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  1. Re:Not the town that cancelled it? on Dutch Town Uses High-Tech Streetlights To Keep Their Bats Happy · · Score: 5, Informative
  2. Not the town that cancelled it? on Dutch Town Uses High-Tech Streetlights To Keep Their Bats Happy · · Score: 1

    Is this a different town than the one where people got annoyed at the red lights, saying they didn't like the color and didn't like how they were 'experimented' on without prior knowledge and thus the red lights were switched out?

  3. You've used ergo. therefore rebuttal mode is enabled.

    There are ways to keep a camera stable when in motion. Movies, even amateur movies, employ such devices. It is possible that the cameras installed on this car, a vehicle where the purpose is moving, which have the purpose of filming, may have such motion isolating capabilities.

    Ergo, analysis of the video angles/orientation alone cannot definitively state that the vehicle did not apply the brakes.

  4. In The Netherlands I can go into a normal supermarket and buy prescription disposable contact lenses in boxes of 10 or 20 for under 10 euro. No formal prescription needed.

    But fuck that, I just had my eyes enhanced with lasers so I don't need em anymore.

  5. other, better mods on YouTube Has a Secret 'Dark Mode' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    what would be better is:

    Toggle Default Hide Chat on Live streams (should happen)
    Toggle Default HD settings (could happen)
    Toggle Default Annotations on/off all streams (will likely never return)

  6. We live in a world, not a coutnry on Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Star Wars 7 was released in many European nations on Wednesday...

  7. IPFS doesn't exist according to Wikipedia on Neocities Becomes the First Major Site To Implement the Distributed Web · · Score: 1

    Yea... Hype train avoided. Search wikipedia for ipfs and I get:

    The page "Ipfs" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered.

    Not covered in the first 20 suggestions.

  8. Re:Win-Win on Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads · · Score: 1

    Slowing down users phones is qualitative.

    Developers can clearly make apps that only update/work via WiFi and not over 3/4G so, if I were a nice ad revenue generating programmer, I'd take a hit on the total gain to limit this impact. Users can track how much data an app uses...

  9. Re:Gee, I'm really torn... on Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads · · Score: 1

    The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. Nothing more.

  10. Re:let the debates begin on 49 Suspected Members of Cybercriminal Group Arrested In Europe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who would side with criminals? This isn't script kiddies or freedom of speech protests. It isn't even the search for aliens or nude pictures of celebrities.

    This is not people who say 'you left a security hole open so I used it, here's what you can do to fix it'. This is people who say, you have a security hole, or I'm going to make one for you, and now I'm going to also steal your money.

    This is simply theft. It's as if they stole the snail mail from these businesses that contained payment checks and forged their names as the recipient and cashed them. That it was done via an electronic MITM is just a detail.

    There are lots of places that condone thievery/criminal activity. I suppose the AC of /. could be one of them, but generally I think /. still understand the difference between the actions of hackers and the actions of criminals.

  11. Law Enforcement/Customs/etc on Windows 10's Biometric Security Layer Introduced · · Score: 1

    People are sometimes being compelled to give up their passwords for devices when they cross borders. This could potentially require a person to provide his fingerprint (already required to cross some borders, for some people) and his/her face/voice.

    I think this could make it easier for governments to get in your knickers.

  12. No Samsung on AMD, Nvidia Reportedly Tripped Up On Process Shrinks · · Score: 1

    Samsung was never mentioned in the article, only in the summary.

    Samsung also offers Foundry services, used for previous Apple chips for example, so I highly doubt they use up TSMC's capacity.

  13. Re:So there is clothing... on RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    I meant, there are more things protected by RFID than just clothes. :P

  14. Re:So there is clothing... on RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish I had mod points. This is the first thing I thought of. Except why bother to only steal more clothes?

  15. Re:Astrolabe on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    Brilliant!

  16. Re:Einstein was right? on Dark Energy Confirmed By Australian WiggleZ Sky Scan · · Score: 1

    fanboying einstein is better than fanservicing einstein

  17. obligatory on FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO · · Score: 5, Funny

    does the document detail whether the base did, after all, belong to them?

  18. misleading article on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    I have mozilla.

    I have skype.

    I do not have skype toolbar. I don't have to re-disable/remove it when I upgrade skype.

    Maybe I just have less pebcak?

  19. Re:Just another way to say on Bad Science Writer Talks About the Placebo Effect *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    shame it doesn't work for God

  20. Re:Future steps on 8pen Reinvents the Keyboard For Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    who does #2 work for!

  21. Re:Not this again... on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    you forgot, watch it at someone else's expense who has done any of the above 6 things (or who has a d/l of the movie)

    however:

    1. is not an alternative to a downloaded file since you are not able to timeshift/placeshift a movie theater
    4,5,6 is not an alternative to a downloaded file since you are not able to placeshift a cable wire

  22. Re:Uh, no. They didn't. on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 1

    you won't be flamed... your response is much to deep in the tree.

  23. pretentious crap on Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade" · · Score: 1

    Has SmartMoney.com been around for a decade?

    come back when they have been...

  24. Re:OH MAN! on A Real-World Test of the Verizon MiFi · · Score: 1

    free public wifi available in an airport? in 2009?

    do you actually fly?

    hell, it's rare to see free wifi in a hotel...

  25. Re:Irony on A Real-World Test of the Verizon MiFi · · Score: 1

    and the sound heard round the world as logic students' heads exploded was.....

    similar to the sound of a silent dog fart.