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  1. Urban legends of the Old West on Amazon Prime Is a Blessing and a Curse For Remote Towns (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A Utah frontier town was reputed to have ordered its new courthouse to be mailed in brick by brick from a distant city, because artificially low postal rates made that cheaper than shipping in bricks on railroad cars.

  2. Re:Implications for the panspermia hypothesis on Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The use of movie frames as data is just a proof of concept stunt of course, but what if that word-ending event everyone fears turns out to be some alien equivalent of the RIAA lobbing an asteroid into what they think is another race's pirate repository?

  3. Implications for the panspermia hypothesis on Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Being able to record detailed data in a genome raises the question: has this already been done before?

  4. Re:This is fascinating on Private Company Plans To Bring Moon Rocks Back To Earth In Three Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For the same reason, I favor auctioning off naming rights to minor planetary and lunar features as a way of funding research.

  5. Re:If you want moon rocks... on Private Company Plans To Bring Moon Rocks Back To Earth In Three Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your reasoning is that the Democrats would then be the ones to build a moon base next year. But no - they would still kowtow to the first three-letter activist group to theorize that the lunar landscape needs to be preserved.

  6. Re:For the first time in over 100 years... Segway! on Hyperloop One Conducts First Full Systems Test But Only Traveled 70MPH (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about the Segway? That massively changed how people take tours of downtown areas.

    It also allowed employment of 500-lb men as mall cops.

  7. Re:Strawman defeated on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you don't type it in verbatim. You summarize.

  8. Re:Strawman defeated on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    A typed summary is best of all. It's easier to take during the lecture, requires enough attention to summarize, and can be expended later. A handwritten summary is second best, but it has to be transcribed before anything else can be done with it.

  9. We don't want to be first to do this on Congressmen Propose a New Military Branch: The 'US Space Corps' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The existing Space Command is a good framework for staying aware of whatever weaponization other countries might be contemplating in space before any such weaponization actually occurs. If we pre-emptively declare a Space Corps into existence, everyone else will consider it an escalation and want one too. This wouldn't even make military sense, let alone diplomatic sense.

    Remember that we proved the worth of air power all through WW II without needing to create an Air Force until 1947.

  10. Re:I use electronic payments on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of a bank charging for Bill Pay, although I suppose some of them do. There are other choices besides Bank of America.

  11. Re:Better suggestion on Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 2

    It used to be that landfills were turned into golf courses.

    In Phoenix, I lived next to one of these. It had its own methane collection system that included a periodic nocturnal flare-off, so it didn't depend on Californians sparking up their joints.

  12. Re:its not on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    So you don't walk around with mountains of cash for making payments, then? Do you pay with magic pixie dust?

  13. Re:I use electronic payments on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    Bank bill pay services use the ACH bank-to-bank transfer system if the payee is signed up for it. If not, then your bank writes a check and mails it, which can get lost just as easily as a check you mail yourself. You are still better off using the bank's Bill Pay in this case because you have proof that the payment was mailed, allowing you to avoid late fees.

    For each payee the bank will tell you, if you look at the fine print, which system a payee is using.

  14. "One floppy disk manufactuer practically predicted 16" tablets with rounded corners and being able to render 3D graphics."

    Yep, that's why we all use Verbatim laptops and Dysan tablets today.

  15. "Do you expect Rheem or Daktronics or AO Smith or Carrier to be able to do even as good a job as a Microsoft or an Apple?"

    We wouldn't trust these manufacturers to develop secure IoT interfaces for their hardware all by themselves, and we don't have to. That's what IT security companies are for.

  16. Re:SLASHDOT'S POLITICAL AGENDA on Nest Founder 'Wakes Up In Cold Sweats' Fearing The Impact Of Mobile Technology (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't cut it off. They turn it inside out.

  17. Re:its not on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Walking around with cash is statistically more dangerous than using credit cards for everything, in the same way that the most dangerous part of a flight is the drive to the airport.

  18. Re:credit card, 2nd debit account, or prepaid card on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    For store/online purchases, I've never had any trouble using credit cards. I always try Apple Pay first, because if the merchant has it it's more secure. Many merchants don't even know that it's enabled on their new chip card terminals, so don't look for the logo before trying it.

  19. I use electronic payments on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    I use my bank's bill pay system for everything except for two fossil payees to whom I have to mail checks, like we did in the 1900s. These are the ones I have trouble with, because an average of once a year the checks just never get there, even though one is a block away from me.

    This is one area where the Europeans do it better: make everybody use their equivalent to the bank transfer system.

  20. Re:Probably not on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Oregon also made a law this week making all abortions completely free and mandatory with all insurance coverage. So to recap, you need to be 21 to slowly take your own life, but not to take another's (in the military, or that of an unborn child) - plus my tax $ have to pay for it. I knew OR was looney tunes but holy shit.

    I can see Portland suing the state for appropriation of its slogan, 'Keep Portland Weird'.

  21. When this hits the US... on Ola, India's Largest Ride-Hailing Service, Plans International Expansion (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder what head-exploding mental gyrations liberals will have to go through to spread hate about this particular ridesharing service. They will probably have to fall back on whatever politically correct version of the "Asians are taking our jerbs" argument they think will sell on campus.

  22. Re:Your right to point your camera on Federal Appeals Court: You Have a Constitutional Right to Film Police Officers in Public (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Also remember that an officer is dealing with difficult circumstances. If the person filming becomes a distraction in the execution of their job, they are well within their rights to stop it, and should...

    This only applies in a crime scene, as delimited by yellow police tape. Anyone who beats the cops to the scene of a crime has to be aware that they could be considered part of it.

  23. Selective editing of ANY video is a problem in this context, including mandated footage that is mysteriously "lost" when needed as evidence. That's why both sides need to be aware that the other can be recording. It keeps everyone honest.

  24. Re:Reference to Betteridge's law coming in 3..2..1 on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A standard rectangular bale with 2:1:1 proportions can be lifted by one man, and at the same time can be stacked very high to fill any storage space or to form large blocks that can be lifted with mechanical help. And they won't roll if they fall over in the field.

  25. Re:Reference to Betteridge's law coming in 3..2..1 on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And the Europeans do round baling, which I nominate as the single stupidest idea in the history of agriculture. This is why:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...