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  1. Re:Will there be an SOS OS as well? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Ah but would it be permissible to scan both the embedded sensors for spoiled milk and spoiled meat on the same device? The story I always heard was that there was an unspoken agreement that Brillo and SOS were different colors so that you could have one to clean cooking utensils for meat and one for cleaning milk product utensils. Only glitch is that SOS pads didn't go from red to blue until 1960 or so, and the relatives who told me that were keeping kosher long before 1960.

  2. I believe you mean on The Hoverboard Flies Closer To Reality · · Score: 3, Funny

    "GREAT SCOTT !"

  3. Will there be an SOS OS as well? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    So we can keep separate internet-things kosher?

  4. As with the faded memory of the pain of childbirth on 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0 · · Score: 1

    one can now wistfully remember the birth of Windows. I was 6 years on Macs (supporting 28 units in a school) at that point, and remember looking at the Mac graphics and then the Win graphics ("I don't care what it takes - bonuses for anyone who can make this OS look sorta like AppleWorksGS!"), the placement of menus inside individual Windows ("How can we make people spend MORE time using our product?" "You mean USE it more, right boss?" "No, just spend more time using it.") and the mouse driver ("Remember that great scene in Bambi when he's on the ice? Let's make that an easter egg." "Sure, boss, we can have a little movie pop up when you hit crtl-alt-shift-esc-b" "No, you moron, I mean right there in the mouse behavior - it'll be a cherished childhood memory every time you try and point to something." It all but turned my mom & dad's Leading Edge D into my happy place. But hey, at least Media Player was included!

  5. Just get paid by the hour. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 2

    Instead of by the device. Problem solved!

  6. Will he pay shipping? on Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Wants Your AOL & Shovelware CDs · · Score: 1

    Cuz I have three cabinets full. Not sure I'll hand over Oregon Trail, tho.

  7. Interesting. on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Five years to get from no rockets to an interplanetary orbiting probe. The video they produced clearly shows the launch from somewhere near UAE, so they're not just going to hire an existing launch-proven company/state to give their satellite a ride. Ambitious. Highly collaborative with the existing science community. Aces. There's a woman as Co-I on the project - well done. They're not going to try and land, good idea. And the not-landing part will fill in some pretty significant gaps in mars atmospheric science. The only true unknowns are how many freshman US legislators will become outraged and demand a congressional hearing.

  8. 4: House. Office. Bike. Car. on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    Plus one return-to-me email tag made at Petco.

  9. Nonsense. on How Light at Night Affects Preschoolers' Sleep Patterns (Video) · · Score: 1

    Research protocols and IRB rules are built to allow research on children, through minor assent and parental permission. Happens all the time. In this case, for most circadian studies, it would mean using / not using the same screen-based devices that the children already use and then checking melatonin in saliva which is minimally invasive and poses no significant risk. "Lab rat" is hardly an accurate image. Your charge of only poor people cooperating in research when paid is also inaccurate. How do I know this? From serving for a number of years as an educator on a major research hospital's IRB panel, where we approved research involving children when properly designed, and proposed modifications when not. Also from conducting circadian rhythm research on children beginning 30+ years ago, when IRBs were just being developed. We erred on the side of safety at any decision point, and in one early study of 1,300 students (in a balance of urban, suburban and rural towns) had over 90% consent students overall.

  10. Yes. on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    And that's all it says about you. Next question..

  11. *sigh* on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 4, Informative

    The program was cancelled by the Bush II administration in 2004. The last flight happened while Obama was president, following a 1 year funding extension of funding authorized by congress in 2009 that made the last flight in 2011 rather than the originally scheduled 2010. If enough Americans told their senators and reps "I'll only vote for you if you get us another crew vehicle" we would have one in less than six years.

  12. I'm waiting for the pedestrian rights management on Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix · · Score: 1

    backlash. You know, the one where people grab pitchforks for being forced to pay for walking into a cinema and viewing a movie with their own legs and eyes.

  13. Get SpaceX crew-rated soon. on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're the closest next best backup for the Russian flights. Also they're not run by a government with a national leader who does bizarre things even by national leader standards. Yes, I understand that's not a tremendously high bar, but it's worth a look.

  14. They need to get a monkey. on Study Reveals Wikimedia Foundation Is 'Awash In Money' · · Score: 1

    And a dart board. Doesn't someone do that annual thing where a monkey and a dart board beat the average fund manager? Heck, just buy the broadest index fund there is and you can sleep at night.

  15. Irrelevant to the individual. on Is Facebook Keeping You In a Political Bubble? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People want to remain in a political bubble. It helps convince them they're right.

  16. Some of us got it. on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 1

    Don't worry.

  17. That's what they WANT you to think... on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 1

    everyone knows they broadcast the fake moon landing from Parkes, bouncing it off the moon so it would LOOK like it was coming from the moon.

  18. Why? I mean you could build a roller coaster on Facebook Wants to Skip the Off-Site Links, Host News Content Directly · · Score: 2

    out of old VW beetles and surplus train track. But why would you?

  19. Just attach a calendar on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    when it's resubmitted. Just to remind them it's TWO THOUSAND and freaking FIFTEEN not NINETEEN FORTY SEVEN.

  20. Thank heavens, on Crowdfunded Android Console Ouya Reportedly Seeking Buyout · · Score: 1

    I still have my Dreamcast to fall back on.

  21. Mad Libs anyone? on Russian Cargo Mission To ISS Spinning Out of Control · · Score: 2

    Russian _____________ Spinning Out Of Control. OK, easy potshot, but hey - Ukraine, Crimea, poisoned pols, puppet leaders... this well doesn't seem to be running dry anytime soon. For perspective on flying to the ISS a colleague needed to fly some software on a thumb drive to the ISS. Beyond the cargo charge, the Shuttle shakedown of the item involved extensive testing of the sw, the physical device, etc. with the associated cost with a comma in it. The Russian criteria for flying the stuff was a bit more streamlined. It amounted to little more than "did the check clear?" Yes, their flight hardware is very reliable, though actually flying in it beats you up and makes the shuttle seem like a luxury liner.

  22. In a way, yes. If the science is wrong about ACC on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    and we clean things up, we've depleted some money and gained a cleaner environment. If the deniers are wrong and we let things go past a tipping point, we've saved money and depleted the environment. Last I checked it was easier to create wealth than it was to create water, air and life.

  23. A new standard on Signs of Subsurface 'Alien' Life Found In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    for misleading headlines. Bravo. Not to mention wholesale copy-and-paste does not a /. article make.

  24. Simple. on The World of 3D Portraiture · · Score: 1

    "What, I wonder, does someone do with a small selfie in statue form?" Add a few toy dinosaurs and go all "Wash" on it. "Where does this business find its customers?" Curiosity takes care of that. Vanity picks up the spare.

  25. So which of these is impossible...? on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 1

    ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/(your device here) or LemonJar or Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostic & Usage Data Gotta say, when working with Garmin to figure out how their iPhone app wasn't coping with iOS update changes (garbage collection issues) that first one was the most useful.