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  1. Western products on Amazon Launches Prime In China (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    products from the West, which they perceive as often being of better quality

    You mean the western products made in China?

  2. Nobody likes to carry around cash on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nobody likes to carry around cash

    Well, I prefer to carry cash rather than to disclose what I buy and where I am to banks and others that piggy back on them.

  3. UK, France or Texas are quite bad examples of countries to destroy, because they all have enough nuclear power to strike back.

    This is probably a response of NATO missiles installed in eastern Europe. The NATO missiles geared at Russia made no sense, neither does the threat to UK, France and Texas.

  4. 12 or 18 EU configurations of Intel’s Gen9 iGPU

    What is an EU in this context? Execution Unit?

  5. Metro Nashville has wholly exempted its own utility pole attachments from the Ordinance's coverage

    This will make it difficult to argue there is no problem with the practice.

  6. TFA says:

    Americans collectively spending 8 billion hours a year stuck in traffic, (...) lifting off and cruising above snarled roadways has considerable appeal.

    I suspect that Americans that have to drive to work during congested hours, will not be the ones that can afford a flying car.

  7. Lawmakers and regulators on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I find it unfair to blame lawmakers. The law is not a catch-all program that can be written once for any situations. This is why we regularly elect people to make it evolve

    And regulators tried to do what they could we the power they had been granted by lawmakers.

  8. How refreshing! The tax-dodging tycoon tells us its business could not have emerged without tax-subsided public services.

  9. Chicken and egg on Researchers Bypass ASLR Protection On Intel Haswell CPUs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1
    That looks like a chicken and egg problem:
    • You want to execute some code using a buffer overflow.
    • And to perform the buffer overflow under ASLR, you need to execute some code to break it.
  10. Amazing: Netflix and Amazon each spend more on content than the GDP of Belize.

  11. Re:jQuery monoculture on The Linux Foundation Helps Launch the JS Foundation (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about?

    Many web apps will come bundled with jQuery to support older browsers. Even if you do not use it, it is there. You notice it when you try to deploy Content-Security-Policy, because you need script-src: unsafe-inline.

    What kind of price will we have to pay?

    The usual price of monoculture are security problems. Same software everywhere is a sweet target for attackers.

  12. jQuery monoculture on The Linux Foundation Helps Launch the JS Foundation (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    jQuery is now a monoculture, and some day we will have to face the price of it.

  13. Re:Effect on children on Smartphones Are 'Contaminating' Family Life, Study Suggests (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's weird, your post got cut off.

    You mean axed to death?

  14. Card number disclosure on Hackers Hit 6,000 Sites On Active 18-Month Carding Spree (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Why do the stores have to see the card numbers? Each time I purchase online, the store redirects me to a payment site tied to its bank.

  15. Effect on children on Smartphones Are 'Contaminating' Family Life, Study Suggests (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The next interesting study will be about parent mobile usage's impact on children. What person do you become when your parents preferred a machine to you for years?

  16. I guess the hit damage are more related to energy than force.

  17. Not only a travel problem on 'Space Brain': Mars Explorers May Risk Neural Damage, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Once travelers get to mars the problem is not over, as Mars magnetic field is rather weak, because its dynamo was killed a long time ago

  18. Google drive partially blocked? How is it possible to partially block an SSL-enabled service? And TFA shows https:/// URL with HTTP responses codes, but SSL should prevent and error insertion by in-the-middle ISP.

  19. there's no beginner's programming language currently shipping with Macs

    You have the Unix shell, wha else do you need, you insensitive clod?

  20. EU commission and taxes on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Taxes are member state's business, the EU commission cannot create or standardize them.

    OTOH, the EU commission can sue member states for taxes that would distort their beloved holy free market. Hence I understand the point here is to make sure EU commission would not fight taxes incentive against internal combustion engine.

  21. Re:URLs on O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Just do these regex replacements on the URLs:
    curl 'http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/' | grep '\.csp' | sed 's/^.*href="//' | sed 's/free\/\(.*\).csp">/free\/\1.pdf/'

    That is nasty. Now one does not even have to surrender its e-mail address to discover those e-book are not worth it.

  22. Also at krebsonsecurity.com on Two 19-Year-Olds Charged With Running Phone Harassment, Hack-For-Hire Sites (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The story is also reported at krebsonsecurity.com.

  23. It is weird to call nation-states regions. Perhaps that explains why they dodge tax paying: they did not notice there were some states, laws and taxes there.

  24. Code analysis on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of pushing programmers to a new unknown language every 6 months, which will cause other bugs, why not push to use of code analysis tools?

    Granted, C is memory unsafe. But programmers have a good C expertise, and many bugs can be caught automatically.

  25. Perhaps Snehal Antani's original ideas were interesting, but linked article turns everything into a buzzword collection that makes little sense.

    Spare your time, skip article. Slashdot summary contains all relevant information.