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  1. That's it on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 2

    I'm gong back to tulips!

  2. Waiting for the reaction on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 0

    When China says go ahead, that's a great idea to militarize space, and we might just build one ourselves. Thanks for opening the door Ted.

  3. Re:Trump 2016!!! on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why Bill went to Monica.

  4. Re: And by that he means on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess you haven't seen one of the televised debates lately.

  5. Re:Spoiler: Clinton doesn't like encryption on Amazon Just Removed Encryption From the Software Powering Kindles, Smartphones, Tablets (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    He's raised about $7.5M and has a couple of donate buttons on his site.

  6. Re:This guy over here.... on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    It's time you left the basement and started interacting with some real people. Non-technical people have always confused the two and some technical people have also.

  7. Re: yes they should on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't had the need to try it before but doesn't the phone need to be unlocked for that to work?

  8. Re:too much speed on ITU Give Consent To New 40Gbps Fiber-to-the-Home Broadband Standard · · Score: 1

    At least in Europe, generally speaking, houses are built much closer together than they are in North America so it's cheaper to roll out fibre.

  9. Re:So instead of fixing the problem... on Microsoft Brings Post-Breach Detection To Windows 10 (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't make money selling another product or service if you fix the symptom.

  10. Re:That's not the app's fault on Israeli Troops Who Relied On Waze Blundered Into Deadly Palestinian Firefight (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Especially since they had to go past a check point to get into the area.

  11. Re:The Angry Mob on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of people know that something is wrong but they don't know what. The problem is that they grasp onto the person that tells them the easy answers and that everything will be alright. It's always happened that way and probably always will. Obama came along and said 'Yes we can." In Canada Harper had easy answers and was in power for a long time (shudder). And now Trump is coming along telling people he has the easy answers to make the US great again. People like easy answers, especially when they don't have to do anything.

  12. Re:The kryptonite of slashdot groupthink on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    See what it gets you in Vancouver or Toronto.

  13. Re:Seems reasonable on Japanese Court Demands 'Right To Be Forgotten' For Sex Offender (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    While I agree with you it has nothing to do with the article. The person as asking for search results to be removed from Google so that when you searched for their name you wouldn't see newspaper articles dealing with the case.

    I have a difficult time with these right to be forgotten laws. First because they are really make it more difficult to find laws as the information (articles, data, etc) still exists. It's just certain search engines have the links removed. Secondly the option isn't open to everyone. Only certain jurisdictions have this or only allow it in specific cases. Or you need a lawyer and go to court so you need to have money.

    I would rather see the search engines modify the results so that if someone is acquitted or found not guilty then those results must show up before reports of the arrest. At least one of those links would show up even if you are searching for the arrest to indicate that the person isn't guilty. A person would submit link(s) to the search engines of the reports indicating their innocence and it would be vetted in a similar manner as the right to be forgotten requests are handled today.

    If a person has been found guilty in a court of law, like the person in this case has, well then that's just too bad. Probably shouldn't have done the crime. Yes it will make life more difficult.

    The problem with letting people have this right to be forgotten is that it starts a censorship and once you start something like that, even for good intentions with one person, it can be misused.

  14. Re:Duh... on New Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 2

    Of course. The military won't believe anything that hasn't been stated by a high level official report costing $10s of millions.

  15. Re:Don't they know that guns don't kill people? on New Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 2

    So an autonomous gun wouldn't kill anyone?

  16. Pushed out for everyone on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So when is this going to get pushed out for everyone?

  17. Re:I offered quite a lot of feedback from Windows on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    To be fair just because a bug is a big issue for you doesn't mean that it rated high on the list of bugs/changes to be processed for release. If I have a bug that causes crashes or that a 1,000 people reported I'm going to work on that before something that 25 people report that doesn't cause crashes.

  18. Re:"download the decryption key from the internet" on Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And don't forget that they'll still make you sit through the FBI warning and previews that you can't forward through despite the fact that you bought the movie.

  19. What the heck is a penny?

  20. Re: Then he's doing it wrong. on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That would explain so much.

  21. Re:Then he's doing it wrong. on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Statistics works by inferring things about populations by using a random sample that accurately resembles the population and has the appropriate size. I can definitely say that using a bunch of super Jupiters and super Earths that orbit very closely to their stars is not an accurate sample representation. As to the sample size I no longer have the math skills to work that out as it's been over 25 years since I've taken those courses in university. However I have a feeling that approximately 2,000 planets wouldn't be a big enough sample size for the number of planets in the 100s of billions of galaxies, each with 100s of billions of stars on average. Especially so since we know that the planets in our solar system aren't even represented in the ones we've found outside of our solar system. That right there is going to skew the model into producing star systems that won't produce life.

  22. What's going to keep the lasers in place? on Sorry, But Lasers Aren't Taking You To Mars Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    If it ever got to the point in which they tried to moved a vessel that contained people or a cargo shipment the amount of force leaving the lasers would be very great, especially when trying to accelerate the vessel at greater distances. So they would need to install the lasers on a very large mass or us some sort of engine to maintain the position of the lasers. At that point why not just put the engines on the vessel and skip the transformation of energy.

  23. Re:Who is still using mag stripes on ATM cards? on To Secure ATM Transactions: Ditch the Card (securityledger.com) · · Score: 2

    Canada has had chips on the bank cards for quite a while too. Not as long as Europe but probably around a decade.

  24. Re:Power grab by the big boys on Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Other Tech Companies Form New IoT Alliance (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Until your neighbour opens up a guest WiFi network without a password and then you have to be careful with what you say in front of your Samsung TV and fridge.

  25. Re:Ya-who? on Yahoo Closes Lab, Among Other Things (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Their weather app for the iPhone is pretty nice. I don't like the layout for the iPad though.