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  1. So, I want to become a robot on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    Wait, I already am.

  2. Destruct as in explode? on Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone · · Score: 1

    Ought to be easy to do. Israelis figured this out a long time ago.

    Of course there is a downside, if you are holding it and

  3. Other Chinese Companies are Worse on Investigation: Apple Failing To Protect Chinese Factory Workers · · Score: 1

    From what I read the steel, coal and general chemistry industries are quite bad. Apple has actually tried to clean up with their vendor requirements.

  4. Respect for Trying! on Marissa Mayer's Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles · · Score: 2

    You can post all day on Slashdot, but that isn't like putting your professional life on the line and giving it a go.

  5. Sooner or Later ... on US Links North Korea To Sony Hacking · · Score: 1

    Someone is going to have to dismantle the Pandora's box that is the DPRK.

    S. Korea and the US have been putting it off for decades and China is finally getting PO'd and worried a N. Korea fall will result in millions crossing their border instantly looking for food.

    It couldn't cost as much as Afganistan.

  6. Re:Sell the key on Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor · · Score: 1

    And then the next Snowden sells the back door key to whoever he wants!

  7. Apple Pushing All Mobile CPU Vendors on Apple and Samsung Already Working On A9 Processor · · Score: 4, Funny

    What I see in this is Apple is NOT letting up their push for better CPU/Graphics.

    The long term plan is obviously to be able to DOMINATE through superiority.

  8. Re:Not sure if my problem is related on Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware · · Score: 1

    Windows is telling you in no uncertain terms to convert as a HackInTosh!

  9. Terminal Windows Complexity? on Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware · · Score: 1

    I'm just wondering if Windows has become so complex that even MS's programmers can't keep all the gears and chains and indexers humming along w/99.9% uptime.

    When are we as users going to insist on bullet proof OS's? It goes for all mainstream systems.

    Seems like it time for a ground up rebuild of the OS. If not, why continue using a system with so many problems. Patch after patch after malware patch and it doesn't change.

  10. Virtual Machine = Only Safe Way on Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware · · Score: 1

    That way you can just trash it & reload a clone if something goes wrong.

  11. Re:End of flight as we know it on US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat · · Score: 1

    Don't necessarily need to "burn through" thick metal to disable a missle. If you hit control surfaces, instrument surfaces or impact sensors, you can disable/destruct fairly fast.

  12. Re:trust lost is difficult to regain - Amen !!! on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 1

    I have a high end application that is simply mandatory for work in my field and it only runs on Windows. It is bad enough if the application goes to a new version I don't want or need, but the force me to pay for & do it anyway or lose contact for needed files and support, but Microsoft can now make it worse with Monitization.

    If I don't pay a recurring fee for Windows, then I could be in jeopardy of being suddenly held hostage if someone hacks the MS servers and my version of Windows goes down.

    Sorry, but I just don't trust Microsoft, at all.

    I'm continuing to post comments & write letters pleading with the makers of the key applications I need to support Mac OS X.

  13. Re:Loss of context-common sense? = No! on NSF Accused of Misuse of Funds In Giant Ecological Project · · Score: 1

    Hey, this is how you motivate underworked, undermotivated, low wage government employees with 'perks.'

  14. Modernizing Lifer Govt Employees? on How the FCC CIO Plans To Modernize 207 Legacy IT Systems · · Score: 1

    Good luck there! How about offering them a "modern" early retirement/buyout package.

  15. Incomplete Online Systems Planning on Hackers Breach Payment Systems of Major Parking Garage Operator · · Score: 2

    I'm beginning to think that many corporations establish online systems without ever doing a serious 3rd party security audit and then penetration testing, plus using whatever real time monitoring tools they can to detect and stop intrusions.

    This reminds me of the US leaving the Southern US border open and saying "No terrorists would get in across our Southern border."

  16. über alles on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Uber wants "Uber über alles!"

  17. Re:Optimum Temperature for a Maunder Repeat? on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    You tweak a bit on the cooling side and get a repeat of the Maunder Minimum; then what?

    Do you lose 25% of the population by starvation and freezing again as before?

  18. Re:Root Your Device? Hey, it's OPEN on Android Botnet Evolves, Could Pose Threat To Corporate Networks · · Score: 1

    What more could you want than open windows and doors to your vault of info.

  19. Easy to forget the people ... on First Victims of the Stuxnet Worm Revealed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are those who are spies and paid well to do their work.

  20. NSA didn't warn USPS? on US Postal Service Hacked, 500k+ Employees and Public Data Breached · · Score: 1

    How about the NSA identifying open doors in US Gov't entitity's systems!

  21. Ring Spacing Reason? on Revolutionary New View of Baby Planets Forming Around a Star · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is most interesting is the nearly equal radial spacing of the half dozen most distinct rings.

    That begs the question, why?

  22. Who Loses Their Executive IT Position? on Home Depot Says Hackers Grabbed 53 Million Email Addresses · · Score: 2

    Seems like one of the jobs of IT departments for the last 10 years should have been to have their own surveillance software to be watching for activities that indicate software changes, moving of data, and added code that should be detectable so they can verify what is happening to their systems in near real time.

  23. Re:Could have been worse on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, then by looking at the video, we saw that the iPad attracted an ENTIRELY different set of users than the advertiser was trying to reach. Humor is so much fun.

  24. Tidal Current versus Deep Water Turbines on Scotland Builds Power Farms of the Future Under the Sea · · Score: 2

    You can pick a shallower water area for its higher tidal flow speed, but that increases stresses and chance for damage.

    But there are deep water currents that are consistent at 5-6 knots which avoid almost all marine life in some places down 5-6000 feet deep. A few are in close to shorelines.

  25. Server Techniques on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 2

    Some servers have been designed to have the motherboard immersed/sealed in dielectric fluid in a sealed box to take the heat out, which would also be in a sealed structure. That stops the need for air as a heat transfer method. Would require waterproof electrical connectors.