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  1. Re:Incentive on Hit the Wrong Button, Drone Goes Boom · · Score: 1

    Was not a bug, but a feature. Who knows how much people would kill all those children (even the unborn ones) if they grew up to become terrorists.

  2. Meanwhile, in the South... on Canada Launches ACTA Bill · · Score: 1

    ... Park never has been more accurate.

  3. Re:Funny on Linus Torvalds Clarifies His Position on Signed Modules · · Score: 1

    You can trigger the bricking part under windows too. Suppose that driver or an update choose to brick your laptop if you have illegal downloads on it, or just have a bug, or a worm/cyberattack (that could have bugs too, so the next stuxnet does it in your pc instead of Iranian ones) does it.

  4. Re:Funny on Linus Torvalds Clarifies His Position on Signed Modules · · Score: 1

    Or getting big enough numbers of bricked Windows 8 machines because the kind of bios messes that Samsung did with secure boot.

  5. Re:WebApp API on Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thats the nice thing about standards, there are so many of them.

    I would add Webkit to that list.

    And something that the people of Ubuntu should agree on UI components with the people of Sailfish (that was also in that show), and KDE plasma active (and maybe Blackberry and WebOS), making it easier to port apps between different mobile OSs (i.e. like this calculator).

    Once you can have everywhere the apps that you want, you are free choose the best OS that fits better in your device/needs.

  6. Re:but nothing. on Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET · · Score: 1

    You mean, something like this? You don't have to search a lot to find several examples. You are renting their software after all, so better that they are aware how you use it.

  7. Re:What... on Intercontinental Mind-Meld Unites Two Rats · · Score: 1

    Usually people in power is the one that go wrong. Rats have little brain power, so humans could be the logical choice for mind melding, they are cheaper to maintain and are more abundant than other big brained animals. Want a job giving your brain for the next generation of computing 8 hours a day? And once humans get into the equation, we will effectively be the Borg.

  8. In soviet russia on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 1

    your smartphone carries you.

    That would be "big enough", even if you won't call it smartphone, maybe gundam would be appropiate. But wearing it should be the future.

  9. Re:But the real question is on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Probably the CNN question would be if supermassive black holes are caused by global warming or maybe that they started to rotate so fast due to global warming. Anyway, small things after they ask if the bing bang was caused by global warming.

  10. Re:WRONG! on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Time and space are influenced by gravity, and speed depends on both.

  11. Re:know your audience on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: -1, Troll

    In that US regions almost everyone would deny all of this, no matter of the education level. The light coming from the accretion disk of that black hole is coming here from before 6000 years ago, when the universe, earth, man, and everything else was created by the almighty god.

  12. Or is meant to be a cloud computer, or is not (and it have too little hard disk to not be). There are things that have sense to run locally (i.e. some games), but for Google strategy the only fitting office alternative is a local version of google docs (for editing offline), not another different office suite, with different formats, different functionality, and not meant to be edited online.

  13. Legal system threats on Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says · · Score: 1, Troll

    Another reason that it could become less important is if the zone becomes a patent minefield. Maybe math is not patentable, or shouldn't be (but even natural genes get patented) but there are enough borders around it that could be used as excuse that could be a tool to force only the use of "approved" encryption methods.

  14. Re:He put the S in RSA on Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says · · Score: 0

    Thats why you should use AES-256. Breaking the encryption in RSA is just transposing one letter..

  15. Re:When Vulcan is voted down by the IAU on Trekkies Vote 'Vulcan' Into the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Voted for those ones, were the ones that are actually closer to Pluto in mythology on the available ones.

    In the other hand, having Vulcan and Romulus in our solar system could give a push to outer solar system exploration. Colonizing Vulcan could end being the logical choice.

  16. Re:FU Trekkie geeks on Trekkies Vote 'Vulcan' Into the Solar System · · Score: 2

    Would be a trap to propose Death Star. That's no moon.

  17. Re:The fog of memory is vital on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Feel About Recording Your Entire Life? · · Score: 1

    Taking out the "editor" of our memory (ourselves) could have negative effects, even if seem rational to take out some bias (i.e. the hindsight one). Also, a lot of the magic on life could vanish if you understand all the real factors that made you like someone or something.

    Also, your life last long time usually, having a record of what everyone does could be wanted to quasi-totalitarian regimes that you could face in some moment of your life (like the current one) forcing vendors to have a govenrment backdoor. The potential for abuse is just too big.

  18. Re:Interesting...but.... on LG Acquires WebOS Source Code and Patents From HP · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of incoming players in the mobile market based on qt/qml libraries, as webos, it could bring new apps for all of them.

  19. Re:Found = Not yet found? on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    Most of modern life is based on a lot of arid, useless discoveries or technologies by the time they were done.

  20. Close enough on How Close Is Iran, Really, To Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 2

    In fact, as close as Iraq previous to the US invasion. There is no better prediction than the one that you make it happen.

  21. Re:Ideology is what it's all about on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 2

    Worrying about the present and not for the future is ideology too. Don't let your language decide for you what matters.

    From my point of view ("good" is a subjective evaluation, after all), Linux and its ideology gave me better user experiences than the alternatives, if even because i had more than just one desktop to pick from, and keep running most of my prefered apps in all of them. And in mobile also gave me better user experience, at least in my last 2 phones (n900 and n9) than the existing commercial alternatives.

    Don't dismiss the ideology, it don't come alone. With it comes synergy between separate projects, plenty of people with new ideas that can effectively try them, options and control for you, and a lot of other things that you could dismiss or desesperatly need in different situations

  22. Re:How does it feel? on World's First Bitcoin ATM · · Score: 5, Funny

    A lot of people use US dollars without concern. Ignorance is bliss

  23. Re:Screw you, Metallica! on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 2

    Even today they should be put in a torture chamber to force to recognize that the music boom of today was in good part thanks to that kind of file sharing.

    On second tought, given how RIAA and similars had abused the system since them, that they recognize it is optional, but the torture chamber is a good idea anyway.

  24. It should be a common practice on Lessons From the Papal Conclave About Election Security · · Score: 1

    Maybe is how is really elected the president of USA since decades ago.

  25. Re:Plenty to cut on There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon · · Score: 1

    I say that the problem is a far bigger than the F35 (and drones, and a lot more), and the necks are of the ones at the core of the problem.