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  1. Re:Yoohoo? They owe you *nothing* on Twitter Sued For Scanning Direct Messages · · Score: 2

    Fortunately for us, human instinct is that "we" the people are owed common decency. This occasionally comes back to bite the psychopaths who forget that detail.

  2. Re:Definitely understandable on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    Having the pupil's grades on a computer secured by someone deemed knowledgeable enough to teach our future generation, tends to improve their grades.

  3. Re:Start with the basics. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    How to introduce an Indian kid to computers? Here's how:

    See this here box? It's going to allow you to steal jobs from whiny yet wealthy Americans. Learn to use it and you've got it made.

  4. Re:Scam on Finding Hope In Cryonics, Despite Glacial Progress · · Score: 1

    Does this mean you're admitting you're a monster who wants diabetics to die rather than receive insulin, or that you think saving someone's life using cold temperatures is somehow morally reprehensible for reasons you feel like keeping to yourself?

    Although I can only assume you must be pretty stupid, as you seem to now be implying that people who have themselves frozen are all religious fuckups when anyone with a little sense will realize that they're more likely than average to be atheist.

  5. Re:My kingdom for a hacker. on Big Pharma Hands Out Fitbits To Collect Better Personal Data · · Score: 1

    After spending 2 months hacking the fitbit flex and fitbit one im all but broken. the system uses asymmetric cryptography to ensure you never have independent access to the data it collects.

    Well no shit. If they can't guarantee that the data they're selling to various companies isn't tampered with, it wouldn't be worth nearly as much. Otherwise every hacker would be wearing one of these that "proves" to their insurance company that they exercise like a paragon of health, and their vitals are like an Olympic champion's.

  6. Re:Scam on Finding Hope In Cryonics, Despite Glacial Progress · · Score: 1

    Are you certain of that? Would you stake the lives of several thousand people on your uneducated guess? We have frozen and thawed insects, and they've survived; also mammalian organs, which also survived.

    Certainly freezing damages the brain and it can't be merely defrosted, but that is irrelevant -- the question is not "can we do it now" but rather "will we ever be able to do it"? You have to prove not damage, but that the information contained within is lost.

  7. Re:Can we close the gate... on Arrangement With Science Publisher Raises Questions About Wikipedia's Commitment To Open Access · · Score: 1

    Wiki-gated community.

  8. Re:Google Found Guilty of Being an American Compan on Google Found Guilty of "Abusing Dominant Market Position" In Russia · · Score: 1

    They should be glad not to be convicted of telemetry/data analytics, or as the common man calls it, espionage.

  9. Re:In soviet Russia on Google Found Guilty of "Abusing Dominant Market Position" In Russia · · Score: 1

    We wish it were only in Soviet Russia.

  10. Priorities on Sen. Ron Wyden Says CISA Data Collection Could Put Americans At Risk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It doesn't matter if a terrorist gets your data. Terrorists can't vote. It's the citizens you got to watch out for, you need enough data on them to make sure you'll know how they'll vote before the candidates are even announced. This way you also know how to redistrict and which empty promises to make.

  11. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: Best Country To Avoid Government Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Must be nice, having no one you consider serious and credible disagree with you.

  12. Ancient Rome on Ask Slashdot: Best Country To Avoid Government Surveillance? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want to avoid omnipresent surveillance, you need a time machine. Otherwise expect to be spied on by several different governments and corporations. At best, maybe the government you're living in will have less surveillance on you than corporations and foreign governments.

  13. Smart watches on Researchers Use Smartwatch To Spy What Users Are Typing On a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Smarter than their owner...

  14. Re:Israel hasn't vowed to "wipe Iran off the map" on Flash From the Past: Why an Apparent Israeli Nuclear Test In 1979 Matters Today · · Score: 1

    I dare you to try to identify another culture in the history of humanity that actually openly celebrates the murder of innocent civilians like way too many Muslims did on 9/11.

    Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. -- Psalm 137

  15. Re:Scam on Finding Hope In Cryonics, Despite Glacial Progress · · Score: 1

    Then be sure to put on your medical record, "Do not resuscitate."

  16. Re:Mountains and Mole Hills... on Sony Decides Its Waterproof Xperia Phones Are Not Actually Waterproof · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe it's like one of those commercials where beer doesn't taste like piss and void the warranty on your liver, and instead is a delicious and refreshing beverage that causes hot chix to like you.

  17. Re:256th on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 1

    Byte me, you pendant.

  18. Re:Scam on Finding Hope In Cryonics, Despite Glacial Progress · · Score: 1

    "Succeed"? Why would future generations revive people that were so full of themselves or so afraid of death that they had themselves frozen? If anything, having yourself frozen in this way is a good indicator that reviving you is a bad idea.

    So, you're saying that someone who had the foresight to prevent their own death* should be derided? That's like saying we should deny insulin to people who want to survive diabetes, because they're so afraid of death that they're willing to take drugs to prevent it. You are either a monster, or a fool.

    The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death. -- Proverbs 13:14

    For those who find wisdom find life and receive favor from the Lord. But those who fail to find wisdom harm themselves; all who hate wisdom love death.” -- Proverbs 8:35-36

    * since if the decision must be made as to whether to revive them, it means that they were correct and preserved their lives despite fools telling them it is false medicine.

  19. Re: Scam on Finding Hope In Cryonics, Despite Glacial Progress · · Score: 2

    At least with cryonics you don't have to sell your soul to a demonic entity*.

    * Note: demonic entity may be posing as an angel of light

  20. Re:Scam on Finding Hope In Cryonics, Despite Glacial Progress · · Score: 1

    Cryonics is both cheaper and more likely to succeed than other afterlife scams.

  21. Re:Pay attention - this gap has huge cost/value on Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public · · Score: 0

    When I say the same things over and over in the same conversation - it is because I'm not being heard.

    No American has that problem.

  22. Re:Water as rocket fuel on Can The Martian Give NASA's Mars Efforts a Hollywood Bump? · · Score: 1

    Um, no. Water as rocket fuel is separating out water into H and O, turning them into liquid, and burning them as rocket fuel.

    Even better than that, if you start off with H and O, then you have rocket fuel which you can turn into water and energy. The energy can be used to power an ion drive or preheat the rocket fuel.

  23. Re:Hopeless on Software Takes On School Science Tests In Search For Common Sense · · Score: 1

    There is ridiculous amounts of evidence that neurons is how we think.

  24. Re:I knew I shoulda learned to speak Mandarin... on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    In all seriousness though, how does such a massive distraction *not* interfere with a job where you have to, you know, focus?

    Odds are, that woman programmer in the picture is massively thankful for the cheerleader distracting the easily distracted.

    As to the "decrying" this "degrading" development, I'd have to say it's outrageous how people want to stick their noses in other people's business, it's degrading to treat everyone else as monsters that "us morally righteous" have a need and duty and authority to keep from offending us. At least cheerleaders don't have a monstrously boring job that ought to be done by a robot but you're cheaper for now, nor are they disposable cogs in the machine to be screwed over and replaced at earliest (in)convenience.

  25. Misunderstanding on Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "You see, we thought that the Constitution doesn't apply to us. Why can't anyone understand that we're the good guys?!?"