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  1. Re: Look at all the anti vehicle protection round on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Shoeless bandit was a teenage kid who stole several planes without any pilot training.

  2. Re: Really? on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Cars don't typically travel far so it would not be efficient to gain altitude.

  3. Re: Elon Musk on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What brand of toilet paper Elon uses should make front page of Slashdot.

  4. I'd be pretty shocked if the Russian government doesn't either directly control, or have inside access to a CA trusted by browsers.

  5. Its more like some employment contracts do. I don't know anyone who has that in their contract, though I do periodically see the stories on Slashdot about it ;)

  6. Fish .... in it!

  7. Re:How does it "eat up CPU cycles"? on Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (bit.ly) · · Score: 1

    Presumably they need to parse the images at some point.

  8. Re:Yes but on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know, he wrote a letter claiming to be an engineer as an authority on a topic. Sounds a lot like hes practising.

  9. Re:Missing the point on BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen Will Start His Own Cryptocurrency (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Would be more interesting to see a currency tied to some meaningful work. e.g. finding new protein folds or something.

  10. Re:If you don't pay. on Unroll.me 'Heartbroken' After Being Caught Selling User Data To Uber (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Its possible they could derive some aggregate data, e.g. 50% of people subscribed to list X are subscribed to Y list. Or alternatively convince marketers to pay them for helping clean up their leads.

  11. Re:Nothing is totally free on Unroll.me 'Heartbroken' After Being Caught Selling User Data To Uber (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For example - US Internet Service Providers. Both gouge you on pricing and sell you out.

  12. Re:Remember what broke the internet... on Flawed Online Tutorials Led To Vulnerabilities In Software (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think its Indians in particular, the reality is there are a lot of people in the field who 'knew computers'. You don't get to design a bridge because you know how a calculator and ruler works.

  13. Re:Its pretty important... on Louisiana's Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should the rest of the country pay to relocate people who chose to be near the ocean? That isn't a federal issue, that's for the state or local governments to figure out.

    Maybe because the issue has been caused in no small part by 300-million Americans driving SUVs, trucks, and burning coal. This is where the funds from a carbon tax should go.

  14. Re:Its pretty important... on Louisiana's Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Beyond that, the White House already had very little control over other nations that are or likely will significantly affect climate going forward.

    Well, they could have supported a number of international accords aimed at reducing emissions.

  15. Re:Hateful readers will abuse this. on CEO of Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer Promises Refunds After Hand-Squeezing Demonstration (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Hateful in what sense? I know there has been an unfortunate contingent of anti-science partisan nutters who have been trolling the site in recent years but other than that I'm not sure there is enough interaction for someone to have a personal dislike.

    I've been moderating a lot of submissions and there are some where the summary is confusing to the point where it seems like spam yet the submitter appears to be a normal user. I give these the benefit of the doubt and not mark as spam (but maybe down vote) since I also find it difficult to try to write a succinct original summary.

  16. Apologies to Wiseabo, he isn't one from his history I grabbed him by mistake when I was eating breakfast.

  17. Re:That's going to be tought to prosecute on US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The US would have to prove that Assange directed the leakers to collect and transfer the leaked information to him

    IANAL but he wasn't even in the US to my knowledge so its hard to see how they would even have jurisdiction.

  18. Re: Release it with source code unde GPL on StarCraft Is Now Free, Nearly 20 Years After Its Release (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Many open source projects have either moved to Github or have mirrors there (by the authors or by random people)

  19. I should say, there are a number of other spammers those are who I remember / are on the first page. For anonymous submission spam: bleepingcomputer, arstechnica, vice, theverge

  20. Re:How can we give a fuck? on CEO of Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer Promises Refunds After Hand-Squeezing Demonstration (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The original shouldn't have been here either. Unfortunately we've moved from technical articles to a dumping ground for tech blogs which are pretty much the lowest on the tech totem pole.

    If you look at the article submissions its pretty clear that they should be considered spam as they are often submitted by the authors or site promoters e.g. MojoKid, MirandaKatz, BrianFagioli, Trailrunner7, sciencehabit, the_newsbeagle, Esther Schindler, wisebabo, and a bunch of anonymous submissions.

    I think there are two problems, not enough people are marking these as 'spam', and we as readers aren't submitting enough of the articles appropriate for the site.

  21. Typically chain stores have these sorts of things prepared at central locations and trucked out to the stores. Its unlikely to be a single store.

  22. I've always wondered why they don't use some form of cryptography to authenticate the card. Skimming seems to be more prevalent than someone physically having a card, though perhaps theft is more common in South Africa.

  23. I have to imagine with physical access couldn't a thief circumvent the reader to simply OK the transaction.

  24. Re:Open-source smartphone on Qualcomm Collected Partial iPhone Royalties Despite Legal Battle With Apple (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Drivers are supplied by the hardware manufacturers, go talk to them or write your own.

  25. Re:It'll get better, maybe someday on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 2

    Its basically the same as manufacturing in China. It can be done well, but for the most part since the primary motivation is cost corners will be cut.