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  1. Re:That's just 3 cubic meters of waste on Why Tens of Thousands of Perfectly Good, Donated iPhones Are Shredded Every Year (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And of those, 33,000 of them were iCloud locked and had to be stripped for parts and scrap metal.

    Less, even, if they can reclaim the parts and reuse them for repairs.

  2. Amazing! on Baby With DNA From Three People Born In Greece (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Finally, a real-live chimera!

  3. Re:Wisconsin isn't all that bright to begin with.. on Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially since Hell isn't in Wisconsin in the first place!

  4. Re:Great on A Robot Has Figured Out How To Use Tools (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You're probably right. Welcome to the beginning of a new age.

  5. I wonder if they hired a new hatchet-wo/man who's doing this to make their mark. Or maybe just cleaning stuff up.

  6. Re:A politician holding someone accountable? on Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill That Could Hold Tech Execs Responsible For Data Breaches (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Is this about breaches or fraud? If breaches, sure, any large retail company will be subject to breaches. But fraud? Start with the big banks that foreclose on houses that aren't theirs, open unrequested accounts, or launder money for drug dealers. The first two at least meet that category.

  7. Re:Sad commentary on humanity on Fake Cancerous Nodes in CT Scans, Created By Malware, Trick Radiologists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, sure, but it's a double-edged sword; in this case you can see how technology can protect us against psychopathic super-assholes. All the hackers need to do is fake scans on a bunch of sitting politicians and get more discussion on socialized medicine into the news cycle.

  8. Wow, wage increase, cool on Google Will Require Temp Workers Receive $15 Minimum Wage, Parental Leave (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Comprehensive (whatever that means) health care coverage? That's impressive.

  9. Definitely tongue-in-cheek. Prejudice against obese people, while based on the quantifiable physical property of mass, can only be genuinely associated with the physical property of volume, so GP is definitely kidding.

  10. Re:Never got the appeal on Burger King is Testing a Vegetarian Whopper Made With Impossible Burger (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It sticks to your ribs a lot better.

  11. At least they let you download your data on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can use Google Takeout to download your data and rehost it elsewhere for any of their services. Do other major players make it convenient/possible to do that?

  12. Re:Probably on Are We Experiencing a Burnout Epidemic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    When you work for a union, do you need to socialize these kinds of things with your other union members first? Seems like if you're part of a union and have enough mad skillz to frequent Slashdot, your cash flow/vacation balance may be better than that of your fellow union members.

  13. Re:Probably on Are We Experiencing a Burnout Epidemic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't you sue for something like this? I mean, it was basically falsely advertised.

  14. Epidemic? on Are We Experiencing a Burnout Epidemic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If there was a way to make it contagious, I bet there would definitely be a push to address it somehow.

  15. Falsifiability? on Are We Experiencing a Burnout Epidemic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there any sort of guideline/range/fuzzy-logic-set of behaviors or symptoms that indicate that you are definitely not/likely not/maybe/likely/definitely experiencing or approaching burnout? It seems like you'd want to be able to definitely rule it out as something that you're experiencing, unless it's an issue of work/life balance, which never seems to be possible.

  16. Re:Embarrasing as it gets on The Dangers of Sharing Your Screen With Co-Workers (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You should have yelled at her for it.

  17. Re:A casino refusing to pay out? on Casino Accused of Withholding Bug Bounty, Then Assaulting 'Ethical Hacker' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of this video of how Las Vegas has changed and keeping focus on what's important to you.

  18. Re:Arms race on Missile Defense Test Intercepts ICBM Target, Says Pentagon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    One can add to these two "objections" to the Iron Dome system a third, minor quibble: It is costly in terms of dollars as well. Each Iron Dome battery costs about $100 million; Israel currently has nine batteries.

    And each Iron Dome Tamir missile that Israel fires — and usually two are sent up to intercept each descending rocket — costs at least $50,000.

    Each rocket Hamas fires costs $500 to $1,000 to produce. Hamas had 9,000 rockets at its disposal at the start of the recent conflict. Hezbollah reportedly has 100,000 rockets, including long-range Scuds. Do the math. How Israel might cope economically, not to mention militarily, with such a rocket deluge in a future clash is a very real problem.

    - Los Angeles Times

    We don't need terrorists to bring down our planes. They can just bankrupt us.

  19. And just like that on Scientists Find Genetic Mutation That Makes Women Feel No Pain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  20. They should put Research and Technology before Science in the Act, instead.

  21. Re:Congressional Pressure on Paywalls Block Scientific Progress. Research Should Be Open To Everyone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    In many cases, you can create a free account, then bookmark the summary or a search for the DOI on PubMed and just wait until the full article is also available on there for free.

  22. Re:Local news blog. on Bay Area Tech Firms Laying Off 1,200 Workers By Memorial Day (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Slow news? How about this -- it sucks to get laid off, but what's your opinion on the best month to be laid off in, in the US, from an office job?

  23. I bet there's a lot of people who would like him to take all that data he's sitting on and shove it ... you get the idea.

  24. Re:Easy Fix on Housing Department Slaps Facebook With Discrimination Charge (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, because there's nothing wrong with that, as it doesn't actually convey the message to the target audience. It should say "Los Mexicanos no necesitan aplicar" -- *then* there's a problem.

  25. Re:Reeeheheheeally? on Housing Department Slaps Facebook With Discrimination Charge (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I thought Facebookers (and non-Facebookers that Facebook tracks anyway) attention/engagement were the product.