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  1. We'll just switch to the Russian-made routers.

  2. Re:Could be worse on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Or ERR 420: Dude! What?

  3. That'll help if you get surreptitiously charged while standing and watching a street performer. But given a bit of latency, you'll never figure out who skimmed your card after you get bumped by a few hobos on the sidewalk.

  4. Maybe. People in Seattle often use Orca cards (transit payment) by briefly tapping their wallet against the reader.

  5. Re:Trying to put homeless people on the grid? on London Launches World's First Contactless Payment Scheme For Street Performers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume buskers and panhandlers are homeless? In some cases, that can pay pretty well (and tax-free too, if you use cash). There's a guy who works a corner with a cardboard sign in my town. His Lexus is nicer than my car.

  6. Re:Perhaps this is why they are so productive.... on People Living in the Hottest Places on the Planet Are the Least Likely To Have Air Conditioners (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Correlation holds true within the United States as well.

  7. Re:Complex math? on How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    This, exactly.

    Just bought a radiator for my old shitbox. Found it on-line via Google. Now, every f*cking site I visit tries to sell me the same radiator. I only needed one! It'll be many years (hopefully) before I purchase said item again.

    The people that are making the profit on this are the Googles. They are selling garbage, outdated data to advertisers. Or the advertisers are morons for misusing it. Either way, Google just made money by selling something that has lower than average value.

  8. Re:The bias of reverse bias on Microsoft Developing a Tool To Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If only people named "John"

    Why is a defendant's name an input for a sentencing algorithm?

    Others have raised the point that ML, when not supplied with racial information, might begin to redline certain neighborhoods where people of minorities tend to live. So then why is one's residence or location of the crime used as input? A bank was robbed. Never mind where. The use of a weapon is an aggravating circumstance. The robber (anonymized to remove the Chad/Tyrone bias) has committed similar crimes on N occasions. Here's the sentence ....

  9. It all runs on emacs anyway.

  10. Re:One convert to the ss train on There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    I'll bet that a smart developer can build a utility that can read either /proc or netlink sockets and provide output to satisfy the users of either. One could switch the personalities of such a utility with a command line switch. Or even based on the executable name used to call it.

    Or ..... you could just support both, let users choose and just shut the hell up. Much like people who are stuck with systemd, but just use it to call init.d bash scripts. Undoubtedly, that will cause some fanbios to sperg out. No problem. The show is fun to watch.

  11. Re:A counterexample to Betteridge's Law on Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    willfully misleading the public

    Who was mislead? Ask for a show of hands: "Who believes that AGW is real but just doesn't care?"

  12. Re:The Road to Hell Is Paved in Good Intentions on Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls? (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone willing to work at Google is either evil or incredibly dumb.

    It could just be the toxoplasmosis.

  13. The control is on the center console user interface. Just navigate to:

    Systems | Controls | Extended Functions | Speed | Basic | Cruise Mode

    and select 'OFF'. When Clippy pops up and asks "It appears that you are attempting to take manual control of your vehicle. This is not recommended. Do you want assistance?" Select 'NO' (Do not want assistance) and then 'YES' (take manual control).

    Accept the liability terms on the popup page by clicking 'I Accept'. And now you can drive your car.

  14. Not really on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    and raze vast swaths of forests

    Stopped reading right here. Since the beginning of the 20th century, global forest coverage has remained stable. Mainly due to the reduction in the use of wood as heating/cooking fuel.

  15. Fake news. Slashdotters don't do women.

  16. Couldn't keep Windows off my machine.

  17. Re:Uber Solves Los Angeles Homeless problem on Uber's Self-Driving Car Saw Pedestrian 6 Seconds Before Fatal Strike, Says Report (tucson.com) · · Score: 1

    It'll knock them clear to Seattle.

  18. ... electrodes attached to genitals came in a close second to money.

    Leave it to the e-cig modders to come up with a sub-ohm version of this.

  19. Win stupid prizes.

  20. Re:Partially true. Weak, scared leadership ran awa on Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    The French refused to kowtow to the USA after WWII. While the British agreed to major concessions, including freeing it's colonies, the French did not. In fact, the USA got dragged into VietNam by de Gaulle's threat to ally with the Soviet Union if we didn't back them up in their attempt to re-acquire French Indochina.

  21. n/t

  22. Re:STILL GOOD NEWS on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this has been studied. A conductive tether attached to a satellite that produces a force when interacting with the Earth's magnetic field.

  23. Think the laws don't apply to them.

  24. Re:Thanos had a point on Human Race Just 0.01% of All Life But Has Destroyed 83% of Wild Mammals, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We don't have to kill randomly. In fact, we can leave it up to each group to select those that shall die.

    We, in the West, will not kill so many. We will invite them across our borders because the economy in their country is somewhat worse off than ours. Meanwhile, when ocean levels rise and farmers in Bangladesh are forced inland 20 miles to escape flooding, their neighbors will slaughter them. Problem solved.