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  1. All those Americans who want to leave can now go on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Great opportunity for all those Americans who want to get away from the current government to leave. Of course, they have to have a useful skill.

  2. Re:Don't pollute there. on NASA Seeks Nuclear Power For Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you think they get radioisotopes? They dig them up out of the ground. They are all over the Earth already, and the same with Mars. Now, except for a few places, they are very sparse. One of the big problems with going to Mars is protecting yourself from radiation. Without a magnetic field, Mars is bombarded with cosmic radiation constantly. I don't think spilling a few pounds of Uranium on the surface would make a difference.

  3. Doesn't uptime defeat this? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since a lot of servers are up and running for seriously long times, the kernel won't change often. Also, since there are a finite number of permutations, it wouldn't be that hard to find the memory location you are looking for.

  4. Going back to firewood I reckon on Norway To Ban the Use of Oil For Heating Buildings By 2020 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Norway has plenty of firewood. No need for all those forests, I'm sure they can spare a couple.

  5. Zero is hard to understand on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see why they need a science advisor.

  6. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes flying down the highway. Elon is just expanding his network connection.

  7. Forget 911, tweet instead on Twitter Detects Riots Faster Than Police, Study Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or 999 if you are in the UK. Just crowd source solutions to your problems.

  8. Re:Delete all references to Canada on Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait, let me Google it... I got nothing. Must be fake news.

  9. Delete all references to Canada on Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google should delete all references to Canada. Wipe them off the face of the map. Blame Canada!

  10. Super-intelligent shade of the colour blue on Sorry, But Anonymous Has No Evidence That NASA Has Found Alien Life (popsci.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They may have discovered Hooloovoos by spectral analysis of exoplanets.

  11. Since we are stuck using it for many of our systems, it would be helpful to know how it rates.

  12. Add AI and you will get H2G2 elevators on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking.

  13. Next they will release shortwave phones on T-Mobile Rolling Out 600 MHz Low-Band Wireless (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Then we can get crappy reception all over the world.

  14. Comes bundled with Space Invaders on Atari CEO Confirms the Company Is Working On a New Game Console (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Right right right right down left left left down ... pew pew pew

  15. 1000%? No wonder my phone is so heavy on The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years (sensortower.com) · · Score: 1

    All those bits are adding up, I can barely carry my phone around any more.

  16. Re:All stars born in Paris on New Evidence That All Stars Are Born In Pairs (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I did the same thing. Hollywood has had many European starlets, but not all were born in Paris.

  17. Re:I agree with the Green Party on Green Party Leaders Don't Want Windows In Munich (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    I dual boot Windows and Fedora. Our production servers are Sun, Redhat and Windows. In trying to hire people, I can tell you it is far easier to find Windows people than any other OS.

  18. Re:I'm just staying with Yahoo mail on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    Yes, Verizon is moving their email accounts onto AOL servers.

  19. I'm just staying with Yahoo mail on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    I haven't had any issues. Unless they make major changes, I see no reason to move on.

  20. Re:What is their issue? on Green Party Leaders Don't Want Windows In Munich (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And I bet you don't spend most of your day in word processing and spreadsheet programs. If you do, you will find Windows far more useful than any Linux distro.

  21. Re:I agree with the Green Party on Green Party Leaders Don't Want Windows In Munich (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    No, their problem is not being able to hire people who can maintain Linux. So they wouldn't be able to "super easy to switch distros", since they don't have people who can install distros. If you can hire Windows admins, they can maintain the systems with the latest patches and avoid most of the common attack routes used to attack Windows.

  22. Re:Steam powered cell phones. on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    The whistle they give off when someone calls makes me think someone is making tea.

  23. Re:Steam powered cell phones. on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem is they would take time to warm up and were a little hot to hold to your ear.

  24. The other 20% get their news from /. on More Than 80% of US Adults Get News On Their Phones (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Must be since you can't really read the /. stories on your phone.

  25. Re:At least she raised the stock price on Verizon Closes $4.5B Acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer Resigns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That investment happened long before she took over and was part of the stock decline.