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  1. Re:App permissions on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    You say that as a person who would understand and care to do that(i.e. someone who could use the permissions from the developer side). You do not represent the normal user, who if they care at all, will at best go "Ahhh, don't use that"

  2. Re:equal treatment on Google Fighting Distracted Driver Laws · · Score: 1

    Most of the laws don't outline by product name. Their existence being prompted by Google Glass doesn't mean the text of the law includes the name "Google" anywhere. I mean, that'd be a bill of attainder, among other problems.

  3. Almost always yes, with a but on Ask Slashdot: When Is a Better Career Opportunity Worth a Pay Cut? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Be sure you can trust that you're not being screwed. Some(many?) employers are sociopaths and will take you for a ride on future promises.

  4. Re:Hate speech, and Libel/Slander on South Park Game Censored On Consoles Outside North America · · Score: 1

    FYI, the threatened riots(and death threats) with regard to South Park and said prophet were by a trolling organization dedicated to making American Muslims look bad. I don't doubt that there would have been some very angry people over it, but the cited reason Comedy Central actually pulled the segment was internet trolls. It's like if we took AC posters on slashdot seriously.

  5. Re:Email is an alternative to facebook on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, the email-facebook dichotomy really describes the changes in the web over the last few years.

    Standardized tech-based distributed solution without central planning to centralized, secretive, over-advertized, manipulative hyper-corporate sites.

    SEO and web 2.0 were poison pills that are killing the actual utility of the internet as a collection of content and systems in favor of "content providers" like facebook.

  6. Re:Because people already have E-mail addresses? on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's really annoying about it is the way they started by forcing people to use it as their contact address, and then those people suckered by their abuse now have people trying to reach them with a now-inactive system.

    It's the same basic problem with any website that tries to force it's "neat new features" on users. Youtube and googleplus is a similar thing. When google plus inevitably fails(and it will), they're going to have to go through an elaborate shutdown process that impinges on all the other google services people use.

    The point I'm trying to make(and no it won't reach anyone that needs to hear it, Dice) is to stop pretending your existing userbase will love and use your new services just because you tell them to.

  7. Caveat emptor x2 on Navy Won't Investigate Nuclear Pollution At San Francisco's Treasure Island · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let the buyer beware, and be extra wary when the seller is the one responsible for enforcing the safety of sellers.

  8. Re:NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY!!! on Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch · · Score: 1

    Nah, if misunderstanding other users were a crime, I'd be serving 20 to life by now.

  9. Re:NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY!!! on Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch · · Score: 1

    Um, that's what I said, give or take?

  10. That will actually improve security. on Speedier Screening May Be Coming To an Airport Near You · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is the first tech I've heard of that actually leads me to believe it might cover a real security hole. In this case, the grab a couple semi-automatics and gun down the crowds waiting to get through security hole.

  11. Re:NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY!!! on Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, but poor people worried about fracking are concerned with boring things like water-table pollution. This CEO and those people are worried about real life problems that actually matter, like property values.

  12. Re:fracking should be done where it should be .... on Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They don't wonder. They pay shills to "wonder" and "just ask questions" about "all this class warfare". Wondering takes time away from the golf course.

  13. Re:Machines on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    Point of fact, you'd be mistaken. Horizontal gene transfer does occur in the bacteria world, it's just not a necessary step for reproduction.

  14. Re:Machines on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 2

    Maybe we accept politicians because we're so used to taking orders from primitive, self-interested organisms.

  15. Re:This is new news? on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    The distinction of this study is that it was a detailed objective study of hormone levels, letting scientists, not laypeople, begin to approach understanding the underlying processes involved and how to control them.

  16. Re:We are a colony organism on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is misleading, because our mass is still predominantly genetically human eukaryotic cells. Bacteria are so tiny that there are a greater number of them, but we're still mostly just human.

  17. Machines on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think I mind being an extraordinary complex machine functioning to protect the interests of very simple organisms incapable of thinking for themselves. But that might just be my bacterial overlords talking.

  18. Re: Oh, Hell Yes! on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    Yes. Thank you. I know.

  19. Re:Oh, Hell Yes! on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    Trounced by a joke that wasn't really contradictory to my point? Do you not know Cold Fjord's deal?

  20. Re:searching for the obvious? on Making Sure Our Lab Equipment Isn't Tricking Us · · Score: 1

    I don't think you realize how expensive it usually is to do experimental physics that pushes the bounds of our understanding. This sounds like it'll be cheaper than particle accelerator experiments, and may yield unexpected results.

    Expected results are good too, then we can move on.

  21. Re:Oh, Hell Yes! on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    ... I think you've forgotten your schtick. You're the one who's supposed to be like "national security is super important dog". Let's start again:

    Well, let's elaborate, shall we...

    The you come in and say "But the NSA needs to do this because anyone else wouldn't be able to widely classify and hide their behavior"

  22. Re:Oh, Hell Yes! on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, let's elaborate, shall we. I think the number of possible satisfactory solutions to the NSA problem are infinite. This plan, like every other one that would work all fall on unshakable premise. Congress needs to pass legislation removing previously granted powers(then do something else, apparently, to mollify those who are actually scared of terrorists, in this case move those powers to law enforcement).

    This one premise, though, has shown zero chance of happening. Those in congress critical of the NSA's behavior mostly seem interested in using it as an attack chip for the republican party in the next couple elections, and so leaving the power in the executive plays to their needs. The executive, for their part, have either bought, or are willing to attempt to sell, the pragmatism line, and the laws passed by congress say it's legal, so they don't see a need to change anything by fiat.

  23. Re:Minor Fluctuation? on How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations? · · Score: 1

    Okay, so alternate data that isn't off either:
    A. An anonymous idiot on the internet
    B. A blog

    (there is none because it's well understood already)

  24. Re:brick your car on Why Your Phone Gets OTA Updates But Your Car Doesn't · · Score: 1

    And when it was coded just a hair wrong, and fails in a way that wipes your control subsystems, because of an unexpected register state, well, ooooooooooooooops.

  25. Re:Minor Fluctuation? on How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations? · · Score: 1

    Oh no. The government of the United States, how untrustworthy compared to an anonymous stranger on the internet.