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  1. Re: Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The difference is, the metrics used to move the doomsday clock are specified by scientists. Educated folk, letting you know, that we could all possibly be a mass of carbon, fairly soon. I think perhaps electing the giant meteor, with its running mate, Mr. Sanders could have been the better choice. Now we all have to listen to the baby with the golden hair, it'll be fine.

  2. Re: With an small download cap! on New Zealand To Bring Ultrafast Internet To 85 Percent Of Population (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    That would go against the name they picked for the project. It's Ultra fast. Beyond the very concept of high speed. I can't quite wrap my head around the concept of going past the very idea of what fast already is, but I have a feeling they offer the same thing at Bed Bath & Beyond. Lets hope it doesn't cause nuclear fission.

  3. Re: Torrents: Where did you get that idea? on 32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Informative sir.

  4. Re: MotoGP on BT Sport, Dakar on Eurosport... on 32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If you torrent you have probably participated in a DDoS attack. This is a bit like getting free stuff in a shady venue so long as you do them a "favor". I don't like my friend, I get his public IP, list the hottest movie from his/her IP, bluray quality. Meanwhile they are at home thinking why is my Internet not working?

  5. Re:Offer, Not Bring on Microsoft is Bringing Cortana To Android Lock Screen (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Did I read the opt-in part correctly? Good on you Microsoft.

  6. Steam Much? on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There still is a large population of PC gamers who are perfectly content to buy a second high end GPU for their Skyrim mods. I sincerely doubt computing power on your laptop and/or PC is going to become insignificant anytime soon, it's still the MO for any type of real work, and having a local crash and burn R&D environment will likely still be the preference of many developers/inventors. Running these environments will require a decent hamster.

  7. I'm thinking about hitting you in the head with a baseball bat for saying that causing severe bodily harm to your person (I was sincerely afraid of typing, in the privacy of my home and my phone, that I will actually do that. Quite chilling, being afraid to write). I'd also like to mention that according to the document this post will now be retained and shared across the world and analyzed.

    2. (U) When the communication contains evidence of a crime or a threat of death or serious bodily harm to any person, or anomalies that reveal a potential vulnerability to U.S. communications security, the recipient IC element will notify NSA's OGC, which will review it according to the applicable NSA procedures and policies.

    So yea, we are now part of the daily routine of some Eagles fan, sipping his coffee, contemplating whether he/she wants to inform the authorities and likely make my life hell as I try to explain I'm simply trying to demonstrate how such a thing simply cannot coexist with the 4th ammendment. But hell, Google doing it, Instagram, Facebook, why not everybody? Internet is not a tool for free expression, we are sitting in a room full of authorities forced only to type the correct words. No thanks, I'll just stick with Slashdot, the freak of my life.

  8. Re:Whoosh. on US Military Seeks Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is how I normally do gardening. I just load up my AK47, and go to town on the backyard.

  9. You cannot stop us doing this and it will not always be obvious that it is an advert.

    Well, one could always, y'know not make me try to stop you in vain, and say maybe, don't do it? I'll wait until a guarantee could be made with real privacy in online services.

  10. Re: Just when you thought on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea but how would you pick up that data without any input sources around? At some point you would have to have an active mic, or allow for additional permissions, or maybe watch for the canvas element to freeze or whatever, but those are all new additions still not ordinary for HTML4 not snoopin' on yo mom 'n' pop browser. Up to this point we had 3 problems, object, activex, java plugin , flash etc. and all of those were opt-in, not out.

  11. There already is a great candidate for at least the iPhone 6, I'm not sure the authors would be able to get the prize though. link: https://www.pubpub.org/pub/dir...

  12. I take it you've never played Postal 2.

  13. Honestly it most likely seemed like a really bad prank. Imagine 3 people sitting in your car with 2 talking about how to kill the 3rd, no music on the radio, anyone would begin to wonder if they are an accessory to murder at the moment.

  14. Re: Just when you thought on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The browser could simply ask the user, "Allow access to audio API from script.js"? Seems like this was probably already a great idea so that you couldn't make a browser moan for the entire Starbucks to hear.

  15. Re: Tomorrow morning on White House Releases Strategy To Defend Against Killer Asteroids (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So long as it doesn't accidently move the earth out of the asteroid's way.

  16. It just goes to underline the positive sides of non-white commercial drivers being treated like they are invisible.

  17. Now how would Facebook know how popular Instagram is?

  18. Whatchu talking about Willis?

  19. Re: No. on Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Absolutely worse. I refer you to the moment when Blizzard decided to make Internet connectivity mandatory for Diablo 3, it just went downhill from there. We have no privacy with our phones, computers, nor T.V., hell not even cars anymore, sold prebuilt with microphones, and GPS ready to collect data for "security" and partners. The world today is designed for a single purpose, to rule over the minds of the economically less privileged. I kind of liked it more when my cable service thought everyone nationwide loved Push Pop, and my Internet didn't offer me my favorite pizza. Ruling over physically is fine, it's called a governing system, but for fuck's sake did we have to lead people's minds too based on fake relevance further reducing the ability to empathize in the mass media age? I'm not sure, I'll have to ask uncle Google and read about it in my personal news feed from aunt Facebook. A big happy family.

  20. It's like every other tablet but they are honest about the spying. Kind of curious how it will work on the psychology of its users. Can they sell it's either privacy or security mutual exclusivity like they sold us here in the Western world without using terrorism, or is the populous already so submissive and suffering the chilling effect that this will easily not be a problem.

  21. Re:Beginning of the end on CO2 Researchers Are Now Hacking Photosynthesis (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    I was wondering what to grow out back, heck an acre of these and I can fuel my car at home eventually. Finally I can talk to myself walking around weird leafy things, and be frugal at the same time, provided it's sunny.

  22. That's awesome.

  23. Well, amazing discoveries start with the impossible.

  24. I'm not sure who is dumber here, French laws or the Frenchman? So they managed to prove an 18 year old was "praising" fear spread in the name of political influence (very objective concepts mind you) by setting his SSID to Daesh Network for all those who see it in the Wifi range. Maybe I'm reading the article wrong.

  25. Ethiopia Joins the Doom March! on Ethiopia's State of Emergency Makes Posting To Facebook a Crime (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You realize we here at the US are still in a state of emergency for 15 years? We've signed snooping and all the extraordinary powers into law, like a permanent state of emergency. This is what's to be expected, good luck Ethiopia.