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Comment Re:Modern approach to car safety is wrong (Score 1) 247

Indeed, the old school 1920s system of having a nigger named Belvidere driving one around is much safer for the car owner. Of course, poor Belvidere would get impaled on the steering wheel shaft in a crash.....

Or we could just have a drivers test that was more rigorous and improve our mass transit systems like bus and rail to cut traffic and give bad drivers a way to get from point a to point b without driving themselves.

Comment Re:Yet TV shows ... (Score 3, Funny) 39

... that more people care about the unreality show crap such as Kartrashians[sic] then the spiritually minded Oprah ...

[Kim Kartrashian] has 25 million Twitter followers, about a million less than Oprah Winfrey and nearly 5 million more than CNN Breaking News.

NSFW reference

I remember back when I had no clue who she was. I thought people had started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 because I kept hearing them talk about the Cardassians. Sadly I had misheard. I do have to say I would watch a show about the Cardassians, especially if it featured Garak he was the best of the characters to come out of that show.

Submission + - Patents show Google Fi was envisioned before the iPhone was released (networkworld.com)

smaxp writes: Contrary to reports, Google didn't become a mobile carrier with the introduction of Google Fi. Google Fi was launched to prove that a network-of-networks serves smartphone users better than a single mobile carrier's network. Patents related to Google Fi, filed in early 2007, explain Google's vision – smartphones negotiate for and connect to the fastest network available. The patent and Google Fi share a common notion that the smartphone should connect to the fastest network available, not a single carrier's network that may not provide the best performance. It breaks the exclusive relationship between a smartphone and a single carrier.

Submission + - Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers (torrentfreak.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: The blockade of the Pirate Bay by UK ISPs is causing trouble for CloudFlare customers. Several websites have been inadvertently blocked by Sky because a Pirate Bay proxy is hosted behind the same IP-addresses. In a response, CloudFlare threatened to disconnect the proxy site from its network.

Like any form of censorship web blockades can sometime lead to overblocking, targeting perfectly legitimate websites by mistake.

This is also happening in the UK where Sky’s blocking technology is inadvertently blocking sites that have nothing to do with piracy.

Submission + - Apple Watch Launches (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Apple Watch's release date has arrived, and retailers around the world have quietly begun putting them on their shelves. Reviews have been out for a while, including thoughtful ones from John Gruber and Nilay Patel. Apple has published a full user guide for the software, and iFixit has published a full teardown to take a look at the hardware. They give it a repairability score of 5 out of 10, saying that the screen and battery are easily replaced, but not much else is. Though Apple designated the watch "water-resistant" rather than "waterproof", early tests show it's able to withstand a shower and a swim in the pool without failing. Ars has an article about the difficulty of making games for the Apple Watch

Submission + - Microsoft, Chip Makers Working on Hardware DRM for Windows 10 PCs (pcworld.com) 1

writertype writes: Last month, Microsoft began talking about PlayReady 3.0, which adds hardware DRM to secure 4K movies. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm are all building it in, according to Microsoft. Years back, a number of people got upset when Hollywood talked about locking down "our content". So how important is hardware DRM in this day and age?

Submission + - Russia ends effort to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine

schwit1 writes: The Russian government has decided to shut down its research project to build a nuclear rocket engine for interplanetary travel in space.

The idea of using nuclear power for propulsion in space has been around since the 1960s, and has shown great promise. It would provide far more power for less fuel than any existing engine. The U.S. unfortunately abandoned this research in the 1960s, partly because of the cut-backs after winning the space race and partly because of environmental protests that fear anything to do with nuclear. If the Russians had followed through, it would have given them an advantageous position in any competition to colonize the planets.

Submission + - A Complete Guide To The 5 Cybersecurity Bills Now Before Congress

blottsie writes: At press time, the House had passed two cybersecurity bills, one Senate bill had been passed out of committee and reported to the full chamber for a final vote, and a third House bill and a second Senate bill were awaiting review by the appropriate committee. The two House bills that passed earlier this week will be combined and sent to the Senate, but the Senate won't take up them up directly; instead, it will vote on its own two bills. It's complicated, so here's a quick breakdown of the key details.

Submission + - After Hacks, A Dark Web Email Provider Says a Government Spied on Its Users (vice.com)

An anonymous reader writes: About a week ago, the administrator of an email provider that caters to âdark web denizensâ"be they security-conscious journalists, dissidents living in repressive regimes, or even criminalsâ"noticed that someone was trying to hack their service...

Comment Re: Have they considered (Score 1) 114

Some persons are real jackasses, especially online. They will follow you, sometimes to different forums too, and all they do is insult and denigrate you... Just because they can. And sometimes moderators aren't just enough.

If this law can teach them how to behave in a civil manner, then I welcome it. Unfortunately some persons learn to behave and leave others alone only if they actually risk something, like a big fine or jail. Sad, I agree, but I even had to stop logging in in many forums to get rid of one of them... and this shouldn't happen.

Couldn't you say block them??? On Slashdot you can block people, on Google+ you can block people, and Facebook you can block people, and any email service you can block people, what major site can you not block people?

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