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  1. It's still the pipeline, the number seems to say. on Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    According to the very article that says it is not the pipeline, avg black component in IT master graduates is 3.5%, the workforce is around 3%. Looks normal to me, at the workforce level, that is. The result indicates a completely disproportionate number of white males in IT university curiculums, and that's the problem that needs addressed. Before minorities can have a chance to compete on the good jobs, they need to have a chance to get the degrees for such jobs.

  2. Re:Neutrality should be about source and destinati on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1

    There is still a problem. My ISP will cater to the "average Joe" and bump the priority on most used services (like video streams, that can actually tolerate quite a lot of latency), but they will not consider the case of niche users like SSH interactive sessions, which are very latency sensitive but "who cares", right ? Well I care. So in the end, your rule is neat, but it is not quite enough yet to let prioritization happen: as long as I cannot make my application a priority, I still get the short changed.

  3. Re:nope on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Voice is latency sensitive, as is live video chat. Delays result in choppy audio and echo. Since it's realtime, buffering is not an option.

    Video streaming of movies is not: buffering is a perfect solution to poor latency in that case.

    Now, what I do not like with the hidden assumption in the ops post is that the user does not get to choose what gets prioritize. Even a goodwill ISP (haha!) that prioritize sensibly for the common use cases will not do what I want. SSH interactive session are also latency sensitive, yet I do not see any ISP prioritizing SSH because it is a niche use case. It is the most important use case for me. I do not want "neutrality", I want choice on what I prioritize for myself. Especially when we talk latency.

  4. To their defense on Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a normal person I never had use of large bills like that. Even 100 is an annoyance as you have to get it accepted for change somewhere. So in essence nothing of value would be lost. Then the claim that it would be effective at curbing illegal business is not very strong either.

  5. Replicate the experiment on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    In science, you replicate the experiment to prove it's not a glitch, randomness, a trick or a systemic measurement error. Looking sideways at a blackbox with poor measurement tools under the supervision of a known con-man is nowhere near replicating the experiment in a separate setting.

  6. Re:Polygraph on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 1

    Yes: money :)

  7. Re:More feminist bullshit on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is not a problem exclusive to women. [...] but if you are subject to it as a man you'll get much less support to cope with it.

    That's true, and an independent yet important problem as well. However, I think we can agree that when men get less support (or even suffer stigma from not being "manly enough" to cope with it, which is pure BS), women face an echo chamber of aggressive misogynistic a-holes, ready to take on a crusade against them on a scale that most men never face. Just read the first comments here. In short, the harassment of women is more intense (from more harassers) and is pandemic.

  8. Perhaps the biggest roadblock to adopting fusion.. on Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal · · Score: 1

    Is that it doesn't produce energy in the lab.

  9. EU numbers on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    EU numbers are well known and documented to be extremelly optimistic. So much so that nobody even cares about them when buying a car. The DOT numbers are much closer to the reality (if still overstating a bit, not by a big bit). Making the correction because europe does not use MPG, so it seems there was some sort of confusion that the overstated numbers were relevant in the US where MPG are the unit of the land.

  10. Re: So Intel pulled out on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials · · Score: 1

    I am (was) a gamer, and didn't felt attacked by "feminazis" (lol) when they pointed the obvious fact that some gaming communities are hostile to female players and devs. The reaction on this subject are a telling proof that it is still the fact.

  11. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    I have them too, they are on 18 hours a day and make a nice warm light. No drama. They were expensive but at this point they repaid their own value several times over.

  12. Re:LEDs on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    My experience too. My CFL have lasted a long time, possibly more than rated, for some. The only one that failed were exposed to adverse conditions or heavy use pattern (cold, auto-timer with lots of on-off cycles, closed fixtures).

    My two grudges against CFL is inconsistent, often poor color quality and contamination of your home with heavy metal when you are clumsy (yes, it's my fault I let the bulb fall on my 2yo toy box, but this is infuriating anyway).

  13. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons is that LED do not emit infrared light (the major source of waste in regular bulbs), but instead generate most of their waste as direct heat in the electronic components at the base. The global waste is a lot less, but it is also a lot more concentrated, thus the heatsink.

  14. Re:min install on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1

    CentOS minimal today is pretty close to that.

  15. Re:Is there a single field that doesn't? on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: 1

    Actually, prostitutes are very often victims of sexual abuse (by clients, pimps, police, etc.)

  16. Re:Is there a single field that doesn't? on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: 1

    No, the problem is not with permanent tenure or whatnot. When they are reported, they are dealt with appropriately. The problem is that the cost of reporting is very high for victims, as they may not be able to complete their Ph.D. which is costing them tens of thousands (if not more) in lost future revenues, and 3 or 4 years of their life. So many can be effectively coerced into staying silent, because the cost is too high.

  17. Well.... on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    What you call "claryfying their marketing point" I call false advertisement. As your second point about Android people, first that's not true (I for one is an Apple customer on other products), and second, if you let a bad apple (haha) in the basket, you know what happens. If Apple can play false advertisement without retorsion, other companies will follow to remain relevant, and before we know it, all advertisements will be smoke and mirrors and full of lies, including those for non-Apple devices, and it would have started by letting one company get away with it. Wether you care about buying the device or not is irrelevant about the legitimacy of pointing that the ad is fake, as this is relevant for the health of the whole industry.

  18. Dragnet on FBI Completes New Face Recognition System · · Score: 1

    How is this not an invasion of privacy when the police is taking records of where everybody is going at all times, w/o probable cause or warrant ?

  19. USENIX, SuperComputing on Ask Slashdot: Good Technology Conferences To Attend? · · Score: 2

    You should try these 2: USENIX and SuperComputing. They are the most enjoyable for a non-academic to attend.

  20. Re:Um... good for whom in the US? on French Provider Free Could Buy US Branch of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that's exactly what the broadband and GSM US market needs. This is an encroached bunch of crooks with sleezy marketing practices and a captive market. The prices are artificially high, there is little to no competition (except for recent Tmo moves in feb that have resulted in an across the board slash in prices at all operators). The fact that Free is not "so good anymore" because others have matched is exactly what is exciting. I am actually happy with ATT wireless, technically, but not about the price of the service, and the fact that a $75 bill becomes a $100 bill with bogus "tax recovery" BS minilines and overarges for pretty much looking wrong at the phone.

  21. Re:Um... good for whom in the US? on French Provider Free Could Buy US Branch of T-Mobile · · Score: 4, Interesting

    20 euros is inclusive of taxes. France taxes are not super heavy, but still on the upper side, and I'd bet US taxes are lower overall.

    When I lived in France I had Free. Excellent service, very disruptive market strategy. I'm very excited with the news. I'd switch in an eyelash.

  22. Re:Wow. Terrble Turn. on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Unilateral sanctions are useless if the major trade partner doesn't go along. Russian trade is ridiculously euro-centric. If the US embargo Russia but the europeans do not, this has no effect, a vague blip on the graph.

  23. Re:Translation: Slash 18K jobs, apply for 18K H-1B on Microsoft CEO To Slash 18,000 Jobs, 12,500 From Nokia To Go · · Score: 1

    You do not know what you are talking about, and you are wrong. The forms are checked, and very often acceptance is conditional to an increase in salary. The administration do check the numbers and is not shy of bumping the salary requirement to match prevailing wages.

  24. Opposite problem on EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement · · Score: 1

    Why would I trust your wifi to start with ? It's name is "freewififorall" and I should hope it is not a honeypot to eavesdrop my credit card number when it is transiting on the wire(less), or scan my open ports if I connect ?

  25. Spin Ph.Ds? on Researchers Unveil Experimental 36-Core Chip · · Score: 1

    MIT is expert a making these sort of PR stunts were they claim they invented something novel when they replicate some boring old result from 10yr ago. Well, here it is 30yr ago.