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  1. modify instead of kill? on Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    wasn't there a better suggestion where they modified the mosquitoes to not carry malaria instead of just wiping out all the mosquitoes?

  2. what about designing a slow shift? on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    So, create an algorithm which migrates from the current times to the new times over a longer period of time. and does so in short segments? Hmm

  3. Re:Every single person involved acted stupidly. on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    4. Said guy on Twitter overreacts as well. Oh boy. Stupid.

    This never happened. Deroir left the conversation about as politely as you can.

  4. isn't this what signed tags are for? on Should GitHub Allow Username Reuse? (donatstudios.com) · · Score: 1

    You sign a tag so that it's verifiable that no one else could have possibly created the tag, so if a malicious user gets your account name but not your private key, they can't create new tags.

  5. what if no IPS will do business with Montana now? on Montana To FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    uhhh what if all ISPs simply stop taking contracts from government, and just.. allow it to stop having internet access? They'd be free to sell dumpy plans to everyone else in the state.. I guess it depends on how much $$$ montana pays for service?

  6. A human can do it with two eyeballs and a few mirrors... so what makes a machine different? I mean sure we'd prefer if the machines were safer than humans, but most of that is likely more to do with the software running on the humans than the lack of sensors... so the hard part is *not* sensors, it's interpreting the sensor data to safely move the vehicle.

  7. Re:unconstitutional on Supreme Court Won't Hear Kim Dotcom's Civil Forfeiture Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    People on both the left and the right oppose civil forfeiture...

  8. I doubt they're using routing for voice or SMS. I suspect they're having the device "phone home" where it is, so that it can ask it the question. Not idea how you'd secure that connection tho.

  9. I read the title originally as "if compilers were infinitely fast" and it actually made sense as a problem question to answer. When you say "computers are infinitely fast" the question becomes dumb because there are a lot of things you can do if computers are infinitely fast which would be dumb to actually do.

  10. Re:Are you guys actually listening to these sample on Lyrebird Claims It Can Recreate Anyone's Voice Based On Just a 1 Minute Sample (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point of this isn't that they can recreate 100% believable audio yet, but that they can get really close, and that it's going to happen relatively soon, so we should stop relying on audio recording as authentic.

  11. have you ever tried to cut TV? on Cord-Cutting Isn't Nearly as Significant as Cable Providers Make It Out To Be (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It takes someone with the patience of a rock to actually get the person on the other end of the phone to actually cancel your TV service. Oh, and because of bundling this saves you.... zero money.

  12. Re:Chain of 6 Exploits on Edge, VMWare, Safari, And Ubuntu Linux Hacked at Pwn2Own 2017 (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the automatic bug finder finds a crack in the C&C and compromises it to add it to the bot-net?

  13. Relevant XKCD on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1