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  1. China and Russia are running interpol now thanks to Trump's incompetence/treason. Shocker that Interpol now thinks using compromised AV is cool.

  2. I'm very concerned that all these statue removals will lead to poke-stop removals. rampant destruction of pikachu habitat!

  3. Re:Vague accusations from one of Trump's people on Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aids of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this -
    > Obama Administration members used unmasking on political figures
    is by definition impossible. There's no reason to unmask if you already know who the colluding scumbag is. So that didn't happen.
    So stupid to make up lies that are that logically inconsistent.

  4. Re:Turn the power off on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yah, you can either just short out the end turns on a three phase linear synchronous motor and get drag proportional to speed or you can have a secondary set of magnets dragging past aluminium fins, or likely both. Both surprisingly effective braking methods, and not magic.

    to try at home, get a NeFeB magnet, a half inch aluminum plate, and try to move one past the other.

  5. Re: He cheated OTHER players on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If Phil Ivey is requesting something, it's different from a rando requesting something.
    51% of the time if Phil Ivey requests something crazy it's cause he thinks he has an edge.
    If casinos or other players don't know that or proceed anyway, they are suckers and genuinely deserve to lose.

  6. Genealogies across multiple systems on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can always compute nested sets from adjacent lists like people are suggesting if the entire adjacent list is on one cloud or system, but you can lose a whole branch if you lose a link instead of only losing that one link if one supplier is non-conforming or offline. It's not fake or fluff, it's error minimizing.

  7. Who is this guy? on 'Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of him. he has no reputation.

  8. Re:My state/county can barely afford asphalt on Tesla's Sales Increase - But Next Will We Need Smart Roads? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    there's 4.12 million miles of road in the US. The ring road around Iceland is like 850 miles.

  9. sarcastic meta-epistemology on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 1

    The modern epistemic culture of research, like all cultures, is the apex of the form and cannot be improved upon &tc. From this glorious pinnacle surely there could be no blind spots, epistemological or actual. Everything I see through the perfect lens of the culture I belong to belongs to the culture I belong to, from which even an illiterate buffoon could extrapolate .... a swan.

  10. Re:Thanks Apple on Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List · · Score: 4, Informative

    What you just described - making a new product by slightly altering an existing one - happens in the food world all the time with no legal issues at all.
    What you didn't describe but probably intended to - copying a bread recipe - also happens all the time with no legal issues at all. When either of these things happen, the baker is thrilled. Some of them actually publish books helping you infringe on their own products!
    In short, your metaphor fails to map to the primary event in every way possible. Please stick to car metaphors in the future. It's traditional.

  11. Re:They will not like the needed solutions on Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems · · Score: 1

    This isn't the USA. This is Massachusetts. We have lots of traffic circles up here and generally know how to use them.

  12. Re:You are asking the wrong question on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everybody thinks they know what restaurants do.
    This is why so many otherwise smart people get into the restaurant business and then fail.

    Forget the word restaurant.
    Instead, think highly competitive, low volume, high mix, low margin, short lead-time manufacturing.
    Think highly perishable inventory.

    Accurate inventory, accurate predictions of future demand, and data driven product design make all the difference between success and failure.

    Data collection and analysis is what really successful restaurants do. Or did you really think it was like Top Chef?

  13. Re:Technicolor illustration of a broken patent sys on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    The purpose of a patent is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts". (Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution)

    Since sitting on a patent cannot possibly promote progress of any sort, doing so ~should~ invalidate the patent.

  14. Re:Great solution on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    Facts are slippery little things. Given any restrictions you like I can construct a test that guarantees the electoral result I prefer. In fact, it would be difficult not to, even by accident.

  15. Re:Unenforceable? on 4 UK Urban Explorers Face Orders Not To Talk With Each Other For 10 Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ownership requires stewardship. It is a responsibility that the old aristocracy understood, but the new aristocracy seems to think the government should do for them at no cost.

  16. Simple Solution, Duh. on Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just heat the child up to above the Curie temperature of the magnets and they will fall right off!

  17. Re:s/Russia/America/g on Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. false equivalency. The fraud involved there is quantitatively and qualitatively worse.
    2. irrelevant. Illegal and immoral behavior in one country does not make it OK in another.

  18. The beatings will continue ... on Judge Rules Boss's "Firing Contest" Created a Hostile Work Environment · · Score: 1

    until morale improves!

  19. Re:PR Stunt? on Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Oh, God, the foodies are posting on /. now. ...with the annoying pizza "must be cooked in a brick oven with exotic hardwoods in Brooklyn by a monk until it has burned spots all over it and then we throw arugula at it but we don't even say arugula anymore, we call it 'rocket' like the Brits, 'cause we're hip like that. Yeah, pizza needs to be super, super thin, and crispy as a stale matza with one teaspoon of sauce made exclusively from Amish Brandywine tomatoes topped with a few haphazard shavings of Piave, 'cause mozzarella is so over." Bullshit. Pizza is bread, not cracker. Pizza is no place for minimalism and a Spartan aesthetic.... load up the sauce and toppings, and run that shit through a regular stainless steel oven. Why on earth would I want a pizza that reeked of burned tree? And the big burned bubbles on you pizza? disgusting, and inedible. Not cool.

  20. Re:Gave up too quickly on Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide' · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Most of the kids coming up in real-stuff engineering these days have no idea who HP is, but they all know Agilent. That said, if Agilent doesn't start really competing with the stuff NI is coming up with they may end up a niche player. GPIB (aka HPIB aka IEEE-488) doesn't rule the instrumentation market anymore.

  21. Re:Wait, what? on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 3, Informative

    That comment is about variance, not expected value. EV/ticket is the same whether you buy one ticket or one million tickets.

  22. Re:Um... on Sunlight Foundation Announces 'Sarah's Inbox' · · Score: 1

    Rule 34

  23. unsurprisingly, IT goons don't get it. on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wake up!
    You are a cost center.
    You exist only to enable productive people to produce more efficiently.
    You aren't in charge of anything.
    You work for us.
    Continue to annoy us and you will be replaced.
    Just like the guy in the tool room that used to guard the pin gauges and the hammers like he owned them.
    And the facilities guy who refused to add a 30 Amp circuit or run a Nitrogen line.
    The IT support model that treats everyone like a serf doing word processing is over.
    The design engineers need nonstandard hardware to do modeling. They might even need multiple computers.
    In fact every individual user has specific and unusual needs that they understand better than you do.
    And it's Not your call. Make it happen or go extinct. Computers aren't a new special thing anymore.
    Many of us users understand every aspect of your network as well or better than you do,
    we just have better things to do.
    Things that are central to the business and make money.
    Hey, this is your turf, and I understand that change is hard, and that you need to grumble, bitch, rant, whatever.
    get it all out. It won't change anything though.

  24. From the Owego Pennysaver on US To Fire Up Big Offshore Wind Energy Projects · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I believe that mountain lions go downwind to stalk their prey. Is there any chance that the increased wind caused by the windmills has led to an influx of mountain lions because their prey is easier to stalk? Somebody should look into this." -Anon Reader, Dec. 19, 2010

    "To the person who knows about the windmills in Western New York. Is there an entity to call to see is we can get them turned off for a couple weeks. We need some snow in the area before the people who plow snow go out of business. I think they keep pushing the storms back to the coast." -Anon Reader, Dec. 26, 2010

    "It was a very calm day today so I drove out to see the windmills to set the record straight. Just as I thought, there was no wind today because they were not moving at all. The next windy day, I am driving out again and I bet they will be turning like crazy." -Anon Reader, Jan. 9, 2011

  25. Re:Red Cross chooses easy target on Red Cross Says Nurse Outfit Violates Geneva Convention · · Score: 1

    This happens every time we run out of earthquake victims and war-zones to keep them distracted.