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  1. Re:(Mg,Fe)SiO3 on Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not just "sounds like"... they've got nothing other than speculation which confirms earlier speculation.

    Tschauner’s description of bridgmanite gives us no such insights about the inside of the Earth, other than to confirm what scientists believed to have been true for quite some time: The mineral exists, and it can occur naturally under highly pressurized conditions.

  2. Re:Blatant slashvertisement on Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join · · Score: 2

    Seems like submissions from certain accounts (MojoKid is one of them) get approved, regardless of the value to the community. I'd speculate that sites like hothardware do advertorials which they then promote through various "social networks".

  3. Re:Keep It Ready on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do With Half a Rack of Server Space? · · Score: 1

    I seriously recommend this blog from Rackspace to those who are so caught up in cloudy-cluster-off-premises-corporate talk.

    This rising complexity and cost on the multi-tenant cloud is hitting customers in four main ways:
    - They spend more on engineering time and talent to architect for failure on the multi-tenant cloud, which is complex and hard.
    - They also spend more on engineering to deal with inconsistent performance, which is even harder.
    - They spend more on infrastructure, because over-provisioning is one of the major ways to compensate for inconsistent performance.
    - They spend more through the virtualization tax, which can diminish disk and network performance by 5 percent to 20 percent.

    KEEP your existing hardware as a live back up for when it starts raining in the cloud. Better yet, build in cost for new hardware on your rack over the next year to lower costs / maintenance and get some experience in building and operating your own in-house cloudy thing.

  4. Re:In other news, DC Comics announced on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    To be technically correct, the character would be called, "Wonder Peroffspring" :)

  5. Re:Quite the anti-climax..... on IBM Discovers New Class of Polymers · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Now that summary would have given me a lot more incentive to read the linked article. Was a bit put of by the nail polish bit -- simply because as much as I know that IBM maintains a very diverse range of research teams, nail polish would not have been something their geeks or PR department would have highlighted. :)

  6. Quite the anti-climax..... on IBM Discovers New Class of Polymers · · Score: 2

    Starting off with ... "fields of transportation, aerospace, and microelectronics"

    But the real application is ... "water-soluble nail polish.'"

  7. Re:Probably typical on 44% of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most people are consumers of tweets. They follow people, click through their links / updates etc. If you look at forums and other community media, you'll see that getting >10% of users to contribute is actually VERY good.

  8. Re:Islamic terrorist groups that threaten the West on NSA Ally Spied on US Law Firm · · Score: 1

    Cannot find the original post .. but sounds exactly like what Barry, my favorite NSA agent would say.

    NSA - Smile, we know when you're not...

  9. Builder = Business != Individual on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The analogy is incorrect. The builder is often the business owner and it is the business that is paying to remedy the defects. If the mechanic at a car dealer got something wrong, it would be the car dealership's problem, not the employee's problem (he could get fired .. but he would not have to pay for the replacement - assuming this was a sanely run business).

    Costs of bugs / fixes etc are built into the product development cycle.

    Would be another story if you came into office drunk and added a whole lot of code that then needed to get fixed. i.e. You were personally negligent and should be held liable for your actions (in my opinion).

  10. Re:Slashdot BETA Sucks. on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    >> Slashdot has many faults, but editing and deleting posts that don't agree with the editors doesn't seem to be one of them.

    And this discussion is a testament to that.

  11. Re:Resurrecting Technocrat.net on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Too bad.

    What i meant was, you own the resources / IP, bring together a few volunteers.

  12. Re:Resurrecting Technocrat.net on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Or ... let someone else do the dirty work and provide your star power to them.

  13. Re:Resurrecting Technocrat.net on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Developing a community will take time. It is a percentages game .... 100% will visit, 1% of that will contribute, 1% of the contributors will submit articles.

    So do the math and see if it is worth it.

    You've got the star power to pull together a few hundred people. That is a better starting point than most people would have.

    Quite happy to help with the stack and hosting, and other issues you may have, although I suspect you will not need help.

  14. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    >> I may not have a 4 digit id, but I have a 5 digit one. Please listen to the voices of experience here.

    4 or 5 does not matter. What matters is that there is a core group of contributors ("Audience") that does not like what they see.

    I am all for good design, good typography and have no problems with Javascript. What I have a problem with is that there is a design issue which I wish I could look at and go ... "fix this".

    Something just does not feel right with the new site ... too much white space, specially on large screen iMac / 4K type monitors. The white space is distracting, the scrolling is tedious, the fact that I cannot see comment summaries is a problem - these comments often have hidden gems which add to the experience as a reader.

    I'm not saying design for Lynx or Amiga ... design for the user. I wish they had put in some analytics which they could share .... "0.01% of our users browse on Lynx ... 0.0001% of the users who browse on Lynx contribute" type justifications. Right now, it seems like a design team that never really used the site, which was not a part of the community went out and wordpressed / huffpo'ed the site. (saw this comment on another thread and loved it...)

  15. Re:NO WORDPRESS! on Build an Open-Source Electric Car In About One Hour · · Score: 1

    WP should be fairly easy to modify to look like /..... I think. Not every WP site looks like "a WP site" or Huffpo.

  16. No need for /code on Build an Open-Source Electric Car In About One Hour · · Score: 1

    Could be done very easily with Wordpress and moderated submissions. Comment ratings plugins exist ...

    The problem is getting users to submit content. Trust me, the crowd that is so willing to go "Fuck Beta", is not the people submitting / moderating. Atleast thats what I think... .

  17. Civil issue .. not exactly "criminally illegal" on Quentin Tarantino Vs. Gawker: When Is Linking Illegal For Journalists? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From what I gather this is a civil issue. Not a criminal issue. Would you post links to Google maps pointing people to houses in your neighbourhood that are not locked? Sure there is some vague journalistic value to posting such links... but there is also an issue of responsibility.

  18. Congrats to Rotary and Bill Gates... on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As much as everyone likes to hate Bill Gates - India and a number of other countries owe him (and the global Rotary community) for helping in this effort. More on End Polio.

  19. Re:Vandalism on Wikipedia Actively Battling PR Sockpuppets · · Score: 1

    Forum owners have dealt with this stuff for a while... Shills have been around for centuries.

    This is not news at all, it is the cost of doing business on the user generated web.

  20. Beowulf on Oracle Promises 100x Faster DB Queries With New In-Memory Option · · Score: 2

    " hosting 32 terabytes of DRAM memory and up to 384 processor cores with 8-threads per core. "

    Let me be the first to point out the Beowulf possibilities with a few hundred of these clustered together. :)

  21. Re:Where's Harry Raddick? on Amazon Selects Their Favorite Fake Customer Reviews · · Score: 1

    Classics included:

    An admirably thorough guide to the tools of the production-line meat processing trade. The superb colour photographs particularly made it a perfect gift for my 15 year old daughter who is showing alarming signs of not becoming vegetarian.

    Smith and Stybbard have written a gem in this book. It's certainly helped me to take control of my dog's idiosyncratic toilet habits. My pug Grendel now dances to my tune, be it on walks, in the garden or merely impressing friends and family. A word of caution - take care when choosing your "command words" and "smart phrases" to avoid words your dog is likely to hear on the television. It took 4 episodes of Ali McBeal before I realised that my "full evacuation" command was in the theme song.

  22. Where's Harry Raddick? on Amazon Selects Their Favorite Fake Customer Reviews · · Score: 3, Informative

    Disappointed that they did not choose Harry Raddick's reviews. By far the most entertaining reviewer they've ever had. EVER.

    Read them here...

  23. Device Maker... on Researcher Unlocks Galaxy S4 Bootloader For AT&T, Verizon Phones · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is the same device maker.

  24. Re:Armor? on 3D Printers For Peace Contest · · Score: 3, Funny

    You got it all wrong. We're discussing "Mother Theresa OF Ghandi" ... time to load up google maps and discover this harbinger of peace who can program 3D printers. :)

  25. Annoying Ads Disclaimer on Eric Schmidt: Google Will Continue Investing In UK Even If Taxes Raised · · Score: 2

    Why in gods name do you guys accept submissions from or linked to sites which play annoying ads? Yeah, I get it, most of /. users browse with adblockers of all sorts, but it is just horrible if you have to accept a submission and then add a disclaimer to it -- makes you guys look desperate.