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  1. Why even have a hash assigned to them? Just give them a receipt when they vote with a hash that doesn't have any personal information on it linking them. Then post results publicly. People can band together and do their own audits.

  2. 40$ is expensive on Hacking a Professional Drone · · Score: 1

    can shoot it down with 24 cent shotgun shell

  3. Re:A better adblocker on UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I am guessing though you would still have to share the cookie with the rest of your browser session and will be open to being tracked.

  4. Re:No tax breaks ? on Renewable Energy Shows Strong Gain In U.S. (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize that more than 50% of fuel profits go to taxes, right? And these 'tax breaks' are mostly around encouraging exploration of new domestic sources?

  5. Re:Another interpretation on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They are a fad in how they were marketed as going to take over the world in peoples homes and offices but the reality is I suspect the majority of them are gathering dust somewhere with their battery dead.

  6. Re:Another interpretation on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    tablets (mostly non-MS ones) have convinced a lot of people to give up their laptops

    Numbers for this? I think tablets were kind of a fad.

  7. Re:Amazon EC2, tool of terror on A Third of All HTTPS Websites Vulnerable To DROWN Attack (drownattack.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a stupid thing to quote- I am sure Amazon or any other hosting provider keeps very good logs about user activity and would quickly hand your information over to feds if asked. So it really isn't that cheap- either you need to steal access to such machines or buy them.

  8. Re:thought the bus would yield on Google Self-Driving Car Might Have Caused First Crash In Autonomous Mode (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your idiotic suggestion. I am not doing a road rally, I am probably at 1/3 of the road engineering speed and the risk of getting hit in the ass is probably a 1000 times greater than skidding.

  9. Re:How damage resistant is it? on MIT Develops Ultra Thin, Light Weight, Efficient Solar Cells (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, kerosene is gods sacrament to interstellar space travel

  10. Not useful but.... on MIT Develops Ultra Thin, Light Weight, Efficient Solar Cells (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    a really lightweight solar model plane or drone would be cool

  11. This is the same government that didn't charge a single banker during the financial meltdown or anyone in the government for running guns to drug dealers in Mexico.

  12. Talented Slashdotters on Google Self-Driving Car Might Have Caused First Crash In Autonomous Mode (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Could somebody please come up with a fitting car analogy?

  13. You don't know this to be true. A parallel is somebody that swerves into oncoming traffic to miss a squirrel and has head on with another car. I don't know the exact circumstances of the incident, but a bus is hard to control and it is possible that something worse could of been risked by swerving.

  14. thought the bus would yield on Google Self-Driving Car Might Have Caused First Crash In Autonomous Mode (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 2

    1st rule of defensive driving- never expect another driver to do anything

    I won't yield into traffic or turn into a street if another driver will need to slow or brake not to hit me
    Never sit in a median to turn with front or back of car sticking out
    I actually speed up a bit before turning to maximize distance between myself and driver behind and turn shallow. This is a bit hard to explain but you angle into the turn and actually do most of your slowing when you are already in the turn
    Many others but I probably don't even think about them.

  15. Terms and conditions on Facebook Fined 100,000 Euros In German Intellectual Property Dispute (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Correctly if I am wrong, but aren't terms and conditions equal to toilet paper, or maybe even a EULA in court?

  16. Gravity waves to gamma rays? on Why LIGO's Black Holes Probably Didn't Come From a Single Star · · Score: 1

    What effect do extremely strong gravity waves have on matter? They are saying that the energy released from this even was equal to 3 suns being converted directly into energy- that is just mind boggling...

  17. Re:Why is this a good thing? on New Research Shows You Can Grow Sperm In a Dish (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention having bad genes- ie can't make sperm. Might be interesting idea though for Vets that have had their genitalia blown off.

  18. True to life on Baidu Browser Acts Like a Mildly Tempered Infostealer Virus · · Score: 0

    The is the first time I have heard of the browser and the name 'Baidu' elicits the sense of something that you would not trust from some Asian origin.

  19. Re:I'd prefer long range on Researchers Make Low-Power Wi-Fi Breakthrough (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps (please don't shoot me for this) IOT devices.

  20. Keeping my house clean on Internet By Light Promises To Leave Wi-Fi Eating Dust (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would be happy to have Wi-Fi eating dust in my home as long as it poops outside!

  21. Re:Been playing that game for ten years... on Thanks To Encryption, UK Efforts To Block Torrent Sites Are Pointless (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Even better, have a script that once they are authenticated uploads goatse to their timeline.

  22. Re:It's all about demographics on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    The way out is to have a recession and liquidate all of the companies that are bankrupt. People with cash on hand will buy up these business and equipment at discount and run them in such a way that is profitable, growing the economy. Why we continually go through these machinations to avoid the natural business cycle is beyond me- and the more we delay it the deeper and harder it will be.

  23. Re:The Government never learns .. WTF? on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Well whatever they are doing it seems to be working- for 'the people' not so much.

  24. Re:Science Denial on Slashdot... on In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Many topics turn into 'meta discussions' because they have been argued to death- so people will make trollish or off the wall statements just to try uncover something new.

  25. Re:Non-believers on In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    What is the insurance policy time frame, one year? They aren't worried about rising oceans.