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  1. Re:Wildly inaccurate summary of the research. on Scientists Have Reduced the Forecast of Sea Level Rise Seven Times Due To Melting of the Antarctic (maritimeherald.com) · · Score: 1

    @Beauhd, please fix this post...

  2. TL;DR: Nothing to see here (author's opinion) on Apple's Software 'Problem' and 'Fixing' It (learningbyshipping.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, they've lost focus and it's showing (my opinion).

  3. Re:Yeah, it's 1999 again on Ice Tea Company Rebrands as 'Long Blockchain' and Stock Price Triples (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My bad, I probably misunderstood the noble goal of replacing state owned currencies with people owned cryptocurrencies as something that was actually looked forward to.

  4. Re:Yeah, it's 1999 again on Ice Tea Company Rebrands as 'Long Blockchain' and Stock Price Triples (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, have you considered that scenario with half the masses counting on their bitcoin portfolio to pay their rent?

  5. Weather baloon on EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    They considered a few other options to classify Uber, like a mid-sized sedan, swamp gas, camera smudge, or man in ape suit.

  6. Re:Revealing != open source on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that exposing the source code complements blind validation by allowing experienced programmers to detect failures that would not otherwise be detected by a controlled experiment. Also, Dieselgate.

    I fully agree to the plaintiffs in this situation and I fully disagree with all arguments put forward by the company's owner. There's no hypocrisy regarding the non-tried suspects, and the fact that guilty people might have gotten off without even going to trial due to his software claiming innocence even worsens the case.

  7. Re:Revealing != open source on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense... The guy says it's not necessary "because his company runs its own validation testing". Why can't you trust the guy and his company to validate his own stuff? Why??

  8. Old fashion styles always come back on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Warning: Windows 10 is draining your battery on Windows 10 Warns Chrome and Firefox Users About Battery Drain, Recommends Switching To Edge (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd have loved to see Chrome and Firefox popping up such notices in retaliation :)

  10. Comment sorting on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I'd find sorting based on score much more useful than first-come-first-served. The score would have to be unlimited for it to work, or sorting score be somehow separated from the -1 to 5 scoring system.

    Maybe supporting both sorting methods would make everybody happy.

  11. "News for nerds, stuff that matters".

    I consider myself a nerd, and this matters to me. I also infer that nerds in general would be interested in more than tech news, including a US border scandal happening abroad and involving the religion in the spotlight, but I may be wrong.

    Maybe since that motto is no longer visible, it may well no longer be the guide for its content subjects. If that's the case, a newer guide doesn't seem to be visible anywhere else either, so assume "tech/geek" at your own risk.

    Hope that helps.

  12. From the NCA link, about interest in programming and spending all night online:

    Many of these are just normal teenage behaviours and don't necessarily suggest a young person is at risk of getting involved in cyber crime. But if a young person is showing several of these signs, try and have a conversation with them about their online activities.

    What exactly am I supposed to be shocked about?

  13. Re:Why do they need ANY info? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To block you from doing distracting tasks while driving such as editing a playlist or browsing your contact list.

  14. Re:Oh boy on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 1

    ...Until Ethan Hunt needs to get something from it.

  15. Re:Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    Ah right, so it's actually:

    1/0 = ÃS'
    0ÃS' = 1

    As for the utility, if there are situations where a plot or solve 1/x for every x is necessary, I imagine there would be situations where it should be workable even if [.'. x] includes 0 without the algorithm being deemed broken because there's no "if x != 0 then 1/x else ???" in it.

  16. Re:Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to understand why we can't do the same trick we do with sqrt(-1) on (1/0) and call it "zeplex". Example:

    1/0 = Ê' (some applicable symbol)

    A zeplex number is composed of a real part and a zereal part: a + bÊ'

    Then:
    Ê'/Ê' = 1
    0*Ê' = 0

    And so on.

    It can't be just the asymptotic nature, because it doesn't seem to hold complex from being a valid concept. I.e.: http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...

  17. Re:Unfair comparison on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1

    What about when the doctor himself prescribes the antibiotics for a cold or flu against the patient's own judgement, without doing any test for bacterial infection?

  18. COM link on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    Found this procedure: http://www.kime.net/directcc/d...

    You could link the oldest one to the less old through their COM ports.

    It may require access to Win 3.11 install disks tho.

  19. Reading topic suggestion for Mr. Bresbris on Tracking Down How Many (Or How Few) People Actively Use Google+ · · Score: 1
  20. Easy... on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    Next up: Why not just do this using batteries--never mind the cars?

    Because they were bound to be plugged in to recharge anyway. That way they're doubling as batteries for the building.

  21. Re:Why not promote a Dvorak keyboard instead? on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I present you... Non-US keyboards!

    They do annoy the heck of me tho.

  22. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    An electrical heater is not a system, it's just part of one. The system itself would at least involve the energy source and the transporting medium, where the losses continue to hold true the fact that there's no 100% efficiency in any system. If there were, Entropy would have no meaning.

    If you take the isolated case of the heater as being 100% efficient because in itself it's able to convert 100% of its input energy into wanted heat (which itself is discutable, since there may still be losses through electro-magnetic emissions, vibrations, etc. that would not be captured by the room and transformed into heat, even though all that would be as negligible as contesting gravity acceleration as not being 9.8m/s^2 in most cases), you'd just as well pick a heat pump which, with the same amount of input energy, "produces" 3 times more heat.

  23. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    Heat pumps are 300% efficient. Maybe we should use heat pumps instead of electric cars.

  24. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    What I meant is that the fact seems to be "electricity is way more efficient than combustion" rather than "electricity is 100% efficient. Gas is not".

    As far as my ignorance in the laws of Physics goes, it's simply impossible to have any system running at 100% efficiency because it automatically implies zero loss of energy.

    Electric systems lose energy everywhere: conduction materials have impedance, motors have friction *and* generate inductive impedance, photons are created...

  25. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    I think you may have gotten your fact wrong.