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  1. Re:Forget the lock on TSA Luggage Lock Master Keys Are Compromised · · Score: 1

    Locks simply mean you don't want to be inconvenienced by stuff being stolen.
    Its not a hard concept to understand.
    Clean clothes, shampoo, maybe a towel. It does not need to be more than that.

  2. Re:Very easy to get rid of... apk on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    So does turning off any of those brick SD card reading? Just curious.

  3. Re:I don't want a fucking TV channel! on Netflix Is Becoming Just Another TV Channel · · Score: 1

    BitTorrent isn't good for discovery. Bittorrent will only get you what you know is.
    Half the magic of Netflix is that you get more.
    The downside is that their current is slim, and their outside of USA content is..... quite horrible.

  4. Re:Lock them in trucks? on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    So what are we looking ideally?
    1. Chip that is compatible with Electronic toll collection used in EU(Autopass, etc) just for tracking
    2. Plant it on them, with identification
    3. Do nothing really, except enjoy statistics and maps

  5. Re:7 and 8 too on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    Do which one of those is needed to read SD cards? One of them is.

  6. Re:Ecosystems are *Really* *Hard* on Mars One CEO Insists, Our Mars Colonization Plan Is Feasible · · Score: 1

    >We don't know how to make real dirt on mars
    Bones, waste, excrements, and waste products. Buried and flipped. Maybe some bacteria.
    That isn't the issue. The issue will be how many years it will take to get the unfertile mars land into something fertile, and how good that dirt will be for growing stuff.

    The other pitfall is that we are growing a new microbiological sphere. Which means we can fuck it up really really bad, meaning that the bacteria isn't good for human life.

  7. Re:Bike lanes on Breathalyzer Bike Lock Stops Drunken Cyclists In Their Tracks · · Score: 1

    Shut up John, you are drunk. Sidewalks are better and wider.
    And its how it goes, in Scandinavia.

  8. Re:And this is a big problem WHERE? on Breathalyzer Bike Lock Stops Drunken Cyclists In Their Tracks · · Score: 1

    And thats a nice thing.
    So you got:
    1. Bikers already in a separate lane
    2. You can't accidentally hit the assholes
    This creates greatness. Even if tight suit commuters are assholes.

  9. Re:Back to stone age food? on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Maize is Maize.
    Corn is Maize, Wheat, Rye and tons of other products.
    And its a awful per language confusion.

  10. Re:Shit wins awards on Windows 10 Start Menu Wins IDSA Design Award · · Score: 1

    What makes the Dualshock 2 a bad controller, is 3 issues:
    1. The shell is designed for a stickless version, and the grip is as well. This means you can never get a good grip on it, because the handles are non existing, and there is nothing to wrap your hand around
    2. The PS1 dualshock controller had extended handles, because adding analogs did take up valueable grip space. The extended handles was lost in all successive versions
    3. And there is minor wear/tech problems on it. Notable faults includes the deadzone setup(you breach the resistance on the sticks long before you even reach the deadzone, making sniper segments in most games painful), analog buttons with no indication thats a thing(and only a few games, like Metal Gear Solid 3, uses them), the dpad is prone to wrong input after some wear(i.e Forward because diagonal up forward)

    That said, there exists worse controllers out there, but its not a good controller setup.

  11. Re:Most global diseases involve energy and water on Why Bill Gates Is Dumping Another $1 Billion Into Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    The problem is that "healthy" does not mean "peak human free of diseases", it just means "somebody who is not crippled".
    In a really shit country, you get a disease, are crippled while having the disease, and die if its bad enough.
    In a western country, you get a disease, are crippled if the disease is bad, and rarely die.
    The rest of the population stays healthy, and small things like coughing, cold, and lower height isn't that relevant.

    What is hilarious is also that the since quality metal weapons existed, the limitation for a army is never man power, but supplies. Especially more so once you realize only a soldato in quasi modern full gear is useful. Somebody with a makeshift pitchwork isn't useful, when the other guy got armor for most of his bodyparts and is arrow resistant.
    For modern combat its even more so, since your limitation is the amount of missiles you got, and the AK is still a good gun.

  12. Re:Here's a thought: Just freeze the project on Battle For Wesnoth Seeks New Developers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No.
    Lets say you make a module.
    You finish it.
    And you rid it of bugs.
    After a few months, when you don't really care about that project, a update arrives.
    The update breaks the scripting language, and you get angry or scared eposts about your module. They want it to work on new and shiny.
    So you fix it....

    How many times do you repeat fixing it, before you get tired of fixing it?
    I expect projects like Libretro, a frontend for Emulators, to eventually reach this point. Where at some point, people will only contribute ports to stable, and only towards the next stable if the emulator is still alive.
    And I am honestly not sure what projects will compare.

  13. Re:Not that Useful on Firefox Will Soon Show You Which Tabs Are Making Noise, and Let You Mute Them · · Score: 0

    But what if your webpage wants special background noise for a occasion?
    I know 4chan occasionally has done this, on various boards, to celebrate events or just to troll people. /a/ have had M. D. Geist theme running for a few days, a honking variant of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and many more. /v/ had some of the Earthbound themes running after Iwata died, for at the least 3 days.

    I agree background noise serves no purpose for most websites, since they are basically read only static pages. But there are exceptions, and by making it "click to play", most users will never spot it.

  14. Re:i haven't bought a car in a while... on When Do Robocars Become Cheaper Than Standard Cars? · · Score: 1

    I am not sure I agree. For one, you might have all your friends inside a neighborhood in that city.
    You might even have most of your grandchildren inside that neighborhood.

    Now... if you just live somewhere random, where you need to car to get to friends and work, than i agree.

  15. Re:Good for greece on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    Hear hear?

  16. Re:So what on Depression: The Secret Struggle Startup Founders Won't Talk About · · Score: 1

    > there's a chance that they'll have grown up and gathered enough coping strategies and reprogrammed their own behaviour enough that they're almost indistinguishable
    Read that again, you wrote it, there is a special word there: CHANCE
    The reality is that most never learn to cope, they only learn to cope partially.
    So instead of having social peers to interact with, you have issues. And thats really bad.
    It also means you stunt your social growth by years, if you ever recover.

  17. For the unfamiliar and the confused on NASA To Waste $150 Million On SLS Engine That Will Be Used Once · · Score: 2

    So what is the article objectively stating?
    Propaganda against NASA?
    For free libre whatever for something?
    Mismanagement of funds?
    The normal forgetting of that 150 millions is a drop in a bucket for a large enough corp?
    I am just curious.

    Also:
    >plans to spend $150 million human-rating a rocket engine it will only use once
    Why is this a bad thing? Its how prototyping works. Some years down the line, they might want a version 2 for something else.

  18. Re:fully half baked on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 1

    I ask the same. I am genuinely curious.

  19. Re:Yes, but please don't end all alternative medic on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 1

    There is also Chiropractic, which is a weird field because its:
    1. The theory
    2. Study of stance of a human, and how to do it wrong
    3. Massage
    4. Overlap with Osteopathy due massage and stance

  20. But thats wrong.
    Assuming you get signal on 5G, what would the MINIMUM bandwith you get be?
    Thats important information, because otherwise we might as well build long 2G for phones.

  21. Re:I would LOVE to see it ran against me! on New Test Could Reveal Every Virus That's Ever Infected You · · Score: 1

    Black Death?

  22. Re:What about severe lag? on Florida Hospital Shows Normal Internet Lag Time Won't Affect Remote Robotic Surgeries · · Score: 1

    Does packet drop actually exists in the wild? Outside of noise over long distances? In the normal world? That is my question to that.
    Packet loss means whoever is between A and B, is fucking up. Somewhere.
    Be it having wireless transfer somewhere on the backbone, faulty infrastructure, or destroyed wires. I don't think Packet Loss and "loss of Connection" actually exists in the actual wild.
    Add in 3-4 extra paths for packages, and we might got something robust.

  23. Re:Sure... on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 1

    Every year there is flodding. Every year people are confused over the fact they got houses in a flood area?
    Not really.
    They choose to love where the flood comes
    They should accept it? Right?
    To some extent.
    I know that work and social life is limited to where those are. So I know a lot of people moved somewhere for one of those 2, they didn't choose to live in a flooded area.
    Still doesn't change the fact they could have moved uphill.

  24. Re:Probably the Oxford Electric Bell on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that just powered by the magnet field?

  25. Re:What is a homicide? on Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places · · Score: 1

    You mean doing research and then fixing your numbers?