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  1. Truth in information on Google To Offer Better Medical Advice When You Search Your Symptoms (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole of the medical profession has been absolutely shut up about thousands of medical issues that can and should be handled by simple readily available help and cures. No doctor will tell a diabetic that Cinnamon is a helpful adjunct to one's medical regime. The pharmaceutical community wants the unknowing populous to spend hard earned and egregious amounts of money on some patented drug instead of some easy to find and cheap to buy perfectly good condiment. Why?, so the drug houses get filthy rich off the teeming populous. Google will have the same screws put to it's "information" with out any truth in medicine! Where does one go to find real medical treatment and cures with out the Pharmaceutical community shutting them up?

  2. Compare Content Management Systems on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? · · Score: 2

    Compare Content Management Systems http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

  3. Scanning continued on Photos Show The Lingering Radioactivity At Chernobyl And Fukushima (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    The same checking, scanning needs to be done around TMI - Three Mile Island

  4. Mandated Backdoor on US Says It Would Use 'Court System' Again To Defeat Encryption (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If and when the Gov. gets this mandated back door it immediately takes on the responsibility to ensure that everyone who purchase said encryption software has in fact a reliable and safe encryption application. As such if and when said application's has been compromised the Gov. will immediately, not weeks, months or years later but as soon as it has been broken, pay for a new version with new encryption keys for everyone who purchased said application. The Gov. wants a back door to an application then the Gov. takes on the responsibility for ensuring the application is available to all users. If it's broke the Gov. fixes it for free!

  5. 2 Gripes about video advertising on Google Cleans Up Search Results By Ditching Sidebar Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A page with video advertising may cause one to waste gigabytes of data! 1. When an advertisement is playing on a page it draws data from some source. The advertisement may be visible or not. If it's not visible what is the benefit to the viewer? NOTHING! So stop any and all video advertising that is not in the visible page. 2. When one is viewing a page with video advertising and one is drawn away from that screen for whatever purpose, the bytes are continuously downloaded to run the video, whether the person is viewing the screen or not. If one is no longer viewing the screen, called away to go pick up the kids, clean the dishes, go shopping, fix the car, whatever - the video continues to play again eating up one's valuable and expensive bytes. Especially video ads that are not on the visible page. There should be some time limit or byte limit on video advertising so that one's allotment of bytes downloaded from one's ISP is not drained by some video advertisement that one is not watching and has no way of watching because one is NOT THERE!

  6. Re:Y2K issues again! on President Obama Unveils $19 Billion Plan To Overhaul U.S. Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    All the IoT computers that are built with 32bit cores need to be fixed. This includes all the traffic lights, security, smoke, intruder alarms, etc.

  7. Y2K issues again! on President Obama Unveils $19 Billion Plan To Overhaul U.S. Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Prediction - On - Monday 18th of January 2038 10:14:07 PM - the internal clock on many PC will change from 0x7fffffff to 0x80000000 and depending on how the software treats the number it may change the time to - Friday 13th of December 1901 03:45:52 PM - or not. Hopefully by that time all real computes will be 64bit and the issue goes away. But beware for 32 bit computers this is going to be a much bigger problem than the Y2K issue! And yes Y2K did have some major fallout - NORAD was blind for hours! Some NSA computers were down for days!

  8. Dyson Sphere can not exist! on Comets Can't Explain Weird 'Alien Megastructure' Star After All (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    Attempting to build a entirely enclosed sphere around a star would result in MASSIVE support structure to hold the top and bottom away from the star, almost impossible! Yeah one could have a ring or partial sphere, but not the whole thing. It would collapse.

  9. Not all vaccines are safe on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    90+ MILLION people were infected with Saulk vaccine that had CANCER virus in it. Me included!!! There were thousands of men vaccinated with Hemophilia vaccine in the 70's, remember what happened in the 80's - HIV, AIDS!!!

  10. a base frequency of 1.2Hz on HP's Spectre X2 Is a Solid Core M Powered Surface Pro Alternative For Less (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    That fast! Wow!

  11. Christmas was good to me. I got an HP Envy computer with Windows 10. I turned it on, but didn't let it on the network, because I knew it would report. I built a linux stick and booted the cheap but safe OS, leaving Wanders on the disk but untouchable.

  12. Gov. Military, Police, Terrorist are the problem on Elon Musk, Others Fund $1B Non-Profit To Advance AI Research, Ethics (openai.com) · · Score: 1

    Committing to controllable AI is fine, but the Government, NSA, CIA, FBI and the other TLAs will ignore the research and do what THEY want and to hell with reasonable AI. Same for the Military, Police and Terrorists! You really think they will give a hoot about controllable AI. I for one would wold be on the lookout for SkyNet.

  13. I want to see a course with parked cars on the side of the road. Drive along a side street, see a ball, toy, dog, cat, etc. come out between the cars. Apply breaks and or steer away to avoid the child chasing the item. Go for it!

  14. Encryption - Locked room on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Encryption is like a locked room with two doors. The first door is well armed and protected. The second door is also well armed and protected, but the key is available to ALL commers. All one needs is a court order to get the second key, and presto it's open, and also now available to anybody, reason - Snowdon. --- All right one says we will do away with the second door, but require key escrow. Same problem - all one needs is a court order to get the second key, and presto it's open, and also now available to anybody, reason - Snowdon. --- So what is the solution, live with good encryption, but insist that everyone divulge the key "on presentation of a court order" with some heinous penalty for not releasing it. That way the encryption is not compromised, but still readable "with a court order" not like it is now ANYBODY can read it.

  15. Security also involves transmission on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    With all the NSA, CIA, FBI, DOD, and other TLAs snooping EVERYTHING on the internet the actual movement of the data MUST be included in the security analysis. Unless one uses some rather extreme and hardened encryption the data will available for the TLAs to peruse. So it comes down to using 2K or 4K encryption keys and keeping those key private, only using known secure methods of transmittal, mail or courier to disburse them. The Constitution and Bill of Rights protections seem to have been thrown away even though the "oath of office" clearly says "support and defend the constitution of the US" it seems that it has been ignored. Like someone said "it's only a piece of paper" When will someone bring charges on these high and mighty Gov. officers, take them to court and take back our Constitutional rights?

  16. Memory Assist on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    UCLA has a dementia/alzheimer's study going on with some real help - search parameters - ucla beam alzheimer's disease

  17. Network Nutrality on Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action · · Score: 1

    Blame this on the ISPs that drag their feet on getting real data speeds to their customers. South Korea gets GIGABYTES to their customers at a price the US hasn't seen in years if ever. I'ts CHEAP!

  18. YOU are paying for the ADs on The Real Cost of Mobile Ads · · Score: 1

    Every time one goes to a web site with advertisements the ADs get loaded and start to play, even when they are not on the screen, above, below or to the side. Yet YOU are paying for the kilo, megs, gigabytes that they send you, It get ridiculous with some pages, several video ads start playing, you can't see them, but you can hear their audio all trying to drown out the others, and YOU are paying your ISP for the privilege of listening to this cacophony. Another issue, you are mildly watching some ad, you get called away for what ever, your child need to go to the store... yet you still get charged for the gigabytes the advertisement requests while your not even in the house, so no way are you being entertained. I would insist that after 5min. playing the browser put up a query if you are still interested in watching. Yeah I know one does not want to interrupted in the middle of Game of Thrones to answer queries, but the browser knows where the data is coming from and can check once and then let it play. I would mandate that the browsers are intelligent enough to know if and when the ads are visable and totally block them if they are not visable, would save a lot of download data.

  19. Charge Back on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    I think it's time we, internet users take notice of all the advertising that is forced down our browsing devices. Who benefits? We see dozens or even hundreds of ads daily. Who pays for them. We do! If all of the advertising was required to pay for the time and data usage that we are currently paying, a lot of the advertising would go away. It's time we take back the internet. If some company, agency, conglomerate wants to advertise on our devices THEY need to pay for the time and down load bits, bytes, KB, MB and GB they force us to watch or be annoyed by. No this is not the same as TV, because on commercial TV the show we want to watch is the staple, and yes someone must pony up the expenses for that show. The advertising on the internet uses the bandwidth we pay for to inundate us with their garbage, not the same as TV. The advertisers must take note and pay for and allocate the data usage to those advertising not the users who really don't want to see or be charged for their display.

  20. Deer in the head lights on Toyota To Spend $50 Million On Self-Driving Car Tech · · Score: 1

    Have them also be aware of deer and other semi wild animals that react strangely, differently to vehicles.

  21. Black Hole Creation - NOT on Tiny Black Holes Could Trigger Collapse of Universe—Except That They Don't · · Score: 1

    What is the one thing a black hole must have? Mass. What is the one thing a black hole created in a Collider will never have? Mass. Only a black hole created inside a Uranium or Plutonium particle MIGHT have enough mass to exist.

  22. Average accidents per mile? on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    The Google cars seem to have reported several accidents each. While none of them seem to have been serious, the per mile statistics show that someone, probably the Google cars is doing something that cause or provide fertile ground for accidents. Yeah I know "what" and that is the issue. Whoever is designing the driving particulars for these devices needs to find out and fix it PRIOR to releasing them on the nations roads.

  23. E-Mail posting problems on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    I too have had several pieces of E-Mail that came in to my mailbox, but when I attempt to send the exact same E-Mail Verizon declares it spam. I have called and talked to Verizon on this issue several times with no effect. The help people say to send the E-Mail to; spamdetector.update@verizon.net A lot of good that does, as in NOTHING!!! I had to use another E-Mail provider to get around the issues.

  24. Cocaine and Money on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 2

    Almost all money has had contact with Cocaine and many other street drugs. Since the drugs are already on the money, detecting them in fingerprints may not indicate a user, just a money handler which is NOT a crime anywhere.

  25. NSI phone on FCC May Stop 911 Access For NSI Phones · · Score: 1

    NSI phone obviously need to be shut down. The issue is inexpensive real phones. Cell phones are getting real cheap. Mandate that a emergency-only use phone that has limited usage for emergencies only, so very few real calls will be made. If too many make the user upgrade to a real contract.