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  1. Undertaker? on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Until you become the last person on earth, anyway.

  2. You do it in the same way everyone else who rides motorcycles do, with a tight turn :) and get out and push it back when you need to.

  3. Obligatory XKCD... on ISEE-3 Satellite Is Back Under Control · · Score: 4, Funny
  4. Apparently it was a false alarm... on The Andromeda Galaxy Just Had a Bright Gamma Ray Event · · Score: 4, Informative

    See here: http://profmattstrassler.com/2... "a known object in Andromeda that emits X-rays appeared to brighten, as a result of electronic noise in Swift’s instruments"

  5. They have already done this a while back on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine already got hit with this 300 GB limit more than a year ago. At the time, I think they're just targeting their top 1% customers. Now they're just targeting the rest.

  6. The brake? on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    If a collision is unavoidable, they'd just brake as hard as they can without skidding, and hope the other side can maneuver out of the collision.

  7. A ha! I am at the center of the universe after all on Oldest Known Star In the Universe Discovered · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... yet I was still too far away to make this the F1rst Post.

  8. Re:Capt Keen on Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM · · Score: 1

    Just get DOSBox for Android. It should run Commander Keen without problems. I even booted Windows 3.11 on it just for kicks. Everything seems to work fine.

  9. Re:It sounds cooler than it is... on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 2

    You should read the Doom Star series by Vaughn Heppner: Star Soldier. He have put a lot of thoughts into the matter.

  10. My XServers run on Windows on 23-Year-Old X11 Server Security Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    It's kinda funny, but all my XServers run on Windows these days, and only run once in a blue moon, so I can access that one or two stubborn applications that requires X. Not that it makes it less of an issue.

  11. Re:Turtles, all the way up! on Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe · · Score: 1

    If you look further, you will find that there is a spherical structure with radius of approximately about 13 billion light years, and nothing outside of that.

  12. Re:Advatages of ZFS over BTRFS? on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 1

    I recently had a bunch of BTRFS failure on disks with heavy traffic. It's terrifying when you have to reboot any of those servers.

    The only saving grace was the cluster was able to tolerate multiple block device failures, so I was able to reformat those disks using ZFS and resync the data.

    To sum up, I experimented on an experimental file system, got burnt, and then switched back to ZFS. I didn't lose data, just time and frustrations.

  13. Re:Clinical records are hard on Abandoned UK National Health Service IT System Has Cost $16bn... So Far · · Score: 1

    Another use of the paper record is when they need to re-input all that into the new systems they upgrade to.

    It sounds like a joke, but it's not. Happens all the time. These office systems are so obscure that the new vendors often time don't even bother to migrate the data, forcing manual data entry for all the relevant records. It's very sad.

    It's the same when these "office" systems have thousands of connected offices. Each would still have to re-enter its records.

  14. Re:UN's Fault? on How the UN Might Have Inadvertently Started a Cholera Epidemic In Haiti · · Score: -1

    I fail to believe that Cholera is absent from Haiti before hand. It's something that most people (read tourists) carry, and it's presumed to be everywhere.

  15. Re:resin+gel as support material on 3D Printing In Gel Enables Freeform Design and an Undo Function · · Score: 2

    This allows you to print "unbalanced" objects, e.g. those that would tip over when you print layer-by-layer.

  16. Re:Mod parent up on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    Let's supposed your "final" exit temperature is 90C. Also let's assume the cooling reservoir is around 10C. Let's also assume that the final stage takes steam from 200C down to 90C. That give it a theoretical Carnot limit of 110/363 ~ 30%.

    From the article, "The device offers the possibility of a cheap and flexible design suitable for harvesting waste heat in the 100- to 200-degrees Celsius range.". Assume it really work all the way to 10C, that could theoretically be 190/283 ~ 67%. If their efficiency is higher than a turbine, then they can use that to replace the last turbine stage. If not, then there is nothing to see.

    I think the news here is that they *might* have come up with a better device than a low temperature turbine.

  17. Re:Motif window manager? on Linux 3.11 Features Fall Into Place With Merge Window · · Score: 1

    I actually install mwm (Open Sourced now) on lots of headless machines nowadays. I found it to work very well over VNC. Much better than a lot of the alternatives. And yes, I use VNC, because X over VPN is just painful.

  18. Re:Looks like AC had it already on Code Released To Exploit Android App Signature Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    The people on xda-developers have been doing that for ages. That's how they mod the official APKs and change images to match the various themes.

  19. Three letters: on Ask Slashdot: Good Tracking Solutions For Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    NSA

  20. Re:Why not open source it period? on AMD Overhauls Open-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    Most likely because of IP-licensing that does not allow certain portion of their code to be open-sourced.

  21. Re:Boot that brain! on Whole Human Brain Mapped In 3D · · Score: 1

    Aren't we all inside a big simulation already?

  22. Re:so sick of this shit. on Cumulus Releases GNU/Linux For Datacenter Routers · · Score: 1

    Cumulus' product appears to be a full blown debian port that runs directly on expensive 48 port switches. Seems pretty useful to me. Feel free to point out alternatives.

    FTFY...
    Last I look, a Quanta 1GB switch is in the 3K range, and the 10GB switch is in the 11K range.

    Here is the list of supported switches: http://cumulusnetworks.com/support/hcl/

  23. I think the reason is in your signature :)

  24. Current high-cost item: The 10Gb switch on 10GbE: What the Heck Took So Long? · · Score: 1

    The current high-cost item is the 10GbE switch. Those things are way too expensive (10+K range, and the plus goes way up)

    Also, for flexibility, you want SFP+ ports and adapters for each port. None of those are cheap.

  25. You should read some of those 5-star reviews on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are hilarious. One person wrote about how the game had given him back his (real) life during the time it spend trying to connect to the server.