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  1. Re:Oh boy... on Mozilla Is Developing an IoT Board Powered By Firefox OS (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Firefox OS seems to be a solution looking for a problem

  2. I can see it already on Coin Teams With MasterCard In Wearable Payments Push (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    People will be getting these implanted for convenience. No need to line up the population and stamp them all with the mark of the beast.

  3. Europe on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there any spectrum available for this in Europe or is it all used by GSM?

  4. Exit node on Ask Slashdot: Jamming UK Metadata Collection? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you run an exit node you will generate lots of useless data for them to collect. Just dont forget to blacklist all the popular torrent sites that are blocked in UK in the tor config file, otherwise unsuspecting TOR users will get the 'this site is blocked' message. There are no laws against running an exit node, I did run one before in Ireland and had no trouble, although they are more fussy in UK mainly due to a difference in mentality - the powers that be think they are actually stopping real terrorists with the work they do.

  5. It is estimated that on average, deleted tweets by politicians contain exactly 10 times more truth than the ones they didn't delete

  6. USA entering a brave new age of stupidity on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The fact that Trump is even a candidate has made me give up hope on that country for the forseeable future.

    *Everyone must have a job even if the things you're good at have been replaced by bots or outsourced to the Chinese. If you don't have a job you are derided as a scumbag

    *Tremendous poverty, everyone brushes it under the table because everybody is so opposed to the idea of people getting a free lunch

    *Nobody wants to give up driving their big automatic pickup to work, even if it can be proven they are causing global warming.

    *Nobody wants to give up their silly pea-shooter in case of Government aggression even if the government has much better toys that would make very light work of someone toting the said pea-shooter

    *Nobody complains about the government pissing away trillions of the aforementioned toys while people starve and die of curable illnesses.

  7. Re:Anti ad-blocking on Auroral Show To Dazzle Just Before the New Year; Best View From the ISS (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Forbes can take a long walk off a short pier

  8. Does anyone know what the official UK policy on this is? I tried to refuse to go through one of these scanners once, but had no luck, there was no alternative. Either go through the scanner or go home.

  9. Re:That's Ridiculous on SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display (floridatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    They should launch it once more before putting it on display

  10. Re:I have a plan... on Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Great, another piece of technology that you supposedly own and is willing to 'rat you out' to the System

  11. Do you ever wish on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil a question · · Score: 1

    You could wipe the modern technology-based rat race off the face of the earth and go back to the simple life, living in a thatched cottage and cooking potatoes in a bastible pan over a turf fire?

    I have met a few people now who, after years of fad-following have grown cynical of the whole thing and fail to get excited over new things, and actually secretly hate technology.

  12. Re:Javascript? lol! on Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We could but all the startup hipsters would be so disappointed

  13. Re:Compromise on Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It · · Score: 1

    How are you supposed to prove that? By having your anus fingered by the Swedish police?

  14. Manual Gearbox on The Problem With Self Driving Cars: Who Controls the Code? (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since I only ever get cars with a manual gearbox I'm wondering how this is going to work in a self-driving car.

    Does it tell me when to change gears or will the gearstick flop around by itself and do I have to move my foot out of the way so it doesn't get hit by the clutch pedal?

  15. Re:Dishwashers are for lackadaisicals... on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 2

    Y'should place the dishes outside and blast them with a V8-powered pressure washer, the Real American(TM) Freedum loving way

  16. Re:Won't work on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats what the ominous 'they' want you to think but corporate megacorps have been known to intentionally cripple hardware in the past. All I want to say to our would-be dishwasher hacker is try not to draw the attention of the dishwasher manufacturers, or before you know it they'll be finding a way to put DRM on dishwashers.

  17. Framework on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably some JS-based web framework thing that runs on Docker in your Cloud based heap of VMs that does a mashup of any number of 3rd-party Cloud-based RESTful API's that are filled to the brim with cloud and startup goodness and covered in sticky goodness that attracts vulture capitalists like flies on fresh sh1t

  18. Re:Blogger's manifesto on The Astronaut Hopeful's Manifesto (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds perfect :D

  19. If he says its OK on Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year · · Score: 2

    That means the NSA can easily crack it

  20. Too much hype about driverless cars on How Much Will Autonomous Cars Really Help? (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We keep getting told driverless cars are crash-proof and theoretically perfect drivers or as close as you can possibly get to it but I'd say that's mostly hype. There will still be accidents, including fatal ones and I would think a worse, more catastrophic breed of accident will appear once they start having cars drive in very close formation.

    Safety standards will slip, there will be more of a drive to improve fuel efficiency and more risks taken. Redundant systems will eventually be scrapped to save costs and we'll be back to (or worse) than we are now. Above all the fact remains that we live in an imperfect world where sh1t doesn't always go according to plan. Moose will still jump infront of robo cars and get killed, as will children - you just can't stop a lump of metal traveling at 100kph in 0 time using software alone (and even if you could, doing so would kill the occupants)

  21. Not hoverboards on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    These are those silly two-wheeled "segway with no handle" contraptions that are all the fad this year. Bought in by the container load from the Pearl River Delta for half nothing and sold in shops for £499 a pop.

  22. It was all downhill after the Nokia 3210..

  23. Another college jock on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Having a sly dig at people who aren't Atheists. Nothing to see here move along

  24. Probably a better way to learn how to code on Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    There will be no compiling pages of copypasta one does not know the meaning of and after writing the program they'll actually remember how to write it rather than just remembering what to type into google to find the required stackoverflow answer with the snippets they're looking for.

  25. Fun uber fact on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uber secretly hates its drivers, and is dieing to replace them with bots. Its founding members can't wait until the day Uber becomes a fully autonomous moneymaking machine and they can live a life of endless hedonism on the Bahamas while being fed a constant supply of effortless funds