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  1. Oh, be humble. They know not what they do.

  2. If their internet doesn't have 5 nines availability (available 99.999% of the time for an accumulated annual downtime of less than 6 minutes), then they are *not* that tech savvy.

  3. Re: Dammit on To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Artemâ(TM)s Law: Slashdot shall not enforce ersatz âoelawsâ, like Godwinâ(TM)s Law.

  4. Bean counters ruin everything on Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If it depreciates to zero, then fill the landfill up more with it, according to the bean counters.

  5. Re:Uh..... on DARPA Has an Ambitious $1.5 Billion Plan To Reinvent Electronics (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    eliminating the thousands or tens of thousands of timing violations. ASIC development goes a compilation process of source code not entirely different than software. The challenge of ASIC design is locating everything just right so that distance is globally nearly-minimized (local optima but near the global optimum) to get all the electron pulses to arrive where they need to arrive before it is too late. Plus, each logic gate costs a time delay (as well as occupies space exacerbating the distance problem). So another trick to solve timing violations is to simplify the design is some locality to lessen the depth of gates that a signal/calculation/operation must traverse, when viewed as a directed-acyclic graph (DAG). Sometimes space (# of gates) can be bloated up to decrease the depth of the walks of the logic-gate DAG (but then that increases area on the die, which exacerbates the distance problem).

  6. Re: It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    the worst error message is and always will be "keyboard error, press F1 to continue"

    There is nothing wrong whatsoever with stating that the keyboard-detection failed, please plug in a keyboard, and then press F1 as a positive-verification test. I bet that I have done exactly that rectification at least 500 times since 1981 (although which keyboard connector I use has changed about once each decade).

  7. Re:Now That's a Name I Haven't Heard In a Long Tim on SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion (reuters.com) · · Score: 2
  8. Re:so what? on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 1

    I use Bing exclusively. Other than Android and Google Groups substituting for the old Usenet, I sort of forget that Google exists at all.

  9. Re:Too bad the EU forbids GMO on Scientists Genetically Engineer Pigs Immune To Costly Disease (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh the irony that Europe outlawed the GMO fix to their huge porcine problem! Perhaps this event will teach Europe to be much more judicious in their opposition to precisely which kinds of GMO and why. For example, GMO to permit glyphosate on crops is bad not because of the GMO modification per se, but because of consuming glyphosate residue in food.

  10. The Germans do have a word for this. on Are Tech Conferences Overrated? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Scheissegesprach

  11. Re:You WANT to eat where they don't accept Cash on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    This! The restaurant is unlikely to win in court (small claims or otherwise), because of that notice on Federal Reserve Notes. Take a video of the restaurant staff refusing FRNs to play back in court.

  12. a "one-document PDF" on Microsoft Updates Guideline on Windows Driver Security (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. You mean all these decades I could have had the entire multi-volume encyclopedia set in a multi-document PDF? Who knew? (It seems OP just learned what a PDF is: a single-document file-format; or is speaking to an audience 35 years ago who don't know what a PDF is.)

  13. Re:BSD is Dying? on Are the BSDs Dying? Some Security Researchers Think So (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, so it is Slashdot that is dying instead then, eh?

  14. 1 standard deviations out versus arithmetic mean on Top Bug Hunters Make 2.7 Times More Money Than an Average Software Engineer (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure that 1 standard deviation rightward on the x axis on any profession makes about 2.7 times what the arithmetic mean of another profession makes, especially for nearly any non-blue-collar or service-industry “profession”. Top bug hunters might even be 2 standard deviations out from the average bug hunter.

  15. Re:Why only limit to windows ? on Clear Solar Cells Could Help Windows Generate Power · · Score: 2

    Finally, something that Windows are better suited for than Linux!

  16. Re:Trust no one on Ask Slashdot: Can Bruce Schneier Be Trusted? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Applying the mantra of open source to the underlying mathematics: Learn the mathematics of cryptography yourself to find the bugs within the mathematics. Don't place your trust in any person other than yourself. Especially don't worship some brand-name as a god who, as diviner-intercessor, is your sole information-provider on the subject.

  17. Re:Silly on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 1

    copyright = noun: the legal right to copy
    copywrite = verb: to copy-edit an advertisement

  18. graphical symbols, not APL! on Time For a Hobbyist Smartphone? · · Score: 2

    National Instruments LabVIEW as graphical control-flow (e.g., looping, branching) constructs http://www.ni.com/white-paper/14556/en
    +
    ROOM+ObjecTime (now IBM Rational Rose Realtime) as graphical object-oriented & nested state-machines http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Object-Oriented-Modeling-Bran-Selic/dp/0471599174/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379088665&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=realtime+object+oriented+modeling+objectime

  19. Re:Wrong party; wrong fast-food restaurant on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 1

    You obviously are not from Texas. When a small town in Texas has only one restaurant, it is a Dairy Queen, not a McDonalds.

  20. Re:Holy Fuck People! on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 0

    In Texas, we are free to go buy any vehicle out-of-state (e.g., California) and import it into Texas via a Green Sheet and payment of the Use Tax (a.k.a. sales tax, but dodging the interstate commerce clause of the federal constitution). Once imported, the out-of-state vehicle can be sold at used-car lots, just like any other nonmilitary vehicle. Looks like a free-market to me.

  21. Re:how do I fight CAPS USAGE? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    I fight using CAPS by turning off the Caps Lock LED.

  22. Re:Looking someone straight in the eye: eye roll on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 2

    It is quite natural for me to roll my eyes upward, when I must suffer fools. This software will inhibit my far-end image from doing so.

  23. Re:Try actually donating? on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, this company probably budgeted that $20,000 for expenditure for purchasing 'X', whereas the accounting department would not permit reallocating 1) monies dedicated for purchasing 'X' into 2) an entirely different bucket of monies for donations to section-503 nonprofits. Here X is likely right-to-use software. Perhaps X might be hardware. Either way, acquisition of a durable good gets amortized over multiple years, whereas the entire donation to section-503 nonprofits hits the books immediately.

  24. $20,000 hammer on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Couldn't you just do it the Department of Defense way and buy a $20,000 hammer from an open-source project?

  25. Re:How? on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    What inconsistencies does Enterprise introduce? Nothing really comes to mind...

    I think that they mean the entire Temporal Cold War story-arc.