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  1. Release a net on Dutch Police Train Bald Eagles To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    The NL police should just teach the birds to drop a net onto the drone, gunking up the props. That way, the birds don't need to get near the drone.

  2. Re:Systemd developers have rejected on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...systemd isn't in the wrong here....

    I did not say it was.

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    The underlying design of having use cases that need write access to UEFI is the issue.

  3. Systemd developers have rejected on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Systemd developers have rejected mounting the EFI variables as read-only...

    So the sane solution is rejected because the underlying design is bad?

  4. Re:Apple is overdue on Apple: Losing Out On Talent and In Need of a Killer New Device (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the Watch.

    Forgot it? No

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    Decided it wasn't something major? Yes.

    The Apple car is nowhere near ready at this point. To call it "the bigger one" is little more than unsubstantiated cheerleading.

  5. Apple is overdue on Apple: Losing Out On Talent and In Need of a Killer New Device (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Apple is long overdue for its next market-creating product. iPod, ... iPhone, ... iPad, ............... i????

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    The AppleTV is trying to find its niche within an already existing market, and in Apple-relative terms, is doing barely just OK.

    So where is, what is, Apple's next attention-getting and market-creating product?

  6. The wind turbine would be far more impressive... on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... if a blade were the size of Trump's ego.

  7. It's déjà vu all over again on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't we just do this?

  8. Finally, a lawyer I can understand! on Newegg Sues Patent Troll After Troll Dropped Its Own Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... its patent is not only expired but would suck even if it wasn't expired....

  9. High-Speed Firms Now Manipulate Almost All Stocks on High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks At NYSE Floor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    FTFY

  10. Sounds like they're trying to make eating costlier on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    The calorie works well, the problem is people who are trying to use it for reasons other than what it was intended.

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    Regardless of metabolism, exercise, how well you digest food, etc, the following always holds true (maybe not precisely true to minute decimal places, but true)

    Take all the calories you eat, subtract out the calories you lose, exude, emit, excrete or otherwise eliminate.

    If the result is more than the number of calories your body needs to run, you'll gain weight.

    For me, I know the magic number is around 2400 calories per day. I don't stress that it may be 2350 or 2450, the round number works well.

  11. Re:The Description of this is Scary on Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    Well *don't fucking register* you fucktard.

    I'd rather this feature be a separate program. I'd want to be notified at times when the browser is not open. And I don't want the websites for which I register to know every time I have my browser open.

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    This just looks more and more like Mozilla continuing to add non-browser-related bloat to an already bloated Firefox.

  12. Re:The Description of this is Scary on Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    So the websites that are registered with your browser all know when you have the browser open and are using it? Why would I want websites to know that much about my browsing?

  13. Buy a something he can grow into on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    haven't really found anything appropriate for a 10-year-old.

    Don't buy something appropriate for a 10 year old. Buy something appropriate for a 15 year old, and let him grow into it as opposed to him growing out of it.

  14. Re:"Risk zones", a.k.a. extortion? on Insurance Companies Looking For Fallback Plans To Survive Driverless Cars (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 2

    I love how people always fall back to the evil corporation scheme as if corporations don't have teams of lawyers that keep them in check.

    I love how people always fall back to the evil corporation scheme as if corporations don't have teams of lawyers that keep them from getting in trouble for their bad deeds.

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    FTFY

  15. Re:Forget driverless cars on Insurance Companies Looking For Fallback Plans To Survive Driverless Cars (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of the credit reporting agencies that want to include your driving history as a factor in your credit risk instead of determining your credit risk based solely on your use of credit.

    The insurance companies are just looking for ways to charge you more than what a typical driver would pay.

  16. "Risk zones", a.k.a. extortion? on Insurance Companies Looking For Fallback Plans To Survive Driverless Cars (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...Customers would be able to see a map of 'risk zone' data for places they want to go...

    I wonder how much the insurance companies will charge business to assure their location does not show up in a "risk zone"?

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    "Pay us $1,000 insurance per month and we'll ensure your address doesn't appear in a risk zone...."

    That could be quite the revenue source.

  17. I can be solved even more quickly... on To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot · · Score: 1

    Go into the virtual world where you don't have to worry about such mundane things as a physical cube, and you can twist and turn the cube in nanoseconds, probably solve it in well under a microsecond.

  18. The way ICANN operates WILL change on The Clock Is Ticking For the US To Relinquish Control of ICANN (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...While the changing of hands should not alter the way ICANN operates...

    If the parties involved did not want the way ICANN operates to change, then why have they gone through such an effort in order to effect this change in the pecking order for ICANN?

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    fwiw, the efforts to pry ICANN away from US control have been going on since long before the NSA became a household name....

  19. Re:Power? on Atom-Based JaguarBoard To Take On Raspberry Pi (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    CPU is 2.2 watts. (See the Intel Ark page I cited earlier)

  20. Re:Is it 64-bit? Do the math on Atom-Based JaguarBoard To Take On Raspberry Pi (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it 64-bit?...

    The processor is 64-bit, I don't know about the rest of it. http://ark.intel.com/products/...

  21. Re:I'd like to see the EULA for those cars on Volvo Promises 'Death-Proof' Cars By 2020 (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Even accident-proof is opening Volvo to legal claims. The word "proof" implies "can't happen". Never use the word never. :)

  22. I'd like to see the EULA for those cars on Volvo Promises 'Death-Proof' Cars By 2020 (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    The first sentence, "the term 'death proof' is a marketing term and has no real meaning within this contract"...

  23. Of the five on Tech's Big 5 -- Here to Stay? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2
    I'd say Microsoft is most likely to be displaced. They've shown a distinct inability to innovate, e.g., they are now trying to hold on to market share via fear-mongering to their customers.

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    If Microsoft were as entrenched as the article implies, then they would not need to employ such despicably deceitful tactics in order to get Windows 7 customers to upgrade to Windows 10.

    Microsoft is showing their desperation as they try to remain relevant.

  24. Does anyone still use Yahoo email? on Yahoo Fixes Bug That Could Compromise Email Accounts When Opening an Email (klikki.fi) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    At this point, I'd almost rather have an @aol.com address than an @yahoo.com address.

  25. A malicious mobile app on Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patched (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1
    The more I learn about the smartphone compute environment, the less I want one.

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    There appears to be no way to reign in the apps.