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  1. Re:False Flag on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 2

    "Honestly, things which 10 years ago would have been the domain of crackpots is now 100% fact."
    No. I keep hearing this but you guys must have lived on another planet. The fact that all governments sucked up just about all international communications dates back to the invention of the telegraph and maybe back to the mail.
    Any idea that they were not monitoring all clear text transmissions over the internet frankly I find just dumb. As far as meta data that was always up for grabs.
    False flag operations? That is in the realm of tin foil hats and crackpots. Frankly the rest of it is just common knowledge to anyone with a brain.

  2. Re:False Flag on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why don't we have a -1 crackpot mod.

  3. Re:Profit over safety on How the Next US Nuclear Accident Might Happen · · Score: 1

    In other words he has no idea what he is talking about and should be ignored.
    Frankly as should this story.
    Come on an anthropologist says nuclear power unsafe....
    This is click bait of the level of the National Enquire. For SHAME SLASHDOT!

  4. Re:Virtulize it on UK's National Computer Museum Looks For Help Repairing BBC Micros · · Score: 1

    Seems like one could make a cape for BeagleBoard or an add on for Rpi with the IO and an emulator for the BBCMicro.

  5. Re:It's an algorithm on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 2

    Actually I am impressed that it did see how similar Apes and people are. Honestly people getting upset over it are just a bit silly. The problem is people think that someone put person_of_african_descent == ape in the code and that is not true. The algorithm just confused one great ape with an expressive face with another. It is no more racist or intentional than the same system confusing a Camaro with a Firebird.
     

  6. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    Network security yes.
    the OMG Cisco is buying them and the Gov will spy on me now is what I could live without.

  7. Re:Refill on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Empty Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 1

    Thanks Googleing is all fine and good but a recommendation from someone that used it makes all the difference IMHO.

  8. Re:Ask other retro communities on UK's National Computer Museum Looks For Help Repairing BBC Micros · · Score: 2

    This is for a cluster that is being used not an exhibit in a glass box.
    I think modifying the existing power supplies is probably the best way to go today. Replace the caps and possibly the voltage regulators with newer parts might be a really good way to go today.
    I would suggest starting a project to create a modern PS that could be a drop in replacement for the old one. It could use a lot less power and be more reliable in the long run.

  9. Re:Refill on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Empty Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 0

    Links?

  10. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    actually I am not very worried about DNS privacy.
    I just wish we could go back to the old days of Slashdot when it was all about cool dads building battlemech tree houses instead of the tin foil hat crowd.

  11. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 3, Funny

    You tool of the megacorps how dare you bring up facts that distort that crusader for freedom's self identified truth.

  12. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So any DNS you use could do this.
    So isn't it logical to use one that is being run by a massive competent company that is already making huge profits and has the whole world watching them vs some small org that is just trying to make ends meet that no one is paying attention to.
    Frankly if I was the CIA I would be intercepting traffic to the small oddball servers more than Google.

  13. Re:I'm skeptical of the 5% claim on Airplane Coatings Help Recoup Fuel Efficiency Lost To Bug Splatter · · Score: 1

    The ideal would be for it to be smooth until the natural transition point then have vortex generators.
    If you look at a lot of aircraft the will have flush rivets over the front part of the fuselage and regular over the back for that reason. Some will have vortex generators on the wings as well also for that same effect.

  14. Re:The problem... on Study Suggests That HUD Tech May Actually Reduce Driving Safety · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. The only pop-ups I can see are navigation prompts.
    Navigation prompts are going to decrease your attention to the road but far less than a map would.

  15. Re:bit coin doesn't solve the strategic issue. on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Good point. Tourism would flourish and exports would go up. Things like energy would also go up for those in Greece.

  16. Re:plastic is for junk on Ask Slashdot: For What Are You Using 3-D Printing? · · Score: 1

    Could be that they like to do projects at home and want to haul lots of wood or plants from Lowes.
    Maybe they are into buying old furniture and refinishing them.
    My wife wants a perfect 1971 F100 pickup because her father that passed away when she was 10 owned one. He was a lineman for the power company.
    You can never tell but as a whole pickups are really useful vehicles and not all the uses involve messing up the paint.

  17. Re:Kids don't understand sparse arrays on AP CS Test Takers and Pass Rates Up, Half of Kids Don't Get Sparse Arrays At All · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No you don't but their is value in knowing how to write one when you use one.
    It usually means you know better than reinventing the wheel.

  18. Re:Kids don't understand sparse arrays on AP CS Test Takers and Pass Rates Up, Half of Kids Don't Get Sparse Arrays At All · · Score: 1

    For a degree in computer science you need to know sparse arrays.
    As a working programer you will almost never write one. You will use STL or some other library to handle it.

  19. Re:Why not go back to consumer sorting. on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 1

    That is the same system as we have but I would call that single stream.
    Multi stream is when you separate metal from plastic/paper at least to me.

  20. Why not go back to consumer sorting. on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 2

    Really Aluminum, glass, and steel are easy to recycle. Plastic and paper can be burned for energy or recycled. I am not a fan of "green" as I feel most are just nut balls but come on I see recycling as just the way we should throw stuff away.

  21. Re:Will price point even matter? on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    "Is this somehow worse than hurting actual rhinos? Is there some reason to class humans as a super species that have a greater right to exist than any others other than anthropomorphic arrogance?"
    Yes because it is our species. Really any member of a species that does not put the survival of the other members of it's species over a different species is flawed from a biological viewpoint. A prey animal will not allow a starving predator to take another member of the herd just so predator can survive. A rhino will not worry about killing a human if it can to protect the herd. It will also not worry about trampling and or eating the crops of a starving farmer. It is you that is trying to make humans into some kind of super species.
    That is the purely biological reasons you are wrong and why this is a bad idea.

    The ethical reason is that someone could be given that medication not of their free will. You can not target it at only the guilty with 100% accuracy.
    But then I do not believe in the death penalty for murder much less for buying a pill.

  22. Re:Conversely on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    How about this.
    You allow very rich people to hunt Rhino Poachers?
    Yes it is terrible idea and I don't really think it is a good idea.

  23. Re:Same thing only different on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually a guy did weld armor on to a bulldozer and tried to take out a town.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  24. Re:Whats wrong with US society on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is legal to own a howitzer or a bazooka in the US. The rockets and shells I believe are regulated.
    You can also own a fighter plane and or a bomber.
    You can own a tank in the UK as well.
    If you ever go to an airshow odds are you will see people flying fighters and bombers that they own.
    It sounds really dumb but frankly I just do not see people using any of these to commit crimes.

  25. Re:London's fantastic... on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Sounds fair to me.
    I live and work in South Florida. I have a 30 minute commute which is not bad but yes it is by car.
    The pluses are we have sunshine, beaches, a low cost of living, and lost of places to eat, and some theater.
    I do work for a tech company but not a lot of new ones are moving in down here. I don't know why since this is the birthplace of the PC. I work with a lot of ex IBM and Motorola people.
    Yes you have to drive but with gas at .68 euros a liter here it is not too bad.
    I do admit you comments about zones leaves me blank but oh well.