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  1. If your employer is Craigslist on The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall · · Score: 1

    Please start writing some 1337 scripts to sort the spam issue out. kthx

  2. Re:Thanks for the concise summary on FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    > The larger mystery is why his body or chute were never found,

    Because bears shit in the woods (and eat dead things)

  3. Re:The problem with democracy on How Technology Disrupted the Truth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope you realise I was only setting forth the position of the Leave parties as it was understood, not my personal opinion. However there are problems with your statement.

    The rebate itself has to be renegotiated periodically and is only likely to decline/ disappear given the opposition to it from other EU members. Its probably not unfair to say that by 2020 we could be spending £350 million and not getting a rebate on that.

    As for access to the single market, that is a two way street, and can be negotiated. As an example, I'm not sure where the US negotiations are but I doubt that TTIP involves the US paying the EU for access to the single market.

  4. Re:The problem with democracy on How Technology Disrupted the Truth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    By the tail end of the campaign everyone was pretty clear about the fact we would not be pumping £350 million into the NHS. What the Brexit guys were saying was that we'd not be sending £350 million a week over the Channel and letting the EU bureacrats decide how it got spent. As I understand it we have a net deficit of about £100-150 million between what goes out and what comes back in terms of EU grants etc. They were saying this excess money could be largely spent on the NHS and a few other projects.

    The most important thing is that they were saying that the UK Government would be free to decide how the entire £350 million/ week would be spent. Some of this money (science, agriculture, regional aid) would be spent in the same way, but the UK Government would probably have different priorities than the EU and target this money differently.

    However the thing that really won for Leave was Immigration control, not the economy. Many people were willing vote Leave and take a hit on the economy if it meant regaining control over who came in the country and who could be kicked out.

    As for me personally, I abstained, believing the EU was good for me personally, but probably not so good for the many lower paid in the country.

  5. Re:There is a lot of truth to this on Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're missing the point here. For one thing, this will mean that India will have a pool of developers, who whilst their skills are not A+, will be better than the available pool of skills in America, where there is essentially a small core of good developers and then nothing. Also if you have a pool of B quality developers, its not the hardest thing in the world to select the best and brightest of them for further up-skilling.

    The Indian guys lean on their white counterparts for help, because their white counterparts are normally the onshore part of the offshore company, or because they're still learning. It won't stay that way.

    India does perfectly competent hi-tech, including rockets, satellites, aircraft, phones etc. If the US is complaisant about it, soon they'll be in competition for the remaining high tech jobs and industries with India, and India will have a larger pool of people who can be "upgraded" educationally.

  6. Simples on Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    AirBnB should set up an online site to allow its members to perform the registration process, and once a week prints off the forms and sends them to City Hall with a check

  7. Re: You made it, Syrians! on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This might not be a bad idea, as Northern Ireland also voted to stay in the EU. It might not be the worst idea in the world to arrange things so England and Wales are effectively going their own way as a separate state leaving Scotland/Northern Ireland as the UK as far as the EU are concerned. That way, they would never have "left" the EU and won't have to reapply.

  8. What is a good gaming laptop nowadays? on Alienware Launches Laptop With QHD OLED Display After 20 Years of Business (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Enquiring minds want to know

  9. Re:Technology can't stop these on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Europe never allowed citizens to own guns the way the US does.

    This is untrue. Restrictions have been gradually increased during the 20th Century, and have not been in place forever.

  10. Pick any one on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? · · Score: 1

    Content Management Systems are meant to provide a general solution to allow people to rapidly produce a website. They are obviously not going to perfectly address your specific needs, which only a custom website will truly do. The point is that a CMS will save developers time and thus money and effort and produce a "good enough" solution.

    To that end, you can pick virtually any CMS you want to, subject to it providing the features you need. What most people are influenced heavily by are whether they can find someone with the appropriate experience to do the work, and whether they can ensure ongoing support.

  11. Well thats on Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doubleplusgood

  12. Re:Doesn't your e-penis length matter to you? on Intel Launches Its First 10-Core Desktop CPU With Broadwell-E · · Score: 1

    I think I'm having an NUC next anyway. Screw having PCs that you can cook on.

  13. Re:TOS vs TOS on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a ToS up who wins
    Everyone prefers their own ToS
    They're all a bunch of ToS-ers

  14. ..are you criticising the previous poster. He has two Oracle v Google judgements backing up his opinion that it's fair use. Getting into the details is irrelevant.

  15. I can just see on Tor To Use Distributed RNG To Generate Truly Random Numbers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone putting a number of RNG systems onto TOR so they control providing the "random" number.

  16. Re: Another example of regulatory overreach on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Add some gratuitously naked French chicks, and you've made a mainstream French film.

    I think I'm going to be browsing the French content on Netflix real soon.

  17. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should change its objectives from eliminating Mosquitoes to eliminating Al Qaeda

  18. I've been happily programming away and earning a good salary in IT since the early 1980s, but I'm starting to get concerned over the impact that automation is increasingly having on manual labour/ low skilled jobs, and the fact that this may mean a huge proportion of the population may not have a job and income.

  19. Re:The greatest software project on Earth on Linux Is the Largest Software Development Project On the Planet: Greg K-H (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    It should be unlikely that the unit tests run during a CI build pick up anything.

    The unit tests run on a CI system are normally checks you haven't broken anything. They are also a framework to show that the module you have designed meets the specifications/ user stories which were used to determine its functionality.

    Any programmer worth his salt has tested their module against the unit tests before adding it to the repository.

  20. Send one of these suckers into space and see if it works? AFAICT, if it does you have a spaceship with no fuel requirement, if it doesn't you just have some space debris. As it has no fuel, it doesn't have to be a big craft, so it could go up with something else.

  21. Re:The Real Question on Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The motion is quite jerky, it has an unexpectedly high latency, and it has bad English.

    So I would tentatively say "yes".

    Windows it is then

  22. Re:Clothes on Unmanned Cargo Ship Reaches ISS On Resupply Mission (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Does the dirty laundry burn up though?

    At some point the capsule defragments and its contents are spilled out. I can only guess what happens to underwear doing several thousand miles per hour in the upper atmosphere.

  23. Lots and lots of cocks are going to be sent.

    Only very tiny ones.

  24. That doesn't sound too threatening-looking; my ex's vagina on the other hand...

    Which leads to the inevitable question as to whether you were brave, crazy or both to go there.

  25. I've got a theory on What's Frying the Electrical Systems On BART Trains? (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    It must be bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies! /Buffy