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  1. PirateBox on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 1
  2. Philips Medical in Cleveland on Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? · · Score: 1

    I'm with a team at Philips Medical in Cleveland that does image reconstruction for CT scanners. We use CUDA for our HPC stuff right now. I think we have some openings.

    I don't know exactly what you mean by the medical industry tests on animals, maybe drugs, but we don't scan animals for our tests. Although, we do keep our interns in the test bay area where they might get some extra ionizing radiation.

  3. Only one thing could be a mistake... on Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, Relayed URL Data · · Score: 1

    Sure, they accidentally wrote software so that it sent that data, or they were sending it and incurring the traffic to their server for no reason at all.

    No, if they're telling the truth that no data was logged, then the only mistake on their part is they fucked up their data collection on the server.

  4. Re:Beat 'em to it on Sensor Enables 3D Mapping of Rainforests · · Score: 2

    Cool! What format do you save this data to allowing you to analyze it?

  5. Re:I expect... on Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer (Again) · · Score: 2

    Huh. I thought bees communicated by dancing or something.

  6. possible solution on Facebook Confirms New Cookie-Tracking Issue · · Score: 1

    Sharemenot

    Not having an account with them and blocking everything from their domains is what I chose to do.

  7. Re:Is there an error in first time the date is use on Happy Programmer Day! · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I worded that not the best. Meant the same thing, numbered 255 if zero index which is still 256th number.

    Yup, that's how it is. Sept 12th on a leap year. Kind of like those holidays that are "second Monday of this month" kind of thing. The exact date doesn't matter. Just happens to be Sept 13 this year.

  8. Re:Is there an error in first time the date is use on Happy Programmer Day! · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this guy, it's 256th in our calendar because we're starting at an index of one. If we start at a zero index, it would be 255. Careful with that off-by-one error.

  9. Re:Don't go cheap! on Ask Slashdot: Laptop + DSLR Backpacks · · Score: 2

    I've also noticed a lot of the "show me evidence" science-cultists, too. They can't argue Chiropractic's merits so they attack me.

    Asking for evidence isn't an attack, it's called being rational. I think you're the one that can't argue Chiropractic's merits, no one from from Big Whatever-a cares.

  10. First? on USB Foot Controls · · Score: 1

    What about Power Pad?

  11. Re:Am I the only one that was bothered by this? on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I didn't like that wording. Reminds me of the episode of The Simpsons where after their AC breaks Homer asks Marge, "Marge, can you set the oven to 'cold'?"

  12. How does this address the problem? on Ubiquitous Computing Gadget To Teach Coding · · Score: 1

    The problem is not enough programming students so the trick up their sleeve is a ubiquitous (what exactly is meant by that?), visually programmed computing device? Makes sense if they were dropping out because they didn't have a chunk of hardware they can use in the school lab then take home, but I doubt that's it.

    And I don't know about the visual programming language, I imagine they'll start programming in a text language eventually so you'd just delay them quitting if that's the cause.

    This device just seems like a visually programmed arduino.

  13. Re:AOL's 19-hour outage on Amazon EC2 Failure Post-Mortem · · Score: 2

    No one. No one else remembers AOL.

  14. Don't treat them like crap. on What Is the Best Way To Build a Virtual Team? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it's obvious that you should treat your virtual workers well.

    I was on a team of a few people that worked in one office and we worked virtually for another office. We weren't treated well and our moral suffered. We just didn't care about the work that much.

    Once instance of getting crap from them was we would often lose connectivity to their office. The problem was on their end, but they took a week for them to fix it. Then we were asked, "Why are you a week behind?" When the same thing happened but to those that were physically in that office, it was fixed almost instantly.

    With team moral low, they decided to have some team building. But they made us take a week out of our lives and go to them. Yeah, that didn't improve things.

  15. Re:manufacturer of medical-x-ray machine on What Is the Best Way To Build a Virtual Team? · · Score: 1

    I don't think x-raying coworkers is a good way to build a strong team.

  16. Think of the children! on Sony's Case Against Geohot Has Been Settled · · Score: 2

    Sure, it's protecting your intellectual property. But how is something like this protecting consumers? From what?

  17. OMG! on The Facebook Obsession · · Score: 1

    Good question! I think I'll post this link to my Facebook profile and make a poll on Facebook to ask my friends.

  18. Let's extend that logic on CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator · · Score: 1

    Selling kitchen knives incites stabbing.

  19. Re:I'll be first to say WTF on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 1

    Yes, but once they have a proof it should be very easy to verify.

  20. looks familiar on Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line · · Score: 1

    This is the same reasoning I read in Roger Highfield's The Physics of Christmas. Good book, I read it every year around this time.

  21. This would be great on eJuror Will Lead To New List of Jury Duty Excuses · · Score: 1

    I would have loved to have this in my district when I was summoned for the second time. Hopefully this system checks if a potential juror is exempt because they previously served within the last two years or whatever and doesn't even send a notice out. I was so angry when they mailed me that second summons and I had to tell them I'm exempt, something that they should already know. I'm sure they had to verify my exemption by easily looking it up, but no, they had to waste my tax dollars and money.

    To all saying you should serve as a juror especially if you are logical and would make good choices - part of the juror selection process (at least what I went through) is the judge asks you some questions about what you do, your job, and some other things to make you comfortable and at ease. Then the counsel for both sides takes turns saying which jurors they don't want to server. And guess what. They selected the scientists and engineers to not be their jurors. I was still on there because I think they reached their limit of who to throw off (I'd like to think I'm one of those smart people they'd throw off since I'm a mathematician/computer scientist that studies philosophy of science on the side.) Why throw off the smart ones? My guess is they think they're less moved by emotion and listen more to reason.

  22. Let me get this straight... on Zeus Attackers Turned the Tables On Researchers · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, you can't trust software from malware vendors?

  23. Re:Just give them something? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 3, Informative

    TrueCrypt has something where you can set up an encrypted virtual disk that you first put some files you don't care about on there with a password you wouldn't mind divulging. Then you make another virtual drive on that one that will store the files and a password you do care about. When asked for your password, you give the one you don't care about and it only shows files you don't care about. Plausible deniability.

  24. Wrong TACO on TACO Extension for Firefox Forked After Proprietary Update · · Score: 1

    Damn. From the title of this story, I thought there was a Firefox extension for the ACM's Transaction on Architecture and Code Optimization.

  25. Why not anonymous? on South Australia Outlaws Anonymous Political Speech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reasoning is to stop identity fraud, so why outlaw anonymous commenting?

    Even if that is the intent, are Australians really that easily swayed by comments on a blog?

    But the fact that the law lapses at 6PM on polling day suggests that isn't really the intent of the law. Might as well pass something that says, "You are not allowed to say bad stuff about me until I'm elected again."

    If you are afraid to speak when you can be identified, then your speech isn't free.