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  1. HP 41CX Emulator on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    for a desktop computer or a smartphone/tablet. Being able to start to organize mathematical calculations for the likes of area of a circle and volume of a sphere or cube and carry out those calculations are well within the ability of a 10 year old who is interested. Then you move on to Wolfram, spreadsheets and such.

  2. Think large donors don't get favors now do you?

  3. Re:Community Activism: Yagi Antennas on How a DIY Network Plans To Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    They and others have been around for over a decade and are highly efficient. I assume that is what they are using.

  4. Security + Backdoor? on FortiGuard SSH Backdoor Found In More Fortinet Security Appliances (fortinet.com) · · Score: 1

    = Legal Liability!

  5. Won't Stop TRUE bad guys. on California Bill Would Require Phone Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 2

    This just catches the low level criminals and normal people. Mafia, KGB & Israeli Mossad will just use older iPhones and other methods.

  6. Just What the Government Wants - Backdoors on Backdoor Account Found On Devices Used By White House, US Military (sec-consult.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That way they can monitor EVERYTHING, everywhere, including subversives in the White House that might foil FBI, NSA & CIA operations.

  7. I want to be the guy who collects the fees and issues the license plates to 340 million people & collects the yearly license fee.

  8. Re:No Backdoors & IF THERE ARE ... on Clinton Hints At Tech Industry Compromise Over Encryption (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We all will suffer, and I won't put up any bank work online.

    Terrorists will use "older hardware" or other separate "hideable" encrypted files which OS's can not see or stop. Steganography anyone.

  9. It is the same as asking EVERY student to become proficient in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. I don't know anyone who is proficient in all four.

    Individuals are inclined to one or two things. Trying to force them into doing something they truly are not interested in has always been a failure.

  10. To Make a Brick on How Procrastination Can Be Good For You (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to plan how to mix, match, and mold the cruddy stuff & then fire it

    Fire first doesn't work.

  11. Pure Hype on Developing 3D-Printing Tech for Cars (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Smokin too much super grass.

  12. SoCriminals will use "Old" Smartphones on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    There value of old smartphones will go up if the bill passes.

    Corporate & business users who want safe communications will seek out those old phones.

  13. Terrorists Won't Care on French Conservatives Push Law To Ban Strong Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Then only terrorists will have secure communication capabilities.

    It is easy to hide messages in large photo images and not be able to tell whether there is actually any hidden data in the photo.

    Governments think organized criminals & terrorists are stupid.

  14. Re:because MONEY on Google Claims a TOS Violation On RouteBuilder For Using the Map API (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When you don't understand the reason look to the money.

  15. Actually written by Al Gore on The Top Weather/Climate Events of 2015 (wunderground.com) · · Score: 0

    Hardly a balanced scientific overview.

  16. That will stop the cartels & thugs on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everyone will be finally safe.

  17. Re:Colonization doesn't require human travel on The Three Possible Classes of Interstellar Travel (forbes.com) · · Score: 2

    This simplifies everything by at least a couple orders of magnitude in food and fuel.

  18. Re:Nothing New in the US Southwest on New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The interesting thing is that the business exodus has been quietly under the radar for a decade with thousands of businesses either moving or expanding out of state. See: http://www.spectrumlocationsol...

  19. Nothing New in the US Southwest on New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My books on the pre-history of the American SouthWest over the last 2200 years is riddled with severe drought indications that caused entire civilizations to abandon their settlements and move to new areas. Thomas Mails described a lot of this in his book "The Pueblo Children of the Earth Mother.

  20. Time Efficiency is the answer on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Into Machine Learning? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Turn off the TV. Go into online learning fast & hard.

    Bust your ass and eventually join some of the OSS project/s and volunteer to help.

    It gets your name out there and the right people do notice that.

  21. Easy: Destroy the Power Looms on The Problem With Self Driving Cars: Who Controls the Code? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Luddites had it right.

  22. Re:Go look at power ball: CA Super Lotto on Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands (bgr.com) · · Score: 0

    It has been seen by me that the CA Supper Lotto "Mega Number" on machine picked numbers at a given location are not random. The numbers I see are almost always from 1 - 15 when the machine picks them.

    My personal best guess is that the CA system thus tweaks the majority of winners to geographic locations that they want to favor, because they get larger amounts of earnings from those geographic locations.

    It is a racket just like anything the mob runs.

  23. Ban Encryption & Guns, so ... on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then only criminals will have guns and encryption.

    The logic is absolutely inescapable with these scenarios: The US government is working with criminals and will thus help them to succeed.

    Criminal gangs can get their hands on various encryption programs. Backdoors on hardware won't make a damn worth of difference.

  24. Re:Lawmakers don't understand technology = AMEN on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Less secure means that security conscious users will try to circumvent the restrictions, too.

    I'll bet most parents don't know what their kids are sending and receiving right now in all our devices. Kids either get proper training early on from parents or not.

    Even if you "force" the bad guys to get new computing devices (LOL), the brainless legislator doesn't realize that there are images which look normal and are viewable by anyone to have embedded proprietary information that only the sender and recipient know of and whether secret messages exist or not. There is NO ENCRYPTION for viewing the image itself.

    Bad guys are always going to be able to create ways to pass secret messages.

  25. 110 million people with chronic pain ... on Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    in just the US. It is a major symptom that goes along mostly with about 120 million people with chronic illness. About half the adults in the US have a chronic illness.

    Painkillers (NSAIDs & Aspirin) can often cause other problems, like gastrointestinal bleeding. Hence, if a new regime to control pain actually works, it might solve a number of issues in treatment of chronic illness. But it is not going to eliminate the chronic illness. In other words, stay healthy.