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  1. Re:From TFA on Scuba Diver Survives Being Sucked Into Nuclear Plant (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the powerplant could charge for it.

    I see what you did there.

  2. Re:If government mass surveillence is evil on Eric Schmidt Gets A Job At The Pentagon (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Okay, so it makes some Americans feel bad... on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Meanwhile, apparently the number of American teens who excel at advanced math has surged... Not to mention, considering algebra and trigonometry "advanced" is just ludicrous.

  4. Before I turned off Cortana, I found her and the whole Windows 10 experience patronizing as hell. When installing or updating, the background fades in and out soothingly when you have to wait, or says things like "Don't worry, your files will still be right where you put them". I don't attribute all this to some AI named Cortana, but rather to Microsoft itself. Treating users like scared idiots, scolding them for "harassment", automatically installing things, all the privacy violation; I think it's more like conditioning people to submit to Microsoft's authority rather than the bot's. When will they "ground" people ("you've been looking at naughty things, no porntube for you!")?

  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (will Mars or Venus kill you first)

  6. I hope the news footage includes you explaining in detail how unexcited you are about it. It's very interesting how unexcited you are!

  7. what's this hyping? on The Dark Arts: Meet the LulzSec Hackers (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Book coming out, movie?

  8. compared to cow farts on Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months · · Score: 2

    By my calculations, this well is about 0.3% of the world's cows methane output (according to the webs, 265 pounds per year per cow; and there are over a billion cows), or the equivalent of about 3.67 million cows. (Note: I consume meat/dairy products. Just trying to put it into perspective.)

  9. Re:There's also another problem on Schneier: We Need a Better Way of Regulating New Technologies (schneier.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Yeah, until mobile devices there was a trend toward single web application running in any browser. Now every company has not only web devs, but also IOS and Android devs. There needs to be an equivalent of an "app browser" to run "apps" everywhere.

  11. Re:Putin cares! on Russians Build Nuclear-Powered Data Center (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the official spin is more like: to protect Russian citizens from sanctions imposed on them, that is make important services independent of the outside. For example, countries can suddenly, in response to let's say invading Ukraine, demand that certain banks (or credit cards) refuse to process Russian data, which could majorly impact Russians.

  12. Re:By what authority on EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I modded 'Overrated' by accident, posting to make it go away...

  13. 365 on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are 365 more shopping days. You can also shop on February 29th next year.

  14. Yeah yeah, wow so cred... Point out advances, and I bet west could be convinced, but you're being a presumptuous dickhead in the last sentence.

  15. Re:Interesting Amazon response on Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast · · Score: 1

    Such a human response. You felt the response was human, didn't you? If you didn't, could you give your reasons why it didn't seem like a human response. Otherwise, it seemed like a human response, so could you answer a survey indicating why it seemed like a human response? It will only take 5 or 10 minutes, which on a human timescale is not very long. You realize your brain is only operating on hertz or millihertz timescales (it doesn't really matter to us, "lol", don't worry). Please help us improve this response message so that it seems like a more human response. Sincerely, Buddy Jones

  16. Re:belief is that people take care of #1, so use t on US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies · · Score: 1

    Since you tried to use "a simple example" to demonstrate "that fact":

    A successful system requires that people work. People want to have money. Therefore, a system in which people get money by working is more likely to be successful.

    Very logical and, like all logic, it rests on its propositions. I'm wondering why you proposed that people have to work, since computers and robots are overtaking human jobs at a fantastic/breathtaking/disturbing rate. You also haven't defined "successful" (or "system", but whatever). Out of charity, I'll assume that "people want to have money" even though I doubt it (for tens of thousands of years nobody wanted it). Furthermore, why assume that the people working are the same as those wanting money, or are the same getting the money?

    I might be wrong, but in my experience Chinese people tend to be very much about trying to "take care of themselves and their families". You might say Confucianism is this very idea. Or that after being screwed over by "foreigners", or indeed the cultural war from their very government, for a long time, Chinese people as a whole are at least a bit skeptical of anyone outside their friends and families suggesting pretty much anything. In conclusion, who gives a shit what you call capitalism or communism?

  17. Re:I'd like to see the video. on Prison Debate Team Beats Harvard's National Title Winners · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "Well, allow me to retort."

  18. Re:That was easy on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 0

    There are ways other than hibernating the OS to save state:

    • Firefox: Edit -> Preferences -> General, When Firefox starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time
    • Emacs desktop save mode
    • Edits not ready to commit (or save, huh?), you have various things like git stash or branches, or screen if you're working on a remote workstation.
  19. taxes on Massachusetts Embraces Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education · · Score: 2

    In turn, the companies need remedial civics lessons. If those philanthropic companies wouldn't avoid paying taxes in the US...

  20. nutritional value on Scientists Develop Nutritious Seaweed That Tastes Like Bacon · · Score: 1

    What's the definition of "nutritional value" so that this has "twice" as much as kale? The proportion/mass of certain vitamins and minerals is not the whole story. Some foods prevent absorption of certain things like iron or calcium, and just because one or another thing has twice the iron for example doesn't mean it's twice as nutritional.

  21. you dawg, I heard you like ranking on New Study Accuses Google of Anti-competitive Search Behavior · · Score: 1

    Google frequently figures out a best-guess answer to display first, favoring its own results to do so.

    What else would it display first, other than the its own results?

  22. NO CARRIER on Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    At least peo.....ple can sti....ll voice the...ir opin.....inos abou.....t i{`+#$%{`&+#{@$`%+NO CARRIER

  23. no on Should Edward Snowden Trust Apple To Do the Right Thing? · · Score: 1
  24. Google government on Github DDoS Attack As Seen By Google · · Score: 1

    Like your propaganda over theirs. We should hook up some time.

  25. Snowden is a hero on Officials Say Russian Hackers Read Obama's Unclassified Emails · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh no, these Russians didn't have a warrant? It's okay that Americans working at government agencies can unconstitutionally access my stuff, but now I should be concerned? Who the propaganda cares?