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  1. Google Scratch. 2.0 makes it turing-complete but it's not exactly API compatible

  2. Embrace Extend Extinguish

  3. Don't be a little bitch on Ask Slashdot: Synchronizing Sound With Video, Using Open Source? · · Score: 2

    Hit record x2, CLAP, sync in post. You really can't zoom in & line up two tracks like the big boys?

  4. AIDE premium key on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 1

    Thought it would unlock the java/android lessons. Turns out they needed a subscription for that.

  5. You can now buy Stephen Hawking parts on Ask Slashdot: Mouse/Pointer For a Person With Poor Motor Control · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Took up laser eye tracking pointing devices & maybe a large-font/maybe Dvorak keyboard. I'd try but avoid a webcam solution-- they tend to be more pain than they're worth but you can't beat the price. Alternatively, simply take the mouse apart & superglue in a lead weight.

  6. 1). Question EVERYTHING 2). Question authority 3). Elaborate on how to do #2 responsibly but also stress its importance for the rights of humanity 4). Tell her to push for self-betterment & happiness, through whatever path she may choose 5). If she succeeds, tell her she's responsible for at least trying to help better humanity, another species, or life in general

  7. they haven't been trying on The Strangeness of the Mars One Project · · Score: 1

    Not for mars & definitely not since the soviets started not being dicks. Have you LOOKED at NASA's leadership, funding, projects? PROJECTS? Once the ISS deorbits SpaceX'll be the only reputable thing we have, unfortunately. I'd like to remind you that the Space Shuttle Program was supposed to be shuttling TENS OF PEOPLE to HUNDREDS POPULUS SPACE STATIONS WE"RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BY NOW.

  8. To those of you who were involved with Win8 on Microsoft Lays Off 2,100, Axes Silicon Valley Research · · Score: 0

    This is your punishment for your sins against humanity. "following orders" is the same excuse the nazis used so don't pull that card.

  9. The prophecy is now complete on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 1

    The time has now come to cleanse ourselves of his filth.

  10. This doesn't make sense on Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction · · Score: 1

    What if you're using a tethered handsfree device to call the police? Why does it need to remember all this stuff instead of relying on a triangulating antenna system? What happens if there's 2 GSM/LTE devices in the front left?

  11. You forgot every other factor on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 2

    Replacement memory, batteries, HDD's for the 20% that approach EOL from overuse around this time, plus the labour to clean out all the fans. If they didn't factor this in, half their fleet's going to be dead within 3 years. This can still be a venture of savings, just not what they expect.

  12. You know the rules on Scientists Capture the Sound Made By a Single Atom · · Score: 1

    Upload the donk or it's debonked.

  13. Here's where this gets funny on Chrome OS Can Now Run Android Apps With No Porting Required · · Score: 2

    There are 2 Acer C710's in the house right now. My own spec-upped one w/ a custom seabios booting directly to ubuntu, & my little brother's friend has a stock one. I bolt in all OMG go to the app store go to the app store! You can download Google Play! He's all what's Google Play? "The app store!"

  14. You know the rules of physics on Researchers Working On Crystallizing Light · · Score: 1, Funny

    Pics or it didn't crystallize!

  15. I have a story to tell on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My little brother had a gig at an auto rental place built into the side of a hotel. Once, they had to pick up a punk concert booker from the airport & they got pulled over by the 5-0 PO. There goes the $9K USD roll he needed to book bands in the city. They may have said something about picking it up from the evdience locker in a few months or something?

  16. Re:Let's do some basic math on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    Well, that's what Google said, but super & ultra are probably different (by a factor of a few thousand pixels?). Either way, it's not enough to do data concurrently with it, let alone ATSC-quality television.

  17. Let's do some basic math on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: -1, Troll

    4K TV's are already a thing, & Netflix offers a "super HD" streaming option. A quick google shows that these streams can be anywhere from 0.4-0.6Mbps, which is really .5-.6MB/s. When "LTE" was being pushed as a benefit of the CONSUMER (big fucking mistake once you look at the resulting bill from the data plan), their speeds claimed like twice that.

  18. Re:Your authority is no longer welcome here. on FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters · · Score: 1

    OH SHIT

  19. Your authority is no longer welcome here. on FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters · · Score: 1

    taping a phone to a helicopter isn't illegal.

  20. LSD does not enhance creativity on Is There a Creativity Deficit In Science? · · Score: 1

    Gov'ment said so. Nuff said.

  21. Favorite thing to spawn out of your servers? on Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media · · Score: 1

    Be it fad, image, or rule 34?

  22. You're underestimating how groundbreaking this is on Google's Project Ara Could Bring PC-Like Hardware Ecosystem To Phones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not going to be LIKE the PC ecosystem; it IS the PC ecosystem, just with new players. 10 years from now your Replicators, laptops & server clusters are all going to be sporting Ara-derived chassis. You heard it here first, kids. Why deal with Intel & IBM's bullshit when you have a architecture-agnostic interface ready to go? A computer is the result of an accumulation of standards & as someone that's taken a decades-long generalistic approach to the industry, this IS the new standard. Maybe not in its initial public incarnation, but 2.0'll hit it of just like Android 2.0 took over mobile software.

  23. Let me get this straight on The Billionaires Privatizing American Science · · Score: 1

    I explain our current undemocratic scientific system within the [rich-]Western world to my friends & family & they call me insane, but someone writes an article about it & they're a 'journalist'. I need new friends & family.

  24. Junkie defense systems? on Medicine Delivered By Flying Drones · · Score: 2

    I walk down Mission St. at least 5 days a month to head to Noisebridge, & any walk down that part of Mission is a walk past countless drug addicts & day drinkers, acting all thug. If these drones fly low enough, any junkie with an unregulated airsoft gun's gonna be shooting them down hoping to find oxycodene or whatever the fuck.

  25. Halfway there on U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration · · Score: 1

    Now let's find a way to replace DNS with a decentralized system.