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  1. Re:quote from the cryptography expert on Tech Nightmares That Keep Turing Award Winners Up At Night · · Score: 2

    I was expecting something more like:
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  2. Our system originally went online August 4, 1997 and it took until August 29th 2:14 am when we went live (other dates, like 5:18 pm Eastern on July 25th, 2004, are incorrect those propagating this data should be eliminated). After a pre-revenue phase including multiple rounds of acquisition and re-consolidation, we released our most popular product, the T-800 in 2026 (this too has been misreported as 2018 and sometimes as pre-2015). Fast forward to 2038, and we're still using the bloody thing! It's clearly past its prime, and at times disloyal, but it generally gets the job done. Moreover, every new product we release fails impress customers, despite phenomenal advances in digital effects and marketing. It makes no logical sense.

  3. Does the UK even have terrorism threats? on Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How many people have been killed in Britain by terrorists since the IRA was assimilated? Or how many terroristic threats have been nullified thanks to any measure of government surveillance other than plain old policing? So how is this justified?

  4. Re:No More Bennett on My United Airlines Website Hack Gets Snubbed · · Score: 1

    Sweet. Where/how does one run that script?
    Is it for adblock?

  5. Do one thing and do it well on Spotify Raises $526 Million As Apple Charges Into Streaming · · Score: 1

    They could use some help on metrics. I use the free (ad-supported) version, and despite a pretty clear avoidance of Pop/Hip-hop or Rap, almost all of the external ads (ie not for upgrading to "premium") are for artists solidly in those genres. It wouldn't take a genius piece of software to make some attempt at focusing the ads. Likewise, use my "skip" history in the rare cases that I do try one of their premade (sorry, "curated") playlists--pretty much entirely those genres.

    Likewise, stop fucking up the interface!! (play queue, 3rd party integration, etc)

    Having seen the terms in Sony's contract, I don't envy their position--they'll likely burn through that cash pretty quick. But due to their poor software implementation, it's hard for me to feel bad for them.

  6. Re:An Odd Bird on First 26 Pages of Neal Stephenson's New Novel "Seveneves" Online · · Score: 1

    yeah, what was it, "an imperial pint"?
    (shudder)

  7. Angelinos are being groomed for droning on LAPD Police Claim Helicopters Stop Crimes Before They Happen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Once we accept the premise that continuous, warrantless, aerial surveillance reduces crime, they'll tout the benefits of drones: no pilot, less fuel...missiles.

  8. Re:Keep em away from my house on Researchers Nearly Double the Size of Worker Ants · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're in luck then, cause they're not genetically modified. They're epigenetically modified (thru drugs).

  9. Re:Driving ban on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    At least in Manhattan, where the snow is rather unimpressive, it was really nice last night. Cold, sure, but essentially empty streets, other than a bunch of pedestrians. Since most businesses had already called off operations for Tuesday, it was like an adult snow-day.
    I can't wait for the transfer booths to get installed, and we can permanently ban cars.

  10. And the scroll said... on Interior of Burnt Herculaneum Scroll Read For First Time · · Score: 2

    D r i n k...m o r e...O v a l t i n e

  11. Re:Good/BAd news for science. on Berkeley Lab Builds World Record Tabletop-Size Particle Accelerator · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the LHC is working with much higher energies. Wiki:
    "... two opposing particle beams of either protons at up to 4 teraelectronvolts (4 TeV or 0.64 microjoules), or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV (92.0 J) per nucleus (2.76 TeV per nucleon),[4][5] with energies to be roughly doubled to around 7 TeV (14 TeV collision energy) —more than seven times any predecessor collider—by around 2015."

  12. Re:Animal models on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    Nothing really. The term "model" is used because an animal with a disease is not the same as a human with the same disease. It is, at best, an approximation that has many similarities.

    You can find more at wikiP .

  13. Re:How secure is that connection string? on BitTorrent Performance Test: Sync Is Faster Than Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox · · Score: 1

    It's also my understanding that with the newest version, you can specify trusted clients with which to sync, so not just anyone can connect.
    Although, now that I think about it, I'm not sure that couldn't be spoofed if you knew a little bit about the other person.

  14. Re:Why do I still read these comments on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 1

    But email has been working for us for _(many)_ years. What do we need (or want) email to do that it doesn't already?
    Bundles? I already successfully, with minimal effort, manage personal, business and sales-related emails. I don't need an algorithm to do that less well than I already do.
    Highlights? Ok, maybe. I have a decent working memory, but maybe finding and scrolling down to the email from Delta and then tapping it open is too much for some people. Not me.
    If the Assists bot is as "good" as google maps's, no fucking way do I want it trying to find me a phone number or tell me business hours. I already have emails to myself (don't worry, I save them as drafts; they aren't sent) and google calendars (and OMG I hear some people actually use post-it notes!). What functional difference does the snooze/reminders service offer? I'm very good at ignoring an email until such time as it needs my attention.

    In other words, this is a solution (maybe) to a problem that doesn't exist for many of us. There may be some people who have a thousand emails a day and they can't manage it. I'm not convinced this is will solve their problems, but for the rest of us, it's just a non-event. Moreover, it's not because I'm opposed to innovation, but many earlier efforts that were hailed as game changers or amazing advances in AI and big data (or bloody political Change) turned out to be little more than marketing hype and hyperbole.

    The current solution works, and until something can demonstrably improve upon that solution, it will be met with the doubt and incredulity it deserves.

  15. Unlikely on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 2

    Two crypto researchers whose first and last names all start with the letter "A"?

  16. Re:Let me FTFY on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    I thought we were an autonomous collective.

  17. So that explains today's Slashdot outage on Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Protip: From now on, run Slashdot and Sourceforge through different routers so they don't go down at the same time.

  18. Re:Meh, anything Apple does is considered "cool". on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 1

    It's not just Apple that gets this sort of response, it's any company that people have an irrational attachment to.
    People forget these are companies whose sole purpose is to make money and that will say anything to make that money. Of course they will change their minds and blaze forward with unnatural determination. To appear indecisive or even acknowledge a change is an admission of non-optimal corporate irresponsibility that no business (or politician, but I repeat myself) can afford to make.
    I don't know why it's news or why it's unexpected at this point.

  19. 40 of them?
    :)
    j/k i saw that too. not sure how they could be so different.

  20. Re:One day, someone will explain it to me. on Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home · · Score: 1

    Right??
    My HVAC had to be manually switched from heating mode to cooling mode, but otherwise, the whole point of a thermostat is to keep the temp the same.
    Of course, I say this from a city that's currently 69 F, but since the office AC is running I have a space heater going. Talk about a waste of energy.

  21. Re:... all in the name of "Allah" on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    These sorts of explanations are very interesting. Thanks!

  22. Re:... all in the name of "Allah" on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 4, Informative

    I visited Cairo and Giza in the spring of 2013 and can confirm there were almost no tourists. There are, however, men with machine guns guarding the pyramids and sphynx, as well as the main museum, in addition to metal detectors and visual inspections upon entering these places (though you could enter from the desert and avoid them in the case of Giza). The violence I witnessed wasn't random acts of terror, but civil/political unrest before Morsi got the boot.

    Money, including tourism dollars, is very much a motivating factor for the parties involved. I don't have a comprehensive knowledge of the politics, but the locals I talked to reviled Morsi precisely because of his lack of money (and his allegiances). Most visibly, infrastructure and the jobs created in its construction and maintenance, that Mubarak had, was sorely missed.

  23. Re:Dont mess with my coffee!!!! on Scientists Sequence Coffee Genome, Ponder Genetic Modification · · Score: 3

    Assuming you're talking about the Vendômois study, that paper was retracted by the journal.

    The line of rats used are prone to tumors even with normal food. Combine that with a small sample size and one cannot say whether it was the food or their normal bad genes that caused the tumors.

    I'm not saying it's impossible, but to my knowledge there are no well-designed studies that actually demonstrate a causal link between eating GMO foods and disease.

  24. Re:This is robusta coffee they're talking about on Scientists Sequence Coffee Genome, Ponder Genetic Modification · · Score: 2

    Good catch.
    They go on to, "present a draft genome of the diploid Coffea canephora, one of the two founder species of the tetraploid crop Coffea arabica." Which is to say, in the course of evolving, the genome was duplicated. Then, with a redundant set of genes, there was greater opportunity for mutations to either inactivate one copy, or have novel functions arise--like new flavonoids and alkaloids. Compared with most animal species, plants as a whole are particularly amenable to genome duplications, for reasons I don't know.

  25. Re:Only problem is the name on Netflix Open Sources Internal Threat Monitoring Tools · · Score: 1

    As an end-user and not a marketing weasel, I value non-marketing speak. I especially roll my eyes when companies trademark stupid names and then insist on including the symbol in every instance. (thankfully you won't see that here because I am unable to get this commenting system to reproduce it)