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  1. Re:National bill, please on Amazon and Google Fight Bill That Prohibits Secretly Recording You (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But it would be fun to ask Trump about Jeff Bezos wiretapping people's homes. His answer is sure to be full of sound and fury.

  2. Re:Filing is no big deal, collecting is the proble on New App Lets You 'Sue Anyone By Pressing a Button' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel dirty just for saying this, but couldn't you sell the debt to some scumbag collection agency? That way you at least get the price of a burger and fries and he gets years of amusing phone calls.

  3. Years ago Michael Dell would spend the occasional day answering the phones down in Tech Support. But frankly it's easier to tell all your employees that they need straight 11s on the customer satisfaction surveys and make lower management responsible for delivering the numbers. Not the satisfaction, just the numbers.

  4. Building it is the easy part. on Lockheed Martin Unveils Plans For Huge Reusable Moon Lander For Astronauts (space.com) · · Score: 1

    If this lander is to be reusable, Lockheed Martin will have to do all the maintenance and repair in lunar orbit or on the surface. For example, either they can remove the engines and overhaul them in zero gee and vacuum or they can build clean rooms on the surface. The only way to avoid this is to build engines that can last a multiple cycles without being worked on. Ditto for every part and system in the ship. Mind you if they pull this off, they could do all kinds of wonderful things.

  5. Let the private sector handle it on San Jose May Start Cracking Down On Rampant Use of Scooters (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not simply allow people to haul away abandoned and/or illegally parked scooters and sell them for scrap? Of course the scooter companies should be allowed to come by and pick up their property- as long as they pay the same reasonable towing and storage fees that tow companies charge for cars.

  6. Re:Pi does it all on Rebuilding the PDP-11/70 with a Raspberry Pi (wixsite.com) · · Score: 1

    DECwriter II terminals are also acceptable.

  7. Re:Why Paper Jams Persist on Why Paper Jams Persist (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    So that after a while it can trick you with a real jam.

  8. Re:Has anyone done this openly? on Hackers Hijack Government Websites To Mine Crypto-Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, it would have to be a site you'd trust. Hold on a moment while I go register MAGA.affinityscam.ru. More seriously, the real fun starts when a site that's always been trustworthy before gets hacked.

  9. HAM radio was first on How the First Open Source Software and Hardware Satellite UPSat Was Built (fosdem.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    OSCAR-1 was launched in 1962 and all its design details were made public. Of course, it had no software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.arrl.org/news/oscar...

  10. Re:Not good, even if I believe their numbers on Uber Study Says Self-Driving Trucks Will Result In More Truck Drivers, Not Less (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think so.

    Older, experienced drivers have ALREADY largely left the business. Your typical truck driver today is an immigrant with something less than 30 hours of road time under his belt.

    So no typical truck driver makes it to the second week?

  11. Re:I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Starship Troopers was sold to the publisher as a Juvenile book ("Young Adult" in today's marketing) Juvenile Fiction in the 1950s did not include detail the sexual proclivities of combat infantry. Or anyone at all, really.

  12. Re:Kill all Fascist and Nazi Supporters on Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I got news for you. Marxists killed many, many more people in the 20th century than Nazis and Fascists combined!

    Because it was only a twelve year Reich.

  13. Re:Kind of makes you wonder .... on Microsoft: We're Razing Our Redmond Campus To Build a Mini City (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Like Disney World

  14. Re:Facebook made me do this 'CAPTCHA' recently. on Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You are sure you sent this stuff to Facebook, right? Right?

  15. Re:The moral of the story on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And also here: https://xkcd.com/1357/

  16. Re: 'This happened for two reasons.' on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Odd statement, considering Microsoft mantra declares Linux is far more expensive than Linux.

    I think you got that backwards

  17. This is no problem at all for devices whose function is to communicate over the internet. And inexcusable for anything else. Period. Get your money back.

  18. Re:Might explain something that's always mystified on 'Discovery of the Century': Mysterious Void Discovered In Egypt's Great Pyramid (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if all the gold stayed buried, the next batch of pharaohs wouldn't have had such pretty grave goods.

  19. One perpetual complaint on See a Random Slashdot Story From the Last 20 Years (destinyland.net) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot's always been going downhill and it always will be. People have been saying this for twenty years now, so why stop?

  20. Charging all fees plus 30% ? on Who's Profiting From The WannaCry Ransoms? (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Trust me, this is the kind of law firm that will take a lot more than 30%.

  21. Somebody will be at the end of the bell curve on For Seattle Women Called Alexa, Frustrating To Share Name With Amazon Device (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And somebody has it worse: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

  22. Re:Was thinking of the same for music on Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention (allpriorart.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd first have to remove all existing copyrighted melodies, which is a genuinely interesting problem. Land a good job at Google "interesting"

  23. Re: Oops? on Seismic Data From North Korea Suggest a Repeat of 2013 Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    So... were could we plant a few rumors suggesting that the scientists and military have deceived the Young Leader? Someone in the DPRK must be tasked with monitoring foreign reactions.

  24. wrong end of the stick on Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple wouldn't mind selling you a $200 pair of Beats headphone to fit your iPhone. And they wouldn't mind if these work only with other iStuff. But if your brand new $200 Beats won't plug into your MacBook, that's a problem.

  25. Re: Following a ruling from a Virginia federal cou on Insurer Refuses To Cover Cox In Massive Piracy Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    This story reminds me of the New York Times back in the Linotype days.