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  1. Re:$129 for a freaking SMOKE ALARM?! on Nest Protect: Trojan Horse For 'The Internet of Things'? · · Score: 2

    This can tell your thermostat when you are not home and can be disabled by waving at it. Which is handy when the fire alarm is going off due to a condition you are aware of.

    Just a hardwired CO2 and Smoke alarm is around half this.

  2. Re:who thinks about their smoke detector? on Nest Protect: Trojan Horse For 'The Internet of Things'? · · Score: 1

    I would be fine with leaving that on.

    The fact that I have to get up on a chair to disable the damn fire alarm when I cook sucks. Some cooking preparations lead to smoke that leads to the fire alarm going off. This might mean I could cook a burger/steak indoors and not take the batteries out of the thing.

  3. Re:No, bad idea on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 1

    Can it mirror the phone display?
    I want to open google maps on the phone and have it show up on the dash.

  4. Re:No, bad idea on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 1

    Pairing the phone one time is too hard?

  5. No, bad idea on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just make the damn thing take in bluetooth and HDMI. The car infotainment should have no brains. Just let it run off of a normal device the user already owns.

  6. Re:Holy Hype-fest Batman! on South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    How may I use these sheep bladders to run Office 2013 on FOSS Operating systems?

  7. Re:Ideal situations on 802.11ac 'Gigabit Wi-Fi' Starts To Show Potential, Limits · · Score: 0

    Look at that the brits surrendering to the french, will wonders never cease?

  8. Re:Important to note ..... on 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' · · Score: 1

    I imagine big buyers will be targets as well. Sure someone who just bought a few grams here or there is fine, but there might have been people moving real weight and replacing traditional suppliers this way.

    Those folks are screwed.

  9. Re:IT Professionals? on How DirecTV Overhauled Its 800-Person IT Group With a Game · · Score: 1

    That would show you who the mediocre internal hackers were. The best hackers have made sure they never score too high, just high enough to always get that raise or to get those incentives at the normal rate.

  10. Re:Make it stop. on How DirecTV Overhauled Its 800-Person IT Group With a Game · · Score: 2

    So stop working there.
    I could make more money by taking one of those jobs, but I don't even accept interviews from them. Why do that to yourself?

    The minute I saw 800 person IT Group I knew that would be a hell hole.

  11. Re:Absolutely disgusting on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    The drugs do not rot out your teeth or cause those skin conditions. Those are side effects of not taking care of yourself and poor lifestyle in general. Most of those folks would have similar hygiene issues without the drugs. Go visit very poor folks sometime.

    That is why they also have "no-go pills".

  12. Re:Cockroach rights? on Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    I never suggested anything for the average person. Some humans have trouble with animal fats, some can't eat some plants. I believe a vegetarian diet can be as balanced as a meat including or even meat only one. The simple fact is almost no one puts that kind of effort into their diet.

  13. Re:Absolutely disgusting on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 2

    Look up "I noticed after I hit submit and slashdot has no edit button".

  14. Re:Not this shit again on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Jobs that you don't want cheaply automated. People already pay extra for handmade things. Soon people will pay to have their lawn work done by hand so it can be imperfect and unique. More and more trivial or what would now seem silly work will be done as well.

  15. Re:For once, I agree with Gartner on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    I do some of this and the other thing I find is how many of these reports are either never used or are used and mean nothing.

  16. Re:Global Economy on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Besides kodak is a terrible example.

    They invented the digital camera and then decided to shelf it so they could keep selling film. They invented the rope and then decided to hang themselves with it instead of their competitors. Why compare to a company that committed suicide?

  17. Re:Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those people are likely not paid a normal wage. One of the scams surrounding the disabled is to calculate what you should pay them vs another employee by having a ringer perform a task then letting them do it. You can then say since your ringer can do X operations in Y time and it takes this worker 5 times as long you can pay them 1/5th as much. Even if they are only really performing half as much work as your normal employee.

  18. Why does anyone listen to him? on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    What exactly has this guy ever gotten right?
    Why does anyone report what he writes?

  19. Re:Cockroach rights? on Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    To avoid harming an animal for entertainment?
    That is what the GP was talking about.

    Go ask a vegetarian if you want, lots of reasons from moral to religious to actual medical problems digesting animal fats.Surely you already knew that.

  20. Re:Absolutely disgusting on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    Uh ever hear of "Go Pills" go ask your local fighter pilot. The military still uses them. They are some sort of amphetamine.

    The Nazi's actually prepared methamphetamine in the field and used it.

    I am not speaking of using tweakers as soldiers, just keeping your current soldiers up and running with no sleep or food for days at a time.

  21. Re:dehydrates on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 2

    Not any normal beer.
    Drinking beer only on vacation is a great way to avoid traveler's diarrhea.

  22. Re:11-year-old? on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why?
    If it was suitably low alcohol it would be fine. Think 1% or so. Why not for grownups?

    Stupid troll is stupid.

  23. Re:Absolutely disgusting on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 2

    What exactly is wrong with that?
    Methamphetamines have all kinds of medical uses and battlefield preparation can be very useful.

    Oh yeah you're just a shitty troll.

  24. Re:How much revenue are they really protecting?? on AMD Intentionally Added Artificial Limitations To Their HDMI Adapters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is the first explanation that makes any sense.

    Force the OEMs to buy these DVI to HDMI chips from AMD vs another competitor.

  25. Re:Why do this? on AMD Intentionally Added Artificial Limitations To Their HDMI Adapters · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because carriers pay extra for that or will not carry a phone without it.