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  1. This is the damage on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    This is what tech has done for us in the bad sense, it appears to me people no longer want to work with people, but rather will look to find a way without them, to use a machine rather than a human.

    In some odd way our technological modern lives are causing to dislike humanity.

  2. Re:sigh... on Court Mulls Revealing Secret Government Plan To Cut Cell Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Or you could be a realist and understand that the people who least understand our society are the ones in charge of it.

    Actually the people in charge clearly understand "society" that is why they are in that position.

    I could accept they are not tech savvy.

  3. Re:Hmmm on Build Your Own Satellite For Less Than $30K · · Score: 1

    It would work for cargo, it wouldn't work for living things.

    I can't accept that we could never electromagnetically launch something into orbit.

    And off all the reasons I have heard for it not working not a single one was "air resistance".

  4. Re:Hmmm on Build Your Own Satellite For Less Than $30K · · Score: 1
  5. Re:still a $300B industry? on Build Your Own Satellite For Less Than $30K · · Score: 1

    I didn't read it but did the price include the launch?

  6. Hmmm on Build Your Own Satellite For Less Than $30K · · Score: 1

    These sats seem ideal for someone to design a rail gun launching system, the should be able to take the stress and they are small enough that the rail gun size wouldn't break the bank.

  7. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in February sided (PDF) with the government and ruled that the policy did not need to be disclosed under a Freedom of Information Act request from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The court agreed with the government's citation of a FOIA exemption that precludes disclosure if doing so "could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual."

    Except that having your phone shut off is going to endanger your life.

  8. The insanity, I knew something like this was coming now that people are entirely dependent on their cell phones (well most of you anyway)

  9. Yes on Fault System Enables Larger Quakes In California · · Score: 1

    Between fracking and the draining of all the ground water in California (drought) I wonder just how much we moved the date of the big one up.

  10. Good on Google In Talks To Create International Roaming Network · · Score: 1

    I want to watch Verizon and ATT collapse.

  11. Money is all that matters on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    It's more important than their "sexuality", so yeah he is a hypocrite.

  12. I spend 12 hours a day or more on the computer, (work + hobbies) but it's a relief to go up to the mountains for a few days and not have anything around.

    Addicted? Maybe.

    "Isn't more and more time online the inevitable future?"

    I believe it is, however I believe that it will become more "transparent", we will be online but the way we do it will not keep us in one area, nor involve the use of a large gadget.

  13. Just use youtube on Ask Slashdot: Options Beyond YouTube For An Indie Web Show? · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows Youtube, it's free, it allows unlimited bandwidth (unlike Vimeo) if you get enough subscribers you can alter the channel design fairly significantly.

    Everything else I have tried sucks, or cost, or limits.

  14. so if you spot a tan Chevy Maibu with New Mexico plates (K88-283), there's probably some nice incentives in it for you.

    LOL yes next time I'm in Mexico I'll keep an eye out.

    Cars are chopped the same day most of the time, it was stolen because it's either a super popular model easy to sell, or has common parts and is now in 10 or 15 different vehicles.

  15. The real issue is not freedom of religion, the real issue is freedom from religion.
    In this case they may find it backfires and opens the doors to extremes such Sharia Law, as an example, or even some high growth perversion of Christianity leading to another Crusade.

    Stupid right? I just think religion opens too many of the wrong kinds of doors, it should be "Freedom From Religion".

  16. I'm sorry what? on Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption · · Score: 1

    If we use encryption your job is pointless?

  17. Yeah why get poked by a fence when you can get mauled by the dogs when you hit the ground.

  18. Laugh on Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC · · Score: 2

    Has this guy not seen the Russian dash cam videos?

    https://www.youtube.com/result...

  19. At Least 700,000 Routers Given To Customers By ISPs Are Vulnerable To Hacking

    Almost seems like it was on purpose.

  20. pirating does pay off on Microsoft Says Free Windows 10 Upgrades For Pirates Will Be Unsupported · · Score: 1

    lol

  21. Laugh on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 2

    the agency carries out the same illegal Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) operations that criminals and hackers do. Except they do it legally.

    LOL, So... it is a crime, not because it is morally and ethically questionable, but because you told us it is, and you told us it's OK for you to do it.

  22. piffle on NVIDIA To Install Computers In Cars To Teach Them How To Drive · · Score: 2

    "Driving is not about detecting, driving is a learned behavior," said Jen Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA

    It's about learning what to do with what you have detected, from position to collision detection is critical, then knowing what to do with that data is also critical.

  23. Laugh on Fraud Rampant In Apple Pay · · Score: 2

    At this point Apple has become synonymous with "insecure".

  24. Laugh on Ex-NSA Researcher Claims That DLL-Style Attacks Work Just Fine On OS X · · Score: 1, Insightful

    renders Apple's OSX operating system just as vulnerable to exploitation as Windows has been

    Another arrow for my quiver, and I get to say I told you so.

    Shit has always been insecure, remember? It relied on the fact almost no one used Apple "security through obscurity".
    https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_...

  25. "But Yahoo says they think it's "the first step to eliminating passwords.""

    And another in a long line of steps that remove any anonymity from the user.