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  1. Re:Is this interesting anymore? on Another Internet Griswold's Controllable Christmas Lights · · Score: 2

    "Maybe I am just being grinchy" I think the proper term would be hipster-grinchy?

  2. Re:Come now on A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Would anybody really complain if the Westboro Baptist Church, KKK, any number of redneck militias got no web presence because they were 'accidentally' filtered by automated means? Who exactly are you supposing would get slammed by the vague slippery slope argument you're making that isn't already protected from such harm?

  3. Re:This is getting tiresome on A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    No, these videos have been cited by prosecutors again and again as something they watched to become radicalized. There's a pretty big difference there.

  4. Re:Not an Infraction on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you freakin' kidding me? And this was modded up??

    Apparently people on Slashdot think they should drive like Steve McQueen, maybe that's the programming that's really needed for these vehicles to survive on the West Coast of the US.

  5. Re:Not an Infraction on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Motorcycles are cars now? I had no idea. Seriously I can agree with all of what you're saying, for a motorcycle. When did we start talking about motorcycles again?

  6. I have something like this already on Netflix Creates DIY Smart Socks That Pause Your Show When You Fall Asleep (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called my brain, it let's me remember what parts of a show I've seen and what parts I haven't.

  7. Re:Not an Infraction on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    There isn't any situation I can think of where speeding up will end up saving lives, nor is that why cars can go faster than posted speed limits, nor does anybody teach swerving into the left hand (on-coming) lane to avoid an accident. That's just beyond brain dead, "let me trade this rear end collision with a head on collision, all day long!".

  8. Don't like it, don't use their messaging services. They don't belong to you.

  9. Take a look at what actually went down, and given is the more apt term.

  10. Hitler was just a narcissist painter before he was 'given' power, just some nut case with lots of crazy 'rant' level ideas. I get the whole 'godwins' law argument, but seriously, Hitler was a nut case nobody until he was given the power to be somebody.

  11. Re:Sacred ground on Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives (khon2.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly I think the natives are sick of being trampled on by white people and their 'we do what we want cause we're smarter than you and also dibs'. And honestly I don't blame them.

  12. Re:No expectation of privacy on school systems on Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Google signed a piece of paper saying they would not do these things, apparently legally binding piece of paper. That makes just about everything you've said irrelevant to the FA, since it isn't about whether the school can mine students data (they can).

  13. Re:The question people ought to be asking themselv on Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the question you ought to be asking yourself is how to make a free product less expensive.

  14. Re:Increase productivity?? on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    That awkward moment when Ritalin helps with ADHD. And can be abused for attention span gains. Maybe there's something about 'dose' we're missing here in these studies? Maybe? lol

  15. Re:Increase productivity?? on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Taking 1/10th of the standard dose may not really impact judgement at all. Not that I'm saying it doesn't (since of course, no real research on that), but let's look a the possibility at least before going off on the 'don't trust a drug addict' nonsense.

  16. Re:Next up: Stone candy. on Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood · · Score: 0

    "It doesn't matter if you "overshoot", as it just means there will be a longer time until you get hungry." Your brain does not work this way. Good night!

  17. Re:Of course they don't like him. on Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or of course Musk could rush it, it blows up in his face and no politician will touch funding for Mars for 50 years.

  18. Re:Encryption is a weapon on ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    You've heard of deaths due to it's use, which is the point. Guns don't aim at people and then go off by themselves, which is the same for every weapon, ever.

  19. Re:Well, he's not entirely wrong on US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You're not alone in that regard, I'm sure it's been out there by now that the politicians and people in the US are calling for the exact same thing. We're at a point where terrorists don't need to 'assault our freedoms and way of life', we're just going to do it for them, all they need to do is poke their heads out from time to time, do something small scale with 'splash'. Then we get the calls for 'well let's just let the Christian ones in', or 'nope not even 5 year old orphans', somehow to these people this sounds like a reasonable reaction. Shutting down the sites and social media just hinders intelligence gathering, which is the only way you have a chance to figure out where that next 'poke' is going to come from.

  20. Re:Price/Keyboard vs Chromebook on Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel like the draw here is that you can just put this thing into a port rather than have a notebook hanging around the entertainment center. Same setup, just less bulk and cables floating around, portability if you're traveling. It's niche, but I don't think they have any illusions about that at all.

  21. Re:Not tempted on Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What're you buying for a screen, a 52" Plasma TV?

  22. Re:oh, so they won't learn THAT much right? on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 1

    Mostly because I don't wear a tin foil hat to bed every night, unlike apparently 90% of slashdotters. I think the 'Dey Tuk Ur Jurbs' people actually have more common sense.

  23. Re:oh, so they won't learn THAT much right? on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 2

    Wondering how you come to the conclusion of a flooded job market. Oh right, it's the hyperbole train.

  24. Re:MISSION: To obliterate the wages of programmers on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 2

    Listen, if your job is threatened by school children coding in Scratch I don't know what you've been doing for the last few years, but it certainly doesn't involve making smart career moves.

  25. Re:Thinking? on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 1

    You can say this about anything, so I'm not really sure what your point is. All taught critical thinking has some sort of 'mechanism' tied to it, whether it's Literature, Mathematics, Biology, so on and so forth. I certainly don't remember ever taking a 'Critical Thinking' class in grade school.