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  1. Mars Attacks! on ExoLance: Shooting Darts At Mars To Find Life · · Score: 0

    And if they interpret this as an attack?

  2. It being Pennsylvania on Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they will try to send these old men to jail.

  3. The NYPD Being Aggressive, Lying Douchebags? on Police Recording Confirms NYPD Flew At a Drone and Never Feared Crashing · · Score: 1

    That's not news, even for Slashdot. The NYPD has a long history of egregious, illegal and violent behavior. It's almost a tradition for them.

    The drone is just lucky the police helicopter did not have a toilet plunger handy.

  4. Headline Whore Much Soulskill/Dice Holdings ? on Android Leaks Location Data Via Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    What's more, the same flaw is found in Apple OS X and Windows 7.

    So why only"Android' in the headline? Why not use "Smartphones"?

  5. Luuuuuucy! on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 1

    You got some 'splainin' to do. rickyricardo.jpg

  6. At last it's the Year of the Linux Desktop! That's terror-riffic!

  7. Re:Better question.. on Why the Moon's New Birthday Means the Earth Is Older Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Why such a push to tell people how old Earth they think it is. Give some practical reason why a non-scientist should even care about this?

    This only matters to the bigots who want to bash religion to make themselves feel better.

    If your religious beliefs are sound and resolute, why do you feel so threatened by something you shoudn't care about?

  8. Difficult to estimate the age on Why the Moon's New Birthday Means the Earth Is Older Than We Thought · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given all the extensive cosmic surgery.

  9. Obligatory on NASA's Horizons Spacecraft To Probe Pluto Moon For Underground Ocean · · Score: 0

    Why isn't it probing Uranus?

  10. Re:a THOUSAND times faster than 4G? on EU, South Korea Collaborate On Superfast 5G Standards · · Score: 2

    I believe the "could be" part, if it's just 10% faster s/he's right.

    And an attempt by 2020 means more like 2026, and the US will have an incompatible slower version around 2030.

    Jaded, I am.

    You're being too damn optimistic.

  11. Re:Roll out some real 4G first, then we can talk 5 on EU, South Korea Collaborate On Superfast 5G Standards · · Score: 2

    What the fuck are they talking about? We don't even have 4G yet, and they are already talking about 5G?

    I'm holding out for 6G.

  12. Re:Just don't upgrade the kernel with nvidia close on NVIDIA Is Better For Closed-Source Linux GPU Drivers, AMD Wins For Open-Source · · Score: 1

    Mageia handles the nvidia driver within it's packaging system. Automatic updates along with the kernel, easy installs, no problems. It's been this way since the Mandriva days. Mageia's a nice, no-hassle distro.

  13. Public Shaming on Project Un1c0rn Wants To Be the Google For Lazy Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    While surprisingly effective IRL, not so much on the Internet.

  14. We Get the Government We Deserve on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    Subject apropos.

  15. More Old Games For PS4 on Grand Theft Auto V For Modern Platforms Confirmed · · Score: 0

    I'd like to see this happen to to Burnout: Paradise City, Red Dead Redemrtion and PAIN.

    And PLEASE, PLEASE bring Carmageddon and Postal2/3 to the PS4.

    I would buy a PS4 for those games.

  16. Slashdot Mods Apple Fanbois? on iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking · · Score: 0

    I see more +5 posts in this discussion than I have in any other Slashdot thread.

    Coincidence?

    Or are Apple fanbois just more insightful and informative?

  17. Re:Wow.. Pascal. on id Software's Original 'Softdisk' Games Open Sourced · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Double edged sword on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    The dash cams cops have are the same as hand held cameras by citizens. What if i demand the cops turn off their dash cam. what ever right that gives them to film me also applies to them.

    You'll lose that argument every time. Cops have very different rules than citizens. Think you can get unpaid vacation for shooting a cop?

  19. Re:My gosh, Slashdot truly is dying. on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    I haven't visited Slashdot since January, when all of that crap with the beta started happening.

    So today, after visiting for the first time in six months, I am faced with a damning reality: Slashdot truly is dying.

    As I scroll down the front page, I see story after story with fewer than 40 comments. Some have less than 15 comments, even hours after being posted!

    This is truly a shame, for we have very few alternatives today. Reddit is full of hipsters of the vilest kind. HN is a haven of abusive moderation, censorship, and Silicon Valley groupthink. Stack Overflow will just close any discussion that isn't a basic jQuery question easily answered by looking at its docs.

    I knew it would happen someday, but I am saddened to see that we have come upon that time. Slashdot, once the greatest discussion forum known to mankind, has been decimated. I weep.

    It's what happens when you roll the Dice.

  20. Re:This needs to happen more often on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    The officers involved should be made to pay restitution.

    Blood. Turnip. Do the math.

  21. Re:This needs to happen more often on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    If police malpractice awards come out of the police budget rather than the city council appropriating additional money, they are much more likely to change police behavior.

    "Mr. Mayor, we need additional funding to defend our valiant officers or we will be unable to hire enough officers to adequately ensure the public safety; our hands will be tied by you. Will you be the elected official who sacrificed public safety for a few dollars? I thought not." - Police Chief

  22. Re:filming - the witness brain substitute that doe on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    sometimes on accident..

    It's "by accident" (or, as the case may be, "on purpose"). Pet peeve, BTW (primarily due to living among Fundamentalist hicks and imbeciles for the past ten years).

    Atheist urbanites and smart people can make the same errors. It's a combination of carelessness and incomplete education.

  23. Re:Did it come out of their pockets? on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 2

    It obviously didn't and so direct your outrage into action for change. All police departments need a citizen oversight committee stacked with regular folks from the community not members of police officers association. The committee needs full power to review police actions and records and actually fire officers not just make recommendations.

    My city has a "citizen oversight committee stacked with regular folks from the community" and for several years, the city "forgot" to convene a meeting. What are the odds that their memory will fail again?

  24. Re:right... on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    "Before the settlement, the appeals court had kept alive the possibility of a trial because New Hampshire law forbids the recording of police if the authorities order people to disperse for legitimate safety concerns."

    So this implies at least they'll have to make up some "legitimate safety concern" which I'm sure they won't have any problem doing.

    "There was a legitimate safety concern because the officer believed it to be so, even if he can not describe or recall the threat to safety and eyewitness testimony and physical evidence contradicts his assertions. Case dismissed!"

    How it works.

  25. Re:Nothing to see here, move along on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    Or to stop someone finding out their son's dead by some moron on YouTube uploading his murder.

    Doing that is crass, mean-spirited, morally bankrupt and hateful, but it should not be illegal for those reasons.