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  1. Great uptime! on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Put your servers in the Azure cloud to have an uptime of 9.999999999%

  2. Missed the point on 25 Alleged Anonymous Hackers Arrested By Interpol · · Score: 1

    Once identified them, they weren't Anonymous anymore. They arrested just hackers.

  3. Re:Great on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    Then wait till they do the blu-ray version of ST:Voyager, starting from the 5th season.

  4. Artificial intelligence... on US Military Working On 'Optionally-Manned' Bomber · · Score: 1

    is no match for military natural stupidity

  5. Medic approves on Your Next TV Interface Will Be a Tablet · · Score: 1

    Holding a tablet all day will make wonders for the health of the typical couch potato that just see tv,

  6. Typo on Obama's Privacy Bill of Rights: Just a Beginning · · Score: 1

    Is not "our data belong to us", is "YOUR data belong to us".

  7. Re:In a not so distant future... on Where Next-Generation Rare Earth Metals May Come From · · Score: 1

    Considering how late we found the latest pretty nearby ones, rare earths could come from the asteroid belt without need that anyone call them.

  8. Sensors on Are Smartphones Starting a Boom In DIY Medicine? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just today was watching this Solve for X talk, where Kevin Dowling present strechable electronics, that is a very thin sheet can be attached to the skin and work as internal sensors, having communication and so on. Pairing that with a cellphone looks the next logical step.

    And yes, with the appropiate sensors a cellphone could be a good boom for diy medicine, provided that it can detect whether you should worry about, take measures for yourself, or scale up to going to a proper doctor or hospital.

  9. Re:Both sexes are valuable on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 1

    Evolution=faulty copies that remained. And that faulty copies could had survived over the old ones by random factors (i.e. being in certain moment in the right place to survive an extintion event), not necessary because being "better". That should take out the illusion that evolution is the path to perfection.

  10. Definition of bad on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    Almost all of them use gas, pollutes, are noisy. don't drive themselves, don't fly, don't have MrFusion, are bulky, dont just teleport to the destination. Oh, and there are too many of them, everywhere.

    Now, for others definition of bad most cars today could be pretty good, or any past car could be a dream, going back to the Ford T. But at any moment you can claim that bad cars are gone, just adjusting your definition of bad or good.

  11. "Other OSes" on The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He seem to never heard of Maemo or the N900. If well not successful (for some values of successful, at least) had a lot of ideas other OSes should copy. In front of Android i felt crippled after more than a year with Maemo, mainly because how natural was for me to be really running several applications at once, even with that hardware. Maemo development diverted to Meego, that ended losing ground by the 2 companies backing it, and now could be in the horizon Tizen, Meltemi or whatever ends being the flavor of the semester.

    WebOS is good anyway, even when the environment seemed to be with less community push than Maemo. A lot of its features, joined with maemo/meego/whatever ones, could make an interesting portable device OS. But the handset makers and carriers had already picked their alternatives, and there is little room for others (specially, without big enough backers), what is a shame,

  12. Re:Corporations doing evil vs Govt doing evil on Canada's Online Surveillance Bill: Section 34 "Opens Door To Big Brother" · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the worst they can do is not killing you, but getting close enough to that. And claim that is your own fault.

  13. DRM icon on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1
    looked appropiate for the question. Yes, would be insane to put a spying version of your program. What ensure real users that you don't have it in the expensive version?

    If someone is really a potential customer, like in would be willing to pay ~10k for your software, then support, improvements, fixes, and all the help they could get to successfully run it is a good part of the reasons they would, and that won't be in the pirate bay. It gives your software a bit of visibility, and if it lands in an operation big enough to have that kind money available to buy it, they will, and it the operation isnt big enough, then they wouldnt buy it anyway.

  14. Re:Trying to figure out who the good guys are on European Parliament To Exclude Free Software With FRAND · · Score: 2

    Transparency. Everything that does, gets, or meet people from government is made public (and with government don't mean just the president, but congressmen, local authorities, counselours, every people that have a direct (or close enough to it) role in any action or decision of the government. If they are your representatives, then you must know what they do, and really why them do that. And that could be kicked, banned from public serving, and even jailed if proved that accepted any sort of bribes or things like that regarding their government work.

  15. Re:I saw this movie on Russian Scientists Revive Plant From 30,000-Year-Old Seeds · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You know how marketing works, have this plant, direct from the previous ice age!.if those plants become somewhat popular and get out, i would be worried about our actual ecosystem, Anyway, isnt like something back in the age of dinosaurs or even before. Should not be so big incompatibilities with actual species, and could get back some healty food for us.

  16. Re:Great Ideas on Eternal Copyright: a Modest Proposal · · Score: 1

    If he accept bribes, then he shouldnt be there, Attack that (don't know, instead of keeping voting for them, or by default approving them for not voting, try to pick an alternative or make vocal that no alternative is good), and maybe in not very long time other problems will be solved.

  17. Re:Corporations doing evil vs Govt doing evil on Canada's Online Surveillance Bill: Section 34 "Opens Door To Big Brother" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Added bonus, whats the worst that can do either of them?

    Google could send you (or help others to do so) spam not so easy to ignore.

    Government will find a joke you did, meant to be a joke, understood by all the involved parts of the conversation as joke, and still punish you for that.

    Now put that to really private conversations. Or any try to warn others about corruption/abuses/mass killings or whatever of people or companies somewhat related with your government. And that the one doing that with your private conversations could not be your government, but US one if you happen to be citizen of any other country.

  18. Re:Directions please... on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 1

    Weapons don't kill people, the people handling them does. Sometimes could be one friend, or relative, or random joe, that ends kill someone because is not aware of the full consequences (is just pressing a trigger, not actually hitting with their fist to someone), or because the people that picked him to handle that weapon did it because is not someone afraid to use it against other people, or just by mistake.

    Now replace weapons with drones, and kill with whatever you could do with one of those drones, including kill. And regarding people handling them, you put all the layers, from politicians and ceos, makers, software designers, hackers that managed to control them or plant something offline (remember stuxnet), and at the end the final user managing it while eating a donut. Is not like we don't have culture on what could be wrong in all those places, 2001, robocop, and the simpsons are just a few examples of what people can do to make all go wrong.

  19. Re:Directions please... on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 1

    I am not afrad of machines, but are very afraid of the (layers of) humans behind them. A noisy, isolated, with visible identification and visible helicopter is no match for a swarm of drones, remotely controlled by who knows how much people, and with "requisites".

  20. Re:Except it would be suicide for Google... on HP CEO Says Google-Motorola Deal Could Close-Source Android · · Score: 1

    The problem is not particulary google, but their partners, the device makers that close as much as possible their devices to tie them to their services. That you could jailbreak a phone and put a clean android on it is bad for them, and closing the source to avoid that could be a common request to Google.

  21. Re:Sony is a Profit-Oriented Corporation on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 1

    Ask half of the europeans how banks (mostly US ones) screw their economies. Regarding freedom, wasnt about (specifically) banks, sopa/pipa/etc media corporations (including Sony, btw) sponsored laws hit everywhere... when you can't do a joke in twitter because you can get deported some basic freedoms were lost somewhere.

  22. Re:Should we? on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    The problem is the plural. Would be very impractical if everyone lives up to 120 years. But what about you in particular? Ok, maybe not you or me, there are people that are practically swimming in money, what about them? If there are a way to push the limit a few years, they will, even if that goes around bathing in the blood of babies every day.

  23. Re:yet more biblical contradictions on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The calendar was lunar, so each "year" was 29 days. Back in those times, iiving up to 80 was something to note.

  24. Re:Sony is a Profit-Oriented Corporation on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 1

    Is not the only one. In fact, the worrysome part is the "short term" profit goal that they all have. If the way picked to make a fast cash screws worlds economy, leaves hundreds or millons without work, house, or just end a good portion of the freedom of the mankind, in the end they will be affected too. Sometimes you can attribute both stupidity and malice at the same time to explain adequately things.

  25. Re:false positives on Hotmail's Spam Filter: The Best In the Business? · · Score: 1

    Thats one of the keys of their "good" spam filtering, they are very strict on which servers could connect to them to send email, and how them should behave. Yes, they detect a lot of spam, but also a lot of mail just don't get there.

    I setup a basic linux server anywhere, even with an invalid domain, send a test email and it reaches usually my gmail inbox, if not it goes to the spam folder. But gets there, don't get rejected at the incoming mail server level usually leaving no trace if it ever existed for the destination, and little or no clue to the person that sent it. And that is even worse than marking something real as spam,