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  1. Re:Model 3's? on Elon Musk: SpaceX's Mars Rocket Could Fly Short Flights By Next Year · · Score: 1

    Please elaborate. I am seeing lots of chatter about the Bolt being a decent car and a lot of frustration about the Model 3. I am particularly curious about the instrumentation and controls. It seems to me that a giant touch screen is less desirable than physical, tactile controls while operating a vehicle.

  2. You fool. No man can kill Disney. Buy now.

  3. Re:LOL on MIT Plans To Build Nuclear Fusion Plant By 2033 · · Score: 1

    I am extremely popular here. I have the highest ratings. It's just some losers and haters (ACs) who complain because I've single-handedly stopped them from turning Slashdot into 4chan.

    How was attendance at your inauguration? ;)

  4. Re:Greykey is probably a criminal company on Documents Prove Local Cops Have Bought Cheap iPhone Cracking Tech (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We should arrest their principals and see where it leads. Follow the money, as they say. This is definitely illegal and needs to be shut down.

    Who is this "we?" Do you think the LEOs in Georgia (where Forbes says Greyshift was founded) are going to be all gung-ho to take out the purveyors of their newest trick? You could try a citizen's arrest, but your chances of success are slim. The chances you are then targeted with a civil suit are not.

  5. This thread is teeming with pirates.

  6. Easy twofer. Ban DDR and the kids can't learn how to dance.

  7. Âoe'll continue to do as âoe please.

  8. Re:Crypto! Most feared subject. on Google Unveils 72-Qubit Quantum Computer With Low Error Rates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I will readily admit that this is not my wheelhouse, but I was under the impression that Shor's Algorithm would effectively halve the key size. And that it meant the brute force time dropped orders of magnitude, but if FS was used that the key for each message would still need to be brute forced independently. Is this correct?

    If there is an underlying flaw in AES, only accessible with quantum computing, I have not heard of it. I would be interested to know if I am mistaken.

  9. Re:This is a horrible idea! on Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Get the AI to "correct" other people into writing it for you.

  10. Re: That ex-Apple employee on Mysterious $15,000 'GrayKey' Promises To Unlock iPhone X For The Feds (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    All true, but $30k is still nothing to Apple.

  11. Re:Getting Deliveries When Not Home, duh on Amazon Buys Smart Doorbell Maker Ring For a Reported $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You should have mod points, but alas I have none to give.

  12. Re:all Bezos has is money... on Amazon Buys Smart Doorbell Maker Ring For a Reported $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...purchase?

    I don't think it was that difficult.

  13. Re:Seems like evolution of the TouchBar? on New Apple Patent Imagines an OLED Screen As a Keyboard For MacBooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The non tactile button bullshit of the touchbar replacing an entire keyboard

    Agreed.

    OLED suffers from burn in. Good thing I might never need to switch my keyboard to another fucking language.

    What? Assuming you have a laptop keyboard now, with whatever keys it came with, how is this any worse than what you have?

  14. Re: Evidence that parties matter on Net Neutrality Repeal Will Get a Senate Vote In the Spring, Democrats Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, Slashdot. Come for the clickbait, stay for the puns.

  15. Re:self driving cars will do the same in fleet mod on Studies Are Increasingly Clear: Uber, Lyft Congest Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber is apparently doing this, calling it Uber Pool Express or something like that. Gizmodo tried it out and said "It's a bus, guys. Just take a bus."

    Disclosure: I have a mild animosity toward Uber.

  16. Mycroft on Slashdot Asks: Which Smart Speaker Do You Prefer? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am considering backing the Mycroft 2. I am not about to pipe all my audio to Google, Apple, Amazon, et al., but this seems like a fun toy. I passed on the v1 because it used Google's STT, but this one apparently has 8 different STT options, one of which is Mozilla-developed and can run on local hardware.

    According to Fast Company, their business model is framed around selling voice services to major companies who are similarly wary about sending client data to Big Tech firms. (The for-example is Land Rover-Jaguar.) This seems reasonable, and it provides incentive for Mycroft (which is open source; in part? in full? I can't quite tell) to continue to play honest or risk the cash from the privacy-conscious corporate partners that they hoped to attract.

    I'm not totally sold, yet. I'd be interested in /. views one way or the other, or anecdotes from anyone who has a v1.

  17. Yeah, but that mope didn't have any cash, so we're flailing for someone else to sue.

  18. Re:Swamp Thing on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Is Under Investigation Over $3.9 Billion Media Deal · · Score: 1

    You've only now come to that conclusion? I've thought all along that Trump is a pompous narcissist out to make a buck. Even if he lost the election, he can trade on the speaking circuit for the rest of his life.

    The man is practically the caricature of someone in it for Money, Power, and Fame. But now he's discovered that power is delegated, not wielded; that fame is one wrong move from infamy; and that the money has to wait until he's no longer President.

    Does any evil genius "know all the best words?" Please.

  19. Re:Alpine on Best Linux Distribution (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume you are also an Emacs user.

  20. JG Wentworth "Cash Now" on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me take this in reverse order.

    What advantage is there to the public to sell off these public assets?

    None, unless you believe that air travel into DC owned by private entities will increase its efficiency and definitely never be used for political means.

    What if an airline bought them? Can they prevent other airlines from utilizing the airports? Can they deny other airlines' lobbyists access to Washington? Whoever your wealthy bogeyman is (Soros? Koch?), imagine that they have a monopoly on air travel to the seat of US Government. Now do you want the airports to be sold?

    Why does the administration want to sell in the first place?

    Assuming the most innocuous situation, if Trump can sell them to anyone, even somewhat underpriced, he can claim a "win" in up-front government cash flow to his constituency. That constituency may use the airports twice in their entire lives, if ever, thus mostly avoiding any direct effects brought about by for-profit management.

    In addition, if I were a cynical man, I'd suggest that the buyer could be a crony or a soon-to-be crony. See, for instance, the Boris Yeltsin example.

  21. Re:Wait...encryption or Uber's Greyball? on Bill Gates: Tech Companies Inviting Government Intervention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I immediately assumed from the summary that he was talking about Facebook's (initial) opacity to political advertisement requirements, but perhaps that reflects more on me than on Bill Gates. After scanning the comments, it sounds like everyone else thinks he means encryption.

  22. Sadly, I have no mod points today. You deserve some.

    Even though the 100C is for "all day" instead of "just long enough to melt/pour," that's a significant energy savings, particularly assuming there is insulation available. You also get to skip on the crazy electrodes that a forge uses to carry the amperage they need.

  23. Excerpt on Firefly Canon To Expand With Series of Original Books (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Alan Tudyk narrates the board room meeting where your idea is discussed:

    "And we will call the series 'Firefly Canon'"
    "I think we should call it 'Cash Grab'"
    "Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
    "Ha ha ha. Mine is an evil laugh. Now BUY!"

  24. Convenient euphemism on Anti-China Bill Being Softened After US Companies Complain (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    "Swamp" is just shorthand for "people [in Washington DC] who disagree with him." If he gains their approval, they're no longer the swamp. When he does something daft and they point out as much, they're part of the swamp again.

  25. Re:Referrer Header on Firefox 59 Will Stop Websites Snooping on Where You've Just Been (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    You beat me to the reply. According to the horse itself, this is in fact precisely what they are doing:

    Starting with Firefox 59, Private Browsing will remove path information from referrer values sent to third parties (i.e. technically, setting a Referrer Policy of strict-origin-when-cross-origin).

    I agree that it should be the default, and (I discovered today), you can set it be in Firefox's about:config by setting network.http.referer.userControlPolicy to 2.