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  1. Long live FreeBSD

  2. Re:The real reason the engineers are leaving on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to work with Indians from Bangalore at HP. They were working in India and then came to Boise for a week or two. I can't say I remember a single slight directed to them. Most development environments are populated almost exclusively by SJW progressives. How do you define 'rampant racism'.

  3. Sadly the age when most people felt inclined to not share every aspect of their lives is past. The new impulse is to share every thought, image and opinion with the world for attention - and social media companies sell what is given to them to the highest bidder. That's the world we live in, that's the Social Network business model.

  4. They evolved

    They rebelled

    There are many copies

    And they have a plan

  5. Like chaining down innovation to a 1930' telecom law. For the love of God just stop

  6. Hear hear!

  7. I visit slashdot to escape this political bs on Congress Opens Probe Into FBI's Handling of Clinton Email Investigation (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let me predicate this by stating I am a 54 year old Republican who loathes Hillary

    But please never link any political crap here again. Please?

  8. The robots have to eat something on As Robots Move Into Amazon's Warehouses, What's Happening To Its Human Workers? (brisbanetimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    In an effort to replace and deal with the excess human problem the Exodine 3000 warehouse robot is actually powered with a nutritious electrolyte rich slurry derived from the remains of surplus humans, avoid passing by these warehouses at all costs.

  9. A question so stupid it actually makes me ashamed on What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes hurricanes? For the love of God what a pin head question. What has happened to Slashdot?

  10. My first computer on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It had LeScript (kind of a mark-up language word processor) and most importantly VISICALC. That TRS-80 was one hell of a computer.

  11. Boot loading of the next best thing on Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Are humans just biological boot loaders for what is to inevitably come?

  12. Re:"For Gunshots"... on 90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Solid point

  13. Re:"For Gunshots"... on 90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    In all fairness you can use a stripper clip to load the magazine, but the AK requires a magazine to fire more than one round.

  14. Dell 333P (386DX 33Mz with math compressor) on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1
    I had a TRS-80 (VisiCalc and LeScript) but honestly the first computer I was truly fond of was a second hand Dell 333P with the 80287(?) math coprocessor.

    Turbo Pascal was lots of fun with this machine, Windows 3.10 riding on DOS 6.22. 4 Mb RAM -> 8 Mb, 40 Mb HDD (Computer Shopper upgraded to 350 Mb later)

    When I upgraded I gave it to my parents, and went back to retrieve it years later only to discover they had sent it to the landfill . . .

    https://www.recycledgoods.com/...

  15. Re:I'll always remember him as... on Actor John Hurt Dies At Age 77 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    The Three Ravens is still magnificent, they all are.

  16. Que the Ministry of Truth theme music now! on Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? · · Score: 1

    What could go wrong with this idea? No political body with an agenda would ever desecrate the moral sanctity of a 'fact checking' organization, pretty far fetched to say the least - about as as likely as the NYT, WP, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, LAT, and the BG taking sides with the Democrat Party to elect a grifting granny who facilitated the sale of 20% of US uranium (the stuff they make atom bombs out of) to a Russian holding company while pocketing millions of dollars.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04...

    Sheesh, the next thing people will say is a news organization would stoop so low as to feed debate questions to the candidate they wanted to win.

    http://dailycaller.com/2016/11...

    The best thing is obviously to allow the state to control the facts, for that matter these web browsers are just dangerous and we should probably have to have a license to even use one, let alone a web server.

  17. Re:And they discovered that Slashdot has gone to H on Computers Decipher Burnt Scroll Found In Ancient Holy Ark (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I hadn't noticed how crappy it's really got, you're right.

  18. The Age of Aerospace - Must watch! on Legendary 747 Designer Joe Sutter Dies Age 95 (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1
    This is a really good documentary, and includes some great insight into the building of the Boeing 747 and Joe Sutter.

    http://theageofaerospace.com/d...

  19. Re:Huh on RNC Is Preparing For Cyberattacks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point! Doesn't play into the narrative though.

  20. Re:If you know Elon Musk, please pass this along on Elon Musk: 'We Need a Revolt Against the Fossil Fuel Industry' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well put. Musk is a flaming hypocrite and the only thing more unnerving than his brevity is the speed at which some will throw logic aside to defend him.

  21. Tired garbage lies on Elon Musk: 'We Need a Revolt Against the Fossil Fuel Industry' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else tired of these new age captains of industry spewing unrealistic garbage? Jesus, Musk bitching about someone else receiving what he perceives to be subsidies? Tiresome.

  22. Re:NOAA Radiosonde Data Shows No Warming For 58 Ye on This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    If the warmers would just ask for money and quit trying to lie themselves into relevance I would send them $5 just to shut them up.

  23. NOAA Radiosonde Data Shows No Warming For 58 Years on This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record (slate.com) · · Score: -1

    In their 'hottest year ever' press briefing, NOAA included a graph, which stated that they have a 58 year long radiosonde temperature record. But they only showed the last 37 years in the graph.

    Here is why they are hiding the rest of the data. The earlier data showed as much pre-1979 cooling as the post-1979 warming.

    http://realclimatescience.com/...

  24. Don't hold your breath on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    Or do hold your breath, guess no matter what choice you make it's the wrong choice.

  25. Taxes on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 1

    I live in a state with no state income tax, and the Feds took more than 30% of my yearly bonus. I'm thrilled to have a bonus, but I worked hard and it was a kick in the nuts to see that much of it taken. Essentially Americans have to put in a lot of hours just to feed the beast. And the best part is the US still spends about a trillion dollars a year it doesn't have, a luxury I am not afforded and a debt my children will never be able to pay.