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  1. sshfs on What Features Does iOS 7 Need? · · Score: 1

    sshfs.

    It'd be great if Android provided that, too.

  2. Flag burning on US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered about the fuss about flag burning.

    As I learned it long ago, burning is the only official way to destroy a soiled, damaged US flag.

    -- hendrik

  3. Re:My daughter wants me to teach her on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    With the number of male geeks she'll encounter, ...

  4. Re:you had me at... on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    Two keyboards. As in most pipe organs.

  5. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 1

    In my English, workers with autism do things to autism, like workers with leather might make wallets and shoes.

  6. Re:Imperative for all scientists: find the gene on The Canadian Government's War On Science · · Score: 1

    For a popularization of some scientific studies on this matter, see The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer.

  7. Quebec? on The Canadian Government's War On Science · · Score: 1

    Don't think Quebec would fit in Jesusland. Maybe fifty years ago, but it has changed.

  8. Password recovery on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Firms Leak Personal Details In Plain Text? · · Score: 1

    There's a usual mechanism for password recovery -- tell the site your email address, and it emails you your password. This personal information is sent unencrypted. It's not clear how this would work on encrypted email, because it may also be the email decryption key you've forgotten. Or your password safe's passphrase.

    Any suggestions?

  9. Re:Old School B-) on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tablets won't take away servers or networking -- tablets need the servers and the network.

  10. Re:The question on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    The four horsemen, traditionally, were War, Plague, Pestilence, Famine.

  11. Re:Need expert opinion on Fermi and Swift Observe Record-setting Gamma Ray Burst · · Score: 1

    Mind providing a reference? Some of us might like to acquire such memories.

  12. lost email? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could I ask them to restore that email I accidentally deleted last week?

  13. PAPAC on Old Educational Computer Resurrected As a Spreadsheet · · Score: 1

    Ah ancient paper computers. There's one that was published in CACM back in the 50's. I remember finding it back in a university library when I was first getting into computers in the 60's. There's a link to it on boingboing: http://boingboing.net/2010/11/18/a-do-it-yourself-pap.html. have fun.

  14. Re:Digi-Comp one FTW on Old Educational Computer Resurrected As a Spreadsheet · · Score: 1

    Wit short rubber bands, I believe. I never figured out where to get replacement rubber bands of the right strength.

    -- hendrik

  15. Thorium? on China Slows Nuclear Expansion · · Score: 1

    Do any of their new reactors use thorium?

  16. Re:Garbage, Wrong on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 1

    Some creative, innovative youngsters grow up to become creative, innovative parents with children.

  17. Re:100 percent of 30 is 30 on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 2

    30.

  18. Re:Mandatory gun ownership on Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? · · Score: 1

    No point in asking vegetarians to do this; they already know where meat comes from.

  19. Proportional representation. on Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Proportional representation. Small factions will get represented too.

  20. Re:Modula 3 License on Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed · · Score: 2

    One of my favourite programming language is implemented in a non-GPL-compatible way. There are are a few quibbles about SRC's rights to use it and redistribute it as if it were their own if a modified versino ever gets back to them, but basically says that you ca do anything you want with it, provided you release an modified code under the same licence.

    Now for technicalities, this is incompatible with the GPL, and it becomes difficult to write software using both Modula 3's libraries and GPL'd libraries. I'd like to distribute binary object code for those benighted platforms where ordinary users don't have development tools, but I can't.

  21. recovery, not prevention. on Boston Tech Vs. the Bomber · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, the emergency response seemed to be on the ball, minimizing the damage. Now we get to see whether the surveillance technologies are up to scratch after the fact.

    Prevention is probably impossible.

  22. Paper still has its place, alas. on Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read? · · Score: 1

    Print publications still have a place, and in a number of stituations (such as reading in the bathtub) they're superior. But I'm going as fully e-reader as I can, because (a) my bookshelves are overflowing, (b) there's no reoom in my house for more shelves, and (c) I'm probably going to have to move to a smaller place in a few years.

    Buying more paper books will not solve this problem.

    But I miss having recent magazines lying around the house, which I would randomly pick up and read. It's not the same with books hidden away on a tablet.

    Print publications that are only of transient value are another matter. I throw them away.

    -- hendrik

  23. Re:The concept of "aether" returns. on Higgs Data Could Spell Trouble For Leading Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    Well, loop quantum gravity says that the gravitational field isn't something that happens *in* space; rather, the gravitational field *is* space. So even empty space is something.

  24. What's wrong with an unlikely state? on Higgs Data Could Spell Trouble For Leading Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    The universe starting out in an unlikely high-energy state? isn't that just what the Big Bang theory says anyway?

  25. Re:Points at Google on Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage · · Score: 1

    This is still funny!