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  1. Speaking of proportions on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 0

    Is a 42-year-old American housewife a threat to US security?

  2. Cut the SLS on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Hand over the money to Musk.
    He has already proved that he is able to deliver complex solutions ahead of everyone else.
    And in no time.

    "Congress took money from the commercial private space effort, delaying its progress, in order to throw more money at SLS/Orion."

    What a bad judgement call.

  3. Now, who wouldn't see this happening? on Steve Ballmer's New Project: Find Out How the Government Spends Your Money (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    A project like this could seriously make government spending more focused and more effective.
    Where is the control with government spending today anyways?
    Why does so many government projects fail?
    Where does the money end up?

    Well MS does get it's share no matter what.
    But perhaps too much goes to wast in non-MS tech?

    If MS can improve the overall spending I'm in.
    I would love to see accountants, economists and other geeks tap into a public available datasources using Power BI and similar tools,
    to create all kinds of reports and comparisons.
    We also need to see who is conected to who, to get a picture of all the elegal bonds between the public and the private sector,
    And also how family dominance, control this mashup of corrupt entaglements.

  4. Why stop there? on T-Mobile Spends $8 Billion as Big Winner of FCC Auction (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Applying this scheme to the work place would increase production. I'm already doing that (as much as I can) :-)

  5. Re:Lets stigmatize everybody on Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes' (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 0

    I missed that completely. But i see its available in appstore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    So i guess it is still not too late. *gg'

  6. Re:Lets stigmatize everybody on Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes' (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 0

    Are you insinuating that I'm a hacker?

  7. Lets stigmatize everybody on Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes' (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Btw. Hackers aka. social degenerates / retards / ++aspergers / youfuckingnameit are also known by their monodiet consisting of pizza (Margherita) and Coca Cola.
    And all managers are sexual freaks with psycopatic tendencies.
    And all moderators are suffering from low self-esteem.
    Now, who or what did i miss?

  8. The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot on Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot (linux.com) · · Score: 0

    And a robot should pay tax! So, the question is, how do we go about this one?

  9. Re:USB sticks are inherently dangerous on New 'USG' Firewalls Protect USB Drives From Malicious Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    For those that thinks, this won't happen to me.
    Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    And to get an idea about the extend of devices affected: https://github.com/brandonlw/P...

  10. USB sticks are inherently dangerous on New 'USG' Firewalls Protect USB Drives From Malicious Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    All unsigned USB sticks a wide open to all type os exploits.
    When an unsigned USB stick is being attacked
    and firmware upgraded with malicious code you are screwed.
    You might even end up with the big package, rootkit, bot-client, you name it.
    Throw everything out, there is nothing else to do.
    Perhaps also move to a different part of the country.
    Unsigned USB sticks should always be thrown out before it is too late.
    Better put them in a hydralic press.
    You can not scan USB stick firmware, so forget it
    Just make sure your USB stick firmware is signed

  11. AI is not dangerous on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 0

    Unless in the wrong hands.

  12. Alright Nokia is BACK! on Nokia Sues Apple, Claims Patent Infringement in iPhone and Other Devices (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 0

    Can't way till May 2017 Hehe LOL

  13. Missleading healine on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, the magnets work.
    But it takes a lot more than that to claim that reactor works as headline does.

  14. Great times for web developers. With support for Jxcore, spidermonkey Chakra incl. Webassembly, Emscripten, nodejs will become a true multiplatform contender.

  15. What could possibly go wrong on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 0

    Seriously?

  16. Apple is the old Nokia.
    The new Nokia is the old Apple.

    Bet on it!

  17. The programmer not the language on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    It's like asking if a bad human language are creating bad societies. The answer is of course no.

  18. We will all end up as bags of meat being transported to and from work.

  19. Re: Wasn't this the multi-trillion-dollar failure? on US Air Force Declares F-35A Ready For Combat (defensenews.com) · · Score: 0

    "The whole philosophy behind the F-35 is to detect and engage targets from further away than they can detect and engage the F-35. Aka,"

    Lets hope that the adversaries agrees and is willing to accept playing their part to this concept, as the losers.

    "if the F-35 is in a dogfight, it's already done something wrong to begin with."

    Yes its design.

    If you can transfer the IT systems ( if they ever mature ) to other platforms, then it might not all be lost.

  20. This has to be good for business on Pokemon Go Leads to Reckless Driving, Injuries, and A Corpse (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 0

    Dead bodies, wreckless driving, live birth.
    This is PR that you just can't buy.
    Kudos to the Pokemon marketing department!

  21. Sure coffee helps on Multitasking Drains Your Brain's Energy Reserves, Researchers Say (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Some times, but not always.
    When your heart starts to sound like a bag of potatos falling down the stairs.
    And you have the feeling of having a group of overweight dancing amatures riverdancing on your chest,
    Then It's time to take a brake (~14 days)

    The place where i work we have an espresso machine like this
    http://www.stellacoffees.com/w...
    And someone have adjusted the grinder to the finest granularity which yields the most compact coffee pads.
    Probably for maximum kickback.
    Anyways after four to six double shots every day for a couple of months gives you the sensation of being kind of ten to twenty years older.
    Not cool!

  22. Re:Javascript is going away on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 0

    Nodejs is not about reusing the same code on client and the server.
    Nodejs is about exployting the V8 engine on a server with special io interfaces.
    Emscripten, asmjs and Webassembly is just ways of boosting browser performance to near native performance.
    Effectively turning the browser into a virtual machine.
    Some also wanted multi threading, increased memory and emscripten on nodejs.
    Then jxcore came about, a fork of nodejs based on spidermonkey instead of V8.
    However what ever goes into V8 goes into nodejs.
    Over time nodejs will turn into a regular powerhouse
    You don't have to fork it and roll yor own.
    This will be taken care of for you as V8 evolves.
    So Nodejs can be any thing from a powerfull integration server.
    to a full-stack development tool, build server etc.
    It is just a very versatile tool that gives you a lot of options that you can chose from.
    That is why i think it is so popular.

  23. Re:Javascript is going away on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 0

    Business apps: HTML
    Games & Visualization: OpenGL
    Board games & Graphical design tools: Canvas

  24. Re:Javascript is going away on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 0

    >Why do you think people will still use Javascript once they have other options?


    JavaScript is a simple and flexible language.
    The performance is more than adequate for MVC applications.
    It might be slow compared to native applications, especially games, streaming and DSP applications.
    But that is where WebAssembly and Emscripten come in to play.
    You might just use JavaScript for handling user events and as a message broker calling various APIs with really fast WebAssembly and Emscripten code behind it.
    With the improved performance boost that WebAssembly and Emscripten offers,
    you can write open APIs that enables your frontend to render in OpenGL, Canvas as well as HTML.
    Angular2 is planned to be used as a multi platform front end technology for both hybrid and native apps.
    But then again, you can still use JavaScript as a client side language, perhaps as transpiled TypeScript or CoffeeScript or something else that you might prefer.
    Personally i don't see any problems with JavaScript.
    10 years ago there were huge problems with compatibility and stability.
    But today I can't think of a more productive language than JavaScript.
    And most browsers works very reliably with JavaScript.
    The biggest hurdle when writing large applications with JavaScript is understanding scope and dealing with callback functions.
    But that is something you can learn pretty quickly.
    And there are libraries and superset languages like TypeScript and CoffeeScript built on top of JavaScript that handles most "JavaScript issues" if not all.
    The only problem that i have with JavaScript is a lot of sad people complaining about how difficult it is to work with.

  25. Re:Javascript is going away on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 0

    Soon like in 5 to 10 years?

    WebAssembly and Emscripten are really cool technologies though.
    But in no way a threat to JavaScript.

    If something will destroy JavaScript, it is the constant extensions like ES6, ES7 etc.
    It kills the concept of a beautiful and simple language, while often degrading the performance.
    Google and Microsoft should sit down together and talk this through before they start hurting the global economy
    with an overcomplicated mess of useless functionality and lifecycle events, that in the end will kill the web browser as we know it.
    Especially Microsoft should have learned their lesson with ASP.NET.
    Just keep it simple stupid!