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  1. Re:"Use 4 spaces per indentation level." on Python/Unix Hybrid Demoed at PyCon (xon.sh) · · Score: 1

    PEP8 is the codestyle guide for contributing to Python:

    This document gives coding conventions for the Python code comprising the standard library in the main Python distribution.

    It is not relevant for any other code written in Python, although other projects may choose to adopt it too.

  2. Re:Why have any of these restrictions? on Estonian President Expresses Desire For More Digitally-Integrated Europe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Why have any of these restrictions? on Estonian President Expresses Desire For More Digitally-Integrated Europe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Eliminating barriers for labor crossing borders is what the EU does, it is one of the four freedoms.

  4. Re:Why have any of these restrictions? on Estonian President Expresses Desire For More Digitally-Integrated Europe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The US has a protection on its market on cotton, because otherwise African countries would be competitive.

  5. Re:Theoretical breakthrough... on Theoretical Breakthrough Made In Random Number Generation (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The probability of "7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7" is the same as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1,2 or any other 13-int sequence.

    You are thinking of placing sequences in categories (k consecutive numbers), for which the probability indeed decreases rapidly with k.
    But that requires you to define similar sequences, which is a form of finding patterns.

  6. Assigning costs ... to the free and total dissemination of information

    How about assigning costs to the creation of the information?
    How about assigning costs to the editing?
    How about assigning costs to the creation of artwork in the books?

  7. Re:And better for the enviroment on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the total number of cows, pigs, chicken, etc. would decrease. But the diversity of animals has drastically declined due to industrialisation of cattle farming.

    "30 percent of global biodiversity loss can be attributed to aspects of livestock production"
    http://www.forksoverknives.com...
    "animal farming saps soil nutrients and pollutes the environment as waste runoff from farms causes algae blooms that consume oxygen in water, killing essential bacteria and destroying healthy ecosystems"

    If nothing else, the land area for them is taken away.
    http://www.takeextinctionoffyo...

  8. Re:And better for the enviroment on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever actually seen cows in your life?

    Have you ever seen the cows that meat is made from? Probably not, since they are locked away in meat factories and have never seen green. Cows grazing is a children's book dream. It's "inefficient".
    And don't tell me you buy your meat from the local butcher -- every time you go to a restaurant, that's meat factory meat right there.

  9. Re:SystemD = Bolsheviks on Devuan Releases Beta of Systemd-Free 'Debian Fork' Base System (devuan.org) · · Score: 2

    Oh the problem is there alright.

    See here for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    You want to replace sysvinit with something.
    Now whether that is upstart, OpenRC, systemd or something else is the question.

    systemd's service dependency tree and triggering is definitely attractive, and you can do some cool server configurations with it. For example, assign resources to a service, and that restriction applies to all sub-processes. Or find all processes launched by a service.

  10. Re:The Purpose of a Phone on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These devices have not redefined the way we phone

    The Purpose of a Phone Is to talk to another person, and be able to hear and understand them

    Lets not be so narrow-minded. Smartphones are communication devices - and they have redefined the way we communicate - world-wide, nearly free, with a mixture of instant texts, emoticons, images, gifs, short videos and, yes, voice.

    It is not solely the phone network anymore, and it is not just telephoning that a phone does -- although you still can use it that way.

  11. Re:anonymous browser to login... on Over 1 Million People Use Tor To Check Facebook Anonymously Each Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, when using Tor only you and Facebook know your identity and that you are using Facebook.
    If Facebook were not collaborating with surveillance agencies and even developing a neat interface for them.

  12. At least one Slashdotter didn't like it on James Cameron Announces Four Sequels to 'Avatar' (egyptindependent.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cameron's original sci-fi blockbuster earned $2.8 billion, though at least one Slashdot user argued that its overall message was that technology is bad, "strange because the movie is among most technically sophisticated ever."

    And then all of Slashdot argued against him ... Seriously, what authority does one slashdotter have?
    https://entertainment.slashdot...

  13. Re:stupid on EU Approves Strict New Privacy Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why does some murderer have the right to be forgotten?

    Murder cases make it on the internet because the press is reporting about it -- usually because someone has been accused.
    If you had been accused of a outrageous crime and later found innocent, you will have your name associated with those news stories forever. Every time an employer googles you, they will get that impression, and you will spend the rest of your life arguing that charges were dismissed.
    For those people I think a right to be forgotten is appropriate.

  14. Re:Well, that makes him an engineer, not a scienti on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    He helped build this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which is on Mars now, so he has.

  15. Re:we're all scientists on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He is a science communicator. He goes to scientific research and presents it to the public in an understandable way. When he has questions, he asks scientists.
    Sarah Palin does not consult scientists. That's why Bill Nye is considered an authority when he speaks. Not because he contributed, but because what he says is based on scientific research.

  16. Re:Did they write its software using Rust? on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Typically spacecraft software is computer verified for its correctness -- the main reason it is so expensive. So using Rust would not have helped.

  17. I doubt though that it was a hack, it suspect it might as well be an insider. I mean, it would be so much easier to fetch those 3TB as a employee or contractor than through the website (which as far as we know might not even be connected to the data trove).

  18. Currently in the US, 22 people die every day just waiting for organs, which are in constant short supply. To help solve the problem, researchers turned to pigs

    Or, you know, make organ donor opt-out instead of opt-in, like other countries ... that also solves the problem.

  19. Re:Not a suprise on CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There are some great tools available.

    For password checking, you can try Kaspersky's
    https://blog.kaspersky.com/pas...
    You can disconnect your computer from the network while using it.

    For generating a password:
    http://correcthorsebatterystap...

  20. Re:Duly noted. on Apple's Night Shift May Have Zero Effect On Sleep (macworld.com) · · Score: 2

    http://jonls.dk/redshift/ is a open-source alternative

  21. Re:3d already gives me motion sickness on PlayStation VR Pre-Orders Sell Out In Minutes At Amazon (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought that was where all the research goes into -- making it motion sickness-free and intuitive to use. Otherwise its just a phone display glued to your face.

    The only application I have in mind is to be immersed in 360 panoramas (ideally 360x180 actually), from my own albums, or from other people being on mountains, in the ocean, from the ISS, all-sky surveys of the galaxy.

  22. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There was drastically less terrorism. I can't really think of any significant Europe terrorist attacks between WW2 and the late 90s.

    That speaks more of your memory rather than history, and also that we did not look across borders that much at that time into other countries' problems. There were plenty of terrorist attacks, although they were not called that. They were just called attacks, or bombings. Ireland (IRA), Spain (ETA) and Germany (RAF) are but some examples.

  23. Choice of words? on Mozilla Breaks Its Own Promise, Allows Symantec To Issue Insecure Certificates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hashes are not encryption. Plans are not promises.

  24. Re:No winners here. on Software Freedom Conservancy: Distributing Linux With ZFS Is Illegal (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what anyone would stand to gain by arguing that Ubuntu is violating the GPLv2 license.

    Btrfs developers. ZFS on Linux makes alternatives less important and fewer people/companies invest time/money into creating that software.

    Then again, as TFA says: Oracle, why don't you just relicense the bloody thing.

  25. Re:This should not be patentable on Google Submits Patent Application For Online Voting (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    As a side-bar to their search page? I'm pretty sure Wordpress and a billion other CMS systems have that already.