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  1. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 2

    If you paint them red they go faster. If you paint them reflective, they don't get destroyed by the laser.

  2. Re:I'll admit on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 1

    I wish someone else made Diablo 3. It seemed like they just wanted to make a more linear WOW with a RMAH than a Diablo clone. I liked Starcraft 2, even if it did ignore every advancement in the genre since Broodwar to appease SC1's competitive audience. Seriously, no directional weapons, no terrain to generate cover, no destructible/deformable terrain, no autocasts on stims. These aren't hard things to implement, they just wanted to keep the micro feel.

  3. Re:I do. on Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters · · Score: 1

    Your real name is Dr. Manhattan? That's an awesome name.

  4. Detroit on US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors · · Score: 1

    Without it, 'the upper Midwest would still be a gaping, double-digit unemployment hole in the economy
    Like Detroit?

  5. Thats a loaded question on Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Technology is a tool, and a tool can be used a weapon. You should blame the one who wields the weapon. Do we blame Pasteur for biological warfare? I do not, but without him much of what we know about making bio-weapons would not exist.

    You can study rockets to go to the moon, but eventually someone is going to shoot them at their neighbor.

    You can study a way to get cheap energy for everyone, but eventually someone will make a bomb.

    You can create a large forum for the people that is resistant to people stopping you from communication, but someone will eventually create a global spy system that watches everything you do.

    It is unfortunate, but I would place the blame not on the person who makes the technology, but the one who decides how to use it. When we complain about doctors helping with torture, we are complaining about the ones there to extend the pain, not the ones who came up with ways keep people alive.

  6. Re: Fuck Them on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 2

    They were not physically blocking you from sending http requests to the sight, they were just sending them faster then you can. Its like if to protest McDonalds, protesters lined up and ordered waters. Its annoying and costs money, but if you spend 5.5 million dollars to add a line specifically for water, do the 5 out of 1000 protesters you caught deserve to pay for all of it?

  7. Warflying on How To Hijack a Drone For $400 In Less Than an Hour · · Score: 1

    I have all those components except the parrotAr2 drone. Early Christmas present?

  8. Re:Sterilization on Google Glass Making Its Way Into Operating Rooms · · Score: 1

    If its in the US, they will just throw it away and charge your health care provider for a new one. Your provider will raise everyone's rates. You will still pay more than everyone else in the world.

  9. If you want to keep your setting try this. on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:No real reason to buy until games come out on Xbox One Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    At least this generation can play last gen games... Oh wait. Perhaps we can use them as media pc's until games come out... no streaming? Yeah, your right. Wait for games.

  11. Just what the nodejs on Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure the NodeJs hipsters running the latest flavor of Linux with custom desktops will close out their sublime text and immediately wget that.

  12. Re:Why again is BP still in business? on BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments · · Score: 1

    We tried to have another "tea party", but their black tea was worse for the ocean this time around.

  13. Re:thank god slashcode is ancient... on Cute Cat Photos Are Data-Driven Science Behind Cunning New Language Learning App · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, most of you cannot even edit your posts.

    [Edit] changing you're to your

  14. Re:I long for the day when robots do ALL the work on Robots: a Working Breed At the Dairy · · Score: 1

    That's the life. Until the robots start herding us into little boxes.

  15. Re:How can this work? on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    That's the beautiful part. If you engage in dangerous activities, like crashing, they can just cancel your account before you call in for violating their TOS. It's like a money farm!

  16. Advertisements on Hotel Tycoon Seeks Property Rights On the Moon · · Score: 1

    He is trying to get room to display giant billboards, isn't he? Perhaps using lasers at first?

  17. Re:If you can defend it .. it's yours on Hotel Tycoon Seeks Property Rights On the Moon · · Score: 2

    You are sending harmful radiation into my yard, causing me skin cancer. Please cease and desist.

  18. Already exists on P2P Data Not Private, But It Could Be · · Score: 1

    However, as I wrote in January, there's no reason why popular P2P programs couldn't re-route each download through a different user's connection, so that if you were downloading a file from another computer's IP address, you would never know if the file resided on that computer's hard drive.

    You could build a network if you have friends using retroshare. Or you could torrent over i2p like the cool kids. I think i responded similarly last time this guy posted.

  19. Re:Bitcoins. Garbage. on Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency · · Score: 1

    Neither does the US dollar, they just take up space. I will take any of those that you don't want and properly dispose of them.

  20. Re:Of course the Treasury says that. on Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency · · Score: 1

    Then why do they support the dollar? Shouldn't they issue some sort of treasury credit card that tracks all your purchases? The government keeps the dollar because they need a quick deniable way to pay people that is more difficult to track.

  21. Re:Session cookie copying on HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only · · Score: 1

    You would need a different set of cookies for http and https domains. You would always set the cookies in https, and static things like the Facebook logo could go over http with only giving away that you are loading a new page with that logo on it. This gives away information on what you are doing, but much of it can already be assumed if your computer opens a connection to Facebook's servers.

    This will require a lot of micromanagement by web developers, but could be possible for large sites. Also set expires headers to not expire the logo, and you don't need to send it every time, which is far more efficient than caching it in a proxy.

  22. Re:We need MITM detection as well on HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only · · Score: 1

    "The two parties then verbally compare the numbers displayed"

    But if there is a man in the middle, whats to stop them from changing the numbers in the voice?

    It would be easy for a computer to change some checksum bits. If I have to manually talk to every customer who visits my eCommerce site to confirm their numbers each page load, I would probably walk out.

  23. Loopholes on Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services · · Score: 1

    "any content provided by an online video distributor'"

    So if I were to torrent a video, or video chat with someone, I would be a video provider, and couldn't have any of my content slowed?

    If left like that, this is going to get messy. Most likely they will require you to buy a 100k licence to be protected as video distributor.

  24. Re:Let me guess. on WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter · · Score: 1

    +1 funny.

  25. Re:Legacy Support on Apple II DOS Source Code Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ask and ye shall receive?
    http://www.virtualapple.org/