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  1. Re:Long-term effects? on Mood-Altering Wearable Thync Releases First Brain Test Data · · Score: 1

    In other news, a man was found dead in his home around 6 PM last night. He was found wearing a Thync with apparent signs of overclocking and vastly increased voltage beyond the sepcified safe limits. Preliminary analysis shows that the man was attempted to get high by adjusting various components of the Thync.

  2. Personal info? on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 1

    Explain to us why we should not expect these guys or their business partners to profit off our personal information. Afterall, these guys are storing stuff in the AWS cloud, as per their privacy policy suggests...

  3. Re:Add you details? on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 1

    The problem is that drones and airplanes can easily crash into your massive dick, so you need to provide your addresses to the FAA for them to correct the flight paths.

  4. Re:well duh... on Smartphone Theft Drops After Spread of Kill Switches · · Score: 1

    We can trust people in not abusing the remote kill switch, right? Right?

  5. Re:How is this even necessary? on FBI Attempts To Prevent Disclosure of Stingray Use By Local Cops · · Score: 2

    My guess is that they don't want to keep people for liasion to these companies on payroll, either because the police officers are becoming increasingly impaired in their social skills (As seen in increased frequency of PR messups and no-knock raids all over the place. If only they can spend time having someone to talk to people...) or being part of anti-union tactic (Most police forces in North america are unionized afaik)

  6. Re:But surely... on Samsung SmartTV Customers Warned Personal Conversations May Be Recorded · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would like them to explain why a recording function is needed in the first place. If it is about determining what the best content for you might be, wouldn't you be the best person to choose what you want to watch? Why then take your choices away from you? Or are we evolved to the point that choices have become obnoxious?

  7. Re:Pointing fingers at problems on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    You can't force choices onto people because it becomes an obligation when you are forcing it.

  8. Re:Probably not... on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Web Development Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    I would have thought there is turnkey linux for lamp stack, and just write a shell script to configure it the way you want afterwards...

  9. Re:Its starts with terror and kidding porn on Sites Featuring "Terrorism" Or "Child Pornography" To Be Blocked In France · · Score: 1

    In other news, news web sites featuring articles/newsfeed about terrorism just got blocked. Next thing you know, news site talking about news site talking about terrorism got blocked because they feature terrorism as well. And the process goes on ad infinitum. Now you got no more news organization to feed you with news. Just saying.

  10. Re:Always Check the Source on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    You are suggesting you can provide a fiscal multiplier effect of 3000 which is not consistent with current economic estimates.

  11. Re:Download links updated to all OSes on LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release · · Score: 2

    openSUSE has 4.4 in Tumbleweed OSS repo already.

  12. Re:DVD on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? · · Score: 1

    A tiny bit of problem of HDD is that we don't see motherboards are being made with the connectors for HDDs made a few decades ago. Same thing might happen to the controller you might buy today in order to read that HDD in a few decades. So if "decades" is being the time frame then Optical disc might be better because the drives are usually made with some backward compatibility.

  13. Re:No they haven't on Nature Makes All Articles Free To View · · Score: 1

    I thought you can just take screenshots and put them in paint. But then again, there was Aaron Schwarz

  14. Re:Fantastic! on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing · · Score: 1

    Those exact same adults will be signing their forms and marriage certificate using electronic keys. Perhaps we should teach these kids ECDSA before they hit the age where they need to sign things.

  15. Re:Wow... on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    I wonder why the init system choices can't be configured to be more like Desktop Environments -- from the install media you choose which DE you want from a boot parameter and done. That way, even then default is systemd or gnome, people can still go on with their lives in a simple and easy manner.

  16. Re:Finland will save money on napkins on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing · · Score: 5, Funny

    who needs napkins to do calculations when you have slide rules?

  17. Re:Buy our money ink from China? on Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit · · Score: 1

    Not to mention lead paint. What assurance do we have that they are not selling us lead ink?

  18. Re:marketing on Espionage Campaign Targets Corporate Executives Traveling Abroad · · Score: 2

    This post means the police is busted about telling people encrypting their phones is a bad idea.

  19. Re:All well and good, but... on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 1

    Natural selection?

  20. Re:Just on PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud · · Score: 0

    It's not like they actually "earn" the money, so it's more like "I make money, you get fucked".

  21. Re:Checksums on Researcher Finds Tor Exit Node Adding Malware To Downloads · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What assurances do you have that they are not patching the checksum as well?

  22. Re:Defaults on Researcher Finds Tor Exit Node Adding Malware To Downloads · · Score: 1

    The problem is not everything can be accessed with SSL. Which makes me wonder why aren't we checking the files and checksum from different exit nodes. I don't think all of them patches the same malware do they?

  23. Re:Public safety is not the issue on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    Given that the same guys are telling us that foreign entities are trying to steal our secrets, is it some sort of fuckup or is it to the point of treason?

  24. Re:What's the difference? on FBI Warns Industry of Chinese Cyber Campaign · · Score: 2

    Of course, If you count in the problem that the FBI is also advocating against encryption, one must wonder whether the FBI is commiting treason by letting foreign entities searching our secrets.

  25. Re:The Children! on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    I wonder why the same argument does not apply to guns. Or at least not to those guys advocating lack of gun control.