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  1. Perfect Business Opportunity on China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    With Identities being required on China tech firms. Now all we need is a website breach on those tech firms to get BEELLIONS of FREE real identities for SELL!

    There's a reason why some data are better not kept.

  2. Re:Inductive reasoning at its finest on Why Are There So Many Knobs in Audio Software? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes life a pain for actually using them day-to-day.

    ok. Do suggest an alternative for a 25+ knobs VST synths, with 6 tabs. Yes, some plugins do have that much settings. Frankly, keeping them as small knobs is the best UI they could do without eating the whole screen.

  3. Have you Used those Software? on Why Are There So Many Knobs in Audio Software? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Knobs don't belong in UIs, full stop. Use sliders instead...

    Try this on one of those audio software with a knob. Mouse click down on the knobs, move right, release.

    Woh! It works just like a slider!

    Now try this, mouse click down on the knobs, move left, release.

    Woh! It also works just like a slider!

    Just to let you know, it is a slider, but with a smaller UI.

  4. Re:Abuse of force. on Tasers Implicated In Far More Deaths Than We Previously Thought (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Next time you can try to subdue the 230lb gorilla high out of his gourd on Meth then...

    You get better luck with a banana... oh wait he was holding one.

  5. Failure from the Start on Another Crowdfunded Startup Takes Customers' Money, Then Shuts Downs (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at their past website you can at least see one problem.

    getkanoa web

    Unless it is on another page of the website, there's only the option on their website, to pre-order. No data on how many people backed or how much funding is there.

    Basically, this crowdfunding was very likely to fail with the backers very likely to have a high risk simply due to not being able to see how the startup is doing. There's no way to know if they've reached their goal, had enough backers or anything at all. Let's say they got 100 backers but they really need 1000. At least if they showed the backers their goal, the backers and the startup knew from the start that they cannot deliver their promise and product. The startup can review their funding and drop their promise before any heavy investment.

    Their failure seems to be right from the start.

  6. I read it on People Are Complete Suckers For Online Reviews (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    we should actually go for the product with few reviews, since there’s more of a chance it’s not really so bad...

    Instructions unclear. Made me buy low quality dildo instead. Would not read again.

    1 star

  7. Re:More reviews mean more data points on People Are Complete Suckers For Online Reviews (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Both sucks unless the reviews show otherwise.

    In the 1000 reviews item, it is known to suck with the 1000 reviews. For the 3 reviews item, if the complains are well thought out (like 'this part and this part didn't work and x part breaks if you do this'), then that item sucks too.

    However if the 3 reviews are of poor judgement (like 'I hate this company', 'it didn't work.', 'shipping too slow' ), then there's a 'chance' the 3 reviews item isn't that bad. Only then would there be a 'chance' for the item to be purchased.

  8. a bit.ly or t.cn short-link

    is the starting sign to be cautious. Without know the actual web link, it is very likely for it to redirect right into a virus / zero-day exploit. All it takes is a single click.

    If the user really needed the content from the link, they should use a VM or something. Otherwise, they should expect their pc to be trashed with malware upon clicking.

  9. Unfortunately, the consumer heads have already exploded.

  10. a nice long list of whatever you are looking at on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 3, Funny

    98% slashdot, 2% everything else. Slashdotters don't deny it, be proud of it.

  11. Can't Stop Checking on We Can't Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I came to check news on slashdot. I will be right back in 2min.

  12. Re:So...useless people do this, then? on We Can't Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is this "we".

    People with real life and friends. So most Slashdotters are not affected.

    FTFY

  13. Re:This is easy ... on Wading Through AccuWeather's Response (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    remotely interact with it

    I can't wait to see half a billion people trying to remote the same equipment on the app!

  14. Re:Alphabet on Supreme Court Asked To Nullify the Google Trademark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me Alphabet that for you.

  15. sun got really dark on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    I decided to finally try that, earlier today. I stepped outside, but the sun got really dark...

    There's no sun during nighttime, you idiot.

  16. it turns weird colors and smells on Scientists Create Smart Labels To Tell You When To Throw Away Expired Food and Makeup (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    if it's expired it turns weird colors and smells

    nah, it's not expired. It's just a newly improved favor! When you eat them, you'll get a chance to taste the new favor, pain! Not only that, but you food will also get new colors that color your life with a week full of sick leaves! Imagine the possibilities!

  17. No jack, No SD card, No love.

  18. A button for Stop, and a button for Go on Waymo Patent Shows Plans To Replace Steering Wheel, Pedals With Push Button (driverless.id) · · Score: 1

    Now all they need is movement arrows and it'll look just like a game controller.

  19. I told her to go look at the job offers on Craigslist, and compare the number of jobs requiring knowledge about pancreases to the number requiring knowledge of Word and Powerpoint.

    I tried searching for job offers and 'm getting a lot of "sell your organs now!" job and it is more than the ones asking for word and powerpoint. Did I accidentally went on the dark web?

  20. Back in the Days on 'Surkus' App Pays Users To Line Up Outside New Restaurants (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    We didn't need apps to do that. We get a bunch of friends progressively come together to stare at the empty sky showing blank expression, and then random strangers just join in until it became a crowd of people. Afterward, we left making the crowd stares at unknowns.

    Same for a line, we get our friends to randomly lineup in a particular place like outside the restroom/water closet/toilet where the door is closed, and make random guys wait behind us patiently.

  21. Re:Watch your language please on Popular Pesticides Keep Bumblebees From Laying Eggs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    My own anecdotal experience is that for every bumblebee I see, there are 1,000 honeybees.

    bees have different preference. There are some flowers that attract more bumblebees.

  22. this is "Great" on Popular Pesticides Keep Bumblebees From Laying Eggs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Great! Let's replace all the bees with the next best pollinator, mosquitoes!

  23. Re:Oh come on... on Popular Pesticides Keep Bumblebees From Laying Eggs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Bees do consume pollen, but I think you were talking about the worker bees.

    The worker bees consume nectar and store the excess to feed the rest of the bees. In the meantime, they bring their pollen basket around which pollinates other flowers.

  24. $330,000 cultured burger in 2013 on Behind the Hype of 'Lab-Grown' Meat (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    It was hyped as it was a clear defined successes in the lab-grown meat research. Unlike other startups or researches, they completed the lab-grown meat research. If the research was never completed or no product was ever produced, then fine it was all PR. But they did create a lab-grown meat for consumption. One luck guy did ate the burger and it was extremely expensive to make.

    It was fair PR based on actual event and hyped for the actual 'potential'.

  25. Re:False representation/slander? on From Google To Yahoo, Tech Grapples With White Male Discontent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    +1 this.

    He did not claim "women are biologically less suited than men to be engineers"

    He did state "the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech". In short, he stated that biological causes result in distribution of preferences.

    In slashdot, our submitters did the best to avoid misrepresentation for the previous submissions. In this case, joshtops is 100% responsible for this false representation.