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  1. Nice to know on London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics · · Score: 2

    A: Traffic system can be hacked (from inside but these days how hard could it be?)
    B: CCTV can be used to track cars and most likely people
    C: CCTV solves and/or prevents almost 0 crime (See Wiki)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television
    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/united-kingdom/090328/living-under-the-cctv-gaze

  2. Go for it on Ask Slashdot: Best Degree For a Late Career Boost? · · Score: 1

    The one thing I can tell you with certainty, do what interest you and don't worry about your age.

    Other than that, business degrees are always handy for starting your own business or employers, in addition computer security is a growing field.

  3. Re:Wow! on Ask Slashdot: Best Degree For a Late Career Boost? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I installed MyCleanPC now my mouse cursor moves by its self, is this normal?

  4. Laugh on 'Social Jetlag' May Be Making You Fat · · Score: 0

    One more excuse for the fatty's book, face it you get fat from taking in more calories than you burn, and being fat just doesn't bother you enough to do anything about it when everyone around you is fat.

  5. Re:Laugh on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    It is size that matters no matter what your girlfriend said.

  6. Laugh on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    Developing on a 13 inch screen...

  7. Short answer on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    You can't shut down cell services there may be an emergency call that needs to be made.

  8. It's OK on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    This only effects people that can't do the math, don't read the fine print, and do not have the intellectual curiosity to question why it's available for $99.

    Pretty much the same people that helped cause the housing crisis.

  9. The funny part on Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial · · Score: 1

    The closest this judge comes to grasping Java is when he dumps cream in it in the morning.

    Just like the politicians that create legislation, the judges have no fucking clue what's going on and are reliant on "experts" that have to use pipe analogies to convey the issue.

  10. Re:Good vs bad reasons on DHS Asked Gas Pipeline Firms To Let Attackers Lurk Inside Networks · · Score: 0

    Response to point #1 see response to point #2
    Response to point #2 Why the fuck are these systems on-line and accessible from foreign countries or anyone else on the Internet in the first place?

    Hint: I already know the answer to Response to #2.

  11. I have my doubts on DHS Asked Gas Pipeline Firms To Let Attackers Lurk Inside Networks · · Score: 1

    While the main motive behind the request is likely to gain information on the attackers

    I have my doubts about that, after all what's more important, catching these people (who are most likely in non-extradition countries) or protecting the people of this country?
    I also have my doubts about the competence of the DHS, HLS, TSA and all the other "security" agencies that have suddenly sprung up after 9/11.

    Now stare at your phone and step into traffic...

  12. Look at all the names he dropped,

    I no longer visit blogs. I watch Twitter, Google+, and Facebook, along with Hacker News, Techmeme, Quora. These are the new news sources.

    that's why it got filtered.

  13. Morons on Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Meanwhile activists in Tokyo celebrated the shutdown and asked the government to admit that nuclear power was no longer needed in Japan and to concentrate on safety

    Morons, see how you like it now that it's nothing but fossil fuels, look at new nuke tech it's entirely do-able and safe.

  14. A few things on Ask Slashdot: All-In-One PC For Kitchen? · · Score: 2

    1: your wife will eventually find it useless.
    2: the amount of smoke and grease in the air will eventually destroy though maybe not before #1 (even though you may not see smoke or grease it's there)
    3: Why? Just get a $399 iPad or even better Kindle Fire, because you don't really need much in the kitchen correctly? Not like you're playing WoW while putting cheese sauce on your cheesecake.

  15. Bah on FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites — Now · · Score: 1

    I see too much clucking and feather rustling from you hen house Cheeto beaters, grow some personal responsibility and protect your own communications, encrypt, obfuscate, otherwise get active in politics by starting a web site to fund Internet issues (Turn "Citizens United" to your favor) or support one already in place with your dollars. (like I do)

  16. Huh on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    I would've thought the connection between the 2 was a no-brainer.

  17. The only question I have on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    Was it connected correctly?

  18. The timing on NASA Boss Accused of Breaking Arms Trade Laws · · Score: 1

    It's all in the timing.

  19. Re:Yep... on Facebook To Go Public On Friday, May 18 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh and this...

    Venture capitalists fund startups that leverage Facebook data to disrupt their incumbents. Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya left the company to start a venture capital firm with a single mission: fund companies that will use Facebook's open APIs to take over large, calcified industries like banking, education, and healthcare. Palihapitiya is funding a banking startup, for example, that will give potential customers a credit score based on their Facebook activity. Potential: Unknown. The idea is that Facebook will profit from companies using its data to disrupt incumbants the way it figured out how to profit from Facebook gamesmaker Zynga's disruption of the videogame industry.

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-lousy-ad-business-is-making-its-ipo-is-looking-hairier-by-the-minute--heres-why-it-doesnt-matter-2012-5#ixzz1tkNTU9mH

    Scary.

  20. Yep... on Facebook To Go Public On Friday, May 18 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bubble goes pop.

    Facebook's ad business isn't very (or so some claim) because of the way they target ads (like TV ads) so expect a lot fo change (again) in Facebook's policies.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/02/businessinsiderfacebooks-lousy-ad-b.DTL

    Your Facebook ID becomes the way you pay for everything online and offline. Long-term, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's goals seems to be for your Facebook ID to be your ID everywhere. Given smartphone adoption, you can imagine this happening online and off. If that were to happen, the easiest way for Facebook to make money would be to facilitate offline and online transactions. Potential: PayPal, part of eBay, has an enterprise value close to $20 billion or so. Visa has a market cap of $100 billion.

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-lousy-ad-business-is-making-its-ipo-is-looking-hairier-by-the-minute--heres-why-it-doesnt-matter-2012-5#ixzz1tkK42pqr

  21. God... on Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Discovered · · Score: 1

    Is that you?

  22. Re:Don't blame math on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're smarter than you give yourself credit for.

  23. Re:Don't blame math on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 1

    You must live in Texas...

  24. Re:Don't blame math on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 1

    Wow can you not follow your own argument?

    No, don't blame greed. Empathy is 100% responsible for the crash.

    You were blaming empathy not greed, prove empathy led to the crash.

  25. Re:Don't blame math on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 1

    Well not if you're stupid *smirk*