Comment Out of 5 stars, I rate it (Score 4, Insightful) 246
Out of 5 stars, I rate it cowboyneal.
Comment $70000 is poorest? (Score 1) 272
What is median?
Submission + - Thanks to the Montreal Protocol, we avoided severe ozone depletion (techienews.co.uk)
hypnosec writes: Concentrations of ozone depleting chemicals was at its peak in 1993, but over the years they have declined and a new research points out that the Montreal Protocol, which came into force in 1987, has played a major role in not only ensuring that use of these chemicals is reduced, but has also helped us avoid a severe ozone depletion.
Submission + - Researchers Comment on Proposed Wassenaar Rules (threatpost.com)
msm1267 writes: Influential security researchers, including Halvar Flake and Jonathan Zdziarski, have begun publishing their comments, objections and concerns regarding the proposed U.S. export control rules under the Wassenaar Arrangement. The bug-hunters are worried that the rules' definition of intrusion software is too broad and would curtail vulnerability research, proof-of-concept exploit development, the use of certain scanners, pen-testing software, and other potential dual-use tools.
Submission + - Adblock Plus victorious again in court (businessinsider.com)
Xochil writes: Adblock Plus, which claims to be the most popular ad blocking tool, has been victorious again in court versus publishers who took out lawsuits against its owner company Eyeo demanding that users should not be allowed to legally block ads on their sites.
Comment Re:dont' engage it with people there? (Score 1) 392
This feature is of course a necessity for the coming zombie apocalypse. Imagine if you were trying to make a getaway, and a single zombie could stop your car by lurching in front of it. Something like that could single-handedly doom the straggling remainders of humanity.
Comment Car explodes on ignition... (Score 1) 392
"The gasoline fume containment package is extra." --Volvo
Comment Re:Surprised those edits weren't reverted (Score 1) 121
"If you can think of a simpler way, I'd like to hear it."
Comment Re:Sniffing wearable tech (Score 2) 56
"By the way, try washing your wrist sometime." --Leela's wrist thingamajig
Comment Re:Yeah, no. (Score 1) 421
we've had quite a few very high intelligences in our society over time. None of them have posed an "existential crisis" for the the planet, the the human race, or my cats.
Only because the Vice Presidential Action Rangers stopped them from creating a singularity with the LHC. And that was when they were led by Biden but before they restored Gygax with the vampire bacillus.
Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 102
I would have loved that movie if it had just ended with the blue fairy. After the blue fairy was pure dreck.
Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian 396
schwit1 writes: The first rule of "Project Bookend" is that you don't talk about "Project Bookend." In retrospect, maybe the first rule should have been "you don't accidentally e-mail 'Project Bookend' to a news agency," because as the Guardian reports, one of its editors opened his inbox and was surprised to find a message from the BOE's Head of Press Jeremy Harrison outlining the UK financial market equivalent of the Manhattan project. Project Bookend is a secret (or 'was' a secret) initiative undertaken by the BOE to study what the fallout might be from a potential 'Brexit', but if anyone asked what Sir Jon Cunliffe and a few senior staffers were up to, they were instructed to say that they were busy investigating "a broad range of European economic issues." And if you haven't heard the term before, "Brexit" refers to the possibility of Britain leaving the EU -- one of the possible outcomes of an upcoming referendum.
Comment Re:Easy to turn off (Score 4, Insightful) 531
Ok, I see some commentators in nerd rage already. Relax. If you don't want to see top sites when you make a new tab, Mozilla provides instructions to disable them. It's just a couple of mouse clicks
If you don't like my foot up your ass, I can give you instructions to remove it.
Comment Re:More than PR (Score 1) 385
As a person adherent to the "dimwitted ideology", I concur and I don't think he believes what he preaches. He's not his father. He can scream civil liberties but refuses to answer why he voted for Feinstein's version of NDAA 2013 which had a huge gaping loophole that was on its face supposed to fix the provision that allowed the indefinite detention of Americans without trial. Even his buddy Congressman Amash publicly criticized the amendment and voted against it, but Rand went and voted for it anyway.
Comment Re:Bad headline (Score 1) 63
your traffic wasn't interesting enough
How interesting is interesting enough? Interesting enough to spend $5 on? $0.05? GCHQ redirected the slashdot site for Belgacom users to their own servers, so slashdot readers are at least that interesting, and mass observation programs like PRISM make it cheaper and cheaper to watch you.
