The person in question not only strongly believed in flat earth, but also went on occasional starvation (water only) diets as 'food has toxins'. Nice chap, computer engineer as well, though completely detached from reality.

Interesting to see what deals are going in the background. It will be a bit of a tightrope renegotiating the 800 billion+ yearly deficit with China. We have manufacturing jobs returning to America, though it's been historically very difficult to do deals within China without having to sign over IP etc. While that seems to be changing, I don't think we have enough 'high-margin' areas yet-opened up with China, either in terms of reciprocal tax rate or being able to have substantial ownership of Chinese side companies. p.s. Seems to be a bit of a poltical DNC advocate storm on this page - If you're simply posting 'drumpf bad', don't bother.

Perhaps, having a distributed system each with simple passwords/credentials are to blame? e.g. 'password=raspberrypi' You have to assume full on hacking will happen immediately, starting with port scans, followed by full dictionary attacks on standard usernames.

There already exists the technology to infect android etc phones via the USB port - such that once your phone has been 'searched', It can provide additional data either for detecting terrorism or corporate espionage. As a side note, business or important travellers to China reportedly have free USB 'phone chargers' in their hotel rooms, which when used infect the phone. I have often wondered why someone from one of these firms don't go through with a 'honey pot' phone, act suspicious, get their phone searched, and then do a full diagnostic of the phone to find what they've done to it. Would make for a great story/analysis.

Am I the only one wondering why Boston dynamics aren't doubling down on attack robots? Yes I know there is the Terminator (tm) fear, however that's a movie and the reality is these could be excellent in warfare with the right direction/funding.

First, prove you're not a Russian bot or a nazi homophobic misogynist, or a transvestite penguin who moonlights doing variety shows! What? You don't want to as the request is asinine or otherwise can't? Obviously you're one of THEM!!!!

I've been reading this site for years, writing as AC on and off for more than a decade. Joined slash today as I was annoyed at what I can see going on here. I urge other ACs to do the same. Anyway, that's me.

Yes, it seems the advocacy groups have turned on slashdot now. Get used to the most mundane of things turned into an 'anti-trump' sh*tpost in a wall of propaganda. Sigh.

'Screwing up the presidency?' Chortle. "That's like, totally your opinion man." Cutting taxes, slashing regulations, renegotiating deals, bringing peace to Korea which every other career politician tried failed, doubling down on attacks to beat ISIS, lowest unempoyment in 16+ years etc and actually prioritising average Americans over illegals or screaming SJWs. He's been fulfilling his campaign promises, my takeaway from this is to stop giving career politicians/beaurocrats the top job - give it to 'actual do-ers'.

No, just real Nerds here who are tired of being spammed by (as another poster put it) paid DNC political shills (with 'English or Sociology Degrees') spamming Slashdot. They should [f'go] off to a different site. Badly spamming sites is like what American voters saw the MSM do in the 2016 election. Upshot is, people will stop voting DNC as they're tired of this shit, and vote for their opposition. 1000 points for shooting oneself in the foot.