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  1. Because you can never have enough Phantom Buzzes! on Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 0

    Your cell phone on vibrate in your pocket will train you to check your phone on interrupts. It'll also train your brain to falsely trigger physical sensations. This brief view into chaos, mixed with something where your arms are constantly being vibrated to steer you and judge distance sounds like some people will be having way too many worker bee dreams. Honestly, I don't think this is an ethical product, but it depends on the duration of exposure and frequency of use. "I can't shake these vibes, man!" Na, I'm sure they're all champions at the big AZMN

  2. Passwordless Login would save humankind over 4 trillion mouse clicks a year... Join the revolution! at "email me instead of making me remember unique chars" dot org

  3. I cannot believe the audacity of these fools. To set one of the greatest nations back so far over the next several decades, how absolutely deplorable. The rest of the world will outpace us in creativity if we neglect to educate our populous. We will become wage slaves to Chinese hedge funds and Arabian gas wells. How is this a delightful future? Why are all these chumps smiling and happy, driving the Arrow of Freedom into the ground? They better pray Righteousness sleeps long, because when she wakes up there is gonna be hell to pay.

  4. mental, physical, financial well being on Slashdot Asks: Should an Employee Be Fired For Working On Personal Side Projects During Office Hours? (quora.com) · · Score: 0

    It is a legitimate question, whether working on side projects is okay. Personally, my opinion is very strong on this matter, as I do not support wage slavery (being paid an hourly wage to be completely "rented") and therefore I support project/contract compensation when possible. That said, with a project salary it does not matter what your sequence of work is as long as the project is completed. However, with an hourly jojo I think it makes sense that we, as human beings, are going to need to do things that are not mono-task. Otherwise, we will go crazy and miss out on the beauty that is life. Instead, employers need to compensate people far better, and this as a culture can only happen when we share wealth more generously with those who need it. As far as I am concerned, the mental well-being, financial well-being, and health (vision, dental, etc) well-being is what an employer is responsible to help optimize in the life of a human. We provide one another benefit, may we maximize it. If zoning out to work on something tangentially related helps my mind uncontract and be able to view the patterns from a more inclusive and zoomed-out level, with the precision of all them tiny cities on those silicon chips, I totally say go for it. You are a human, not a robot, if you want a robot go hire one. If you want a human being, let them zone out for hours at a time, it is absolutely okay, because in the long run they will be fresher, stronger, more alert, and more tuned-in to what's going on.

  5. FP is awesome on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 0

    (operator arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4 arg5 ....) just makes a lot more sense, but it does take some deliberate training to grok in full. The basic for loop is now map, reduce, filter, etc. So there are some bits to know about when transitioning, but I think FP is great. Currently I use Clojure and appreciate the philosophy behind it just as much as the language and its elegance. LISP dialects tend to be beautiful, once the parens have settled into place...

  6. Facebook needs to improve its own technology before stealing the tech of others. This is clearly IP infringement and is the sort of thing the courts SHOULD be able to handle in 2017. Alas, legal incompetence means "oh you had a cool idea? gone." So yeah, Facebook fack off pls. And pls remove all the bullshit from your own service. Facebook is more botnets than humans at this point. Do you believe that? That's my guess as a man of computational science. Anyhow, SnapChat I hope you make it through, and I hope you are able to hire some lisp programmers to help you overcome even huge teams at lumber mills like facebocks. Okay, much love y'all.

  7. Do Finite Key Lengths even make sense for post-qua on NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography (securityledger.com) · · Score: 0

    It seems to me that the key lengths cannot be finite for something post-quantum and thus must end up being some sort of (lispy (program)) that is a lazy-sequence (returning specific values only on demand) of all the [infinite] key bits. So your cryptokey is _alive_ *laughs like doctor frankenstein*

  8. Sadly almost all news outlets have become "entertainment news" outlets and it's basically brainwashing and directing conversations to such ephemeral and mundane things that by the looks of it we're going to run out of water and clean air if we don't change our priorities quickly. Quality over quantity

  9. jokes and arguments aside and against on Bank of America Analysts Say There's A 50% Chance We Live In The Matrix (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    y'all need to put your money in credit unions, stat. and while i'm here in this textarea element, why don't i try and offer some good refutations as to why such a theory is kinda balderdash: + the universe is patterns (?) and freedom is the chucking away and letting go of harming patterns, adopting helpful patterns, and eventually being beyond patternalia + when have we ever successfully run a simulation? are people suggesting that something that is simulated doesn't occur at all, much like yesterday or tomorrow? + we're in space + does the universe really require someone to hit the start button? this is the trouble with people who are around too many buttons or ignition switches, they assume that all things need a person to hit the button. the sunrise don't need no button, foo.

  10. Question... on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 0

    Who said your constitutional rights go away when you're dead?

  11. Slashdot is putting out fire with gasoline again.

  12. Learn workflows = awesome, although gems rare on Watching People Code Is Becoming an (Even Bigger) Thing · · Score: 0

    Yeah, a lot of experienced coders will say this is not where coding really happens. Say that you want to see someone's work flow in Emacs or how to make a python/django (web framework) website for the first time. This bridges a lot of gaps in knowledge and experience. If I could have simply seen which editors people were using and how they switched between coding and testing and revising, it would have saved me many hours of trial and error. Now, of course, actual "coding" meaning the design and the implementation happen in your mind, but that doesn't mean this isn't a wonderful learning tool. Although, I do find it really funny that they stream the music people are listening to. Sure, maybe it boils down to watching other people google the same stuff I would, but I still think that in the field of coal you'll find a few diamonds in the rough. This might even be a good tool for psychologists because we can clearly see the ability to concentrate on a given task with the omnipresence of the web.

  13. jesus christ man on Military Caught Training Children To Fight · · Score: 0

    forgot what the date was today. see you at the orbital training station

  14. Re:How many people called it here? on Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption · · Score: 0

    Awesome comment.

  15. letters i won't encrypt ;D on Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption · · Score: 0

    "Lobbying" ... it's just some dude saying stuff. Yeah, encryption makes it hard for people to read messages, that is the whole point. I agree it's kinda ridiculous but they're trying to say "hey, we can better help you if we can read all your data." First off: anybody using encryption with unwholesome motives is probably not going to heed to your "public appeal" >(Second %) [To my dated field-knowledge] Encryption has yet to find a way that is time-proof. With enough hints and enough computing power, all is possible, saideth the lord unto his peoples of siliconia. And there was much rejoycing, yei. (Although, elliptic curve cryptography [still] seems to be the best solution.) Dear European Law Enforcement: Communication is a part of freespeech. Just because tools have become a fundamental aspect of our lifestyles does not mean we want everything scrutinized for "safety" We would rather curb the likelihood that everything we do becomes the digital equivalent of "shouting from rooftop to rooftop" Basically, "any organization that has zero oversight or transparency becomes a risk" is your argument. Not at all Ironic? Encryption ain't going away, and people are going to turn it on. That's what happens in the digital age. All communication should be safe end-to-end. We should strive more on bringing the human element back to the digital era by being better people. All our actions ring out into the universe, so whatever you do, do it for the love of humanity.

  16. namecheap for registration, iwantmyname for check on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 0

    iwantmyname.com is fast and easy checking for domain names namecheap.com is the best (afaik) for registration =) be well

  17. go nvidia. on NVIDIA Fixes Old Compiz Bug · · Score: 0

    Awesome. Linux support is a wonderful thing and I celebrate their contribution (=

  18. test of one's mete on Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake · · Score: 0

    Little did the applicants know they were supposed to decrypt the "acceptance letters" using the provided CMU CS department decoder ring...

  19. internet shares info all over? on Quake2 Ported to Java, Play Via the Web · · Score: -1, Troll

    why not just aggregate from digg.com already, this article is a day old :|

  20. Re:Is it safe? on The 11 Year Soap Bubble · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "...is this product even safe? I'm not an organic chemist by any means, but it seems to me that you'd want to do a significant amount of testing on any new compound to make sure that it's not going to have any long-term negative effects."

    Can't be any worse than your run-of-the-mill organic compounds, like urine or Gatorade for example.

  21. sounds familiar? on Hacking the Fluorescent Light · · Score: 0

    By "Colorado Firm" did they mean to say
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla "Nikola Tesla" ?

  22. Re:I once saw a stereoscopic aerial photo on Hollywood Going Digital and 3D · · Score: 0

    actually, dungeons and dragons (2000) was made AFTER Toy Story 2 (1999)
     
    but it is still worse,

      probably 'cause they had a budget of like 12.
     
    Of course, you probably mean the 1983 version of D&D but I think it funnier to make fun of the 2000 release because it was quite horrific.

  23. Re:In other news: on UK Companies Love IT Workers, Love Not Returned · · Score: 0

    3/5 of all statistics are made up on the spot

  24. this just in from marketing on FBI Arrests Eight On Copyright Charges · · Score: 0

    another reason to buy an FBI teeshirt, they'll NEVER KNOW WHAT TO DO

    anyone remember in once upon a time in mexico when jdepp is wearing the CIA shirt and he's actually in the CIA?

    that was awesome.

  25. this just in from marketing on Stem Cells Mend Spinal Injuries · · Score: 5, Funny

    need to start making "I broke my spine and all I got was this aborted fetus" tees