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  1. Re:Pretty pictures but... on NASA Shares Curiosity's New Mars Photos (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    ...ultimately useless.

    Not totally useless. It helps to forget about the pictures from Jupiter's Juno.

  2. Re:Law of Unintended Consequences on EU Finance Ministers Line Up Behind $21B Tax Ruling Against Apple (herald-dispatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Would only work for UK, not the EU.

  3. Same here. Openwrt is a great piece of open source.

  4. Re:Humanity is a parasite species. on 10 Percent of the World's Wilderness Has Been Lost Since 1990s (livescience.com) · · Score: 0

    More and more, humans treat themselves with man-made stuff. Mainly food. The million years naturally made human being injects himself tons of non-existing in nature (at that concentration/purity level) matter. The logical outcome of that in a near future is an accelerated "evolution" / adaptation of the body - cancers etc... Men will have to count on an adequately evolved medicine able to counteract these effects on themselves. And in case of a conflict/problem that makes this medicine unavailable, men will get extinct in a matter of a few generations.

  5. Apple may/will make money out of that move. Ok. But of course tons of competitors anticipated the jack removal and made other BT devices, cheaper than Beats. The jack is that long and old piece of equipment that had to be removed at some point. This is a logical evolution. Next will be the lightning port (replaced with induction). Whatever Apple does, a plethora of "critiboys" (the opposite of fanboys) has to open their mouth loudly. Nope, critiboys are no better than fanboys.

  6. Re:Upgrade your iPhone 6 to an iPhone 7 on Apple Removed Headphone Jack From New iPhones Because It Owns Largest Bluetooth Headphone Company (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people don't hesitate to rent a domain name for a joke! (Well done btw)

  7. Automatic updates on General Motors Recalls 4.3 Million Vehicles Over a Software Bug (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You stop the car and turn the key. At this moment, the car tells you "Stage 1 of 173. Configuring updates. Do not turn off the car". Too bad you were late for that meeting...

  8. Re:Good. We are all N. Koreans today on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Iran != NK. Israel considers Iran as a threat, and many countries worry about the Middle-East conflict. Who really cares about NK? SK and Japan, mainly. Who *really* cares about SK and Japan? Unfortunately...

  9. Re:Good. We are all N. Koreans today on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    All they need to do is put it on a missile, then they can wipe out the US

    Not yet. NK is still stoppable. This is probably why nobody is doing anything.

  10. Re:I got a Pi 3 recently. on Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You have yet to see Pi 3.14!

  11. Re:LOL, "Courage"? More like GREED... on Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just keep that *clumsy unnecessary* dongle attached to the earphones, so you don't have to carry it along with the phone when not using it.

  12. Maybe lower air pressure in the cabin increases the risk of explosion...

  13. No ! on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 0

    I am the CEO

  14. To speed up the lines, get rid of the TSA.

    Even if the TSA is practically useless, at least it scares away most people having bad intentions, including terrorists.

  15. TFA

    Your transactions are private, neither the exchange nor merchant needs to learn your identity. There is no need to give our credit card numbers or other sensitive information, and the merchant will only be able to do exactly the transaction you confirmed using your digital wallet

    That looks good, and will not be restricted to publishers... this will become a more general payment method.

  16. Dyson-Sphere-Dwelling on Second Irregularly Dimming Star Found (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    It's a Dyson. It shines in a shop window. It dims when you start using it.

  17. Re:nmap rock on Celebrating The 19th Anniversary of Nmap (phrack.org) · · Score: 2

    For those who don't know `nmap` it's convenient and easy to use.

  18. Re:Not Frist Probe on NASA Releases First-Ever Close-Up Images of Jupiter's North Pole (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but at the time they knew how to make better pictures.

  19. Re:Impressive... on NASA Releases First-Ever Close-Up Images of Jupiter's North Pole (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Did you look up? Juno was right 4,000 km above you :-)

  20. Impressive... on NASA Releases First-Ever Close-Up Images of Jupiter's North Pole (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ...shots yet to come. Hey, we know Juno went through Hell to take those pictures. But the Voyagers have accustomed us to juicier images. That's only the beginning anyway, and due to distance, bandwidth etc... we'll get better soon, hopefully.

  21. Re:The article conveniently ignores Python on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a 'py' line...

  22. Re:C programmers clearly some kind of deviants on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason may depends on the respective IDEs (spaces/tabs conversion when saving/loading the file).

  23. Probably not accurate on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Even when the user requests tabs, when the number of visible spaces is less than, say, 8 spaces, some IDEs save that indent with spaces, then convert as tabs if necessary when loading the file. This because most users set the tabs at 3 or 4 spaces. This way the user has its tabs when working in the IDE, and may still 'cat' the file that visually looks the same. The method used to consider a file 'tab' or 'space' based on the number of indents in either category is therefore (probably) inaccurate.

  24. C is more tabby and C++ is more spacy. Different IDEs I presume.

  25. Re:Doesn't matter who "wins" on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    McDonald's would be Michelin starred.

    Sorry, Michelin doesn't have negative stars