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  1. SCOTUS ahead...fair use and property rights on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 3, Interesting

    VW upgraded my new car's diagnostics software. ALL shift points, RPM ranges and throttle positions changed resulting in a new car that drives nicely like an olde lady would expect. So radical was this upgrade that it changed the handling and performance of the vehicle to something I would never buy.

    VW have refused to re-install OEM software back to the new car fitment. So MA are onto the NEXT contentious issue for consumers paying $$$ hundreds of dollars monthly for product they have absolutely no control except paying rents to manufacturers

  2. Ring of Truth? on NYC Data Center Needs Focus On Fuel · · Score: 0

    In the 90's when datacenter aggregation in Manhattan became a design point _the_ holy grail for disaster was off-site redundancy.

    So...all this whining and crying is bullshit to my ears

  3. Fundamental WiFi patent on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 1

    MOTO owns the fundamental patent they must share
    SO...
    GOOG is spoiling for a fight
    AND
    AAPL stands to rights recognizing its validity and fundamental offer requested to pay
    SCOTUS
    will decide restraint of trade on this one

  4. Tropes of the past...doomed future on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 0

    Could you get any thicker with the tropes? Offices? LR? Calendar on the wall? Kitchen for my wife?

    A remodel begins in the mind of the beholder who's vision has matured and needs change which you've disowned outright.

    You're stuck, broke and fantasizing about escape to something that you can't even imagine. But you like your self-acclaimed 'geek' cred although secretly doubt you've got it; you want the world to validate it for you.

    Troll...

  5. Gaming US on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 0

    Corporatism can't enjoy tax-free offshore AND onshore exceptionalism to in-situ laws native where their products may roam regardless if Kryptonite, Muscovite or Israelite in composition. To do otherwise, reduces a set of laws to mere rules. Rules define play. Playing the legal system is just gaming it. SCOTUS decides Robert's court or Kangaroo court for Globalism sake.

  6. Aspergers Syndrome is the new IQ test on Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ Scores In the Twenty-First Century · · Score: 1

    venture capital success in Silicone Valley scores millionaires with AS.

  7. First reaction... on US Patent Office Invalidates Apple's "Rubber Banding" Patent · · Score: -1

    No Shit!

    WTF will reward innovation, research and development now Sherlock?

  8. In the year 5555... on Nissan Develops Emergency Auto-Steering System · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WhNM2K8cmU8

    In the year 5555
    Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
    Your legs got nothing to do
    Some machine is doing that for you

    lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/z/zager_and_evans/#share

  9. Pedantic linear logic bs on Kurzweil: The Cloud Will Expand Human Brain Capacity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Game over. Computers won.

    The future is Human augmented computing!

  10. Facebook mashup on /. on Meet The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Video) · · Score: 1

    Arghhh...

    I'm out of here!

  11. Re:I still think this guy should countersue . . . on Supreme Court To Decide If Monsanto GMO Patents Are Valid · · Score: 3, Informative

    2nd generation of seed non-conforming under patent aside, statutes under the commerce clause are what is at stake in this case.

    Ruling for the patent holder enforces a restraint of trade eliminating free market economy in agri-business
    AND
    Upholding the patent establishes a ' fiat currency' whose store of value ( seed) and medium of exchange are enforced by law. SCOTUS
    Ruling in favor of Monsanto will sanction a monopoly

  12. Amateurs trust technology on Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Pro's do their own math when its their own money on the line.

    Every time...

  13. Golf clap...everybody on Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds · · Score: 1

    The only difference between Huffingtonpost and /. are the pretty pics in the headlines as opposed to scored rating system. Both add a puffery of importance which the articles lack and attract people who eat with a large silver spoon.

  14. Just a scam for MSE certification on Microsoft Calls For $5B Investment In U.S. Education · · Score: 1

    Columbia.edu watered down curriculum is nothing more than MSE certification program for Microsoft talent at a price WallSt. wants to pay. This subsidized proposal should be viewed as just such a scam as well

  15. Can we give it a Name on Fast-Food Logos Burned Into Pleasure Center of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    Like ' subliminal advertising' then we can ban the damn thing and get back to picking berries and hunting for food

  16. RollingStone: " The only real path to energy in... on Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout · · Score: 1

    "... - dependence is to get off oil completely"

    "In 2010 - for the first time ever - investments in renewable energy surpassed those in fossil fuels"

    "...electricity generated from coal has dropped below 40 percent...after 150 years of mining, America's mountains are tapped out"

    Hydrogen baby. Bring it. Hydrogen is the only solution that reduces hundreds of millions of tailpipe emissions to H2O while concentrating the problem of environmental impact at the single source of hydrogen manufacture. Economy of scale enables control and capture of the pollution stream at source toward a sustainable ecological economy.

  17. FBIFUD on FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System · · Score: 1

    Really there's any credibility to the claim after the .gov can't upgrade an ATC system, scrapped an FBI integration system that simply didn't work and there's any claim the FBI can float state-of-the-art image recognition platform?

  18. Streams of music... on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    Been there - done that!

    Paradigm Shift needed. Breakout tech for bridging, integrating and flying free of the net just on the Verizon (typo_)

  19. How to build a regulated Internet on Cloud Firm MediaFire Flags Malware Samples For DMCA Violation, Bans Researcher · · Score: 2

    One takedown at a time.

    Next Licensing, tickets and penalties

  20. Stand-up like comedy... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On Stand-Up Desks? · · Score: 1

    relies on your sense of humor - humerus bone, that is...

    You'll be on your elbows, leaning, thinking and supporting your upper torso alot.

  21. RFP: The /.INDEX on First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 · · Score: 0

    Company /. rating algorithm is sought. A rating formula which reflects the ' currency' of an article's target company and its ' value' to the Slashdot community. For example OMX, NASDAQ, etc... in conjunction with the posting score (1-5), quantity of each from which is derived a numerical rating.

    A four quadrant icon is envisioned which visually reads non-numerically number of posters, insight, information, interest and fun to accompany Lede headlines

  22. OMG: HolyShit Batman... on Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs · · Score: 1

    Calm down, everyone with an Apple device, there's more than one Dark Knight with a laptop. You don't see your UDID, you're on another laptop darkly. Each device has GPS, a mic, front-facing camera and wireless connection for your safety.

  23. Re:Flamebait on Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista · · Score: 1

    mod+2

  24. Patent Search duh... on Google Extends Patent Search To Prior Art · · Score: 1

    Prior Art an extension into archaic, analog and archival, the worth of which now has been monetized in the $Billions.

    GOOG is in the search business!

  25. FAIL...over FDE-cost prohibitive when on Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption · · Score: 1

    Algorithm updates render FDE ForeverDiskEncrypted