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  1. I don't see how they can call it a "launch". More like announcement that they're selling vapor.

  2. Re:Should be 'and' not 'or' on Countries That Use Tor Most Are Either Highly Repressive or Highly Liberal · · Score: 1

    Here's a question:

    1) A Gay couple goes to a bakery to buy a wedding cake
    2) Bakery owner refuses to sell them a cake on his religious grounds
    3) Gay couple complains to government

    Would a Liberal government recognize the couple's right to buy a cake, or the baker's right to his religion?

    I think GP's point was that "liberals" would want to force the baker to sell the cake

  3. Re:Who cares? on Snowden Ridicules David Cameron For Defending 'Private' Matter of Panama Papers Leak · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I think what GP was getting at is that Snowden's opinion on this is no more relevant then Brittany Spears'. I don't know if she actually tweeted on it though; if she does do you think it should make /. front page?

  4. Interesting voice... on People Feel Weird About Touching Robot Butts, Researchers Find (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The voice is clearly an Asian woman, and the instructions sound kind of like a phone sex conversation. It would be interesting to see if a different voice changed the reaction (man's, child's, muppet's, Barney the Dinosaur, etc).

  5. The vast majority of government purchases are off the shelf commercial products bought at wholesale prices from the GSA Schedule. The statement that the government "always costs orders of magnitude more" is blatantly false.

  6. Verifiable by whom? All they did was send out a warning that traffic related to certain domains is probably associated with an intrusion. Seems like a reasonable warning.

  7. Re:Instead of real downloads... on Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...and to keep idiots from pumping /dev/random across the cellular network and into /dev/null in order to burn bandwidth for the sake of burning bandwidth.

  8. Another link on Half of Scotland's Energy Consumption Came From Renewables Last Year (heraldscotland.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As already pointed out, the 57% number is electricity, not energy. I suspect they burn a lot of natural gas for heat since they have the North Sea fields. Graphs here indicate that about 3/4 comes from wind, about 1/4 from hydro. Other sources are negligible (obviously Scotland is too far north and too cloudy for PV).

  9. Re:Flash storage a toy? on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Several "game changing" breakthroughs preceded it, e.g. Bubble memory. People were jaded.

  10. Will they trash it if a Republican wins? on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The way the Clinton staffers did when they left?

  11. Re:"Massive Corruption"? on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Did that happen?

  12. Re:Short people got... on Tesla May Need Cash To Deliver On the Model 3, Says Analysts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla hemorrhaged over a half billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2015, and doesn't have anything to stop it for at least a couple of years.

  13. Re:Personalization on Tesla May Need Cash To Deliver On the Model 3, Says Analysts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not. Even if it had an older design gasoline engine you would get a carburetor, not a carburator. Yea, I saw the recent /. article about people who point out misspellings :^)

  14. Re:The New Luddite Challenge on 20th Anniversary of Unabomber's Arrest (abc10.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't "faster than light". But it has to be faster than the next guy to succeed. My own experience is that electronic trading is far better than the old way of letting human brokers skim off much bigger commissions for willing out a form.

  15. Nah on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nobody is starving just because people with money are using legal tax shelters.

  16. "Massive Corruption"? on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    FTFA:

    Though there is nothing unlawful about using offshore companies, the files raise fundamental questions about the ethics of such tax havens

    So the leaks don't expose much of anything. This does raise the obvious question of where did that money come from in the first place, but that's old news.

  17. Parachutes? on US Military Invests in $320M 'Smart Fabric' Project (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    parachutes that can detect tearing

    I suppose it might give a few more seconds to cut loose and deploy a backup. But mostly I expect it would be used send a signal where to start digging to find the body.

  18. Re:Why not just load gelcaps with powder? on Refrigerator-Sized Machine Can Print Pills on Demand (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot. This is an article about 3D printing. That is all.

  19. Re:Web designers on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 1

    Font size is a nuisance but can be adjusted. Low contrast text is very difficult to read. Brown on beige, dark blue on light blue, etc.

  20. 10 minutes? on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 1

    Awwww. Poor baby, his back hurt for a few minutes so now he knows all about aging. Maybe he should start smoking cigarettes so he won't get old.

  21. Brought to you by Elon Musk on New NASA Launch Control Software Late, Millions Over Budget (go.com) · · Score: 1

    SpaceX, solar power generation, battery technology, electric cars, anti-nuke, etc., etc. His shills are all over /.

  22. Re:They are ALWAYS mostly crap. on One of Silicon Valley's Most Esteemed VCs Says Startups Are 'Mostly Crap' (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 2

    Most people don't end up screwed; most people end up working for the good entrepreneurs who succeed. A few will try to start their own business, and a few of those will succeed.

  23. Re:That's actually really surprising... on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An army of a couple thousand men isn't all that difficult to provide for. The Sioux nation didn't have much in the way of medical technology or food surpluses, but they brought together an army of several thousand to fight Custer at Little Bighorn. The battle that happened at the Tollense River could well have been something similar. Either two large forces came together, or a few hundred men were surrounded and annihilated by a much larger force.

  24. Re: bollocks on Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Maybe we have heard about Rust and dismiss it as a toy / fringe language that hasn't replaced anything.

  25. Re: the War on Cash on Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Three time you have asked this same silly question in this article.

    No, Rust isn't the answer. Their problem isn't the language they use, it's the huge infrastructure that they have in place which needs to be refactored. The choice of programming language is a very minor consideration and by itself won't solve the problem