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  1. Re:Not to rain anybody's party, but.... on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 1

    IDK why they don't just use a static musl-libc (or bionic) toolchain... it could even be included in the source tree.

  2. Don't use public waterways to build your moat. on Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T · · Score: 1

    I am guessing they received a public easement to put up the poles.  Imminent domain could just as easily force them to be returned at cost.  If the had paid landowners for the rights, it would at least be more difficult.
    I hope AT&T's moated fortress becomes their Alcatraz.

  3. Obvious, and non-patentable on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    ___________________
    |  +     #     -  |
    | =============== |
    |__-_____#_____+__|

    + positive
    - negative
    # ground
    each is interconnected with its match

  4. already done on Google Launches Voice Search Hotword Extension For Chrome · · Score: 1

    #!/bin/sh
    # Brad Conroy's public domain speech processing tool (lite version)
    computer(){
        case $1 in
            open)shift; which $1 && $@ || text2speech "I can't find that program.";;
            disregard)exit;;
            *)text2speech "I can't handle the $@ command yet.";;
        esac
    }

    pocketsphinx_continuous $SOMERANDOMOPTIONS |while read ROW COMMAND ARGS; do
    case "$ROW$COMMAND" in
        [0-9]*:computer)$COMMAND $ARGS;;
        [0-9]*:dictate)[ "$DICTATE" ] && DICTATE="" || DICTATE=true ;;
        [0-9]*:*)[ "$DICTATE" ] && echo $COMMAND $ARGS >>$HOME/dictations
    esac
    done

  5. Engineer: We need to optimize the physics engine. on Why Project Flare Might Just End the Console War · · Score: 2

    Management: But you said it was working.
    Engineer: It is ... at 3 FPS on a standard PC.
    Management: Perfect, we can sell it by the hour until then.
    Engineer: You're kidding right?
    Management: No, seriously, BTW your new project starts tomorrow.
    Engineer: but....

  6. My project has 37 pieces of flare... on Why Project Flare Might Just End the Console War · · Score: 1

    But its OK if yours just has the minimum.

  7. Bring back the lard. on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Fried foods cooked in lard taste better. The transition to trans fat cooking oil ended my taste for restaurant fried food altogether.

  8. They could use ammonia... on Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon · · Score: 1

    They could use a contained ammonia system to both cool and power the place.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator/ The refrigerator in my RV can use 3 different heat sources to cool the contents (AC,DC and propane)

    Combine it with a multistage turbine generator with a separate natural gas powered stage and you have a working regenerative power system.

    For that matter, you don't even _really_ need to use the ammonia, you could just pipe the natural gas directly across the cooling surfaces after it expands (and thus cools) from the gas line... but they aren't already designed for such things, and what works with what you have in place is often more economical.

  9. Re:How hard can that possibly be? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 2

    And the cup is already labeled "whole", so it must be whole milk. ... So the answer is 2.
    Its missing nutritious snack and a glass of water, fruit juice or low-fat milk.
    (but I'd take the milk and cookies)

  10. What a stupid ungoogleable name. on How Your Compiler Can Compromise Application Security · · Score: 1

    Why do people do this crap?

  11. NASA's engineering is dictated by laws of physics. on Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? · · Score: 1

    While the software rules are dictated by the laws of Congress.
    The rules governing the management of these projects (The FAR) is set up for waterfall style management, but the requirements were closer to an agile timeline and the government project managers live in fear of the court battles that just about any minor change can cause. Many contractors have figured out that if they underbid the project, they can make up for it in changes due to "unforeseen conditions" that in actuality, they have already seen and priced out.

  12. ...And we'll call it Galt's Gulch. on Building an Opt-In Society · · Score: 1

    A fitting tribute to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

  13. Show me the metrics! on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 1

    How hard can it be to track bug reports and vulnerabilities back to their initial commit to determine whether or not they were corporate-sponsored.

    It would be interesting to see what companies provide the highest quality contributions and where un-sponsored individual contributions rank as a group.

  14. Good, they are bad luck. on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Many incidents occur when a regulator (who is not normally present) is "overseeing" something.

  15. I'm PS4, I'm WII U, I'm XBox1 and I'm a Steam Box on Ask Slashdot: Can Valve's Steam Machines Compete Against the Xbox One and PS4? · · Score: 1

    As a throwback to the Mac vs. PC and Mac/PC/Linux Parodies.
    Wii character looks like a person painted on balloons.
    Xbox1 character is immedieately obscured by a paywall saying to pay MS for content it doesn't even provide.
    Have the rest of the conversation being between PS4 and Steam with both telling Wii to go play.
    Then Steam telling all of its features and PS4 responding "I have that too, ... at least for now"
    Then have PS4 cop to removing other OS in PS3 and Steam simply responding "Uncool"

  16. Its called the "End of Year Dump" on Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown · · Score: 1

    ... and I reported it to the waste, fraud and abuse line every year I was in the military even though I knew it wouldn't be taken seriously.

  17. Re:Fucking idiots on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is one profession older than warrior and it _is_ more profitable. In fact prostitution probably has one of the highest returns on investment.

  18. 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon on Snowden Strikes Again: NSA Mapping Social Connections of US Citizens · · Score: 2

    That's great! Now we have an answer key.... and perhaps the code name of the project.

  19. There is a problem ... and a solution. on Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws · · Score: 2

    Either by regulation or agreement, if the scanner comes across the string "[DO NOT TRACK]" anywhere in the mail, scanning should stop and that data should be discarded... That would be the non-evil way to prevent unconsenting 3rd parties from being tracked.

  20. Too bad its pointless on Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool · · Score: 1

    They could have at least include a dynamic IP mechanism to pull it up at some google hosted domain.

  21. notice of intent to give notice? on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone have a good template for giving notice in such a way that if the employer immediately fires you, they can't say you "quit" in order to deny benefits?

  22. Re:Only $280k? on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 3, Informative

    its called samba4

  23. Re:Crunchbang is pretty decent on Debian + Openbox = CrunchBang Linux (Video) · · Score: 1

    Puppy is no longer plagued by lack of packages. Barry Kauler now uses a set of build scripts (called woof) to generate "puppy" from the repositories of Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Mageia, Slackware or T-2 (rpm based distro support is still pre-alpha) ... so if you want Arch without systemd, Puppy is one alternative (Puppy has alternate packages for udev, etc...).

    The reason I've kept using Puppy after trying it was the responsiveness of their forum, even though there are so many different flavors. It shows that it is possible to embrace diversity as a critical step towards improvement (not just change) If you ask a programming related question that is out of the normal realm, you actually get insightful responses - often with code, whereas in my experience the Ubuntu forums this was not the usual case (granted that was over 5 yrs ago).

  24. MS Every Other Rule on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 0

    If you haven't figured it out yet every other version of a MS product is a test bed for new/bad ideas. ME mostly sucked, Vista sucked and 8 sucked worse, but the salvageable parts got integrated into the releases in-between. This is a marketing tactic designed to part consumers with their money. Odd releases == market new features that look visually appealing in ads to consumers. Even releases == market "Hey we fixed our crap like you asked"

  25. Re:Fuel on USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams · · Score: 2

    I thought it was "OMg - thats fast"