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  1. Sounds 'bout right :-)

  2. WTF is up with all the NON-Poll questions... on Microsoft's New Xbox One S Will Go On Sale On August 2 -- Will You Buy One? (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    What the Hell Slashdot? Make these polls already.

  3. Re:Ternary Fail: "??", "!!" on The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall · · Score: 1

    On top of that. A significant change to regex syntax??? Who the hell is going to use Perl 6?

  4. Ternary Fail: "??", "!!" on The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall · · Score: 1
    Something like this:

    X ?? Y ?: Z

    or:

    X ?? Y :? Z

    or:

    X |? Y |: Z

    or:

    X ?| Y :| Z

    Would of made far more sense than to use NOT NOT "!!" as a ternary operator. Even more so since ! (NOT) is valid.

  5. When Opera ASA switched their desktop browser's rendering engine to Blink in 2012 - they were an Ads & Services company. 600M seems highly overpriced if all the consortium is getting is Opera's Blink based Android|Mac|Windows|Linux browser.

    If and when Firefox completes its addon|extension overhaul to be "Chrome-compatible", it's quite possible we wont even have a single browser that allows the end-user to be in control.

    Opera 12 (maybe even all the way back to version 7 or 8) has UserScript that can completely override javascript functions - meaning if some website wants to run function FOOBAR(), you can shadow that function so the code you want runs instead.

    Firefox still allows the end-user and extensions to change the page prior to rendering - which isn't as powerful as Opera 12 and its predecessors, it gives FAR FAR FAR more control than Blink based browsers allow.

    It would seem this acquisition doesn't even include Presto - so that code base is thoroughly closed and dead.

  6. Then buy it already! The whole series is only $60-$70 - with most of the music restored.

  7. As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:The grain alcohol didn't really raise food pric on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost every president since Reagan has deregulated multiple facets of big-business and the stock markets. Although I'm not sure about Bush Sr, nor Obama.

  9. How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1
    How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis

    In 1991, Goldman bankers, led by their prescient president Gary Cohn, came up with a new kind of investment product, a derivative that tracked 24 raw materials, from precious metals and energy to coffee, cocoa, cattle, corn, hogs, soy, and wheat. They weighted the investment value of each element, blended and commingled the parts into sums, then reduced what had been a complicated collection of real things into a mathematical formula that could be expressed as a single manifestation, to be known henceforth as the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI).

  10. Re:Not very different from a VM on Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll probably use it. SSH within the linux commandline instead of Putty. Unless copy-paste is completely broken.

  11. Not unless you force IE6 into strict-mode. on Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1
    Not unless you force IE6 into strict-mode.

    box-sizing - CSS | MDN

    border-box

    The width and height properties include the content, the padding and border, but not the margin. This is the box model used by Internet Explorer when the document is in Quirks mode. Note that padding and border will be inside of the box e.g. .box {width: 350px; border: 10px solid black;} leads to a box rendered in the browser of width: 350px. The content box can't be negative and is floored to 0, making it impossible to use border-box to make the element disappear.

    Here the dimension is calculated as, width = border + padding + width of the content, and height = border + padding + height of the content.

    Although, perhaps less incompetent than yourself, as I don't insult others when I don't know what the fuck I am talking about.

  12. Re:futile on UK Proposes Mandatory Age Verification For Porn Sites (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I get it now that I'm an old man, and have read more about debt, politics, economics, et al over the last 20+ years.

    Yet in the 90's, I looked at it as a programmer, Supply | Demand are variables, they have external influences - that affect them, except the Prof short-circuited that whole idea - which turned it into a big disconnect for myself.

    In the "Real World", I would say my concept|question back then was correct. Supply and Demand ARE affected by external influences, but all those external influences aren't modeled within micro-economics, they just change the vector points for Supply and Demand.

  13. Most current NASA programs were funded by Bush on How President Jimmy Carter Saved The Space Shuttle (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1
    Juno was a success—but there is precious little coming after it

    Advisor claims Obama "revitalized" planetary science, but the opposite is true.

    Casey Dreier, director of space policy for The Planetary Society

    "Now the Obama legacy is, unfortunately, going to be that NASA’s presence in the Solar System is going to be diminished, particularly in the outer Solar System," Dreier said. "When Obama leaves office, every mission in the outer Solar System except for New Horizons will be ending in 2017. Juno, Cassini—those are done in 2017. Dawn ends, too. New Horizons is way out in the Kuiper belt. And that’s it. It’s the first time the United States hasn’t had a presence in the outer Solar System since 1972 when they launched Pioneer 10."

  14. Re:Things my wife won't let me install on Pokemon Game Adds $7.5 Billion To Nintendo Market Value In Two Days (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 *snicker*

  15. Re:Not very different from a VM on Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    It's primary usage was for development environments, or being able to interface with your external Linux servers via the Linux command-line. Which totally falls in line with their business prospects, as a significant chunk of Microsoft's Azure infrastructure is being utilized for FreeBSD and Linux.

  16. Re:Never got embrace and extend on Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    It took the various Web-standards organizations 10+ years to provide a sane HTML height/width option - with "display: flex;"

    Then there was IE that sanely used (by default) "box-sizing:border-box;" - which conflicted with every other browser as "border-box" includes padding and borders.

    CSS does the width include the padding? (2009)

  17. Re:futile on UK Proposes Mandatory Age Verification For Porn Sites (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I couldn't stand how Micro-Economics was taught in the 90's. The professor was attempting to explain "supply and demand" in relation to cost. Two coffee shops, one with coffee that costs X, another with coffee that costs more than X. So which coffee shop sells more coffee?

    So I ask, "which one is closer|more convenient to get to?" Not Relevant

    What do you mean not relevant? If there's a coffee shop downstairs (in the cafeteria) with $2 coffee, and there's coffee for $1 - 5 blocks away, that takes 30+ mins round trip, then it doesn't matter much that coffee is cheaper. Convenience dictates that you'll get coffee from the cafeteria; demand will be higher for the more expensive coffee .

    No, Supply, Demand, and Cost disregard convenience and all other external factors.

    Which is round about where I gained the belief that the world of economics is complete bullshit.

  18. Legalized Illicit Drugs... on Ashley Madison Admits It Lured Customers With 70,000 Fake 'Fembots' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    illicit - forbidden by law, rules, or custom. cf.. "illicit drugs"

    synonyms: illegal, unlawful, illegitimate, criminal, felonious;

    So what's the second thing that us ignorant peons get to learn? Besides Engrish.

  19. Article summary sucks on Researchers Add Software Bugs To Reduce the Number of Software Bugs (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    The research showed that the bug-finding tools they tested had a dismal aggregate detection rates -- 2%. Not only that, they often found bugs that weren’t even there, creating unnecessary work for quality assurance teams trying to clean up software before it’s released.
    ...

    The research team is planning a competition for this summer in which developers of bug-finding software receive a score based on how many vulnerabilities their tools detect in a piece of software made vulnerable by LAVA. The idea is to help the developers produce better products.

  20. We gave it a test run on Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription For July 4th (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Will probably switch over to the 14.99/mos (up to 6 ppl) family plan - before it's billed in November.

    Can play whole Albums; Artists are suggested (initially) by anything you may of purchased previously on Google Play Store.
    I had one purchase, Tom Cochrane & Red Rider (1986). Am listening to Neruda (1983) which I haven't heard in 6 years or more - as I've never gotten around to replacing my 150+ casette tape collection.

  21. Re:So the end of the perfectly optimised console g on Microsoft Xbox Project Scorpio Puts Out 6 TFLOPs On Par With Current Gaming PCs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the advantages of consoles is that MS et al take a hand in what is allowed on the system. While it's true that some games on the XBox|PS are crap, in general you have more quality game releases on the consoles. The amount of utter-garbage that you have to wade through on Steam is becoming a disadvantage at this point -- with so many fricking mobile-ports and complete turd-like console ports with devs that barely even give an afterthought to KB+Mouse control scheme.

  22. Re:Viewers hate political correctness on Top Gear Host Chris Evans Steps Down After Poor Ratings (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    AC knows some mean Kung Fu.

  23. Re:Why doesn't an IP address prove something? on Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Case, IP-Address Doesn't Prove Anything (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Until our infrastructure switches over to IPV6. I can imagine each device will get its own dedicated IPV6 address, based on a hashing of unique hardware indicators - then the copyright holders will have a field day.

  24. Re:Yet... on New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    Regular Expression IS efficient. Just because your ignorant doesn't make Regex inherently bad.

    It takes about as long to read a 105MB file ~0.2s as it does to perform a regular expression transform for every line of said file.

    Or prior to the file containing line breaks, turning it into a 1,009.438 line file with a regular expression transform - yeah about 0.2s.

  25. Re:Don't they have taxis in Austin, TX? on Austin Is Conducting Sting Operations Against Ride-Sharing Drivers (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Was it snowing? And Uphill?