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  1. The wisdom of Matt Groening on Police Are Using Google's Location Data From 'Hundreds of Millions' of Phones (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As Bart Simpson says "It never hurts to have an extra set of fingerprints on your knife." Or something like that.

  2. gopher and usenet still exist

    And underneath that, the old FIDONET is still waiting to be resurrected over packet radio on 145.53 MHz but we're not there. Yet. I'm still claiming my old address.

    It will actually be great to be rid of all these Christmas Modem Geeks that are cluttering up the interwebs.

    On re-reading that it sounded as if I was being sarcastic. I'm not. We'll be back there one way or another and it won't be all bad.

  3. This warning brought to you by Amazon on Watch What Happens When A Drone Slams Into An Airplane Wing (sacbee.com) · · Score: 1

    Please don't clog up Amazon's valuable airspace with your pathetic toys. If you ignore this warning we will have to stage a dramatic event to make it clear how important this airspace is to our business model.

  4. Is there any way around the paywall?

    Let's not link to articles behind paywalls. Ok?

  5. Re:Let the arms race begin! on Mysterious $15,000 'GrayKey' Promises To Unlock iPhone X For The Feds (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    stereotypical-black-girl-talk? It's millenialspeak, I'm sad to say. You're not paying attention.

  6. Re:Let the arms race begin! on Mysterious $15,000 'GrayKey' Promises To Unlock iPhone X For The Feds (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    OH NO YOU DIH UHNT

  7. This can only sound good to those who have to look at their keyboard to type anyway. Otherwise it's an incredibly annoying distraction. I look at my hands maybe once ever 10 minutes.

    It might be different if I was a hunt-n-pecker like Tim Cook.

  8. "There's A Map For That. "

  9. Re:5-10 years after the technology has proven itse on Uber CEO Sees Commercialization of Flying Taxis in 5-10 Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean it won't happen. It just means it won't happen in America.

    It won't happen in Murica for a good reason.

    However, I can see it happen in locations where they place little to no value on human life; Shanghai for example.

  10. Re:It gets even better.... on Lawmakers Worry About Rise of Fake Video Technology (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm going to guess that you believe that you are smarter than 90% of Trump voters.

    And THAT is your fatal flaw, and the reason that You Don't Get It.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunningâ"Kruger_effect

  11. Re:It gets even better.... on Lawmakers Worry About Rise of Fake Video Technology (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    The biggest threat to Trump is the gullibility of morons like you. The dems have been FAR FAR FAR more creative with the truth than Trump could ever be.

  12. There's no way to undo the changes to the environment.

    That's a pretty stupid thing to say, even for a 7th grader.

  13. Embrace, extend, extinguish on Microsoft: We're Developing Blockchain ID System Starting With Our Authenticator App (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Blockchain is the new cloud.

    Not in what it does, just in the marketing sense, of course.

    You know eventually technologies are going to be like medicines and domain names: all the good ones will have been taken and/or copyrighted, and we'll be left with nonsense terms created by marketing droids.

    Microsoft Word 2^11, now with Incivek and Adcetris.

  14. I'm looking forward to the day when morons stop referring to science fiction as "skiffy".

  15. Re:Awesome!!! on Facebook To Demote Posts That Ask For 'Likes' Or Shares (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    you mean get rid of ryan's toy reviews and all the stupid crap like adults reviewing kids toys? god i just want to beat those adults senseless.

    you mean get rid of ryan's toy reviews and all the stupid crap like adults reviewing kids toys? god i just want to beat those millionaires senseless.

    FTFY.

  16. Not new on Japan Opens First Drive-through Funeral Service (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    https://www.roadsideamerica.co... We had one of these a couple of decades ago. I believe somebody tried to make a night deposit and it was closed shortly thereafter.

  17. Re:If it isn't broke... on More Airline Outages Seen As Carriers Grapple With Aging Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is likely that the average age of their programming staff is 20-something. They're morons.

  18. +1, would read again.

  19. Re:Good. on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 0

    Exactly, what possible motive could Google have for monitoring your internet usage through DNS? I've used them for years. You know, don't be evil and all that.

  20. Good. on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait, what's the opposite of good? Bad? Yeah, bad, this is bad.

  21. Remember Folks on Drone Diverts Firefighting Planes, Incurring $10,000 Cost · · Score: 2

    Leave the drones to the professionals at Amazon, Google, and Verizon. They're the ones to best manage that public airspace soon to be worth billions of dollars. And be sure and spread all the FUD possible about private drones, anecdotal "evidence" is great, if you don't have any, make it up.

    Drone in the same "airspace". Guffaw.

  22. Pessimist on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 1

    One thing is for certain: Iâ(TM)m buying an HGST drive after this.

    My guess... you won't have to buy any. You'll be getting a case of them overnighted to you this week.

  23. Re:Manners please. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 2

    They may be angry at one of the 7 or 8 other customers they are chatting with at the same time as you.

    I'm pretty sure I'm not capable of doing their job.

  24. Bad drones! Bad!!! on NASA Building Air Traffic Control System For Drones · · Score: 1

    Maybe this help explains why there have been daily stories in all the media about "near collisions" and other total BS to try to convince everybody how dangerous drones are in the hands of anyone but Google/Amazon.

  25. Re:Too good to be true on Company Extends Alkaline Battery Life With Voltage Booster · · Score: 1

    +1 virtual mod point for you. (Best I can do atm, sorry.)