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  1. high food costs will suck up excess capital on China Pulls Plug On Genetically Modified Rice and Corn · · Score: 1

    China has a growing middle class, and a growing class of perpetually single men. They need to stop the middle class from becoming so affluent so quickly (where do you park 400 million cars?), and they need to find jobs for the millions of sad horny guys who could easily become revolutionaries. If the cost of food rises a few percent here and there it bleeds excess capital out of the system, inconveniences a few on the long tail, but as a whole (remember, China thinks long-term, and like a single organism) the economy will be better off.

  2. Re:Why focus on the desktop? on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    Also the pre-emptible kernel, but it's the same basic type of kernel improvement - creating a more fluid experience for the GUI user.

  3. Re:kernel does crash on desktop on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    Who swaps anymore? This isn't WindowsNT or Solaris.

  4. Re:Source is HVAC Contractors on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    Thats the least of the worries people in Coachella have. It was a nice desert area and now it's turning into a smoggy, trafficky shithole due to farms, feedlots and Starbucks.

  5. Phone permissions suck on Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every app seems to want access to your full memory, location info, camera, microphone and contact list. Why does a flashlight app need all this?

    I carry a phone because I have to for work, and I need something to read while on the crapper, and that's it. People who use all these fancy apps are the product, not the customer.

  6. Re:Poor material choice on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    +Mod points if I had them. I think we were talking about this the second semester of my freshman year. Stress vs. strain and all that.

  7. I call bullshit on Heartbleed To Blame For Community Health Systems Breach · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The hospital had an Internet-facing router that was accessible via SSH or HTTPS?

    If they were stupid enough to do that, then someone else had probably stolen all their data already.

  8. News Aggregator on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 1

    At least they editorialize on the submissions, Slashdot just copypastas the first paragraph or two.

  9. Re:Bribery and corruption on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    "This is a single politician in the german government trying to derail the project for personal gain."

    A single German politician trying to run things in an autocratic way in order to further a personal agenda? You don't say!

  10. After all, only criminals have anything to fear from the police, right?

  11. Welcome to 1999 on Leaked Documents: GCHQ Made Port-Scanning Entire Countries a Standard Spy Tool · · Score: 1

    nmap as a "hacking" tool reveals such an old mindset. Back then the prize was finding a service, which was inevitably not locked down or was easily compromisable. Nowadays even basic installs are secure thanks to sane package managers and distributions. The old "find an old version of sendmail and open a shell" tricks don't work.

  12. not-so-rare Musk trifecta in play on Tesla Removes Mileage Limits On Drive Unit Warranty Program · · Score: 4, Funny

    First we had the smug "NASA is boring, Elon Musk is awesome" article, and now this. If we hit 3 articles in 1 day, I think it becomes a national holiday!

  13. Human entropy on Involuntary Eye Movement May Provide Definitive Diagnosis of ADHD · · Score: 1

    Since we're largely shielded from the negative effects of genetic entropy, where will the western world be in 50 years?

  14. Byebye greybeards, hellow headwobblers on Cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs -- 8% of Its Workforce -- In "Reorganization" · · Score: 1

    Cisco is cutting out the fat (literally) by shuffling out the older, more expensive (salary, 401k, healthcare) employees, so that they can bring in cheap new talent.

  15. Re:Agrarian shift caused mass underfeeding on The Benefits of Inequality · · Score: 0

    So basically you read something free on the Internet and now feel authoritative on the subject?

  16. Hardly altruism on DEFCON's Latest Challenge: Hacking Altruism · · Score: 1

    If you're helping fix something that could cause real world harm, it's an investment in your own safety.

  17. Like the railroad, its about control on The Quiet Before the Next IT Revolution · · Score: 1

    Translation: Bandwidth and ubiquitous connectivity, along with a generation trained to have no privacy are in place. Let the police state begin.

    If you think things like rural electrification are about helping people, you have your head in the sand.

  18. Extremists on Chinese Researchers' 'Terror Cam' Could Scan Crowds, Looking for Stress · · Score: 2

    Maybe China should stop being so shitty to its people.

  19. Ah Cryptonomicon on Google Is Backing a New $300 Million High-Speed Internet Trans-Pacific Cable · · Score: 1

    Once again, scifi leads the way.

  20. Re:Crapfinity on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 1

    If you're clever with squid, local DNS, and openvpn it's a viable alternative. I live on a 3Mbps DSL line and while it's not the fastest, it's totally usable for Netflix, VOIP, gaming, etc.

  21. Re:I am still waiting... on TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor · · Score: 1

    You're new here, aren't you.

  22. Re:Money pit on With Chinese Investment, Nicaraguan Passage Could Dwarf Panama Canal · · Score: 1

    I was responding to the post:

    "What I find interesting is the complete disregard for some amazing sites."

  23. Re:Limited utility. on Parallax Completes Open Hardware Vision With Open Source CPU · · Score: 1

    You're talking about electrical engineering. This is not that.

  24. Re:Money pit on With Chinese Investment, Nicaraguan Passage Could Dwarf Panama Canal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because China has a wonderful record on industrial pollution, and Central America has a wonderful record on fiscal responsibility and accountable government.

  25. Hypocritical on Transatomic Power Receives Seed Funding From Founders Fund Science · · Score: 1

    Guys who make their money on dotcom fads now complain that there's no hard science or invention being done? Seems like the air's a little thin up on that high horse.