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  1. Contactless on Slashdot Asks: Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best For You? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't really understand the point of these services. Why not just use your contactless card?

  2. Tree Style Tab on Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those of us who like to keep a lot of tabs open there is Tree Style Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

    Never looked back. Whenever I try to use someone else's browser I cringe at the terrible idea of putting the tabs at the top.

  3. Multi layered packaging (such as ketchup bottles or juice cartons) is already notoriously difficult to recycle. Can't imagine this helps... At least you can rinse out the leftover ketchup.

  4. Obligatory Pyramid on Sharp Developing LCD Screens In Almost Any Shape · · Score: 1
  5. Outrage on Department of Defense May Give Private Cloud Vendors Access To Top Secret Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I expect there to be outrage here on slashdot. But think about it. How is this really different from, lets say, Lockheed Martin designing the F-35 and storing all the design data associated with it. Sure, they're not a "private cloud vendor", but they're probably running a bunch of servers for this purpose. So "top secret cloud" is already happening.

  6. Developer's blog on Tiniest Linux COM Yet? · · Score: 2

    Here is a blog from the developer: http://vonger.cn/

    Judging from the entries this thing looks real enough

  7. Russia to Lithuania? on The Lithuanian Mob Was Smuggling Cigarettes Into Russia With a Drone · · Score: 1

    Umm, I'm pretty sure it has to be the other way around. Why would they smuggle cigarettes INTO Russia.... They are much cheaper there compared to Lithuania.....

    Unless of course this is another attempt at tarnishing the reputation of a country that is unfortunate enough to border Russia. They already claimed many of the key Maidan activists were prepared in special training camps in Lithuania, which seems unlikely.

  8. Map projections on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 1

    This is an interesting point actually. Different map projections really do affect the way countries (and especially big countries) look like on the map.

    Whether this should have an impact on how the Scottish view their potential independence I don't know....

  9. Mandarins on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1, Funny

    What the.....

  10. Makes sense on Virgin Galactic Now Taking Bitcoin For Suborbital Flights · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, that kind of makes sense since both Virgin Galactic and Bitcoin are something akin to vapour-ware... Full of promises but nothing substantial yet.

  11. Not new on How Your Coffee Table Could Pass Your Coffee · · Score: 2, Informative

    This isn't really anything new. Here's another example of similar technology by Festo used in materials handling/sorting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUx_0VN5PQ

  12. The most important features on Intel Launches 'Galileo,' an Arduino-Compatible Mini Computer · · Score: 2

    Ummmm, what about the most important features of the arduino: digital I/O pins, analog input and PWM output? It looks like there might be some in the picture, but the specs don't mention anything at all...

  13. Really? on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh, cmon. Is this reddit? Are we supposed to get the CCTV records and look through to try and identify the shooter?

    Sure this is front page news... But why on slashdot?

  14. Petrol on Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    Right.... And what are you going to do when this thing runs out of petrol 10 miles down the road...

  15. Hazardous environment on Robotic Bartender Programmed To Recognize When You Are Ready For a Drink · · Score: 2

    It is understandable that they want to automate the work of bar staff. After all they work in a very noisy, dirty and smelly environment, unsuitable for human workers.

  16. ROS on Robotics Research Lab Willow Garage Shutting Down? · · Score: 1

    ROS is a really good framework. And the best thing is that it's open-source so even if WG will go down ROS will continue to exist

  17. Re:Wow! on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    That's ok, nobody's going to click on them anyway.

  18. Solidarity on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think all his classmates should download the app, make similar videos and upload them to youtube just to show how ridiculous this is. They can't arrest them all.
    The guy is facing CRIMINAL CHARGES for fucks sake!

  19. 6 - 8 years? on OLPC Now Distributes Kid-Friendly Tablets, Not Just Notebooks (Video) · · Score: 1

    So they intend to replace 6 - 8 years worth of books with a tablet? How long are these cheapest of the cheap pieces of hardware actually last?

  20. Re:Oh noes! on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably none. But I don't think the picture is as dire as you paint it because the change from "driver" cars to driver-less cars isn't going to be instant. It's not like all truckers are gonna lose their jobs tomorrow or next years. It's gonna be a gradual process over the next ten or maybe twenty years.

  21. 50 ms? on Ask Slashdot: Low-Latency PS2/USB Gaming Keyboards? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Surely 50 ms is just human response time. I highly doubt a "low-latency keyboard" (even if such a thing exists) could improve your gaming performance...

  22. What about TV? on Microsoft To Add Ads To Smart Search · · Score: 1

    So people are complaining about MS putting ads into something that has been paid for by the customer. Understandable. Yet this same thing has been happening on TV and cinemas for years yet nobody seems to mind.....

  23. Pascal. on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 0

    Enough said.

  24. So the story is... on Apple Leaves Journalists Jonesing · · Score: 1

    ... there is no story.

  25. Try it first on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 4, Informative