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  1. Government deciding which degrees to fund based on 'societal needs' is about as socialist as you can get. In your initial post, though, you're ranting about the LEFT. Seems you might need some internal reflection on your political beliefs.

    If we have too many law degrees, then lawyer's salaries will drop, and people will pursue fewer law degrees. The government doesn't need to pick and choose.

  2. Re:Students, you hold the wisdom of the world in h on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Cell phone contents...
    5% - Collective wisdom of the world
    95% - Collective idiocracy of the world

    Turning it off in school to learn the difference - priceless

  3. Re:Courage, it didn't come, doesn't matter on Apple Launches the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus; Feature Water-Resistance, Lack Headphone Jack (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    The only way they're forcing your stereo equipment into obsolescence is if your stereo equipment consisted solely of a pair of wired headphone.

  4. No Google takeoever on Google Teams Up With Cloud Company Box To Sell More Google Apps For Work (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Box just announced a new partnership with IBM to use their workflow engine. I think Box is just trying to build as many partnerships as they can to build relevance. They don't really have anything the Google could stand up on their own.

  5. Re:Ideal vs. All Driving Conditions on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    In American English, a highway is a main road, not any road. In law, this is defined by State Highways or Interstate Highways, depending on whether it's maintained by the State or the Feds. If the local county is responsible, it's a County Road, definitely not a highway.

  6. Re:I'm one of those engineers... on Musk Says Drivers May Become Obsolete, Announces Juice-Saving Upgrades · · Score: 2

    Yep, it's really hard. That's why you develop a system that doesn't need to detect 100% of the lane markings. If you can optically detect 30-40% of them, and add that data to lidar mapped concrete patterns, medians, satellite imagery, gps, and other data sources, the software can accurately construct the proper path to follow. It's like a circle, you don't need to see the whole thing to draw a copy, you only need three points from it.

  7. Re:Soon 'mere humans' won't be allowed to do anyth on Musk Says Drivers May Become Obsolete, Announces Juice-Saving Upgrades · · Score: 1

    I'm going to extract a shitton of enjoyment out of going to sleep in my pod in Denver and waking up at the beach in San Diego!

  8. Re:Executive Summary on Java Vs. Node.js: Epic Battle For Dev Mindshare · · Score: 1

    That's why I'm fighting to keep node.js out of my organization... Management might start getting ideas. I am NOT switching back to PBR!

  9. But you do need it on The iPad Is 5 Years Old This Week, But You Still Don't Need One · · Score: 1

    What you don't need is a PC. The majority of PC users don't do anything with their PC/laptop that can't be done with a tablet, and the experience on the tablet blows away the experience on a PC. Saying you don't need a tablet is like saying you don't need a cell phone 'cause your land line works just fine.

  10. Re:It doesn't matter how secure the password is.. on The Most Popular Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password" · · Score: 1

    Great point. I always laugh when this list comes out each year, 'cause the guy who used jelHk7$%jh78df+EK9 was just as compromised as the guy who used abc123.

  11. Re:Is There A List? on Tesla Releases Electric Car Patents To the Public · · Score: 1

    No one has ever accused the patent office of making things easy to find.

  12. Re:Is There A List? on Tesla Releases Electric Car Patents To the Public · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Resolution on Surface Pro 3 Has 12" Screen, Intel Inside · · Score: 1

    It's because they're not going after the tablet market, they're going after the laptop market. In the demo, they were comparing it to the MacBook Air, not the iPad. We're doing a product evaluation of the Surface Pro 2 at work, and the biggest complaints are that the screens too small and it's too heavy. they fixed both of these thing with the 3. This will sell ridiculously well in the enterprise.

  14. Re:Wow, the Republicans... on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: 1

    It was meant more as a validation of your comment. Neither party's constituents are what the media (or other side) portrays them as. Many of the wealthiest, business owning Americans are Democrats. 8 of the 10 poorest counties in the US (the 'entitlements' voters) went to Romney. As a radical moderate, I find irony in either of the stereotypes.

  15. Re:Wow, the Republicans... on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: 1

    With apologies to Charles Baudelaire - "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that Democrats are a party of lazy leaches."

  16. Re:scalability on Interview: Ask Ben Starr About the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    In Denver, Mile High Organics, Door to Door Organics, Walmart to Go, The Organic Dish, Growers Organics, and a few others all offer a large variety of organic and local produce and packaged/prepared foods delivered directly to your home. Since your question was when, the answer is a few years ago.

  17. Degree != Job on Ask Slashdot: the State of Open CS, IT, and DBA Courseware in 2014? · · Score: 1

    Rather than looking for schools, start looking for jobs. To be a doctor, you need to go to medical school, to be a lawyer, you need to go to law school. To be a programmer, you have to know how to code, and your post implies you already do.

  18. Re:Seriously?! on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    If you did, you should have patented it, 'cause you were way ahead of your time. The only other product doing anything like this in 2000 was Microsoft's new OWA client, which had just implemented XMLHTTPRequest to dynamically update content from the internet. This patent is a bit ahead of that in that it was being applied to display content from multiple sources, rather than just Exchange.

  19. Re:metric? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    At 0 degrees Fahrenheit, to the human body, it becomes frickin' cold out.
    At 100 degrees Fahrenheit, to the human body, it becomes frickin' hot out.

    Why would humans care whether water is freezing? I have no emotion towards how water feels. When I go outside, I'm more concerned with whether I'm going to be freezing, and at 32F, it's only mildly chilly out.

  20. Re:Bias is not a problem,ethics is on Florian Mueller Outs Himself As Oracle Employee · · Score: 1

    What didn't he disclose? When Microsoft was his client, he let his readers know. Now he's started working with Oracle, while he's providing public opinions about an Oracle case, and again, he let his readers know.

  21. Give it to the state on Ask Slashdot: How To Share a SharePoint Site? · · Score: 1

    New York State Senate releases all the software they develop under a dual GPL3/BSD license. Pas it up to them to release and let them deal with it...

    http://www.nysenate.gov/developers/

  22. Re:not NET neutrality on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It's the network path that's followed. If you published the original file on your local pc and set the tracker up for use within comcast's network, then you wouldn't be using the internet. Of course, no one outside of comcast's network, and more specifically, your comcast subnet, would be able to access it. And really, what's the point of using bt between two users? Just set up an nfs share, there's a lot less overhead.

  23. Re:not NET neutrality on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    I disagree that the Internet is anything on the other side of their connection. I'd say the Internet is anything on the other side of their Gateway, but anything on the same side of that gateway is local network.

  24. Re:not NET neutrality on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "their WAN is part of the internet and fully connected to it"

    No, it's not. If you've got Comcast as an ISP, check your computer's ip address and subnet mask. I'm sure you'll find that you're not routable from the Internet.

  25. Re:not NET neutrality on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    BT is Internet, it's just not WWW.