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  1. Re:Current extinction event.. on Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Follow up: https://www.livescience.com/47... Life Science article on current mass extinction event.

  2. Current extinction event.. on Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Aren't we in the middle of a current mass extinction event? Only 12 more years to go.

  3. Also, they haven't completely banned porn YET! Still lots of porn on the site, and those people looking can still find it!

  4. It's not a problem if you don't run unsigned code on Google Researchers Say Software Alone Can't Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We need to get away from this unsigned, unreviewed, wild code (like javascript) running on your machines. Lock it down and stuff like this won't be a problem.

  5. Re:e-cigarrettes arent tobacco on Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As does caffeine!

  6. Re:Maybe it's not that bad of a deal on Amazon To NYC After Reconsidering HQ2 Plans: It'd Be a Shame If Something Happened To Your Kids' CS Education · · Score: 1

    Your math makes it obvious. State taxes it's workers then gives it to big corporations. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Live and work in a state that doesn't tax you!

  7. Re:DB lookup? on Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    it'd be nice to search on domain.. I gotta someone get the original db to check everyone at work.

  8. I see statuscake and uptrends. Are these or others good alternatives to the pingdom free plan?

  9. Sorry, but the phone company is still a utility and can't deny service.

  10. Re:The Chrome team "broke the web"... on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 1

    I use Chrome, but not on mobile. Haven't noticed anything wrong in with sites, including mine that rely on dragging. I'm guessing this is very limited to Chrome Mobile, which means Android, a fraction of web sites broken for a smaller fraction of web users

  11. Re:Should government pay for diploma mills? on Should The Government Pay For Veterans To Attend Code Schools? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, instead of "Coding Boot Camps", I'd call most of the "Code Mills". Maybe all they are good for is seeing if you have an affinity for programming.. not actually giving you all the skills you need to succeed.

  12. Biased article.. on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can tell the article and website are biased by the first phrase. "In a bid to court working class voters..." No, it's not a bid for voters. It's fulfilling a campaign promise. It's helping the American worker. As a programmer, (and mighty successful at that) I've been denied jobs at many companies who hire H1Bs over citizens like me. It must change.

  13. Not Arbitrary and Not New on The iPhone 7 Has Arbitrary Software Locks That Prevent Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They've had this issue for a while with home buttons. It's not arbitrary and it's not new. This is a very specific safety feature. Now, it's a bigger issue with the 7, now that that home button is built into the screen.. I'd call this FAKE NEWS with the "Arbitrary" label though.

  14. "Hubble images in visible and near-infrared light revealed a bright quasar named 3C 186 in a galaxy 8 billion light-years away." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci... Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

  15. Unfixed Vault 7 vulnerablities... on Hundreds of Cisco Switches Vulnerable To Flaw Found in WikiLeaks Files (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So, this leads to many questions: How long did the CIA know about this flaw and not tell Cisco Or, did Cisco know about this flaw and not warm users. How many other unpatched flaws are in the Vault 7 Is Cisco no issuing a REAL fix for this?

  16. Indeed. Time is just a man made invention. How it's defined and "measured" is what can get wonky. Take out time from all physics to see the real core of how things work.

  17. Fake News, Clickbait, not a robot on Can A Robot Fool 'I Am Not A Robot' Captchas? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    This was a stupid remote controlled arm. This says nothing about robots being able to fool a clickbox.

  18. Don't follow the old links on Tiny New Robots Perform Eye Surgery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    / an elephant-sized surgical robot that repairs heart valves, / Goes to an article from 2002! With an unsafe website and broken links otherwise.

  19. While MOST stars you see at night are actually very close, these stars are about 1800 light-years away. So, yeah, the collision happened long ago and we are only soon able to see it.

  20. They hired the Russians. Providing money to hack the election.

  21. Re:Anti-science bullshit is the new normal here on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed. If slashdot is going to venture out of tech space, at least they could do is stick to science. This is just a dumbed down scaremonger piece. It has no place in scientific discussion. (other than maybe to point out what is NOT science)

  22. A number or Your number? on Crooks Need Just Six Seconds To Guess A Credit Card Number (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe that they are able to guess my number in 6 seconds. Anyone can guess A single number, and verify if it's a credit card number. And then guess the exp and security codes. The summary is very sensational.

  23. Is Canada Better? on The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's going to have to be in all in french now, right? And, aren't some of their harassment laws much worse? Some of this internet archive certainly offends some minority.

  24. Re:About 1% of employees are this dumb on The NHS's 1.2 Million Employees Are Trapped in a 'Reply-All' Email Thread (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    1% of 1.2 million is 12,000 people. . just saying

  25. Re:Lets not forget that this is Google... on Google Gets Serious About Home Automation: Unveils Google Home, Actions on Google and Google Wifi (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    First thing I thought of too. Horrible track record of just shutting down projects and devices. A device like this would be a brick if they shut it down. At least with non cloud devices you can keep using it.