We will need all the help we can get.

Zuckerberg's tentacles are fewer and shorter than Google's. They're also receding like an old man's hair. He's just far too arrogant to accept that.

2018: Mark Zuckerberg makes first address to Congress.
2020: Mark Zuckerberg is installed as next president.

Actually, I was wondering whether "monitoring kids at the pool" was code for something.

I think I'm on to something.

I think getting the Bureau of Land Management involved in this is going a little overboard.

2006: The AT&T split from 25 years prior was ondone. All the Baby Bells became again AT&T. Didn't seem to make much difference. This happened in the Bush administration.

2008 and Onward: Too big to jail, Eric Holder: "The size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy."

Did all of Slashdot take stupid pills today?

Try running that through a simulator and tell me what the S11 is.

Inferior troll is inferior. You are mistaken about nothing. You are cackling like a stoned teenager as you posit lies with 75% factual backing. What's your next claim going to be, that lead foil of the same thickness blocks "cell phone signals" better because it is denser?

How about YOU try it, beam weld all the foil together, and post a video on YouTube with today's datestamp.

Unfortunately, you will probably be modded down as troll or something while "sinij" is modded from +4 to +5 on his wrong answer. CORRECT on your part. Conducted emissions are always half the battle and generally easy to handle with EMI suppressors.

Replying to yourself again? Sounds like a pretty stanced opinion.

On that note, a reputation that might have been solid three hundred years ago has had plenty of time to falter.

Arabs purchased Slashdot about two years ago as some sort of "investment" and threw the site under the bus. It is being actively neglected and has lost most of its user base. They hired two or three monkeys who push about half a dozen topics from "Russia" to "Net Neutrality" to "AI" and little more. It looks as though the site was either purchased to be run into the ground in a big portfolio (look at the SEC filings), or they are taking big bucks from someone to do some SEO black hat magic.

HTH

The field of astrophysics utilizes orders of magnitude in their calculations with ONE significant figure. Numbers like 1E-50 are commonplace. Now think about that one for your probability of catching an alien's signal on the hydrogen line spectrum. Think about it. You'd have to modulate a star. Not going to happen, and I don't think they would be that interested in our level of "intelligence," unfortunately.

Meh, reminds me of the time I bought a "rodent-proof" trashcan to keep the rats out of my goat food.

I came back a few days later to feed the goats and found rats had chewed right through the thin sheet metal. Go figure. One thing I learned from Jurassic Park is "life will find a way."

All stories alternate between three topics with no break:

1. "Evil Russians"
2. Al non-stories
Some other SJW/marketing nonsense

Unfortunately, some like you learned neither reading comprehension or to be aware of silent agendas. I would like to know in this case what is with #2. Slashdot used to have good articles on, say, a change in how device tree overlays are handled, or an article on the current state of RESTful design. It is little to none of that anymore. The faux-editors don't know anything and have been given instructions from their bosses in Dubai. When it was kdawson, samzenpus, taco, et al., these guys at least were in circles where real tech was being discussed, even if they didn't know too much about it themselves. It's really sad when cloning Timothy Lord into a worker pool of 30 pocket protector bearing threads knocking heads with each other would be preferable to THIS.

Beau, why?

How is this even newsworthy? Is it that Beau/Miss Mash finds great interest in a startup existing out of Silicon Valley?

At least it's not another "KGB" "story."