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  1. You are floating above the Earth like Helios on Space Coffee, Just the Way You Like It · · Score: 1

    You are floating above the Earth like Helios riding a chariot of fire across the sky. The greeks would have believed you a god atop Olympus. The blue earth turns below you, so captivating in its beauty that generations have marveled at the blue marble. The night sky is so full of stars it is dizzying in its beauty. You are participating in mankind's first steps to becoming immortal among them.

    But the coffee sucks.

  2. Re:Supply and demand. on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    Subsequently, a study by McPhedran and Baker compared the incidence of mass shootings in Australian and New Zealand. Data were standardised to a rate per 100,000 people, to control for differences in population size between the countries and mass shootings before and after 1996/1997 were compared between countries. That study found that in the period 1980–1996, both countries experienced mass shootings. The rate did not differ significantly between countries. However since 1996/1997, neither country has experienced a mass shooting event despite the continued availability of semi-automatic longarms in New Zealand. The authors conclude that “the hypothesis that Australia’s prohibition of certain types of firearms explains the absence of mass shootings in that country since 1996 does not appear to be supported if civilian access to certain types of firearms explained the occurrence of mass shootings in Australia (and conversely, if prohibiting such firearms explains the absence of mass shootings), then New Zealand (a country that still allows the ownership of such firearms) would have continued to experience mass shooting events.”

  3. Re:Supply and demand. on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except banning guns in two cultures very similar to ours has had no effect on either of those from an empirical perspective. You are basically plato reasoning about the five elements right now. No matter how well you construct your thought process the empirical, statistical evidence disagrees with your result. I have linked you to the associated articles on the effects of the gun ban in Australia, please take the time to read them.

  4. Re:Supply and demand. on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In crimes of passion almost any weapon will do. A gun being present generally only changes the cause of death. This is evidenced by the fact that in Britain and Australia gun bans have had no effect on either suicide or homicide rates when isolated against already prevailing national crime rates and trends. You are also incorrect about the nature of homicide in the US. 70-85% of those murdered the US every year have a criminal record. Most major cities track close to 80% of there homicides resulting from gang violence.
    I should be clear, I am not a "gun rights" advocate, but from an economics perspective it is rather obvious that murder is price inelastic. The vast majority of murders are infact crime related. The remander are largely crimes of passion for which any serviceable weapon can and will do (suicide falls under this as well).

  5. Re:Supply and demand. on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Increasing supply does not necessarily increase demand. It depends whether the good has a fixed demand (is price inelastic). Murder is mostly price inelastic just like gasoline. When gasoline gets more expensive only a small amount less is used.

  6. Re:"Clearly"?? on Smithsonian Releases 128-Year-Old Recording of Alexander Graham Bell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A genius from a century and a quarter ago just spoke to you and you are complaining that it is hard to understand?

  7. Re:hmmm on WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later · · Score: 1

    Or a large corporation for which 1600$ is trivial.

  8. Re:Did it really work? on 64-bit x86 Computing Reaches 10th Anniversary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It sounds like you where just talking to a very bad functional programmer. You also have the order completely backwards. ANSI Common Lisp was the first standardized OO language. But more importantly most "OO" concepts come from functional languages to start with.

    Design patterns for the most part are actually adaptations of pre-existing functional concepts. For example Chain of Responsibility is really just a slightly simplified monad (input must equal output). The first Iterator pattern was (map fn list). Flyweight is a simplified form of Memoization.

    Packages and namespaces also first appeared in many functional languages first. Encapsulation vai lexical closures has been around since Scheme was invented in the 70's. Lambda functions? Those little gems, making there way into every OOP language where invented with lisp.

    You have missed the entire point though if you think OOP is about organizing you programs or something. OOP is largely about encapsulating moving parts into logical pieces. Functional code is largely about minimizing or removing "state" (aka moving parts) from your code. E.g. an input to a function should always give the same output. These concepts are not incompatible at all.

  9. Large datasets are mostly IO limited on Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While cool and all 125million tweets with geo tagging is at most: 1250000000*142bytes = 165 GB. That is not what "big data" considers a large data set. Indeed most "big data" queries are IO limited. For around 16k USD you can fit that entire working set in memory. You are not really in the "big data" realm into you have datasets in the 10's of TB's compressed (100's of TB's uncompressed).
    For these kinds of datasets, and where more compute is necessary there is MARs.

  10. Re:Will Box for Passport on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Echoing what the AC said below first (I hate to mod them up), I suspect that is a very common experience for immigrants of all backgrounds. Interesting, though his acts are un-excusable, and such feelings in no way justify them.

  11. Specs for the interested on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the HP Site: "The HP Moonshot 1500 Chassis has 45 hot-pluggable servers installed and fits into 4.3U. The density comes in part from the low-energy, efficient processors. The innovative chassis design supports 45 servers, 2 network switches, and supporting components."

    Each pluggable unit support 1x 2GHZ intel atom S1200 series cpus (2x core, 4x thread), up to 1 dimm @ 8gb, and one SFF sata drive. That gives you 90 cores/180 threads, 360GB's in 4.3u.

    For comparison a 6RU cisco UCS chasis can put down up to 160 Cores / 320 threads, 4TB of memory. Those are high performance Xeon cores. Not sure on the $$$ per compute/memory between the two.

    The really big question is are there enough use cases for that many "thin" servers. At 2 cores and 8GB of ram you are very thing by modern standards and there is 0 opportunity for vertical growth.

  12. Re:An Infra-red laser? Why? on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    That is really a rather small isn't it? ;)

  13. Gaming companies as whole have dated client side and server side architectures. The software they write is still stuck in the early 2000's for the most part. Things like distributed, highly available systems are still far beyond there grasp. They have a hatred towards modern languages (C++ EVERYWHERE YO) and tend to have a poor understanding of where, when, and what to optimize. I am sure there are some game companies out there that do push the edge and "get it", but for the most part game studio are some of the most bassackwards part of the industry.

  14. Re:Lie Detector Test on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    And chances are the 1/1000 who lied is who you want to catch. You can train someone to dodge them, or if they are born a natural psycho/sociopath lying will cause no stress response.

  15. Apple Cinemark 30" on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? · · Score: 1

    They offer much better vertical space than the current 16x9 monitors, and tons of it. They are also effectively wide enough to offer room for two side by side browser windows etc. I run 2x for coding at work, and it is simply heaven. Expensive though, no denying that.

  16. Re:Programs shouldn't NEED to be secure on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 1

    You have apparently never heard of SELinux, to quote wikipedia: "SELinux enforces mandatory access-control policies that confine user programs and system servers to the minimum amount of privilege they require to do their jobs." SELinux basically turns linux into a capabilities based operating system. And its enabled on all major distributions of Linux.

  17. Re:Will it microwave? on Interviews: Ask Blendtec Founder Tom Dickson What Won't Blend? · · Score: 0

    God I hate accidental mod misclicks, blowing away points. The above should have been up.

  18. We should *not* build a program like a house on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 1

    The reason you spend so much time placing requirements on a house is because a physical thing is hard to change, modify or move. A program is not a physical thing, a new one is a compile or less away. It is also significantly more complex. Using architecture as an example of how we should build programs is terrible because they are completely different things. This also ignores the fact that he is suggesting fixing cost overruns and quality issues of one industry by following the practices of an industry that is infamous for cost overruns and and quality issues.

  19. Re:Language is hardly relevant on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 1

    So in other words it is a closure, something that has been around since Scheme in 1975. Again the feature is not unique in modern times C# either, Clojure (get it right?) has them, Objective-C has them (dispatch_async), etc. etc.

  20. Re:Language is hardly relevant on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 1

    No, you are 100% incorrect. Java has await, and has since 1.5 in 2004. The linux kernel has had an asynch waiting api since 2004, and due to interrupts basically forever informally. Clojure also has await and runs on the JVM. Got to love a C# developer who thinks a feature 9 years behind the times makes his language cutting edge.

  21. Title VI - CC, Emergency Alerts ETC. on Intel's Attempt At A-La-Carte Television Hits Delays · · Score: 1

    Just wait until someone tells them they have to meet those requirements too. Trust me, with modern streaming technologies that is a tricky bit of legal mandate to comply to, and quite expensive too.

  22. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    No, the most popular rounds by far for precision shooting are the .30-06 (the Marines use this round for sniping, it will penetrate military body armor at range), the .338 Lapua Magnum (used by the SEALS as anti-material, also holds the record for the second longest sniper kill at 1.5miles), the 0.5 BMG (can punch a 2" steel plate at 100 yards, holds the world record sniper shot). You need the weight of a heavier round to prevent the air currents from pushing the bullet around too much.

  23. Just land behind your destination on The Downside of Warp Drives: Annihilating Whole Star Systems When You Arrive · · Score: 1

    Than turn around and come back. As long as the energy has the room to dissipate between the stars nothing should be hurt.

  24. Re:Seniority != management on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Moreover most serious tech companies have something like a "senior fellow". That is a high level, engineering only track.

  25. Re:At the ripe old age of 38... on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I am 24 and a Linux kernel contributor. Yeah we young guns get the whole makefile thing too. I also realize why the new build systems like maven (despite its flaws) are far superior.