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  1. Re:Open Auto on Local Motors Looks To Disrupt the Auto Industry With 3D-Printed Car Bodies · · Score: 1

    And commit improvements back to the repository.

  2. Re:Open Auto on Local Motors Looks To Disrupt the Auto Industry With 3D-Printed Car Bodies · · Score: 1

    The answer to that would be to let the 'local automakers' leave your country rather than prop them up. (like happened here, Australia) Short term pain, but probably long term gain. Carmakers like Elon Musk/Tesla with very different car making models aren't likely to oppose this.

  3. Re: Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    Two episodes to kill him, I could live with that. Perhaps they'd clone him, and we'd have an army of 10 million jarjars to deal with. Ugh.

  4. Re:Just Require an IQ Test on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    Evidence by anecdote

  5. Re:IMO on Doomsday Clock Moved Two Minutes Forward, To 23:57 · · Score: 1

    Well played. DST for the Doomsday Clock.

  6. Governments, you can get this info already on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 1

    What you can't do is get it without asking. IOW, bulk scanning and indexing is not doable. And it shouldn't be. If you want some info, go get a court order for *just* that info. Don't legislate a fishing expedition for all of the info.

  7. Re:The whine of the flyback transformer on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Yes. Sometimes I'd like to lose certain high frequencies. People whose voices seem to 'overlap' the said frequencies seem almost to beat with them. Argh!

  8. Re:Private clubs in "dry" counties on Uber Limits 'God View' To Improve Rider Privacy · · Score: 1

    ... Will there be a bar in the back of Uber cabs? Not sure I'd trust it not to be roofied.

  9. Re:Joke? They're real! on The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax · · Score: 1

    And were fantastically cheaper if you bought billions of them Later EPROMS came without windows and were called OTP (one time programmable) - these hit a good price point - do your dev with the quartz windowed ones, and small production runs with OTP

  10. Re:Joke? They're real! on The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax · · Score: 1

    I volunteer to write the retention schedule for it. Might as well handle redaction whilst I'm doing it.

  11. The chorus ... on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1
  12. Entitled wankers on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 1

    That won't accept the umpire (court's) decision.

  13. ein klein on 2014 Geek Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    http://www.kleinbottle.com/ Lots of fun stuff. Anyone reading can give me this shit.

  14. Re:No thanks on Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts · · Score: 1

    verb, I hope, not noun.

  15. Re:No thanks on Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts · · Score: 0

    And requests from Smirnoff wanting you to 'friend' them.

  16. Re:Creators wishing to control their creations... on Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software · · Score: 1

    Which is why I fake my address as coming from Florida.

  17. SO... on Uber Threatens To Do 'Opposition Research' On Journalists · · Score: 1

    Is referencing Nixon akin to a Godwin type reference, in a skewed way?

  18. Re:Stupidity of people on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1
  19. Re:ROFL on Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    This was satire that got misfiled.

  20. Re:The good news on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    Again, I'd say that needs to be proven. Isn't the sequence generally something like:

    chip maker -> device maker -> distributor -> retail chain -> local store -> cashier who actually carries out transaction -> buyer

    Exactly how far along that chain does knowledge of counterfeit go?

    All the way to the end. If the price is 'too good to be true' then the customer knows.

  21. Re:The good news on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    Look, counterfeiting is wrong. But destroying the property of an end user, most likely unaware of the counterfeit device, is both wrong and illegal. Period.

    Actually, counterfeiting is also both wrong and illegal. Period.

    What? So if I shoot my neighbor,

    What the hell is it with everyone using violent crime analogies? What does shooting someone have anything at all to do with a company issuing a firmware update that disables unlicensed counterfeit chips?

    Everyone loves a strawman argument. And 'shooting my neighbour' is an extreme strawman.

  22. Re:On the other hand... on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    They're not causing irreparable harm, you can fix it. (they write the PID to 0, you can re-write it to something else)
    They make the drivers, they sell the legitimate chips, seems fair to me.

  23. Re:Hold on a minute on Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries · · Score: 1

    Why is this making me think of chair-throwing?

  24. Re:The Windows Phone failed. on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Hardly needs OLED - a mono watch could do a blue-screen

  25. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because that's the way the world works. (including the +5 mod)