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  1. Posting on Facebook assumes no privacy on Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The second premise that you lose privacy based on the words you use are nonsense. It's the same as you yelling in the town square.

  2. Spaceforce on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly they were getting too close to the truth about Spaceforce.

  3. It is entirely representing that company when you are talking about products you produce at work or decisions made while at work. In this case that was the subject, on a public medium with full knowledge that fans/end users would see it.

  4. Maybe they can get the hours correct finally if they call and ask. POS tells me everything is closed all the time.

  5. Gnome Glib on Mark Zuckerberg: Tim Cook is 'Extremely Glib' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I honestly sat for 10 seconds trying to figure out why he cared about Gnome or GLib. That capitalization really broke me. https://developer.gnome.org/gl...

  6. The IRS considers it property. You can pay debts with property if you wish as long as that person agrees and gives you a receipt saying you paid said debt. If you don't get an acknowledgement that you finalized a debt immediately after paying then yes, they could come back and ask for money. But that would be silly.

  7. Maybe, just maybe, we are just not interesting.

  8. Re:Colour me suprised on Google Has Stopped Developing Its Own Self-Driving Car - Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Being robbed requires no cones, you just simply have to stand in front of the car to make it stop. The number of pranks, robberies, and other chaos involved will be interesting to see. There are times you may want to drive over a curb to escape a person with a gun.

  9. Re: You've already accepted a roll-back on TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Dun du da daaaa, da da daa daaa daa...

  10. Re:Why the Secret Service did what they did. on Interviews: Ask Steve Jackson About Designing Games · · Score: 1

    The book is literary freeware

    heh...That was clever

  11. why not private dns? on Google Taking Over New TLDs · · Score: 1

    If you are in control of the entire domain name space why wouldn't you just add that domain set to your own private DNS servers and call it a day? There is no need to make it public since a huge chunk of DNS queries are already handled by Google.

  12. There is no problem.. on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    It seems simple to just not connect it. Just do not plug it in and do not configure a wifi connection.

  13. Water water everywhere on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just use a water cannon to shoot the things down. The government already consider them safe to use on crowds. It would be very effective against drones. I can't be the only person who thought of this.

  14. Re:Conveniently Glazed Over Usability on NASA Developing Robotic Satellite Refueling System · · Score: 2

    how did this happen.... thanks beta...

  15. Conveniently Glazed Over Usability on NASA Developing Robotic Satellite Refueling System · · Score: 1

    It's fantastic that you can get that mileage in a car that is inconvenient, small, terrible range. BMW didn't win anything other than an aerodynamics and weight contest. I saw a Tesla Model S competing quite well on the 1/4 mile against Porche, Audi, and.. yeah It smoked a BMW M3 (I am assuming due to driver error). The key was it was quite a capable machine that after a full day of racing drove home and got 75 MPG on the freeway back to the drivers house.

  16. Brilliant! on The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did he just re-invent client-server desktop apps?

  17. This happened to me on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 2

    I was involved in a similar situation where I had free rentals for life with a purchase of a VCR. They had a pitiful movie selection but it was still a good deal. Eventually, they decided to drop the rental portion of the business and effectively said too bad. A quick lawsuit later I had my full purchase price back in my hands. Not a lawyer but it was about 2 hour total to file in small claims and prove my membership and lifetime certificate.

  18. Please no history lessons on Want To Get Kids Interested In Programming? Teach Them Computer History · · Score: 1

    This is what I was taught, I wanted to stab my teacher. I just wanted to make games. History of gaming, maybe, history of computing...zzzz

  19. Artificial Gravity on Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this be solved by building a ring ship with artificial gravity?

  20. Re:Device Control on Microsoft Exposes Locations of PCs and Phones · · Score: 1

    I need to RTFA

  21. Device Control on Microsoft Exposes Locations of PCs and Phones · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if devices had the ability to limit the GPS accuracy for all applications. Something that would allow them to return circular (Spherical?) regions that are defined to fall on a LAT/LON boundry so it doesn't place you in the center of the circle. Have the lowest region be exact LAT/LON, then 100 meters, 1km, 10km, 100km and off. This would only be helpful if the device itself did it to prevent companies with no common sense from doing this.

  22. Re:awful, awful awful awful on Google Cars Drive Themselves, In Traffic · · Score: 1

    The difference is a person can tell if they are feeling well and will not have a mass failure all at once (occasionally heart attacks or strokes cause driving issues but out of millions of drivers the numbers are low) The question is can the computer handle when it has a sudden reboot because of a overheating device or a short circuit across the main bus. Even if it can't you would have to weigh potential total failure of the computer system with how many drunks and poor drivers (those who cause unintended accidents due to incompetence.) there are on the road and find out which is the net positive. I am guessing the computer will do a better job even if the failure rate was fairly high. It is way to much to ask that everyone takes a precision driving course and actually pays attention and acts responsibly so your theory about the computer doing better sounds accurate.

  23. Weedapault on Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border · · Score: 1

    Tell me again why it was a bad idea to legalize weed?

  24. Stealing is better? on Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ya, force them to go back to stealing phones. That is much more safe for the public. This is a pain in the ass for everyone involved, a huge waste of time and money and will just push the drug dealers to either clone phones or steal them at a higher rate. It will not and cannot help.

  25. Re:A full season in the snow on What Has Your Phone Survived? · · Score: 1

    You must have really sweaty legs.