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  1. Re:All Right! Where are the tape backups? on Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem' · · Score: 1

    Excellent point. A federal judge said today that they may want State to confirm that there is not a backup of the entire e-mail archive (personal incl.). This will be developing for quite some time I imagine.

  2. OpenMP 4.0 on LLVM 3.7 Delivers OpenMP 3.1 Support, ORC JIT API, New Optimizations · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They *just now* implemented OpenMP 3.1, a standard 4 years old. OpenMP 4.0 which is now more than 2 years old is unaddressed while GCC has had it for some time(indeed, they recently added support for OpenACC).

    Somehow I don't think scientific users are going to be lining up to use it

  3. Re:So They Must Be Good? on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 1

    I don't know about their most recent phones, but the Kyocera Rise is a piece of crap. It's buggy and slow, just about the only thing it has going for it is that it is one of the last phones which has a full keyboard. Also the price.

  4. Re:We deserve this guy on Ted Cruz To Oversee NASA and US Science Programs · · Score: 1

    The purpose was to balance the large and small states' influence in Washington. There wasn't any language added saying states must be roughly the same size in population, so the system is working as intended. Now, the result might not be something that results in governance that the slashdot crowd is fond of, but it isn't a perversion of the intent of the constitution in the same way as gerrymandering is.

  5. Re:We deserve this guy on Ted Cruz To Oversee NASA and US Science Programs · · Score: 1

    But this is meaningless of course, because Senate "districts" can't be gerrymandered. This is the two-house system working as intended. That's a clickbait headline.

  6. Re: Please don't on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1

    I agree with everything you said. But while it may be true that your starting salary does not increase by too much, from my experience with my friends and I who have graduated with and without internships, your increased competence on the job when you have internship experience means you are more likely to be more quickly promoted. The benefits in salary are not necessarily immediate.

  7. Re:If only PJ was still running groklaw! on The GPLv2 Goes To Court · · Score: 3, Informative

    That is NOT why she folded up groklaw. See more at http://www.groklaw.net/article...

  8. Re:Dear Liza! on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 3, Informative

    People nitpick the submissions and never complement the good ones.

    Speaking of nitpicking, it is "compliment". If we were "complementing" the good ones, we would be adding to the submissions rather than merely commenting on their inadequacies.

  9. Re:No standing, no case on Court: Car Dealers Can't Stop Tesla From Selling In Massachusetts · · Score: 4, Informative

    More like just State Supreme Court. SCOTUS stands for (S)upreme (C)ourt (O)f (T)he (U)nited (S)tates.

  10. Re:question colon on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 2

    Since this operator exists in C/C++, Java and Perl at least, it's hardly obscure

    It's called the ternary operator.

  11. Re:Federal vs. local decision (Re:I like...) on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 1

    You need citations for Congressional use of the "power of the purse"? Really?

    Here in the United States, the term Power of the Purse refers to relationship between Legislative and Executive branches of the same government.

    The relationship discussed in this sub-thread is between different governments: Federal vs. local ones...

    An excellent example is that of the federally mandated minimum drinking age: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

    Briefly, Congress threatened to cut specific funding to states unless they followed the federal government's leadership in setting the drinking age at 21. This despite Congress having no direct authority in the Constitution to make the states obey them. It's a pretty clear-cut case of federal overreach.

  12. Re:My experience this past month with Linux on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    p>Laptop: Asus Zenbook UX41LA

    After pissing around for half an hour with bios settings, I finally managed to get it to get farther than the grub bootloader. Things seem to work, but KDE crashes randomly, Cinnamon and Unity don't remember window locations and have their own oddities. None of them let me control screen backlighting, even after trying all the 'hacks' posted around the net.

    Then I find out that video performs even worse with the open source Intel video drivers.

    I know this won't help you now, but in the future you should know that Lenovo Thinkpads have some of the best out of the box linux support I have ever seen. All the little details work seamlessly and effortlessly.

  13. Re:Falsifying timecards on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    And how do you propose to do this, given that the article is about teleworkers ?

  14. Re:Congrats on After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out · · Score: 1

    If you're on Exherbo(or even Gentoo since the packages can be adapted pretty easily), the packages are in the works, and I'll mail anyone a copy of my work(running fine on two computers) if one asks.

  15. Baed on numbers... on Analyzing Long-Term SSD Failure Rates · · Score: 2

    Based on numbers, the study shows SSDs to be more reliable than HDDs. The best data I have seen in that article is the following:

    SSDs: 1.28--2.19% over 2 years

    HDDs: >=5% over 2 years

    The HDD data comes from: http://media.bestofmicro.com/2/N/289103/original/google_afrtemputilization_475.png The SSD data comes from the table on Page #6.

    I don't think any of this data is particularly surprising, HDDs are mechanical so the curves for failure would not be linear. The most interesting part of the article for consideration with SSDs is that SMART is going to be near useless for them. Since most failures are random occurrences in electronics which SMART isn't good at detecting, we may need better technology for detecting SSD failures.

  16. Re:Link is (was?) broken on Debian Wheezy To Have Multi-Architecture Support · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wait isn't that what Gentoo was doing since well, forever?

    Not really, Gentoo has native multilib support, not native multiarch support. And as I understand it, Debian's multiarch support is much more integrated than Gentoo's crossdev efforts at multiarch.

  17. Re:Not new and Not good on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    As a native South Jerseyan, I have not once seen a mode of controlling entrance into a traffic circle, other than a constantly blinking yellow light to indicate a yield. It's a fair distinction for traffic engineers to make, but it's misleading since at least in NJ those "guided" circles just do not exist. This is true even on some of the crazier traffic circles, like the Somers Point circle which has 5 individual roads leading into it.

  18. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    And it's certainly no coincident that there is an auto repair shop on the southeast edge of the circle, now is it?

  19. Re:Next step.. on Magnetic Nanoparticles Fry Tumors · · Score: 1

    Because these magnetic particles are less mobile than drugs, there is a good chance they'll tend to stay put and only damage the tumour and local tissue, rather than harming the organism as a whole.

    The solution to this is to use guided magnetic targeting. Basically, drugs are encapsulated in a magnetic nanoparticle and injected into the bloodstream relatively close to the cancer site. A magnetic field focusing on the cancer site attracts these particles and the drugs for the most part do not reach non-cancerous parts of the body

  20. Re:Brought to you by Bayer. on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1

    You mean a giant computer is going to rely on science instead of back whacking and cracking? Gasp!

    Ex-Trapolate! Ex-Trapolate! The Daa-leks are supreme!

  21. Linux? on Linux 3.0 Will Have Full Xen Support · · Score: 1

    But will it run Linux?

  22. Re:There's a really useful aspect to these. on A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain (I recall seeing these before?) the turret CAN run autonomously, however they are supposed to be supervised and do not engage unless an operator confirms it. The operator(s) have access to zooming cameras in the unit under both visible and infrared spectra.

    This just means we need a tank squadron to come in and shoot the cameras up with paint. Problem solved.

  23. Re:Wrong headline on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that parent is going on little more than contrived ideas unsubstantiated by fact. Homeschoolers get plenty of socialization(I was co-captain of a mock trial team in high school, and was homeschooled). I also was a member of three amateur sports teams and as far as instruction goes, nobody fed me information that wasn't right(if I disbelieved what I read, I'd do research to find the truth). I also got to a top-rated public research university on a full academic scholarship for a technical degree so what I learned couldn't be too opinion-based. I am doing fine at university and am involved with several clubs which sort of means your sweeping statement about an "inability to cope with society at large" is bonkers. Nor am I atypical. Tons of people I know follow a similar academic and social arc. This is just BS intended to spread FUD about an experimental, but effective and age-old way of learning that works for some people who are motivated and driven(and have parents who care).

  24. Re:Count me in on The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent up. I haven't seen something more insightful on slashdot in a while.

  25. Zoneminder on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Zoneminder works flawlessly here with multiple cameras, despite not being updated for a year.

    As to its features, it is very good at detecting motion, even when the area of motion is small compared to the whole frame. And you can playback all activity so you can know for sure if anyone has been acting suspicious so as to keep your guard up. I'd definitely recommend it, but with other security, because 1) a camera can't see everything 2) a camera won't stop a breakin.