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  1. Re:Wall clocks have their uses on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 1

    If you're in a penitentiary that doesn't allow phones inside for security reasons, that wall clock, or wristwatch, is a handy thing.

    FTFY

  2. Re:Why? on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 1

    Take it off the wall and throw it away. Use your cell phone or your watch for timekeeping. Problem solved.

    Or perhaps a desktop computer? But, the clock predates him, so we don't know by how much, so if the wall it hangs on has gotten faded or dingy over time there may be a nasty shadow remaining when he takes the clock down. I would rather see the broken clock.

  3. Re:Wrong. on ITU Give Consent To New 40Gbps Fiber-to-the-Home Broadband Standard · · Score: 2

    Now all we need is computers, Internet services and Wi-Fi networks that can actually harness such performance in the first place.

    Now all we need is someone willing to run fiber to my house.

  4. Re:It's been ruled for awhile that code IS speech. on EFF's Cindy Cohn On Why 'Code Is Speech' Is Key To Apple vs. FBI · · Score: 1

    I still have my DeCSS t-shirt to prove it.

  5. How long ago? on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    even some 50 years later

    That's 48 years, you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:Doubt is a trait of the sound mind on Even Einstein Doubted His Gravitational Waves (astronomy.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    New Einstein meme: The Most Interesting Physicist in the World.

    "I'm not always wrong, but when I am, it's because I was right before."

  7. Re:You must be new here on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    but there is some use for a -1, Clearly And Definitely Flat Wrong And Probably Libel mod.

    The word you are looking for is "-1, Troll"

  8. All your vote are belong to Hillary?

  9. Re:Response by a Norse Programmer and Brian Krebs on What Happened To Norse Corp.? Threat Intelligence Vendor Disappears (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, he needs to look up the word "actuarial". I work with some real actuaries, and what they do has nothing to do with what he (appears to be) talking about.

  10. Re:Junkyard Wars on The BBC Announces Robot Wars' Return To TV (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    AKA Scrapheap Challenge.

  11. Re:Wrong question. on Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? (cheney.net) · · Score: 1

    ... in Soviet Russia?

  12. Re:I.e. versus e.g. on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!
    A poster that backtracks on his own post: +1
    A poster that backtracks his own post and find fault in it (instead of ignoring anything going agains his/her original argument): +1 again
    A poster that actually posts again saying 'my mistake': priceless??

    3. ???
    4. PROFIT!

  13. That reminds me of my HTC Kaiser (no relation). It was Windows Mobile but I got some early Cyanogen builds running on it. Then I had a Desire HD (no relation to yours) which was a solid Android phone, even without the slide out keyboard. After that I had the One M7 which ran like a champ right up until I lost it off a roller coaster. The theme park staff found it a month later and mailed it to me, in perfect working order.

    However, in the mean time I needed a phone, and the One M9 just didn't impress me that much. I wound up with a Samsung S6 Active. So far so good.

  14. Re:Penetration is my problem... on Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3

    Penetration is my problem

    So are you saying you need a longer antenna?

    Research indicates that circumference is just as important as length.

    Of an antenna.

  15. Re:You have been modded down on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally not offtopic, just a riff on an offtopic meme,

  16. Re:Midichlorians... on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    Hail Hydra.

  17. Re: Which version of unix? on Windows 3.1 Glitch Causes Problems At French Airport -- Wait, 3.1? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    BTW: taking into account the age of the systems I can make a bet they use HP-UX since I worked on both systems 'in parallel' in the early nineties.

    Really? You've been around that long, and still have not learned not to feed the trolls?

  18. 2. The very word 'unbreakable' is misleading - as nothing, absolutely nothing - is unbreakable, in the tech scene

    Yes, but anything that you can refer to as "breakable" encryption is really no encryption at all.

    And even if you are paranoid, somebody might still be out to get you.

  19. Money isn't that bad a negative proxy for support, since if you can't raise money you don't have much popular support. (It doesn't work the other way.)

    But money is a terrible positive proxy, precisely because it doesn't work the other way. Lessig does not want to BE president, and has indicated so by way of his promise to resign. But Lessig's issue needs to be heard, and the other candidates need to respond in a meaningful way, and the debate stage (this one or the next one) is the place where that is most likely to happen.

  20. Re:10$ that they are going to backpedal ... on Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand · · Score: 1

    Maybe sooner. Maybe this March issue with no nudity is just the setup for ...

    the best ...

    April Fool's Joke ...

    OF ALL TIME!!!!!

  21. If he can raise significant amounts of money, he can run his own ads. If he makes a decent showing in a primary or in state caucuses, he has some claim to be heard.

    Your statement is the exact catch-22 that is keeping him out of the debates, and it is a further example of how money has become the gatekeeper for our entire political system. This is the corruption that Lessig is fighting against.

  22. He should use those talents to try to educate people that the "Two Party" system is a cabal of political oligarchs who fleece the people by convincing them they have a choice when in reality there is only "fork over your money or something bad might happen".

    That is exactly what he is trying to do, but he needs to get in front of the cameras on the debate stage to do it.

  23. Yes, but ... on The Top Secret Chinese Military Project That Led To a Nobel Prize · · Score: 2

    Experiment 626 is what we are really anxious to hear about.

  24. Re:wrong premise? on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression (having actually read The Mythical Man Month) that the premise actually was "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" which is not the premise being discussed here.

    That is correct, along with my favorite paraphrase, "Programming time is not fungible". Regarding the summary, perhaps the author should seek the advice of The Doctor: "Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard."

  25. Re:Wait what? on Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines · · Score: 1

    which address the issue of pointer ownership.

    I own the pointers, they're all mine!

    ALL YOUR POINTERS ARE BELONG TO US!