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  1. Re:The Venus Project on Humans Need Not Apply: a Video About the Robot Revolution and Jobs · · Score: 1

    I thought this is the Venus project to which you referred.

  2. Re:The problem with the all robotic workforce idea on Humans Need Not Apply: a Video About the Robot Revolution and Jobs · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of SkyNet.

  3. Re:Congress is in the Dark, NOT DoD on US Defense Contractors Still Waiting For Breach Notification Rules · · Score: 1

    Breaches are already reported from the contractor's SSO to the government program office's SSO within 24 hours.

    If they become aware of them.

    Congress' issue is that they don't know what is going on and they decided to meddle in this one particular detail.

    Or they have been made aware that some security breaches are not being reported properly up the chain to the DIA. And they want oversight.

    Contractors absolutely do not attempt to cover this up, getting caught covering something like this up would cause them to immediately loose their funding and the right to bid on future contracts

    Yeah, right. We'd be fighting our next war with pointed sticks.

    I've worked at a DoD contractor in the past. Unacknowledged malware infections were rampant. And we had a couple of people running their own software businesses on company time and company equipment. Guess what? Still a DoD contractor.

  4. Major car company ... on The Man Responsible For Pop-Up Ads On Building a Better Web · · Score: 1

    ... freaked out about ads on anal sex site? Why? They didn't have a model equipped with heated seats?

  5. Re:Kernel-mode drivers on Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death · · Score: 1

    All that data originates in userland. So somewhere its got to be copied over.

  6. Hey! on Hemp Fibers Make Better Supercapacitors Than Graphene · · Score: 2

    Administrator: What are you guys doing in the lab with all those plants?

    Undergrad lab assistant: Testing them for use as supercapacitor electrodes. Yeah. That's the ticket.

    Administrator walks away satisfied.

  7. Re:Potheads assemble! on Hemp Fibers Make Better Supercapacitors Than Graphene · · Score: 2

    but love science when it finds uses for hemp

    Because with large scale hemp agriculture, you can always sneak in a few rows of 'the good stuff'.

  8. Siri ... on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 1

    I just received a large kickback from my congressman. Where should I invest the proceeds?

  9. Only four days? on Historians Rediscover Einstein's Forgotten Model of the Universe · · Score: 1

    Someone must have thrown that one-click shopping patent in his in box.

  10. Re:Screwed... on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1

    limiting their exposure to nasty, carcinogenic shit, environmentally-devastating corporate irresponsibility, etc etc...

    Nope. The stuff still gets built. And sold in California. They just have to kill a few more trees to print forms that explain how this product is known to cause cancer in California rats.

  11. How much ... on Password Gropers Hit Peak Stupid, Take the Spamtrap Bait · · Score: 1

    ... did they pay for that email list?

    That's the only thing that could possibly trump the current stupid position.

  12. Bitcoins smell like ... on Sniffing Out Billions In US Currency Smuggled Across the Border To Mexico · · Score: 1

    ... napalm in the morning.

  13. Because ... on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    ... applictions (on-line or otherwise) are just the first step in filtering out the riff-raff. So they don't get as much attention as the follow up interview.

  14. Re:Theft? on DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists · · Score: 1

    Amtrak is publicly funded. So the issue of whether theft was involved or it was an instance of interagency data sharing might be a bit cloudy.

    Certainly this sort of transaction shoud be covered in Amtrak's corporate policies and procedures. I seriously doubt a low level employee could engage in such activity without approval from higher up. On the other hand, the absense such policies is a sure sign of bad management.

  15. Re:Important: recording not legal some states on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    NSA is the only entity permitted to record a phone conversation without informing and consent

    So ask the NSA and ask for a recording or transcript of your call with Comcast customer services.

    Don't think for a moment that Comcast will fail to use that as leverage against you.

    I'll bet they'll shit themselves if you told them you got your recording from the NSA. Note to self: Excellent idea for a product name for a personal audio recording device: NSA.

  16. Re:Not quite accurate on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    find /applications -exec grep "using the Internet" {} \; -exec mv {} /approved \;

    There. Done.

  17. Re:How is that different in private sector? on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    Nope. Company A has a lock on key patents integral to the product. You can either pay them for shit work or hire Company B. Who will have to pay exorbitant licensing fees to Company A.

  18. Re:666 on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    Yeah. But in this case, they have a good point. Whoever controls your access token controls your life (soul).

    Even if you don't believe in God, the Bible was used to teach practical knowledge to the people back in its day. There is some common sense wisdom in there if you can get around the concept of an invisible guy in the sky.

  19. Re:666 on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    Damn you! That's the combination to my briefcase.

  20. Pollutants? on Ask Slashdot: Can Tech Help Monitor or Mitigate a Mine-Flooded Ecosystem? · · Score: 1

    In what form are they? In solution? That's a tough problem to solve. As particulates, it may be possible to separate much of them out.

    Dam Polley Lake and divert its outflow through centrifugal separators*. That will concentrate the particulates, which can be sent to temporary holding ponds and further separation.

    *I wonder if the availale head from Polley Lake can be made to drive some sort of cyclonic seperator without the use of other power input.

  21. War diving? on Connected Collar Lets Your Cat Do the War-Driving · · Score: 2

    Looks like Timothy is trying to drown his cat.

  22. Re:Can we wire Timothy to prevent duplicate posts? on Wiring Programmers To Prevent Buggy Code · · Score: 2

    100 volts for the first dupe, 200 for the second, etc.

    Haven't decided on an arithmetic or geometric progresion yet

  23. Maybe on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 1

    Some of the best vacations we've had have been outside of the typical summer holiday season. Skiing in winter, Greece in spring. A schedule of three months school and one month off would allow families to arrange some more varied outings.

    Of course, once the kids are out of the house, then us old geezers would rather you kept your kids in school and away from us during some of these most interesting off-peak vacation times.

  24. Re:I hated every day I was in school on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 1

    What I did like were many of the friends I made,
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    One of my dreams is that online teaching will devastate the school system.

    Online teaching is like school without the friends.

  25. Re:Interesting de-spin sequence on NASA Releases Footage of "Flying Saucer" Braking Test, Declares Success · · Score: 2

    Spinning and de-spinning a vehicle is primarily a function of the torque applied to the object's moment of inertia. Air friction doesn't become a big factor until you reach high rotational speeds (much higher than apparant from this video).