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  1. douche on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you have a 4k sq ft house, you're a douche. It's not a house, its a tacky underbuilt mcmansion.

  2. Travelers? why? on Government Lab Uses Smartphones To Measure Gamma Ray Exposure · · Score: 1

    If you have to fly a lot, you're going to fly a lot, whether your phone tells you its bad or not. Neat application of the technology, but not terribly useful to the average joe.

  3. Killer app? on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Other than MS breaking DX on newer versions, whats the killer app for yet another Windows GUI makeover? 64bit? real security? Multiple monitor support? Fonts?

    Other than gamers and people stuck on the MSOffice upgrade treadmill, I don't see anyone needing the upgrade past 7.

  4. -1, Obvious on Lasers Unearth Lost 'Agropolis' of New England · · Score: 2

    Southern New England is overrun with old stone walls and relics of old farms, take a walk in the woods some time. Also, water is wet.

  5. spare change in the couch on Google Fined By French Privacy Regulator · · Score: 1

    Sergey and Brin can scrape the spare change in the couch to pay this. Why would they care?

  6. Re:SXSW sucks on Why CES Is a Bad Scene For Startups · · Score: 1

    I think you have a strange definition of "not totally useless".

  7. SXSW sucks on Why CES Is a Bad Scene For Startups · · Score: 1

    It's the same "Makerspace" or "Maker Faire" mentality. Put enough geeks in a room and magical things happen because technology.

  8. XKCD FTW on Researchers Develop "Narrative Authentication" System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll just leave this right here

    https://xkcd.com/936/

  9. Spritual Malaise is exactly where we are on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If "spiritual malaise" doesn't describe 21st century America, then I don't know what does.

  10. ...is sent to their physicians on The First Prescription-Only App · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Who are already overloaded in information, paperwork, journals, and hypochondriacs asking for penicillin for their colds. And/or the physician is 60, 5 years from retirement, and never bothered learning how to use a PC because they're wealthy enough not to.

    This seems like a great idea from some mid-20s hipster marketing drone, but there's no real benefit. Real-time data to your doctor? Like he's going to call you immediately (or text you, bro) and tell you to put down the candy bar?

  11. Space Superpower isn't a thing on China: The Next Space Superpower · · Score: 2

    Until someone blows up a satellite, there's no "power" in space. You can launch from essentially anywhere, there's no way to monopolize the field.

  12. Re:So much for competition on Backdoor Discovered In Netgear and Linkys Routers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That fairy tale stopped existing once companies could buy the laws they need to create barriers to entry.

  13. Whats the killer app for this tech? on Coming Soon: Prescription Lenses For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Outside of some sort of Tron: Uprising style AR view of things for mechanics and the like, why would a person wear these in their normal day?

  14. Who submits these reports? on Unencrypted Windows Crash Reports a Blueprint For Attackers · · Score: 2

    Who actually lets Windows submit these?

    Also, if you don't trust your ISP not to snoop these, you shouldn't trust them not to snoop your real traffic too.

  15. #6 - dont use it on Five Alternatives To Snapchat · · Score: 1

    Or don't use it. Are you better off with or without it?

  16. Lord of the Rings, and even the movie on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Put aside the Ranger, and become who you were born to be."

    "It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end⦠because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing... this shadow. Even darkness must pass."

    "I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me."

    You want your kids to have a positive outlook, be confident in their ability to solve challenges, read them good, hero fiction.

  17. Wait are they beginning or finishing? on Finnish HIV Vaccine Testing To Begin · · Score: 1

    I'm confused.

  18. Who takes apart their laptop? on Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score · · Score: -1

    Who would need to take apart their laptop? This isn't 1994 - the things generally don't die.

  19. Why be more electronic? on Ask Slashdot: Life Organization With Free Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your planner and notebook dont run out of batteries, work when (mostly) wet, are readable in sunlight, and offer many advantages over electronic forms. Analog is sometimes better than digital.

  20. If Atlas Shrugged went public domain on Public Domain Day 2014 · · Score: 2

    I think the universe would implode.

  21. "NetworkManager" on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you are lame enough to use a GUI, you're lame enough to fail.

    This is what happens when you give people tools that they don't understand.

  22. Re:Not the algorithm we need on How Machine Learning Can Transform Online Dating · · Score: 1

    What we need is an algorithm to convince people to lower their expectations because they're unattractive, boring, unmannerly, old, poor and/or cheap, have baggage, etc.

    FTFY. Nobody is a supermodel, or terribly interesting.

  23. man chmod on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Change the perms so that only root can read them. If something has rooted your box, your wifi password is the least of your problems.

  24. Re: River Tam says on Mars One Selects Second Round Candidate Astronauts · · Score: 1

    air, not food. and she was wong, space is a great insulator.

  25. MARS!!! on Mars One Selects Second Round Candidate Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Are they selecting ISIS agents for breeding purposes?