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  1. Thanks for the example on DARPA Wants You To Verify Software Flaws By Playing Games · · Score: 2

    I ran through a couple rounds of your game. I'm not trying to knock it, but if I may ask an ignorant question: If a computer can determine the value of structures created by a human, couldn't the computer generate structures and evaluate them much, much faster than a human (or even as many humans as you can muster to play the game)?

  2. Re:The limit of miniaturization? on New Technique To Develop Single-Molecule Diode · · Score: 1

    By that logic, so are you.

  3. Re:Google's Useless About Updates on Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode · · Score: 1

    Google Play works fine with cyanogen.

    Assuming you mean CyanogenMod and not Cyanogen, Inc.: they have yet to release a stable (or even a snapshot) build of Android 5 or 5.1. I like CM, but I'm hesitant to sign on to CM12.1 when the forum threads for nightlies are bug report after bug report.

  4. Re:Cursive on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    Wow, with a re-reading, that sounds a little more neo-con and a little less neo-con parody. My mistake.

  5. Re:Cursive on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    We keep trying! It's not working because of the crooks in this one.

  6. Re:yo dawg on Cybersecurity Company Extorted Its Clients, Says Whistleblower · · Score: 1

    One kind of double standard applies to people like gstoddart.
    The other kind applies to everyone else.

  7. Re:Yeah, LIKE YOU GUYS NEVER WHINE ABOUT SYSTEMD on Is IT Work Getting More Stressful, Or Is It the Millennials? · · Score: 1

    I think my favorite thing about this post is your handle.

  8. Re:Is it Suicide? on No Justice For Victims of Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    And if not, can you take out an insurance policy on your "self" first?

  9. Re:Oh, no... on Microsoft: No More 'Patch Tuesday' For Windows 10 Home Users · · Score: 1
    I take issue with your "people selling" phrase. It is totally out of line!

    The word you are looking for is "fewer."

    ...and therefore fewer people to sell.

  10. Re:Can we please stop tacking -gate on to the end. on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 2

    Yes. Let's call it the War on Gate.

  11. Re:Just stupid on Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    I assert that the problem was not that they didn't have enough evidence. The problem is that even though they had evidence to get a warrant, they didn't, which sets them up to avoid getting warrants in future cases where they don't have all that evidence.

  12. Re:The 30 and 40-somethings wrote the code... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    It's an out-of-band channel for someone to tell you why their web servers are down. That turns out to be useful. Other purposes? None that I use.

  13. Re:too bad all these sites are run by morons on Facebook Wants to Skip the Off-Site Links, Host News Content Directly · · Score: 1

    #what #could #possibly #go #wrong

  14. Re:Wow total distopia on The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher · · Score: 1

    I would gladly have you pay more to get a more useful government.

  15. Re:A sane supreme court decision? on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    That has already happened, sort of.

  16. Re:ostensibly for sorting purposes on New Privacy Concerns About US Program That Can Track Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    YRIRL

  17. Re: Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1
    TFA said this:

    The change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide...

    but I suppose if one were to miss that sentence, it would sound scarier.

  18. Re:Awesome! on NASA's Rocket Maker To Begin 3D Printing Flight-Ready Components · · Score: 1

    SpaceX is already printing rocket engines.

    Which is great! And even more great, now that the MIC is doing it, too. I name this a win for competition-driven cost-saving measures.

  19. Re:ASCAP and BMI on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    Seems like the same sort of thing would be easy here. Just find one of the stations often used for sampling and bribe them to give you a few percent more plays, resulting in a big increase in royalties.

    With respect to radio, paying DJs to play your songs more was deemed illegal 50ish years ago. I suppose if you're already calling it "bribing," legality is not a primary concern.

  20. Re:Rush hour unlikely to disappear on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    The cars still take up physical space and the safety margins required won't be drastically less then they are now.

    Anecdote: A Korean I knew extolled the United State's interstate system. He says that the cars owned in South Korea would (and do, on holidays) take up an appreciable fraction of the country's total highway road surface.

  21. Re:Get the basics right on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 1

    What color do you want that bike shed?

  22. I was fine with the nerf guns until it was clear that some people could not handle basic self-control. It was one thing to have nerf fights after hours or anywhere but the work areas, but that seems to be impossible for some of my coworkers. Every single developer complained to management, and the nerf guns went away.

    There are still other diversions, but nerf was the only distracting one**. We've managed to avoid acquiring table-tennis/foosball tables.

    ** Also, that one time a football landed on someone's desk during the World Cup.

  23. Re:Confusion on Google: Our New System For Recognizing Faces Is the Best · · Score: 1

    You look like a Rick. Your mother looks like a Susan.

  24. Re:Transparency and Open Government on White House Office of Administration Not Subject to FOIA, Says White House · · Score: 1

    This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, mean anything at all.

    This memorandum shall be published to give people warm fuzzy feelings.

    FTFY.