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  1. Standards? on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    I thought there were standards for C in automotive and aerospace applications which disallowed the use of pointer arithmetic.

  2. Re:Electric vehicles on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 1

    Federal and state payroll and income taxes, sales taxes, per-capita taxes, vehicle inspection and registration fees, and capital gains off the top of my head. The immediate thing would be to raise registration fees to offset lower revenues from gas sales rather than a new and highly invasive per-km driven tax.

  3. Re:Lacking faith in the currency? on Bitcoin Kiosks Coming To 5 Canadian Cities · · Score: 1

    Nah. Just that people want an anonymous way to buy them for drug deals without having to be turbo nerds.

  4. Re:Eating too much on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    Checkmate!

  5. Re:Pathetic on Twinkies: The Breakfast of Champion Programmers Still Hard To Get · · Score: 0

    I agree with the anonymous poster. It's shit food that doesn't even look like food.

    Learn how to cook. Bring stuff to eat with you. Learn about macronutrients and keep track of them. Learn how to drink water and black coffee. Don't live off of vending machines and perk snacks/tripe. Eat to fuel your body and not as some kind of reward or social activity or something you do out of boredom.

    I haven't had any crisps or snack foods in about 5 years. You just have to deprogram yourself to eat like you're getting ready for a famine.

  6. Sell it. on Judge Rules In Favor of Volkswagen and Silences Scientist · · Score: 1

    Might as well sell that exploit the RBN and make some money off of the deal if you can't disclose it publicly.

  7. Re:It's not as unsecure as you'd think on Russian Federal Guard Service "Upgrades" To Electric Typewriters · · Score: 2

    You don't need to install a keylogger, it already has one built in; the ribbon.

  8. How will the documents be distributed? on Russian Federal Guard Service "Upgrades" To Electric Typewriters · · Score: 1

    Typing them on an Underwood won't make it any more secure, if the documents are scanned and emailed.

  9. Special Snowflake on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Only #1 and #2 are legitimate. The others on the list come down to having a big ego as a 'rockstar' coder and not getting special snowflake treatment.

  10. Re:SI units are fiat units on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    The meter is defined to be the distance light travels through a vacuum in exactly 1/299792458 seconds.

  11. Re:Liberty on Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened · · Score: 1

    I want to see the DPRK do a twitter reenactment of the USS Pueblo incident.

  12. Re:The government is obsessed with felons on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    DPRK.

  13. Windows Phones? on Bill Gates: iPad Users Are Frustrated They Can't Type Or Create Documents · · Score: 1

    Does this mean we're going to start seeing Windows phones with hardware keyboards? I hope so. That would cause some market pressure for Android phone manufactures to start selling phones with keyboards again. Until then, I'm stuck with an HTC G2.

  14. Re:Not very Green on Texas Company's Antique Computers Are For Production, Not Display · · Score: 2

    This computer only has to be on when it's actually processing/tabulating. It's only getting juice for the 20 or so minutes a day you're processing payroll or the day's invoices. Your office PC never gets turned off.

  15. Revenge of the Nerds on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    Why are you all buying into the same nerd-jock dichotomy from junior high? Exercising or taking up a sport won't lower your IQ 30 points or make you unable to write a C program. You should have more in your life than sitting in front of a blinking screen, snacking and anime porn.

    I'm an mechanical engineer and I also am a competitive powerlifter who holds state titles. Being at that level of sport requires a considerable time commitment, but It's something that I enjoy. I remember the first time I tried incline benching; I got pinned under 95lbs. Now, I can rep 365lbs. I would never have discovered this ability if I just looked at exercise and strength as something for dumb jocks who are mentally enfeebled.

  16. My Next Business Venture... on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fake six-strikes popups which ask for credit card numbers to resolve the complaint.

  17. Because It's Not the University of Phoenix on Professors Rejecting Classroom Technology · · Score: 1

    Using a lot of tech detracts from the classroom instruction experience because it becomes very easy to commodify and degrade. Putting all the resources all online and using cute web based tests? Ok, then open up another 10 sections for the online students. Also, the university I graduated from had very strict IP hording policies. The university automatically took ownership over all materials professors put online for their students. Keeping everything paper was a defensive mechanism.

  18. Re:Cool! on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    People can have an interest in both sport and science. Sorry if that shatters your jocks v. nerds social dichotomy.

  19. Re:Women are equal in every way! on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 1

    It's call GRINDR. And no.

  20. Re:Can they stop them all? on Turkey Bans Pastebin and Tinyurl · · Score: 1

    I'm familiar with how sites are blocked in Turkey.

    They don't have a Chinese style "great firewall." Instead the tell the isps to not resolve the dns of certian addresses. Such filtering can be circumvented by using dns servers that aren't run by major isps.

  21. Re:So when did... on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot. What's a "guy-um?"

  22. Re:Control the devices on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    So, you are advocating the Lower Lower Merion approach to school IT?

  23. Re:Automatic notetaking is nice on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you buy your kid textbooks then? If your kid was going to a private school, the purchase of textbooks is not included in tuition and generally required.

  24. Gray Area for Sarbanes–Oxley on Businesses Now Driving "Bring Your Own Device" Trend · · Score: 2

    This is not surprising as it allows people to communicate off the record by using their own account on their own devices and maintain records that would not be subject to any retention rules. That sounds like a great business case to me.

  25. Re:No, because science != sci-fi/fantasy on Can Movies Inspire Kids To Be Future Scientists? · · Score: 1

    What about _Real Genius_? Their 80's montage scenes of failing experiments were fairly accurate.