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  1. prior art exists (tm) on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 2

    it's called gouging....

  2. that isn't just a self-destructing phone on Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone · · Score: 1

    it's a self-destructing company!

  3. eh, sonny, back in the day... on Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere · · Score: 3, Informative

    I tripped over the ruts from the SS7 bandwagon over a decade ago. back then, you had to be in the CO and on the terminal of the Stratum server to spy on SS7 traffic. ability to scoop up the slop in a bucket came later.

  4. OK, fuck 'em, take Sony out on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    attack the DNS, eh? The Community objects. now we get to boycott EVERYTHING Sony, including your stupid Adam Sandler movies.

  5. got a 10,000 foot high aviation warning light? on Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland · · Score: 1

    that thing sounds like a tripwire for airliners. hit that tether line, drop 250 passengers in beautiful downtown Baltimore. better have strobe lights all the way down at 20 foot intervals.

  6. your best value in "open to bad guys" on Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor · · Score: 2

    as we have pre-selected the best of the bad guys to listen in on all your calls! this handy feature is worth twice the price!

  7. it was a crap suit on Apple Wins iTunes DRM Case · · Score: 3

    every time you have to move data from one system to another, it has to be flushed through some software to work on the new stuff. every time. all the way back to ENIAC, nothing is truly portable. I never had issues with iThingies, but then I never tried to use Real or Creative, either. and if I did, hey, flush the data through something else. like always.

  8. AC, you ignorant slut on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    if you're trapped in a house, you're trapped in a house. stop spewing crap.

    now, there are some alternatives they can use to reduce squatter traffic. long roofing nails, for instance. alone or in homemade spike strips. or less aggressively, homeowners can back out and "have stalls." then get the car restarted and "can't find the gears." randomly salt the street with junk so it really does look like Da Hood.

    discredit WAZE and the battle is won.

  9. Phew, what a relief... on No More Foamy Beer, Thanks To Magnets · · Score: 2

    I thought they were going to say, tape two cow magnets along your neck before drinking beer

  10. does that mean American workers? on Canada Waives Own Rules, Helps Microsoft Avoid US Visa Problems · · Score: 2

    do American workers now displaced from places overseas get waved across the border to work in Canada, then, eh?

  11. so how do I upgrade my digital camera, then? on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 1

    looks like another way to sell you everything once again that you already have. I am on constant guard against that sort of thing. you can't have my Ampex 601, cold dead hands or not!

  12. now I know where to publish on A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals · · Score: 0

    I have a theory that most scientific papers are loaded with slush to look beefier and more studied, just like typing double-spaced for "a two-page essay" was done. all I have to do is Greek five more pages, gin up collaborative letters from my colleagues I. B. Fulinyuh, Seymour Butts, and N. Onsence, and I'm due for my first IgNobel.

  13. our utility does the absolute minimum required on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    "MN wants 7% wind? well, uh, push it back to 2020 when we have more transmissions lines." "X percent solar? we have enough online already."

    same thing the telcos are seeing and saying, the 60 year old plant out in the hustings isn't a cash cow any more, and relevance is quite expensive to maintain as technology changes. same thing you'd see from the hospitals if the Google Pill diagnosed and treated, all in one, for $12.95 plus a monthly subscription of $9.95.

    so connect that meter to the oven and dryer. put up solar panels (you will need a permit to install and a permit to tie into the safety-isolation panel.) and let the utility's big cigars figure out how to maintain and prosper. it is not the function of a disruptive technology to salve the wounds of the old-timers. perhaps the Edison Electric Institute might consider assembling packages of solar/wind/grid systems for their member companies to sell (or lease) and stay in the game.

  14. hey, that's a damn good password! on Ask Slashdot: Convincing My Company To Stop Using Passwords? · · Score: 1

    changing them all now... Post-1t.

  15. and the tube and roads are responsible for murders on UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea · · Score: 1

    because, hey, the killers took them once.

    grow up, man. learn something. it's not too late.

  16. it reveals a core Comcast truth on Comcast Forgets To Delete Revealing Note From Blog Post · · Score: 2

    that they take their regulators and public statements like they take their customer complaints... with a wave of the hand, and "Bah." all they want is negotiable checks, and everything else is crap to ignore.

  17. hell, Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos on Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? · · Score: 1

    are still dangerous. the half-life of plutonium is over 400,000 years (estimated.) and the slapdash solutions of the people tasked with guarding and encapsulating all our radioactive trash are still dangerous. we don't need another news report to make up our own minds on this...

  18. that moves the files on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 1

    you've never had the experience of having to port out data from SpecialApp on one system to ThunderCode on another system? dude, you always have to flush it through something, sometimes multiple somethings. this is the history of computing. why is bits that tinkle any different from bits that make payroll?

  19. what IS this crap, anyway? on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 1

    don't know about Day One, but when I bought the original iPod Mini on first day of sale, I had no problem importing MP3 files and WAVs into iTunes and the player. I was also able to export playlists as WAVs onto CDs for the car. that seems to void the whole premise of the lawsuit.

  20. / coot / I always know where my wallet is on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    if it ain't in my pocket, it's on top of my videotape machine... a TT-70B the size of a Fiat. /-coot

  21. second step is the first problem on How the FCC CIO Plans To Modernize 207 Legacy IT Systems · · Score: 1

    namely, outsourcing all the equipment and control. make no mistake, OctopusCo doesn't suffer joy in the cubes, and doesn't care a damn about whether the work gets done. all they care about is the gaps in the contract. the way I'd look at this is, ramp up the cloud replacement, work in parallel for a while, and when it's proven, come in one night and pull the big switch on all the rusty old big iron.

  22. I am dodging the draft this thanksgiving on Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War · · Score: 3, Insightful

    let them war without me, I will be hanging Christmas lights and playing carols on my original iPod mini through fine 70s/80s stereo equipment.

  23. even Blackberry can't get enough iPhones! on BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 · · Score: 1

    this is what I call a trend ;) droids are not what we're looking for :-D

  24. aw, c'mon coach, put in the mercury! on Edsac Goes Live, At UK's National Museum of Computing · · Score: 1

    just don't vacuum up the spills, let the kiddies roll it around in their palms like we did. probably be a more efficient way to pick it up.

  25. you don't have a shovel? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    it's possible to dig it yourself...