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  1. Re:No they aren't denying it on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They knew so little about oceanography that they knew nothing about it twice!

  2. The what Department? on With 3D Printer Gun Files, National Security Interest Trumps Free Speech, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    the State Department has asserted a very strong public interest in national defense and national security

    Here I was thinking that national defense was the purview of a different department... The name escapes me at the moment.

  3. Re:Did KDE survive KDE3-KDE4? on Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? · · Score: 1

    KMyMoney is miles better for personal finance than GnuCash, which last time I used it didn't have the concept of payees, or even able to show sums of search results.

    Krita is impressive too. I don't know of a better OSS alternative.

  4. Re:Test mode all the time? on Volkswagen Sued For Violating State Environmental Statutes With Dieselgate (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. This is a common misconception. If you put it on a dyno and drove it the way normal people drive instead of the highly artificial way the testing procedure does, you'd get correct (i.e. dirty) results. If you somehow managed to drive it around on the street precisely within the testing envelope, you'd get clean results.

  5. Neither JFK nor MLK were taken down by allegations of sexual impropriety. Their affairs were common knowledge and nobody cared.

  6. Re:It's Like on BlackBerry's 'Classic' Smartphone Is About to Disappear (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    McDonald's does make burritos.

  7. Re:Real estate and tourism on Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Because a whole bunch of Slashdotters aren't as smart as they think they are.

  8. Re:saving the world on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You know how I know you didn't RTFA?

    Since the creation of DoNotPay, Browder has begun work on a bot to help people with HIV understand their legal rights and one to collect compensation for people whose flights were delayed beyond four hours.

    He’s also creating a bot that helps refugees apply for asylum, as part of the Highland Capital summer startup accelerator program. It will utilize IBM Watson to translate from Arabic to English.

  9. Re:Real estate and tourism on Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry to repeat myself, but:

    [P]rior to this year, 2014, SOMA had a total of 13 high-rise buildings. Right now there are an additional 16 high-rise buildings under construction or in various stages of development in SOMA, and these only represent buildings 400 feet in height and over; there are numerous high-rise buildings short of 400 feet in construction or planned. Two of the high-rises will exceed the height of San Francisco current tallest building, the Transamerica Pyramid at 853 feet. One, the Transbay Tower will top out at 61 stories and nearly 1100 feet.
    In a span of a few short years development activity will double the number of high-rises in SOMA and increase the number of high-rises citywide by an amazing 40%.

  10. Re:Frivilous Law Suit on Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    SF has height restrictions in many areas but high-rises are being built at a frenetic pace. How do you think these got built? http://www.climbsf.com/buildin... Or these?

    From this 2014 article:

    [P]rior to this year [...] SOMA had a total of 13 high-rise buildings. Right now there are an additional 16 high-rise buildings under construction or in various stages of development in SOMA, and these only represent buildings 400 feet in height and over; there are numerous high-rise buildings short of 400 feet in construction or planned. Two of the high-rises will exceed the height of San Francisco current tallest building, the Transamerica Pyramid at 853 feet. One, the Transbay Tower will top out at 61 stories and nearly 1100 feet.
    In a span of a few short years development activity will double the number of high-rises in SOMA and increase the number of high-rises citywide by an amazing 40%.

  11. Re:The trademark just sailed through examination. on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if you put out a soft drink called Thankyou then you should legitimately have a trademark claim on anyone else making a soft drink with the same name, regardless of how generic the term is. "Sprite" and "Mountain Dew" are generic terms but in the context of fizzy sugar waters they are rightly protected. The point here is that Citigroup's trademark is explicitly for a credit card related thing. AT&T does not issue credit cards.

    When Kitty Pryde's codename was Sprite, Marvel was not infringing on Coca-Cola's mark because Marvel was not selling Sprite-branded beverages and Coca-Cola was not printing comic books. No reasonable person (which is the standard for consumer confusion) would think that drinking Sprite would give them the ability to phase through walls, any more than an X-Men reader would think that Kitty Pryde was taking endorsements from Coca-Cola.

    Citigroup's mark is in the realm of credit card stuff. AT&T does not issue credit cards AFAIK. That's how trademarks work. Cf. Apple Records v. Apple Computers. It wasn't a problem until the latter got into the music business. To this day you could legitimately market Apple bandsaws or Apple baby pacifiers or apple sauce, because Apple-the-corporation's mark doesn't cover any of those. Similarly, Microsoft can't stop Andersen from selling actual windows for houses.

  12. Re:The trademark just sailed through examination. on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    And it's for "Promoting the goods and services of others through credit card customer loyalty, reward and redemption programs."

    Does AT&T issue credit cards now?

  13. > use a password manager

    You might still need to log into your things when you're stuck without any of your own equipment that you've installed that password manager on. Happens all the time, I need to check my email or library holds or whatever but my battery's run down and I have to use an unfamiliar or public terminal.

    Use a unique pw that incorporates some aspect of the host in question in a non-obvious way. That is, your password-generation formula can't spit out "khasimSlashdot" and "khasimWoW" because once an attacker gets a hold of "khasimXboxlive" he's got a pretty good guess at "khasimCreditcard". A little obfuscation can go a long way. A slightly convoluted ruleset can be easily remembered yet difficult to derive sibling passwords from knowing just one of them.

  14. Republican Financial Acumen on Scott Walker Rents Out Email and Donor Lists To Pay Campaign Debt (wisconsingazette.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The campaign owed $1.2 million at the end of 2015 and has paid off about $308,000 since then, according to campaign finance records."

    Did anyone expect anything else from an erstwhile rising star of the "party of fiscal responsibility?"

    Or are they not even bothering to try to push that bullshit anymore?

  15. Re:Crop Rotation on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not a stupid question, because that's exactly how we use insecticides. I used to live in a building where the exterminator's records were posted (in the basement, behind the laundry machines, and guarded by a leopard, but nonetheless public) and you could see how they'd rotate the insecticides every six to nine months. The exact rotation period may not have been arrived at through scrupulous scientific rigor, but even the schmucks whose awful job it is to crawl through disgusting basements breathing in toxic poisons know the whys of rotation.

    It may be that resistance on a bacterial level is not that easily "forgotten" though. Even if a large majority of a bacterial population "forgets" its resistant genes, they reproduce so quickly that those who still carry the resistance will repopulate in very short order.

  16. Re:How is Uwe Boll not attached to this? on Live-Action Tetris Movie Secures $80 Million Funding, Plans To Be Part Of A Trilogy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, he's the 1x4 piece that doesn't show up until right after you needed it.

  17. Re:Goes to show you on Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share For First Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Might as well try to surf porn with Lynx.

    https://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n...

    You were saying?

    (I remember a time when some of that would have been...effective.

  18. Because "tort reform" is the smokescreen corporations put on their efforts to limit their class-action liability via legislation and incomplete stories of outrageous sums awarded to an old lady for spilling coffee on her lap, or a burglar for falling through the skylight of the home he was breaking into, or an attempted suicide failing to be killed by a train he intentionally jumped in front of. Almost every time you read one of those stories, there's salient information not being included.

  19. Re:Great video. on NVIDIA Shows New Doom Demo On GeForce GTX 1080 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    So there was a high-quality source available and HotHardware decided to use a phone instead?

  20. Re:She warned them ahead of time... on French Inquiry Launched After Live Suicide Broadcast On Periscope (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    > human beings are disgusting voyeurs, irresistibly attracted to other people's misery, be it in online or on a sidewalk

    People aren't fascinated by car crashes and televised suicides because they're "attracted to misery," otherwise the homeless people on that sidewalk would get a lot more attention instead of being avoided and ignored. The behaviors people are fascinated by are those that are markedly out of the ordinary. Most people aren't viscerally interested in routine mental illness, but when illness manifests as a serial killer or just a guy holding an especially wacky sign it's interesting because it's not something one sees every day.

    People enjoy looking at rainbows and dramatic sunsets too.

  21. Great video. on NVIDIA Shows New Doom Demo On GeForce GTX 1080 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That high-framerate max-everything 1080p footage sure looked impressive shot through someone's phone camera. Nvidia couldn't have provided actual video capture?

  22. UKism? on Facebook Paid $10,000 To A 10-Year-Old For Hacking Instagram (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    > it's supposed to be restricted to those under the age of 13

    Is this an Anglicanism I don't know about? In U.S. English, "restricted to" means "only allowed for," e.g. "R-rated movies are restricted to viewers over 17." Viewers under 17 are restricted from viewing them.

  23. > OBVIOUSLY it is possible to get permission to legally drive a vehicle around full of gasoline. That's how the gasoline stations get their gasoline.

    That's also how construction sites get fuel for their cranes and generators and whatnot. But yeah, they use purpose-built regulated and licensed equipment, even when they're pickup-sized fuel trucks. Not jerry cans in the trunk of a car.

  24. Re:Prime on RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org) · · Score: 1

    He has it up on his own site, along with his other writings.

  25. Re: never heard of it on RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately localroger still posts on his site http://localroger.com/ and blog http://www.passagesinthevoid.c...