Yeah; it's really about developmental psychology (feed your kids well while their brains are forming, and they'll work better), but the discussion will devolve into head size jokes before you know it.

My skies are already filled with drones. Who needs flying cars when the drones can bring you everything you need?

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Now that that's out of the way... I've got devices from 2009. I can't find any way to even trade them in.

Back in 2011, I had an iOS device failure out of warranty, and I got a $50 value for bringing in the back cover of my previous device. Didn't need to bring in the rest, just the back cover, and I got $50 off the replacement. This probably kept me from going with an Android device at the time, and now I'm locked into the iOS App walled garden.

So not sure about how they've adjusted the program now, but the old way definitely has affected my buying decisions.

Well why not automate the process? SCIgen should just subscribe to the SciDetect source repo, and auto-update its copy when the trunk updates. SciDetect should then subscribe to the SCIgen source repo, and ensure that it detects any newly missed sets.

Leave this system alone for a while, and we won't need to write articles anymore, as SCIgen should do a better job of producing insightful but unintelligible drivel than you'd get from any peer-reviewed journal -- and it would detect itself to boot!

Whoosh?

You did hear the news that Australia is attempting to ban proxies/VPN use, right? So your 'solution' may soon be illegal in Australia.

Most microchips are 3D printed... you just wouldn't be able to afford the printer they use, and the chemicals involved would likely make living in your house a thing of the past..

Samsung has yet another 3D method they're using in PCIe boards, and those are already shipping in Apple's MacBook Pros.

Competition is good... especially in this field!

This would be a great idea! Just make the requirement be that anyone staffing a booth be able to describe the contents of the material they're presenting. This wouldn't prevent really smart contracted booth babes, but it would prevent what I've encountered a few times... when I go up to a booth and ask a technical detail and get a panicked look followed by a "let me go find Ted...." or a blank smile and a "I think you'll find the information you need in one of these brochures...."

Except that when you've got similar booth babes at most of the booths, except the ones whose products can stand on their own (and the ones too poor to hire booth babes), "hardware manufacturer x" is associated with "run of the mill, nothing to differentiate."

Plus, as has been discussed in prior slashdot articles on this, many guys in the tech industry are actually put off by sexual forwardness and don't know how to deal with it -- which associates "hardware manufacturer x" with "this company is not one I'm comfortable working with." Not really the feelings they're trying to foster.

Accepting weak passwords as good is never good, but calling wildly long and random ones poor sometimes has its place, depending on what they're doing.

If they're just checking that you've got the right number of non-alpha, plus upper and lower letters, then that's bad. If however they're doing hash matching, then that's good.

This is because hash collisions occur -- I've experienced a number of these; there are some really "secure" long passcodes that share a number of common hash format results with "password". If you use such a passphrase, you'll think that you are nice and secure, when in reality, anyone can just type in "password" and have full access to what you were attempting to protect.

So sometimes what looks like arbitrary prevention is actually the strength meter knowing more about how the passwords are being used and stored, and protecting you from making bad choices you might not otherwise realize exist.

But yeah; most password meters *are* just junk.

You forgot the asterisk beside "start your own ISP" -- often, they have special contracts set up with local government that would require you to come up with some novel transmission service (such as packet pigeon) as running new cable or transmitting over new/old spectrum is out of bounds.

But I think there's definitely some good fodder available when comparing internet service in N. America to generic service provider discrimination. Just imagine what would happen if Comcast/Verizon decided that their faith prevented them from serving politicians in Indianapolis....

I'm not going to name names as they're pretty common around here -- fitness centers that advertise that they are only for women. Just google for "women-only" and you'll find all sorts of generic services aimed at women -- and a McGill University issue regarding a fitness gym and arguments for/against having gender-exclusive gyms at a university.

You look at their websites and everything they say (other than "exclusively for women") is just as applicable to men as to women. Unless you believe high-low and yoga classes are somehow incompatible with the male physique.

That said, I have no problem with women-only gyms (or men-only gyms). This is discrimination that in my view is perfectly acceptable, as it's based on real issues in our society, and is preventing negative fallout due to those issues. I'd have issues with a gym that segregated based on skin tone or native language though.

Hey... I've been into lots of high end retail stores in my casual clothes where the clerks have refused to even acknowledge my existence -- I figure they saw a guy in cheap department store clothes and figured I couldn't afford to shop there if I wanted to. Never bothered to press charges, but I guess I theoretically could have -- but it would be hard to prove anything (although security footage would help). Easier just to add them to the list of places not to spend my money, and reward the stores that DO want my patronage.

Where the problem really exists is when (like with Verizon/Comcast) there's really no other alternative service you can use. In these cases, if EVERYONE is discriminating based on sexual preferences/gender/melatonin level/perceived wealth, then individuals are being locked out of service, and that's bad.

Nobody said anything about explosive payload... just put a small EMP device in the head -- enough to take out the car and a few other devices nearby.

I think taxpayers would balk at footing the bill -- but it would be more effective than DHS giving out armored troop carriers and RPGs.

Yeah; I'd love a speed limiter similar to cruise control where I can set the speed myself from the wheel. A notification when the car *thinks* the limit has changed would also be useful.

Using this method, if traffic routinely flows at 10km/h over the limit, you could set your limit to that value; if it's bad weather, you could set your limit to 5km/h under the posted limit, with the notifier flagging when it thinks you might want to change that.

I don't like the idea of using signs and navsat to adjust the limit; if that could be toggled to notify only, I'd be a HUGE supporter of this tech.

Otherwise, If the tech becomes popular, I can foresee miscreants making fake "5km/h" signs and the police making mobile "0km/h" signs to abuse the system. Seems like this dovetails really well with a government-controlled killswitch too.