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  1. Re:Breakin' the law, breakin' the law on Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA (wusa9.com) · · Score: 1

    If I can't fly it in my own backyard, we have a problem.

  2. As has been done with hundreds of middle school science projects, this can be done for $200.
    Sheet of plywood, plastic sheeting, and a couple of leaf blowers.

  3. More structure? on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Using a Reputation Engine To Rate Information? · · Score: 2

    While I like Stack Overflow, I am planning far more structure.

    More? Good grief. SO is already bad enough. Anything 'more' will simply chase users away, if they ever go there in the first place.

  4. Re:East Berlin, really? on Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time (gwu.edu) · · Score: 2

    Not even a 'human shield', but rather a tripwire. They weren't going to shield or stop anything.

  5. Re:East Berlin, really? on Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time (gwu.edu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By the time things escalated that far, the US military in Berlin would probably have already ceased to exist.

  6. I'm sorry...but not everything needs to revolve around the 'phone'.

    My phone is stolen/broken/lost..and now I can't use my laptop to get into my email?

    "You won’t need your password to sign in, but you can always use it if you want to"
    And after a while of not using that password...you've completely forgotten it.

  7. You could...just not buy a DRMed lightbulb. I know I didn't.
    Let the damn thing fail due to no sales.

  8. You should pay us to watch that.

  9. Re:District court on New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So if I am at work, and have to go pee....my conversation of "Hi Bill...How's it going?" should be automagically recorded?
    In the men's room?

    Really?

  10. Re:inefficient on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was the first 2 characters of the exchange, and a number. I still remember our house phone number from the 60's
    DUdley1-7xxx. Morphed into 381-7xxx.

  11. Re:No kidding! on Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable (cio.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yup. Some years ago, my ex-wife and daughters were LPN and CNA. A couple of them worked in an elder care facility.
    Proclamation came down from on high that they will be using a new touchscreen system to log patient interactions.

    Said touchscreen was mounted flat to the wall, at a height usable only for someone about 5' 9" or taller. Of COURSE most of these women were not that tall. In addition to the multitude of clicks and verifications to log one scrip or treatment, they literally had to get a stepstool to use the damn thing. Safety? What's that?

  12. prevent electrical related fires for homes on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? · · Score: 1

    "prevent" is a very strong statement. How has this been tested?

  13. Re:Why are we not funding this? on Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And when there is an "oops", and your grandkid grows a 3rd eye?
    Or even worse, the corporation now has a patent on your little cherubs cells, and actually owns them

    You go right ahead and let them experiment on your progeny.

  14. It will become a badge of 'honor' and a competition among the trollish to get their posted on a billboard.
    "See dudes? Look at how cool I am !!"

  15. Re:Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I've known two people that served in the US military, one in the Marines and one in the Navy. Both observed that officers and enlisted that worked closely with the CO moved up much faster than those that did field work.

    It's actually the other way around. The boss (CO) sees people who have potential, and moves them into positions next to him. They didn't get there by accident.
    How did he see that potential? Because they were good to start with, and visibly demonstrated that potential.

    To continue to move up, you need a wide range of experience. Field, staff, joint, classroom...

  16. Build on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    It may not be 'cheaper', but you can specify the exact parts. And you build it, instead of the 19 year old intern, with 2 weeks on the job, struggling through a monday morning hangover.
    Build quality.

  17. Re:Why we need to vet judges on Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And the DMCA was signed into being by a Democrat. Your point?

  18. "suing Cox for refusing to shut off the Internet access of subscribers that Rightscorp accused of downloading music via BitTorrent."

    And I 'accuse' the CEO and entire board of RightsCorp of doing exactly the same. I have given no actual evidence, but the simple accusation should be enough, right?

  19. Re:"forbidden tactics" ? on Brazilian Army Gets Hacked After Allegations of Cheating In Security Cyber-Games · · Score: 2

    Really? A small drone flying around, saturating/jamming your WiFi freq. Even if it only lives for 5 minutes before being shot down, that may be enough
    You want realistic games? Nothing is off limits.

  20. "forbidden tactics" ? on Brazilian Army Gets Hacked After Allegations of Cheating In Security Cyber-Games · · Score: 1

    No, you use whatever you can. An actual enemy would.
    If you are constrained by 'rules' of how you can operate and what tools you can use, you are deluded and have already lost. The 'exercise' is simply a dog and pony show.

  21. Re:All of us on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 1

    Munitions Systems Specialist (IYAAYAS!) An ammo troop, huh? I used to wait for you guys all the time. I might have even been waiting on you personally. You know who I am...:)...that crew waiting on your delivery.
    But yes...you and I are probably on some 3rd level 'list', by virtue of having knowledge of how and where.

    BTW...happy belated Veterans Day.

  22. Nominated? on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated For Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    Hell...anyone can be 'nominated'. Even Rush Limbaugh was 'nominated'.

  23. See Kipling on this.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld

  24. Re:Book Cover on Ask Slashdot: An 'Ex Libris' For My Books In a Digital Age? · · Score: 1

    In my experience, things like this which people assume should be equitable and balanced, rarely are. Instead a few people end up being the "givers" and everyone else is a moocher.

    Sounds just like bittorrent. People are people, some are assholes. No matter what tech is used. Or no tech.

  25. Re:Didn't see it, hurricane Patricia hitting the a on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    As I sit here within 5 miles of the east coast, I look up out of my living room window, and see....the remnants of Hurricane Patricia.