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  1. IT idiocy on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 1

    I hire people based on their real abilities and attitudes.
    Anything that's related to appearance is definitely useless.
    All that happens because it's very rare to find people that's really able to understand abilities and real meat.

  2. We have a few other solutions to the issue on Astronomers Find Unusual Star · · Score: 1

    1. The star doesn't belong to this multiverse.
    2. A few (astro)physical laws need an overhaul
    3. The observations are wrong
    4. All the three above.

  3. Re:Ingenuous! on Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? · · Score: 1

    ... and that agent guy is also hiding your IP address!
    Look, instead of the real one you are 192.168.1.2!

  4. Re:How can you store a qubit? on First Von Neumann Architecture Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    For sure he cannot copy links into Slashdot.

  5. Ingenuous! on Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? · · Score: 2

    Do you really think that anyone who could identify that UAV, provided that it's a UAV, would respond to your question?
    Let's reason.
    Those who really can do it would be among:
    - people from the company who built it
    - people from the DoD who required/bought it
    - people from the army/company who operated it
    - spies from a dozen of countries.
    Now check one by one these categories. None will answer here as a comment. And not even as a private message, as Slashdot has none and because online stuff is traceable.
    I would also exclude the email (gary@yyyyyyyyyy) and the phone (0778 6666666) for the same reason.
    I would expect a few fake money request into your post box in the Somerset.

  6. Everyone on European Firms Assisted Gaddafi's Internet Monitoring Regime · · Score: 1

    was doing business with Lybian regime, especially before it was called a "regime" but rather a "government".

  7. Re:Is this safe? on Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers · · Score: 1

    There will definitely be more nitric acid than natural. They are pushing hard to increase it above the natural concentration.

  8. Is this safe? on Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers · · Score: 1

    Nitric acid raining from the sky sounds no good at all to me.
    But maybe I'm not so good at science to understand the pros of such a rain.

  9. Re: on Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels · · Score: 1

    we have not been able to efficiently mimic this process

    Mimic? Why mimic somehting that's already the way we want?

  10. Wrong choice! on Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels · · Score: -1, Troll

    The panda is an Evolution dead end.
    It's a bear that should eat meat but instead eats grass. For this reason it needs spend almost all its time in eating.
    And, wouldn't this suffice, it has sex, if any, only once in a year. provided that when the female is fertile there's a male close enough not busy with food.
    And if you believe in Creationism, the panda is broken experiment by the Creator.

    I would try with human poo or, even better, with fly poo.
    Maybe it's not so energy efficient, but we have gazillions of tons of it.

  11. Have you ever heard of photosyntesis? on Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels · · Score: 1

    That's a very efficient process to produce energy in the form of sugar with a good byproduct like oxygen.
    It's already here, doesn't need further studies, it is broadly and readily available and doesn't require complex and polluting industrial production.
    The only point is that humans are not able to make a reasonable and balanced use of them, as they are also needed for feeding the Humanity itself.
    But this would be another story.

  12. Re:Stupidity has no limits on Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire · · Score: 1

    Can you do statistics about intelligence and typos?
    I can about intelligence and slashdot comments, anyway.

  13. Re:use ssh port forwarding on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    Well, I think I have some level of understanding.
    Thay ban encrypted VPN, whothout knopwing what a VPN, encryption and telecommunication is.
    SSH port forwarding is not VPN but supports encryption.
    Email is not VPN but can use encryption for message perusal (like HTTPS and IMAPS in GMail).
    GnuPG can do encryption but is not VPN.
    And then you can still embed information in almost any data traffic.
    Will they arrest all those arses?

  14. use ssh port forwarding on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    Or, better, gnugp with email.

  15. Stupidity has no limits on Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire · · Score: 1

    While intellicence do.
    I'm not sure whether this applies to the girl, the cops, the software house or all of them.
    Sure, all of them, no exception.

  16. Re:Maybe we know why on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 1

    The same bug to all engines makes me think about the same approach and engineering.
    That one is a bug that yields to the very same results in all engines I've seen.
    Thus I think that they share the same code up to code refactoring.

  17. Re:Maybe we know why on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 1

    The point there is that all browsers share the same code base for HTML rendering.
    None is willing to work on that part unless it's for some minor fix.
    This because that code base is a mix of HTML4+CSS2, where the latter is not an option but a mandatory layer.
    The tag exists just for that: to express properties to be applied to columns, just like you'd do with Excell or Word (or you favorite opensource sw).
    A smart(er) implementation would try to get the best of breeds. CSS doesn't say "you cannot define alignment on a per columns basis", while HTML4 says you can.

  18. Re:Maybe we know why on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many thousands of devs around the world individually break their head per year once their corporations give the green light to move to OSS browsers, but someone notices THIS exact bug and pulls back

    +1

  19. Re:Maybe we know why on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 1

    You can have HTML4 without CSS. But Firefox will ignore this choice.
    Apart of the fact that the tag shows a very limited usefulness, if any.
    Smart interpretation is the way against rigid interpretation.

  20. Maybe we know why on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 2

    As 13 years are not enough to handle a major bug.
    They are focusing on HTML5 (which is not a standard but a draft) and leave HTML4 implementation with all existing bugs.
    They think that all web pages will be rewritten in HTML5 as soon as it will land as real standard. It will instead take years.

  21. We can do even better and smarter on SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Instead pf reverse engineering the traffic lights timing, the responsible offices could simply document them, also on road signals.
    All the stuff needed to reverse engineer the timings will produce more CO2 than simply say them.
    Nonetheless, that idea is really smart.

  22. If that was true on Android On HP TouchPad · · Score: 2

    Then HP should either consider to go back on its own footsteps or to sack the CEO.
    Better both.
    And, by the way, the iPad really stinks.

  23. Stupid company on Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist · · Score: 1

    Atari used to be a smart company in the past. They have now become much more stupid, a kid of "company Alzheimer's disease".
    If Atari is pushing to collect contempt and scorn from it's users, they'll succeed.

  24. More relaxed environment gains productivity on Web Surfing At Work Can Boost Productivity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is trivially true as long as relaxation doesn't mean distraction.

  25. Easy! on Google's Amazon River Street View Project · · Score: 2

    This means the Google is entering deeper and deeper into Amazon.