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  1. Re:What is it? on Universal Remote Desktop Coming To Windows 10 Soon · · Score: 1

    Ok if you're so clever what colour do you think we should paint it?

  2. Much as I agree this could herald a much needed improvement in OCR the downside is that Capcha will become virtually useless.

  3. Re:Three characters? on European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    It still horrifies me that everyone's ATM Pin is just 4 characters!! Though the article does smack of "Scientists too dumb to use computers"

  4. Re:Really new ?!? on MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a modern day political debate to me (Congress/Senate/Houses of Parliament)

  5. The US might have been dick waving the Kremlin wasn't even paying attention until about 1965. The Russian space program was the brain child of Sergie Korolyev who essentially blagged the Kremlin left right and centre for example he told the Kremlin that if they were going to send up a satellite to spy on the Americans they should at least send someone up to listen to the radio and that's how Uri Gagarin became the first man in space. America only took the lead after Korolyev became ill and died in Jan 1966.

  6. Re:to much military on Looking Back At Apollo 17, and Why We Stopped Going To the Moon (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Lack of experience which is a good thing

  7. Re:Sounds like an MBA plan! on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    So I take it Yahoo have also eliminated employee sickness by abolishing sickpay! What a bunch of *****!

  8. Re:competition is awesome on Samsung Enters Auto Industry To Make Electronics For Autonomous Cars (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I anticipate a ford Galaxy with a beveled windscreen

  9. Re:AMD settled on The Ups and Downs of AMD (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    So when did their management team take over RIM?

  10. Re:I think I've missed something on Alleged Bitcoin Creator Raided By Australian Authorities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They think he might be the real Julian Assange

  11. Re:You'd be raided too on Alleged Bitcoin Creator Raided By Australian Authorities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Having been "on fire" literally, and being perpetually cold when the weather Temp is below 75 F .. I can assure you that your statement is not accurate. ;)

    I'm sorry your argument cannot be accepted until you define what warm is in SI units this is slashdot after all

  12. Re:You'd be raided too on Alleged Bitcoin Creator Raided By Australian Authorities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    If he's convicted and he still emigrates to the UK wont that be history in reverse?

  13. Re:Gonna need some hollywood magic on Spike TV Is Turning Red Mars Into a TV Series (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably why they've got Strasinsky

  14. Real hardware runs faster than emulated hardware who'd have guessed?

  15. Re:Can anyone keep up all these bullshits? on Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep programming is programming. Agile and Scrum are about project management, DevOps is simply applying similar techniques to the maintenance and infrastructure management phases of ALM. Yes Taco like you I started out with the system specification written on the back of a packet of cigaretts. Just imagine a bunch of management consultants have taken the whole "Writing the spec on the back of a packet of cigs" and wrapped it up in a load of techno bable so that now instead of a packet of cigs you are presented with the spec written on a rubics cube which has been scrambled. Devops is simply extending this to the plug it in and see if it works approach to application maintenance :D

  16. It merely deflects attention from things that actually matter.

    Surely that's the presidents job!

  17. Re:Liability / Obligation on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually you can dial 999, 911 or 112 in the UK they all work. The history behind 999 & 911 is that originally they tried 111 however simple interference from say trees tapping on the phone cable cause the number to be dialed accidentally a lot of the time (This was back in the day of Pulse dialing phones before the introduction of DTMF Tones) so they changed it to 999 in the UK and 911 elsewhere to stop the number from being dialed accidentally by simple interference.

  18. Apocryphally, someone tried a similar gag with Richard Nixon when he was running for President, and the Secret Service was not amused.

    The pizza's had anchovies

  19. Re:Autonomus cars will use the integrated face sys on How Much Will Autonomous Cars Really Help? (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    The main area where self driving cars will prove useful is when I get where I'm going the car can then go and find it's own damned parking spot!

  20. Re:first on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    Designating improbable science fictional mechanisms "shibboleths" really doesn't make sense.

    At all.

    Yep Stross appears to be confusing Poetic Licence with Shibboleth

  21. Re:I like how they lie and call this homegrown on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is in America how are you going to tell the difference between this style of terrorist attack and all the other Spree Killings/Mass Murders?

  22. Re:meanwhile soyuz ... on Cygnus Launches In First Mission Since Antares Rocket Explosion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    A Soyuz launched mission failed just last April, carrying a Progress 27M spacecraft meant for a resupply mission to the ISS."

    True, however, Soyuz still have a much higher reliability rate and have been in use since before Gagarin went up.

  23. Given the amount of Hoverboards that are spontaneously combusting at the moment have you thought about approaching them? http://news.slashdot.org/story...

  24. Re:Comparing to MySQL, you will always lose on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it died when Oracle took them over. Surprised to see it's still breathing

  25. Re:nice title on Wih Messenger Revamp, Yahoo Joins the 'Unsend' Trend (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Can they please unsend that press release