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  1. A Fantastic target for state-sponsored hackers! on NSA Director Argues For "Red Button" Autonomy Against Unattributed Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The level of automation required to make that National Security Statist's wet-dream a reality will offer multiple high-value targets to nefarious persons of criminal and warlike intent.

    I guess as lo

  2. Re:Sure about the Louvre? on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And how common is an aimable flash as a fraction of the number of cameras being carried by the general public these days? I believe I heard that the iPhone is the top-selling camera, beating sales of the big three (Nikon, Canon, Olympus) summed.

  3. Re:Congress on Surgeon: First Human Head Transplant May Be Just Two Years Away · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those heads are perfectly functional ... for the only functions anyone is really interested in employing them in.

    Fit for use, as it were.

  4. Re:Really need to post information about the act on Patent Trolls On the Run But Not Vanquished Yet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "the court" brings nobody. It is up to each side to employ and bring in its own 'experts.'
    That's one of the things that makes a defense so expensive. The plaintiff can promise a cut of the take, but the small respondent - so far - has no such resource.

  5. Re:file transfer on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    What about a IDE-USB dongle? You may need the power supply - those older notebook drives were a bit much for USB power.
    I don't remember how hard it is to get to the HDD, though - that was a while ago.

  6. Re:More of this ridiculous on Pakistanis Must Provide Fingerprints Or Give Up Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Because we're willing to admit that government effectiveness is limited, and that compliance is avoidable by simple dodges.

  7. Re:A better idea... on Hobbyists Selling Tesla Coil Kits To Fund Drone Flight Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Why do you think the FAA is so nervous about drones?

  8. Re:What did I miss? on The Search For Neutrons That Leak Into Our World From Other Universes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that the baseline expectation is derived from experience with previous, presumably brane-leaky, shielding.

  9. Re:Disbanding? on MPAA Considers Major Changes After Sony Hack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now if we could just get the RIAA to fall over, we'd be rid of the
    M usic
    A nd
    F ilm
    I ndustry
    A ssociations of
    A merica

    That _should_ be a good thing, but I fear a competition to become the most draconian in copyright enforcement.

  10. Re:What? on Canada Upholds Net Neutrality Rules In Wireless TV Case · · Score: 2

    Canada.
    A slightly less thoroughly corrupt system than the one to their South.
    Is there some correlation between probity and proximity to a pole?

  11. Re:We don't on How Do We Know the Timeline of the Universe? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What if it was an empty void that suffered a spontaneous mass appearance.

    And somehow that's not a big bang?

  12. Holy Carp! on Drug Company CEO Blames Drug Industry For Increased Drug Resistance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We cannot accept that rivers in India show higher concentrations of active antibiotic than the blood of someone undergoing treatment.

  13. Re:smarter than many people I know on Carnivorous Pitcher Plant "Out-Thinks" Insects · · Score: 2

    Easy, sloppy, careless sex, while admittedly fun, can have some long-term disadvantages, you know.

    A baby is a commitment pushing past 2 decades - longer if special needs - with a babymama who may not be a suitable parent (though not legally unfit). Contraceptives fail and are also subject to sabotage - and there are women whose entire career plan consists of having at least one child by at least one man.

    A virus is forever - so far - and tends to limit one's future prospect pool to the easy, sloppy and careless.

  14. Re:Claims it felt good on Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up · · Score: 1

    See also: Philip Jose Farmer's _Riders of the Purple Wage_.

  15. Re:Rolls Royce of cat litter boxes on An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM · · Score: 1

    There are few people driving Rollers to begin with, and any horrific expense in their upkeep only adds to the allure of exclusivity. In other words, don't give them any ideas - RR owners are already sufficiently clubby.

  16. Re:The prime mover will be ... on Brain Stimulation For Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    As it was, now and ever shall be.

  17. Re: Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apart from the handful of nukes and hydro installs, the electric companies are a segment of the fossil fuel industry.

  18. Re:God! on The Moment of Truth For BICEP2 · · Score: 1

    Silly Jatravartid.

  19. Re:The Same Game on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 2

    There was that accidental experiment a couple years ago in GA. A hard crackdown on migrant labor and a invitation for local unemployeds to work the fields - a few dozen showed up and none lasted more than a couple of days.

    Wall Street doesn't get that killing the middle class in the US will ruin them - that's next year's problem and all they care about is this quarter at the longest-term.

  20. Re:Change Last Mile on What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy · · Score: 2

    But that makes sense. It'll never happen unless it can be monetized into campaign contributions.

  21. Because annealing doesn't affect matnetism on Magnetic Field In Meteorite Provides Clues About Formation of Solar System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not like the annealing heat of descent wouldn't cause the material to take on the local field, right?

  22. Re:Nothing? on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

  23. Re:Dial up can still access gmail on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 1

    Details, please?

  24. Re:"forced labor" on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    The South started the war owning exactly zero cannon foundries and had a disjoint rail system with multiple track gauges. The North had a unified rail system (one gauge) and enough industrial capacity to make arms.

    The strategic incompetence of an agrarian 'country' starting a war against an industrialized opponent outweighed the tactical advantage of field leadership ... eventually.

  25. Re:Who to believe? on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    If he hadn't been already for Vista
    or WinMe
    or Clippy