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  1. Re:Sounds very bad on Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria That Can Colonize Most Plants Discovered · · Score: 1

    Very good point, there will almost certainly be casualties.

  2. Re:Grass is always greener, I guess on Ask Slashdot: Scientific Research Positions For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    In soviet USA data mines you

  3. R language (R is too short for a Slashdot Subject) on Ask Slashdot: Scientific Research Positions For Programmers? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want to get into scientific research programming with big data, you are probably going to have to engage with statistical programming. R is probably the lang of choice at least in the biological arena, due to FOSS and all the prebuilt packages. People also I've seen using Matlab quite a bit, but I think you wouldn't go wrong with R. You might also want to get engaged in something like Kaggle or the DREAM challenges, build yourself a bit of a profile on those arenas, and eventually try to team up with some guys on one of the challenges there, as a way of making contact with people in the big data research area. Any graduate training (postgrad as it would be called in Europe), would only help - there are many positions that just won't be available to you until you have had a 'research training' which means Masters as a minimum or preferably a PhD eventually.

  4. Re:But pop3 mail or no? on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    I don't personally, but the ISP of the client who is interested supports MAPI but deletes everything over 30 days old. When the client is faced with the decision of moving to a different ISP, or buying a different tablet, I can guess which one they will choose.

  5. But pop3 mail or no? on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    I was holding off buying a Surface RT until there was base support for POP3 mail - does anyone know if the new Outlook RT allows POP3?

  6. Re:Waste of time on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Well... assuming that your stuff isn't in your living room anymore, and that the serial numbers are unique, then it seems I have a case to answer. This case seems more like your stuff is still in your living room, and there is also a photo of your stuff in my garden, I think the onus would be on you to prove that I took a photo of your stuff and left it in my garden.

  7. Correlation != causation? on BT Chief To Become British Government Minister · · Score: 1

    Interesting that this happens the day ofter the secret porn summit between the government and ISPs. I wonder if he took part in that meeting?

  8. Re:What does this actually prove? on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    So the purpose of this device is to make it easier for book sellers to lose customers by banning them? Sounds really great! I'm sure book sellers are queuing round the block to buy it.

  9. Re:What does this actually prove? on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Or, 'I didn't share it, maybe it was stolen by hackers or viruses'.

  10. Re:Waste of time on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    This is wrong. You don't need to provide evidence of reasonable doubt to not be a criminal. The prosecution needs to provide evidence that you are a criminal. The presence online of a copy of a book you bought is not evidence that you are a criminal. The whole idea is full of fail at every level.

  11. Re:What are you talking about? on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    >They can't find out who he/she is anyway (trace IPs). Fixed that. The idea that IP == person has been pretty comprehensively demolished in relevant legal jurisdictions.

  12. Re:Guess we'll find out ... on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    Sorry for my ignorance, not being from either country, but why does China need to make any trade concessions? I thought they are winning at trade. Surely it would be the other way round?

  13. Re:look up the Silent Witness Rule on British Foreign Secretary on Surveillance Worries: '"Law Abiding Citizens Have N · · Score: 1

    So law abiding citizens have nothing to fear from secret courts unless they are terrorrists or ... etc. Heard that one before somewhere.

  14. Related links on Fake Mt. Gox Pages Aim To Infect Bitcoin Users · · Score: 1

    Interesting that the top two 'Related links' for this story are both stories about printable guns, at least in the pageview I'm getting right now, the third is about DNA collection after arrest, the fourth about how all your data are belong US and the fifth about PETA eants to sue people. Perhaps /. doesn't have any other stories about bitcoin, phishing, DDOS, Symantec, trojans or other malware.

  15. Threatening behaviour much? on UK Police Launch Campaign To Shut Down Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    I thought the police's job was to investigate crime, arrest suspects, and recover evidence leading to convictions. Why are we paying for them to threaten innocent people?

  16. Re:I can see that this.. on Dreambox: the World's First 3D Printing Vending Machine · · Score: 1

    What's the problem? If I used my penknife to carve an exact replica of Mickey Mouse sitting on an iPhone out of wood I guess I wouldn't be breaking any laws, I don't think this is any different, unless someone is selling the finished object. I assume the printing service is selling materials and service, not finished objects, since the purchaser must supply the design. IANAL though.

  17. Be careful what you wish for CA on California Bill Would Mandate Open Access To Publicly Funded Research · · Score: 1

    Academics will still need to publish in the high-impact journals, the journals know this, and the prices for them to provide open access will go up. More and more of the money supposed to fund research will be funnelled instead to support the publishers. It's already happening elsewhere where this kind of thing is mandated. You can mandate open access but I bet you can't mandate a reasonable price from the publishers.

  18. Re:The YAPPing language is for dogs on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    This is wrong. We have malware because criminals will crim. A new programming language will have zero effect on this.

  19. Outsourcing on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 1

    Perhaps someone thought it was a good idea to let China build the things and then buy the finished goods back off them, thus saving all that inconvenience of paying US labour prices.

  20. Re:Pay for the tests on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So sorry to point this out but 100000+234=100234, not 10234, so your test spec contains a bug itself. You need to hire someone else to test the tests.

  21. Re:Any instances of money being credited accidenta on UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors · · Score: 1

    crickets

  22. tinfoil wallets on UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Suddenly they are becoming popular - Icelandair are selling one on the inflight goodies list, as are various designer shops in Reykjavik.

  23. Re:Increased leisure time on Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs · · Score: 1

    They are only bad news if the benefits of automation are not distributed in a way people see as fair. The unfairness of distribution is the cause of unrest, not the unemployment as such. Most people would welcome being unemployed from time to time if they can still live comfortably, and why not?

  24. Increased leisure time on Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isn't this good news? Back in the 1970s we were all promised that increased automation would lead to us all needing to do less work, and having increased leisure time. It all seemed like a rosy future at the time. The only problem seems to be that the owners of the robots don't want to share the benefits. If they don't share then they deserve the unrest they get.

  25. MediumData on Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style · · Score: 0

    40 million rows is what we used to manage in Oracle tables in the late 80s. Jeez, did this guy have no clue how to build a database?