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  1. Re:I don't trust this and simply wonder WHY? on WhatsApp Enables End-To-End Encryption For All Forms of Communications By Default · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the words of Edward Snowden, "Use programs like Redphone, like Silent Circle â" anything by Moxie Marlinspike and Open Whisper System."

  2. Good one.

  3. I am reading Slashdot on a smartwatch, you insensitive clod!

  4. I used to read Slashdot but I quit in 1993 when I realized its downward spiral. However I programmed a bot that occasionally posts this answer to random comments. Sometimes (like in the present case) it is even related.

  5. Smartphone on Google Is Shutting Down Picasa In Favor of Photos (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you have Google Now enabled and Google matches the dates in the pictures with the position your smartphone regularly reports.

  6. Re:"lost productivity" claim rather dubious on Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 Today (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    :)

  7. Yutu: But still haven't found what I'm looking for.

  8. Physical correction on How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that beating the typewriter until it behaves?

  9. PaleMoon for Android:

    The Android version does not currently have a developer/team assigned to it due to lack of resources in the Pale Moon team, and we can currently, at most, provide security updates without further development or bugfixes.

    We do not have the resources or Android-specific expertise to keep pace with the rapid developments of the Android OS to provide a usable and suitable browser alternative on all common versions of that platform or the latest hardware. If you think you can help out by picking up development of the Android browser, then please get in touch with us!

  10. Answer on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 1

    I was expecting his answer to be "Bah, humbug!"

  11. DeepDream on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of DeepDream, Google's neural network that looks at images and tries to see things that are not there.

  12. If, for some reason, you don't like Esperanto, you can check Lingwa de planeta. The designing committee has already made the main decisions, but you can find something to contribute or to avoid.

  13. Bias on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia actively tries to avoid bias, including systemic bias. If the majority of the contributors are from certain countries, professions, social classes, genders, ideologies, religions, then it is probably that even unconsciously some subjects are covered with a bias or undercovered.
    As an example, it could be very possible that a certain bar in Oxford has a very good article because several editors are patrons, but whole regions of Africa could be scarcely covered because no Wikipedia editor lives there.

  14. Airships on Why Bhutan Might Get Drone Delivery Copters Before Seattle Does · · Score: 1

    Couldn't this be served better with small airships? They would have greater autonomy and I don't think there would be big differences in speed.

  15. Re:Space stations for peace on US Should Use Trampolines To Get Astronauts To the ISS Suggests Russian Official · · Score: 1

    Not really, big countries can feed and house "the poor" or at least their preferred section of "the poor" on their own, or even use it to criticize the other powers. A space station has to be a joint project. Nobody is ready to do it on their own.

  16. Space stations for peace on US Should Use Trampolines To Get Astronauts To the ISS Suggests Russian Official · · Score: 1

    I remember an article (by Carl Sagan?) that argued that, even if a US-Soviet space station or mission to Mars were not justifiable from a scientific point of view, they worked as an example that peaceful collaboration among the superpowers was possible.
    If both countries can't coordinate on keeping human presence in orbit, that's sad.

  17. Obama on Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Win Truth-Telling Award · · Score: 1

    It would be more embarrassing if they gave Obama the award after he did anything.

  18. Matthew 9:11 on Ghostwriter Reveals the Secret Life of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

    SPOILER ALERT: At the end of the book, the main character is executed by the government.

  19. Double Standards on Ghostwriter Reveals the Secret Life of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    The summary reminds me of JFK and of this indirectly related article The Double Standard That Lets Elites Survive Even Catastrophic Failures:

    To be taken seriously, those who critique the powerful must be flawless, whereas society forgives the most egregious errors in judgment of the elites themselves.

  20. Visiting Hitler on US Geneticist Discusses North Korea Trip With Dennis Rodman · · Score: 1

    21 teams went to Berlin in 1936 to play basketball. The US team got the gold medal. 7 of the nations playing were invaded by Germany in the following war. Spain withdrew before and saw Luftwaffe action that same year.

  21. The Spanish model on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, you could study the Spanish National Transplant Organization that achieves the highest rate of transplants/inhabitants in the world. Its model requires:

    • Universal health insurance coverage
    • Money (not a lot, actually)
    • A high rate of doctors/inhabitants
    • Nurses/ICU bed
    • Mechanical ventilation for ICU beds
    • The right demographic pyramid
  22. Mismatch on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 1

    People who most need organs (sick people) cannot be donors. People better suited to donate (healthy people) do not need organs.

  23. DHMO on A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy · · Score: 0, Troll

    A lot of coffee is decaffeinated by water (Swiss water process).

    Check it out, it is actually dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical known for causing thousands of deaths worldwide.

  24. And others on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    [Decadent, Gay, Romany, Mentally and physically handicapped, and Jewish]

    Just to remind you that many of them were Socialists, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses or common criminals. It's strange to see an enumeration that leaves them out.

  25. The obelisk on Google Maps, Lasers Reveal Vatican Catacombs · · Score: 1

    And the obelisk in Saint Peter's Square was "acquired" in Egypt by the Romans to decorate the spina. Later some pope decided that it would suit very well his new square.