Personals, Some Subreddits Disappear After FOSTA Passage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The transition of the Web from "Wild West" to "cable TV" continues.

    Does anyone remember when the allure of cable was "No Commercials?"

    Get off my lawn!

  20. The order to be concerned? on FCC Chief Cites Concerns on Spy Threats From Chinese Telecoms Firms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    US domestic TLA agencies

    US ISP/Wireless "services"

    China

    North Korea

    Russia

    The last 3 are interchangeable

  21. Need more details on My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never used bookFace on this browser, or on any phone or tablet...

    and of course never clicked on bovines...

  22. Now I have to wrap my house in foil, and put on my foil hat and cup again? Make up your minds.

  23. go pop some non-chinese popcorn, sit back and watch.

    Trade sanctions are what they are. If the imbalance of trade is that bad, maybe we could start making things in the US for a change.

    Of course there would need to be a literal shit-ton of legislation to incentivize businesses to manufacture here, not including robots.

  24. \t's only logical on Online Piracy Is More Popular Than Ever, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Content producers make it so hard (and expensive) for consumers to purchase their wares,

    The existence of multiple separate disjointed competing services makes it harder and more expensive to watch things that are freely broadcast in most places.

    If you have paid for content, there is no long term plan allowing access when that content provider inevitably fails.

    They're still trying to get rid of actual physical media so everything is "in the cloud" When is the last time you "bought a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray?

    Netflix has probably done more good than harm in reducing "unauthorized viewing" than any anti-piracy group.. But even their content disappears over time.

  25. If you are going with Windows Server, chances are you need Windows Server as the primary OS, because it is primary running a Windows Service (Say SQL Server for Application compatibility). But there are some things you may need Linux for and would prefer the Linux port over the windows port, say some sort of LAMP stack... Just as a secondary low resource web front end. So why bother setting up two computers when one will be good enough.

    If only there was some way to run multiple operating systems on the same hardware. /s