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  1. Re:I didn't realise this add-on existed... on Mozilla Bans Popular Firefox Add-On That Tampered With Security Settings (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    people who write ad-ons that do not respect the rights of publishers most likely have no respect for your rights either.

    So authors the various ad blockers, NoScript, Ghostery, etc aren't respecting your rights when they also don't respect the publisher's rights, blocking all the crap the publishers include? How am I suppose to live with myself and sleep at night violating the publisher's right to violate me?

  2. Re:Nuclear weapons aren't the deterrent on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    A good portion of the country just sucks to crow crops. Poor soil, terrain, and climate conditions just make it impractical to grow crops in a significant amount.

    For the parts that can grow crops, economic sanctions have had their effect to. Having very limited access to commercial pesticides, fertilizers, petroleum products, and electricity for irrigation results in significantly lower crop yields than what a modern farm would yield. Add in severe natural disasters, lack of diversity in crops, shitty seed, etc and you have a recipe for the current agriculture conditions.

    Plus it's just hard to grow plaster fruits and veggies.

  3. Re:Title is idiotic on Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes the technology is getting better but that's not remotely the same thing as letting non-surgeons cut people.

    And not too long ago, you needed to be a doctor to give out doctorly advice, write prescriptions, etc. Now LPN and PAs do it for routine tasks under the guidance of doctors.

    I don't see trained surgeons being replaced by non-surgeons with robots for major medical procedures. But I could see trained medical professionals who may not be full fledged surgeons doing routine procedures.

  4. Re:Not much better than dedicated hardware on Hopkins Study Finds Popular Blood Pressure App Wildly Inaccurate (jamanetwork.com) · · Score: 1

    When buying one, take it to the doctor's office and compare with the nurse's readings.

    What happens when your doctor's office doesn't use an old fashion cuff and instead use this one? Every time I go in I have to position my arm in a different way. Sometimes it's stretched out, sometimes it's across by chest, once it was straight up. It's not really a surprise that my blood pressure always seems to be different (both significantly lower or higher) than what a traditional reading normally is for me.

  5. Re:And the headlines in the mainstream media will on Amazon Just Removed Encryption From the Software Powering Kindles, Smartphones, Tablets (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    That implies all 3,512 users knew there was encryption to begin with. I think that's implying a lot.

  6. In related news, a ABA (American Buggy Association) survey conducted soon after motorized buggies first started appearing showed that 75% of riders wouldn't feel safe riding in a buggy powered by an internal combustion engine.

    You'd have to be crazy to deliberately sit on a device that was violently exploding thousands of times a minute. Why on earth would you want to put your self in such danger and get rid of the tried-and-true reliable horse?

  7. Re:"Destroy ing innovation" on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine when they stated this that they sounded a lot like this, snickering and barely being able to get it out with a straight face.

  8. Re:Yeah, whatever ARM on ARM: Mobile Graphics Will Surpass PlayStation 4, Xbox One In 2017 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    However Consoles are uniformed in their Graphics, allowing game makers to make their games directly for the graphics hardware, taking advantage of all the new features.

    I'm not sure what this means. Even the current generation of consoles which use AMD GPU chipsets are not uniform. The PS4 clearly has an advantage. On top of this, the development systems are clearly different so a game on one console is not really the same as another.

    I think what he's trying to say is that for a given generation of consoles, the internal hardware specs are usually the same or nearly so across the generation. Drop the game into any console and the developer can be confident the performance will be the same because the CPU/GPU/APU/whateverPU are the same.

    With PCs, the performance can have dramatic differences if it just has basic integrated graphics, entry level dedicated GPU, high end GPU, etc. The developer doesn't know how many shaders it has, what type of memory and how fast and how much, and on and on.

  9. Re:won't work for long on Thanks To Encryption, UK Efforts To Block Torrent Sites Are Pointless (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    So if a site isn't being blocked, it's just a matter of time before the ISPs close this trivial loophole.

    You're presuming your ISP cares. Unless they are also a media company, they likely don't beyond the extent of the nuisance it creates in maintaining it and the small additional cost for hardware.

    If blocking packets based on simple HTTP host headers is the cheapest option that satisfies the requirements of the legal order while also creating the least collateral damage, then they really don't care if it's an ineffective measure easily circumvented (proxy, https, vpn, etc)

  10. Re:Seriously?? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps don't go into secure areas when you're worried about your startup clients contacting you?

  11. Re: Deny ALL Cookies on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    It's not legally required that the popup is actually a popup though, is it? Numerous sites I've visited have had some form of a popup, but many also just have the notification as part of the normal flow of content in the page. There's usually an option to hide or close it for future views, but it's unobtrusive as part of the design.

  12. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect that he has no idea at all what this whole 'checks and balances' thing actually does.

    From a recent speech Trump gave:

    And certainly what Barack Obama was doing with the executive orderâ"he doesnâ(TM)t want to get people together! You know? The old-fashioned way where you get Congress.... You get the Congress, you get the Senate. You get together. You do legislation.

    He doesn't even know how laws are made or how the two houses of the legislative branch operate. You know, the Congress and the Senate.

  13. Re:Public Cam Footage? on Police Department Charging TV News Network $36,000 For Body Cam Footage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Video from the police cruiser cam might be useful for a stalker to figure out where she lives.

    If you're a serious stalker at all, you already know where she lives. You followed her home, or you searched for her on any one of numerous public databases or websites. Or you just request the police report which is usually also part of public record anyway.

  14. Re:One thing's for sure on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    there's no reason to criticize the drug company in this instance.

    There's no reason to criticize yet. That's what an inquiry is for. Many drugs go through trials. How many drugs suddenly die during those trials? Not get sick. Not have a condition worsen. But DIE.

  15. Does it seem reasonable that I need to maintain duplicates of those devices for personal use?

    Yes, if you want complete privacy in your activities from company oversight.

  16. Re:Easy Fix on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    After his phone melts down...

    Except HIS phone won't melt down. It'll be his poor assistant's phone. Or they'll just redirect everything to voicemail and purge it every now and then.

  17. Re:Not a "warm glow" on Nanotech Could Make Incandescent Light Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    An incandescent when you dim it, it runs cooler and as a result it goes to more of a red color instead of the yellow white color it normally runs at.

    A shift toward red is warmer, not cooler.

    I think he means that when you dim an incandescent, it's thermodynamic temperature is cooler. The filament shifts from a shade of white towards the red, creating a color temperature that is warmer.

  18. Improved sarcasm enhancement

  19. Re:Neat... but why? on Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth (variety.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    What problem is this trying to address?

    Saving on bandwidth costs?
    Providing a better streaming experience for customers on poor or throttled connections?
    Storage space savings?

    So nothing that's REALLY important then?

  20. Re:Young people moving away? on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh and only an idiot would think you could grow plants under opaque objects.

    I guess people in japan are idiots.

    Also, if you took the 2 seconds to follow the link I provided in my original post you'd see that I searched for desert solar farms. It's not very surprising that plants don't grow very well in a desert. It was a selective use of evidence to argue for a particular point even though the solar farm was a red herring for why the plants really didn't grow.

    Rubes like you would probably blame them for making the tomato plants cancerous though.

    It's rubes like you that are to blame for not understanding sarcasm, even obvious sarcasm clearly indicated with /s.

  21. Re:Young people moving away? on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    a town council willing to be swayed by nonsensical arguments,

    Can you PROVE a solar farm doesn't cause cancer? It also seems pretty plausible (at least based on pictures that growing crops under the panels doesn't work too well. And the panels are sucking up solar energy (albeit to output electricity) although sucking up ALL the energy is a bit of an exaggeration.

    It seems to me that the town is on very solid ground here. /s

  22. If your kid is making income online from porn, then you have other issues you should be worried about.

    Who do you think is maintaining those sites?

  23. Re:Killled by wet roads? on Deep Learning Identifies Wet Road Hazards From Sound Input (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    And your point is?

  24. Re:doesn't even necessariy require much skill on What If Someone Uses This DIY CRISPR Kit To Make Mutant Bacteria? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The complete works of William Shakespeare written in bacteria DNA?

  25. Re:Killled by wet roads? on Deep Learning Identifies Wet Road Hazards From Sound Input (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    we also have more cars per mile of road than any other country on Earth

    or not