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  1. Forget digital on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I want backlit plates like Japan allows.

  2. Re:The government already has vehicle tracking on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    First tire change: Slip tire guy a couple of bucks to remove sensors. Mount them in a little air bottle (properly pressurized) in the trunk to keep the TPMS receiver happy during inspection. Leave at home otherwise.

  3. Re:I never use my suction cup. on Berkeley's Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You have no future in tentacle porn.

  4. Because the practice of referring to this as a 'dark pattern' is deceptive, misleading and confusing. The average user will look at the headline, and try to remember the last time the UI looked a bit too dim.

    "Nope. I guess this doesn't apply to me." And go on saving screen shots to Mozilla servers.

  5. Re: "dark pattern" on Firefox To Remove UI Dark Pattern From Screenshot Tool After Months of Complaints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never heard of it before this Slashdot story.

    Nor have I. But I guess we have exposed ourselves as not being 'hip'. The Web is more and more about being hip, not actually getting anything productive done.

  6. ... this is just some ancient alien race's version of a Tesla Roadster.

    Or a manhole cover.

  7. Listening devices on Bioacoustic Devices Could Help Save Rainforests (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Every spy knows that the easiest way to defeat them is to run the water.

  8. Re:Z! on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is also how you get Leeloo. I'm OK with this.

  9. ... stop our own government from collecting and sharing our data.

    Well, that's not going to happen anytime soon. So why sweat the small stuff?

  10. Re:It sounds like they took an old hotel on World's First Robot Hotel Fires Half of Its Robot Staff (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    As for the annoying assistant app that wakes up when you snore, that's a software update.

    That's a wife. Updates are expensive.

  11. Looks like just the sort of place that a James Bond villain/hacker would set up his operation to bring down the banking system.

  12. Re:Begs the question... on A Supercomputer In a 19th Century Church Is 'World's Most Beautiful Data Center' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    But this raises the question of whether this is the proper usage of 'begs the question'.

  13. I'm afraid that project folded.

  14. Re:Strong encryption on The Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding In the Holland Tunnel (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    QKD has nothing to do with encryption

    Initial session key exchange has a lot to do with encryption. If a man in the middle can examine the keys, subsequent encryption based on them is not secure.

  15. You are just asking for extraordinary rendition, aren't you?

  16. Re:Strong encryption on The Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding In the Holland Tunnel (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    without the decryption keys

    That's why this is called Quantum Key Distribution.

    Once Alice and Bob* have their keys, the messages are encrypted using standard algorithms and passed over normal fiber optic links.

    *Should we change this to Achmed and Boris by now?

  17. Re:What about protecting from jay on backhoe from on The Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding In the Holland Tunnel (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Probability.

    The statistical odds that Jay will actually be operating a backhoe rather than being on a union negotiated break are vanishingly small in NYC.

  18. Re:OK, I'll Bite. Why is it called the Holland Tun on The Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding In the Holland Tunnel (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Named after a guy called Holland.

  19. Re:How are they enforceable? on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How would they know unless you borrowed money and it appears on your credit report?

    IRS W-2s, 1099s, etc. You've got to pay taxes some time.

  20. Re:How are they enforceable? on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They employ the services of tracking companies who will report the employment status of recently departed employees.

  21. Come in Rangoon on GNOME Internet Radio Locator 1.6.0 Released (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Come in Rangoon.

  22. Re:Barrier? on Arborists Are Bringing the 'Dinosaur of Trees' Back To Life (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'd work along the northern border better

    Perhaps we could plant them along the California-Oregon border. And just pull our lines back to something a bit more defensible.

  23. Just don't want to.

  24. Re:Paper cash payments is then linked to the cloud on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    never been able to buy anything with cash again

    That's the idea. Cash is on the way out. All purchases will be tracked (now) and approved (in the future). According to your needs (as determined by The State).

  25. Re:Socialist School... on University of California Tells Students Not To Use WeChat, WhatsApp In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Does that make them Democrat?