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  1. US Army had to interfere with the internet traffic so to avoid Americans not to enter into discord due to fake news. It is presented as a good thing that just happened. Americans lost any little left discerning capabality and now the military is tasked with protecting their thoughts. We are at the bottom already.

  2. Lots of common MS software is used for war already on Microsoft Workers' Letter Demands Company Drop $479 Million HoloLens Military Contract (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's hypocritical to take a half stance. Certainly many computers used in every US war are running Microsoft basic products like OSs and data bases. It's evident software is becoming a weapon. What do they suggest? leave the development to Russia and China? Humanity is far from leaving in peace, in the meantime you better keep up.

  3. not much about business but ocuppations on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Drivers, burger flippers, mechanics,

  4. Millions is not always a lot on Companies Are Paying Millions For White Hat Hacking (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    A $3M expense from Google is not a considerable sum. They are cheaping out by only expending that little when you consider all data they store and are pseudo-responsible for.

  5. a little pressure on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Just expire all their Windows licences. I am sure Microsoft has a way to justify it somewhere in the EULA.

  6. Automated driving should summon Darwin on Are Tesla Crashes Balanced Out By The Lives That They Save? (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I am fed up with the "lesser evil" solution of killing the less amount of people by self driving cars. i.e. the proposition is that if there''s one passenger in the car and three people are crossing the street and the car options are to ram the pedestrians or fall to a cliff killing the passenger, then the second option should be taken because it preserves more lives. Wrong. The system should choose to kill the dumbest. If the three people are jay walking on a highway and should not have been there, then there's your answer. Summon Darwin and ram the pedestrians.

  7. Re:Just stopping by to say: Thanks! on Interviews: Ask Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson a Question · · Score: 1

    ahem, I meant David!!

  8. Just stopping by to say: Thanks! on Interviews: Ask Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson a Question · · Score: 1

    I am impressed by all the sour bitching about RoR in /. If you tried, and cannot learn it, then programming just might not be for you. Granted, it might not be the perfect fit for everybody, but RoR has an impressive merit on the growth of the web. 10 years ago I discovered it, and the framework taught me how to structure complex business applications and back them with proper unit and integration testing. Today we run a company on the 6 digit revenue that is backed mostly by RoR. Thanks Daniel!

  9. If the theory was true, most cancers would have to occur before the peak of reproductive age, not after

  10. May be the bot is just a success in being a female teenager and nobody wants to acknowledge that.

  11. Economic Implications on Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment · · Score: 1

    A part of modern Turkey's wealth was built upon what they took as booty from the Armenian Genocide.
    For Turkey to admit the Genocide is not a matter of not having the courage to say "sorry" but a matter of facing the consequences of their actions.
    Consequences that imply repair to the victim's families and borders to Armenia. That is why the negation of the Genocide is so important for the Turks. To the point they'll jail their own scholars if they mention it.
    Disclosure:
    I am a descendant of a survivor of the Genocide. My great-grandmother who died at 96 when I was ~10, told me, and I now 45, remember clearly, how all her children, but my yet unborn grandmother, were killed in front of her and her husband eyes. She could later escape disguised in a carriage of dead bodies.

  12. Let's not be so naive. on The SEC Is About To Make Crowdfunding More Expensive · · Score: 1

    It is done to keep the poor (or middle class) poor. And to make more difficult for them escalating to riches.

  13. Whereas in the US on Soviet Union Spent $1 Billion On "Psychotronic" Arms Race With the US · · Score: 2

    We do it with the media

  14. Watch the video, the aggravating fact is on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    that the driver is black

  15. cost benefit on Is a Postdoc Worth it? · · Score: 1

    If you are asking /. you might not be convinced, or worse, not passionate about it.
    What other thing you desire or better yet, you really need, can be attained with the same amount of money, time and sacrifice that you'd pour in a postdoc?
    Most people do not realize there's better ways to invest in time, money and sacrifice.
    Some need to pay for the education and be chased with deadlines to learn and/or get something done.
    If you must go for formal education, I personally find more benefit in studying something new I don't have a remote clue about.

  16. Install your own PBX on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    For a while (until the computer died) I used to run an Asterix server at home.
    It let me do all sorts of call management, white-listing, black-listing, special automated menus, (you can even program an infinite looped one for them).
    Call bridging, and petty much anything you'd like to do with an incoming call.
    You'll need at least an old PC and one card to plug the phone line in.

  17. Caveat on Online Car Retailer Launching Nation's First Car "Vending Machine" · · Score: 1

    it will be programmed by car salesmen

  18. Re:Exactly right on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    Not quite. The guy was as well the pin maker and pin administrator. So disabling your pin would be akin to rendering the door lock unusable.

  19. Exactly right on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The passwords are like the key to the office. You have to return them.

  20. yeah, on USS Zumwalt — a Guided Missile Destroyer Running On Linux · · Score: 1

    the year of Linux in the Navy!

  21. business != MBA on Ask Slashdot: As a Programmer/Geek, Should I Learn Business? · · Score: 0

    The model we have works fairly well for us. When we develop a product is either our product, or a product that somebody asked us to develop. If we find it worth it, we'll develop it charging money, and we'll keep a percentage of the company/product as well. We are learning business as we go and from a disparity of sources. But the bottom line is that good products have a marketing of their own as word of mouth is the best seller. I have a bias against college MBAs, you could just read the books and use your business as the field to apply.

  22. Re:Obvious solution. on Bloody Rag May Not Have Touched Louis XVI's Severed Head · · Score: 1

    Agree to that. You can guaranty DNA match. Nobody can guaranty the whole lineage has been always faithful.

  23. the kindergarten Lego league

  24. Re:you have the source on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 2

    can we have score 6 for parent?

  25. Re:You break the law you go to jail on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 1

    please mod parent up, public massive information about jury nullification is the only thing that can save the US