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  1. Re:... Everything? on The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought · · Score: 1

    Why would Sony have employee medical records? Not likely legal if in the USA.

    Sony is big enough they may have their own company owned medical facility for employees. My last employeer had one.

  2. Competitions on US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition · · Score: 1

    As usual with competitions like this, you shouldn't settle for the prize money if you develop such a thing because its worth quite a bit more.

  3. No more cash in the bank? on Microsoft Lays Off 2,100, Axes Silicon Valley Research · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back around 2000 when Microsoft had something like $100 billion in the bank I said that with that kind of money, they could afford to make no income and still pay their 40,000 or so employees at the time for the next 13 years. I wasn't serious though.

  4. Distractions on Intel Releases SD-Card-Sized PC, Unveils Next 14nm Chip · · Score: 0

    Wow look at that cool new small device released by Ap.... Oh wait, nevermind.

  5. Just a year? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Well apparently it was the decade of Linux on the Desktop in Munich. Who said it would last anyways?

  6. Microsoft on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 0

    And of course Microsoft now likes to act like they are an open source company that believes in open standards. Maybe they do, but that sure is an annoying stance for them to take.

  7. Local Dealerships on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, local dealerships sound AWESOME!

  8. I was there on NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    I was actually at one of these supercomputer facilities a day or two after it happened and found out then. Too bad they didn't release more information so I could talk about it. :-( Someone in our group amusingly noted though that it was probably the first time that supercomputers had been used to directly make money. *snicker*

  9. Re:Huh? on Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps · · Score: 1

    Thanks, looks like several Slashdotters will be learning something new today.

  10. Maybe its still too early in the day and I should finish my coffee first before posting to Slashdot, but I'd be interested to know how a frequency of 5 billion per second could carry 10 billion bits of information per second. Hopefully someone could explain.

  11. Re:Cinema-like on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1

    Reality: the curved TVs provide a cinema-like experience by charging roughly four times what a reasonable person would pay.

    A real cinema TV would also come with background noise of others talking on phones, silhouettes of people's heads in front you and makes your floor sticky from years of dumped soda.

  12. Re:never heard of floppy disk before on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Those 8" floppys could only store 242KB of data. The 5.25" ones could only store 160KB per side depending on the drive format and before they started having high density floppy disks, which wasn't until the late 80s.

  13. Watch list if purchased? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    I'm curious if at this point buying an 8" floppy disk (or any other significantly old technology that only nuclear missle silos use) would get you put on some terrorist watch list.

  14. Viewpoint on App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there a startup-hype balloon? I hadn't noticed. I'm too busy dealing with the security holes of apps and services written by high school and college drop outs.

  15. Tomorrow they will release on Linux 3.14 Kernel Released · · Score: 2

    Linux 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...

  16. Re:PI KERNEL on Linux 3.14 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    And there are quite a few references to pi in the patch, not sure if it was intentional or not.

    https://twitter.com/climagic/s...

  17. Re:Legendary... on Michael Abrash Joins Oculus, Calls Facebook 'Final Piece of the Puzzle' · · Score: 1, Informative

    Programming legend Michael Abrash...

    Who?

    You don't know him?!?

  18. Re:Gravity waves from the first inch of expansion on Big Bang's Smoking Gun Found · · Score: 1

    Well the universe is huge, we're clearly inside a Java program.

  19. Ticketmaster on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 2

    Yesterday I was on a Ticketmaster signup form and they listed the following "requirements" for a password:

    "(Must be between 1 to 250 characters. Alpha numeric only, case sensitive.)"

  20. Great movie on the subject on Metadata and the Intrusive State · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is a great movie that came out in 2006 called "The Lives of Others" that provides an account of the practices of the Stasi. It may not have been completely accurate, but its nevertheless a good insight into what it was like and a great movie overall.

  21. There is no fucking problem with car interfaces on A New Car UI · · Score: 1

    The problem is UX designers that need something to do. Stop trying to change everything.

  22. Today's topic on Venezuelan Regime Censoring Twitter · · Score: 1

    censXXXXXX

  23. Re:Old fashioned idea... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You To Tell Your Client That His "Expert" Is an Idiot? · · Score: 1

    And be blunt about it, like this: http://www.albinoblacksheep.co...

  24. You think we'll still be doing this when we're 60?

  25. Re:Wait... on Surrogate Database Key, Not Bitcoin Protocol Flaw, To Blame For Mt Gox Problems · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're posting this comment on a site that was once called "Chips and Dips".