Comment Re:Drinking Game rules (Score 1) 532
"Every community has a bottom 20%, and you have just extracted value from them."
Intrinsic value?
2 drinks everyone!
Comment Re:I don't care (Score 1) 532
Jewellery, decoration, electronics... there's 3 uses just off the top of my head.
Snowden Strikes Again: NSA Mapping Social Connections of US Citizens 513
McGruber writes "The New York Times is reporting on yet another NSA revelation: for the last three years, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information. 'The agency can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data, according to the documents. They do not indicate any restrictions on the use of such "enrichment" data, and several former senior Obama administration officials said the agency drew on it for both Americans and foreigners.' In a memorandum, NSA analysts were 'told that they could trace the contacts of Americans as long as they cited a foreign intelligence justification.' 'That could include anything from ties to terrorism, weapons proliferation or international drug smuggling to spying on conversations of foreign politicians, business figures or activists. Analysts were warned to follow existing "minimization rules," which prohibit the NSA from sharing with other agencies names and other details of Americans whose communications are collected, unless they are necessary to understand foreign intelligence reports or there is evidence of a crime. The agency is required to obtain a warrant from the intelligence court to target a "U.S. person" — a citizen or legal resident — for actual eavesdropping.'"
Comment Re:Revocation (Score 1) 233
Sarcasm doesn't carry over the internet... Sarcasm doesn't carry over the internet... Sarcasm doesn't carry over the internet...
I really should repeat that to myself every time I comment on a
Comment Re:Revocation (Score 0) 233
I wouldn't particularly worry unless it was signed by the NSA.
Comment Re:NSA (Score 1) 162
NSA tapped, but not Huawei tapped.
Comment Re:Price? (Score 2) 53
Economies of scale will drop the price, and then the major way to differentiate the product will be innovation.
Comment Re:communications system? (Score 1) 149
I've wondered something similar about this myself. In an accident, the driver of the vehicle is the one who usually is considered to be responsible for the vehicle. Is the company that manufactured the "driverless" system at fault, or is the primary occupant liable for legal repercussions? Surely the legal system will have to work out a few kinks before we see driverless cars in common use.
Comment Re:should slashdot be asking if the U.S. should bo (Score 0) 659
Don't worry Americans, our new conservative government is all for blowing up anyone of a different skin colour. The insightful commentary by our new glorious leader over Syria being a "Baddies vs baddies" comment acknowledges all of the issues that were present at the time. Now that the U.S. is getting involved and he's in power and doesn't have to lie (as much) anymore, he'll be sure to jump straight in and offer our nation's support. (Said with the greatest respect to anyone who isn't Australian or is Australian and didn't vote for Tory Tony).
Comment Re:Say Herro To Ma Rittle Frond (Score 1) 458
No, no, no. The blue meth is a mutagen similar to the Wild Card virus, and when Heisenberg tries it for the first time he happens to be watching Scarface and it triggers a transformation. It's a spectacular sequence with Walter White slowly morphing into an Al Pacino clone and calling people cock-a-roaches. Oh, I probably should've put a "Spoiler" tag on this post.
Comment Re:Amazon, others doing it too (Score 1) 458
Yeah, but how much of the price is distribution costs? You have the costs of creating the content, costs of marketing the content, and costs of supplying the content. Physical media are expensive.
Comment Re:First World Problems (Score 2) 458
It's ok, it's all good man.
Comment Re:eh? (Score 1) 762
What about "Circle Shake"? Why does it keep getting mentioned as well? It was definitely tasteless but I can't see why it keeps getting mentioned in the same context of objectification.
Comment Re:Congratulations (Score 2) 762
Everyone seems to be focussing on "Titstare" which was admittedly juvenile, sexist and potentially offensive. It may just be me, but what's the problem with "Circle Shake". It was juvenile and potentially offensive, but was it sexist? It keeps getting mentioned in the same breath but I just don't see the comparison. One was objectifying women, the other was a joke about masturbation.
Comment Re:Voting "Accident"? I think not. (Score 1) 343
What happened is that apathetic voters simply put 1 into the first box on the page and dumped the paper into the Ballot box. They really didn't care who was in the box, they just voted to avoid being fined (yes, in Australia if you dont vote you get a fine). I'm just glad one of the obviously racist parties (One Nation, Stable Population) wasn't in pole position.
You don't have to vote to avoid a fine, you only have to attend a polling place and get your name crossed off. There's no requirement for you to actually cast a ballot.
