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  1. Re:If I could have I would have on Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber · · Score: 1

    Why don't you move? Or try electricians as that's just as useful as plumbers and can't be shipped overseas either. (unless you want to work overseas)

    Good luck with the unions =)

  2. Mother Bloomberg on Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber · · Score: 0

    No large sodas, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (really?), "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said that the interpretation of the US Constitution will “have to change”, and sure why shouldn't people be plumbers? Or anything else for that matter as long as they don't take the advice of Bloomberg.

    “The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”
      -George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

  3. Wrong on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    Negative health information makes you an untouchable in employers eyes, and various others, Larry has too much money to be aware of this.

  4. Do not get involved on Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike · · Score: 1

    Your ethics won't be the only thing in danger.

  5. Won't happen on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 2

    Interferes with interstate commerce.

  6. Cool on The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    That means Samsung is better positioned for this than Apple is due to their price point, Apple is still trying to push their iPhone products as premium when really they have become commodities, everyone has a black smart phone and no one cares what the new one does any more, it lost it's cachet and so Apple will continue to bleed.

  7. Vampires on Transfusions Reverse Aging Effects On Hearts In Mice · · Score: 1

    Had it right all along.

  8. I doubt it on Scientists Are Cracking the Primordial Soup Mystery · · Score: 1

    I see it starting in Oort clouds and other such low grav areas, possibly more energetic areas like Europa or gaseous clouds around stars then being spread like dandelion seeds by natural forces raining down on planets everywhere.
    Micro gravity seems more conducive to cell formation to me.

  9. Pay close attention on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    This is our economy on a micro scale, and the same thing is coming at us.

  10. laugh on Is the DEA Lying About iMessage Security? · · Score: 1

    TinFoilHat: They brought Steve into the fold a long time ago, gave him top secret clearance and then asked him to make device no one could do without, that they could use to track and listen to people.

    This just in: Toil Foil Hoodies selling like hotcakes.
    http://kottke.org/13/04/the-anti-drone-hoodie

  11. Re:Be happy that their data is secure? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    Then report him, after you research the local laws in your area of course.

    Where I am they have to give it to you, but they can charge you a reasonable filing fee.

  12. I agree.

  13. Short answer: you can't. on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Ahead of Phone Tracking ? · · Score: 1

    Stop using phones with GPS.

  14. My Experience on Does Apple Need To Get Serious About Security? · · Score: 1, Troll

    I worked for them until recently, and I can say people walk around (in my area) talking about the impervious OS X, and I chuckle.
    I honestly don't think Apple has taken security as seriously as say, Microsoft.

    But this is one persons experience and I was seriously disillusioned after working for them, but that's more likely a result of my initial naïveté.

    Without Jobs fascism Apple is another corporation that will quickly slide into suck, here's hoping you got out above 600.

  15. Re:honestly on Ask Slashdot: Should Bitcoin Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered if the powers that be hire angry retards to post on forums, ever since I found that manual on "COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum".

  16. No on Ask Slashdot: Should Bitcoin Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    The primary benefit (aside from being able to create your own) is anonymity, and if they are going to look into regulations then they are going to look into anonymity.

  17. Re:Except their is only a few players on New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? · · Score: 1

    "There are a few competing Linux based OS's but those are going to be whittled down very quickly."

    Like android?

  18. Yeah why not? on New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? · · Score: 2

    If you're on Facebook they already have facial data, retina data, associations, extremely accurate psych profile and now you can let them track and store your position with a phone and get a voice sample too.
    Maybe they will include a free fingerprint scanner app in the for "security".

  19. Go ahead on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    But be aware FINCEN has taken an interest and the "regulation" has begun so before you involve the Uni might want to hit up a lawyer.

    You have to sign up for this. "US Begins Regulating BitCoin, Will Apply "Money Laundering" Rules To Virtual Transactions"
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-21/us-begins-regulating-bitcoin-will-consider-virtual-transactions-money-laundering

    " In Spain, The Bitcoin Run Has Started

            trio of Bitcoin apps have soared up Spain's download charts , coinciding with news that cash-strapped ... you want to get a good sense of the stress European savers are feeling, just watch Bitcoin prices.""

  20. Corporations on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Computer Lab In a Developing Country · · Score: 1

    You might try talking to Intel and Apple/HP/ any other manufacture, they have machine turn over and might be willing to part with them for a good cause and a tax break.
    Put an ad in Craigslist asking for old computers, I'm sure you will get more than you need.

    Just a suggestion as I worked for 2 of the above corporations and machines were in constant churn.

  21. Hmmm on Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    What may be increasingly more relevant than the tracking (which has been going on for years) would be what part of the social aggregate you fall into when your data is examined.
    How are we categorized?
    What it says about you is more important today than keeping them from following you.

  22. A barely existent country with a leader that looks like a panda without make up is considered a threat?

    America is dead.

  23. You know on If Video Games Make People Violent, So Do Pictures of Snakes · · Score: 1

    I find the idea "violent video games make people violent?" misleading to such a degree it seems generated specifically for that, to seem like an absurd argument.
    But really, I see it more as "the serial killer that starts on little animals and graduates to humans", there in lies my idea that a sick mind, or one close to sickness can be exacerbated into real life violence by violent games or other violent media.

    So while it may not hurt the majority of people, it will agitate some, and do so profoundly, and then you have to ask yourself "Why?"
    Why are violent games and movies considered entertainment?
    At what point did we except this constant stream of graphic violence in our lives so casually?

  24. Meh on Developers Begin Hunt For a Killer App For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    I had a nightmare in which I had to wear these G-Specs for some menial job where a computer tells me what to do "Change the paper towels" "Toilet 7 is dirty" etc....
    Brave New World

  25. My experience. on Do Kiosks and IVRs Threaten Human Interaction? · · Score: 1

    The reason I prefer the machine interface, the reason I prefer shopping online, is that machines have manners, don't stink, don't have 5 pounds of metal in their face (well actually they might but it would be required metal), and can hold a simple instruction like "medium coffee with room for cream" for longer than 2 seconds "uhhh...that was a large Americano...?" "no a medium coffee with room for cream".

    People can be stupid, unreliable and just plain unpleasant to look at.