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  1. Re:Only good on calm days on Nixie Wearable Drone Camera Flies Off Your Wrist · · Score: 2

    Depends on the size, something as small as a Blade 350QX can handle moderate wind quite well.

  2. Bummer on Nixie Wearable Drone Camera Flies Off Your Wrist · · Score: 2

    I am heavily into multirotor construction and design, I also love FPV and routinely film with a gimbal and several types of cameras.
    So this disappoints me to see this offering, there are a lot of morons out there with their Phantoms causing problems.

    Past a certain size these things are flying lawn mowers and if you take a look at the number of youtube videos of people flying these over people and property it's disgusting.

    I'm certain my favorite thing in the World will be outlawed due to the number of idiots out there, and this "toy" makes it even more likely.

  3. Re:Everybody does not need to program on Microsoft Co-opts Ice Bucket Challenge Idea To Promote Coding In Latin America · · Score: 1

    ^^^

  4. Re:Anything for a FP Microsoft Story! on Microsoft Co-opts Ice Bucket Challenge Idea To Promote Coding In Latin America · · Score: -1, Troll

    On Robin Williams:

    Boyd said Williams was last seen alive at 10:30 p.m. Sunday when his wife, Susan Schneider, went to bed. His personal assistant became concerned about 11:45 a.m. Monday, Boyd said, after Williams failed to answer knocks at his door.

    The assistant eventually managed to open the door and found Williams clothed, in a seated position and "with a belt secured around his neck, with the other end of the belt wedged between the clothes closet door and the door frame," Boyd said. "His right shoulder area was touching the door, with his body perpendicular to the door and slightly suspended."

    Williams was "cold to the touch," Boyd said, and rigor mortis had set in. Forensic scientists say it takes three or four hours for rigor mortis to begin after death.

    I feel he was into auto erotic asphyxiation, notice they made a point of his being clothed, Hollywood hid this to protect the "franchise" meaning if the truth came out they would expect to lose money.

    But I liked him as an actor, and i don't care what his sexual preferences were.

    I am concerned Hollywood gets away with so many things, as does our financial sector..

  5. All tech giants really want is cheap labor, making tech giants a threat.

  6. Re:~/.cshrc on Apple Yet To Push Patch For "Shellshock" Bug · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah a better operating system than OSX.

  7. Yet another example of fail on Apple Yet To Push Patch For "Shellshock" Bug · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple security....
    Military Intelligence...
    Cheerful pessimist....
    Definite maybe... and many more.
    http://grammar.about.com/od/rh...

  8. California on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    Both parties have to agree to it.
    Unless of course it's in public, but then it depends on who it is.
    http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-...

    It's nice the legislators give their preamble about protecting rights, when it's really about protecting themselves.

  9. This isn't news. on Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market · · Score: 1

    been going for years.

  10. This on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 2

    This is how you know it was all planned, from Clinton signing off on the final; removal of Glass Steagall to Fab stating "I don't even know what I'm selling".
    The same group of people have been at these financial constructions designed to rob people, the FED is a part of it, you need only look at who runs the financial institutions, who is tops at the fed, who has the presidents ear and finally who really drives the wars in the Middle East.
    All the same group of people, it's amazing people aren't pointing it out...
    Except there is.

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...
    http://www.ifamericansknew.org...

    Another Clinton in the White House will seal the deal and screw the rest of us, Hillary is beholden to foreign powers.

  11. How long? on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    Has it been going on.

  12. All is vanity? on Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Maybe it was so cheap because it doesn't seem to do much, and nothign that hasn't already been done, it is considered a "demo" and study in interplanetary missions.
    As a bragging point it seems great for India, I'll try to remember that next time I stay at the Taj West in Bangalore, you know where I can walk a block and see the most crippling poverty that you can imagine.

  13. Laugh on Apple Yanks iOS 8 Update · · Score: 1

    They make the hardware, they write the software, and they still can't get it right.

  14. laugh on Apple's TouchID Fingerprint Scanner: Still Hackable · · Score: 1

    What moron is storing anything to worry about their?

    Oh yeah Apples "wallet", good luck with that.

  15. Laugh on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: -1, Troll

    Crapple...

  16. BS on Fukushima Radiation Still Poisoning Insects · · Score: 1

    Chernobyl went back to nature, it's beautiful there and animals are thriving with minimal defects.

    We haven't seen the worst of Fuki though...

  17. Re:But who? on TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name · · Score: 1

    Does to me.

  18. To me on CDC: Ebola Cases Could Reach 1.4 Million In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    It feels like the international medical community (or really governments) are not stepping up with timely health care and precautions.
    How long until it's here?

  19. Re:Let me tell you on Why You Can't Manufacture Like Apple · · Score: 1

    I worked for Apple, you got lucky.
    As far as PC's go I build my own, which means I can swap out hardware easily and cheaply, can not do that with a Mac, in addition Win7 running the Adobe suite is rock solid and stable, the GPU rendering works flawlessly.

    I moved all my audio recording gear and video gear/software to the PC, it's just better, it just doesn't crash, not so with the 2 iMacs I owned, they crashed constantly and guess what I was using? That's right... Apple software.

    And yet Apple, who make their hardware, who writes the software for that hardware can't to do any better than: goto fail, which I believe would have been caught by a real audit of this software considering the size and resources available.
    So I am left sure in my own mind they were complicit.

  20. Look at who tells the stories now on Ancient Campfires Led To the Rise of Storytelling · · Score: 1

    And you get why society is broken.

  21. Perfect on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    Another reminder of the average intelligence of the Apple consumer.

  22. Re:Let me tell you on Why You Can't Manufacture Like Apple · · Score: 1

    Go to Vegas and bet it all, you are unbelievably lucky.

  23. And I will keep preaching on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    Apple is crap...

  24. Stop using Facebook on Mark Zuckerberg Throws Pal Joe Green Under the Tech Immigration Bus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There couldn't be a wrose personality to be in power than Zuckerberg.

  25. Re:In person on NY Magistrate: Legal Papers Can Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been to court? Intelligence is not the first thing that comes to mind.