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  1. Changing the system? on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't the embryos change by the simple action of observing it?

  2. Re:Concern on Amazon Web Services To Build Two New Aussie Data Centers · · Score: 1

    I am suspecting the plan is to expand so you got virtual monopoly, and then start charging money.

  3. Re:Does anyone still use Gnome? on KDE Releases Plasma 5.1 · · Score: 1

    The only thing I don't like about XFCE is that the latest one comes out at like 2 years ago which is like 3-4 versions of distros using a 6-8 month release cycle.

  4. Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why wouldn't people just use the system of "where your customers pay you" for any multinational company to determine "where to tax is owed"? Much simpler and fairer between different nations.

  5. Re:systemd on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    I suppose if systemd develops to a way that violates arch's philosophy either arch will change the philosophy or arch will get rid of it from the default.

  6. Re:Stupid on Gmail Security Is a Problem For Tor Users In Repressive Countries · · Score: 1

    Better question: how would you receive mail, letting other people to write your diary?

  7. Re:And what about privacy? on It's an Internet-Connected Wheelchair (Video) · · Score: 1

    The much bigger problem is that are the control connected? That can easily turn into something tragic in a similar way like the USB firmware problem we have earlier.

  8. Re:Murder on It's an Internet-Connected Wheelchair (Video) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Simply crash the wheelchair into the ocean/down the cliff.

  9. Re: Sounds like a win for AT&T on AT&T To Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges · · Score: 1

    C'mon, the penal damage is like 25 million which is puny. The net profit of AT&T is like 18 Billion so it's like 8 hours of profit for them which is practically nothing. Unless you are telling me that's one million per customer, the penal part is BS.

  10. Re:Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    They say if the stuff does not belong to him then they can search with impunity. But if the stuff does not belong to him How would he be guilty? That BS argument makes no sense at all whatsoever.

  11. Re:Three year s ubscription... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Unresponsive Manufacturer Who Doesn't Fix Bugs? · · Score: 0

    IANAL, ...

    For a split second I didn't realize that was an acronym but rather some awful parsing of some all capped word(s)

  12. Re:Just fucking leave it alone! on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    openBSD should be more secure in comparison. Seriously though, the systemd people should look into limiting the interdependencies of their projects. That find of interlocking makes it lacking portability. If they want to replace VT, do that in a way that doesn't make it dependent to everything they have ever made.

  13. Re:Windows 9X on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 1

    31, 70-79, 80-89, 90-99, 100-199, ..... that's going to make a whole lot of holes. Idiot version numbering will haunt them again and again.

  14. ... we are all gonna die! on Lost Sense of Smell Is a Strong Predictor of Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Most of us can't smell anything with a cold... so we'll all die from a 5-year cold.

  15. Hm..... on How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether making FinFisher involves the NSA. Also is SELinux becoming a problem as well?

  16. Re:migratable vms? on Amazon Forced To Reboot EC2 To Patch Bug In Xen · · Score: 1

    If you can migrate/clone between multiple AZ and region some will inevitably do that just to avoid a reboot (Simply human nature, the "just because they can" type, nothing really related to the technical aspects of said individuals). I would like to see how that turns out for those guys.

  17. Re:migratable vms? on Amazon Forced To Reboot EC2 To Patch Bug In Xen · · Score: 1

    But if they are patching xen and xen supports live migration on at least some hosts (At least RHEL can).... Kind of makes you wonder what's the problem.

  18. Re:migratable vms? on Amazon Forced To Reboot EC2 To Patch Bug In Xen · · Score: 1

    I was just wondering why not live migrate the VM to a patched rig and then reboot the unpatched rig. Guess that answers the question.

  19. Re:Nothing new on Where Whistleblowers End Up Working · · Score: 1

    It's a very effective method at discouraging effective and functional resistance against status quo.

    Similar procedures were used against key people behind Occupy movement according to similar reports.

    Somehow that makes me wonder what happens when we set up a corporation just to whistleblow on other companies. But then it would probably turn into a nasty bit of the complex where they just keep blackmailing other companies instead.

  20. Re:Risk management? on Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap · · Score: 2

    Faster, Cheaper, Better.

    Pick any two....

    You meant India started the Mars probe program all the way back when they just got independence from the UK?

  21. I call this BS on Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway · · Score: 1

    the H-1B video is BS: The jobs created by letting those guys in is mostly support economy as in stores/home care/restaurants the foreign workers spend the money. In essence they want the locally trained STEM guys to get those jobs instead. They have never demonstrated that there is such a need for locally trained STEM guys because if they do they'll put money into it to encourage people to take the training and jobs. I wonder why those company never seem to need locally trained STEM people. Is it because schools in some places are switching to creationism so the whole country's education is put into question?

  22. Re:Fine! on Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway · · Score: 1

    What people decide to be good for them and are actually good for other people = videos of epic fail all over the internet

  23. Re:How much longer on Device Allows Paralyzed Rats To Walk, Human Trials Scheduled Next Summer · · Score: 1

    You are missing the point. This devices make great assassins for mafia or gangs once they hack the system because if you can show the system is hacked to get the guy off the hook, the thread of investigation is kind of broken there. And if you cannot, you got your scapegoat.

  24. Re:password manager on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 1

    Or OTPIE on top of a less complicated password

  25. Re:OpenID on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 1

    Who cares about those passwords anyways? They are kids for christsake. Just give the teacher admin password to reset and change everything. They WILL steal eachothers passwords, they will share them, they will make up "funny" passwords if they get to choose. They are kids, let them be kids. Being impulsive, naive, and, well, juvenile, is integral part of being a kid. Also, they already remember all the important passwords, such as their facebook, online games etc.

    Better question: do we want that to be an opportunity to teach them how to manage passwords/manage their own system so that their bad habit don't stick with them all the way into old age homes?