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  1. Re:Backwards compatibility is not a right on For Playstation 4 Owners, Bad News On USB, Bluetooth Headsets · · Score: 3, Informative

    Their systems driver group has drivers that work with everything already. This is a corporate decision, not a technical or even support costs issue.

  2. Re:DOUBLEPLUS on British Police Foil Alleged Mall Massacre Copycat Plot · · Score: 2

    It's the sickening assumption it's best, so sayeth those in ivory towers, that nobody be permitted to fight back, lest a robber get killed, that has lead to liberalization of ccw and stand your ground laws.

    This is not a hyperbplic overstatement.

  3. Re:Dangerous/ Forsee problems on Aussie Company Planning To Use Drones For Textbook Delivery · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the onboard camera -- 99.9% of "problems" will be people fucking around rather than failures.

  4. Re:Dangerous/ Forsee problems on Aussie Company Planning To Use Drones For Textbook Delivery · · Score: 1

    This is why they should use hexacopters where computer control can handle loss of one rotor (e.g. because of a plastic bag) or even two as long as they are not adjacent (and mayne even then).

  5. Re:Clapper... on NSA Scraping Buddy Lists and Address Books From Live Internet Traffic · · Score: 2

    "least untruthful"

    He should go to jail. When testifying publicly before Congress on something that touches secret issues, you get to say two things only:

    1. The truth
    2. "This involves secret issues that should be discussed behind closed doors."

    That is it. Assuming you aren't a crook pleading the Fifth.

  6. Re:Stop pushing the bogus 643 million $ number on Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy" · · Score: 2

    And this unused text string suggests the site is assembled from boilerplate, rather than a real custom, and thus expensive job.

    I would expect well-tested boilerplate, by the way, to keep costs down. But it is government after all. We can do both! We don't have to choose! We can have cheap boilerplate and grotesquely expensive costs. We don't have to choose!!!

  7. Re:Preventing terrorism is a legimate reason on RMS: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? · · Score: 1

    Damn, pre-totalitarian government astroturfers have about 70% of the first posts to this thread.

    Loss of freedom in the US, by destroying the economy (see former commnist countries, or North Korea, or failed state kleptocracies, all of which make it almost impossible for free people to pursue their own ends) thus kill far more than several major cities blowing up from nukes. These deaths just don't show up in headlines because you don't see the results from a free, parallel world that is not lagging furher and further behind where it should and would be.

  8. Re:Great way to lose customers on Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    Hehe normal advertising does this already without the need for expensive sensors.

    Just wait for government to mandate stuff like this "to contain health care costs". There's already blathering in Europe about penalizing fat people.

    "Fatass detected, purchase will be reported to penalizing agency."

  9. Re:Could be good. on Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    "Fat person detected. Would you be interested in a 20 cents off coupon for Special K?"

  10. Nah, they're right, must be something else on Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying · · Score: 1

    The US could have helped Brazil by exposing cronyism and kickbacks, which is why they lag economically, much to the puzzlement of Western scientists who point out they are as large as the US in size and population, with even more resources, said scientists deliberately putting on blinders that it's about government and its abuse like a mafia, not resources, that determines the wealth of a civilization.

  11. Take over a broadcast channel while you're... on Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals · · Score: 1

    slumming the wrong direction in time.

    If they're bright, they'll negotiate a deal for a prominent position in the onscreen overlay, including a prized position near channel 200, or wherever the HD default portal entry is. Perhaps also a Netflix orange button on the remote even.

    Otherwise they'll turn into just another channel, on demand maybe, but their favored economic ground other channels are trying to overtake with their own custom series will begin to evaporate.

  12. Re:Romance and Erotica is not the same on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Romance novels usually contain erotica.

    As for government, a wise man (don't make me slap you) once said, "Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another."

  13. Puh leeze on Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Weeks Or Two Months · · Score: 0

    Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Week Or Two Months

    Well was the committee studying this properly constituted? It can't possibly have been formed, yet, much less completed its study and issued preliminary results.

  14. Let the next arms race begin printing! on UCSD Students Test Fire 3D-Printed Metal Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    Now we need 3D printed metal mini-rockets that can shoot down these rockets, to put on commercial planes to stop the inevitable in 10 years.

  15. Yahoo! on Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops · · Score: 1

    And 20 years after this, open-source robots with freely-available source code, printable body parts, and off-the-shelf electronics, put out like popcorn. Is this the destiny for most of humanity -- the boot stepping on a human face...forever -- is a cheap robot run by the dictator and his cabal?

  16. Re:Don't believe the salesman's hype on Fighting the Number-One Killer In the US With Data · · Score: 1

    And maybe most of all, they complain that instead of looking at their patients, they're looking at a computer screen. If you have to tell somebody that he's going to die in 6 months if he doesn't stop smoking, you shouldn't be looking at your computer screen. Maybe there's an element of human communication that computer nerds don't appreciate.

    My endocrinologist is like this, poking at the computer screen for the vast majority of the 20 minutes (!) he sits with me. It's a world built by politicians and bureaucrats and not by doctors or scientists (with an HMI engineer sitting there with them to optimize the interactions.)

  17. Re:Waste of money on Fighting the Number-One Killer In the US With Data · · Score: 1

    Some of you younger punks who didn't live through the beginnings of the anti-fat craze in the late '70s and early '80s wouldn't have seen things like Entenmens release strudels and whatnot which were "fat free". They took out the fat and added extra amounts of sugar, essentially crystalizing it, making it palatable.

    I am positive the anti-salt craze has contributed, not in the way people think, but in making food less tasty, and thus people eat more of it. More of what? Carbo foods.

    200 of the 500 calories in a Big Mac is bun. Plus fries. Or McNuggets, it's all breading. Try it sometime at a restaurant -- see how much of your diet is freaking carbs, bun, pasta, bread basket, mmmmmm Olive Garden, unlimited bread sticks, pasta bread pasta bread dough bread dough bread.

    It's the calories, it always comes back to the calories, which means loaves of bread per person per meal, chugged hand-over-fist.

  18. Re:I look forward on Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues · · Score: 1

    I just hope the judges will do their best to remain neutron.

  19. So it ain't say, Joe. on Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying" · · Score: 1

    This from the same person who decried "the unconscionable profits of drug companies"...which have saved hundreds of millions of lives over the past 80 years.

    It's almost as if...as if...as if she's a politician pandering to concerns of the moment to boost her power outlook.

    Wait. WAIT! I DON'T THINK SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES THIS!!!

  20. k-ROGER that! on Xerox "Routine Backup Test" Leave 17 States Without Food Stamps · · Score: 2

    Hahaha I was walking thru Kroger's yesterday and they kept announcing over the speakers "We cannot accept EBT today because our computers are having problems."

  21. Re:Not a game controller. Not of the future on MIT Develops "Kinect of the Future" · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court has already ruled government cannot use passive IR scanners to look clumsily through walls without a warrant. This would be even worse, and clearly will be abused anyway.

  22. Defg on Gene Variant Can Cause Nattering Nabobs of Negativity · · Score: 1

    > Gene Variant Can Cause Nattering Nabobs of Negativity

    What makes the opposite gene so special? Fuck those Bloviating Brownnosers of Buttkissing.

  23. Re:To answer part of your question on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 2

    That used to happen in Quake all the time -- to gain an advantage, people would pound competitors' machines to slow their "ping" as it was the equivalent to making their reaction times drunk.

  24. Re:What evidence do you have that you're being DoS on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    Unless they're pounding the entire subnet for some reason, only hitting machines whose ping responds.

  25. Re:Whats so special about water? on Hubble Finds Sign That Habitable Planets Could Exist Beyond Solar System · · Score: 1

    Neither is required as they don't preclude other possibilities, of course. But our one data point shows life happens on a rocky world with lots of water, so we suppose it is one configuration likely to yield life elsewhere as well in lieu of knowledge about whether it is actually all that helpful or not, which requires further examples.