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  1. Narf! on Mice Brainpower Boosted With Alteration of a Single Gene · · Score: 2

    n/t

  2. Re:Ahhh, well. on 'Banned' Article About Faulty Immobilizer Chip Published After Two Years · · Score: 0

    Am I too late to join this party?

  3. Re:Slack DM? on Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone (And the Network) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. If you read "technology A sucks compared to technology B (popular/generic) and technology C (which no one has heard of), you can bet that this is solely a marketing tool for technology C. This is a slashvertisement, plain and simple.

  4. Re:Windows Platform Binary Table on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 1

    Cool tool to have at one's disposal during the prelude to a cyberwar. (The key players in any likely cyberwar all have the ability to sign anything they desire.)

  5. Re:Windows Platform Binary Table on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Does the UEFI BIOS need to be signed or can anyone update the BIOS and install their own persistent root kit?

  6. Re:When do I get to be a multinational corp? on Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    That lack of global jurisdiction is used by both the rich and the multinational corps to skirt laws and taxation that are unfavorable to them in their home country.

    - which is an extremely important right of people, the right not to be enslaved and kept in any particular country against their own will, the right to freedom of association, of private property, liberty and life.

    The problem is people do not have these rights. The poor cannot just come to the U.S. and stay as long as they please.

    A few people have this ability. For those with wealth, most countries have special investor visas that allow the wealthy to come and go as they please. J. Random Citizen do not have a say whether they have such a right, nor a say that this right will be respected globally.

    Until we have global representation, the people will not have any such rights.

  7. Re:When do I get to be a multinational corp? on Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    That's quite the double-edged sword you've got there. That lack of global jurisdiction is used by both the rich and the multinational corps to skirt laws and taxation that are unfavorable to them in their home country. These are the same groups that use treaties to enact local laws that would otherwise be rejected by the populace because treaties skirt the popular vote. Lack of global jurisdiction and global representation is fundamentally reshaping all free countries today.

    France doesn't have a right to "dictate the behavior of the entire internet", but certainly we all have some right in influencing how we are governed at that scale.

  8. Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Key on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 4, Funny

    SO THE OLD GEEZERS WHO ONLY GREW UP WITH TELETYPE MACHINES CAN COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER.

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
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    WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY?

  9. Re: First, they came for the assassins... on Secret Service Agents Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet · · Score: 1

    ...about how I planned to assassinate Obama's character.

    Are you talking about his D&D character, ArmoredDragon?

  10. Re:This Just In on Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    The main problem that I have experienced with Gmail's spam filter is that it is overly aggressive. I was on a Yahoo! group mailing list. It got hit by a spammer. I flagged the email as spam. Then a bunch of yahoos responded to the spam or to the people responding to the spam. All of those people's posts to that group started getting flagged as spam. I started noticing holes in conversations.

    Now, I kind of appreciate what Google is doing here. If you keep that behavior in place, you disincentivize the action of replying to spam on a public group. This is social engineering with a positive long-term impact. But it might help for people to know that this is the consequence they face for responding to spam.

  11. Re:That's cool though on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 0

    Knowledge doesn't have to be the truth to be taught at Uni. It just has to be truthy.

  12. Re: Must it be a condom? on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 1

    All medial conditions... like' life'?

    Let's start with pedantry first. That is a much more important -- and challenging -- medical condition to solve. It is a particularly cruel disease that affects a disproportionate number of slashdotters.

  13. EOL or Maintenance Agreement on Car Hacking is 'Distressingly Easy' · · Score: 1

    Requiring car manufacturers to "own" all of the possible software defects for the life of a car means that manufacturers will have to put a limited life on some of these systems. Otherwise each car they make will have a potentially infinite cost. "You want anti-lock brakes after 5 years? Here's the maintenance fee... and you can expect that to rise by 10% per year."

  14. Re:Vacation on Russian Troops Traced To Ukrainian Battlefields Through Social Media · · Score: 2

    He was just going for a vacation.

    I hear the battlefields of Ukraine are beautiful this time of year.

  15. Re:Useless in Houston on Energy Harnessed From Humidity Can Power Small Devices · · Score: 1

    There is this dry, air-conditioned place most of us here on /. never leave called "indoors".

  16. Re:Never underestimate on Facebook Has a New Private Mobile Photo-Sharing App, and They Built It In C++ · · Score: 1

    Ah, I remember fondly the old days of MUD code in C, written to support 15 flavors of UNIX, MacOS, and 3 flavors of DOS. The #ifdef's on the socket code could go on for miles.

    Yes, and today we have POSIX and we code for that. And we use Boost ASIO to hide the Windows/POSIX differences from the application developer.

  17. Congress *Cut* Spending??? on Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess that means the the overall budget will be smaller than last year?

  18. Re:At the cost of the tax payer on Emails Show How Industry Lobbyists Basically Wrote The Trans-Pacific Partnership · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No. This is crony capitalism. Free trade is great for everyone, with government's role being to make sure it stays "free". Nobody outside of the two major political parties will tell you that crony capitalism is good for anybody except the cronies.

    You mix "free trade" and "capitalism" in your sentences as if they were interchangeable and equivalent. They are not. The U.S. had capitalism without free international trade for a long time -- and still does. Free trade only helps the traders. It just means that the taxes that were levied on duties now have to be collected elsewhere. It's a nice phrase for "shifting the tax burden" -- nothing else. Free trade does not magically lower the cost of government.

  19. Re:At the cost of the tax payer on Emails Show How Industry Lobbyists Basically Wrote The Trans-Pacific Partnership · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. This is crony capitalism. Free trade is great for everyone, with government's role being to make sure it stays "free". Nobody outside of the two major political parties will tell you that crony capitalism is good for anybody except the cronies.

    This is capitalism in practice. Show me an example of capitalism that exists without cronyism in the real world -- outside of the economists' idealized computer models. "Pure capitalism" is the economists' version of the "perfectly spherical cow".

  20. Re: It does make economic sense on Airbus Unveils Its First Stage Reuseability Concept · · Score: 2

    Something, Something, Something, Lockheed Martin.

    That would be "in a monopoly venture with Boeing in ULA", gaming the system to extract more money from Uncle Sam.

  21. Whatever happened to... on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 1

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    I was taught that back in civics class... a long time ago, in a country far, far away.

  22. Re:This whole make your own gun is like the homebr on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 1

    If we legalize the making of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, then what are we going to do with all the money we spend on the Bureau of Alchol, Tobacco and Firearms??? Add even more letters to their TLA to justify its existence?

    This organization needs to be ended and its responsibilities folded into the Department of Commerce and the FBI.

  23. Project Removal? on nmap Maintainer Warns He Doesn't Control nmap SourceForge Mirror · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How does one permanently remove a project from SourceForge that has been transferred elsewhere so this does not occur?

  24. Re:Linux Mint gets it right. on Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    I bought my wife a Google Nexus 10 tablet. She is super happy running Linux.

  25. Re:String Theory\0 on Prospects and Limits For the LHC's Capabilities To Test String Theory · · Score: 1

    Yes, exactly. Nor did we have have the same technology available for the detectors, storage for capturing the petabytes of raw data, or the computing power necessary for both filtering and then later analyzing that data.