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  1. Re: Does it have a computer and field range interf on Cyber Attacks Demonstrated On Autonomous Ground Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Wish it wasn't a theory.

    There are three methods of dealing with it.

    1. ability to disconnect and reset systems in case of hacks.
    2. surprise (difficult in a rich EM environment)
    3. more highly independent systems, so you can isolate one and still function.

  2. We already have faster Internet2 - 40 and 100 Gbps on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 1

    Technically, we already have a fast 40 and 100 Gbps - yes, I said Gigabit per second.

    It's at most major research universities.

    My building and one a couple blocks away have 100 Gbps ports and we have 40 Gbps in most buildings on campus.

    We just don't let you use them.

    Glad to hear we'll join the First World Nations that have decent speeds on the civilian side.

  3. Sounds like a plan on Obama Planning New Rules For Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Emissions · · Score: 1

    Even if it comes from a President who is far right of most Republican Presidents.

    Including Nixon.

  4. Re:More stuff done on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 5, Funny

    One wrong line of code and all my work-inappropriate stuff will suddenly be thrown in the face of co-workers while they are trying to do their jobs.

    I trust this about as far as an ant can spit.

    Actually, some spitting variants of ants can do a pretty good job. The formic acid has some neurotoxins that let them stun their prey.

    But, yeah, totally agree.

  5. Which part of No don't they Get? on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 1

    No more FB on my iPhone or iPad.

    It's like they double down on the p3rV factor each time they do something.

  6. Re:Buying one this year or next on Tesla To Produce 'a Few Million' Electric Cars a Year By 2025 · · Score: 1

    yes I know Eastsiders in Bellevue pay for 1/3 coal but they're deadenders

    Geographical bigotry is still bigotry.

    Dude I live in the Center of the Universe, in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle.

    We are who we are.

    How are you liking my vision of Seattle so far? Adapt or die.

    All your future is belong to fossil fuel disinvestment.

  7. Does it have a computer and field range interface? on Cyber Attacks Demonstrated On Autonomous Ground Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Then it can be hacked.

    This is why you don't trust computers.

    Says the guy who has worked in computers since the 80s and rolled his own in the 70s.

  8. Buying one this year or next on Tesla To Produce 'a Few Million' Electric Cars a Year By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Either a Tesla C or a Chevy Bolt.

    Or maybe the iBMW.

    Not picky. Electricity is dirt cheap and 100 percent green at both my workplace and my home.

    (and before you coal and fossil fuel guys criticize it, I mean that literally, I own solar PV cells on the Seattle Aquarium and pay for 100 percent Green electric through the 100 percent level at Seattle City Light, yes I know Eastsiders in Bellevue pay for 1/3 coal but they're deadenders, Seattle rules!)

  9. Re:Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin on Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support · · Score: 1

    Some of us use PDF for almost everything, especially in research.

  10. Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin on Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support · · Score: 1

    Now FF thinks it has both version 10 and version 11.

    Someone messed up bad. Real bad.

  11. Re:nope on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    my cousin and a couple of friends have Volts. They get about 1000 eMPG.

    The only reason it's 1000 is it won't record over that, and the car insists on burning the gas in the tank if you don't use any for a year.

  12. 6 year mark car costs on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    I had a Dodge Colt for 10 years and a Saturn SC2 for 19 years. The cost to keep them on the road was pretty darned low. Just got rid of the latter because the engine was shot. It had been to Burning Man or Santa Barbara about ten times, from Seattle, and lots of highway miles in the mountains and snow.

  13. Re: nope on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    I had a Dodge Colt. Maybe a Chevy Capacitor?

  14. Waiting for the Chevy Ampere on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 2

    So that all the cool chicks will turn their heads as it goes by and say "Watt?"

  15. If that were true I'd be a gay gerbil with diabetes, a heart condition, and wanting to date 20 yo girls.

    None are true.

    Now, 26 ...

  16. Re:Look, been spying on US citizens in US since 70 on FBI Access To NSA Surveillance Data Expands In Recent Years · · Score: 1

    The 1770's...

    I can't speak to that from any personal knowledge, even if my dad was in a precursor to the NSA since before I was born.

    But the British Empire did spy on Americans then, one of the reasons why we have three specific Rights that are in the Constitution not permitting such actions against US citizens in the US.

  17. Re:You mean like the one by CENTCOM? on Obama Proposes 30-Day Deadline For Disclosing Security Breaches · · Score: 1

    Well, we saw what happened in Canada when they had a new law about Copyright and "rights holders" tried to pretend they could get $500,000 for a music violation when the law said $5000 max - the Feds there cracked down on the litigants.

    But, the concept of a 30 day deadline is to force people to disclose it in the US. Admirable goal. Might be needed as a blanket requirement, because there are always excuses for not reporting.

  18. Specific overseas targets? (nope) on FBI Access To NSA Surveillance Data Expands In Recent Years · · Score: 2

    No, it was very specifically overseas targets, and the NSA put a lot of effort into hand filtering to ensure that no information on a "US Person" (citizen, permanent resident or corporation) was included in the information passed to the FBI. But, that part doesn't grab the headlines.

    This is not a factual statement.

    We have been spying on American citizens in America for a lot longer than that, and without warrants.

    A lot longer.

  19. Look, been spying on US citizens in US since 70s on FBI Access To NSA Surveillance Data Expands In Recent Years · · Score: 2

    Look, I hate to break your "Oh It Just Happened In 2000 and later" bubble, but we've been spying on US citizens in the continental US (and all others) since the 70s.

    Without warrants.

    That you think it started on 9-11 is a pleasant fiction.

    Is it Unconstitutional? Of course.

  20. You mean like the one by CENTCOM? on Obama Proposes 30-Day Deadline For Disclosing Security Breaches · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

    If you can't get your own house in order, why do we expect other people to do the same.

  21. Re:It's an easy choice - are you a coward? on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 2

    By the way, you can buy the English translation of the book on Amazon now. In France, you can buy the French version. My guess is in Canada or the UK, you can buy either version.

    Make it a best seller.

  22. It's an easy choice - are you a coward? on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 2

    If you're a coward and you side with Terrorists making us all live in Fear, you don't publish the cartoons.

    If you're brave and refuse to live in Fear, you publish the cartoons.

    And then, a week later, you write an editorial about how the cartoons are disgusting.

  23. Re:Slashdot today. on Scientist Says Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos · · Score: 1

    Seven comments in, so far there's 4 jokes, 2 anti-us spam/trolls, and 1 crank. Quality discussion there.

    You assume they are cranks, and not terrorists who hate cartoonists.

  24. Can see this in tourist boulevards or retirees on Ford Touts Self-driving Car, Launches Global Mobility Experiments · · Score: 1

    Don't think this is a good idea anywhere kids or bikes might be, but maybe in retirement communities with low speed limits or tourist boulevards where the street goes slowly.

    Drove a Ford Hybrid (2014) just last month, like some of their rear cameras and parking computers, but even so, they have blind spots.

  25. Gil the Arm on Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up · · Score: 1

    Was just reading a paperback by Larry Niven with Gil the Arm, who has one case involving wireheads.