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  1. Re:Maybe they're not on How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com) · · Score: 1

    It is in their interest to let people think they have cracked or hacked this, Windows, HTTPS, TOR, whatever, even if they haven't.

  2. Get yer head out of 1970s on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    Well this is nice, but people have been doing this since the 1960s.

    How about a bread substitute that has 0 carbs? And almost no calories for that matter. Slay Type II diabetes by chopping out the bulk of calories eaten.

  3. Re:Not this shit again on "Are Games Art?" and the Intellectual Value of Design (timconkling.com) · · Score: 1

    There can be art in games, and perhaps a well-told story, but the gameplaying itself is arguably not art.

    "I was moved by Superman punching out Joker's heart, before the Joker inevitably got better!" Assuming this is art, a cut scene is not the game.

  4. Re:Guns are the problem. on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It is more rare than winning a lottery.

  5. Re:Slashdot? on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA does not mention it, nor does OP. You are like a supine Supreme Court rationalizing a reason a law is legal, when that reason was not ever discussed during Congressional deliberations, and the reasons they did discuss were unconstitutional.

  6. Re:Laws on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Where are the moderators keeping Slashdot on target for nerdy rather than pure, unadulterated SJW fodder?

    Ironically, I may get modded down, demonstrating the answer.

  7. Why bother creating an actual sphere if you just want the energy. It is worse for balance than a ringworld. Stick with orbitting rings at different distances and you can still live in slowly rotating megastructures.

    And much less worry about a stellar-level catastrophe from a zombie apocalypse.

  8. Nice on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    > Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving

    That's not what drunken women are usually doing when live streaming.

    They both involve headlights, tho.

  9. Most Slashdotters are smart betas. You're 0 for 2, you poor soul.

  10. Re:Live by the sword, die by the sword. on Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They added a cell phone to a Palm Pilot. Or vice versa.

    Tbh nobody expected it to be huge.

  11. Re:Maintaining status quo... on Antineutrino Detection Is About To Change the Game In Nuclear Verification (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    So in essence, this new method would allow the existing superpowers to continue to keep their boots on the throats of developing countries who may want to pursue nuclear ambitions.

    I am fine with that. There are programs for peaceful nuclear power, and no need for domestic purification capability.

    I am more than fine, I am completely on board disallowing any non-free country from doing this, your raging nationalism, a tool of dictators, included.

  12. Re:Isn't that illegal? on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 1

    Yes and easily tracked down once you stir things up.

  13. Ya it isn't normal banner ads, it is porn sites which try to grind your browser to a halt, probably trying to take it over. I don't really need 4k 120fps video running in a sidebar, or a whole 3D rendering system.

    Not that I go to those.

  14. Re:Irrelevant on Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA · · Score: 1

    Was that the doctrine that allowed government to heap massive financial liability on radio stations by forcing them to broadcast "the other political side's" trite, boring, and tired class warfare rhetoric?

    Not counting NPR, of course.

  15. Re:unwatchable to me... on Star Trek: New Voyages, The Fan-Based Star Trek Series (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My parent's house, a 2-story colonial, in 1964 was $18,500. The $230/month book of payment coupons was terrifying.

  16. Re:5 Eps on the website on Star Trek: New Voyages, The Fan-Based Star Trek Series (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Star Trek Online puts you in charge of a million ton space battle and turns it into button mashing.

    I would murder just to have the computer mildly intelligently auto-adjust the "divert power from this shield to that" crappppppola.

    Let me focus on the strategy rather than second-to-second immediate reactionary button mashing.

    This goes for all MMORPGs in general, of recent vintage. Giving everyone one or two 1-2 second microholds and smash key to break free and other immediate-reaction twitch stuff, please.

    Another hundred million dollar flop, order is up!

  17. Re:If an investment strategy requires a... on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Once a get rich plan is published, no matter how mathematically and statistically sound it is, other people will try to game those using it. Hence the theory is no longer valid as it does not take into consideration general knowledge of its use and the distorting affect that has.

    Witness a theoritical way of determining what stock will go up 10% in two days. People will quickly use it and pre-buy that stock, and it no longer will.

  18. Re:So the taxes were collected from salaries inste on Facebook UK Paid £35m In Staff Bonuses, But Only £4,327 In Corporation Tax (gu.com) · · Score: 1

    When people point out half the US taxpayers actually pay no tax at all, the same type of people who talk cynically as you do point out these people still pay social security tax via the hidden half the company pays on your behalf, of which few are aware, by design of fraudulent politicians, to deliberately hide the size of your SS contribution.

    So as to not make "pay no taxes" a *complete* lie.

  19. Re:Why log on Cryptome Accidentally Leaks Its Own Visitor IP Addresses (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes they did.

    I wonder if they have to install monitor recording software in response to a warrant or seciruty letter. Can they be forced to?

  20. Nasty words, you have been warned! on How Amazon's Monster Erotica Book Ban Shaped CloudFlare's Censorship Stance (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Where's the "rancid assholes" guy when you need him? Here's your story chance!

  21. Re:And that's why I'm backing Sanders on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 0

    I am not sure putting near infinite power (at least over the economy) in a class warfare rhetoritician's hands, as opposed to more capitist-friendly hands, has ever been a net gain for the actual common man. Take some of the rough edges off, but it can easily go too far.

  22. Advertising! on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 2

    Well, with so much regulation, taxation, and rent seeking, "when the means of production are bought and sold, the first thing bought and sold is the legislature."

    Translation: If the goverment didn't have such intrusive powers to begin with, especially into the economy, there wouldn't be such fights to wield its power.

    inb4 someone yelpz about corporations being citizens with speech rights, needing yet another belabored explanation of the actual Supreme Court ruling.

  23. Perforce is excellent. Their concept of changelists is clean and easy to use.

    I have been stuck with abominations like Microft SourceSafe and IBM's godawful Rational suite, the latter of which is purchased by the same kind of idiots who like SAP, i.e. people their sales staff can easily suck on.

  24. Re:Yes, but ... on The Top Secret Chinese Military Project That Led To a Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    They didn't suck up to Chia during this period. The goal is freedom in these countries, and China has a great deal of economic freedom for its people now, even if speech is curtailed.

    As the West is seeing (again and again, unfortunately, never learning the lesson) there is a lot more to freedom than just speech. It certainly seems to play only a small part at best in the increasing health and wealth of a nation, brought about by economic freedom for its citizens.

    Ironically, if we want to crush them, we should encourage massive regulation and redistribution of wealth until they are of little consequence on the world stage, like Europe.

  25. Re:Best weapon against malaria: DDT on The Top Secret Chinese Military Project That Led To a Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    No it isn't, if the outcomes remains an additional 500,000 deaths a year in spite of his words.

    Those are meme attempts to assuage the mass murderous effect of this ban.