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  1. Re:Tell us where the bodies are buried on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2
    Actually, it's reported that he claims not to know the password.

    "...Rawls has a clean record and doesn’t know the passwords prosecutors are looking for, the defense argues" (http://gizmodo.com/child-porn-suspect-held-in-solitary-for-7-months-for-no-1773403443)

  2. Assuming we are the only intelligence in our universe capable of running simulations...

  3. Re:It is literally a god argumet on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is A Simulation (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the same. What Tyson has done is to present a hypothesis based on the observation that we run many simulations of things and have only one universe, so the odds are against our universe being the real one. It's not an argument, it's an observation.

  4. So all those untestable bits of quantum mechanics aren't science either?

    Tyson has put forth an interesting hypothesis based on observable phenomenon (that there are more simulations then realities). It's an interesting hypothesis. While there may be no way to test it and move the idea forward, it's still interesting and still science.

  5. Re: Let's just get the makers vs takers out of th on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    I don't think rents would move down at all under this system.
    In my area at least one of the driving factors of rental prices is property tax. If the Gov't has a tremendous additional burden of paying for everyone where will that money come from? They would likely have to step up every tax at their disposal.

  6. In related news on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    My research shows that people who perform or bring up a study about someone who corrects them being a jerk are jerks.

  7. Japanese galaxy porn is the worst anyway, since they will censor the best parts.

  8. A brilliant plan on Volcano Erupts In Southwest Alaska, Sending Ash 20,000 Feet (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoever figured out how to train a volcano to erupt in a pavlovian style just saved the world. That ash will lower global temperature and fight warming!

  9. Re: Wait...what? on Infamous French Hacker Calls Internet a "Digital Shantytown" (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It threw me a little too. The metaphore is about building on land you don't own. The post is about not owning the content you post on social media sites. That's my interpretation, at least.

  10. Re:And PI == 3 on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, PI == 8. There are always 8 slices in a PI. You don't have the authority to tell me otherwise.

  11. Re:Mobile bug on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Also, bring UID to mobile.

  12. Mobile bug on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see the comment filter work under safari. I got sick of seeing hundreds of posts replaced with a message that the post is below my filter value or whatever it said.

  13. John Markoff on Will Advanced AI Spell the End of Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    Isn't he Chekov's little brother?

  14. I you mean where the audience throws bread and shouts while the movie goes on unchanged? That's a great analogy.

  15. Breaking News... on Pwnd Aethra Routers Used To Brute-Force WordPress Sites (voidsec.com) · · Score: 0

    Shodan search results mistakenly selected as Slashdot article for fourth time in a single month. Details at eleven.

  16. Musk be a good idea on Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even with all the lying and dishonesty from VW, I'd still expect them to do a better job at making something useful out of that money then our government.

  17. War on Privacy on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is privacy such an enemy of the state now that they have to push it through in the budget bill? Why is ramming this through such a high priority for the Senate? Privacy used to be a second class issue. It hurts to watch our interests be so blatantly ignored by our governing body.

  18. First month free on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you ever might want to own a drown in the future, go register a few dozen times now and stock up your licenses. Save you $5 on every drone.

  19. He thought he was selling the truck ASIS

  20. Is advertising enabled on the video? on Czech Judge Cuts Deal With Software Pirate: Get 200K YouTube Views Or Pay Huge Fine · · Score: 1

    I hope he has ads set up with youtube. I'd love for him to make a few thousand dollars and cover his defense costs.

  21. Re:Smearing? on Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They care a great deal about what the constitution says. The problem is that they don't seem to care what the constitution means.

  22. Re:I'd be wary of Musk, too on Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Heating poor people?

  23. Re: What is this, click bait? on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's redundant.

  24. Re:Kill it with fire! on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I saw that too. Didn't Trump list that among his assets in how he justified his claim that he's a billionaire? "head - 100M"

  25. Re: Oh great on Cryptographers Brace For Quantum Revolution · · Score: 1

    Not me, I'll use $22222222222222222222222$