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  1. Everybody just calm down already.

  2. Re:Official Go IDE? on Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go · · Score: 1

    There's an excellent IntelliJ plugin under active development: https://github.com/go-lang-plu... Check it out!

  3. Re:Visual Studio + g++ || Clang on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    I wonder how CLion (https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/) stacks up. I've been using it and I love it, but I haven't used VS in years.

  4. Re:"Full responsibilty?" on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want to talk about legal responsibility for their deaths, you should charge the hostage takers with murder under the felony murder rule. If they hadn't taken the hostages in the first place, they never would have been in harm's way.

  5. Oblig. Mitchell and Webb on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1
  6. In other news, scientists have discovered that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

  7. No on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 2

    Betteridge's law of headlines at play! There's no faster way to deliver a nuke than a SLBM on a depressed trajectory. Until this is not the case, nuclear-powered attack submarines (which can stay submerged for months at a time) will be indispensable to a nuclear-armed nation.

  8. Why do they need to see the decrypted packet payloads? Surely throttling could be done based on a device's behavior (e.g. bandwidth used) without having to know exactly what the user is doing.

  9. And? on Dish Pulls Fox News, Fox Business Network As Talks Break Down · · Score: 1

    And nothing of value was lost.

  10. Awesome! on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Oh this is great, one more game I can play without rebooting into Windows. Now I need to cut out from work early to play. :)

  11. Re:Why Wave? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? · · Score: 1

    I think the core of it lives on in products like Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

  12. Re:About what on German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Oblig. on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 1

    Oh that's true! Thank God for that. :)

  14. Oblig. on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 5, Funny
  15. I hope not on Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? · · Score: 1

    If Postgres is on par with Oracle then it has fallen a long way.

  16. Re:Pilot error? on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    Look at the date on the PAPI NOTAM: it is after the crash. The plane took out the PAPI lights.

  17. Re:Pilot error? on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    Correcting myself: there are other non-visual approaches (GPS for example) that could have been flown with the ILS out, but these require more work and given the weather conditions a visual approach would be chosen by most pilots.

  18. Re:Pilot error? on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    Your emphasis is on the wrong runway. He was on runway 28L, the glide path component of the ILS was out of service, thus he would have been flying a visual approach. The PAPI lighting (giving a visual cue about the glide slope) was working at the time. Even if the ILS was working I'm sure many pilots would have opted for a visual approach given the perfect weather conditions.

  19. Re:Fork!!! on Java 8 Delayed To Fix Security · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was forked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK The problem is that the browser plugin and WebStart parts of Java are not included in OpenJDK. But OpenJDK is excellent and widely used.

  20. The Australian government is excellent at selling to the public products that the public have paid to produce. In the US (at least in theory) products of the US government are in the public domain and not eligible for copyright. I know, there are tons of things the US government produces that are exempt from this. I know this is a simplistic view, but Australia should not be selling things to people that they have already bought with their tax dollars.

  21. Re:talent! on H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad · · Score: 1

    I didn't see this mentioned, but the sponsoring company has to make a Labor Condition Application for H-1B applicants. In this application they have to show that the visa candidate is going to be paid a salary at or above the "prevailing wage". Of course there are ways and means to avoid this but at least in principle is supposed to make a H-1B worker no more attractive to an employer than an American.

  22. Off-topic but just FYI on Too Much Gold Delays World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 2

    Did you know that people in North America pronounce "solder" as "sodder"? I had no idea until I moved to the US and I still find it hilarious!

  23. Re:any questions? on Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Working With Awful Legacy Code? · · Score: 1

    You're never going to get a straight answer about why the position is vacant, waste of a question.

  24. Re:If the odds are against you on What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance · · Score: 1

    *Woosh* :)

  25. Re:CAFE Kills on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    Why?