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  1. I'm not exactly seeing the problem. on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not clear on why the unit is being denied access to the server, but the customer was afforded the opportunity to return his purchase to Amazon for a refund. If the iPhone app is really that bad, I imagine that this company will have many unsatisfied customers and not be around very long.

  2. only for some definiions of super-cheap on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to buy epi-pens for $30 each. Then they went to $60 each... then... you know the story. $55 is way cheaper than $300, but it's still a far ways from "super cheap"

  3. one thing the summary forgot to mention... on Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's totally better than vi

  4. How did Slashdot become so full of such tripe? on The New Censorship: 'How Did Google Become The Internet's Censor and Master Manipulator?' (usnews.com) · · Score: 0

    See subject

  5. I think that happened in real life too. on Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Metaphorically at least.

  6. Two Words: on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No Script. That is all.

  7. Of Course it's in the Times! on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    I think it's ironic that this piece of dribble is published by the same newspaper that called Robert Goddard a crackpot who didn't understand High School Physics because everyone knows I rocket can't fly in a vacuum-- since there's nothing for the thrust to push against.

  8. Avidemux on Ask Slashdot: Synchronizing Sound With Video, Using Open Source? · · Score: 0

    See Subject. It's not completely automagic, but it can probably do what you want.

  9. Do you REALLY want a 175W card in a mini itx system? How are you going to keep it cool?

  10. You had me at 'Hello' on Wind Turbines With No Blades · · Score: 1

    Or, in this case, you had me at "Giant Rolled Joint'. Count me in.

  11. Is this all about spectrum? on ATT, DirecTV Mega-Merger May Go Through · · Score: 2

    Does Direct TV own some piece of the wireless spectrum that AT&T could make use of, or vice versa?

  12. living well on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    As an old mentor once told me: They say living well is the best revenge. But there's a lot to be said for the old Screwbowski

  13. Re:More ambiguous cruft on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 2

    overall I think that GMO food is safe.

    So you, and other scientists, don't "know", as TFA suggests. I'm not trying to troll, but a majority of scientists having the same general feeling on the topic doesn't ammount to settled science. Relativity is settled science -- it, or at least major aspects of it, can and have been proven. The same cannot be said for some of the topics cited.

    To be fair, TFA actually refers to an "opinion gap" rather than referring to "what scientists know".

  14. This is silly. on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 1

    If anything, the statistics indicate that Scientists aren't in agreement on the topics discussed-- in other words the science isn't settled or in some cases, hasn't been done.

  15. I think I remember this story... on 333 Km/h Rocket-Powered Bicycle Sets New Speed Record · · Score: 2

    Doesn't it end with them picking his teeth out of the canyon wall??

  16. Re:Redistribution on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is, only in that it redistributes money from the healthy to the insurance companies. Saying that "these people are better off because they now have insurance" is misleading. They now have to pay for that insurance, and the cost of insurance has skyrocketed since the law was passed. Furthermore, they can only be said to have benefited from having insurance if they get sick, or if they were already sick and would have been denied coverage.

  17. WTF? on Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC Breached · · Score: 2, Informative

    It hasn't been breached... they just got a hold of their email mailing list! This is the crappiest bad summary of all crappy bad summaries.

  18. Windows 10 on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's actually just a re-do of Windows 8, but they wrote it in octal.

  19. Re:half nonsense on The Minecraft Parent · · Score: 1

    You CAN choose to run a private server. My older son does this. It's not too difficult to set up-- he did it himself and only needed help with port forwarding in the router. . I believe that Minecraft Pocket Edition works in a similar way.

    But you have to go our of your way to run this way. And if you were to run this way there is still nothing to prevent a child from logging on to some other server (there are thousands).

  20. half nonsense on The Minecraft Parent · · Score: 2

    On the one hand, playing minecraft can be like playing with legos. I've seen my kids create amazing things in minecraft.
    With some mods, it can also teach basic programming skills and simple electric circuits.
    OTOH
    It can be modded into a pvp shooter. Not the worst thing in the world, but it sort of kills the educational value of it. It is not a safe, walled environment because, you know, other players are coming to kill you. Moreover, even in other forms of minecraft other players can come and destroy your stuff. They can also yell at you and call you names and otherwise annoy you via the chat window.

  21. shouldn't even be a headline on Solid State Drives Break the 50 Cents Per GiB Barrier, OCZ ARC 100 Launched · · Score: 1

    newegg has a 1TB one on sale for like 390... which would be 39 cents per GB, 50 cents a GB has been the rule of thumb for SSDs for over a year now.

  22. Re:how long before on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 1

    Didn't you RTFA? They were built by Cisco.

    RTFA?... but isn't this slashdot?

  23. how long before on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 1

    how long before the NSA hacks these into spy-benches?

  24. Re:Less consumer choice, higher prices ahead on Big Telecom: Terms Set For Sprint To Buy T-Mobile For $32B · · Score: 2, Insightful

    actually if sprint and t-mobile combine their networks they might be able to compete with verizon, which is a good thing for everybody. right now each company only competes in certain markets.

  25. Re:Less consumer choice, higher prices ahead on Big Telecom: Terms Set For Sprint To Buy T-Mobile For $32B · · Score: 1

    you realize that these links don't actually disprove the op's anecdote, right? The jd power link says that verizon has the best network reliability and neither company is mentioned as having good or bad wireless customer satisfaction.