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  1. Problem is they are playing Go, we play Poker on China Hacked US Banking Regulator From 2010 Until 2013 - and US Officials Covered It Up: Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I recommend we stop playing either game and move on to Pokemon GO, as this will confuse them and keep our banks free to loot America

  2. She makes money off of H1-B outsourcing on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    But then, so does Trump. Check the goods he sells you "Made in China"

  3. Re:Massive Pokemon GO crashes nationwide on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    I was far more concerned about an autonomous robot that kills citizens silently.

    Like in Dallas, but nationwide.

    That said, let's put this in perspective, shall we?

  4. Massive Pokemon GO crashes nationwide on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, no, those are hundreds, not small numbers like Tesla, so it's "not news".

    More people die from drunk driving every day. Every single day in the USA.

    Are you doing anything about that?

    More people die when cars murder them while they're walking or biking. Every day.

    Are you doing anything about that? ...

    I see.

  5. Are you software or hardware? on Can Tech Workers Skip The Olympics As Easily As Athletes? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you're hardware, no, you gotta go.

    If you're software, your employer is trying to do you a favor and give you a way to go to Rio and have fun!

    Now go have fun!

    It is mandatory!

  6. What government? PM not in office till Wednesday on Brexit: Government Rejects Petition Signed By 4.1 Million Calling For Second EU Referendum (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Um, guys, the new unelected Prime Minister of the soon to be dissolved UK doesn't even officially take office until Wednesday GMT.

    So, what government?

    Meanwhile, the EU has conditionally accepted Scotland to take the UK seat after the UK turns into lesser Britain, or the Unitied Kingdom of England and Wales. Spain will force Gibraltar to remain part of Lesser Britain, out of spite, and the whole Ireland question depends on if Northern Island is permitted to exist like Scotland, as a separate nation that is also in the EU, or forced to remain with Lesser Britain.

    It's a Constitutional Monarchy without a Constitution, actually. Get your facts straight. Canada and Australia are also Constitutional Monarchies, but have Constitutions, and when Scotland joins the EU it will also be a Constitutional Monarchy, but not sure about the Constitution for that one. All with the same monarch, but that's the fun part.

  7. It's all about corporate greed on Fair Use Threatens Innovation, Copyright Holders Warn (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair use is essential.

    Corporations exist to disrupt society, not to create it.

  8. Coming soon: drones on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You heard it here first.

    (sometimes I wish I hadn't worked on that)

  9. The hacker will probably serve jail time on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the Elites

    Laws exist only for the 99 percent. And don't apply if you're DWB.

  10. Re:Thousands of blahblahblah on UW, Microsoft Successfully Encoded 200MB of Data Onto Synthetic DNA Molecules (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the best way we could store data would be optically, and use the benefit of storing data into diamonds and other hard materials (such as topaz and corundum).

    My eyes already have Property of Cybertron encoded on them

  11. Not surprising, my 5 SE has 64 GB Storage on iPhone 7 To Start at 32GB Storage, Says WSJ (time.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not that surprising, the very popular iPhone 5 SE (which came after the iPhone 6s) comes with two memory configs: 16 GB or 64 GB storage, so starting the iPhone 7 with 32 GB seems reasonable.

  12. Canadians are exempt from this on Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    They have Privacy rights in their Constitution, whereas we, for the most part, are Serfs.

    Except in Washington State, which also has Privacy rights in the State Constitution, as SCOTUS has upheld.

    Say Baa, sheep.

  13. Like the movie with AI robots on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Their idea of who dies may not be your idea.

    In retirement communities where people will die at some point? Sure. Way safer than now.

    For people given a DUI? Sure. Way safer than now.

    But for everyone? Probably not a good idea.

  14. These work best in parking lots on Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    These work best in parking lots, where the solar panels charge up free charges for electric cars and trucks.

    Don't have to do it in the entire lot, so that the solar panel area can be swept clean by broom trucks (rotating brooms on a cylinder) instead of with snow plows, or do this as car canopy areas to avoid overheating and snow. Angle them to the correct pitch and there you go.

    That makes sense. You can even put the batteries inside the poles to hold the charge.

  15. Loudspeakers set on 11 on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    You can get normal ones that only magnify the sound to 10, but I use the premium ones that broadcast it at 11.

    See the dial?

  16. You are doing it all wrong on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, some of us have CTO experience. Bunching people up in long lines before they pass through security screening is just asking for an attack.

    Excessively slow screening is also a major problem.

    You're doing it wrong. The real risk factor is the insane added security theatre, which actually makes you all more at risk.

    Do it in stages. Screen people getting off the transit systems, don't allow vehicles near where people concentrate, and stop with the stupid long lines that wrap around themselves. Putting 500 people in a small space before the actual security check is just an Epic Fail no matter what your excuse for it was.

  17. Tape is your friend, just ask Facebook's owner

  18. I think you mean my cat watches TV on You Are Still Watching a Staggering Amount Of TV Every Day (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I just have it on as background noise. The cat is watching it.

  19. A variation on 70s spy techniques on Malware Can Use Fan Noise To Steal Data From Air-Gapped Systems (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 0

    This is why even the air ducts are baffled in secure TEMPEST facilities

    But the main vector they always use, always, is people via social engineering.

    God, people are gullible

  20. Washington State Constitution on Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    The Washington State Constitution, however, guarantees personal privacy, which is why we can't be wiretapped, have GPS put on our cars, or monitored by the FBI without a valid warrant.

    Nice try, Big Brother

  21. Re:Lets say we have one brain and 5000 robotic arm on Europe's Robots To Become 'Electronic Persons' Under Draft Plan (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Define brain. We have blade servers that have 128 multicore microprocessor CPUs and quite a few GPUs.

    What if it's a cloud-based AI? Does that mean it's an angel?

    What if it runs on FireOS? Is it a devil?

    What if it maintains it's robotic control using daemons? It it a demon?

    How many robots can dance on the end of a PIN?

    What if the cloud based AI exists in Norway, using Scottish servers, but the physical body exists in England? If the UK votes for Brexit, is it an EU person if Scotland exits the UK and belongs to the EU, even though Norway is neither? What if the AI was written by EU citizens? Can they claim it's their child and grant it citizenship?

  22. Robots are only 1/3 a person on Europe's Robots To Become 'Electronic Persons' Under Draft Plan (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They have only a quarter of a soul.

    I have it on good advice based upon Greek philosophers and former slave states in America.

  23. This is why I bought an iPhone 5 SE this week on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    All your upgrade are belong to two years from now, when you start listening to your customers in the upper middle class, Apple

    We said thin. We said more battery life or wireless near field charging. We said waterproof and bendable.

    What was so hard with that?

    Listen. To. Your. Customers.

    And ask my ex-neighbor, your marketing VP what that means. She knows. Stop listening to the guys from Stanford, they're clueless.

  24. Next iPhone will be near field charging on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Extending battery life immensely.

    It's a UW patent, actually.

    Other than that, I have no feedback, they dropped me from the alpha test.

  25. I put tape over my iPhone on Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, do you actually think we can't get into your computers?

    We can even drive your cars.