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  1. Re:Awwww thats so cute on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    TV channels have been doing it for a while... You can watch our primetime content the day after it airs but you have to sit through commercials or some offer a subscription. I don't have a problem with this so long as the commercials are tasteful and not drive-by adware/malware type crap.

  2. Re:Smells like FUD on Ransomware Expected To Hit 'Lifesaving' Medical Devices In 2016 (forrester.com) · · Score: 1

    Still it's a valid point as far as risk vs payoff...

    easily infect 100k+ computers most of which will be used for entertainment many of which will never be reported to law enforcement or taken seriously if they are reported.

    or a more difficult to infect life preserving device where almost 100% will be reported immediately w/ every report taken seriously and every report intensifying the search for the perpetrator.

  3. Is this anything like the phenomenon where if there is a natural disaster the on location news crew finds the dumbest guy within 100 miles to put on the air.

  4. Re:CS Educators? on Despite $30M Tech Push, Half of US States Had Fewer Than 300 AP CS Test Takers · · Score: 1

    I've seen the same thing in Kansas, who ever they convince to teach their {MS Office} Computers class {social sciences teacher} has no training and is less knowledgeable than the students when it comes to technology.

    Don't get me started on how they no longer allow the students to do any experiments that with a Bunsen burner because insurance or budget.

  5. Re:Wow, slashdot editors can not RTFA on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    A F4 tornado in California would probably cause more damage because their cities probably aren't built with tornadoes in mind. They like to use natural obstacles that keep tornadoes from forming like rivers and bluffs.

  6. Re:They need online pickup to work at night on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 1

    I have two walmarts within a bout 20 minutes of my house one is bright, shiny, new, and exactly what they advertise with smiling employees ready to help, the other is dirty, old, and staffed with part time college and highschool students... Thankfully the nice one is closer.

  7. Re: brick and mortar is an assett on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 1

    I have two walmarts within 20 minutes of my house. One is much larger, clean, well stocked, and staffed with mostly adults the other is a much older building it's always dirty, right next to the college, never has what you are looking for, staffed mostly by distracted students both college and highschool.

  8. Re:Is it more or less than the market price? on Microsoft To Pay Up To $15K For Bugs In Two Visual Studio Tools (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    no clue but bounty is almost almost a million rubles

  9. Re:NIMBY on Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A new generator would not be that loud but they are cost prohibitive which is why they buy older well maintained equipment when possible. We had a new generator installed at one of our facilities you could stand outside next to it and have a conversation with out raising your voice the truck that delivered diesel to the underground tanks was actually louder.

  10. I was thinking this meant it would start giving me a please disable your add blocker or purchase a subscription message.

  11. Re:Programming is not a language on Facebook Launches Initiative To Attract More Minorities and Women To Coding (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    More like an applied art because sometimes there is no single right answer. Just because it compiles and works doesn't mean it couldn't have been done better or worse.

  12. Re:subterfuge on Despite Promises, China Still Targeting US Firms (crowdstrike.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean like a Nigerian Prince that needs your help and your bank account information?

  13. Re:Guns are the problem. on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Less dangerous? take away the gun and give them what a homemade pipe bomb or maltave cocktail I'm not seeing how this is less dangerous.

  14. Re:Guns are the problem. on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You may ask my mother she is here almost 30 years later because you can stop cancer from killing someone, if you are vigilant and screen regularly.

  15. Re:Guns are the problem. on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If your goal is to save lives then you should be focused on the big killer cancer. A ban of guns would afford little. Those that can't get a hold of an illegal gun to commit a crime will simply resort to the use of some other weapon, possibly something even more dangerous.

  16. Re:Please don't tell appliance makers on DARPA's ICARUS Program To Develop Self-Destructing Air Delivery Vehicles (darpa.mil) · · Score: 1

    That was probably the original plan... how can we make these fail the day after the warranty expires? The marketing department can claim a lifetime warranty if they only return the broken hardware we'll replace it. Then make it evaporate after a few months... nothing to return no warranty.

  17. Re:This is a whitewash on DARPA's ICARUS Program To Develop Self-Destructing Air Delivery Vehicles (darpa.mil) · · Score: 1

    you want to keep these aur vehicles cause they are valuable and incredibly useful.

    That is not a valid business plan the vehicle must be unrecoverable so that more will be purchased.

  18. Re:Democrats, not the "Electoral System" on Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    He'd get farther by using the cash to start blowing holes in the notion that the US must only have two parties.

    Sadly he would probably get farther using the cash to get people in a position to change things blown

  19. Re:No on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There was plenty of mention of credits used in the federation. The majority of stories take place aboard a star fleet ship or in a star fleet facility where the member of star fleet are provided for. It left me with the impression that there was an economy of some kind but that resources like power and clean water where provided even to those outside star fleet they still had businesses like bars and restaurants.

  20. Re:No it isn't on Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine · · Score: 1

    I've owned plenty of cars since 1984 prior to cell phones being common {within the past 15 years} I never had a car hit while parked I am now up to six times, three I know where texting and three hit and runs. One I believe was a drunk driver because it happened about 30 minutes after the bar closed and they drove across the neighbors lawn prior to hitting the car then backed up into the neighbors house. The other two happened during the day and I'm guessing they were texting.

    Plus a woman rear ending me at a stop sign while talking on the cell phone. She came up to my car window still on phone made sure I was ok and asked me not to call the police. She didn't notice the police car following her just before the accident happened or the officer standing behind her.

  21. Re:Huh? on Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine · · Score: 1

    (As an aside, how would you make out with your girlfriend (or whatever) in one of these things? Do younger people still do that or do they just fuck in their bedrooms? Did I miss it, again?)

    This happens over facetime or skype if your dirty.

  22. Re:Switching on LibreOffice Turns Five · · Score: 1

    LibreOffice does and so far it has worked well for me but the documents I have used are net very complex and where mostly text.

  23. Re:Need the ARC reactor on The Effort To Create an 'Iron Man' Type Exoskeleton · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given the unpredictability in a military or search and rescue situation a power source would be problematic. In an industrial situation a tethered power source might be more practical and allow the operator better precision in a more timely manner than remotely controlled.

  24. Re:There's an expression for that on Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The self-fulfilling prophecy would require the person to make the prediction about them self or have someone tell them of the prediction. It doesn't work if the police make the prediction and don't tell you about it.

  25. Re:Color me shocked on Google DeepMind's AI Beats Humans At Even More Computer Games · · Score: 1

    Here is the thing if every company has learning AI doing all the work and nobody has a job anymore who the heck is going to buy the companies products and services?