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  1. Really. Wow. You learn something new every day.

  2. Re:Serious question on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Although I'm pretty much of the position: bring Assad back, I cannot see that happening anymore at this point. Sure, you could stop bombing his army and even start supporting it and by doing that, drive ISIS out. But:

    a) ISIS will simply re-emerge in Lybia.
    b) The Kurds will farked (again).
    c) Assad may forgive, but he won't forget.

  3. Re:You can never confuse this with any other post on 12-Year-Old Boy Gets $100K Bill From Google After Confusing Adwords With Adsense (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    You spelled 'frist' incorrectly.

  4. Re:Useful, but not very accurate... on Theranos To Shut Down Its Blood-Testing Facilities, Shrink Workforce By 40% (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    What she wants is obviously very desirable and, eventually, possible. She's just a bit early (and perhaps made one too many fantastically overblown claim).

  5. Systemd tries to be two things in one on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    The thing with systemd is that you want the executable that remains after initializing the system is done, to be super-lean and provable. Ideally, init would replace itself with another executable image after all the complex, hard work is done. And ideally, because of its complexity, the initial hard work should be done by a scripting language.

    What 'su' does inside systemd is completely beyond me. That should be a separate system call.

  6. Re:Whoopty Doo on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    More like:

    Vote for Hillary: cool with the corruption that comes with politics as usual.
    Vote for Trump: watch me introduce corrupt business practices into that mix.

  7. I've seen this before on Oracle Formally Proposes That Java Adopt Ahead-of-Time Compilation (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't this what the Jalapeno project did?

  8. Re:Who wants one? on Ask Slashdot: Who's Building The Open Source Version of Siri? (upon2020.com) · · Score: 1

    There are in the tens of CPU like microprocessors on your phone, only one of which runs Android or iOS. You may be feeding into a mike that goes directly through to Cupertino, but you may be able to turn that off. You're also feeding into a mike that may go directly to Samsung, or their Chinese supplier. And you won't be able to turn that off.

  9. Re:Stick a fork in.... on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The statements that he made about Europe (detonating nuclear devices there, NATO withdrawal, etc) are nothing unlike what every single US president in recent memory including Obama has ever said. I mean, I'm not particularly in favor of the man, but this seems a bit like this: http://cdn.someecards.com/some...

  10. Wondering about that dataset on Religion In US 'Worth More Than Google and Apple Combined' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I find that what American consider 'religious' is often different than what other people find 'religious'. Marriage, for example - I had a ceremony (it wasn't in a church), and rings and vows and whatnot, but it was nowhere near religious. From what I understand, many Americans would disagree with that. Also, a halal-shop sells also to non-religious customers, and a large part of its turnover is not profit (certainly not, in retail). I'd have trouble evaluating the criteria for inclusion in this dataset. Just sayin'.

  11. I have a macbook pro, just not with retina display. I opted out of that, because I'm old fashioned when it comes to displays (and I don't use a macbook as a shiny tool for graphic design). So now I guess I'm not cool enough to let our Cupertino overlords know what I do with my headphone jacks (I use them, btw). Bummer.

  12. 2021? Yeah right. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We won't have (a lot of) self-driving cars (that are actually allowed to be self-driving all the time) in 2021. That's four years away.

  13. Re: It's the Sun, actually on The Moon's Gravitational Pull Can Trigger Major Earthquakes, Says Study (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    The moon is heavier when it shinest brightest, didn't you know that? Those photons don't weigh nothing, you know...

    No, actually, it has something to do with the position of the moon and the sun, and how that both creates the optimal conditions for gravitational pull, and gives it the most exposure to the earth. Think, young Anakin, think!

  14. These words. They hurt me. on Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists, Skewed Dietary Guidelines For Decades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    'Anti-sugar narrative'? Bloody hell.

  15. I have no idea man, but that was right funny.

  16. Re:Empty threat on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly. The EU's beef is primarily with Ireland, only secondarily with Apple. The thing is: Ireland is a net receiver of EU money. So the EU reasons: if you want subsidies, you have a certain obligation to pick up certain types of money, taxes being one of them. Otherwise it would create a perverse incentive to EU nations: don't collect taxes, let the rest of the EU countries pick up the bill. So the EU demands, in exchange for membership, a tax regime of a certain quality. Since they are the ones paying, they decide. Germany, for example, could decide not to tax Apple a penny, but it wouldn't get a similar frown from the EU, since it's a net payer into the system.

    So the EU says to Ireland: collect, or we'll lower your subsidy by an equal amount. And Ireland finds itself caught between a rock and a hard place.

  17. Re:Unsigned integers ? on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Unsigned integers have everything to do with (at least) two things that I can think of:
    - expression. It is non sensical to have an array of size -3, for example. In a language like Java, one would ideally even forbid to use array indexes from being negative. An unsigned type gives you this facility out of the box.
    - network protocols. When you interact with other languages over a network, you want to be able to convey naturally, an unsigned type. If I have a protocol that conveys 8-bit flags, I want to suck those up inside an unsigned 8-bit type. Not a 16-bit type of which the 15-th bit is a sign.

  18. Unsigned integers on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't have a serious, binary network protocol aware language, and not have unsigned integers.

  19. The US government is fine with complaining to EU countries that they shouldn't behave like tax havens, but it protests when the EU decides that they shouldn't. I suppose they wanted both the earnings to stay in the US, and not go to the EU at the same time.

  20. The rest of the article is worth a read as well. on Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Nah - the first part of the article wasn't worth a read to begin with.

  21. Also, the system has a weakness in it, in that it will incorporate the results that it helped create. Also, there will be competing programs, all influencing each other. We've had (we're continuing to have) broker prediction programs that suffer from the same. The result is never pretty.

  22. Re:So global warming started... TSARKON reports on Global Warming Started 180 Years Ago Near Beginning of Industrial Revolution, Says Study (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    At 1000ppm, CO2 starts getting (a little bit) toxic to humans.

  23. Re:Can you handle the truth? I didn't think so. on Global Warming Started 180 Years Ago Near Beginning of Industrial Revolution, Says Study (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Well.. maybe. I mean, the finding that the CO2 levels rose almost immediately after the start of the Industrial Revolution (and, for example, the fact that there was a drop around the 1940's) suggests that the CO2 levels in the atmosphere respond more quickly to our producing it (both in up and downward direction) than was previously imagined. That gives a pinch of hope, doesn't it? I mean, if we somehow have all or most of our energy produced from CO2-less renewables (tides, sun, water, etc), then the situation could turn around pretty quickly. And that would be a deviation from the story we've been told until now.

  24. Re:Turkey is due for some DEMOCRACY on Turkish Journalist Jailed For Terrorism Was Framed, Forensic Report Shows (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got some Persians one the phone. They would like a word with you.

  25. Re: Scary on Computer Science Professor Mocks The NSA's Buggy Code (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Does someone really need to make the rational argument that demand creates supply?