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  1. Rubbish. If, in the normal course of events it would be visible, there's no invasion. If the people opposite my apartment leave their curtains open, that puts zero restriction on MY right to look out of MY window, whatever they're doing.

    If I was using ladders or one of those fire engine arm things[1] to rise over a nine-foot wall it'd be different.

    Stop making stuff up.

    [1] What are they called?

  2. Re:custom chips == government backdoors on Qualcomm To Manufacture Custom Chips For Chinese Market (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The way things are going, it's quite possible they're removing them for the Chinese market.

  3. Quantity has a quality all of its own on Qualcomm To Manufacture Custom Chips For Chinese Market (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    What you say about their education system may well be true. But if they're churning out an order of magnitude more grads than you, then among them there'll be a fair few that are very good and some that are excellent.

    P.S. You probably meant wary, not weary.

  4. But then again, they probably won't.

  5. Re:Unlock the damn devices on Slashdot Asks: Would You Pay For Android Updates? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is how the rest of the planet operates.

    That's why the rest of the planet isn't NUMBER ONE!

    [Aside: They say it looks like a cat? Nonsense, it doesn't even have a tail!]

  6. Re:Crop Rotation on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that antibiotics work by interfering with some process inside the cell, such as protein synthesis. A mutation in an enzyme may mean that the interference doesn't work any more because the antibiotic doesn't inhibit the new form. Bingo, it's resistant to that antibiotic.

    Does an individual cell keep the old gene around or run the processes in parallel? I thought not, which would mean being immune to antibiotic X means it's vulnerable to Y. The problem is, we haven't discovered Y yet.

  7. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    it seems to be working for the most part as only about 15 % of released lifers ever end up back in jail

    So 85% do reoffend. You describe that as working?

  8. Re:No, Not Good on E-Cigs Are Exploding In Vapers' Faces At An Alarming Rate (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't water contain DHMO, which has been shown to be a serious health risk?

  9. You can't, but there's an inherent disincentive in that the scans are shit whereas the copied file is exactly equal in quality to the original.

    tl;dr You're comparing apples and oranges.

  10. to use the force of law to help you make money is morally wrong.

    So shoplifting should be legal? After all, supermarkets use the force of law against people who reduce their profits by thieving stuff.

  11. Time to mandate on E-Cigs Are Exploding In Vapers' Faces At An Alarming Rate (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Time to mandate that they're sold in plain black packaging with a scary picture on it.

  12. Re:ignorant idiots on slashdot on CentOS Linux 6.8 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    We all hate SAP and Oracle, but RHEL is a preferred platform for them to run their enterprisey stuff on. If it was as bad as you say, I think somebody would have sort of noticed.

  13. Re:Without systemd on CentOS Linux 6.8 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Gnome3. What a load of old rubbish, I must be an idiot to have almost 3 machines running it.

  14. Re: And then those employees burn down your restau on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 0

    Right, because franchisees can absorb any amount of extra costs before they just say "fuck this for a game of cricket" and give up.

    Is slashdot the venue for a virtual DeVry reunion or something?

  15. If that's what they do with their spare time, maybe it's time to increase the working week to above thirty hours.

  16. Re:And then those employees burn down your restaur on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the state runs prisons directly it's public expenditure, which is communism and encourages homosexuality.

    If the state pays twice as much to corporations which run prisons that's private enterprise, which is 100% American and apple pie and NUMBER ONE!!!!

  17. Someone's got to build

    In China.

    and program those robots.

    In India.

    That aside, how many of those jobs do you think there'll be?

  18. Re:Where are the robots from? DeVry, that's where on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    the losses from fry-baggers could be largely made up by the increase in robot arm company employees/repairpeople.

    If that was the case they wouldn't be doing it, because that would be rolled into the price of the robot.

  19. Re:And then those employees burn down your restaur on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 0

    Yeah, it's not as if there's a thing called an excess. And after a claim your premiums never go up, ever.

  20. Re:Malware trick on Microsoft Backtracks On 'Nasty Trick' Upgrade To Windows 10 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It sure as hell looks as if it's installed it though. It says it's upgraded, and it shows the password screen for the last user, except it's different; the picture is circular, not square. You have to logon before it gives you the decline option.

    And as the last person to use my wife's laptop last night, that makes it all my fucking fault, of course.

  21. I mostly agree with what you're saying, but if Gawker hadn't behaved like utter arseholes with respect to Hogan there wouldn't have been a backdoor for Thiel to attack through.

    (s/for Thiel to attack through/through which Thiel could attack/ if you're a preposition position pedant).

  22. Murdering arsonists should not jaywalk on Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Secretly Bankrolled Hulk Hogan's Lawsuit Against Gawker: Reports (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're a powerful Silicon Valley billionaire, and there's a media house which actively points out flaws in your investments, can you do something about it?

    Not really. Not directly. Not just for that.

    But if they've left a flank hanging in the air, which Gawker appear to have done, you can sure as hell get them indirectly.

    It's dirty tactics, but what goes around comes around.

  23. I saw it too. Presumably it should have been "critiques" or "criticises".

    Surprised that the editor was able to work that out, actually.

  24. Re:I've been predicted that on Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Artesian beer? Bud Lite, you mean?

  25. Re:The severance package is... on Microsoft Is Laying Off 1,850 to Streamline Its Smartphone Business (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No good. They'll forcibly install Afterlife 10 on your immortal soul for ever.