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  1. "PiPhone" on Man Builds DIY Cellphone Using Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    Apple is going to sue him so hard he'll think he's Samsung.

  2. Re:"Contract is not up for competition" on SpaceX Files Suit Against US Air Force · · Score: 2

    Maybe I've misread the summary, but "Corporation X" here seems to be the Russian government and I don't think a whole lot of retired US military types end up working for them...

  3. 1-600 kilotons on Asteroid Impacts Bigger Risk Than Thought · · Score: 5, Informative

    8/25/2000 (1-10 kilotons) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
    4/23/2001 (1-10 kilotons) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
    3/9/2002 (1-10 kilotons) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
    8/9/2006 (1-10 kilotons) INDIAN OCEAN
    9/2/2006 (1-10 kilotons) INDIAN OCEAN
    10/2/2006 (1-10 kilotons) ARABIAN SEA
    12/9/2006 (10-20 kilotons) EGYPT
    9/22/2007 (1-10 kilotons) INDIAN OCEAN
    12/26/2007 (1-10 kilotons) SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
    10/7/2008 (1-10 kilotons) SUDAN
    10/8/2009 (>20 kilotons) SOUTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA
    9/3/2010 (10-20 kilotons) SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
    12/25/2010 (1-10 kilotons) TASMAN SEA
    4/22/2012 (1-10 kilotons) CALIFORNIA, USA
    2/15/2013 (>20 kilotons) CHELYABINSK, OBLAST, RUSSIA
    4/21/2013 (1-10 kilotons) SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
    4/30/2013 (10-20 kilotons) NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

    yyeeeah, those are technically all between 1-600 kilotons.

    Also, between 1 kiloton and 600 gigatons.

  4. Homeopathy on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 2

    150mL urine in 150 million liters?

    1/10^9; that's a 9X potentiation! Holy shit, that piss would have been potent!

  5. This is the state of gun laws on L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects · · Score: 0

    Pointing a finger gun at school: NO.
    Building a marshmallow gun: NO.
    Giving real guns to children: YES.
    Buying assault weapons without background checks: YES.

    Yay for the second amendment, apparently. 'Merca.

  6. Good thing the ACA passed on Preventative Treatment For Heartbleed On Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Because with Heartbleed being introduced early 2012, long before that website launched, it would have been one hell of a pre-existing condition. :P

  7. Better yet on Tor Blacklisting Exit Nodes Vulnerable To Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    It'd be neat if tor exit nodes enforced a complete no-plaintext policy (and the tor network, in turn, blacklisted exit nodes that didn't do this). Any plain http connection you try to tunnel through tor should be blocked as soon as it reaches the exit node, just as a precaution.

  8. Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation on Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation · · Score: 1

    one of these things is not like the others

  9. Doctors on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    > medical doctors would be useful, as would most scientists and engineers

    A small subset of them would be able to apply a small subset of their skills and knowledge. Without infrastructure and technology, very little of what scientists or engineers learn is remotely useful, and most of that is stuff they learned in high school. The medical doctor only fares little better unless they specialized something like trauma surgery.

    Without electricity and advanced industry, we're nothing but particularly clever monkeys.

  10. gmail on Anyone Can Buy Google Glass April 15 · · Score: 1

    > I see that you are using a gmail account.

    Yeah, me too. Didn't pay 1500 bucks for it, though...

  11. Re:Evolution on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 1

    Yep, but the hacking claim is completely unrelated to the claim of the drone striking the ground. This just means that "drone footage shows it hitting the ground" and "victim got hit by propeller" are not contradictory claims. Whether he's pulling the hacking thing out of his ass is another matter entirely.

  12. Re:Poor poor bigot on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    Homophobes and racists using the same language and the same arguments for their bigotry does not make "gay the new black". It just makes bigots the new bigots. A surprising twist.

  13. Re:Yahoo Mail is blackholed everywhere on Yahoo DMARC Implementation Breaks Most Mailing Lists · · Score: 1

    Well, this improves security at Yahoo mail by making people stop using Yahoo mail.

    That works, I guess...

  14. Re:Transparent Bonnet on Land Rover Demos "Transparent Hood" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay, okay. Don't get a bee in your hood...

    ( :-P )

  15. Re:Poor poor bigot on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    Sure, marriage is a religious institution untouched by civilized, secular society, which is why we still have forcibly arranged, polygamous and/or incestuous marriages that cannot be divorced, rape is punished by forcing the victim to marry the rapist, and adultery is punished by stoning. The courts and the government have no power to redefine or recognize marriage, which is why the non-existing divorce cases are never decided by secular courts, courts never handle custody battles, and there is no such thing as a joint tax statement.

    not opposed to gay people. He just wants them to prevent them from ruining the (religious) institution of marriage

    This is literally the same argument racists used a few decades ago to argue against letting black and white people marry.

  16. Headline contradicts summary, film at 11. on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    He wasn't fired, he left. The employees protest did not violate this law for the same reason that this law exists in the first place: The political actions of an individual employed by a company aren't controlled by that company. Mozilla had no authority to either order or forbid their employees to protest Eich's appointment.

  17. NO! NO! NO! on Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market? · · Score: 1

    Just... no. Stop using XP. Ideally, stop using Windows. But at least stop using XP.

  18. Maybe, maybe. on Sand in the Brain: A Fundamental Theory To Model the Mind · · Score: 1

    But any time a scientist (particularly a theoretical physicist; they're especially prone to that) claims, within minutes, to revolutionize a different field of science in which everybody has apparently been wrong for decades, this should be taken sceptically. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/675/

  19. Re:Evolution on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 2

    He's basing his claim on the drone footage showing it crash to the ground. That doesn't mean she didn't get hit: Depending on how fast the drone was going, the shrapnel could have been pretty nasty - particularly pieces from the propeller.

  20. Re:By definition... on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    We'd still be surprised not to see something closer to an even split between the two in the universe, considering that's where it started out.

  21. Re:some Mozilla employees are intolerant of CEO on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I'm saying. This is shit that people should not be able to support and expect to remain respected members of society. Their position is objectively evil. "Allowing all opinions to be heard" should not be mistaken for "pretending all opinions are equally valuable". Homophobes should be able to express their opinion in whatever way they want, and society should make every effort to oust them out of all positions of relevance or authority.

    There is no evidence that Adolf Hitler ever had a relationship with a woman.

    Except for, you know, his wife. What there is evidence for is that thousands of people were deported and killed by the Nazis for being gay. Since you're bringing up pots and kettles.

  22. Re:some Mozilla employees are intolerant of CEO on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    A "sincere opinion" is when somebody says "I prefer strawberry over vanilla pudding".

    "I think some humans shouldn't have the same rights I have" isn't a sincere opinion, it's a failure of morals and ethical behavior.

  23. Re:Gays must stop using JS on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 0

    Well, by that measure, considering that the foundation of modern computing was created by Alan M. Turing... Eich became a hypocrite the moment he touched a keyboard.

  24. Re:A very sad day for discourse and civilization. on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 0

    > burned

    Mr. Eich has not been set on fire for his views. Try again.

  25. Re:Look at your dick on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    Yes, thank you for your contribution, Mr. Eich. Best of luck in your future endeavors.