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  1. Prior Art on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    I log in to my toilet every day at 10:00....

  2. Re:rly? on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    None of my electronic devices need to communicate with my toilet. They pretty much live in fear of that dam thing.

    We all live in fear of beings we can't communicate with. Maybe this is the first step to bridging the gap.

  3. Re:Cooperation is selfishness on Paper: Evolution Favors Cooperation Over Selfishness · · Score: 1

    If you're stupid or desperate you'll make the minimum down-payment and keep the money in your pocket right now, but pay several times what you "saved" in increased interest payments.

    A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

  4. Re:What about Gay Marriage? on Google's Science Fellows Challenge the Company's Fund-Raising For Senator Inhofe · · Score: 1

    In the US, the liberal worldview typically includes a fairly gun-control stance, yet most /.ers typically seem to be against gun control - which falls more in line with the conservative worldview here.

  5. Re:Private browsing on Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the Slashdot Editors seem to have started editing (I can see why the trolls keep complaining that this place is going downhill)

    Um... well... they ARE editors...

  6. Re:What about Gay Marriage? on Google's Science Fellows Challenge the Company's Fund-Raising For Senator Inhofe · · Score: 2

    They must disable this logic when the article is about gun control, eh?

  7. IMO, yes, unions too. The individuals in the union are welcome to donate directly to the candidate if they wish to, but the union shouldn't be donating union funds to political candidates.

  8. Re:SHOWER RINGS!? on Study Finds 3D Printers Pay For Themselves In Under a Year · · Score: 1

    Who needs a spoon rest when there is no spoon?

  9. Re:Apropos lowest retail cost on Study Finds 3D Printers Pay For Themselves In Under a Year · · Score: 1

    Thank you for posting that. I thought that was going to be the case -- several items that I, at least, don't have any use for. The few items I do have a use for, I wouldn't buy again since I already have them. Maybe this printer would make a good housewarming gift for someone's first home (although a bit pricey for that) but other than that, i don't see it paying for itself on basic household items.

    Since you have access to the study itself, can you tell if they included the cost of materials for the printer to make these items? I have no idea how much the "ink" costs for these 3d printers.

  10. Re:"Be content to be slaves" on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 1

    will not research anything he says

    then later...

    honestly assume that he struggled and grew up in the deep south (instead of Hawaii) like them

    Wait, so you complain about others not researching what they choose to believe, yet you believe he grew up in Hawaii? He grew up in Chicago. He did struggle with racial issues just like most people in Chicago did.

  11. Re:600ft above the water? on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    I'm just answering BenSchuarmer's question.

  12. Re:NSA doesn't like the system it created??? on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Both did good things and both of them did bad things. The only question is did the good outweigh the bad.

    Actually, that's not the question. The question is answered in the first of these two sentences. It is "Did they do bad things?" and the answer is "yes." Regardless of whether those were a means to a good end, the bad things they did are punishable and should be punished.

  13. Re:600ft above the water? on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    600 MSL (mean sea level) which is probably pretty close to 600ft above the surface of the water near San Francisco depending on tides.

  14. Re:TLA overload in OP's FYI from the FAA - WTF? on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    It's clearly spelled out in the NOTAM.

  15. Re:Friendly "hey dude" from the control tower on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    Ultimately it's not the tower's decision if the plane is safe, it is the pilot's. The tower is probably being a bit over cautious as a result of recent events. It's actually much more like a passenger saying "You're heading straight for that tree!" when the tree is a quarter mile ahead of the car and the road curves before it gets to the tree.

  16. Re:The only solution on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    We did that for a little while after 9/11.

  17. Re:Walk before you run on Indian Army Mistook Planets For Spy Drones · · Score: 1

    Please intimate me with the details of this cinema.

  18. Re:It's A Start on NSA Still Funded To Spy On US Phone Records · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize that. That's very interesting. An about face for him, or does he really see a difference between the two?

  19. Re:It's A Start on NSA Still Funded To Spy On US Phone Records · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given that Pelosi and Boehner both voted against this bill, I'd say this is a much bigger problem than most of the others we've talked about around slashdot. When those two agree, you know something is severely wrong with the world.

  20. Viganella??? on Norwegian Town Using Sun-Tracking Mirrors To Light Up Dark Winter Days · · Score: 1

    Really, a town named Viganella with mirrors all over the place? These jokes write themselves!

  21. Re:Already happening on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    Different is not better. I live in a city in a nice apartment, a 2 minute walk to the train that takes me to work (2 or 3 days/week I make the 30 minute bike ride to work), a thousand acre park nearby where I can do my morning runs and attend concerts and other events throughout the year, a grocery store 3 blocks away, over a dozen bars and restaurants within a 15 minute walk from home, a real butcher and baker within a 10 minute walk. I have a car, but only use it on weekends and since I only fill up the tank once a month or less, I don't care if gas is $3/gallon or $6/gallon.

    I'd just like to point out that both of those items in bold are heavily subsidized. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  22. Re:Good idea on US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt · · Score: 1

    Wake up, sheeple!!! http://xkcd.com/1013/

  23. Zero-day malware? on Chinese Hackers Launch Zero-Day Malware At Spiritual Activists, Military Groups · · Score: 2

    How can malware be zero-day? If it's exploiting some security weakness, then it's a virus and not malware. If it's malware, then it's probably gotten itself installed (even if through nefarious means) via some social engineering technique. I suspect this is a stretched use of "zero-day" in order to make the headline & article more exciting.

  24. Re:a "before" and an "after" in the life of our so on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 1

    Really, this is modded "Funny"??? I know it's an anecdote and it's flawed in this argument, but how is it funny that this poor person has to watch their child struggle with Autism?

  25. Re:Why? on Jimmy Carter Calls Snowden Leak Ultimately "Beneficial" · · Score: 1

    I thought that was what we'd get with Obama. He did show some of that, but I think he got forced to play the game as a result of the political climate, and he's just not that good at it.