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  1. I own Sisco stock. Bad investment.
    It's finally getting to where I can sell it for a gain equal to my savings account.
    I only own a little. It was part of my learning experience in the land of investing.
    At least I won't lose money on it, after 15 years.
    Sisco is crap.
    Oracle is trying to preserve a day gone by. Rather than doing something new, they're sticking to the old business model
    Sell your Oracle stock NOW!

  2. That's going to be appealed on Court Rules In 'Sextortion' Case That Phone PINs Are Not Protected By Fifth Amendment (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This isn't the first case of this. Nothing is going to happen any time soon.
    The others are slowly working their way to the Supreme Court.
    Until the Supreme Court rules nothing is going to happen.

  3. welcome to the welfare state.

  4. Brave New World on An Artificial Womb Successfully Grew Baby Sheep -- and Humans Could Be Next (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Read the book.
    too many implications.

  5. I had similar experience. But, on much older hardware. My first formally taught language was Pascal, in college. On the engineering school mainframe.
    I taught myself Basic in my mid teens in the mid '70s. On the school district mainframe using an acoustic modem and a teletype.

  6. A Lisa on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yes an Apple Lisa, with an Mac mod chip, for the display. still in my attic.
    Any offers?

  7. Re:Sound waves in water not so simple on North Korea Parades Hybrid 'Frankenmissile', Then Fails Yet Another Missile Launch Test (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with you. but are you referring to bottom scanning, or mid depth?

  8. Re:Just like finding a crashed airliner under the on North Korea Parades Hybrid 'Frankenmissile', Then Fails Yet Another Missile Launch Test (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    A crashed airliner is stationary, dead and cold in over 2 miles of water. A moving sub is live, and hot, in less than 200 meters of water. The NK diesels have to come to snorkel depth, maybe 30 meters. Not so hard to find

  9. Actually, that's exactly the justification.
    To prevent civilian casualties in SK, a massive bombardment will be required.
    There is no peace in Korea, only an armistice. A state of war exists. NK blatant threat of SK civilians makes SK civilians a targets
    Think Berlin and Dresden, but in NK. WWII rules apply.

  10. Re:NK *is* a credible threat on North Korea Parades Hybrid 'Frankenmissile', Then Fails Yet Another Missile Launch Test (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    why did you post as an Anonymous Coward?
    DEAD on. and DEAD on what happen to any NK sub where the US doesn't want it. Gone, without a word, with all hands.
    re quoting:
    This is 2016, not 1942. The technology for detecting and tracking submerged vessels has improved somewhat in the last 74 years. The North Korean subs are basically vintage 1960s era technology, like much of the rest of their military. They're not going anywhere without being tracked and if they approach the United States they will be sunk, war or no war, because nobody will be watching except the ones doing the shooting. Submarines can be accident prone and the Pacific Ocean has a fearsome reputation among mariners. Nobody would have any problem believing that a North Korean submarine had an "accident" while at sea. In fact, the visibility of submarines at sea to the general public is so low that they United States could essentially deny any knowledge. Finally, the North Koreans are so unsympathetic and unpopular these days that nobody would care what happened to their submarine anyway.

  11. No Siri, or Echo attack? on Should Burger King Be Prosecuted For Their Google Home-Triggering Ads? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Interesting, I haven't heard of a similar attack on Siri, or Amazon Echo.
    is BK just trolling for the biggest fish, or is there something more?

  12. Open source project. Major schism in the developer base.
    DEAD
    The asshole who thought he was in charge killed it.

  13. I can't post the title without flaming on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm ashamed to be an American.

  14. Only load from safe sources on Scientists Prove Your Phone's PIN Can Be Stolen Using Its Gyroscope Data (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    If you download from google store, every app has to ask permission.
    this attack only works on those downloading from untrusted sources.

  15. Re:$93.8M of my tax dollars on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    45 had to do something. otherwise he'd be a limp male member anus.
    This was the least expensive course.
    War is expensive. avoiding it can be almost as expensive.

  16. brain dead idiot wrote the title on An Unexpected Relationship Between Nuclear Power and Low Birth Weight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    BeauHD and whoever edited this piece are idiots! can't they read what they wrote!

    brain dead title. brain dead editor!

  17. Depends on which library you use on Ask Slashdot: Can Linux Run a GPU-Computing Application Written For Windows? · · Score: 1

    There are cross platform libraries that work equally well on Linux and Windows.
    You need to plan for it in advance.

  18. It ain't pretty, unless you're the consumer. on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    They're driving prices down, mostly. Shipping is always an issue, especially with small items.
    Fresh produce, meats, etc will be the province brick and mortar for the near future.
    The little independent grocery store near me manages to beat the Walmart a mile away on price and quality for meat and produce. But, having seen what's happened elsewhere, they are the exception.

  19. pretty much old news on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How did this story make /. news?

  20. Re:Don't worry we won't miss it on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Industrial jobs are for a large part gone. Never coming back.
    There are still some things you need human labor to do, but they are going.
    There are HUGE problems coming.

    Almost no one in the US understands why the French Revolution happened.
    Won't be pretty.

    born and raised in the US, just a better student of history.

  21. Re:Bad assumption on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    shoulda checked.
    I don't know if Altavista was even second. Thought they did start within a year of each other. And, they're long gone.
    Before Yahoo there was gopher. In the early days of the web it still worked well, but you had to be a geek to use it.

    My first browser was Mosaic. It was the first. Long gone.

  22. Bad assumption on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He who innovates/invents first has little effect on 5 years later. If that long.
    Look at Yahoo. The first, and for some time the best internet search engine. Now dust.

    Economists, and the like, keep using 20th century (some even 19th century) models. Intellectuals cling to the past as badly as others. And the fools who like what they say pay them. Sadly the factory workers have no such benefactors.

  23. Just buy a top of the line Android.
    This story is a dumb idea.

  24. Not can't. They most certainly can.
    WON'T

    Bad grammar reduces a story's credibility.

  25. Name all possible litigants - dumb move on Sprint Wins $140M Verdict Against Time Warner Cable For Infringing VoIP Patents (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a habit in law suits to name all possible litigants, to increase pay off.
    backfired this time. Comcast already won round one.

    Not a fan of Comcast, but I don't hate them. In my personal experience Version is MUCH worse, and I have court records to prove it. (I won).