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  1. Congratulations, open source programmers on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, open source programmers, Microsoft couldn't be the empire it is & another $7.5 billion couldn't have been added to Sunnyvale housing prices without your sacrificed evenings, weekends, & jobs. I never got into gitbug, still using sourceforget all these years. Looks like once those shares vest, gitbug will be joining Microsoft's other thriving acquisitions like hotmail.com, skype, & linkedin. Can't wait for hackaday.io to get acquired by Microsoft. My custom sandals should get at least a couple rhinestone bathtubs for the CEO's mansion.

  2. Not a C64? on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 1

    For crying out loud. Get rid of those crummy Amigas & put in proper C64's.

  3. Given Google's past protocols on Google To Propose QUIC As IETF Standard · · Score: 1

    Does this mean all web pages are going to partially reload for 5 minutes, toggling between 2 resolutions, then give up with a static filled error message?

  4. $72 million is only $35 million in 2008 dollars on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    $72 million is only $35 million in 2008 dollars

  5. Tubes for video are coming on Atari Emulation of CRT Effects On LCDs · · Score: 1

    Just like tube amplifiers for audio, the NTSC TV look is probably going to be sought after. We thought those artifacts were going to be around for all time & mastered how to choose colors that would always display. The new VGA monitors were too expensive & we weren't old enough to know any better.

  6. Keeping the projectors focused on Cheap 3D Motion Sensing System Developed At MIT · · Score: 1

    So how do they keep the projected patterns in focus as the actor moves towards & away from the projectors? What if you want to track a close actor & a distant actor simultaneously? Those projected patterns aren't going to be in focus & the sensors won't know where they are.

  7. Here's how it works on Cheap 3D Motion Sensing System Developed At MIT · · Score: 1

    It relies on cycling a repeating pattern from every projector 500 times/sec. Every pixel in the pattern encodes a unique symbol by the colors & the changes in the colors over time. By sensing what symbol hits each sensor, you know what pixel from the projector is hitting the sensor & what position on the projector's XY plane the sensor is in. If you know the XY plane position from 2 projectors, you can triangulate the sensor's 3D position, but projectors with enough resolution & bandwidth to do the job are expensive. $1000 would be for very low resolution.

  8. Scam on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 1

    This has scam written all over it, but don't try searching for that on the Goog. These people get something stuffed in their bodies, fly home, & voila, 20/400 vision instead of 20/4000 vision & no side effects. Can anyone even measure 20/4000 vision? Does anyone even know if it's the fact that they're stem cells or if it was the extra volume of whatever they're stuffing?

  9. Java is sun's pet project on Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects? · · Score: 1

    That's like saying Oracle is going to pull Java. The very reason we all have to use Java for our day jobs is because Sun keeps pumping money into odd projects & promoting it. Everyone likes designing Java API's but Sun is the only one making progress on implementation. How many API's would get implemented if Sun didn't spend the money? Android still has just 1 implementation.

  10. and how distant was it? on Most Distant Object Yet Detected, Bagged By Galileo Scope · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Too bad not one article said how distant it was. Still working on that one, but at least we know it's the "most" distant.

  11. Who's backing it again? on UK Government To Back Broadband-For-All · · Score: 1

    Is it the government or the taxpayers who are paying for it?

  12. The future of call centers on India Launches Its First All-Weather Spy Satellite · · Score: 0

    Hopefully Indians can do more for themselves instead of being the back office grunt workers that they've been for everyone else.

  13. effect on illegal immigration on MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners · · Score: 1

    But won't this cause tax revenue from illegal immigrants to plummet & home equity to fall because of the lack of illegal immigrants to buy houses? It's going to be banned.

  14. ballutes & russian heroines on Sophisticated Balloons Could Help Steer Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Our favorite part of ballute aerobraking is when the beautiful Russian heroine comes into your state room & starts making love to you.

  15. long used in humans on Flying Micro-Robot Takes Off · · Score: 1

    This has long been used in humans. Either a magnetic robot flies in the bodily fluids or magnets are used to move an instrument in the body. Who knows what a flying magnet in air would manipulate, since it's in air.

  16. telecommuting stimulus package on Tesla CEO Says Gov't Loan Is 99% Sure and Deserved · · Score: 1

    You'd think it would be more effective to support working from home like they do in Japan instead of spending all this money on more cars to transport your face to your boss. Guess cars are more important to some people.

  17. blurry, underexposed, shaking live concerts on YouTube Symphony Orchestra Set To Debut At Carnegie Hall · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll be the first concert without any lights, with half the orchestra shifted off the stage, with everything always out of focus, & with only 1 note you can actually hear.

  18. had many dead SD cards on How Does Flash Media Fail? · · Score: 1

    Have had several SD cards fail in a custom board & 1 fail in a commercial product. In all cases, they got into some safe mode where they wouldn't accept write commands but would accept read commands. The problem may be static electricity, too many invalid write commands, or just flaky manufacturing.

    Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it's really hard to find failures of SD cards on Google, or failures of any commercial product for that matter.

  19. Making Java as unreadable as Perl on Google App Engine Adds Java Support, Groovy Meta-Programming · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely there is a way to make Java even less readable than Groovy. Maybe make the entire language pure regular expressions or allow every character including the . to be an object.

    One outcome of Sun's future liquidation is that no-one is around to promote the 1 Jesus language & Java ends up fragmenting into thousands of derivatives like Linux or Fortran.

  20. protect Mike Doogan on Thai Gov't Sets Up Site For Snitching On Royals' Critics · · Score: 1

    It's not like you're any freer to criticize Mike Doogan.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/0158249

  21. Life with Goo Ray on Sony Pictures in Talks With YouTube · · Score: 1

    It's going to be a 320x240 version of HD, with the word HD in a small button in the lower right. When you click it, it expands to 400x300, wow!

    All the movies transferred to Goo Ray are going to be defocused, underexposed, shaken, & the audio muffled for the Goo Tube look you've come to expect.

  22. 2 second charges were better on MIT Building Batteries Using Viruses · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last month's battery which could recharge in 2 seconds was way better than this.

  23. today's april fool is tomorrow's fact on Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember when Napster sold itself to the music industry. That was originally an April fool's story, before it became real. Then there was the April fool's story about taxpayers paying off all the mortgages in the world.

  24. modern democracy is a 2 way street on Anonymous Blogger Outed By Politician · · Score: 1

    Democracy is a 2 way street when information is unlimited. Your politicians can vote you out just as easily as you vote your politicians out. Had the same thing happen with Keith Cowing. If U don't support the right agenda, don't be surprised if you're unemployed the next day.

  25. it keeps getting more boring on Red Hat — Stand Alone Or Get Bought? · · Score: 1

    Redhat once paid people to write crazy programs like Enlightenment. Then they focused on a little less crazy ideas like web servers. Now they'll take the next step & become even more boring. Wonder if anyone is still there from the glory days of 1997?