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  1. Re:Doctor Doctor Give Me The News on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try to explain to foreigners that cleave means to stick tight to or to split apart from, or that sanction is to permit or to forbid something, and they will run screaming.

  2. In this wierd election year on Fake Cellphone Emergency Alerts About Zombies and Nuclear Attacks Predicted (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    If a zombie nuclear alien warning were to be broadcast, the public would respond...Meh!

  3. "The problem with a user-centric approach is that you start having public health decisions being made by people with no understanding of what's actually happening."

    I would hope to hell that my doctors have an understanding of what's actually happening! That's what med school and years of experience are for.

    Making FDA decisions advisory, rather than mandatory would preserve its essential testing function while taking corruption of the sort that is strongly suspected in the Epi-Pen case out of the equation.

    And on the FDA site, I see databases of approvals and lists of rejections, but no details on rejections. We should have as much detail on rejections as we have for approvals. The reason we're not seeing that information is that the federosaurus is terrified of the possibility of us making up our own minds - about anything.

  4. The FDA should at least be required to "show its work" in any rejections. Exactly why did Teva, which is one of the largest generics manufacturers in the world market, have its product rejected?

    Then I would go farther and allow doctors and patients to make up their own minds about FDA-tested products, whether accepted or rejected. If a rejection was for some paperwork problem or a situation that applies only to a limited class of patients that does not include yourself, why not prescribe it anyway?

  5. Re:The t-shirt on Rosetta's 12-Year Mission Ends With Landing On Comet (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The assholes there were the SJWs who reduced Matt Taylor to tears for wearing the shirt. If I had been running the mission I would have had the whole staff wear "New Gunner Girls" for every press conference after that.

  6. Though William of Ockham would have used a sniper rifle, that would have left physical evidence that a laser would not.

  7. Re:SLASHDOT IS NOW DELETING COMMENTS - GNAA on Implication of Sabotage Adds Intrigue To SpaceX Investigation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Lecture us now about why we still need AC posting on this site.

  8. Re:Putin has Trump's back... on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Once again, we're being asked to believe that Trump is at once totally stupid and really good at The Cyber.

  9. Last images now coming in on Rosetta Spacecraft Prepares To Land On Comet, Solve Lingering Mysteries (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Lots of fine detail at the impact site now being shown on the live feed.

  10. Edit: 0415.

  11. At 0430 MST, Rosetta is returning higher and higher res pictures of its impact site.

  12. I do residential IT services... on The Psychological Reasons Behind Risky Password Practices (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the biggest single problem my customers have is remembering passwords, the first thing I tell them is write them all down in a safe place. Everyone has a good place they can hide a sheet of paper.

    I'm fully aware that a significant fraction of the password cheat sheets will end up taped to the monitor, but in my customer demographic the online threat and the physical breakin threat are totally disjoint. Even their laptops seldom leave the house.

  13. Re:What w@nker thought this was a good idea?? on The UK's Largest Sperm Bank Is Now An App (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm surprised there isn't a kinda of "Uber for sperm donation", bypassing the sperm bank and allowing people to connect peer-to-peer.

    We call that Tinder.

  14. Exactly! That's why the expensive house WiFi collapsed for those who ponied up the $200 gouge.

    All the more reason to let attendees use their own cell connections.

  15. Re:ATM on your phone? on Microsoft Partners With Bank of America On Blockchain Trade Finance (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    And here's another working implementation, which doesn't involve waiting several minutes for blockchain resolution. This is run by the same Square that provides those little point-of-sale readers that attach to an iPad at the local coffee bar.
    https://cash.me/

  16. Re:Idiot could have used his name as password on Revealed: How One Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions of Dollars (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "There is ONE vowel. And no, "y" is not a Russian vowel."

    In transliterations of Russian, 'y' is either a part of the vowels 'ye' 'yo' or 'ya', or the short I sound in words like Kosygin.

  17. Because a presidential political debate is a public function from which reporters are expected to file stories as part of their editorial function, Hofstra has no business preventing people from using their own cellular communications and should be massively spanked for this action. Besides, it's a university, with a crapton of money rolling in from those huge tuitions, not a hotel trying to run a business - though the FCC has already ruled that convention hotels can't do this either..

  18. Regulations could keep SpaceX from using any specific launch facility in the US, but nothing prevents it from going to some hungry little place elsewhere in the world. On the other hand NASA, with the best of intentions, is fully subject to domestic politics. That's why it wisely sticks to unmanned probes these days. Let risk be for the private sector.

  19. Re:Wow on SpaceX Shows Off Its Interplanetary Transport System in New Video (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They are cutting corners with safety to make their death trap cheap. They should be stopped before they start killing people.

    Because SpaceX is a private effort, you have no way of doing that. You will have to be satisfied with getting your lawyers to kill off government infrastructure projects instead.

  20. I call on my IT service customers to stop using inkjet printers entirely. Even if you insist on color, there is a Canon color laser for about $250. For the rest of us, there are a number of good $100 monochrome lasers. You can send the occasional color photo to Snapfish, with two-day turnaround.

  21. Re:Gravitational waves? on China's Giant Radio Telescope Begins Searching For Signals From Space (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    "How does a radiotelescope detect gravitational waves?"

    Green Bank did exactly that once. Remember?
    http://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/h...

  22. Re:Nothing wrong with that! on China's Giant Radio Telescope Begins Searching For Signals From Space (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    More eyes are better and it may foster a little healthy competition in the space tech arena.

    I just hope they are in it for the long haul...

    Now I would love to see China take the Thirty Meter Telescope project away from us and get it built while we screw around fighting the SJWs in court. China is, after all, a partner in the project and has a vested interest in seeing it finished.

  23. Re:How do you know? on Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just install Norton AV on it, and add McAfee to be sure. Then, even a botnet wouldn't want to anymore run on that device

    Yeah, that's it! "Should I have run MacAfee on my FirstAlert online smoke detectors?" you say to yourself as you gaze at the remains of your house.

  24. Re:How is this different from any university? on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Mostly 'cause my degree costed like 5000 bucks. "

    I'm guessing U of Appalachia ("Home of the Cookers!")?

  25. Re:Failed to fix the number one Go problem. on A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You still can't use the language name as a search term.

    This is the same problem that clueless Hollywood producers have when they give their opus an unsearchable title like Next and wonder why nobody watches it and nobody reviews it.

    I suggest Seagull, the language that craps all over your Android device and then flies off again.