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  1. Re:Create your own documentation on Ask Slashdot: IT Staff Handovers -- How To Take Over From an Outgoing Sys Admin? · · Score: 1

    Reminds me, I should start writing documentation :-).

  2. Most likely to fail on Mozilla Unveils 'Aggressive' Firefox OS Schedule: Quarterly Feature Releases · · Score: 0

    "that's the most aggressive mobile OS release strategy out there" >>= This means it is also the most likely to not succeed.

  3. Re:Why not make dollar signs optional? on PHP 5.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I do love the "design" in quotation marks, they actually thought using a left associative ?: is acceptable? I think they are mad.

  4. Re:Why not make dollar signs optional? on PHP 5.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I am not talking about going back, I am talking about them simplifying a design that already exists. I would not write a compiler personally that needed it.

  5. Re:Why not make dollar signs optional? on PHP 5.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Is it a variable or is it a function call?

  6. Re:Why not make dollar signs optional? on PHP 5.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    class functor { void operator() { } } n; n(); Is n a variable or a function? how about int n(5); A nice little constructor call. Love the most vexing parse. I believe using a $ would simplify a design, but not still not necessary.

  7. Re:Why not make dollar signs optional? on PHP 5.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You know a vast majority of them are not needed? Have you ever written a parser? I could see these things helping a lexer a great deal.

  8. Re:how about DC backlight? on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    It costs more money to run that, and it isn't necessary considering the 'refresh rate' of your eyes. I want to have longer battery times.

  9. Re:Academic Freedom on Professors Say Massive Open Online Courses Threaten Academic Freedom · · Score: 1

    Dare I ask what kind of course that was at a "liberal-dominated university"? I go to a University in Ontario, and I would not call it leaning any which way, in fact the main politics are simply internal ones.

  10. Re:headline a bit inaccurate on Professors Say Massive Open Online Courses Threaten Academic Freedom · · Score: 1

    A question from ignorance: Does a professor make material and get paid by the university, or does it come from grant money?

  11. Re:The Public Domain on Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed · · Score: 2

    The previous to 'automatic copyright' was registered copyright. The amount of paperwork required for that would be amazing overall.

  12. Re:Bullshit all Around on Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet" · · Score: 1

    I only watch from the sidelines. I am not American.

  13. Bullshit all Around on Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So are we going to have this song and dance every year?
    1. Politicians introduce legislation against common people's interests.
    2. Initial concerns over privacy/abuse of power are voiced.
    3. Companies of all sorts voice support, and how much it is needed.
    4. Apparently clueless politicians make statements minimizing critics as somehow insignificant.
    5. Huge outrage swells up from 'the people'
    6. Politicians and Companies back-pedal
    7. Last clueless politician stays the course.
    8. Bill dies.
    9. ???
    10. Rince and Repeat

  14. Re:I'll pass... on Resurrecting the Linux Game Tome · · Score: 1

    Not surprising at all. GNU Coreutils has for a very long time (don't know if form inception) as supported command line parameters in almost any order for these utilities. So on Darwin or *BSD, ls / -l will fail, while it works on Linux just fine.

  15. Re: complicated radiation patterns on FCC To Update 1996 Cell Phone Radiation Standard · · Score: 1

    Have a citation for that? Sounds interesting if true.

  16. Replace X? on GTK+ 3.8 Released With Support For Wayland · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "A new feature in GTK+ 3.8 is support for Wayland 1.0, the display server that will replace X on free desktops." Who said this is going to replace X on 'free desktops'? As far as I have been hearing, this is just another in a long line and because it hasn't done it yet, it is not justifiable to say it will.

  17. Re:Effort and time is not the same as accomplishme on ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs · · Score: 1

    But they can do the both at the same time.

  18. Re:Any old timers remember the Pentium 50 Mhz? on Intel's Pentium Chip Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    The 60/66 MHz versions were rather special ones, because starting with 75MHz they had a new socket. Not sure why.

  19. Re:for the seventh time since 1993 on North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China · · Score: 1

    A revolution is often bloody, and the results afterwards often includes civil war.

  20. Re:Sorry, Prenda on Copyright Trolls Sue Bloggers, Defense Lawyers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It has always been the deepest pockets.

  21. Waiting for the other shoe on World's First Bitcoin ATM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    to drop... I am waiting for some kind of bad security hole. How many bitcoin sites have been laughably insecure?

  22. Re:I'd quit on The Internet Archive To Pay Salaries Partly In Bitcoin, Requests Donations · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Never would I want to get paid in Bitcoin. I am not anonymous. Bitcoin has benefits for sure, but there is too much uncertainty in the market for it to be worth this.

  23. Re:Quite actual - Not! on Debian Project Releases 7.0 "Wheezy" Installer Candidate · · Score: 2

    I run a student operated server, and I inherited an ancient Debian install that I had little control over. I proceeded to wipe for FreeBSD9 (partially the decision of the operator just before me), had that for about six months. Now that I am on Debian Testing again, life is simple again. I appreciate this about Debian. But given the nature of the 'student' part, I cannot have a compiler that is ancient considering the C++11 stuff people are using. Even in testing it is a great system.

  24. Re:Like most overgeneralizations... on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    Have you read the article? The blog entry is entirely plausible, sounds like research I have been seeing for a good decade or so. I also found the article via the author's website: http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/201302-18_RoyalSoc-NetworkScience/201302-18_RoyalSoc-NetworkScience.pdf Interesting citations it has. One can also derive things with statistical methods. I would also note that this is talking about websites, not pages.

  25. How does this company make money? on Game Closure "DevKit" For Mobile HTML5 Games Is Open Source · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I appreciate the contribution of an engine of this nature, but I have to wonder how the company behind it can remain viable if this is their only 'product'?