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  1. All goes away once H1B goes away on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Don't bitch at the companies, bitch at the corrupt US officials who allow the practice.

  2. Re:Not English in summary on Tracking Tesla's Quiet Changes To the Model S · · Score: 1

    The editors are too busy fellating Elon Musk to edit.

  3. Re:What's the worse that can happen? on Whistleblowers Enter the Post-Snowden Era · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Or both outcomes happen.

  4. Good thing they have people for this on Red Dwarfs Could Sterilize Alien Worlds of Life · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: Being near a giant nuclear furnace is radiation-y.

    Next up: Water is wet, the sky is blue, and Slashdot sucks.

  5. Internet of Things isn't on Tiniest Linux COM Yet? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like "Web 2.0" and other non-concepts, this term gets used to pretend something is a new version of something else, just because its "Internet". Its a small computer, just like small computers that are already in things. Get over it.

  6. IS it more stable, or does it FEEL more stable? on Ford's Bringing Adaptive Steering To the Masses · · Score: 1

    I can see this getting ugly quickly.

  7. Re:AWS is too expensive on Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases · · Score: 1

    You can also deduct the full cost of your "lease" as opposed to depreciating the hardware investment over 5 (3?) years. Because we have an outsourced, throwaway, service-based economy/society, the government makes it compelling NOT to invest in infrastructure.

  8. Re:Where's The Content? on 4K Displays Ready For Prime Time · · Score: 1

    Maybe you need glasses, it looks fine to me. Or you're being a douche because this is Slashdot. Do you have aerodynamically square Monster cables too?

  9. Re:Finally! on China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    "Architect" isn't a real job, despite what they'll tell you, it's just "Programmer/Engineer with some business experience and seniority". And in cases where it DOESNT mean that, the guys in "Architect" roles are inevitably douchebags.

  10. Weak article, weaker report on YouTube Releases the Google Video Quality Report · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Results from your location are not yet available. Please check back soon."

    Translation: You don't live in one of the 3 metro areas we tested, but we hired some bloggers to crow about our new "service".

  11. not a crypto problem on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 1

    So don't bring in cryptographers. Heartbleed was a bonehead entry level programming error based on some arguably foolish decision about performance improvements. Read the code cleanup comments at libressl.org.

  12. Rule of Two is more important on The Rule of Three Proved By Physicists · · Score: 1

    I'm more concerned about the Rule of Two. When Obama goes, who is there to take his place?

  13. I got to the part about udev and closed the window on Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module · · Score: 0

    When will people give up this love affair with the systemd/NetworkManager/udev/automagic crap? What makes Linux kickass is how NOT Windows-like it is.

  14. Or dont overdrive the steppers on Servo Stock 3D Printer Brings Closed-Loop Control To Reprap · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Stepper motors have known performance curves, so you could simply NOT send pulses to them faster than they can react.
    Or you can zero them (or your coordinates) periodically by returning them to their start point.
    Or you could have stepper motors AND a feedback loop.

    TL;DR - shitty printer design is shitty.

  15. Re:How is she relevant on Chelsea Clinton At NCWIT: More PE, Less Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    PhD in "International Studies" doesn't mean "intelligent and well-spoken". A PhD means that your professor knows that your dad is Bill Clinton.
    I feel for her - if she succeeds nobody will buy it, because of all the political shenanigans her family has been involved in. Look at all the useless Kennedys.

  16. How is she relevant on Chelsea Clinton At NCWIT: More PE, Less Zuckerberg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She's just a political Kardashian, why do people pay any attention to her?

  17. This just in: flim flam currency is flim flam on Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns · · Score: 4, Funny

    A virtual Internet-based currency is subject to electronic flim-flammery? Color me shocked.

  18. why the focus on being your brother's keeper? on Mental Illness Reduces Lifespan As Much as Smoking · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why do people insist on studying, helping, fixing the mentally ill or the drug abusers? What about those who are "healthy" but run into unfortunate events (car crash, cancer, getting laid off)? If we're going to treat society as a single organism, wouldn't we want to give to the most capable rather than the least? Where is this constant need to fix people coming from?

  19. Just nationalize it already on FCC Gets Go-Ahead For Plan To Expand Rural Internet Access · · Score: 0

    Why be hypocritical? We have a government that regulates every aspect of it, and occasionally is itself in the business of providing the same service that companies are. It's a fascist wet dream; just call it what it is and be done with it.

  20. MOOC sucks on The Linux Foundation and edX Team Up for Intoduction to Linux Class · · Score: 1

    It's just an online hangout for hipsters, ne'r-do-wells, Makers, gaywads, dorkwads, and losers who don't understand a particular piece of technology. Meanwhile the organizers get clickstreams and relevance.

  21. Re:I can smell the curry, already! on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    More head-wobblers. Just what people need.

  22. Re:Indirect tax on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 1

    But they dont HAVE to do any of it, except with a gun to their head. They're not an EV company, they're a car company that is extorted into making EVs. The power of the dollar and the power of the gun are not the same thing, unless I suppose you live in California.

  23. Re:More than this on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 1

    I think you've re-read the Wrinkle in Time books too often.

  24. I had the S3Virge edition on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    The first 3d accel game I played, back in the late 90s. Totally awesome textures. Of course back then it was a custom binary... and I got better performance running in s/w mode due to the S3V being long in the tooth.

    Still, awesome, +1, would buy again.

  25. Worked for Galactica on Researchers Experiment With Explosives To Fight Wildfires · · Score: 1

    Deprive the fire of oxygen, that is, after you try flooding the viper launch bays with boroton.