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  1. Now what will you do? on SeaWorld To End Orca Breeding Program (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    > SeaWorld to End Orca Breeding Program

    Well, that's pretty much it for you Slashdot nerds, then. That was your only hope as a dating service.

  2. I think the government can force them to help, and to keep their mouth shut about it, but not to lie.

    In this case, lying might even put the lying engineer at risk in the foreign country..

  3. Re:No matter how you feel about that topic on Obama Rejects New Atlantic Ocean Oil Drilling (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You presume the public prefers paying more for oil so government can collect more money to spend, rather than have lower prices to pay directly from their pockets.

  4. "We won't abuse it, trust us", Round 74 on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the court papers, DoJ calls Apple's rhetoric in the San Bernardino standoff as "false" and "corrosive" because the Cupertino firm dared suggest that the FBI's court order could lead to a "police state."

    Of course it could lead to a police state. That's what this is all about, abuse of spying capabilities.

    We just found out this week that your giant US-to-foreign email conversations database the NSA shares with you allows warrantless reading of the to: and other fields, not only without a warrant, but without even any tracking and logging .

    This is the core of the Constitutional issues the Constitution is supposed to prevent -- people in power having the ability to spy on political opponents, using government powers.

    What is to stop, or even notice, a rogue agent working for a politician spying on opponents on their behalf? Nothing, and not even a secret court nor the elected congressmen who are on a national security committee, and are nominally supposed to make sure it isn't abused, can even detect the abuse.

    How are we to know this software won't be copied and abused to crack some stolen politician's phone? Of course this assumes you are stuffed looking at who they call, anyway, to feel out their political support networks, the meta info, that itself could be abused, and is warrantless.

  5. Re:High end... on Peter Jackson and JJ Abrams 'Back' Sean Parker's Screening Room (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    This is almost, but not quite, as stupid as people who watch cellphone video of a movie, at home, when it is released.

  6. Re:Forget something? on Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    It is the lazy designer's way of handling it -- a field on the submission form rather than putting it in as a link under the words "A new study suggests..."

    They could create an internal tool to highlight some words in the OP text when approving, hit a button, and boom, the text contains the link.

    That would involve them at least nominally being web board developers. Oh, wait.

  7. Re:We've always been at war with... on Surprise Nuclear Strike? Here's How We'll Figure Out Who Did It (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    > flip a bitch...bitches flipping

    That's right, the Olympics are this year, aren't they?

  8. Re:The probem is, on Plastic-Eating Bacteria Could Help Clean Up Waste (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Are we sure it is better to get rid of it this way? It is sequestered, on the chemical level anyway. This will change that.

    What happened to that ocean compactor plan, cheap at it bales the crap up so it can be shipped for recycling.

  9. Re:Makes sense, bitcoin is the currency of crime on Russian Bitcoin Issuers Will Risk 7 Years In Prison (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah!

    Wait. What about the criminals in charge of Russia itself, who arrest and murder political opposition and free press reporters?

  10. Re:So, uh, LEAVE on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Isn't pretty much the whole west coast bought up with mansions? Except where set-aside for preserves driving coastal prices even higher.

    Anyway, there's plenty of cheap housing in the midwest.

  11. Re:Every thing as a perifiral on AMD's XConnect Brings Native Driver Support For Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Cards · · Score: 2

    It wasn't too long ago companies were toying with their servers running the 3D game, and just piping you the video from it.

  12. Robotic: Jus' sayin' on Stephen Hawking and 150 Royal Society Scientists: Brexit Disaster For UK (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stephen Hawking's computerized voice has an American accent.

  13. Re:Why is it an overstep on In Brazil, Police Overstep Court Order To Sieze Former President's Email · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What Brazil shows is that, despite having a size, population, and massive natural resources comparable to the US, politics and corruption vastly dominate the progress of a country, or lack thereof.

  14. 1983 on Pentagon Admits Deploying Spy Drones Over US, Claims All Were 'Lawful' (msn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  15. Re:I routed for the Marines and the Colonel on Pentagon Office Planning 'Avatar' Fighters and Fighter-Launched Drone Swarms (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    The reality would be offering apartments and air conditioners to the youths, who will flock to the new towns so they can have what passes for an iPhone in the future.

    The old priests and chieftains, like those with power everywhere, will resist it, perhaps sucking in the SJWs of the future, who, enjoying patting blue skins on the head as quaint, without thinking of them as quaint, will agree there is value in forcibly keeping them in loincloths and barking at the moon.

    The media should do its job, which is to embarrass any company or government that rips off the natives rather than making them rich. This should include embarrassing SJWs who think the priests and chieftains are in it for anything other than power, a patronizing-racist concept.

  16. Whew! on ScummVM, Update With a Bang (kingofgng.com) · · Score: 2

    > ScummVM

    For a second I thought it said scrum vm, and I started getting angry.

  17. Re:Wishful thinking? on Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    We in the intellectual crowd know that this is the upper crust trying to divide us to keep us busy. We have seen proof repeatedly that these are simply myths. The majority of the populous is not intellectual though.

    Intellect inversely proportional to how much you crow about it.

    Intellect directly proportional to sentence construction.

  18. Re:Government intrusion on Dutch Companies Not Allowed To Fitness-Track Their Employees (www.nu.nl) · · Score: 0

    > balance of power

    But what if I think it is a useful thing? The government has terminated my right based on a hypothetical. Better yet, an unelected bureaucrat has done so.

  19. Re:finally some sanity! on Dutch Companies Not Allowed To Fitness-Track Their Employees (www.nu.nl) · · Score: 0

    If this in turn implies you are not permitted, by the government, to say yes, then that is a far graver problem.

  20. Re:The caped crusader on Pow! With Supreme Court Rebuff, DC Comics Wins Batmobile Copyright Case (newsoxy.com) · · Score: 1

    Then, outside of movies and their leftovers at car shows, there will never be real Batmobiles you can buy as DC won't risk the liability.

  21. Re:The caped crusader on Pow! With Supreme Court Rebuff, DC Comics Wins Batmobile Copyright Case (newsoxy.com) · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Although it hasn't reached the SC, there have been recent lower rulings that a person cannot use copyright to forbid usage to people they don't like, as that is not what copyright is for, which is to secure exclusive rights for income.

  22. Re:two questions on Hacker May Have Discovered Plans For A Tesla P100D (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 0

    So you are saying we have no clue what a 100D is?

  23. Re:Quantum computers were "5 years away"... in 197 on MIT's New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today's Encryption Obsolete (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Fusion has been 40 years away for longer than that.

  24. Unlock the phone...and risk the disease getting out?

    No, clearly this DA is clueless as to how technology works.

  25. Re:Story is BS on Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Hint: Fighter planes a few miles above the ground will not cover the area of entire crop fields, when photographed from satellites hundreds of miles up. They will appear almost the exact same size as sitting on the ground.