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  1. oh great... on WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms · · Score: 1

    We will get the common core crap for coding and further encourage kids to stay away.

    instead of

    10 print " hello"
    20 goto 10

    we will get...

    COME FROM 10
    10 TELL "hello" NEXT

    Because educators today need to be beaten with a sack of doorknobs until they understand that convolution is not education.

  2. Step 1 fix your holes. on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    do not even bother with wall soundproofing until you replace all your windows with triple pane and seal up every single air leak. adding a storm window to the outside of the triple pane will also help as each air gap will significantly reduce the sound levels transmitted into the home. after you do all that, THEN have the wall insulation replaced or actually added. Most homes in america have little to no wall insulation as most homes are older than 1950 when heating costs were cheaper than insulating.

    now fix all your doors, bet you that every single one of them has crap seals that all need replacing. Door seals need to be replaced every 4-5 years, 99% of all homeowners do not do this. if your doors are really old wood panels replace the whole door and door jam with a modern steel/fiberglass wood core door with at least a double pane window in it.

    A typical home, expect to spend about $10,000 to bring the windows and doors up to at least current and dramatically reduce the noise incursion.

     

  3. Close.... on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Add $80,000 to that number for any H1B in California or New York City.

    Honestly, H1B is NOT for cheap labor, it 's for highly skilled professionals that you cant find anywhere else. Force the scumbag CEO's to pay for them.

  4. Re:Overclocking? on Locked Intel Skylake CPUs Can Be Overclocked After BIOS Update (techspot.com) · · Score: 3

    too bad programmers never to that memo and still write 90% of all software as single threaded.

  5. Re: Ingenuity over Security == usually wins on XSS Can Take Down Your IoT Wind Turbine (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    you cant unhire them when you make sure you only hire people that blindly agree and follow to begin with.

  6. Re:If your critical stuff is IOT.... on XSS Can Take Down Your IoT Wind Turbine (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is some news for you.... Wind farms ARE NOT IOT and monitored from a iphone. They are on their own secured private network that uses secure VPN tunneling through the internet to data centers where the SCADA system controls and monitors them.

    Quite hilarious if you think that commercial and industrial uses IOT.

  7. Re:Only non enthusiasts will buy from it. on GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms · · Score: 1

    Your friends don't pay much attention outside of 2 year old news. I still get the lowest prices through them on a lot of the stuff worth buying, Just bought a Daniel Defense medium profile 16" 300 blackout barrel and it was $40.00 cheaper than everywhere else.

    I'm a price whore, I will go where ever the price is the lowest for the good stuff like CMMG, Daniel Defense, Rainier, etc...

    Now the low grade china crap? yes you can find that cheaper elsewhere, but then people that buy that junk are OK with shooting steel cased rounds and screwing up their $40.00 bolt and $20.00 china upper.

  8. Re:Only non enthusiasts will buy from it. on GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms · · Score: 1

    Not everything there is for killing things. The camping section..... well the tents kill the grass under them....

    Ok it's all for killing.

  9. Re:Only non enthusiasts will buy from it. on GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms · · Score: 1

    They sure do get cranky when you start to disrobe while handling the Barret or their scopes.

  10. Re:Ingenuity over Security == usually wins on XSS Can Take Down Your IoT Wind Turbine (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    IOT movement is based on the highly uneducated that think they are being clever. Then they hire guys that are just as uneducated as them to work on it. Because anyone with a clue will tell them, "Um, that is a bad idea" so they dont hire them.

  11. If your critical stuff is IOT.... on XSS Can Take Down Your IoT Wind Turbine (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Then you are a complete idiot. Wind turbine, solar, etc DO NOT NEED any kind of IOT. let it spit out read only data to a public facing web server if you REALLY need to monitor your wind turbine while on vacation. and if you do, then you bought a really shitty turbine.

    Honestly all IOT designers and programmers need to be beaten with a sack of doorknobs until they stop being idiots or have some sense beaten into them. and if you hear any executive talk about IOT, instantly kick them in the groin as hard as you can.

  12. Only non enthusiasts will buy from it. on GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cheaper than Dirt is where most guys that really like guns go as you can get all the parts you need. Cabela's lets you fondle them and will have prices better than most gun shops. And ordering a gun online or from a shopping channel will have to be picked up with the added fees at a local gun dealer anyways so unless they are 30-50% less on everything than normal sources it will be an epic failure of a channel.

  13. My favorite Skit! on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know SNL has really hit it over the top this year with this Donald Trump for president running gag.....

  14. Re:Why are there so few? on Japanese Space Probe Akatsuki Enters Orbit Around Venus Five Years Late (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I do as well, and they are not expensive at all, total spent was less than 1/5th the cost of the stupid countertops the wife had to have in the kitchen. Bought the generator at costco, hired and electrician to wire it and the auto transfer switch, did the concrete pad myself. dirt cheap and awesome. the seperate UPS's on the computers and devices that need them were dirt cheap as well.

  15. Re:Crazy. Naval swarm warfare. on Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Considering that the Phalanx weapon system can target and hit all the falling pieces of the incoming missile it just destroyed? Not a problem with your swarm that will be destroyed quite quickly.

  16. Re:You may like to read: on Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    I would LOVE a nice article on the inner working of the new smart weapons that are being developed. Problems is no "nerds" work for Slashdot anymore.

  17. Re:Too late for some. on Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 2

    It's because we don't have people becoming doctors to help people. they are there to be wealthy.

    Remember the old small town doctor that drive a rusted out chevy and helped poor people for free and even make house calls? Yeah those don't exist anymore. My doc was that kind and he recently died.

    He told me that the government would put him in jail for giving free care or making house calls. I guess charging less than the mandated minimum is a felony in the United States.

    Honest doctors help those in need. Dishonest ones drive a porsche and gold of fridays.

  18. The funny part. on Report Claims Microsoft Beat Apple in Online Tablet Sales for October (winbeta.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a Surface pro... and I can not get myself to buy another. The huge problems with the Surface pro and how microsoft has told me "sucks to be you, reinstall the OS" means I have zero interest in walking down their road again. Not as long as they use low grade dog food chips like Marvell for their wireless networking.

  19. Sounds like a plan, you first. You need to give us $15,000 for your new license plate, it's easily broken and you have ot pay for a replacement or face a $10,000 fine for having it broken.

  20. Re:DMV data required on New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I love it when it's some dumb pizza driver. I nailed some low IQ, 20 something punk blasting down the residential street at 60 by calling his store and describing the car to the manager. She was very upset and thanked me for reporting him.

  21. Re:Unmarked police cars on New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hiring a crack head to take photos of all cars entering and leaving the police parking garage over the course of 2 days will give you the same. It's been done for decades by criminals that have more than 80 iq points.

    Luckily most criminals don't have more than that.

  22. Re:community 'crime' watch organizations on New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have 1080P HD cameras outside my home, I certainly want this reader software looking at my driveway to catalog who has been here.

    Considering that I can get 8 megapixel security cameras if I went to the high end ones, suddenly you can get enough data from a single picture to really nail things down.

    The sad part is guys like me that likes to tinker and casinos are the only ones that have this stuff. Gas stations and other businesses as well as the state cameras are all 40 year old 480line interlaced garbage that only deliver blobs instead of a clear picture.

  23. Re:It's almost like a fetish on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They used to do this. I remember buying Processor licenses for Windows NT.

    Microsoft is good at doing the same things over and over again.

  24. Re:Homegrown? Come on on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He has a solid grip on it. and calling it that is very calculated.

    Homegrown terrorist makes people feel more helpless that they can not do anything about it and need daddy government to help them.

    If you call it a real Terrorist attack, even the hard left liberals will be in line at the gun shop to buy AR15's and a ammo can of 1000 rounds. Americans will gleefully arm themselves to fight a foreign threat.

    but homegrown? I'm helpless, my neighbor could be one! Help me daddy gubment! Where can I report them?

    The LAST thing republicans and democrats want is all of america's citizens arming themselves heavily and organizing.

  25. Re:Who is this person who claims to speak for the on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NY Times is not a reputable news source anymore... They have not been anything but a opinion rag for the past 5 years.