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  1. Re:Phones are for millenials on Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'? · · Score: 1

    Starts about 35 ~ 40

  2. Two Words: on Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'? · · Score: 1

    Video Drivers

  3. The ship was unsinkable they said.

  4. Re:How are we defining 'Data breach'? on Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have purchased vehicles from Buy here Pay here places. I ran a wrecker company for a year that serviced these places also. There's more up and up sales than you realize.

  5. How are we defining 'Data breach'? on Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    exposing the keys to its kingdom on an unsecured Amazon S3 server, and this data breach

    I wouldn't quite call that a 'data breach'

  6. Amazon and Seattle on Cities Are Competing to Give Amazon the 'Mother of All Civic Giveaways' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Pass Stupid Tax Laws, Win stupid Prizes.

    With the new tax laws specifically targeting the wealthy this was not a surprise. It's more about clueless young people 'sticking it' to the men and women with the jobs and motivation to build much-needed infrastructure. I can't imagine a better example of cutting off your hand to spite your your fingers.

    http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

  7. Based on 10 seconds of googling I am going to say it's the current iteration of a company learning the hard lessons already taught by 'Clippy' and 'Microsoft Bob'.

  8. Grammer on Is Online Advertising Worthless? (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    that that spending that

    Will someone PLEASE introduce the editors to the works of Strunk and white?!

  9. I don't know about you, but I have an irrational urge to walk up to big kitties and give them scritches. My brain steps in and say 'No they are big, and will eat you'. But, I still want to give the scritches.

  10. Re:Not all financial institutions... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's high time that the other agencies be scrutinized. Even though the cat's out of the bag as it were.

  11. Re:Ummm.... on AskSlashdot: How Do You See Your Life After Firefox 52 ESR? (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    why hasn't years of derision suppressed such hyperbole?

    Because Slashdot was purchased by the mainstream media.

  12. Re:You must be joking. on Plastic Fibers Found In 83 Percent of World's Tap Water, Study Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    leeching minerals from your body

    Talk to a chemist sometime.

    Also, this:

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

  13. Clever Marketing. Recent Solar CME on Hackers Have Penetrated Energy Grid, Symantec Warns (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Any power outages caused by the recent CME eruption from our sun might scare people into purchasing 'protection'.

    http://spaceweather.com/

  14. The Rule on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    No.

  15. Re:Intrinsic value of diamonds on SLAC Experiment Proves It Rains Diamonds On Uranus and Neptune (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Any woman that demands a see-through rock in order to procreate has no business passing her gene's at all.

    My Wife isn't hung up on jewelry and we will be celebrating 20 years together Sept 1st.

  16. Re:n. FOMO - A type A fear you will miss frist pso on We Can't Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    We used to call these people AOL subscribers.

  17. Re: Nonsense. on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    get special treatment for doing nothing but being born a skin color?

    You mean like affirmative action?

    But forget about trying to Google about much more than that. It's results have been scrubbed of anything 'negative' about 'minorities' and just for entering the search terms 'how do minorities benefit from government programs' has most assuredly just added me to the database mentioned in this article.

    There's a few crisis-generating problems the article helps bring to light.

    1. We pretty much use one global search engine that has the power, the willingness, and has actively demonstrated censure to the point of firing employees that don't tow the party line.

    2. This same search entity has the ability and has announced the intention of creating a database of individuals that don't tow the party line.

    3. This censure includes the results of data mining and has a tremendous affect on the decisions of people that use the Internet as their main source of Information.

    Surely this technology won't be abused. Not by Google or Alphabet! (/sarcasm)

    As a side note, every 'supremacist group' whatever their color is made of sad lonely individuals that feel they have no power of their lives and that their problems are caused by someone else. Looking at both the KKK and the Black Panthers as well as many others. Just turds wanting attention and getting it.

  18. This has already happened in Brazil

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/...

  19. Well there's an interesting twist.

    Instead of finding someone to abduct off the street, hack their car and have them meet you out in the desert or some other remote place. Perhaps instruct their car to drive into a nearby warehouse and do what they will.

    Better and safer for all the criminals involved. No awkward screaming, fighting in public, nobody around to call the cops. Very clean.

  20. *I* understand what you meant but *please* stop putting ideas in these kids heads!

  21. Re:New control on Waymo Patent Shows Plans To Replace Steering Wheel, Pedals With Push Button (driverless.id) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No for the love of God NO.

    For the sake of anyone that has been taken into bad areas and killed, or in Seattle where Google maps wants to take you off then back on I-5 in the middle of the city to going to the *completely* wrong place.

    Don't get me started on the worse ones like Bing and *shudder* apple.

    Do not tie these apps to an autonomous machine on public roads moving at lethal speeds without intelligent oversight in between. Don't even try and pretend that current "AI" or "machine Learning" is better than a human. All testing so far has been done under perfectly ideal conditions without having to account for degraded infrastructure or vandalized signs. ( https://www.bleepingcomputer.c... )

  22. Re:Donald Trump is a traitor on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    So you want him to roll over onto his back and show his belly to persecution by those that hate him solely for the fact that he won an election.

  23. It's not the meat it's the muscle. on Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, it's not the size but how you use the search?

  24. Remember this is the same medical industry that gave 'diet pills' to pregnant women in the 60s and 70s and used to declare smoking as good for your health. As well as gave pregnant woman Diethylstilbestrol (DES) from the 40s through the 70s that nearly guarantees a daughter born to the mother that received this medication will develop cervical cancer.

    Doctors are good for things they can see, cut out of you or stitch back together, or give medicine based on what they find in your blood at the time. Everything else they really, really suck at.

  25. Re:Donald Trump is a traitor on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    can still have happened

    They want to believe.

    And to think they talked so much shit about birthers.