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  1. "the most effective recruiter in the world" on Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe y'all should stop bombing civilians over there. It doesn't take much to "radicalize" somebody whose family was killed by American bombs.

  2. Re:Not that much better on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure, but how much brain space does it take to remember "58.169564, -153.170992" versus "leave aura corrugated"?

    We're not computers - we remember words and phrases much better than we remember arbitrary number strings. How many bits it takes to store that information in a computer is irrelevant.

  3. Just buy a laptop on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    $60 CPU + $60 mobo + $40 case/PSU combo = $160. Add in RAM, HDD/SSD, I/O peripherals, and you're definitely gonna be over $200. Just buy a cheap laptop (chromebooks spring to mind), wipe it and put linux on it. Plus, it'll be a laptop. Maybe the performance won't be quite as good, but it'll definitely be serviceable.

    Getting on Intel's latest architecture is a fairly meaningless goal.

  4. Says Israel.

  5. All of them manage bookmarks.

  6. Re: Humn.... That one is hard. on Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most religions don't specifically use the Lord's Prayer.

  7. Mister Dawkins has gotten old enough and racist enough that his first hate, Christianity, has been superseded by his hatred of Islam. To him, Christianity looks like an ally against this new, darker skinned foe.

  8. Re: Coren22's "APKolypse"... apk on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, APK isn't that competent.

  9. Re:We need a world-wide effort in space on NASA Contracting Development of New Ion/Nuclear Engines (nasaspaceflight.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, fair point. I was mentioning solar as a Light->Electricity converter, as that's how potatoes work.

  10. Re:We need a world-wide effort in space on NASA Contracting Development of New Ion/Nuclear Engines (nasaspaceflight.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure solar panels are still a more efficient way to generate electricity than potatoes, and chucking "biodiesel" fuel out the back of your spacecraft sounds like a pretty good way to run out of food and oxygen in a hurry.

    Growing crops in space is a cool idea, though.

  11. Terrible summary on Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format (petapixel.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're not trying to prevent "doctored" images.

    The original memo reads:

    I’d like to pass on a note of request to our freelance contributors due to a worldwide policy change.. In future, please don’t send photos to Reuters that were processed from RAW or CR2 files. If you want to shoot raw images that’s fine, just take JPEGs at the same time. Only send us the photos that were originally JPEGs, with minimal processing (cropping, correcting levels, etc).

    And a follow-up quote reads

    While we aim for photography of the highest aesthetic quality, our goal is not to artistically interpret the news. [...] Speed is also very important to us. We have therefore asked our photographers to skip labour and time consuming processes to get our pictures to our clients faster.

    Which doesn't mean they're trying to prevent people from faking photos; as that line is clearly referring to the "minimal editing" part of the above guidelines, and the "JPG not RAW" is just for workflow-related reasons.

  12. Re:Questionable name on Interviews: Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Your Questions (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Not in the first several pages of google results, there aren't.

  13. 32 percent is a low? on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I mean, if 32% were overqualified in '91, 40% really isn't *that* big of a swing. It's still alarmingly high, though.

  14. Re: Intel often communicates poorly. on Intel Flagship Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E To Offer 10-Cores, 20-Threads, 25MB L3 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Intel has made a habit of launching enthusiast versions of previous generations processors after it releases it a new architecture."

  15. Re: GPS is not always GPS on GPS Always Overestimates Distances (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    The military uses more accurate GPS than us lowly civilians. Something about the ionosphere.

  16. sample... on SteamOS Gaming Performance Lags Well Behind Windows (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On one machine, in two games.

    I recognize that testing this sort of stuff on a wide variety of hardware and with many games is hard, and that they haven't had the time yet to put together a thorough analysis. But you should really qualify your results, like "preliminary testing has indicated that Steam OS performance may be worse than Windows 10 performance in some games on certain hardware configurations."

    But that makes for a terrible headline :p

    One of my primary suspects for the difference is the video card - how well optimized are the Linux drivers?

  17. Re:"Sometimes ask" - hehe on Google's New About Me Tool Is the Anti-Google+ · · Score: 2

    Did you check the site? I was able to review (and update) all my settings in about 5 minutes. Maybe you're complaining about facebook's privacy configuration?

  18. Re:Not very ethical on "Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    "Actually, it's about ethics in gaming activism" ?

  19. I see what you did there on US Judge Rules Against NSA In Phone Spying Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    "J.J. Little and his small legal practice"

  20. Re:Is there a transcript? on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Recommend clicking on "Show transcript"

  21. Re:Probably not on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Add in the fact that my server contains nothing of any real value to anyone but me.

    So what you're saying is, it doesn't matter at all if you get hacked. Why talk about security if nobody wants to look at your data?

  22. Re:We know on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm surprised that it appeared so late on /. It's usually one of the first place I would expect to read news like this one.

    I wish I had my Funny modpoints.

  23. Re:Why not computer based evaluation ... on Harnessing EVE Online For Science (mmorpg.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they don't have any algorithms that do as good of a job at classifying them as humans do. If you can design one, I'm sure they'll be happy to help you write the paper describing your methodology.

  24. Light article, bad summary. on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: 0

    15 years? The researchers observed 2 SNPs in a population of chickens over 50 years; which is "15x faster" than the previous estimate of 2% evolution every million years. There also wasn't much selection on these chickens, as they were lab chickens, so even less-fit mutations would persist. One SNP was non-synonymous (meaning it results in a codon change), and one SNP was synonymous (no codon change).

    I'm not seeing where they got "Significant changes in 15 years" out of the article.

  25. Re:Why can't you mark a class with an interface? on Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go · · Score: 3, Informative

    I usually use the following method: https://play.golang.org/p/iF_d... - Attempting to run this will give a compile error. Once you implement MyType.Foo(); it will compile and run successfully.

    The only added part is line 10.