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  1. Firefox is getting so far behind.. on Microsoft's Collaboration On Google's Chromium Brings a New Feature To Chrome (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I mean it still hasn't got a decent key-logger.

  2. Bad joke on my part. The first thing I always see on Slashdot is a banner advertising "Migrate from GitHub to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool..", apparently not everybody here is so targeted.

  3. Gee, if only there was some quick and easy way to migrate from GitHub to Sourceforge... Oh wait!

  4. Re:Will have to be don carefully on Firefox Will Soon Warn Users of Software That Performs MitM Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I am thinking this is going to cause more pain than pleasure...

    "Was she told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure?"

  5. Re:Captain Pike will be thrilled! on University of Columbia Researchers Translate Brain Signals Directly Into Speech (columbia.edu) · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid that the police, NSA, CIA, DHS and their pals will discover the usefulness of this neat new toy

    My worry too. I'm guessing that since the technology monitors the auditory cortex, it's not going to pickup on anything other than what you would consciously want to say - maybe a passing neuroscientist can weigh in.

  6. Re:There is no legitinate antitrust case on Facebook's Plan To Merge WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger Sounds a Privacy Alarm (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Definitely not a railroad, closer to a phone company...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System/

  7. Re: making stuff in red china with poor IP laws i on Chinese Tech Investors Flee Silicon Valley as Trump Tightens Scrutiny (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Orange Fan Mad

  8. This study was published in Readers Digest on People Who Prefer Black Coffee Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Or Sadistic Traits, Study Finds (rd.com) · · Score: 1

    C'mon SlashDot, you're supposed to have at least some respect for Science.

  9. Everyone posting about politics on Slashdot and elsewhere on the Internet is doing the same thing. This includes you, ... This kind of discourse has been going on since the dawn of the Internet

    Really? Are you telling me that every political comment on the internet is and always has been the result of organized campaigns using crews of professional - full time - posters under the directorship of social scientists/psychologists with the aim of furthering the national interests of their home countries?

    That is an utterly ridiculous statement, and as to the latter half of it, I have to conclude that you have only been acitve on the internet for 5 years, or less.

  10. Most all people learn, but social media provides a way for a small portion of the mentally ill to share their common delusions in a supportive atmosphere. People who profit from mental illness, like Alex Jones, have an obvious interest in promoting their delusions, the louder the better.

  11. When geese need GPS for navigation... on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...I'll take this statement a little more seriously.

    The vast majority of Earths inhabitants have absolutely no use for computers, and aren't even aware of their existence.

  12. Let me correct the headline on Researchers Develop Device That Can 'Hear' Your Internal Voice (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Researchers have created a wearable device that can read people's jaw movements.

  13. Silly Human, YouTube's not for kids on YouTube Kids Has Videos on How Reptilians Rule the World, Moon Landing Was Fake (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems that just mentioning YouTube in a story automatically conjures up a 15 point drop in the average IQ of its commenters.

  14. Re:That's pretty funny on Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware To Steal Pirates' Passwords (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    The best anti-piracy measure I know of is a great product at a reasonable price.

  15. And Which Hostile Countries Might Those Be? on Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The White House is reportedly looking at a proposal to create a ghost network of private spies in hostile countries

    Since +/- 65% of Americans are hostile to The White House, I'm guessing that The U.S.A. is high on the list

  16. Fair to call this obscene wealth? on Bill Gates Is No Longer The World's Richest Person After Amazon Stock Surge (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    His single-day profit (which, if spread out over a year, would amount to > $27 million per day) exceeded the GNP of 123 separate nations, and his estimated total wealth exceeds the GNP of 174 nations.
    http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/rank/PNB2.html/

  17. Re: It's like Louis Pasteur said: on Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ... rather than becoming a slave to the things you own?

  18. I'll be dead and long gone before bicycle mechanics are replaced by robots

  19. So privacy isn't really dead?

  20. Re: I'm going to start surfing incognito on Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Wish I still had that mod-point from this morning. Those were 3 good articles.

    BTW, Panopticlick said my browser fingerprint was unique among the 593,543 tested so far! Time to make some changes and send a donation to the EFF.

  21. Re: I'm going to start surfing incognito on Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a different browser profile for each task be enough.

  22. My Brain Hutrs... on Playing Action Video Games May Be Bad For Your Brain, Study Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The game may only be a simulation, but the PTSD is real.

  23. "Hydrogen holographic display" capable of viewing holographic RED Hydrogen 4-View content, 3D content, and 2D/3D virtual-reality and augmented-reality content, a built-in H3O algorithm that can convert stereo sound into multi-dimensional audio, and support for modular components.

    Could someone please translate this into English for me? google translate doesn't seem to recognize the original language. TIA

  24. A little late, don't you think? on China, Canada Vow Not To Conduct Cyberattacks On Private Sector (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In 2004, it was discovered that crackers ... gained almost complete access to Nortel's systems. Thought to have originated in 2000, for nearly ten years they accessed documents including emails, technical papers, research, development reports, and business plans. ... The Wall Street Journal reports that hackers working from Chinese IP addresses used seven passwords of Nortel executives, including a former CEO, to penetrate networks owned by the company.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel/

  25. This sounds familiar on Microsoft Wants To Use DNA For Cloud Data Storage (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has finally caught up to Johnny Mnemonic.