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  1. With laws like these... on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    We fart in our own general direction.

  2. Impressive feat of programming on 'Tetris' Recreated In Conway's 'Game of Life' (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 1

    This is really awesome. Now that you are started, could you switch to the Game of Half-Life? Some people are waiting.

  3. What could possibly go wrong? on Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Autonomous laser firing rover uses AI to choose target to be obliterated. I just hope it stays trapped on Mars.

  4. I still have the pinch I used to make these floppies double sided cutting the notch on the side. When I explained my daughters what this was for, they looked at me like if I just explained them how I squashed rocks to make fire...

  5. Obligatory quote on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 1

    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.” -- Terry Pratchett

  6. Call me an old guy with a short attention span but on No Film At 11: the Case For the Less-Video-Is-More MOOC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have never been able to stand more than 5 minutes of a MOOC video before telling myself 'OK, I'll find a proper textbook.'.
    I usually have a basic view of the MOOC topic ; at least the textbook allows me to skim it and dig deeper on the points that I'm interested in.
    Just sitting at my desk and watching a video is usually boring and requires to watch the complete segment before realising it was not what I was looking for.

    The same goes for all these video tutorials : why bother making a 5-min youtube video on some software installation when a one-page text with command lines would be appropriate?

  7. The question is : WHICH million people? on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 4, Funny

    And if you pick the right million people to send there, it's a win-win situation! I'm not sure that it would be really ethical to send one million bankster and lawyers to Mars though. At least from the Martians standpoint.

  8. Fairly easy : 0.3c on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    You just have to travel at 0.3 c. Thanks to the Doppler effect, the red light appears green. You can safely ignore the blue ones.

  9. It's a pity on Canonical Shutting Down Ubuntu One File Services · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I for one used this service to share files between my Ubuntu desktops, it worked seamlessly. It is especially useful for development files (programs and scripts) that I share between my different workplaces.

    If anyone has a replacement suggestion that integrates well with the Ubuntu desktop, I would be glad to hear from it.

  10. And what about the spoon? on Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes' · · Score: 1

    Does it exist or not?

  11. And what about REISUB? on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 4, Informative

    As a Linux user it's sometimes necessary to cleanly reboot the machine through the Kernel call Alt+PrintScreen+ REISUB, I don't see how to do that on this laptop?

  12. Re:I'm in the US on How To Make 96,000lbs of WWII Machinery Into High-Tech Research Platform · · Score: 1

    I'm in Europe and you seem to be using Imperial Arithmetics as well as Imperial Units, leading to some confusion in my brain.

  13. I switched my mom to Ubuntu 12.04 on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: 4, Informative

    and she took a few weeks to adapt, now she uses it (mostly) trouble-free. I also enabled Desktop sharing via VNC to avoid driving to her place every time she complains 'I had my icon here and now it's gone' or 'It does not behave as berfore' or 'The menu to send my mails is gone'.
    Her grand-children also spend lots of time on this computer while she takes care of them, and I used to clean lots of malware after them... not anymore.

  14. My 2 cents : initiate a Slashdot Poll on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    I have to agree on all the previous comments : I'm only here for the comments, not for visual candy. My suggestion is to initiate a poll with the different site design options ; seeing all the comments here I bet the results will by "90% - keep curent design 10%- Get us CmdrTaco back".

  15. Obligatory on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new chocolate eating, gold-piling overlords (I live in France at 10 km from the Swiss border...)

  16. You will be missed on Iain Banks Dies of Cancer At 59 · · Score: 2

    I wish you were fully backed up. I hope you Sublimed somehow.
    I really like his novels, I see him in the lienage of Clarke and Herbert in his own Galaxy.

  17. A crowbar and a HEV suit on Ask Slashdot: Server Room Toolbox? · · Score: 5, Funny

    always prove useful. And some ammo.

  18. Re:First shoot it with a .458 magnum - several tim on How Do You Eat a Triceratops? Start By Ripping the Head Off · · Score: 1

    It's common knowledge that the military equipment preferred by Tyranosaurs is the F-14 Tomcat. Soooooo cool!

  19. Self-slashdotting on Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that the mobile version of this site is great and all, but currently it is unavailable. Only Slashdot can slashdot Slashdot.

  20. Re:Evil learning on Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us · · Score: 2

    I currently use my PI as an automatic garden watering system (using a relay and an electrovalve). The good thing is that I can remotely change the watering time by ssh to adapt to the weather (I live far from that house). Running for 3 months without a glitch so far, which shows a MTBF higher than 1000 hours. By the way, it was really fun to program in Python.

  21. In Soviet Russia... on Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker · · Score: 4, Funny

    The ice breaks YOU! -Napoleon Bonaparte

  22. Re:Greenie perspective on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ on that, it has been available since January 2012 (at least in France) and several thousands of them are already on the road., see here : http://www.peugeot.fr/configurer/3008/hybrid/ Additional cars with this system are also available (the DS5 for one). I was lucky enough to work on this project, a real engineering challenge, especially to ensure that the front and the rear axle work together nicely. And the car is really fun to drive. Given the complexity of the design of such a car, I wish good luck to the guys trying to do this at home.

  23. Yes, but... on High-Performance Monolithic Graphene Transistors Created · · Score: 0

    Will it run Linux?

  24. Re:Language on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Basically that 1 million year from now English and French will both be dead...

  25. Re:Language on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Je ne vois pas pourquoi. Dans un million d'années, le français et l'anglais seront deux langues mortes. Votre commentaire est raciste.