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  1. Re:It's like a PDP-11 on Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c · · Score: 1

    No interrupts nor timers, memory-mapped I/O.

  2. Re:the ingame-CPU is quite interesting on Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c · · Score: 1

    How is it interesting?
    A student that has taken an architecture class could have easily come up with a better instruction set and architecture.

  3. Re:Passwords are for philistines on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    Someone cannot have something you are without you being aware of it.

  4. Re:Why? on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 0

    OpenGL can work over the network, but that support is just not well integrated in linux distributions.

  5. Re:Use a Mac on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 1

    That would be a good idea if Mac OS X weren't essentially a way to turn a computer into a brick. It's nothing like Linux and makes your computer unusable for anything else than web browsing.

  6. Re:Can you be more specific? on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 1

    It actually works fine with just Wine.

  7. Re:Skype on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 1

    Cisco uses a lot of non-standard variations, as does Apple, but Tandberg follows the standards, especially in their infrastucture products which can interop with dozens of different manufacturers.

  8. Re:Skype on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Movi run on Linux ?

  9. Re:The UK, not England... on A 'Radical Manifesto' For Computer Teaching In English Schools · · Score: 0

    It has been acceptable practice to refer to the UK as England since its creation.
    It's only in the latter half of the 20th century that people have started showing concern that this might not be politically correct as it might hurt the Welsh and Scots.

  10. Re:Not a fan of optional on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Maybe they don't have sufficiently fast software decryption to meet their operational requirements.

  11. Re:Not a fan of optional on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    So all older devices would become incapable of connecting to modern websites, even with software upgrades?

  12. Re:Chinese Subsidies on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    It would use thorium, which is safe and widely available, not uranium.

  13. Re:Optional extensions? on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    IPsec is a mandatory part of IPv6.

  14. Re:Not a fan of optional on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    You do realize some devices just don't have those hardware accelerators you're speaking of?

  15. Re:Optional extensions? on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    It could be argued that encryption should be done at the IP level, not HTTP level, and therefore having mandatory HTTPS is redundant

  16. Re:It's embarassing on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    Why is it embarassing? To each their specialty. The US conceives and designs stuff, China produces it.

  17. Re:Chinese Subsidies on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    Some nuclear reactor designs are stove-sized and would be perfectly suitable for domestic use. The main issues are fear of nuclear power and lack of funding.

  18. Re:Built on bleeding edge technology on Mozilla Releases HTML5 MMO BrowserQuest · · Score: 1

    UNIX had multitasking since the 60s or 70s.
    Granted, that's not exactly threads, but the difference is sufficiently small for it to matter.

    My original statement didn't mean to be accurate anyway.

  19. Built on bleeding edge technology on Mozilla Releases HTML5 MMO BrowserQuest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Threads, networking, sound, graphics...
    What next?

    Maybe someday, web developers will be on par with applications developers from the 70s!

  20. Re:Better way to give out tickets on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Why would you need this to get hired by Google?

    If you want to work at Google, just go work there. They still hire massively worldwide.

  21. Re:Fuel? on Elon Musk: Future Round-Trip To Mars Could Cost Under $500,000 · · Score: 1

    Supply ships can travel only in space and needn't be fast, and don't need to be human-rated either. Therefore they can use more efficient designs than rockets.

    Also, since Mars is very Earth-like, it seems very likely that there is fuel there.

  22. Re:Sounds good. on Woman Wants To Replace Her Non-functioning Hand With a Bionic Prosthesis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Signing without a functioning hand?

  23. Your degree is useless, but all degrees are anyway on Ask Slashdot: Finding an IT Job Without a Computer-Oriented Undergraduate Degree · · Score: 1

    Having a degree in maths, physics or electrical engineering is best.
    Having a degree in computer science is good.
    Having a degree in anything else doesn't add any value.

    Ironically, a degree in computer science is not the best degree to work in computer software (unless it's a phd, but then you'd have to find a job that's interested in your specific research subjects).

    However, whatever your degree is, at the end of the day what matters is your skills. A lot of employers, especially start-ups, will spend 1 day subjecting you to tests before hiring you. That will be your chance to prove what you're worth.
    Having some open-source projects to show-off can help, too.

  24. Re:I'm divided on Kim Dotcom's Assets Seizure Order Ruled "Null and Void" · · Score: 1

    "tool" does not mean what you think it means.

  25. So I can't ever have Jedi powers? on Psychic Ability Claim Doesn't Hold Up In New Scientific Experiments · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn. Thanks for ruining my day.