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  1. Re:Somebody let me know... on Leak Reveals Government Conspiracy, Atrocity · · Score: 1

    At least they didn't turn Slashdot a Tiffany Grant approved shade of pink this year.

  2. In order... on Leak Reveals Government Conspiracy, Atrocity · · Score: 1

    Yes, maybe, no, and comics.

  3. Re:what's the C in AC stand for? on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    Do a little searching of the news. You should find references that there are at least 850 registered voters over 150 in New York City.

    You mean like this?

    s vote fraud common in American politics? Not according to United States District Judge Lynn Adelman, who examined the evidence from Wisconsin and ruled in late April that “virtually no voter impersonation occurs” in the state and that “no evidence suggests that voter-impersonation fraud will become a problem at any time in the foreseeable future.”

    Or this?

    The Brennan Center’s ongoing examination of voter fraud claims reveal that voter fraud is very rare, voter impersonation is nearly non-existent, and much of the problems associated with alleged fraud in elections relates to unintentional mistakes by voters or election administrators.

    Or this?

    Investigators tell the paper they don't consider the discrepancy fraudulent; the number of votes attributed to deceased voters is too small and their votes are spread out over more than two dozen elections.

    County elections commissioner Bill Biamonte said simple clerical errors make it seem as if the dead are voting. For example, a person voting could accidentally sign their name next to a dead person's name rather than their own in a poll registry book.

    In several pages' worth of "ny voter fraud" results on Google, the only ones describing anything like what you describe were shamelessly partisan articles on sites regularly described as "right wing echo chambers" (e.g. Fox News, NY Post, Breitbart, National Review, redstate.com, etc.).

  4. Re:Wage theft. on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    Being salaried, but worked so many hours that you effectively make less than minimum wage, is exploitation pure and simple.

    I thought it was called "graduate school"...

  5. Re:It freakin' works fine on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Newer versions of GNOME (3.8 and after?) rely on a DBus API of systemd's logind component, for reasons I've never seen adequately explained.

    The talk of forcing all cgroup interactions to go through systemd would in effect make anything that interacts with cgroups or cpusets such as hwloc, TORQUE, and SLURM rely on systemd. I can't imagine that the developers of hwloc, TORQUE, and SLURM are especially happy about that.

  6. Re:NT is best on Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    That is not possible, but I think that a quick reboot once a month isn't too much to ask.

    Well, that makes one of us.

  7. More importantly... on How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    ...when will this result in a 100W Marshall head on a chip?

    (Why yes, I am a guitar player! Thanks for asking.)

  8. If you haven't read The Myythical Man-Month... on Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...you don't get to call yourself a "software engineer" or talk about others' software engineering practices.

  9. Re:Conman and Powerman on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Managing Multiple Serial Console Servers? · · Score: 1

    Thirded. Conman & powerman rock.

  10. Examiners mailing rejection letters from home... on Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office · · Score: 2

    ...is entirely possible. For the last several years, the U.S. Patent Office has been moving to a distributed model where comparatively few patent examiners live in the D.C. area except during their initial training period. I know two patent examiners, and both live in Ohio. In any case, this text-hissy-fit likely did no favors for the lawyer or their client.

  11. Re:TV Series! (Get good writers) on What's Next For Superhero Movies? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but once Hollywood is done with it the series will be called Gotham Junior High...

    Some exec at the WB requested almost exactly this in the late '90s after Batman:TAS ended -- they wanted a show with Bruce Wayne and most of Batman's rogues galley as high school students. Apparently it was bandied around for a while and eventually split into two separate ideas, an animated show about a teen Batman and a live action show about a fledging superhero in high school. These became "Batman Beyond" and "Smallville", respectively.

  12. Re:For Android phones on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools To Aid When "On Call"? · · Score: 1

    Klaxon is what I and the other Android users in our on-call rotation use.

  13. Re:SCO = Herpes on SCO Zombie Creaks Into Motion Again · · Score: 1

    As long as a lawyer has not been beheaded/disbarred it will keep finding ways to troll.

    My vote is for "beheaded" in this case.

  14. Open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I have to ask: Which part of "Love your neighbor as yourself" was unclear?

    Yes, the U.S. Constitution says you're allowed to do your picketing. However, it doesn't require me to listen to you, or see you as anything other than a bunch of sad, deluded, hate-filled little nut-bars.

  15. Re:As Coroner... on Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead · · Score: 1

    It's pining for the fjords!

    And here I thought it was pining for the fnords...

  16. Re:NSF Blue Waters project reboot? on 10-Petaflops Supercomputer Being Built For Open Science Community · · Score: 1

    No, this is an NSF Petascale "Track 2" project like TACC's earlier Ranger system or NICS' Kraken system, whereas Blue Waters was/is the NSF Petascale "Track 1" project. Same basic idea, slightly different pots of money.

    (Disclaimer: I work for NICS.)

    --t

  17. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction on Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History · · Score: 1

    Barnes & Noble, which paid almost $14 million for Borders' intellectual assets (including customer information) at auction last week, said it should not have to comply with certain customer-privacy standards recommended by a third-party ombudsman.

    In unrelated news, I say customers should not buy anything from Barnes and Noble ever again.

  18. If this had happened 15-20 years ago... on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    ...I might've cared. Hurd is an interesting idea from a CS research PoV, but it's taken so long to come out that Linux and the BSDs have long since filled any niche it might've had in the real world.

  19. Re:Linux already runs on thousands of cores on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 1

    I bet that saves on licensing costs.

    You'd think that, but a lot of HPC software gets priced either by-core or by-socket...

  20. Re:Linux already runs on thousands of cores on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Um, no. The early Itanium-based Altixes (Altices?) could go up to 512 cores running a single copy of Linux. The new Nehalem-based Altixes can have up to 2048 cores in a single system image IIRC. We just finished acceptance testing on an SGI Altix UV 1000 with 1024 cores. It runs one copy of Linux on it.

  21. Re:Windows 7 scales to 256 cores on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 1

    The current limit is 2048 cores in a single system image, IIRC. I currently run an SGI UV 1000 with 1024 cores (128 8-core Nehalem EXs), and that's not the biggest possible configuration of that hardware.

  22. Re:How does this differ from glusterfs? on New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System · · Score: 1

    I remember that the guys who originally wrote Coda basically abandoned it and moved on to doing Lustre...

  23. Re:I'll probably got modded into oblivion... on Joss Whedon To Direct The Avengers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, yes you are. Go and sin no more.

  24. Re:I hate clouds and care bears!! on What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M? · · Score: 1

    cloud computing = grid computing + virtualization - security - performance

  25. Been done. on Turning Classic Literary Works Into Games · · Score: 1

    I thought there was already a game based on Dante's Inferno, called "Where the Hell is Carmen Sandiego"...