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  1. Re:Age Captcha on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's like the age gate in the original Leisure Suit Larry game.

  2. Re:Get this off my Slashdot! on 'Fortnite' May be a Virtual Game, But It's Having Real-life, Dangerous Effects (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    That escalated quickly.

  3. Re:Containers on Doomsday Docker Security Hole Uncovered (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure of how useful containers are in production, but just like VMs they are extremely useful when developing and testing software that needs to target multiple platforms, or needs to do automated testing against many supported versions.

  4. Heat Assist, don't we want to combat heat? on The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    HAMR, from the name alone scares me a little, knowing nothing of the technology. And, I'm sure I could do some research and will wait for reviews, but initial impressions do take a toll.

    My concern would be that cooling, and managing excessive heat inside a small case is already a major problem. So, how they generate the heat? how do they prevent heat leakage or handle cooling? these would be some of my concerns as a hobbyist picking a new drive;

    Though, these might not ever be targeted to the home user.

  5. Re:It's not as simple as you all are making it on Slashdot Asks: Should 'Crunch' Overtime Be Optional? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    How many of you had a deadline when you were a student and ended up having to crunch to get your paper written, homework done, test study etc. Planners aren't any more perfect than you.

    Unless you planner is a college student with no formal experience or training in planning, then this is a poor comparison.

  6. Re:After the horse has left the barn? on GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    could possibly dispute the charge.

  7. won't make a difference on Panasonic Designed Human Blinders To Block Out Open-Plan Office Distraction (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    >> Think of it as a sign for potential bothersome coworkers that broadcasts, "I'm busy."

    If headphones don't work to say "I'm busy", then these won't either.

    Also, where are my headphones supposed to go with these blinders on; need to block the noise, too.

  8. NZ and Australia are first world countries, we don't tip here.

    you do now!

  9. Re:Meh on New Tech Lets Submarines 'Email' Planes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You are assuming this would only be used for military/covert comms. Based on the overview alone, I could see this being useful for tons of stuff. Non-mil submarines that don't have Bouys; Situations where bouys or surfacing is a waste of time. unmanned sub status communications. black boxes. emergency/crash comms.

  10. >> 5. Limit the amount of ammunition you can buy at once for assault style weapons. A licensed gun range maybe able to get unlimited, but only for use at that range. If someone brings in the spent casings they can buy more.

    I hear this, and similar, arguments often; you make this argument while at the same time, you are stating "require regular certification ... Can you hit what you shoot at".

    These are (somewhat) mutually exclusive.
    If i am to be capable of hitting what i shoot at, I need to practice. If i need to practice, I need enough ammo (that i can afford (via bulk buying rates, for example)).

    Sure, this depends on the type of shooting, and the type of gun (long range practice doesn't usually use a ton of ammo, for example).

    and yes, you could also just buy more ammunition while at the range, to have enough for your practice session, but this is then price limiting. When ranges switch to 'only range-bought ammo allowed', this is usually followed by price gouging.

    Making ammo unreasonably expensive, or artificially supply limited is gating firearms only to wealthy or members of the good-old-boy's club.

  11. That was a great game, amazing sound/graphics/interface/everything for its time.
    It was based on a card/board game; which is also a ton of fun.

  12. My cost, after tax credits was about $12k. Since my electricity bill would be over $1,700/year (with A/C and electric cars), how long does it take to pay off? Even without the tax credits, it would pay off in less than 10 years (factor in some inflation of electricity prices, coming to you soon, courtesy of Trump's recent actions). The components all have warranties that are longer than 10 years.

    If we assume a 20 year average life, that means that in 10 years you gained $17,000 (energy not paid for) and lost $6,000 (50% depreciation on your panels). So you are up $11,000.

    I don't get your math. I think you are going under on the value, by subtracting panel cost/depretiation.

    20 year life. at your rate would be 17k * 2.
    which is 34.
    minute 12k for the initial installation (who cares about depreciation, the panels have a base cost you are skipping) ==> 22k

    then if you care about depreciation, or added value to home. then you add that on top, because you have paid for the panels. which could be another +6k ==> 28k total value.

    and the panels could even keep producing.
    though, at 20 years the efficiency may have dropped by 10-20%.

  13. Re:This isn't good on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Having recently talked with a solar installer; they claim that most of the cost of solar and most of the jobs in solar are not in the actual manufacturing of the panels themselves (which is apparently mostly robotic, which makes sense). It is with everything else around the panels (such as installation, which has to remain local).

  14. I think that was his point.
    same IP on separate hareware routers.

  15. Re:19 Gal/day is not out on Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And it's no different than those "low volume" flush toilets that you sometimes have to ring the handle a second (or third!) time to get them to empty the bowl properly.

    You must have never used newer low volume toilets.

    I will agree that 1st generate low-flow toilets were horrible (my parents have one installed, it is not great). They were just old-style toilets with less water, and they clogged more than the old ones (which still clogged and required double flushing).

    I had some new toilets installed in a bathroom remodel 4 years ago; approx. 1.3 gal per flush. Never once have they clogged or needed plunging. Only rarely do they need a 2x flush. Better in every way than my old normal-flow toilets. Not sure how they do it - seems like more pressure during the flush, so maybe it just drops that 1.3 gallons through a thicker pipe.

  16. Re:Technology is making us obsolete on Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight By Pretending To Play It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you watch a stream of programmers typing on their keyboards? No, because it's pointless.

    Humans watch other humans playing sports because they're too fucking lazy to play sports themselves.

    Oh, "for the teams", you say? That's tribalism, meaning you have the same brain processes as cavemen.

    https://developers.slashdot.or...

  17. time traveler on Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? (cryptocoinsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Satoshi" probably hasn't even been born yet. He traveled back in time to generate wealth for himself in the future; His innovation was creating a new currency, as opposed to using the old compound interest trick -- also makes actually procuring the money easier, no banks to deal with, just needs to have his keys.

  18. Re:Perhaps insensitive, but on Japanese Metal Manufacturer Faked Specifications To Hundreds of Companies (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2
  19. Re:Terrible headline on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't MS Vista do something like this? ... so long ago, I only vaguely remember.

    It had a lot of system pop-ups warning of permission escalation requests. It was a features everyone hated and disabled.

  20. Re:Yes and no... on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    +1

  21. > the authors of the Constitution had no concept of...

    "Locking" information via ciphers, codes, and steganography existed long before the Constitution. I would assume that the autors of the document were aware that these things existed.

  22. Re:Greenwash on Google Says It Is About To Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy (blog.google) · · Score: 1

    Can answer both of those:

    Explain to me how exactly the technological solution to this works?

    Technical solution is super easy -- probably already exists:

    Contract with 3rd party ad servers.
    Create or use an API for service ads and for receiving tracking info.
    Send tracking info to Advert service.
    Advert service sends back appropriate ad to search engine.

    Google/Bing makes money via %% of ad revenue or fixed rate.
    Ad company makes money via %% of ad revenue or fixed rate. ... so, works same as it is now, except no in-house ad serving and would need a shared API (or to support multiple APIs based on vendor).
    Then the ad ranking would be unlinked from internal ad house -- based on something else, like if you give Bing more money, they rank your ads higher than someone else's ads.

    Better yet, explain how it would benefit ANYBODY.

    How do ads help anybody? its just questionable in itself. I guess it spreads more money among more people and exposes more private data to more people.

    Since it would force the search-engine companies to share their tracking data with 3rd-party ad servers. Only benefit here is that the public would become more aware of how much search engines track.

    I don't know original argument, I suppose it could be that Google (or Microsoft) could push its own products in its own engine to the top of the list at a cheaper cost-per-ad than a thirdparty ad provider; or preventing the lockout of thirdparty ad providers.

    Not saying this is good or bad, but these questions don't raise any barriers to forcing search / ad code to be owned by separate entities.

  23. If I have to know that a particular system is using systemd in order to invoke "screen" correctly, somebody's design is totally broken.

    That is just silly. I suppose you would have fiercely resisted when Telnet was kicked out in favor of ssh too since it had new syntax.

    Change is just part of tech. Get used to it.

    Your given analogy is bad.

    Telnet is a program that still exists today, and still works like Telnet. When SSH became the standard, programs using Telnet did not break; software using Telnet did not need to be re-coded immediately due to an OS update. Programs using Telnet still work today.

  24. Re:You want switches and knobs? on Elon Musk Announces $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Some people can't talk or can't talk well. They could fall back to using the touchscreen, but that goes back to the UI nightmare.

  25. Re:Missing a target with a laser weapon on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    Your jedi mind trick has worked, redirecting the discussion to specifics about a single franchise instead of the concept as a whole; So, ignoring all the weak minded fools who are latching on the "I'm looking at you star wars", as opposed to answering the question "Missing ... with a laser weapon" ...

    I have no issue with any dumb-fire weapon missing its target. Any manually aimed weapon system can miss, handheld systems would be even more prone to this. It can be explained away with user error (bad aim, bad grip, bad trigger control) or equipment malfunction (rough trigger, poor sighting system), or both. Even with the weapon's discharge outpacing the movement of its target, the operator still must aim and fire the weapon correctly.