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  1. The other scenario is that they mate in an environment where there is tetracycline, as in water ways near a pig or chicken raising factory.
    Then some offspring will inherit some modified genes but not the sterility and here we go: the foreign genes are introduced into the species.
    That's why this experiment is totally wrong.

  2. Re:I'll tell you what could go wrong... on Florida District Considers Releasing GMO Mosquitos After Cayman Islands Experiment (accuweather.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't like your opinion. Could you please 'shut the fuck up'?
    See how this doesn't work?

  3. It is short-lived.

    Only if they encounter an environment without a trace of tetracycline, which is almost impossible thanks to the gigantic use of this stuff in animal raising, releasing lots of it into the environment as by-product. The assumption that the mosquitos will be 'sterile' is hereby turned into a dream.
    Funny by the way that until this mosquito became available from Gates & The Rockefellers, some countries had zika-infection rates of 75% of the population without a significant amount of babies born with micro-cephaly. And now, especially in areas heavily sprayed with some kind of pesticides, this suddenly is declared a problem caused by zika.

  4. Re: Easy on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. With 'cashless society' I mean the whole society, not only Sweden.
    Of course during the current introductory phase of cashless, it should be presented as something nice and handy. "Oh look mama! I can pay without money!".
    Or just convenient. But the downside is that you will have no real control over your own money anymore, the banks do. And if you do things they, or the governments under their control don't like, your money will be switched off. Look at how it starts with wikileaks, arm factories and stores, porn shops and sites in the US.
    Someone doesn't break any law, yet the banks (in my examples it were mainly credit card companies, but the same thing: access switched off) don't like what he does and block his account. You can't buy food anymore, drive no car. Within a month or two you will be an outcast, living on the streets. Thanks to the 'cashless convenience'.
    Oh, and negative interest rates will be introduced of course, because they can. And there's no way you can change it back anymore.

  5. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    I know towns (being there regularly) where there is no local bus service. The buses that do operate, do so to the next towns (40 or more km away) and cost about $1.50 to do so.

  6. Re: Easy on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The moment the cashless society is a fact you will regret that you didn't fight it.

  7. Re:Obligatory on Open Source Gardening Robot 'FarmBot' Raises $560,000 · · Score: 1

    I assume that with 'the calories' you mean: carbohydrates (sugar, flour, pasta, bread etc.).
    Those are not the only possible sources of energy (calories) as proteins also contain energy.
    Not as much as they are convert lessADP (Adenosine DiPhosphate) into ATP (Adenosine TriPhosphate) -- the biological 'unit of energy' than carbohydrate digestion, but energy nonetheless.
    Read for instance something about 'going ketatonic', where people skip the carbohydrates altogether (as much as they can).
    So, proteins 'come first', then carbohydrates.

  8. Re:"Your connection is not secure" on Open Source Gardening Robot 'FarmBot' Raises $560,000 · · Score: 1

    Noted. Thanks for pointing that out.

  9. As the assumption is that VMs can not access each other's contents, and the owner of the computer is assumed to have protected his access to the host by using a password, individual passwords for individual VMs are not necessary anymore and the user can have sudo access, as there is only one user.
    Qubes OS is not multi-user.

  10. Re:"... of unpatched installations" on Xen Vulnerability Allows Hackers To Escape Qubes OS VM And Own the Host (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The vulnerability seems to assume paravirtualization, which can be switched off. Problem solved.
    Geez, you people almost got me scared about my qubes...

  11. Re:Obligatory on Open Source Gardening Robot 'FarmBot' Raises $560,000 · · Score: 1

    Proteins are also converted into energy in your body. So what is the use of counting calories?

  12. Re:"Your connection is not secure" on Open Source Gardening Robot 'FarmBot' Raises $560,000 · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the technical details on my firefox (26.0) say:

    www.build.slashdot.org uses an invalid security certificate.
    The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.slashdot.org , slashdot.org
    (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

    Seems a bug to me as '*' should match with 'www.build'.

  13. Re:Landlords on Cities Struggling To Crack Down On Airbnb Renters (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe there is no problem at all. Except for the big hotel owners who now encounter some competition.

  14. Re:Landlords on Cities Struggling To Crack Down On Airbnb Renters (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would it be not allowed? Think of the economic stimulus. If there's a lack of housing then new houses will be built!
    And the safety argument is a bit false. All those safety measures have been instated because of the many people that can be housed--and get killed by a fire--in a skyscraper hotel, not a family home...

  15. Re: The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In capitalism you have to be smart if you want to keep your money.

    You forget we don't live in a capitalistic society but merely in a corrupt kleptocracy in which the government works for the wealthy and against the rest.
    So 'being smart' doesn't help much if the tax system is used against you, and your money.

  16. Re:Latency must be bad... on MIT Says Their Anonymity Network Is More Secure Than Tor (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, assuming you were indeed referring to the Anonymity Protocol of Magnus Brading, I have a few 'problems' with it.
    First he states he wants to give a 'generic' description, but when it comes to the connection, he assumes it will be a static one.
    I think that's a flaw. Think of all those mobile phones that can be used to construct a dynamic finely meshed network outside of the regular internet (as he proposes). Then you'd better design for a dynamic path that can switch on, switch off, and reconnect various nodes during the transmission of the message.
    And how is he supposed to avoid 'centralization' when flooding his signed commands to each client? Or establishing new keys? Or, banning certain IPs en manually editing the network database? And why should we trust the person that issues a new verification certificate?
    And that talk about 'EULA' is totally useless. If people are anonymous, how is anybody going to enforce their 'promises'?

  17. Re:Latency must be bad... on MIT Says Their Anonymity Network Is More Secure Than Tor (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Duckduckgo.com doesn't give me a hit when I search for 'Phantom Anonymity Network'.
    Did you maybe mean 'Phantom Protocol'?

  18. Re: Stop breaking the law on MIT Says Their Anonymity Network Is More Secure Than Tor (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, what the hell, let's just outlaw the human race in general. Into the ovens with all seven billion of them!

    No worries. we, the NATO, are working on that...

  19. and workers traveling between the two cities would spend less time commuting and more time working

    And I don't know *that* many people that live in Helsinki and work in Stockholm...

  20. Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things on Netherlands Gets First Nationwide 'Internet of Things' (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Then I won't buy it and I will curse all the other ignorant stupid mother fucking sheeple who still keep buying that stuff so it won't die out...

  21. Re:acronym puns on Netherlands Gets First Nationwide 'Internet of Things' (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Either you or Putin is crazy, and I don't think it's Putin. :)

  22. Re:Do we learn nothing? on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There shouldn't be a 'race' entry in that database or program.

  23. Re:"optional" as long as you fill it out... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't refuse, I just don't know the login/password, and those are on the encrypted HD of my laptop.
    And don't you think for a second that I'm going to decrypt that one here in this office.
    Because..., because..., I forgot the password..., and the written back-up of my password is near the n-th tree (I forgot the exact number) in the garden of ..., uhm..., who was that again...? Geez, I guess I forgot that one also!

  24. Re:I Love You on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Your first two assertions are totally true.
    Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft however was eventually settled, not lost. From your own link (wikipedia):
    "A settlement was eventually reached, with Rowe granting ownership of the domain to Microsoft in exchange for an Xbox and additional compensation."

  25. Re:I Love You on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    AT&T is saying "thanks".

    Thanks, I had totally missed that.
    Saying "Thanks" is just normal language and Citigroup ought to lose that case.
    And I think saying "Thanks" is also protected by the first amendment, in the US that is.