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  1. There must be a mistake in the post. It says 25MB is small. Surely you meant 25kB.

  2. Weak US government on Apple Is Not Such a Freedom Fighter In China (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You've worked so hard to make your governement weak that you forget how it works in the rest of the world. Some people think corporations shouldn't make the rules.

  3. Go rogue on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Shelved OSS Project Fixes? · · Score: 2

    Publish the fixes. If they come after you, unleash the Streisand effect on them. Worst case you become an underground hacker/terrorist. Wouldn't that be exciting?

  4. Re:If Facebook hosts content in France.. on French Court Rules That Facebook Can Now Be Sued in France (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd just have to pretend the US is better and deserves more than the rest of the world. Isn't that how things already are?

  5. No more hackaday and more reactivity on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1
    My suggestions:
    1. Stop re-posting the hackaday stuff, it's really bad in the first place because they don't do their work, and it reflects badly on you for not even reading their shit before linking to it.
    2. Try to be more reactive with general news: I generally get these faster with my once a day browsing of non-english (ie. translation-delayed) google news, which means you're usually 24 to 48h late. If you're slower than these dying printed newspaper websites, you should send your stuff directly to the Internet Archive and save on web hosting costs.
  6. Living on a mine field on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    How do they think all these strange circular features appeared all over the surface of Mars? Look at any virtual fly-by, there's not any safe plot of land large enough to hold a bed, let alone a house. And I'm not even talking about the cold, the solar radiation, the low pressure and the lack of oxygen. We don't have any hint of terra forming tech today, we won't have a functional one within a lifetime. At best Mars is a nice place to die.

  7. 3 machines on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    1. A hosted server on OVH Kimsufi to run mldonkey (and a couple personal websites). tvu.org.ru and sharethefiles.com for link listings (mostly ed2k, the occasional torrent).

    2. A home file server running some Linux (Arch at the moment). A dozen multi-TB drives as ext3/ext4 on an LSI PCIe card. Files downloaded direct through SSH to circumvent P2P throttling from ISP. Organized with a custom FUSE filesystem of symbolic links, which handle metadata and subtitles. Only metadata is backed up, files are retrieved (when disk fail) through stored ed2k hash. Appear as a single 31TB share on Samba.

    3. A Windows desktop as client, running MPC-HC.

    The files are also served from home as HTTP if I want to watch the occasional video remotely (MPC-HC handles that OK) or share some show to a friend.

  8. Please fix the title on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    There's not a single actual bit of information about how the cheat was implemented in the article. Can we stop the hype (at least on tech oriented websites) until someone with inside information can actually tell us more about the real details? Not that they matter, but the rest is totally uninteresting.

  9. Re:Drug-Resistant Pests on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    Vermins have billions of rolls in the evolution game, while we only have a few pharma researchers. For ads the odds are in our favour, us billions of freeloaders against the few ad companies.

  10. Re:*Completely* paralyzed? on Completely Paralyzed Man Walks In Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    It's pure click bait since legs-only exoskeletons are hardly news. And then they complain when we use ad blockers...

  11. "Documentary"? on The Factory of the World - Documentary On Manufacturing In Shenzhen · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's half a dozen interview of westerners slapped together with a background music, with poor sound recording on top of that. It hardly deserves the "documentary" qualifier. And if you expect to see any manufacturing done in Shenzhen, you'll be disappointed.

  12. Save an octopus, eat a dolphin on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Man eats octopus, dolphin eats octopus, man eats dolphin. If an animal is not intelligent enough to avoid getting eaten, maybe it doesn't deserve any pity.

  13. Something you know... on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    If instead of switching from one factor to another they promoted multi-factor authentication, they'd relax constraints on each factor (ie. passwords easier to remember, biometrics cheap to implement).

  14. Wrong by 5 orders of magnitude on Flaws In Popular Solar Power Management Platform Could Crash the Grid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Original article has two flaws with the number you quote. It's not 566TWh, it's 5.66TWh (that's the value advertised for yesterday as total energy), that's 2 orders of magnitude. And it's not "typically" since it's the accumulated value over the service lifetime. If you want to quote a typical value, you quote current power (in W, not Wh) and the website advertise it as 6.74 GWp (p for peak, the bullshit suffix used by the solar panel industry (should be 6.74 GWbs IMHO), so the actual value is even less), that's another 3 order of magnitude. I guess the actual numbers are less impressive...

  15. Wrong math on Can the Lix 3D Printing Pen Actually Work? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hackaday's maths are wrong, they build it on the assumption that a length of filament clearly shorter than two fingers width is 13cm long. Hackaday's news quality has been going down lately, I wonder why Slashdot is quoting them more and more.

  16. They made a movie about that story 17 years ago on Brazilians Welcome Genetically-Modified Mosquito To Help Fight Dengue Fever · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it doesn't end that bad: Mimic.

  17. 100% of the population of *EVERY* country, really? on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    Yes, sure, go tell the people in Angola or the other dozen countries in Africa that have 30 years less to live than you on average that aging is a problem. Or maybe the OP was talking about 100% of the population of every country a typical north american high schooler ever heard about.