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  1. Re:Indeed very close on Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? · · Score: 1

    So, LabView with DLLs dressed up as SubVIs would be FBP?

  2. Re:Those are legal?!?! on TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades · · Score: 1

    It's in order to implement BYOD for the army. Publicly owned weapons would be kinda socialist, you know.

  3. Re:Hmm on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    "how the FUCK do you think everything is going to get done with 90 people?"

    Block access to Slashdot?

  4. Re:Thanks for the ad on How To Build a Simple Open Source Server Monitoring Solution With Mobile Support · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or as Bill Gates would put it, "When you're dying of malaria, nothing sucks more than finding an 'Error establishing database connection' on your blog hours after the fact".

  5. Hidden features? on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 4, Funny

    - Regexp search for radio stations
    - Job commute as a cron job
    - vi as default editor

  6. Re:News? on Patching Software on Another Planet · · Score: 1

    I remember a lecturer telling exactly this story when I took a real-time systems course circa 2001...

  7. Not coding but hackning on Who Will Teach U.S. Kids To Code? Rupert Murdoch · · Score: 1

    Murdoch's people don't code - but they sure know how to hack!

  8. Re:Humle Kim on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    Humble.

  9. Humle Kim on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    I think this time he is being humle. I mean he didn't claim to have written The Hobbit.

  10. Re:With NSA Reader! on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    Are all the Soviet Russia jokes on NSA from now on?

  11. Re:Lack of comments on this post leaves a resoundi on ESA Launches the 2013 Edition of the Summer of Code In Space (SOCIS) · · Score: 1

    silence

    In space, no one can hear you segfault.

  12. Why not beer as a cloud service? on Beer Drone Delivery Service For South African Music Festival · · Score: 1

    Raining beer - funnel included for premium subscribers.

  13. Re:The "lightweight" person that you mention on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    Most of the things that used to be standalone applications they now do online:
    ...

    In short, Windows loses the home market when the home users switch from the old pirated copy of Office 2003 to cloud services.

  14. Re:Like a refrigerator on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 2

    The "death of the PC" has been overhyped. The PC isn't dead, it's just mature.

    Agree. And like refrigurators, people won't use put them all over their houses. PCs (as we know them) will resign to the home offices again, after their recent advancements to living rooms and kitchens. Tablets are designed to be home-user media machines, PCs are designed for work.

  15. Author is obsessed with the random encounters idea but effective teamworking is hardly mentioned at all. In my view Agile is what's killing telework.

  16. Re:slow news day? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    This seems perfectly normal to me. I can't see why everyone seems so puzzled about the idea of tax on benefits. But then of course taxes are a national sport here in Sweden.

  17. Ericsson doesn't need the phones anymore on Sony Buys Ericsson Out For $1.47 Billion · · Score: 1

    Ericsson has never been good at consumer electronics. The main reason for not quitting phone making 10 years ago was to secure supply of phones compatible with the mobile network standards they were advocating.

  18. Four Yorkshiremen on Old People Enjoy Reading Negative Stories About Young · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who comes to think about the legendary Monty Python sketch?

  19. Drupal 6 or 7? on Drupal 6 Content Administration · · Score: 1

    Maybe wishful thinking from the reviewer (Drupal 7 is still in Alpha) but the book seems to be about Drupal 6, not Drupal 7.

  20. Re:m00se on BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans · · Score: 1

    And now for something completely different. A man with an iPod up his nose.

  21. Re:I speculate... on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's a new device called iTeX.

  22. Re:Yay... on Europe To Import Sahara Solar Power Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    The main problem for Africa's development seems to be political corruption. That's why you can't just build a powerline and expect wealth and sustainable energy in return. But despite the difficulties I think it could be successfull.

  23. Re:Good for server farms? on New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90% · · Score: 1

    or the servers that are being cooled?

    Why not?

    The physics department would complain. It's against the second law of thermodynamics. You can't power a fridge by the heat of the food that's in it.