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  1. is this "spinoff" HP or "other" HP?? on HP Unveils Industrial 3D Printer 10X Faster, 50% Cheaper Than Current Systems · · Score: 1

    I get so confused as to what HP really is these days. is it Agilent, or soon-to-be-divested, or big iron and big-cost software with a small user base ???

  2. oh, noes! the common universe thread is rent! on Researchers At Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function · · Score: 1

    will we be able to commun -

    q439542-dir34r0q=

    -- civilization disconnected, return to base

  3. the guys who popularized "we got hacked",security? on Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC Breached · · Score: 0

    lost effort, close CurrentC down. this is like LoserMotors buying all the newscast ads on the day the big news is recall of all LoserMotors cars ever made as flimsy firetraps with 100% fatalities within the first 200 miles.

  4. if this had been posted on October 31st... on Why Every Cardiac Patient Needs a Virtual Heart · · Score: 1

    the headline would have been, "Researchers improve their simulations significantly when perfecting their vision on random patients' live, beating hearts."

  5. AT&T is being sued by the FTC for data caps on Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? · · Score: 1

    the sneaky caveman-speed ones they put on their "unlimited" data plans for mobile. Your Government Inaction (tm) is finally getting around to this.

  6. Airstreams. on Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients · · Score: 1

    for Apollo astronauts, when paralytic fear of Mutant Space Alien Disesases!! ruled, the returning astronauts were hustled into Airstream campers aboard the recovery ships for several days.

    never did hear how they selected the third guy to sleep on the convertible table...

  7. when we can read your files, you can read ours. on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 5, Insightful

    just that simple, Director.

  8. mod karma to 11 on Scientists Find Rats Aren't Smarter Than Mice, and That's Important · · Score: 1

    very funny

  9. heh. Rats, you've been outsourced! on Scientists Find Rats Aren't Smarter Than Mice, and That's Important · · Score: 1

    we can pay a mouse 1/3 fewer pellets, pack them into 1/5 the space, and still be just as abusive!

  10. if they hacked Slashdot on FBI Warns Industry of Chinese Cyber Campaign · · Score: 1

    they'd have the world's largest stock of bad tech puns, as well as all the troll stock they'd need to stultify the entire military machine. just think! -- unable to launch total world war because they can't decide on which desktop and which distro to send into the field!

  11. Damn good thing Windows has no holes! on Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yes, sir, sure would hate to be vendor-bound at work or home with insecure systems, or using a network full of spies and lies, to access online sales where I and my financial records might actually be the product. Yep, you can trust brand-name software and systems totally.

  12. because once they hit the web, they get submitted on How English Beat German As the Language of Science · · Score: 1

    it is far more likely to have first read on an article about the new GUI in one or another Linux distro on Slashdot than first read about transmission of Ebola through improper sterlilization of overgloves before disrobing. the AP will get the Ebola stories first. once the East Gutwrench Reporter and Advertiser runs the AP story two days later, when they're run out of new angles for stories about the new paint job at Ernie's Cafe, some tech in East Gutwrench will submit it because it's cool.

  13. so the military has a new plan on Pentagon Unveils Plan For Military's Response To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    and is not going to shoot at eclipses any more, to try and kill the dragons? excellent.

  14. because bad science is catching on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    if you hang around with the sloppy, the untrainable, the secretive whose work can't be duplicated, it starts to look like normality.

  15. present-requirements coal plants are no baseline on Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal · · Score: 1

    namely, nobody is building any because the cost to mitigate the source pollution is so damn high, and going higher. so this generally-clocked-out concept fusion reactor, not-to-scale, would be tied with the second-highest cost of MWH production possible.

    great news, I'm ordering 15 of these, bill to my account at the East Bank of the Mississippi. let's get those in production by December 1st, this year, also.

  16. is this both remote and local config? on Ask Slashdot: Designing a Telecom Configuration Center? · · Score: 1

    because they are way different.

    remote config, you just need secure telnet and good management pipes, on top of the normal basic gizmo office (overpowered PCs, hopefully dual screens, redundant power, etc.)

    local config, you will also need an open half-rack on casters at each workstation area, good AC and "battery" power, I like the idea of a cube terminal server 8 or more ports for you to get into the craft ports and push scripts, then localize afterwards. or a localization generator which saves all the configs on a common ultra-backed-up server, and you just tftp them into the remote equipment.

    there is almost always a TL1 interface and port number on telco equipment, so you could automate all the localization generator stuff into TL1 as well. since you're telco, also get the AC1 MIB documents for your stuff so you can catch and decode the SNMP traps and autogenerate repair tickets.

    none of this is high-buck stuff. it's the coding in the end that determines how much of the scutwork is manual and time-waste, and how much nonsense actually is handled when the outage clock starts ticking and your techs get after the repair.

  17. lawyer up. you can own that firm. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    clear violation of civil rights and probably of his employment contract. the lawyers will probably form a double line a block long outside his house to take this case on contingency.

  18. an increased level of stink usually works, too on Lost Sense of Smell Is a Strong Predictor of Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    if nobody will go into the room to check on the patient because the door is melting, that's also a solid indication that first one in can turn off the IV drip.

  19. "GrimReaper wants to friend you"... on Facebook Ready To Get Into Healthcare · · Score: 1

    "Your medical history has been shared 153,473 times."

    "Your cancer has 15,429 new messages."

    who needs THAT crap?

  20. heh, MS killed Windows 9 before release! on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    a lesson they should have learned one major release earlier, aren't I right, kids?

  21. hey, screw you, Comey, you guys went too far on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1

    and The Market (tm) is correcting your wild-ass over-reaching "National Security" spying on everybody, almost all of whom are not guilty of anything. you guys did more damage than the Wacko bin Loonies. shut up, sit down, think about it.

  22. how many copies of that encryption ... on How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology · · Score: 0

    ... have been sold to the Wacko bin Loonies, ISIS, and the drug cartels?

  23. how do you prove service? on NY Magistrate: Legal Papers Can Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 2

    Suppose you go into court and there is no representative of the other party. if you can prove the notice was served, you can ask for declaratory judgement. Get FacedBook does not have return receipt functionality, unlike almost all email clients. barring a reply such as "you suck skunks," you can't prove service. this is no better than tying the subpoena to a flaming arrow and shooting it into a tree.

  24. I'm sure Google will get .borg on Amazon Purchases .buy TLD For $4.6 Million · · Score: 1, Funny

    and there really needs to be only one address in the TLD, am I right, guys?

  25. the CRTC maximizes Canadian culture on Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation · · Score: 1

    so it's time for Canadian Corner (aka The Great White North) 24x7x365 now, eh. ya hosers.

    I guess by now they could run Mike Holmes and Love It or List It on the second channel, too.

    if they want educational TV, put a camera outside Churchill, and the kids can guess which tourists will get eaten by polar bears. math, least-path theory, lots of fine educational opportunities.