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  1. Jump start your car on Ask Slashdot: What Interesting Things Can I Power With an External USB Battery? · · Score: 1

    If your car won't start, you could use a bi-directional cigarette USB adapter to jump start your car.

  2. XKCD Explanation? on New Device Could Greatly Improve Speech and Image Recognition · · Score: 1

    I need an XKCD to explain this to me. Perhaps an entry for Randall's new book, "Thing Explainer"?

  3. Minty Floss on Researchers Make Spiders Produce Silk Strengthened With Graphene · · Score: 1

    Spray them with mint and you get floss.

  4. Re:Cutting their losses on Amazon's Delivery Drones Will Be Able To Track Your Location · · Score: 2

    How will Amazon handle the theft problem??

    Lasers. Big lasers.

  5. Re:Brand? on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know which brand of microwave lasts 17 years?

    Maybe it’s one of the originals made by Raytheon.

  6. Pocket Protector Shark on Second Ever Super-rare Pocket Shark Discovered · · Score: 1

    The even more elusive pocket protector shark is humored to exist, but is unlikely to ever be seen, as it dreads swimming out in the open ocean.

  7. Re:and what will happen to people automated out of on Musk Says Drivers May Become Obsolete, Announces Juice-Saving Upgrades · · Score: 1

    I mean I could see an arrangement like they have for nursing where you agree to x years of service in return for having your tuition paid, but paying for job training myself?

    That used to be called an indentured servant, and it wasn’t a very good thing if you ended up stuck with an unscrupulous boss.

  8. Re:Plural of Box is Bice on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 2

    A number of animals do not have plurals, they have a group name:

    A basement of geeks.

  9. Re:Plural of Box is Bice on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 1

    No,

    Deer -> Dice.

    Stick with the program, man.

  10. Re:My $0.02 on Some Biodegradable Plastics Don't Live Up To Their Claims · · Score: 1

    Biodegradable doesn't mean it just magically falls apart after a pre-programmed amount of time.

    Let's get the MPAA involved with this. They can invent a plastic with DRM that make it unusable after a pre-determined amount of time.

  11. Needs regulation... on Evolution Market's Admins Are Gone, Along With $12M In Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    This is why the government needs to step in and start regulating all illegal activity. Perhaps an oversight committee called the Ministry of Honesty.

  12. Re:UV sensitivity on New 3D Printing Process Claimed To Be 25X Faster Than Current Technology · · Score: 1

    The problem with UV sensitive resins is that UV light continues to affect the material even after it's hardened.If you keep it in sunlight it will start to degrade the material and get brittle.

    Just slather your printed parts with 100 SPF sunscreen -- it provides protection plus a bit of extra lubrication.

  13. Unintended consequences? on Live Patching Now Available For Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe I’m old school, but this sort of bothers me. One of the nice things about rebooting is that it clears out old crud and gives you a reassurance that the system can bring itself up by its bootstraps. I can imagine live patching giving rise to a scenario where you have a machine that hasn’t been rebooted for years and when a power glitch finally brings it down, you find that what is on disk is different than what was in RAM and your kernel is corrupt or not bootable.

    I think live patching would make sense if we had non-volatile system RAM (i.e. universal memory), but until then, it seems like rebooting is a pretty good sanity check that things are alright.

  14. Easy Solution on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 1

    Someone just needs to write a tool that takes source code and translates it into an obfuscated form that only the CPU can understand. Is anyone working on this type of privacy tool?

  15. How Ted Cruz could help NASA on Ted Cruz To Oversee NASA and US Science Programs · · Score: 1, Funny

    NASA could send Ted Cruz to Mars.

  16. The devil is in the details... on FBI Says Search Warrants Not Needed To Use "Stingrays" In Public Places · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So if I should happen to live next to a public place, and their signal penetrates my walls into my private residence, can I sue them for trespassing and for intercepting my calls in a place where I would have an expectation of privacy?

    Of course not. *sigh*

  17. Another idea... on Why Aren't We Using SSH For Everything? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Condoms are pretty good for safe sex. I think we should be using condoms to protect our bank accounts, for giving everyone safe drinking water, for screening passengers at airports and for securing your valuables in hotel rooms.

  18. As the saying goes... on The Billionaires' Space Club · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They hate us 'cuz they ain't us.

  19. Re:Grammar police alert on Google Researcher Publishes Unpatched Windows 8.1 Security Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    So this is good. This vulnerability was previously disclosed, but they undisclosed it. The undisclosure was done by the NSA using their version of the neuralizer, the existence of which was disclosed by Snowden last year, but has since been undisclosed (which is why you don't know about it).

  20. Whoa! No Windows RT? on Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1 · · Score: 0

    Microsoft is now backing Android? What happened? Did Santa bring them common sense for Christmas?

  21. 3D printers to the rescue on Scientists Say the Future Looks Bleak For Our Bones · · Score: 2

    3D printed replacement skeletons to the rescue! Installation is a bitch, but you only have to do it once.

  22. Write-Only Memory on Many DDR3 Modules Vulnerable To Bit Rot By a Simple Program · · Score: 1

    This is the reason I recommend that everyone invest in write-only memory for their computers. It is far more secure and hack proof than the alternatives.

  23. Re:Good news! on Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball · · Score: 4, Funny

    Their Communist Chinese hackers will use DDR3 exploit on all viewing sites to infect our computers.

    An exploit on SDRAM? That’s why I insist on only using write-only memory on my computer.

  24. I know why on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 1

    Kim Jong-Un decided to download "The Interview," thereby saturating his country's only dial-up connection to the Internet.

  25. Morse Code? on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    Shoot. There goes my idea of self-publishing a book written entirely in morse code.