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  1. Re:Maybe they should ... on Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding · · Score: 0

    I agree. Some other things has to be done before the kids's education has any future.

  2. Re:Yellow cabs are also on Data Research Reveals When Taking a Yellow Cab Is Cheaper Than an Uber · · Score: 1

    Just not yet. In America you can make a lot of things legal such as polluting the environment or taking bribes if your company got shitloads of money. If you include "not being prosecuted" you can put "crashing the financial market" on the list as well.

  3. Re:Clickbait on Analysis: People Who Use Firefox Or Chrome Make Better Employees · · Score: 1

    As if killing the messenger would solve the problem. Right...

  4. Sexual description? on Nipples, Terrorism, and Sexual Descriptions - Facebook's List of Banned Content · · Score: 1

    I can't even write my own erotic novel on Facebook? That is fcked up.

  5. Following instructions? on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder how many people will actually follow the instructions in mixing these things back to booze. Somehow I am inclined to believe people do not want to follow the instructions and swallow the stuff with as little water as physically possible.

  6. It's only a currency if you think it is. on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see them ban barter for everyone who didn't get "permission" first.

  7. Re:Injecting memories on Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse · · Score: 1

    Or remotely cheating at chess, exams, interviews, or even remote human espionage. The possibility is endless.

  8. Re:the people can't be trusted with this on Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse · · Score: 1

    You sure after eating all those pizzas you won't die from obesity-related problems? Even if you change it to sexual favours you might still get STD's. Better just stick to everyone giving you a few dollars every now and then.

  9. Re: What is this I don't even on Mars "Webcam" To Be Made Available For Public Use · · Score: 2

    Will the path of the rover be preprogrammed likewise? If so sooner or later proposals will pop up that inadverdently/intentionally gets giant pictures of its paths which draws NSFW things.

  10. Re:mandatory treadmill tests on Treadmill Performance Predicts Mortality · · Score: 2

    Have we got numbers on how many people got injured/killed by treadmills on a yearly basis? I guess those are for the 3% for people scoring above 0.

  11. Re:FEO on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It'will be interesting to see whether websites of some particular political party or lobbying group get downranked so much to disappear from search results completely.

  12. Re:welcome on Human DNA Enlarges Mouse Brains · · Score: 1

    Well, or it can go to the other direction, like Pinky and the Brain.

  13. Re:file transfer on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 0

    I thought USB Mass storage wasn't supported until Windows 9x/ME. Unless you manage to pull off booting linux or something from floppy.
    My suggestion would be PCMCIA CDROM (you did mention PCMCIA floppy drive, I would suppose that should work too) to boot linux/FreeBSD off from and see what you can do from there.

  14. Re:Whose Eyes? on Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding · · Score: 2

    The problem with many-eyes hypothesis is that not everyone looks for the security bugs and not everyone is capable of looking for every kind of bug. Everyone will notice a problem when the UI behaves differently. Not many of us will notice when the command-line utility did something subtly different (especially when it comes to RNG, like the Debian OpenSSL bug back in 2008) without abnormal output.

  15. Re:Just use OpenBSD, for crying out loud! on Homeland Security Urges Lenovo Customers To Remove Superfish · · Score: 1

    Actually use a different OS for each of your computer. Stuff that can infect your box regardless which OS you are on pretty much means you are screwed either way. Like investing, diversifying would be a better strategy as the scope of the damage is more limited than homogeneous system/networks.

  16. Re:News on 800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data · · Score: 1

    It's not like all the president has no bad news. Every last one of them got some dirt on their representative work.

  17. Re:This is why..... on New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users · · Score: 2

    If you need privacy, you don't buy a phone. Do all your talking in person. Actually, do everything in person.

  18. You might be assuming they don't have/cannot create new paths/shortcuts.

    but then again, if they can make or have shortcutsthere is no way we can see them coming.

  19. Re:All the more reason... on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Time to ditch the dark side (windows).

  20. Re:A good strategy on Algorithmic Patenting · · Score: 1

    I wonder why nobody come up with an algorithm generator to spam software patents already. Seems like the goal is the wording and not the substance all along.

  21. Re:Use GIT on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 1

    Libreoffice has flat formats that are text-editable (xml ish), suitable for version control to some extent. So git is ok but you need to switch the entire system in order to use git. That being said, if the changes are required to be tracked like that then yes it will be a better solution.

  22. Re:Well duh on Valve Censoring Torrent References In Steam Chat · · Score: 1

    I wonder why nobody thought of forking the steam client on github to include TLS in steam chat.

  23. Re:First Post on What Your Online Comments Say About You · · Score: 4, Informative
    John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory:

    Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad

    Face it, it explains everything.

  24. Re:Sample size on Mood-Altering Wearable Thync Releases First Brain Test Data · · Score: 1

    And possibly the control group that shocks in some other manner.

  25. Re:How does it make money? on LinkedIn Restricts API Usage · · Score: 1

    Now they are selling API access too. Just keep squeezing money out of every possible niches.