Comment Re: No, they don't work (Score -1, Flamebait) 670
70 lbs, near enough. Achieved through dieting and deciding to train for a marathon at the age of 26. Good enough for you?
Fat = lazy.
Comment Re: Act of war. (Score 1) 264
The GP is right; whether they disregard parts of the constitution themselves or not has no bearing on their own constitutional protection. Even convicted criminals (the NSA is only accused by some) are protected by law.
Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened 526
An anonymous reader writes "The three recent Tesla fires have raised concerns with a lot of people. One person who isn't concerned, however, is Juris Shibayama, the man whose model S burned in Tennessee. He says: 'I would buy another one in a heartbeat.' From the article: 'Shibayama said that he struck a three-pronged trailer hitch in the middle lane of the interstate. He continued: "About 30-45 seconds later, there was a warning on the dashboard display saying, 'Car needs service. Car may not restart.' I continued to drive, hoping to get home. About one minute later, the message on the dashboard display read, 'Please pull over safely. Car is shutting down.'" He said he had time to remove his possessions, even though, he said: "About 5-10 seconds after getting out of the car, smoke started to come from the front underbody of the car."'"
Comment Re:Debate over (Score 1) 520
She would not know, she did not make it.
Why does she need to have made the dish in order to know what is in it? She just needs to know who to ask. And in my experience, regarding peanut allergies and cherry allergies, if they don't know off the top of their head, they've always known who to ask.
Given that she didn't know there was ground beef in the three bean soup, she clearly didn't know who to ask....
Comment Re:Google Glass - Most Important Function (Score 2) 214
Apparently the most important function of Google Glass is to summon "Internet Tough Guys" to post on Slashdot.
And then there are smartass cock-gobblers like you who are obviously in
search of a good beating which is obviously overdue.
Brilliant. Even just mentioning the topic works!
Comment Re:False rumor? (Score 1, Insightful) 477
You can have me at 9am at the office. Don't expect me to do any meaningful work before 12pm, though. But you may rest assured that I'll be gone by 6pm, because I don't want to fall asleep at the wheel while driving home. I tend to be kind grumpy, too, if you pull me out of bed before noon.
Top management needs to learn that there are more important things than their ego. Like productivity. I don't give a shit about my superior's ego. I don't care whether he needs that feeling that he can dictate my life. If he does, he should get someone else to be his lap dog, I'm there to get some work done, not to stroke his ego.
So you're categorically stating that you'll work a 6 hour day (noon to 6pm) and yet it's someone else's ego that is the problem?
Comment Re:No. The cat has FriendlyChemists tongue Slashdo (Score 1) 294
Sorry for my misunderstanding, but I had assumed that one was completed as well as far as DPR knew.
You assumed that murder had happened because you hadn't heard that one hadn't?
Man, I hope you're not on MY jury!
Comment Re: Obviousness (Score 2) 348
The law specifies nothing of the kind in any jurisdiction that I'm aware of - in the first case, without any sexual intent, local law is in sync with common sense and would not define that as child porn. You also appear to assuming that "the law" is constant, whereas definitions of child porn will vary from region to region.
Comment Re: Piracy rationalizations in 3... 2... 1... (Score 1) 348
Well, that's a bit puerile. If company X steals your data, is it ok to steal intellectual property from company Y? Or do you only download films produced by Google?
Comment Re: A little drastic but... (Score 2) 586
Indeed. And given that fear is what caused most of our nuclear near-misses with apocalypse, it means the next generation is much less likely to end the world than your generation.
Comment Re: The Third World was first (Score 1) 184
But they can afford 800 dollar smartphones and expensive cell plans to use these apps?
Comment Re:multiple-guess?? (Score 1) 308
"multiple-guess"
Maybe no one can pass because they're taking a multiple guess test rather than a multiple choice test.
Actually, since moving overseas I've learned that such tests are only known as multiple guess tests over here. The term "multiple choice" simply isn't used. It could be because such tests aren't widely used in Europe, or it could be British influence, perhaps - I don't know, but I've always found it a bit odd!
Comment Re:The wives of EVE (Score 5, Insightful) 127
Wives? Girlfriends? Obviously, you've never met anyone who plays EVE Online.
Comment Re:Got it backwards (Score 2) 192
But to be a useful one-time pad, don't you have to be able to repeat the results to decode the message?
No. You have to distribute matched pads - one to the encoder, one to the decoder.
Thus, if someone gets his or her hands on a copy of the pad, decryption is trivial.
Comment Re:Impossible? (Score 1) 192
That said, I think this light-based encryption solution is brilliant in the lab.
