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  1. Re:webp? on Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries · · Score: 1

    webp is not a supported image file format for the Web.

    When I clicked on it, Firefox offered up Chrome as the application to display it. Of course it did.

  2. North Korean Industry: Precision but not Accuracy on North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone · · Score: 2

    Just like their missiles, the North Korean time keeping industry must be very precise, but the accuracy doesn't match the real world. :-) Actually, looking at the maps, their new timezone probably means it will be closer to solar noon when their clocks say so. All kinds of strangeness related to timezones anyway, all over the world.

  3. A memristor or something else? on Intel and Micron Unveil 3D XPoint Memory, 1000x Speed and Endurance Over Flash · · Score: 2

    The press release is lacking a lot of details, but the storage cells are two terminal devices. Sounds similar to the memristor.

  4. Re:So, Not Then. on Taking the Lawyers Out of the Loop · · Score: 1

    "Papers... then reviews by an attorney..."

    So much for taking lawyers out of the loop.

    Not only that, no ethical lawyer will review an agreement on behalf of both sides, as that represents a conflict of interest. You still need two lawyers if both sides feel the need for a review.

  5. The encounter sequence will disable safe mode on Glitch Halts New Horizons Operations As It Nears Pluto · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since they only have one shot at the flyby, the New Horizons web site states that the encounter sequence they are uploading will disable the safe mode and instruct the probe to return to the timeline sequence.

  6. Maybe it's none of their business?? on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    How I vote is none of the pollster's business. And it's not like the politicians would even listen to my opinion anyway. Vote all incumbents out, always!

  7. Re:This is why we have NaN on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    Well, the limit of 1/x as x approaches 0 from the positive side is +Inf, but the corresponding limit as x approaches 0 from the negative side is -Inf. Still no way to choose just one as "correct". Thus by various definitions, 0/0 = NaN, indicated with either a floating exception program termination, or a signalling or non-signalling IEEE NaN depending on the environment and if your code has adjusted various FP environment options.

  8. Re:Ditch the Land Line on 86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US · · Score: 1

    I just wish I could block all of the Republican fundraisers *still* calling me after nearly 10 years of NOT being an (R)..

    I forgot about having received that category of annoying messages too. Don't miss them one bit either!

  9. Ditch the Land Line on 86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US · · Score: 1

    I disconnected my land line a while back and almost never get these types of calls anymore. It was the best thing I've done in a while, as I got tired of maintaining the limited 25 number block list to stop the charity and fraudulent callers.

  10. Re:Yes, but can it launch Waze on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But a native English speaker (are you?) is almost certainly going to pronounce "waze" identically to "ways".

    Actually, no. At first glace I would pronounce it with a hard Z sound, more like "was".

  11. Was there a small scale pilot test? on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    Did they even attempt a small scale roll out to see if it would met their needs? If not: epic fail.

  12. I Disagree with the Summary on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looking at the video, it appears the booster does not come close to ever having anywhere near a true vertical orientation, and this attempt was not, in fact, "incredibly close to success". Granted, it came closer than ever in history to achieving the goal, but the thruster appeared to not have enough thrust to push the rocket to a vertical position once the booster touched down on the barge. I hope Space-X has a successful next test! The world needs a dose of rockets landing on large flames in the style of those old campy movies.

  13. Re:Too many pixels = slooooooow on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 4, Insightful

    8k is just fetishism.

    And yet an 8k monitor would be very useful for viewing the complete image of many DSLR cameras without scaling or subsetting, with room for controls and menu bars or panels to be also visible. I'd probably get one for this reason.

  14. Re:Although unused, not useful on Amazon Tests Delivery Drones At Secret Canada Site After US Frustration · · Score: 1, Informative

    It'll be interesting to see if communities try to ban this.

    Communities do not have the legal authority to regulate airspace, for the most part they can only request the FAA impose restrictions.

  15. SBC6120 is real PDP-8 style hardware on Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The SBC6120 uses a Harris 6120 CPU chip which is a PDP-8/e-like microprocessor. It has a companion FP6120 front panel with switches and lights, which is a scaled down version of an older modle rack mount PDP-8 front panel. You built them from kits, loads of fun for those who like that sort of thing. Mine has a CF card for the hard drives (a whole whopping 2 MB each under OS/8!). You may be able to find an unbuilt kit, as the maker of the kit, Spare TIme Gizmos, will not be making any new ones going forward.

  16. Not 3D chemical printing on New Molecular 3D Printer Can Create Billions of Compounds · · Score: 2

    From the description in the articles, it appears to function more like a DNA assembly. They start with some basic building blocks with certain chemical groups attached, and react them together to build molecules, freeing those attached groups. It does not appear to be adding individual atoms to individual molecules.

  17. Alternate Bank of Canada Press Release on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Bank of Canada wishes to inform Star Trek fans that while they may live long, they may not prosper if other parties refuse to accept defaced $5 bills that have been drawn on (aka "Spocked") in tribute to the late actor Leonard Nimoy.

  18. Pinky and The Brain will be real soon on Xeroxed Gene May Have Paved the Way For Large Human Brain · · Score: 1

    Finally, "The Brain" will be a reality. The cartoon was prescient in its detail.

  19. Space Sharks With Lasers on Ceres' Mystery Bright Dots May Have Volcanic Origin · · Score: 1, Informative

    The space sharks are trying to destroy Dawn before it can get too close to image their civilization.

  20. Skip the videos, spend time with her now on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    I agree that you should spend time with her now, tell her in person what you think you want to tell her later. I read comments made by a woman who had received letters from her deceased mother for those "important events", and grew to dread reading them because they couldn't take into account the changes in the daughters life and became increasingly disconnected. Don't think you can predict the future, but give her your guidelines now.

  21. Re:Article bad web page design on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 1

    I use the no color add-on which puts a button on the toolbar to toggle a page between color and black-and-white without affecting the layout.

    Even better! I've been annoyed by the lack of layout when disabling page styles. I've added it to my extensions, looks like it will be very useful.

  22. Re:Article bad web page design on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A curse and a pox on web sites that use such low contrasting schemes. The article may have been interesting, but I'll never know what he intended to say because I simply can't read it without getting eyestrain and a massive headache.

    I agree 150%! I will often close a web site nearly immediately if it has piss poor graphical design. By the way, have you investigated if your browser has the option to turn off page styles? In Firefox selecting the View/Page Style/No Style menu option will turn off the crappy graphic decisions made by the web site author, if you really need to view the site.

  23. Flashblock on Watch Videos in Synch with Fellow iOS Users (Video) · · Score: 1

    If you're on the Slashdot main page and click the 'Read' link below this paragraph, the video will autoplay.

    This is exactly why I use Flashblock.

  24. Pick up more TLAs :-) on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    You have a good start sprinkling in the three letter acronyms into your question. Be sure to learn a few more. I admit it don't recognize the ones you used, and can't be bothered to Google them. :-) In a more serious vein, in my experience, all software related development could stand to use strong skills in the areas you listed. You should be able to evaluate the suitability of each part of the "cocktail' of tools to the task at hand, and to deliver well crafted and tested solutions, or to be able to point out the deficiencies of the proposed tools. Too much code has been written by persons sorely lacking in those skills, and the poor quality that results is evident. Not even big corporations are immune. One of my pet peeves: why do users have to enter in phone numbers or card numbers in web forms with out spaces or other punctuation? So simple to strip them out in the validation step.

  25. Do Not Look Into Laser With Remaining Eye? on Li-Fi-like System Pushes 100Gbps Within a Small Room · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aaaah! My eye!