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  1. Re:Stupid clickbait headline on The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think · · Score: 1

    leave one in for a couple of days and see if anything is disrupted.

  2. just to pay for the extra insurance Tesla has to get for the inevitable lawsuits.

  3. Re:Broken/missing links? on China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    confirmed.

  4. Re:Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? on Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon (walmartlabs.com) · · Score: 1

    and everything gets real sticky, and then, while there's no vendor lock-in, no other cloud provider will touch it.

  5. Re:Agreed on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my mom always had trouble remember how to do much more than hit the Photos icon and then swipe sideways to see the next picture on the iPad I got for her. Same with the previous Digital Picture Frame [and a big fuck-you to the assholes at HP that lied to me about how it supported remotely being sent pictures over the internet].

    Technology isn't really 'intuitive', it's just that more and more people have grown up and used technology for some time, so they generally know what technology expects of them. People that grew up before technology and haven't used it much still have some difficulty with figuring it out.

  6. Only if you are muslim. For everyone else, it's a sack.

  7. They need the guns, otherwise anybody could just waltz into a daycare and kill everyone. Now they don't because they know there's a couple of babies with Colt '44s or 9mm's ready and waiting to let someone have some hot lead.

  8. Then definitely not. And you better prevent others from taking their picture as well by having them wear a bag over their heads whenever they go outside or are near one of the windows of your home.

  9. Re:We are local creatures with local knowledge on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Here, grab these two power lines and feel some electrons.

  10. Re:We are local creatures with local knowledge on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No. We definitively have established that it is a Dyson Sphere, just like we are certain that global warming is a hoax.

  11. Re:My Dealer on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I love the small of talcum powder in the morning.

  12. Re:And gluten free! on "E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails (clemson.edu) · · Score: 1

    Of course, it tastes like wood chips.

  13. Yeah, I'm 99%+ German... doh.

  14. Re:Highest Profit on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    Two guns. You wind up shooting both shoulders instead of center-mass.

  15. I've got to be at least .5% greek. Lend me 1,000,000 Euros?

  16. quick poll: bang or not?

  17. Re:Frosty on Hundreds of Southwest Flights Delayed By Online Booking Problems · · Score: 1

    He decides who flies today!

  18. Re:Next article: Water is wet on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 1

    There is no definitive proof that water is wet, was ever wet, or will be wet anytime in the future. And there is certainly no proof that mankind is in any way altering if and/or how much water may be wet.

  19. sure. store all those packets on the drives, then respond to them later when you have time!

  20. Re:Big Sister is watching on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    .hobro

  21. She was ...busy...

  22. What the gov't is going for now is killing automatic end-to-end encryption. Like Apple's iMessage, where [supposedly] the message in encrypted at each end so that only the destination devices can decrypt it, and not Apple. They want Apple to redesign the setup so that instead, when the iMessage arrives at Apple's server, it is/can be decrypted by Apple, and then re-encrypted [optional!] before being sent on to the destination device. This way, the gov't can force Apple to give up the messages [presumably with a court order].

    Repeat with every other data transfer protocol by everyone, including BlackBerry.

  23. Re:Things go better with FreeBSD on NetBSD 7.0 Released (netbsd.org) · · Score: 2

    Yeah. Unfortunately, it's New Coke. Not the good stuff made with cocaine.

  24. Re:This will be the best comment on this story. on Amazon: a Single Disaster Made Us Rethink Our Cloud Supply Chain (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone should write a song about it.

  25. Re:It's been available for a while on Amazon To Offer Sneakernet Services: Data Upload By Mail · · Score: 2

    And then there is the opposite problem. This could make an excellent entry vector to Amazon's cloud service that may not be as protected as 'normal' uploading via the Internet.