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  1. Re:3D printers on Plastic Waste Threatens Marine Diversity · · Score: 1

    Yeah nothing like using food to make plastic.

  2. laugh on Plastic Waste Threatens Marine Diversity · · Score: 1

    Watch how much it gets with PLA nano particles every where.

  3. Yep on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 2

    "The desktop or laptop is now in decline" and the reason is that the punters and chaff users switched to tablets and phones, their needs are so simple that don't need any more than that.

  4. More robots? on Andy Rubin Is Heading a Secret Robotics Project At Google · · Score: 1

    Now we are proper fucked.

  5. Huh on Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this be interfering with interstate commerce?

  6. Hmmm on Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy · · Score: 1

    These days most of these services give the vibe of "watch what your pets are up to" like some sort of kitty cam but for squeezing every last cent out of the shopping cattle.

    In other words all this crap is just a giant cattle monitoring system for retailers and other corporations.

    *just make it shiny and they will use it*

  7. Won't work on Bursting the Filter Bubble · · Score: 1

    Not with the general population, the prejudice is inside them, and even if you slip in an opposing view once they notice that's what's been done you've lost them again.
    I would say it's almost impossible to change average adult minds and opinions on things they consider important by having them read articles with opposing views.

  8. LMAO on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 1

    "women prefer length and men diversity"

    Yes... yes they do.

  9. Re:How about CCTVs? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? · · Score: 1

    Yes it's worth while, however the newest stuff will use your gait, gestures, voice, face, so it becomes harder and harder to hide as the software and camera resolution get better.

    But one day going outside might mean, wig, mask, insert in shoe to make you limp, water filled vest to change your thermal image, never using your hands, never talking, and never going the same way twice.
    Sounds like fun right? But you will be safe from terrorist =)

    I use a hoodie with a mesh fabric that can fold down in front of my face, this stems from a debate we had one night and I rarely use it.

  10. Can't be done on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? · · Score: 1

    What you could do is set up penalties for data loss, but since there is little difference between corporations and government and it benefits them to leave it all exposed you will never be able to bottle this genie again IMO.

    One thing I made for public cameras was my old hoodie with a with a mesh fabric drop down, so it acts like a veil in front of the hoodie but can still be seen through and put away.
    I'm not actually that worried about it yet but we got to talking and started trying stuff... I doubt it work against thermal imaging.

  11. This is bad on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1

    Very bad.

  12. Re:TWO XKCD ! on Comet ISON Survives Perihelion (Barely) · · Score: 1

    Dupe, Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of URLs

  13. Re:HMS Bounty? on Comet ISON Survives Perihelion (Barely) · · Score: 1

    Why would a ship with warp capability enter the solar system that way?

  14. Hmm on Comet ISON Survives Perihelion (Barely) · · Score: 1

    The iron core survived and the out gassing gave it enough thrust to change orbit to a direct hit on Earth.

    Or not.

    ison, isoff

  15. Monsanto is powerful on Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted · · Score: 1, Interesting

    'nuff said.

  16. Laugh on Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle · · Score: 1

    "'We find that a large influx of capital is successful in escaping the poverty trap, "

    No shit Sherlock, every time someone gives me a billion dollars I don't feel the poverty any more.
    How about this, mandatory birth control for your out of control population growth... you think that would help your health issues?

    No, instead you go looking for outside investment which will hurt you even more in the long term.

  17. That's wonderful on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1

    You can keep being a troll long after you're dead.

  18. Re:Self-serving philanthropy on Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years · · Score: 1

    "How exactly does curing malaria help Microsoft and Bill Gates?"

    Really? Really?
    The OP went to far and you're at the opposite end, if Zuckerberg is involved I doubt the motives are philanthropic.

    Side Note: My observation of Zuckerberg makes me think genetic inclination towards aspergers or some other variant (high functioning of course) but with the same 0 empathy shark eyed stare and behaviour.

    In other words he is incapable of actually philanthropy or empathy.

  19. Kind of strange reading this as I always assumed that's how it would be, obfuscated.
    Still it's weirdly titillating to see it confirmed.

  20. Laugh on Spamhaus Calls for Fining Operators of Insecure Servers · · Score: 1

    The entire Internet can be used for attacks and fraud, what would you propose we do?
    Change human behaviour?
    Make the Internet nothing more than a TV?

  21. Start at the begining on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You? · · Score: 1
  22. "The story does not say that MarkLogic's software is bad in itself, only that the choice meant increased complexity on the project. "

    But the subliminal take away is that MarkLogic was used and things went poorly. I feel for the people at MarkLogic in that they may succumb to someone else's stupidity even though their product is fine.

    So why that decision? Whose family member is in that company?

  23. Maybe on The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath · · Score: 1

    A different way to look at it is that the genes alone don't determine the individual, there are other mitigating factors involved.

    I have a deep distrust of any science that is as powerful in every way including political and yet has such enormous inconsistency to it.
    I refer to psychiatry of course.

  24. MITM? on Route-Injection Attacks Detouring Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    The NSA does it, was this the NSA?

  25. Re:The real problem with the Air France crash on Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel · · Score: 1

    "all of which had to be wrong for the plane to crash"

    And all human.