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  1. Re:Add "Small Wonder" to the list... on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    This show had a wacky running pattern in Atlanta... partly because of parents and kids arguing over it... and this thread was deleted until I posted more about this show on my user page. I was so close to this production my then-current girlfriend almost was on the show. It would have been her fourth job. We all started young in that class, and learned too much about the news in kindergarden.

  2. Re:Hey Tim on First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    Belt and suspenders protect. 1. No gun allowed here, and 2. If there is one, it's safer to stay indoors.

    How thick is the glass behind glass behind that female anchor of E! News on her Chicago-area set?

  3. Re:It only can become slavery... on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    "Free will" = A person is doing what they're doing because they want to, not because they're forced to.

  4. Re:Add "Small Wonder" to the list... on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    Sorry, your source is Wikipedia, and there's too much data on me and my friends wrong there.

  5. Add "Small Wonder" to the list... on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is a reason I call human behavior a "malfunction" is because that's what we called it in the 1980s after watching a syndicated show called "Small Wonder"... it was a one season show. As the robot controlled girl started rejecting everything, she killed "itself" or "herself" and the parents were tried and convicted. Most stations, when they saw the final episode, didn't air it.

  6. iPhone is even sometimes "free" on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 1

    All things smartphone are getting cheaper, and the phone company subsidies are still there it seems. And any iPhone launch event seems to have leftovers of the previous generation with "free" signs for the lowest model of that class. Seems like there's always a smartphone available... and is last year's iPhone worth nothing when the new one comes out to you?

  7. Re:Bitcoin never made cents or sense.... on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    If you got that profit, then you were lucky. This thing has been a bumpy ride down since the 1990s.

  8. Bitcoin never made cents or sense.... on US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bitcoin has always been falling in conversion rates... it was big money to the programmer and a money loser for everybody else who touched it.

  9. Isn't this just "implement Squid"? on Mozilla Offers FCC a Net Neutrality Plan With a Twist · · Score: 1

    Squid seems buried in a lot of products these days... and the key concept here is that data that needs to go to many people is best placed close to the users. If you can send it once per city to the a hub in each city, when the users want it they get it much faster and better.

  10. And with that yoiu get POWER! on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 0

    Removing salt from ocean water is a big thing to set up, but don't forget that in addition to getting drinking water, you also get electric power out of the operation as well.

  11. Re:NAT and proxies on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    The advertisers should be smart enough to know that sillychildishgame.com is on the child's iPad because of the ESN being transmitted, and dad's porn site should be smart enough to know that isn't the kid's usage because they most like got his credit card.

  12. It's a balancing situation... we can't have criminals talking to each other without being intercepted, but we also can't have people managing our lives for us...

  13. Re:What's somewhat funny about it on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    Yep... everybody wants the viral marketing effect. Thing is, all those sites are ad supported.

  14. Re:Uh, we need a new monitor for that! on Can You Tell the Difference? 4K Galaxy Note 3 vs. Canon 5D Mark III Video · · Score: 1

    $2,422.34 for a 31.5 inch 4K Monitor is what I see... that's definitely a "not ready yet!" price from my point of view.

  15. Somebody causing trouble? on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why they're publishing this at EFF... this isn't a new idea, and doesn't work well enough for a retread.

    So, let's speculate. Is there an ad provider out of line like DoubleClick was before it was Google. If there is, can't Slashdot call for ISPs to firewall it into non-existance?

  16. DUPE! on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    We've already discussed this recently, and the problem is the tracking sites will just go to IP based tracking.

  17. Re:Or you just link to the actual source ... on Finally, Hi-Def Streaming Video of the ISS's View of Earth · · Score: 0

    Good catch... I guess Slashdot is too RSS-automated to avoid those mistakes. Somebody tell CmdrTaco the automation things are getting overused.

  18. Re:Useless on Finally, Hi-Def Streaming Video of the ISS's View of Earth · · Score: 2

    I think UStream just got "slashdotted" as we call it here... too many users, not enough bandwidth.

  19. Uhm... iPhones aren't that valuable! on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Didn't anybody forget that all subscription service devices need their subscription fee paid in order for the thing to work? iPhone's "teardown parts price" is not that high... what they're really making money on is the subsidy from the carriers, and the service agreements. Stolen iPhone will 1. Not work for the thieves, and 2. Work against them.

  20. Beta flag up? on Google Shifts Editing From Drive to Docs and Sheets In 'Confusing' Switch · · Score: 1

    Did Google take down the Beta tag on these logos yet? Remember, not all Beta projects make it to stable. A lot of people were using GMail before the Beta sign went down!

  21. Re:It's just Google being Google on Google Shifts Editing From Drive to Docs and Sheets In 'Confusing' Switch · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Google has always had a "too many direction change" problem as their meritocracy sometimes tries things, and then end up giving up one idea to try another. If they really are an always profitable company, why is ticker GOOG in existance?

  22. Re:yep on Opting Out of Big Data Snooping: Harder Than It Looks · · Score: 1

    The main problem with TOR is there's not enough users, and as soon as the user hits a site that's never seen TOR before, they just nickname you as the TOR user on that site. If you read news through TOR or search Google through TOR, you're going to end up trackable anyway. Most news sites now refuse service to cookie-less users.

  23. Re:One way on Opting Out of Big Data Snooping: Harder Than It Looks · · Score: 1

    Yep, cashiers love to break the rules and scan some other card for you. What does it take to get them to do their job correctly?

  24. Uh, we need a new monitor for that! on Can You Tell the Difference? 4K Galaxy Note 3 vs. Canon 5D Mark III Video · · Score: 2

    4K just isn't here yet in monitors. If you've got a 1080p monitor, you can't see 4K unless you zoom in. That's the "NBSeeIt camera" effect on Sunday Night Football... a too high resolution camera lets them zoom in and still have 1080 lines of pixels.

  25. Re:yep on Opting Out of Big Data Snooping: Harder Than It Looks · · Score: 1

    TOR has so few users that you're going to end up being identified as "Oh, you're the one visitor I have that's using TOR!"