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  1. Re:Slashdotters still the same old on MIT Reveals "Hack-Proof" RFID Chip (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems even if Slashdot is having a new owner, the Slashdotters are still the same old. Why bothering reading and trying to understand the f... article when you can comment and brag so easily and call everything bullshit?

    "Hack-proof" to SIDE CHANNEL attacks.

    If there's been no shift in the fabric of the universe, your first reporting of the article should lead to you being modded informative.

    There's a reason they don't say fireproof or foolproof any more. In both cases, whenever a proof is realized in the laboratory, nature evolves a greater fool.

  2. Re:He's just trying to win the Primary on Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance (nationaljournal.com) · · Score: 1
    Marco Rubio's center is the mean voter in his election. I don't wish to rehash the argument of the American center vs. the European center. Of course, they are two different things.

    Rubio needs the conservative wing of his party to win the Republican nomination, as all pretenders to the throne have for several election cycles.

    After receiving the nomination Marco has to gravitate back toward his voter bases' center to win the non-partisan independent voters who often decide the election.

  3. He's just trying to win the Primary on Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance (nationaljournal.com) · · Score: 2

    Mario will come back to the center once he gets the nomination. Career politician.

  4. Re:This is amazing, but on Cheap At $40,000: Phoenix Exoskeleton Gives Paraplegics Legs to Walk With · · Score: 1
    Yes. This is where developers will eventually be able monetize these products.

    Military injuries and a longer life expectancy are leading us toward a population of ready customers.

    The problem is still the pricing.

  5. Re:$40K still a lot for most folks on Cheap At $40,000: Phoenix Exoskeleton Gives Paraplegics Legs to Walk With · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a medical device, which means that for most people, the cost should be covered to some extent by insurance, like wheelchairs.

    In the US, even if you had a good job with health insurance, there is a great chance your private insurance is gone by the time you're rolling around in the chair.

    Now you're on Medicaid, and at the whim of the regulators as to whether you need something better than your chair. Experimental? Denied!

  6. $40K still a lot for most folks on Cheap At $40,000: Phoenix Exoskeleton Gives Paraplegics Legs to Walk With · · Score: 2
    Normally, the cost would continue to come down as more of these are manufactured, and in some cases when the R & D costs are recouped. ($100 VCR movie.)

    In this instance, it matters how large the target market is... hmmm, larger than I would've guessed.

    This 3D printing thing is really paying off. I hope to never need this technology's services, but it is really cool that there are folks working to improve it.

  7. Re:Another benefit of low crude pricing on Russia Begins Work On a Lunar Lander (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    The sooner we cease petty tribal conflicts here on earth, the sooner we can get on with hating life forms on other worlds.

    There are no life forms from other worlds that we will ever have to directly deal with. We know there is nothing within our solar system that is any danger to us. Interstellar space is too large and too hostile to life to make transport possible for any kind of life to get here or for us to get there, ever. So, your wish will never come to be.... Maybe we can stop hating, but I seriously doubt we are up to that.

    Come on. We could stop hating instantly.

    We would simply have to give in to our innate sense of fairness and develop the ability to utilize our empathy skillset.

  8. Re:Thanks for abusing the service on Storing Very Large Files On Amazon's Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage · · Score: 2

    Yes. Millions of Slashdotters are literally shutting down internet communication as we know it while spreading the news... and eating hot grits off'n the Portman.

  9. Re:This is why on Storing Very Large Files On Amazon's Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage · · Score: 1
    I said that today in our local purveyor of news print.

    Somehow, our city had run Uber out of town, so that we can now be delivered here, but not from here.

    This is the adult world scenario where one guy asses it up for all the guys.

    Oblig: Yes. In this statistical example, girls are guys, too.

  10. Re:Another benefit of low crude pricing on Russia Begins Work On a Lunar Lander (examiner.com) · · Score: 0
    I think you're onto something, but the Chinese are going to play and partner with the Americans, and by extension Western Europe.

    Trade with the Australians is virtually guaranteed by the ChAFTA treaty, but the Russians are too crooked even for the Chinese Industrialists. Expansion goes West.

    Nope. The two biggest economies stay that way in a mutually beneficial arrangement. Edward's destination would not be the 1st choice of very many who might be described by the prefix "sino-"

  11. Another benefit of low crude pricing on Russia Begins Work On a Lunar Lander (examiner.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It's important to Russia to matter. Putin's goal is to continue to advance the self worth of a nation on its heels from the dissolution of a superpower.

    This is good, because it opens up opportunities for cooperation with the proud Russian people that might not have existed at 80 Euro oil.

    The sooner we cease petty tribal conflicts here on earth, the sooner we can get on with hating life forms on other worlds.

  12. Re:The moderationg system needs an overhaul. on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Clever. Heh heh... I hope you're mistaken, but I can't deny the theory out of hand.

  13. I'm all for all the allies I can get and Mah faither's fowk come frae Scootlund.

  14. Idealogical bias is allowed, of course, and typically it is ubiquitous. Truth is not.

    GP was shown to have exaggerated one debate point, and so we must at least consider the possibility other debate points are suspect.

  15. Re:will obama etc be 'rendered' to a tourture camp on Journalist Claims Secret US Flight 'To Capture Snowden' Overflew Scottish Airspace (thenational.scot) · · Score: 1
    Teddy Cruz as Little Nicky?

    "The Prince of Darkness should have a sort of distinguished look to him, and let's face facts, I'm no George Clooney."

    That you, Adam?

  16. Re:The moderationg system needs an overhaul. on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1
    Heh heh... ironically, /. has continued not because of its own excellence, but because of the utter lack of excellence elsewhere.

    The grass may look greener, but the lines ain't.

  17. Fruit of the poisonous tree.

    By TFS's own admission, the Scottish paper at the heart of this accusation has an agenda.

    Look. The U.S. still rightly wears some egg on its face from the government's routine disrespect for the sovereignty of other nations, but at the time of the alleged flyover, at worst, the UK was probably just assisting an ally.

  18. Re:Bring back Rob Malda on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 2
    Really...

    I got the same feeling in the #7 Star Wars preview when Han & Chewie were in the house.

  19. Re:The moderationg system needs an overhaul. on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Don't change too much, too fast.

    There's a reason for two decades of success on a fickle internet.

  20. Re:Well isn't that lovely on Severe and Unpatched eBay Vulnerability Allows Attackers To Distribute Malware · · Score: 1
    Infections from ebay are right next to not new,

    An attacker can target eBay users by setting up an eBay store with listings for products. The listings page contains the malicious code. Customers can be tricked into opening the page using a pop-up message on the attacker’s eBay store enticing the user into downloading a new eBay mobile application, by offering a one-time discount. If a user taps the download button, they unknowingly download a malicious application to their device...

    But damn, tricked into opening the popup message?

    That seems like internet Darwinism.

  21. Re:Can't even deanonymize the USD transactions on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Literally?

    Word.

  22. Re:All debts, public and private on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The EU is even worse of a sham democracy than the US, and that's a pretty high bar to set for hypocrisy.

    Aww, you silver-tongued devil! That is the kindest thing I've ever heard about the US on /..

  23. All debts, public and private on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's not about terrorism as much as it is a freedom grab being executed under the guise of protecting you.

    It is inconvenient for your governing authority to have some of your life remain private. Suckks, right?

    Not really, as it turns out... we can just unelect politicians like that as fast as the law allows.

  24. Re:Very good imaging on China's Chang'e 3 Lander and Yutu Rover Camera Data Released · · Score: 1
    I would love it if the Americans and the Chinese forge a great alliance going forward, including the Europeans, Australians and Russians... anyone who'll join.

    If we could stumble past this tribalism between nations, maybe we could get on to hating people on other planets.

  25. Very good imaging on China's Chang'e 3 Lander and Yutu Rover Camera Data Released · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Congratulations China. Chinese exploration of the lunar surface will hopefully lead to diverse international interest in development of national space programs.

    It is good to see the fascination with footprints on extraterrestrial soil crosses cultural lines.