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  1. .NET is now more free-as-in-freedom than Java on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 0

    Well, both Microsoft and Linux are led by Finns, right? Maybe it's the Finns...

  2. Comcast is a content provider on Charter Strikes $56B Deal For Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    Charter is not. The vertical integration is thus not an issue here.

  3. This is at least two years old on LinkedIn Used To Create Database of 27,000 US Intelligence Personnel · · Score: 4, Informative
  4. Now all we need on Self-Driving Big Rigs Become a Reality · · Score: 1
  5. How does any candidate in 2015 on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 5, Informative

    fail to register all the related internet domains. Like, for instance carlyfiorna.org?

    Bonus: Demon Sheep!

  6. Shouldn't Slashdot put up a on NVIDIA Quadro M6000 12GB Maxwell Workstation Graphics Tested Showing Solid Gains · · Score: 2

    "Sponsored Content" banner at the top of this post?

  7. Unsurprisingly, no one bothered to read on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1

    The original google post about this, which makes it clear that mobile friendly sites get a higher ranking when you search on mobile devices . This change will affect mobile searches. Mobile. Not desktop. So if you're searching from a mobile device then results that are more mobile friendly will be ranked higher, on the assumption that people searching from mobile devices would prefer mobile content.

  8. Sounds like one of Schneier's on GAO Warns FAA of Hacking Threat To Airliners · · Score: 1
  9. Americans have been saying that on Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment · · Score: 1

    as have Canadians.

  10. This, if true, will utterly destroy on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Disqus, and the comment section at The Atlantic.

  11. Re:Why not both? on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    And then the one pilot pulls the breaker on the monitoring/remote control system. So the breakers are made non-pullable. And then, oops, an electrical short brings down the aircraft, because the pilot couldn't pull the breaker...

  12. "quantum comuting" on Steve Wozniak Now Afraid of AI Too, Just Like Elon Musk · · Score: 2

    That's where I both am, and am not, driving to work, right?

  13. Well that should make it easy on IBM Will Share Tech With China To Help Build IT Industry There · · Score: 1

    for IBM to lay off another couple hundred thousand.

  14. I've seen this movie! on Researchers Nearly Double the Size of Worker Ants · · Score: 4, Interesting
  15. Waitaminute on Surgeon: First Human Head Transplant May Be Just Two Years Away · · Score: 1

    I think I've seen this movie before. It doesn't end well.

  16. So Windows is getting hit with the Ugly Stick on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The same one the Mac OS got hit with in the most recent release.

  17. Oh for fucks sake, people. on Samsung Smart TVs Don't Encrypt the Voice Data They Collect · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The microphone on the TV stays off until you command it to listen. You do that by pressing a large VOICE button on the remote.

  18. Isn't that kinda/sort the DEFINITION of average? on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Only if the data is normally distributed. Vaccination rates in the US, however, aren't. Or shouldn't be, anyway. The median should be somewhere in the 90% range in what should be a highly skewed distribution.

  19. Just disable the wifi on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    Either in the settings by turning it off, or by putting bogus login information in. Or you can block the TVs MAC address at the router.

    No wifi, no networking, no smart functionality.

  20. Re:OK Google on Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data · · Score: 2

    This applies to Apple phones, too. And Microsoft phones. And hardwired landline phones.

  21. Re:Anyone think it's about 'sex w/o a condom'? on Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data · · Score: 1

    It's really about ethics in security journalism.

  22. "15 to 20 per cent higher risk of death on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 3, Funny

    from any cause"

    Isn't the risk of death from any cause 100%? At least for us mortals?

  23. I hope no one runs steam as root. on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    OTOH, running it on an SeLinux system would probably contain the damage.

  24. It will get security patches for the next 5 years on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Which is about 5 years longer than any version of Android older than 5.0 will get them.

  25. Further proof on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 0