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  1. Good news, there is a reward. That bad news? It's in Bitcoin.

  2. Go into building rockets or invest in a Trump casino.

  3. Lycra monitoring! on Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Checks each shopper for the percentage of lycra worn vs body mass. Have too much of each, you're banned in the interests of public health

  4. Check the staff, instead on Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it'd be more beneficial to put heart rate monitors and temperature probes on the store greeters to make sure they're still alive. Then, when they do die, they can quickly be replaced before any one notices.

  5. Strike two! on Huawei Caught Cheating Performance Test For New Phones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Cheating and spying are no way to go through life, son.

  6. Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave.

  7. Please, just let it die. on 5 Star Trek Shows in Development, 1 Could Star Patrick Stewart, Reports Say (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So we've got 5 Star Trek shows in the works and 7, 8, or 9 Star Wars prequels, sequels, whatevers, as well. This isn't innovation. It's not new ideas. And it certainly not exciting. It's whipping a dead cow laying out in the desert somewhere for the past 2 years in order to get a few more drops of milk.

    It's done, guys. It's over. Time to let go.

  8. Re:Solution on Can This New Treatment Stop the Common Cold? (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Back in the 1980's, eradicating a fruit fly infestation here in California was all the rage. Towards that goal, then-Governor Jerry Brown backed a program to spray malathion from helicopters, at night, over the affected areas. When complaints rose over people being poisoned, they tried to minimize the dangers by pointing out how diluted the spray was. Brown's head of the program, B.T. Collins, on TV, drank a glass of the spray mixture. Literally. Something about proving how safe it was. It was totally worth it to see him, after drinking it, bending over and wretching, live on TV.

  9. 15-year old script kiddies control the world's economy through their successful hacking of the sole world currency.

  10. I saw his name and couldn't believe he was still alive, let alone active. According to his IMDB bio, he's 84 years old and he has been, more or less, acting in movies and TV, since the movie 2001, save a period in the 1990s. He is currently a regular in a TV show! Go, Keir! You rock!

  11. Bill doesn't need a weekly income. He's perfectly content drawing off of his investment portfolio. Besides, he and the other 1%ers just received a windfall annual tax cut that probably is more than the combined salaries of hundreds of working stiffs.

  12. Re:Man who already is stinking rich... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    He was also a virulent racist and anti-semite, so there is that.

  13. This has the potential of making Intel recall the floating point bug times with great fondness, nostalgia, and affection.

  14. Re:It works both ways on Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads (propublica.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is left unsaid, however, is they're hiring experienced individuals who don't expect compensation commensurate with that experience.

  15. What is the intrinsic value of bitcoin? on Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day · · Score: 2

    Companies typically have tangible assests and sales to support their stock prices. What is supporting bitcoin's valuation. I suppose one could argue that it's price is whatever somebody is willing to pay for it but that seems awfully close to being a Ponzi scheme. This feels like the dot com bubble that blew up at the beginning of the century when internet companies had ridiculously high prices without having any sales. Pets.com anyone?

  16. What's the intrinsic value of bitcoins on Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day · · Score: 1

    In other words, what sustains its price if there aren't any tangible assets supporting it? I guess you could claim that it's value is whatever somebody is willing to pay for it but that's awfully close to sounding like a ponzi scheme. It may be me but this feels like the dot com bubble earlier this century when companies with no sales had ridiculously high valuations based on forward looking sales estimates or other such nonsense, big words meaning nothing. Pets.com, any one?

  17. Re:As Iâ(TM)ve been saying for over a year on iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That new headquarters isn't going to pay for itself, you know.

  18. Was the published worth based on the content of the paper documents or on the physical documents themselves? I doubt digital copies of the documents have the same value as the originals. What they do have is the ability to be disseminated easily to those who do wish to study them and, presumably, with a longer lifetime. The originals, however, still have value as historical documents (at least to HP historians) and, thus, should have been better protected.

  19. Re:Surely only Transceiver Control on Air Force Gives 10-Year-Old Orbiting Satellite To Ham Radio Operators (arrl.org) · · Score: 1

    Since the AF disabled the S band and other transponders, one of which was probably for command and control, the capability of controlling it, if there was any way at all, is gone. After 10 years, I doubt that there is much in the way of orbital maneuvering that can be done, in any case. For small sats like this, they may have had a small amount of gas initially in order to place the thing into the proper orbit after launch but that probably ran out years ago. I'd suspect that the bird is fixed in its orbit and will only change if the orbit begins to decay and it eventually re-enters the atmosphere and burns up. Not much can be done about that.

  20. Almost loaded it this weekend on iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was synchronizing my iPad in iTunes when I saw there was an update available. After some research into what was new and what problems the early adopters were seeing, I decided to wait. My IOS 10 works just fine and there is no pressing need to upgrade yet, so I think I'm goona wait

  21. How? One of the biggest on the whole planet run south to north smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean separating the North American Plate from the Eurasian You may even have heard of it. Its called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The two plates are continuously pulling apart from each other, generating earthquakes all the time. You lay cable across the Atlantic west to east, you have to cross it

  22. Re:The Case Against Sugar on Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    That's because we have been lied to all our lives. It's a major reason we here in the US are suffering from obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and a host of other ailments related to poor nutrition, bad eating habits, and processed foods full of salt, sugar, and bizarre chemicals designed to make the processing companies wealthy and the people who eat that shit unhealthy.

  23. Variety of detective novels and non-fiction on Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    Y is for Yesterday - Sue Grafton
    Pale King and Princes - Robert Parker

    Going Deep - John Holland
    A history of the attack submarine

    The Cake and the Rain - Jimmy Webb
    Biography of the 60s/70s song writer

    The Taking of the K-129 - Josh Dean
    Another telling of the CIA's Glomar Explorer's attempt to raise a Russian nuke submarine from 15000-foot depth

  24. Re:the real question on Happy Music Boosts Brain's Creativity, Study Says (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean like AM radio did when the song came out in 1981.

    I lived through that! I was there! I hate that song more than The Dude hates the fucking Eagles.

  25. Binge watching from DVD/BluRay is the best way on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No commercials and I can watch as many episodes as I feel like which is usually 1 or 2 a night. I get the videos from my local library so there's no cost involved although there is the occasional damaged video. That's pretty rare, however. I did this for all the recent great shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Sopranos, The Wire, and House of Cards. The only problem is that is can take several months to work through all the seasons of a show and watching the same thing for that long gets a bit stale even if the show is a great one. I'm at the start of Season 4 of House of Cards and have reserved searson 5 which is on order now.

    In any case, binge watching these programs beats pretty much anything on live today.