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  1. This man got in trouble for earbuds... on Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    And around here I see jackasses driving around with full sized cans on their ears pretty often. Be nice for something to happen to them.

  2. Re:In other words... on Samsung's Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Sensor Fooled By 3D Printer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    and all he needed to get into his phone was a photograph, some software, and access to a 3D printer

    So basically nothing! He's more powerful than the mythic techniques of McGuyver!

  3. Welcome to "spy tricks you see in movies all the time." Who could have imagined this possible?!

    /s

  4. Because on More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products · · Score: 1

    point to an upside for families: they can now make video calls to loved ones from home instead of having to physically travel to the jail.

    Why not both?

    (because...)

    it has a lot to do with money.

  5. Re:I wouldn't mind ad tracking if it were good on Two-Thirds of Consumers Don't Expect Google To Track Them the Way It Does (niemanlab.org) · · Score: 1

    But Jesus Christ (no, google, I'm not interested in finding a church), they really need to adjust their machine learning algorithms (please, no keyword matches for that either).

    This just reminds me of a strength and muscle site I follow. One of the main editors was talking about how he looks into meat stuff a lot online. And how one time he looked at a hoody. Now he often has Google advertising a hoody to him that is just completely covered in a design of "raw meat."

  6. Re:User-base generations: Soon Snapchat won't matt on To Stop Copycats, Snapchat Shares Itself (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    go the way of Facebook (kind of still here

    Despite "the kids" not liking facebook as much as 5 second things like Snapchat, it really doesn't seem like it's falling away and becoming unused. Sure most everyone on Slashdot has either never used facebook, used it briefly years ago, or deleted it a year plus ago.... But when I'm around people at work and anywhere else away from the computer.... It seems like EVERYONE still uses it. Stores, venues, craft makers all have pages. And I see everyone at work (thousands where I work) messing on their facebook... I see people in coffee shops, restaurants, stores scrolling through facebook on their phones. Despite the big #deletefacebook thing people are so proud about, it really doesn't seem like a dent has even been made in it's use. Myspace may have fallen away and also deleted itself... but facebook really just seems like it's here to stay. No matter what awful garbage it does.

  7. Growing like a weed on Startup Sells Pot 'Grow Fridges' That Are Tended By Robots (nj.com) · · Score: 2

    despite the old cliche of "growing like a weed,"

    That saying isn't about fucking weed. It's about weeds. What a stupid line. I'm sure they felt INCREDIBLY clever when they wrote it.

  8. Re:Well, What Could Possibly Go Wrong... on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    For the people afraid drunks will die by freezing to death in their non starting car.. maybe the better solution than "no don't" would be to instead suggest that the car is able to start, but the transmission will not get in to gear. Whether it stays locked in park or the clutch can't actually engage.

    Then the drunk can sit in the car and warm up, maybe charge their phone to make a call for a drive home (car's not gonna run and keep them warm all night until they sober up the next day......)

  9. Something stinks on The UN Wants To Build Floating Cities To Save Us From Climate Change (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    eat only plant-based food, produce zero waste,

    Better not eat any beans!

  10. calling himself a "golden god"

    ROFL

    had a legal right to post the information

    send us bitcoins

    If it's his legal right, why do payments need to be paid in bitcoin?

    threatening email titled "I own EVERYTHING."

    would release private emails, encrypted messages, and the health data and social security numbers for senators' children. "If you tell anyone I will leak it all,"

    His legal right to sell children's social security numbers? This guy is pretty hilarious!

  11. Re:Something I really know about ... on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your TED Talk Be About? (ted.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember some TED Talk where this guy talked about balance or whatever and was doing a bunch of tricks like juggling, carrying tables, riding unicycles, turning off all the lights. So I guess the other option is to just distract people with entertainment and spout out random ideas at them.

  12. Re:"Have TED Talks jumped the Shark?" on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your TED Talk Be About? (ted.com) · · Score: 1

    My supervisor and team lead at work often have us watch TED Talks. Our supervisor had us watch the one she said was her absolute favorite one ever.... and it was basically "You'll never get anywhere without a friend in a high place so do that."

  13. I decided to search that phrase and found this article. Holy shit.

    There were broken windows and doors, damaged furniture, glass everywhere and large blood stains throughout the rental property,

  14. Re: Predictable (really) on The US Just Had the Most Q1 Layoffs in a Decade (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the way we remember it probably changes as time goes on also, shaped by current events.

    At least I really do not think an Obama supporter was any less frustrated during his time than a Bush supporter was during Bush's time.

    From Bush's sides's view everything good he did was because Bush. From Bush's side, everything good during Obama's time was also because Bush, but now if you look back maybe you feel differently?

    I'm mostly going off of what seemed to be the general consensus I saw from people in the media and online. I'd had a few people say to me / near me "everything during the presidency is the result of the previous president." Whereas it seemed most political conversations or news I saw just seemed to be pro democrat and anti Republican as far as the good and bad results of the presidency. I don't mean I saw it this way, or that it was the way everyone. It just seemed to be the majority of what I was exposed to.

    Though during Trump everything's gone to shit, supporter and opponent reaction wise. Trump could sacrifice a baby and eat it on camera and (a large number of) his supporters would somehow find a way to praise him and say he did right. Whereas (some of) his opponents would try to find fault if he ..... I dunno. Ran into a burning building and saved hundreds of LBGTQ and people of color?

  15. Re:Predictable (really) on The US Just Had the Most Q1 Layoffs in a Decade (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I always remember growing up with people saying stuff like "Everything that happens when a President is in office is just the results of the president before him" a ton. I can't remember who was president at the time (ie: I can't remember if it was good/bad stuff during Clinton or good/bad stuff during Bush....)

    But later on it just felt like the following situations:

    Anything good during Bush = Clinton
    Anything bad during Bush = Bush
    Anything good during Obama = Obama
    Anything bad during Obama = Bush

    Though during Trump it's also turned into:
    Anything during Trump = LE%&*DE%*DR*JRHR^*ERDYU%H$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (both sides)

    More on topic to TFS.... My first thought when I saw the title was Trump tweeting stuff like: "JOBS JOBS JOBS!!!!!"

  16. Re:Tres Fucked. on Boeing Delays 737 Max Software Fix (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We engineers are usually told what to do- we figure out how to implement someone else's ideas, under manager's rule. Often we come up with better ideas, or how and why something won't work or is dangerous, and we're told to shut up, don't make trouble, just do our jobs.

    This just reminds me of some guys I knew that used to work as video game testers. They would report tons and tons of bugs and repeatedly bring up bugs that hadn't been addressed, and were basically told these bugs weren't important because they just wanted the game to launch on time and not waste more hours on fixing little unimportant issues.... Then a game would come out and a big outcry would happen over some bugs.... Management would go to the team leads and such with: "WHY DIDN'T YOU REPORT THESE BUGS YOU ARE FAILURES AT YOUR JOBS" essentially.... and then they would show every single one of the bugs they reported, and how many times, and the responses they were given about the bugs not mattering and to stop reporting them.

  17. -of blocking all of the sites that do this.

  18. Re:Duplicate post? on Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Canada warming posts happening twice as much as most other /. topics!

  19. Re:It's like travelling in the future. on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like travelling in the future. I know because I travel there very regularly.

    You travel in the future regularly?

  20. Re:I don't like chemical ... on New Male Birth Control Pill Succeeds In Preliminary Testing (time.com) · · Score: 1

    probably messes with male hormones too.

    I seem to recall the original testing of the male birth control pill ended because some of the side effects were apparently several of the men became incredibly suicidal while on it?

  21. Re:Amazing how many worry about US gov on Saudis Gained Access to Amazon CEO's Phone, Says Bezos' Security Chief (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer the "eo e" in people as it seems to be missing these days.

  22. Re:Really? on Tesla Cars Keep More Data Than You Think (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought that was an odd point to include as well. I'm not interested if a computer keeps data I've told it to include. The rest of the info mentioned is more interesting but not surprising to find out.

  23. What did she wear Friday? on First All-Female Spacewalk Canceled Because NASA Doesn't Have Two Suits That Fit (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ms. McClain had thought she would be able to work in a large-size torso, but after her spacewalk last Friday, she wore a medium-size torso and learned that it fit her better.

    I'm confused by the wording here. Is it saying she wore a large one on Friday, but then found out afterwards that a medium fit her better? Or it saying that she thought a large would fit, but instead tried a medium. Then afterwards she determined the medium fit and the large wouldn't?

  24. No more snippets on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
    They should just instead change every link's "snippet" to say:

    Your government doesn't want you to know what this is about.

    Granted I know it's that they want it paid for, but this would be easier AND pettier! More fun. (I seem to recall some South Park game had to remove a scene in one country and they just put up that country's national flag and text about the government saying no while the scene's audio continued to play)

  25. Re:Unbelievable on Once-Shrinking Greenland Glacier Is Now Growing, NASA Study Shows (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    it is their fundamentalists who complain and pour pigs blood on the ground when somebody wants to build a mosque

    Holy shit this happened???