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  1. Google+ on Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who in the almighty feck uses that?

  2. What are the chances on Electric Fork Simulates a Salty Flavor By Shocking Your Tongue (med.news.am) · · Score: 1

    Of this device electrocuting you?

  3. Google hates employees anyway and wants to replace them all with their own version of Skynet

  4. Or some other protocol that fundamentally opposes the concept of inline graphic flashy shiny things, tracking users and those much hated "Here's the thing with ad blockers" popups that appear after you've already half-read the page

  5. Re: Regardless of the reasons... on The World's Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he has a petrol one

  6. I can just imagine the look on their faces on FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    When they unlocked it and started looking through the files, and realised there was feck all of interest on it

  7. Re:To bad the screens burn in... on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are supposed to buy a new phone every year, the industry sees you as a problem customer who can be whipped into compliance with shorter-lasting displays and batteries

  8. I have a pair of DMR (Digital PMR446) ones, which use an evil proprietary codec (AMBE). Now these have been out for a while, so with a decent SDR board you could lash on a bit of gentle encryption and your chances of being spied upon approach 0

  9. Re:De-pick and place machine on Apple Unveils Liam, An iPhone Recycling Robot That Salvages Parts (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Coffee contains bits of coffee bean and therefore can be made back into coffee beans again.

    There are bigger gains to be had from reprocessing used ground coffee that's still in the machine than from the slop but both have some bit of potential

  10. De-pick and place machine on Apple Unveils Liam, An iPhone Recycling Robot That Salvages Parts (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is there any machine out there that is the reverse of a PCB pick and place machine, that desolders those miniscule SMD resistors and caps, measures them and puts them all into nice ribbons?

    What about a cup-to-bean coffee machine that people can throw their slops of cold, milky coffee in to produce coffee beans at the other end?

  11. Not far fetched at all on How Space-Based Solar Power Plants Could Be Built By Robots On the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given that its been quite a while since someone landed anything on the moon. It would be a victory for space exploration if someone sent up a robot and dug a hole. People in the 60s would have expected a decent size lunar colony by now

  12. Re:Field installation on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    Unless the new connector has contact points at the top and bottom and a divider in between. 4 wires are much easier to line up than 8.

    Making the connector smaller shouldn't be the priority though, I'd be happy if they just got rid of the flimsy locking mechanism

  13. It is all a rat race on Facebook Exec Explains Why Technical Skills Aren't Enough To Be a Great Engineer (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing is ever enough for these corporations while there are still dollars in circulation that don't belong to them. Facebook is about making amazing solutions to fill Mark Zuckerberg's pocket, nothing more, nothing less. "Real people in the real world" my bollox

  14. If something does go wrong on MIT Study Shows Stop Lights Won't Be Necessary In The Future (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And statistically, it will since autonomous cars are not mythical crash-proof transport machines then you're going to end up with an almighty bang

  15. Yes it's too much on Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I could build a decent PC for that and it will last me years, the Android reader will probably stop getting updates after a year or two and then become a paperweight

  16. A lot of these early cables landed in Valentia Island, Co. Kerry but at some point they stopped being bothered about having the cable cover the shortest possible distance and the people living on that Island are most likely stuck on DSL for now

  17. What about the iMate Jasjar, Jamjar, Jambon and those? Will they support it?

  18. Great news on SeaWorld To End Orca Breeding Program (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It was cruelity to be holding them captive. Cruelity I tells you boss!

  19. Backing the wrong horse on How Far Have We Come With HTTPS? Google Turns On the Spotlight (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    HTTPS isn't that safe. Any agency that can coerce one of the numerous CA's can snoop traffic quite easily. Of course Eric Schmidt is an avid fan of the surveillance society so thats why they weren't going to back anything less centralised than CA-based HTTPS

  20. The thing about technology on Facebook's 'Closed Silos' Pose Challenges To Open Web · · Score: 1

    Is that there is always some powerful company/being at the top, trying to control it all for himself. We had IBM, Microsoft, now Google and FB trying to be your one-stop shop for all things tech

  21. Re:Boom to bust on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    But then again, quite a few 100 million datacentres have been built and are still under construction and we're seeing cloud providers giving away Lifetime storage and VPS just to keep the kash rolling in while the offering seems obviously unsustainable. If one of those providers goes titsup, it might take a few of its customers down with it

  22. Boom to bust on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 0

    Hopefully there will be another dotcom bust soon to put the tail between the Almighty GOOG's legs

  23. Would this have been something for Iridium and other satellite phone operators? It would be interesting to finally get a technology that could wipe all the mobile phone masts (also known as 'cell towers' in Trump Land) off the face of the earth. What kind of bandwidth can these links achieve?

  24. Misread as 'tripeware', which tbh is all I can imagine it being when Dell has put their name to it

  25. Re:value of the "million genome project" on DNA 'Knockouts' Reveal Genes Humans Don't Need (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The Almighty GOOG will probably sponsor a few dollars, claim they are in this project for the good of mankind and then start targetting people with those ads