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  1. Smart Phones Kill Stupid People on Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Think of it as evolution in action.

  2. All gold is gravitational if you like on Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's pretty heavy stuff.

  3. Re:Darn? on Leave It To the Heat to Dull Autumn's Glory (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "

    (1) We have had an unseasonably warm fall.
    (2) Cooling temperatures trigger the production of red and purple pigments in leaves.
    (3) We expect to see less red foliage this year.

    Explain to me which of these statements is *political*.

    It has been that way for the last 30 years and some people refuse to see, a let's call it a 'trend'.
    Those people see it as 'political', at least until the state has to pay for their flooded houses and save them from their roof. And even then it's just a 'fluke' that there are 5 100-year-floods 3 years in a row. You know, like in the casino, when Red comes 10 times in a row,

  4. We're all going to die! on EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose 'No Harmful Health Effect' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump will start the nukes!

  5. For the millions of buyers who want to buy new, genuine Louis Vuitton bags on fucking eBay.

  6. Re:America owns the world on US Supreme Court To Decide Microsoft Email Privacy Dispute (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    "You're claiming that a person located in the U.S. is governed by EU law, e.g., they can't access a server they own and control except in accordance with EU law, despite the fact that they are not in the EU. You are, in fact, trying to impose EU law on a person sitting at a computer in the U.S."

    You mean like when you get delivered the guy who hacked a US computer from England, because he violated US law from his mother's British cellar?

  7. Re:Not going to happen.. on Voice Assistants Will Be Difficult To Fire (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    "The companies are not going to be at all accepting of a standard. The only real edge they will have over each other is what services and accounts they are tied too. The assistants are all going to have the same features. If you use Google accounts and services, you'll stick with Google."

    What about us chickens who have a Google account, an iPhone and shop at Amazon?
    There's millions of us.
    If memory serves, there's already one company working on the problem, don't remember the name.
    After all it's just a microphone and a speaker, so we'll be able to say:

    'Hey Siri, tell my mom I'll come later. Alexa order the vase in my wishlist for my mom's birthday and Google, just delete all the emails from my former boss.'

  8. Suicidal cells on Scientists Selectively Trigger Suicide In Cancer Cells (scitechdaily.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Call the helpline.

  9. I don't get it on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Apply For A Job When Your Code Samples Suck? · · Score: 1

    What does your current employer think of you sharing _their_ code with the competition?
    Will your potential new employer not think that you'll steal _their_ code as well to brag for a new employment down the line?

  10. Nice on SUSE Shares Linux-Themed Music Video Parodies (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a SUSE Linux-Themed Music Video Paradise.

  11. f cigarette butts are that big of a problem why not just hire some bylaw enforcement officers to patrol the areas and give out tickets for littering for anyone throwing the butts on the sidewalk/street. After people get a large fine, or two, for littering they will change their ways.“

    People don‘t work for peanuts, crows do.

  12. Re: The strategy is obvious on Russia Reportedly Used Pokemon Go In an Effort To Inflame Racial Tensions (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Fair enough. If they don't want me to vote for them, I will not vote for them. Ever."

    That's deplorable.

  13. They have not a demented person heading it? on Why China is Winning the Clean Energy Race (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That must be it.

  14. I'm waiting for the _new_ Dread Pirate Roberts.

    I know, I keep using that word, but it _does_ mean what I think it means.

  15. "A cyberattacker nicknamed 'Alf' gained access to an Australian defense contractor's computers and began a four-month raid that snared data on sophisticated U.S. weapons systems. Using the simple combinations of login names and passwords 'admin; admin' and 'guest; guest' "

    Wow, much sophistication in the Australian loginname/password scheme,

  16. "There's one simple reason for that, the Alibaba founder said - we possess wisdom."

    Has he met us?

  17. Redskin trumps Orangeskin on Legal Online Gambling Could Return To the US (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll lose their Indianity license.

  18. It's called a seedbox.

  19. Old Faithful isn't really that faithful.

  20. "What, exactly, are you going to do to prevent its eruption? Send it a strongly-worded letter?"

    Trump will remove its vulcano-license.

  21. So they next new technology will be another 'series of tubes'.

  22. Re:Facial Recognition on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    "I'd guess GPS in phones; some algorithm is guessing two people who tend to be in the same location at the same time are likely to know each other. "

    I live on the 45 floor and I don't know the people living on the exact same GPS spot in the lower floors.

  23. Re:Facial Recognition on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "This is probably due to someone posting a photo with both people in it. Facebook will use facial recognition on photos, and when it sees two people in the same photo, I would expect it to suggest a connection."

    Facial Recognition?
    In this special case the technology used might be Dick Pic Recognition.

  24. Re: The real problem is on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "People with right wing viewpoints take a wider, past-oriented and future-oriented view of reality. They see what has happened in the past, what is happening now, and can make predictions about side effects that will happen in the future. They act with far more thought, consideration, and planning."

    Thanks for that, I laughed my ass off, I needed that today.

  25. Re:And now skype on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "It trivial for Facebook to link the identities, she is using the same IP address to log in for both of them. It is then reasonable for the Facebook algorithm to guess that people logging in from the same IP address are related somehow."

    Sharing the IP address with somebody doesn't mean they are related, it can also mean they share the same Internet Service Provider, they work in the same company, they sit in the same Starbucks, they use the same VPN, ....