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  1. Billion pixels of a billion grains of sand on The First Billion-Pixel Mosaic of Mars · · Score: 1

    High resolution pictures make me see sand. This one will enable me to see sand on mars even sandier!

  2. Re:People are creative on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse". Well yes, it rather does. While it's a nice sentiment, it's something to which I would reply: "Please let me be the judge of that".

    Depends on how selfish you are. If nothing else in the world matters to you, then life won't get any worse for you and you only.

  3. Re:Worth it? on uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner · · Score: 1

    http://www.guru3d.com/news-sto...

    Relevant text: The botnet’s Bitcoin operation was only profitable because it used stolen electricity: it used about $561,000 (£347,000) of electricity a day on its victims’ machines, while only generating $2,165 (£1340) a day.

    One would have to be inhuman to let your greed cause so much damage for so little gain.

  4. This is a dumb ass question on Would You Need a License To Drive a Self-Driving Car? · · Score: 1

    I didn't bother to read TFS.

    Yes. You do. Ask if the author (or any sane person on this planet for that matter) would fly in a plane that didn't have a pilot.

    The difference with automated trains and trolleys is that they are on tracks.

  5. so don't use lock screens on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    I may be wrong but this applies to the lock screen/screensaver, not the login screen.

    One can use the "switch user" option to leave their X session open and bring them back to the login screen.

  6. I like how your suspicion of brown people is so strong that you somehow bring anti-American sentiment into a debate of an event that happened between 2032 to 4276 years before the existence of the US.

    Obviously, those Indians are just driving home the point that events cannot possibly be attributed to a country that didn't exist at the time, thereby proving something about time and continuity, right?

  7. Re:I guess that means ... on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 1

    I don't know much more about hold'em than anyone else who has watched "Rounders" but if this really were the perfect player, then their algorithm would incorporate strategic play based on position (how much each $ each player holds). So two perfect robots playing each other to the bitter end might favor the lucky winner of the first round.

    I'm sure if anyone were to put this into the real world who suspects other people may have the same robot, then they'd also want to map the distribution that could describe the probability based on position. There'd be a threshold at which it's a good idea to leave and call it quits. Even perfect robots need to learn when to hold and when to fold.

  8. Obvious is obvious on The Driverless Future: Buses, Not Taxis · · Score: 1

    In a future where cars drive themselves, and everyone will eventually own one or enslave themselves into the machine to own one, efficiencies of public transportation will eventually become evident sooner rather than later.

    In a perf^H^H^H^Hless corrupt world, imagine the amount of investment it took for everyone to own driverless cars, city roads/highways redesigned to better meet demands of algorhythmic traffic flow, wireless internet infrastructure to support millions of transportees looking for something to do when they no longer have the burden of steering a 2 ton hunk of steel through 5-50 miles of obstacles. Imagine where we'd already be today if that amount of investment was put into a public transport system. Instead, they're a joke.

    1. Timetables seem to be set arbitrarily instead of easily matching demand. Why are ratio of rail cars 2:1 for heavy:light traffic times as opposed to 5:1, 10:1 in some cities? They have the extra cars. Buses don't seem to be increased at all.

    2. Rates raised to meet some sort of corporate profit model. We don't want to be in the red, because our taxpayers will not see public transportation as an investment to helping our city grow as we increase job opportunity and liquidity. It's just important that everyone doesn't see our public transportation as a burden. So instead, let's run less cars to cut costs, ignoring economies of scale and increase rates because people would be pay $100 a month for a shitty public transport pass when it would cost them $125 otherwise in gas. Some middle management guy took an econ 101 class and he learned about this thing called a supply demand graph and that's how we should model our "business", not as a civil duty we have to growing a city wide utility.

    3. NIMBY assholes have enough clout to stop what should be the most obvious need public transportation has, to go where its citizens need to go. Instead of getting smacked down by eminent domain, they whine enough that an entire city needs to avoid some rich area so their white fear can be assuaged.

  9. Re:Jesus never says no to non-believers on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 0

    In fact, the only character Jesus says *NO!* to is the Satan

    Satan leans back and fakes a yawn as he casually asks Jesus, "So... would you mind giving me a blowjob?"

  10. Re:Not true. There's a different division on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1

    Pretty much this.

    Based on every person's experience using every single piece of software ever written in the history of the world, there will be bugs. And when you pull in so much of a system into this one thing, there will be many more.

    I hope for his sake, Poettering has a systemd service that stamps NOTABUG into bugzilla reports automatically.

  11. Re:Is there a way to prevent this? on Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic · · Score: 0

    What the GP offered was a way to easily bypass the questional practices in TFA, Verizon injecting a http header, not a way for you to have real ultimate anonymity everywhere and forever.

    By using a VPN between your VPS and yourself, Verizon would not be able to inject a http header into encrypted packets.

    Of course, this is assuming your VPS is hosted by a provider who also doesn't do any funny business to your packets.

  12. article writer is an idiot on Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism · · Score: 1

    Wow.. confidence shaken by vu-vu-vulnerabilities huh?

    Article is nothing more than talking points from someone who knows nothing about the industry and only read about the 2 vulnerabilities in the news.

    They might as well have stopped a person in the street and asked "Sir/Madam, if your livelihood depended on computers, and said computers had a vulnerability, could it possibly affect you in a negative way? Yes?"

    It's a story! Rush to print!

  13. Who's in charge? on Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? · · Score: 2

    Who's in charge?
    WHO's in charge.

  14. Re:We live in an extraordinary era in medicine! on Experimental Drug Compound Found To Reverse Effects of Alzheimer's In Mice · · Score: 1

    Only if you're a mouse suffering from terminal depression. All lab mice are euthanized whether tests are successful or not.

  15. Misread summary is better on Rand Paul and Silicon Valley's Shifting Political Climate · · Score: 1

    I read that as Paul had one-on-one meetings with Thief and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

  16. Re:Use public DNS on How One Man Fought His ISP's Bad Behavior and Won · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "I wouldn't trust Google" isn't FUD.

    But "I wouldn't trust Google not to do the same or worse with their DNS" is.

    Especially when presented with the evidence in the response. Their baseless accusation to inspire fear, uncertainty, and doubt with something google has done in a correct way (so far at least) is just that, baseless.

    Your post to continue with this tinfoil asshattery despite seeing the evidence is begotten fud.

  17. the biggest exploit on Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog · · Score: 1

    The biggest exploit the NSA ever created was a time portal back to the cold war.

    Every country modernize their infrastructure will look inward to build their own because of paranoia of "the other side".

  18. Re:Are you a law abiding citizen... on San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Were you not a child born into the world...

    ... naked, screaming, unknowing? To grow up into the adult you are now, did not YOUR PARENTS pay for your clothes, shelter, food, education, safety? Oh no, because you already had all that and you never needed help from anybody. And it's obvious everybody in jail also had those same advantages, they just chose to squander all that and it's not possible that they may have been backed into it at all.

  19. Re:I think... on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    What a stupid assumption. You're arguing over the definition of entropy vs time, yet you conveniently throw in your own strict definition of time "perceiving a measure between different states of it" makes no sense. What different states? Is there a countable discrete set of states that a being can be in? Do all beings get different sets of states?

    One of the the criteria of all life is adaptation: The ability to change over time in response to the environment. This ability is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the organism's heredity, diet, and external factors.

    There's time for you. Why does a pigeon need to specifically know how old it is? All a pigeon needs to know is whether he's hungry, and that after he's eaten, he's not hungry. You cannot have cause and effect without time.

  20. Re:Why yes! on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    You're morely correct, but it would not prevent all attack vectors. If the boot cd auto mounts the usb key, and nautilus auto opens the mount point with preview on, the files could use vulnerabilities in various file formats (pdf comes first to mind) to run as nautilus (as root, or as a user that can escalate to root).

    At that point, it has access to all partitions and devices connected to the system, mounted or not.

  21. Re:Not just Ubuntu on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 2

    Open source software is a dying fad. There's really no need for Linux. Windows and OS X are just fine for most people. Even half of the new supercomputers in the top 500 in the past year are running Windows or OS X. Linux was a fad in the past 15 years, but it's going away and people are switching back to Windows and OS X.

    It's a lovely day for feeding the trolls...

    http://www.top500.org/statistics/sublist/

    OS Family:
    Linux: 476 out of 500 INCLUDING numbers 1-43 consecutively
    Unix: 16
    BSD: 1 (# 342)
    Windows: 3 (#'s 187, 241, 289)
    OSX: lol?

    By the way, the 1 BSD system is SUPER-UX.

  22. Re: GPL trumps BSD as a usable open source licence on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 2

    Get over what? The fact that iOS is based on BSD? I'm over it. That fact was never in dispute.

    Just because it was based on BSD does not make it BSD. BSD is the freedom the license gives, which iOS does NOT give.

  23. Re:GPL trumps BSD as a usable open source licence on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    iOS is released under a Proprietary EULA license.

  24. Re:GPL trumps BSD as a usable open source licence on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 2

    iOS devices are BSD?

    iOS is released under a copyleft license that allows one to modify, rename and resell it?

    Did noone think to tell Apple about this?

    iOS is NOT BSD.

    BSD allows anyone to take something that is BSD and turn it into NOTBSD, at which point, it is.... dun dun dun... NOT BSD.

  25. Under what circumstances... on Crooks Arrested Over KVM-Based Bank Heist Attempt · · Score: 1

    Under what circumstances will Slashdot not pick up this story? Perhaps if....

    CrookA calls CrookB on his cel^H^H^Hrotary phone. CrookB asks a bicycle courier outside his building to deliver some building plans across town to CrookC and CrookD.

    The next night, they all meet up and get to work hammering down a wall from some parking garage which leads into the vault.