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  1. 3d Printing on US Looks For Input On "The Next Big Things" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dunderheads. We are on our way to being able to print anything we need. 3d printing will probably make traditional manufacturing a bygone technology in the next twenty years.

  2. Re:Can we please get an EXECUTE verb? on IETF Starts Work On Next-Generation HTTP Standards · · Score: 1

    If its not your taking away a whole class of web scalability (caches like varnish/squid). But yet people abuse the shit of GET instead of POST.

  3. Re:The cat is alive... on Quantum Measurements Leave Schrödinger's Cat Alive · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where are mod points when you need them.

  4. The best documentation is the source on WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual · · Score: 0

    The source code is easily the best documentation, even on large projects. Working examples come next, followed by comments / docs in the code followed by external documentation. Writing the docs first is a good way to insure nobody uses them, because they will generally lie.

  5. Re:The NYT's Missed the Reason for Algebra Altoget on Promoting Arithmetic and Algebra By Example · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as "philosophical logic". There is only logic. Philosophy uses logic to reason about the world, but you can't reason in the first place without logic. And yes algebra is the, mathematically speaking, the foundation of logic. Algebra introduces the entire concept of a variable. Tell me exactly how one can make a philosophical argument of any merit without understanding the fundamental of abstraction. It is not the be all and end all of abstraction, and of symbolic manipulation, but it pretty close. Most children grasp the concept of metaphor and simile precisely the same time they grasp the basic concepts of algebra for a reason.

  6. Re:The NYT's Missed the Reason for Algebra Altoget on Promoting Arithmetic and Algebra By Example · · Score: 2

    The reason you teach algebra is because algebra teaches symbolic manipulation

    The tool you should be using is symbolic and philosophical logic

    How do you propose to teach someone symbolic logic without teaching them what symbols are, and how to manipulate them?

  7. The NYT's Missed the Reason for Algebra Altogether on Promoting Arithmetic and Algebra By Example · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reason is not algebra's application to daily life. The reason you teach algebra is because algebra teaches symbolic manipulation. Learning math teaches you not just how to add two numbers. Addition is almost unnecessary in daily life (we do have calculators). Learning algebra is critical because it teaches us to think in terms of abstractions, of models. We do not teach mathematics to teach you how to add, we teach mathematics to teach you how to solve, to teach you how to think.

  8. Re:Unobtrusive Ski Goggles on Programming a Wearable Android Device · · Score: 1

    Being that I am a skier, this is awesome. Altitude, speed, acceleration, mountain maps, incoming calls, music controls, weather reports. Fuck yes!

  9. It is going to be awhile on 100GbE To Slash the Cost of Producing Live Television · · Score: 4, Interesting

    100GbE is huge demand for core infrastructure people due to backbones being strained everywhere by the explosion of online video usage. Tier 1 providers are simply at a demand level that current foundries can't even come close to providing. Thus no one has an incentive to slash prices.

  10. Re:Some saw this coming... on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 1

    I love Heinlein. I mean really the man was a visionary in ways that are not appreciated even today.

  11. Re:They don't have to be (just generate a GUID) on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 1

    No your not, but only cause this is to much data for SQL to handle :p.

  12. They don't have to be (just generate a GUID) on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They don't have to be, if you just generate a guid for each trip rather than for a single car for its life time the problem is solved.

  13. Re:amenities = low rent? on High Tech Companies Becoming Fools For the City · · Score: 1

    Locally the only amenity offered by "the big city" over the suburbs is incredibly low rent because no one wants to work there.

    Google a map of real estate prices/rent for any of these "thriving" cities. You are wrong. I mean provably wrong.

  14. Know your shit and work for a real tech company on Ask Slashdot: How Did You Become a Linux Professional? · · Score: 1

    That is all it really boils down too. You need to know networking like its the back of your hand. That means TCP, UDP, IP, VLANS, DNS, DHCP, Pixie Booting, firewalls, NAT, etc. You need to understand systems and hardware. That means hardware and software RAID, when and where you need memory/processors, etc. You need to know how to trouble shoot. If a system is unresponsive why? You need to understand scripting and bash. You need to understand virtualization. If this seems like a lot, or to much to learn you are probably not suited for the task.

    The second part is to get a job for a real tech company. These are the people who use and love linux. The average medium business simply has very little need, and very little want for what you are "selling". Big tech companies on the other hand desperately need people who know all of the above very well.

  15. Re:What is so wrong with this? on Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws · · Score: 1

    They still have to get that warrant, but thanks for the TFP (much less TFA).

  16. What is so wrong with this? on Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws · · Score: 2

    To view the data still requires a warrant (just as any physical search does today). Yes it give the police a smidgen of more power, but this acts as a augmenter for detectives without impinging more on the rights of the individual. If it is abused, the same powers and edicts that keep all warrantless wire taps from being valid still apply and the additional collected data doesn't matter.

  17. Re:Consequence for the last mile? None for ages. on IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Agreed, the summary is really quite stupid. It does matter to the last mile since the last mile isn't currently the limiting factor in most downloads, but rather backhaul bandwidth is. Also it really matters for trans-continental lines, where upgrading the routers without having to upgrade the fiber can mean massive improvements without huge costs.

  18. I hope they succeed on Indian Prime Minister Formally Announces Mars Mission · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All the racist bullshit aside, this would be a great step for mankind. Yes its something the US should be doing, but if we don't have the balls and someone else does that great.

  19. Google can always pay me to be a food critic on Google Acquiring Frommer's In Big Travel Data Play · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And a few thousand other people :).

  20. Correct, wish I hadn't spend on all my mod points today.

  21. Re:How 'bout Big Salespeople on How Big Data Became So Big · · Score: 3, Informative

    If a few well crafted python scripts can solve your data problem your data isn't even remotely close to "big". Not to jump on you to hard here, but there is a shocking number people on slashdot who do this all the time. Big Data by its nature doesn't fit on a single box in the first place. If you can put all of the data in 2u, its not very much data now is it?

    Big data, and big data technologies may be a buzz word today, and you are probably right most people don't need them. However, Big Data is a very, very real problem. I design and run systems which crunch 60 plus gigabits of data per second. So no, a few "well crafted python scripts" will accomplish exactly nothing.

  22. Big O Notation on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    You can't understand it without Calc 2, therefore you need Calc 2. And if you don't understand Big O notation your not a real software engineer. Hence, you need calc 2 (QED).

  23. Re:Wow, is this scary on US Gov't Can't Be Sued For Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 2

    The point of that statement wasn't that it literally violates the magna carta, but that it is such an irrational state of being our original culture outlawed it in 1215 .

  24. Re:Seizures on Anonymous Helps Turn In Hacker Who Targeted Charity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no one philosophy either morally or politically, just a couple of common interests. Join the swarm and leave.

    Welcome to the future, a future where nations by common interests and some level of shared morality than national borders.

  25. Re:Congratulations to Judge Alsup on Judge Rules API's Can Not Be Copyrighted · · Score: 2

    Java going into eclipse? That had to be intentional.