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  1. Paging Mr. Eastwood on Researchers Develop Device That Can 'Hear' Your Internal Voice (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  2. speculative execution of web content? on Mozilla Tests Firefox 'Tab Warming' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    what could go wrong?

  3. the risk isn't intelligence, it's artificiality on Hawking: AI Could Be 'Worst Event in the History of Our Civilization' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    An AI could be problematic, even if it isn't very intelligent. See the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment, for example. Handing control of systems to AIs without checking for edge cases and rate limiting etc could get interesting.

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

  4. Re:There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

    was there an epidemic of flag burning? I blinked.

  5. and did they use the same testing protocol that came up with "100 year archival gold CD-R" disks that degrade after less than 10 years?

  6. Re:We place a high priority on battery safety on Samsung's Calls For Industry To Embrace Its Battery Check Process as a New Standard Have Been Ignored (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    or, they have their own safety tests in place and don't want to subject themselves to licensing or other fees to samsung Why would a company want to adopt Samsung's battery safety methodology? It has no track record since the battery exploding thing from their last model.

  7. so what? on Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Both are viable platforms with lots of games and players. Who cares if one is twice the size of the other?

  8. Re:Start the clock on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    and emails!

  9. wait. people agree with each other on the internet? what the hell just happened? ;-)

  10. Re: WHo cares how it works. on LastPass Makes Password Management Free Across All Of Your PCs, Tablets and Smartphones (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    each site has a unique, computer-generated password. which is stored in encrypted form and only decrypted by you when you need to retrieve that single password. if one of the 20 sites doesn't store their password properly in their database, only that password will be compromised and the other 19 are safe. This is much better than using a single super-secure-nobody-could-possibly-guess-it password for all sites.

  11. can't be that bad on Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem · · Score: 1

    John Boone did it 3 times, and lived to tell about it.

  12. not gonna happen on Nearest Alien Planet Gets New Name · · Score: 2

    um. no. some dotcom doesn't get to sell naming rights to planets. and some dude doesn't get to immortalize his papa because he can fill in an online form. gramps may have been awesome, but he doesn't get the nearest extra-solar planet named after him...

  13. Re:Yes. on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the difference is that a spy is traditionally on enemy soil, so are likely considered more fair game. a hacker is likely operating from a basement bunker in virginia etc...

  14. any sign of frank chalmers? on Ancient Flood Channels Cut Deep Into Mars · · Score: 2

    were there rover tracks beside the outbreak?

  15. Re:microwave on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    apologies for incorrect word manufacturage, professor. I figured a post by someone who couldn't figure out what to do with a dead phone might have been a place where it'd be possible to get away with less than dissertation-level language usage. also, don't actually put it in a microwave. it could asplode.

  16. microwave on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 2

    compare how long it takes for each old smartphone to asplode. hilarity ensues. maybe do it outside. and stand behind a lead wall.

  17. Peak Oil to reduce global warming on Report Blasts "Peak Oil" Theory · · Score: 1

    Peak Oil would be a welcome thing, if it would force us to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and thereby reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Maybe Peak Oil is the only hope we have that we'll stop before completely killing this planet?

  18. He quit years ago. on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1

    Right after episode VI

  19. just an exercise in optics on Online Budget Database Planned by White House · · Score: 1

    transparent scrutiny, unless it's related to "homeland security" or "the war on terror" - in which case, it's completely opaque, and asking for the info will wind you up in gitmo...

  20. News flash: don't grant root access to strangers on Hack Mac OS X With Installer Packages · · Score: 0

    If you don't trust the provider of an installer, don't run it. And when it asks for your password, click cancel. Nothing to see here. Move along.

    In a follow-up article, the author breaks the scoop about not leaving your password on a Post-It(TM) Note on your monitor...

  21. Rodan lives!!! on Ancient Reptile Had Wings Like a Fighter Jet · · Score: 1
  22. Quantum entanglements are still allowed? on NASA Puts A Stop To Space Romance · · Score: 1

    Sure, a quantum entanglement may not be as much fun as a romantic entanglement, but just how far does the NASA crackdown on entanglements reach?

  23. The REAL reason behind the Shuffle! on Creative Has MP3 Player Interface Patent · · Score: 1

    No UI software patents apply to the Shuffle, so all related revenues are safe! Steve Jobs is a genious!!!

  24. Re:Who Cares? on RSS Wins, Signals Atom's Death Toll? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't very clear with what I meant...

    "feed" publishers will likely select a subset of feed formats (perhaps a single format) to implement in their CMS or whatever.

    "feed" readers/aggregators will have to be able to understand all flavours, so it really doesn't matter what flavour a publisher chooses. Pick the right one for the job. Want a lightweight feed? rss 0.91 would do... Want enclosures? RSS 2.0... Leave it to the reader/aggregator to understand all feed formats (as they all do now), and it becomes largely irrelevant which format/flavour is chosen by a publisher.

  25. Re:Who Cares? on RSS Wins, Signals Atom's Death Toll? · · Score: 1

    Exactly! It's trivial to support various formats, or flavours of formats (rss 0.91, 1.0, 2.0), that it really doesn't matter. It's not like anyone supports one at the expense of any other format/flavour.

    And, really, to the end user this should all be transparent infrastructure stuff. That's like saying a person gives two shits if they're viewing a web site in HTTP 1.0 or 1.1, or I suppose a more accurate comparison would be XHTML-Strict vs Transitional vs HTML 4. Sure, there are arguments to be made for any of them, but they all work...