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  1. NSA is still listening in though on Microsoft Creates Skype Lite Especially For India (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    big brother Skype

    i knew it!

  2. Re:Perfect is the enemy of good on Microsoft Has Cancelled the Second-Gen HoloLens, Working on Third-Gen For 2019 Launch (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called the Osborne Effect:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Some more background information that was posted by Stanford last April
    http://news.stanford.edu/2016/04/27/robotic-diver-recovers-treasures/.
    IMO contains most the the details in TFA mentioned here.

  4. Summary correction on College Student Got 15 Million Miles By Hacking United Airlines (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Hi did not spend 15 years in prison
    FTFA:

    A felony offense that's punishable by a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
    This explains why he was instead accepted into a pretrial diversion program. Should Pickren successfully complete the program, the felony charge will be dismissed

  5. Again? on Activists Call For General Strike On the Tor Network (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    https://politics.slashdot.org/...

    For some reason these dupes do make me feel at home here. The world is changing rapidly, but Slashdot stays just the way it is, with 15-year old layout and editors that cant even read their own front page.

  6. That may be so, but this is not my problem. As for the other bits, i really just do not care. At all.

  7. Dont care on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I moved to osx (with all its own flaws) and linux when windows 8 was introduced. As long as my employer is slow in adapting windows 10, and as i have no control that except quitting, i just simply cannot be bothered.

  8. Re:Big pharmas hate it! on New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Read quickly before this article gets banned!!!!

  9. Re:Good for them on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You are mistaking the Euro for the European Union

  10. They do, unless he patents something completely new that builds upon existing technoogy. Now some European patent offices have the tendency to rubber-stamp everything and have the courts sort out the prior art when somebody starts complaining, so there is actually a way he gets his patents approved and create a hurdle for small outfits. In any case, if there is indeed prior art, you can submit objections and proof of this prior art during the approval process.

  11. I am using rpm and yum for almost 20 years now and indeed, i once had a database corruption. All in all rpm has been good to me and has proven (to me) that it is stable in my production environments. I am sure this new method has some nice features, but ive been doing ok without them. So maybe i am haive, but could someone help me understand why i should consider such a new package manager?

  12. hope it has parachutes on Larry Page Is Secretly Working On a Flying Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If I look at the number of idiots / texters / drunks that I see on the road right now, I'm quite sure having all these people in a 3d space 100m up in the air is going to be very safe indeed.

  13. Who is Masnick? Oh right, its the editor of Techdirt. Ok now the article makes some sense. Of course, simply writing "Mike Masnick, the editor of Techdirt, is worried the..." is probably too complicated, and I guess it should be common knowledge who 'Masnick' is, or we should expect people to look it up right?

  14. Re:Fuck the rest of the world. on Global Warming Has Made the Weather Better For Most In US -- For Now (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    isn't that part of that bible doctrine you seem to like so much?

  15. Re:Ah so its about gm tech on Some Tumors Are Responding to A New Cancer Therapy (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    yes in the last sentence, this is what i mentioned.

  16. Ah so its about gm tech on Some Tumors Are Responding to A New Cancer Therapy (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This just takes the price for least informative summary ever. So a new cancer drug has effects. Ok great, every day we see these trials and most have at least some effect. Only in the last sentence is desribed why this particular trial is worth mentioning.

  17. Efficiency? on Apple Developing Wireless Charging For Mobile Devices (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Whats the percental loss of energy when the device is so far away? Similar to the loss in sound volume?

  18. driving without a seatbelt on Six Missing HDDs Contain Health Information of Nearly a Million Patients (corporate-ir.net) · · Score: 1

    I think shipping any sensitive data unencrypted should be a punishable offence even when the data is not stolen. Similar to driving around without your seatbelt. Its irresponsible behaviour that is easily prevented and comes from being lazy

  19. Re:Can a corporate security officer comment on Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats what i thought as well. But i work for a fortune-100 company and we roll out win 10 at this moment (for new machines though).

  20. so 50% is correct! on More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives · · Score: 3, Informative

    In my field of science, having a lead-finding system that returns a 50% hit-rate after confirmation is better then I've ever encountered. I'd say that this is an extremely impressive result.

  21. Re:The judge issued a verdict ahead of trial? on Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    At least know we know who contributed to his election campaign =)

  22. Re:Wait a minute... on Microsoft To Cut 7,800 More Jobs, Take $7.6 Billion Writedown On Nokia · · Score: 1

    $7.2B indeed.
    http://www.reuters.com/article...

    They've valued nokia below their total worth estimated at acquisition time. And remember they still have all the buildings and patents.

  23. to drive on New Study Suggests Flying Is Greener Than Driving · · Score: 2

    > One factoid is interesting: it takes 4,211 BTUs per person mile to drive.

    do we all drive the same car? Is this a chevy suburban or a fiat punto?

  24. Same for any code on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In my experience, 80% of my code deals with checking for user error and thing like that (i.e not enter a string where i expect a number, does this socket really exist). This is important functionality, but indeed, it is not 'core'...

  25. Re:Sad to see him go... on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hear Brian Williams is not doing anything much these days