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  1. My Take on Elon Musk Is Really Boring (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Why Not? on Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    The walk signs already talk to pedestrians

    http://emndee.com/node/18

    (Shameless self-plug)

  3. Possible Alternative on The History of the NORAD/Microsoft and Google Santa Trackers · · Score: 1

    Some might prefer a Santa tracker that's not connected to a military organization. Of course, some might not feel one connected to a giant company is necessarily preferable.

    Maybe Santa will offer an app

  4. Re:D'oh! on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 1

    I know, it's confusing

    Here's the quote I was responding to:

    "due to circumstances beyond our control,â their Dec. 27 Team America screening has also been canceled." If only I had a copy, I'd like to host a viewing party here in Austin for The Interview , which I want to see now more than ever.

    About Team America, I can only guess that the Southpark people are not that big on copyright

  5. D'oh! on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 2

    Wrong movie - hit send way too fast that time.

  6. Here Ya Go on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 1

    If only I had a copy, I'd like to host a viewing party here in Austin for The Interview, which I want to see now more than ever.

    https://archive.org/details/TE...

  7. Re:Or on US Links North Korea To Sony Hacking · · Score: 1

    Ha!

    Sounds about right...

  8. Or on US Links North Korea To Sony Hacking · · Score: 2

    To quote Mike Masnick of Techdirt:

    I can't help but feel that there's a kid in a basement somewhere yelling, "OMFG, I killed a movie!"

  9. AI or Corporate Overlords? on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    ...technology was a central reason that median wages had been stagnant over the past decade...

    ...corporate profits have surged.

    hmm

  10. Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service on Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service · · Score: 1

    "There's your widget, sir!"

    *Drops plastic piece out of airplane window*

  11. Re:Give me a ping... on Study Shows How Humans Can Echolocate · · Score: 1

    I read it first as "Humans can Echo Chocolate"

  12. Timing? on Smart Meters and New IoT Devices Cause Serious Concern · · Score: 1

    Sounds like it might be a good time to buy a high-end TV

    Just get the model below the one with all the "smart features" and hook it up to your Mythbox

    Seems like you could get a really decent "dumb" TV for a reduced price to use as a monitor.

  13. Re:Actual irony? on Drupal Warns Users of Mass, Automated Attacks On Critical Flaw · · Score: 1

    I believe that's just sad coincidence, it's missing a third factor.

    It would be ironic if she were dropped off the ladder AND her family owned the ladder factory.

    Irony be tricky.

  14. Re:Techdirt Article on Same Story on First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix · · Score: 1

    Ha, your sig

    I keep telling my GF I don't want to be a citizen of California (we live in Nevada)

  15. Techdirt Article on Same Story on First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix · · Score: 2

    "Similarly, M-Lab's data shows that the problem wasn't a lack of bandwidth on the part of the ISPs (i.e., no actual technical congestion), because those same ISPs had no problem connecting to a different transit provider, Internap. So the only logical culprit was the interconnection points. There was more than enough bandwidth to go around. There's just the single bottleneck of the interconnection border router (which, again, is trivially simple to get rid of by opening up more ports)."

    link

  16. Re:Actual irony? on Drupal Warns Users of Mass, Automated Attacks On Critical Flaw · · Score: 2

    Rain on a wedding day isn't ironic...

    Agreed.

    Irony is rain on the wedding day of a couple of meterologists.

    I may be wrong, but I think that coincidence is 2-factor, irony is 3-factor

  17. Sad it Before on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    ...a protocol that allows users to create profiles, "status" posts, groups, events, and other familiar social networking features as "objects" that live on their own server

    I believe that mobile device computing power and storage will advance to the point that everyone will be able to carry his/her own server, removing even the need to contract with a third party for services.

    All that's necessary is the user-hardware and the FOSS protocol. No deep-pocketed sponsor necessary.

  18. Re:Necessary on How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology · · Score: 1

    i rubbed my balls all over your drumset!!!

    Right here! See this? this is what I'm talking about.

    Why won't the NSA take me seriously?

  19. Necessary on How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology · · Score: 1

    Do they have anything that can tell you if your roommate has touched any of your stuff while you were gone?

  20. Re:Put some of the money back in... on Switching From Microsoft Office To LibreOffice Saves Toulouse 1 Million Euros · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Conan, what is good?"

    "To see your enemies driven before you, to have their libraries forked and to hear the lamentation of their wizards"

  21. Answer to Quiz on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 1

    How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need?

    With any luck, no more than is necessary to shut the doors and turn out the lights.

  22. Related on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    "I would also predict that the vast majority of our customers would never be caught in the buying the additional buckets of usage, that we will always want to say the basic level of usage at a sufficiently high level that the vast majority of our customers are not implicated by the usage-based billing plan."

    "640k ought to be enough for anyone*"

    "Let them eat cake"

    *Looks like Gates never said that

  23. I Can't Get Past This on Samsung 'Smart' Camera Easily Hackable · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...a simple port scan reveals that the camera is running an unprotected X server (running Enlightenment).

    And here I thought I was the only one running Enlightenment

  24. Incredible Revenue Suction on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    This seems appropriate:

    http://botaday.com/node/1755

  25. It looks like that watch might be running MS/TRES