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  1. First thing to go in all out war. on Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites · · Score: 1

    Practice run for something larger later, to bad everyone in Washington is primarily concerned with "copyright infringement"

  2. But.... on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 1

    China's blue army hacked the plans, ramped up the factories and started selling the panels before the USA got their second beer open.

  3. Bull S*it on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    The current financial crisis was manufactured, not a poorly modeled prediction.

  4. On purpose? on Netflix Loses 800,000 Subscribers After Qwikster Gaffe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Almost seems like some one purposely destroying a company, though for what reason I couldn't say.
    Just epic incompetence?

  5. Not "may" it does on DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood · · Score: 1

    It also affects your children look up epigenetics.

  6. Ignorance on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon there will be a "vaccine" for bad attitudes.

  7. Re:How's about this... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 2

    Yes, they are having more sex at a younger age, don't kid yourself that is what TV programming got us.

  8. It's a step towards TV on UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing' · · Score: 2

    Where you sit drooling and not involved, I mean come on... that was the ideal right? Stupid drooling and desiring to buy and be like those on TV.
    That declined with the Internet, and of course the loss of financial control and distribution of media.

    The powers that be don't like the Internet right wikileaks?

  9. I disagree on Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female · · Score: 1

    Most female voices are grating unless lower pitched than average, ( just listen to any local female news caster....GRATING) I think the real reason is that you are telling the voice what to do and subconsciously marketing views women as subservient, I honestly believe males are generally more pleasant to listen to due to the deeper tone.

    I'll toss a little homophobia on top as most men want a female voice.

  10. Piffle on Meet Siri's Little Brother, Trapit · · Score: 1

    It isn't an AI by any means, stop calling it that.

  11. hmm on Researchers ID Skype, BitTorrent Users · · Score: 1

    Guess who owns Skype, M$.

    I smell something funny.

  12. WRONG on Google+ To End Real Names Policy · · Score: 1

    "JWZ is a skeptic" wrong, wrong, wrong, the word you want here is "realist".

    So, JWZ is a realist.

  13. To bad it didn't on Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers · · Score: 1

    Extinction is coming anyway you look at it, more likely would have been a significant reduction in human population moving them back on the tech line (to the cave even?) but then we wouldn't be where we are now.

    That would be something to watch from orbit though.

  14. I've been waiting for this on Is Apple Pushing Away Professionals? · · Score: 1

    The "Apple Bubble" has burst.

  15. Re:Yo on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? · · Score: 1

    What is there to patent? If you can patent a sphere with 36 cameras then patent law is absurd, it's hard for me to think of anything more generic than a sphere with a few cameras attached.

  16. Yo on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? · · Score: 1, Interesting
  17. Re:As I have stated before on US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data · · Score: 1

    Good for you keep an open mind, I look at the money behind the sites mentioned MySpace (Rupert Murdoch) and Facebook (look at the investors) and can conclude for myself with finality that these sites are nothing more the psych profiles that will be mined by government, business, and a lot of very unpleasant people.

  18. Ahem on Rat Attack Causes Broadband Outage In Scotland · · Score: 1

    The correct term is "Rodent American".

  19. Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 1

    Apple purchased Siri, so the answer is no.

  20. Re:The best part on NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS · · Score: 1

    non nuclear EMP, the ships will be hardened not so sure about bouys.

  21. Re:The best part on NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS · · Score: 1

    Well... EMP's and non nuclear at that, but do you honestly think my "million dollar missile" doesn't have multiple detection and guidance methods?

  22. Re:The best part on NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS · · Score: 1

    If they can solve the one problem with robots that I see, which is power supply, then terminators and other horrors (and joys) we have seen in the movies will be a cake walk.
      I'm not so sure it's a good thing, but I could sit around all day devising these situations, I just love it.

  23. Re:The best part on NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS · · Score: 1

    I am thinking quad rotor autonomous with HE and targeted via cell signal or in the case of the well protected, targets IR sig, body odor, retina, or a variety of other giveaways.
    ( right in your bedroom window MoFo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM )

    But I really like the targeting mode of your idea and frankly it seems easier to implement.

  24. Re:The best part on NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS · · Score: 2

    Just in case no one else gets it.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM

  25. Re:As I have stated before on US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data · · Score: 1

    And a few hours later right here on Slashdot (which IMO is *not* a social site like Facebook) comes a perfect example of why I say stay off of Facebook

    http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-releasing-your-personal-data-reveals-our-trade-secrets/4552