Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:If UVA and Mann have nothing to hide (Score 3, Funny) 497

Like you then, Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Anonymous coward?

What have you got to hide then?
do you like to wear women's clothing and chop down trees? (Monty Python link deliberate)

From the
Can we see those incriminating emails that might be about something totally irrelevant but we need to see them anyway...
Department.

Comment Re:Car Insurance Companies Too! (Score 1) 353

My previous commute, no matter how much distance I had, I'd often have to panic brake... I'm glad I never used the OBD2 dongle... I'd probably be paying a lot more.

...because you were driving on a riskier route, without a safe stopping distance in front of you. That seems reasonable to me.

What I'm waiting for is to be charged more if I -don't- use an ODB-2 monitor...

Yes, as is every other Slashdotter, and our paranoid kind have been waiting for such things since Sputnik made us realize that surveillance didn't have to be up-close and personal. Each decade we pretend it's a new apocalypse, because this time it's different! Now it's the Internet of Things, and last year it was drones, and before that it was Big Data, GPS tracking, cell phones, and dental fillings.

Comment Re:One init (Score 0) 125

Given the disconnects between the documentation and actual operation, it is a bad thing.

Did the posting to which you're responding mention systemd? Hint: the answer is "no"; it only mentions Mordor, and questions whether "from Mordor" is a bad thing or if it was the victim of a propaganda campaign (see the book to which the page I linked refers).

(Feel free to moderate that posting down as "Offtopic", instead.)

Comment Re:It's getting scary (Score 1) 150

No, it's just the doctor and the hospital trying to practice modern medicine. If they don't have every minute detail recorded, or if they don't order every test that might help, the predatory jackasses in this country will not hesitate to sue them for malpractice, claiming that they should instinctively know what tests will be meaningful for every single patient that enters their offices.

Comment Re:Chattel slavery is so passé (Score 1, Troll) 21

Broad-spectrum legal reform is the kind of issue that seems blatantly obvious to even the most casual observer.
And yet the number of Congresscritters of any strip running on the idea is. . .um. . .wait a sec. . .let's look at Libertarians. . .
Unfortunately, all the power is draining into DC, where the money can be printed at will, thus giving a us positive feedback loop.

Slashdot Top Deals

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.

Working...