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  1. Why use a direct solver? on Astonishing Speedup In Solving Linear SDD Systems · · Score: 3, Informative

    Comparing the solver's complexity to Gaussian-Elimination isn't useful. No one in their right mind uses direct solvers on large linear systems.

    Anyway, if the system is symmetric and dominant diagonal, SOR is the standard choice in iterative solvers.

  2. Re:got spyware? on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    I'd go more the water-tight-seal-and-throw-into-the-Schuykill-river approach.

  3. Re:Well no wonder on US Monitoring Database Reaches Limit, Quits Tracking Felons and Parolees · · Score: 1

    No. "Sieg" means victory. "Heil" is a word from middle-German meaning salvation and health. The phrase "Seig Heil" is a long the lines of "salvation through victory." "For the win" comes from the game show Hollywood Squares.

  4. The Real American System on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1, Troll

    How will this allow him to "participate directly" in American politics more so than before? Citizenship doesn't change the way you write checks.

  5. Necessary? on Machining a TI-89 Out of Aluminum · · Score: 1

    I've had the same Ti-86 since 11th grade---about a decade ago---and I must have dropped it a few thousand times over that period. While this is a neat engineering exercise, the original design is more than capable of surviving the day-to-day paces that a student will put it through.

  6. King of Wifi-Squatters on Some LA Coffee Shops Are Taking Wi-Fi Off the Menu · · Score: 1

    This is especially topical since this was spotted at the Barns and Noble on Rittenhouse square in Philadelphia last month.

  7. Good enough for Gates on Forget University — Use the Web For Education, Says Gates · · Score: 1

    Gates is an autodidact; he is known for taking entire weeks, secluding himself and reading a stack of books. It's fair to say that most people don't have "reading weeks." The average, millennial collegian lacks the self-discipline to not start playing with their smart-phone ten minutes in to attempting to have a "reading week."

    While open course-ware might be good enough for Gates, the direction and reinforcement offered by a traditional university focuses the majority of students.

  8. PhD or MD on Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ · · Score: 1

    How is this, in practice, any different from having qualifications that are strongly correlated to IQ? The average median IQ of an MD is above 120.

    The only benefit that I can see is that someone with such qualifications would cost more. It's cheaper to just give an IQ test to a large pool of people, and hope you find a few candidates who have the measured intelligence that you want yet cannot demand the salaries that are typically correlated with a higher IQ.

  9. If you really want to get one... on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Make a list of all the suggestions that you're getting here, and make sure that what you pick isn't on that list.

    Otherwise, it's not really an expression of whom really you are; it would be more confirmation that you're seeking to join a klatsch.

  10. Sliders? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    Has Hawkings been dipping into the Sliders reruns a little too heavily?

    He's basically telling us to watch out for the Kromaggs .

  11. IntelliSense Overhall on Something For (Almost) Every Developer · · Score: 1

    Is this finally going to be the version where Intellisense doesn't make the editor randomly pause and unresponsive?

    I usually end up disabling Intellisense in C++ by removing the offending DLL from the VS installation when I'm working with heavily <template>ed code.

  12. Most Annoying Part... on Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon · · Score: 1

    Every single suggested product that Amazon has emailed me about for the past four months has been one of these books.

    I just checked my email and found that "TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library: Open Source, Virtual Appliance, Ubuntu (Operating System), Virtual Machine, Cloud Computing, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud" is now on sale.

    I don't really care that these books are on Amazon. What I do care about is Amazon emailing me that these books are now available on Amazon.

  13. Re:Cutting edge == Johnny Rotten? on The Struggle To Keep Java Relevant · · Score: 1

    I doubt that he remembers using Java or things written in it fifteen years ago when kids with mohawks routinely brought computers to a halt with their buggy AWT GUIs and applets.

    Personally, I prefer my software to come from disciplined engineers and not some caricature listening to a Prodigy mix-tape, chugging Jolt Cola straight out of a two-liter bottle and admiring the reflection of his cyan colored hair in the flicker of his amber terminal that he salvaged from an unsecured dumpster in an industrial park.

  14. Re:Damn you Slashdot! on Raise a Glass — Time(2) Turns 40 Tonight · · Score: 1

    1995 called and it wants its joke back.

  15. Re:Yes on When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? · · Score: 1

    Why not just keep healthful foods for yourself at work? Even if the manager springs for "free food," the chances that it will be some cheap, disgusting take-away. It's not hard to keep some pouches of plain instant oatmeal, microwavable brown rice, apples, dried fruit and low-sodium soups at work.

    I'm generally against accepting "free food" in this context as it, at least in my mind, makes me less of a wage slave and more of a regular one.

  16. Re:My god. on Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    Cool story, bro.

  17. If I were the judge... on Eolas Sues World + Dog For AJAX Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd ask Eolas to show their technologies that they demonstrated widely over 15 years ago. If they're trying to sue the pants off of everyone for copying their demo, they should have it handy.

  18. Easy Final Solution... on Ambassador Claims ACTA Secrecy Necessary · · Score: 1

    1. Release a fake treaty on the internets that contains outrageous provisions which would make things that common people do on a day-to-day basis criminal.
    2. Bait fringe cable news outlets to the story.
    3. Government officials refuse to comment.
    4. The story gets the spin: "OMG ITZ TRUES. THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR YOUTUBE AND FANFICTION.NET."
    5. ...
    6. Profit

  19. Not new. Not Interesting. on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If Linux malware is unheard of, why does McAfee sell LinuxSheld?

    Anyway, people have been releasing internet-wide, UNIX malware malware for at least 21 years.

  20. Re:Pay back on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    You're just asking questions.

  21. Re:Only a concern for the American Empire wage sla on FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains By UDRP · · Score: 1

    Which country do you suggest for the American debt slave emegrant?

  22. Not totally useless... on Microsoft COFEE Leaked · · Score: 1

    It could be a boon for counter-forensics; it wouldn't be that hard to make a root-kit that either doesn't allow COFEE to run or returns bogus information from system calls when COFEE is running.

  23. Motivation? on Why Motivation Is Key For Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    That's easy. Just give the robots some cocaine.

  24. Re:There's got to be a better way on First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1
  25. Re:This is the same BSA on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Invoices are generally printed off laser printers. Suppose that you have legal copies of the software yet don't have the accompanying invoices. What is the legality of printing your own forged invoices? The BSA isn't part of the government, you haven't entered a contract with them and you're not trying to defraud them; they came in opened up your cabinet and found what they were looking for.