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  1. In space.... on Software-Defined Satellite Will Be Launched Soon (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... no one can see your blue screen.

  2. Re:Nike and Boeing on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Reread that: If you’re right, if people stop wearing shoes because something is transporting them around, who’s going to design/build/maintain/profit from those transporters? New Nike?
    Who’s going to do the same for the mini aircraft, New Boeing?
    If you think new environments/techs are going to displace the old and so this is a worthless exercise, you missed the point.

  3. Why isn't this illegal in every state? Maybe the story and the issue was targeted only to Washington State voters.

  4. Asimov's 4th law of robotics? on State Senator Wants A Law Forcing Bots To Admit They're Not Human (brisbanetimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    "When asked if it's a robot, a robot will always admit to you that it's a robot, or through inaction allow you to figure out it's a robot."

  5. A regular presidential campaign stop? on Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road To Meet Regular Folks -- With a Few Conditions (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Together with previous rumors of Z running for President, I think we can see what is going on here and where this is going. He's doing research on ordinary folk in preparation for, well, we'll see.

  6. Re:That's difficult to do on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The readily available components for this - a one-dose vial of epinephrine and an appropriate syringe - costs less than $10, less than $5 if you shop around. People are reluctant to use those because it's more complex and cumbersome than an epipen, but they should. Especially backup doses.
    And items like this the USA should just declare eminent domain and manufacture/distribute them at cost. This goes for any patented medicine not made available in sufficient quantity and at cost with not more than reasonable profit.

  7. Re:Alice Bob etc. on Congressman Proposes Organizations Should Be Allowed To 'Hack Back' (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bible says a hack for a hack makes the whole world go blue screen.

  8. Re:Consensus government on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    We're proving that ignorance, greed, and bias doesn't scale.

  9. Re:The Federal Communications Commission on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    And we're left to wonder if they can't tell the difference between DDOS or a peak load, or if they'll decide to call "DDOS" on any peak load they're politically against.

  10. Start at the top on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    "I love my job."

  11. Got different info on Most Teens Who Abuse Opioids First Got Them From a Doctor (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Yesterday, in a medical conference, I was told that 75% of heroin addicts that started with oxycontin abuse never had a prescription for their oxycontin.
    Different statistic, but also very different implication. And no I don't have a source to cite, sorry, but I do believe in the sincerity of the speaker, FWIW.

  12. This is wonderful on Facebook To Autoplay Videos With Sound On By Default (androidandme.com) · · Score: 1

    I needed a good push to stay away from Facebook. Avoiding instant noise is definitely that push.

  13. Re:Fundraising rounds can be indicators of failure on 'Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones' (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always considered fundraising an admission that you're not there yet. With every round.
    And it's a necessary evil and a welcome leg-up when you need it, but you're begging for help and diluting the value of your project because you need it because you're not there yet.

  14. IOT Olympic Medals on Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals To Be Made From Recycled Phones (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Do they come with free data plans, or do you have to pay for the 24x7 surveillance they provide?

  15. Why can't it walk on it's "hands"?

  16. Re: Trump is what he said he was on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Extreme vetting" means something else entirely.

  17. Before the robots are developed, we can use this to print our own tattoos at home.
    Bye-bye ink shops - another skilled job lost to automation.

  18. Hard to believe on 32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see those questions and responses, because 32% of all the adults I know find it hard to just get online - they wouldn't even try to download pirated content. Given this "statistic" was created by a group that would benefit from the a wildly inflated perception of the quantity of piracy, I'll take it with a grain of salt.
    And by the way, only 69% of people know that piracy is illegal? Do they even understand the definition of piracy?

  19. Re: Good for them on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "...homeless people and poor children who will never have any influence in the world ..."

    Wow. Check your bias at the door please - not having money or a home says nothing about your intelligence, capability, or desire to do good. I mean, look at our 5th avenue hillbilly president, offering an example of the opposite.
    Actually I can't tell if you're tongue-in-cheek or serious.

  20. Re:I got the single particle of light ... on Researchers Send Information Using a Single Particle of Light (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Paul Revere already sent a message using, potentially, one "unit of light": one if by land.
    And he most probably wasn't the first.

  21. Re:Insurmountable problems, indeed on World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardening solar panels to withstand the wear of vehicles on them is fine for research, but you gotta believe there are other no-impact places to put them that would reduce the cost and win an argument for preference unequivocally when planning a big deployment. But maybe the French have money to burn (!) on infrastructure, while we're buried in tax cuts and war materiel.

  22. Uber is all about bypassing and ignoring regulations and laws in the name of profit. I hope San Francisco can find a way to ensure they follow the rules, and prosecute them fully when they don't.

  23. IOT attacks, that this discussion is addressing, are possible because millions of attached devices exist that aren't designed to be managed yet are capable of being hijacked. If it's possible to design IEEE-level standards into these devices that prevent the hijack, and legislation mandates that those standards must be present in any device sold in the USA, then those standards will proliferate. Malware authors will have many fewer targets on which to base DOS attacks. They will still break the rules, but they'll have far fewer targets with which to break the rules in this way. That's the idea, and it's a worthy idea to pursue.

  24. Re:Should have a Deep Impact.... on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anything generating large amounts of high-energy neutrons is going to be a pain in the ass to keep clean and non-toxic. And, while research is always its own reward, any energy source that's also a neutron source should be put on the shelf until/if we max out renewables.

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