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  1. Sure... on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sure, give 'm nukes. What could possibly go wrong?

    OTOH, why is this on Slashdot? It's only a Ukranian MP with a wacko idea, probably meant to show his supporters that he's the strong man they seek. Wikipedia sums up his party, Udar, as "UDAR tends to avoid sensitive and polarising subjects and focuses instead on popular topics".

  2. Re:Their country - their issue on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    Don't call it childish; that's bad discussion form. You put an absolute example, that obviously doesn't hold. Your reply only sounds as if you can't take criticism. Formulate more carefully next time.

    And it would have been an excellent time to explain your kids how certain rules can take precedence in exceptional cases. Now you've only taught them that they can just ignore you.

  3. Re:Their country - their issue on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    If you kill someone in your house, is that none of anyone's business?

  4. Re:If browsers auto-translate pages, what then? on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 2

    You're omitting the other if: if the translation is good enough.

  5. Teacher or student? on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? · · Score: 1

    Aren't you supposed to tell us? You're teaching the course, innit? Or is this some kind of reverse open course, where the pupils are in a class room and the teachers are anyone and his dog on the internet?

  6. Re:Foolish idea on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 1

    If you run Chrome on Linux or OSX under a non-admin account, you run less risks. Or perhaps it's time to start using Firefox or Chromium. Or even fork Chromium.

    But for utlimate safety: stay off the net...

  7. Re:Foolish idea on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 1

    Stop using Windows then...

  8. Re:And if they make me have a Facebook account... on Facebook To Buy WhatsApp · · Score: 1

    I've got facebook.com and fbcdn.com and friends blocked. It's surprising how many pages link to one of those sites.

  9. Re:intuit on Why Improbable Things Really Aren't · · Score: 1

    Neoteric verbiage doth incrassate.

  10. Re:In node.js too ? on Background Javascript Compilation Boosts Chrome Performance · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I think Java's server options (Tomcat, or one of the lighter ones) are just more suitable as a run-time environment than nodejs for complex projects. Logging, multi-threading, loading the correct libraries, integration with maven (however unpleasant it can be), remote debugging, it all has been worked out pretty well by now. Nodejs is still years behind, it seems to me.

  11. Re:In node.js too ? on Background Javascript Compilation Boosts Chrome Performance · · Score: 1

    Then again, nodejs is not a language.

  12. Re:In node.js too ? on Background Javascript Compilation Boosts Chrome Performance · · Score: 1

    Not in an environment like Tomcat. It will just log the error, and restart the service.

  13. Re:In node.js too ? on Background Javascript Compilation Boosts Chrome Performance · · Score: 1

    It's fun for a few small applications, but beyond that, it's got to be horrible. I mean: imagine a server dying on the first uncaught exception...

  14. Re:Q values on Why P-values Cannot Tell You If a Hypothesis Is Correct · · Score: 1

    But with what correction? There isn't one correction for multiple comparisons, and they all have their problems. Just go Bayesian instead.

  15. Re:Real world implications on Why P-values Cannot Tell You If a Hypothesis Is Correct · · Score: 1

    Then there are very, very few researchers worth their salt. Even then, it has been shown that a .05 significance under ideal conditions has a chance of being a coincidence of about 1/3. If we add to that the number of errors in the assumptions, the experiments, the unpublished studies, etc., .05 means nothing. I found the work by Jim Berger et al. interesting: http://www.stat.duke.edu/~berg...

  16. Re:$300M on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    TBH, Firefox is pretty slow compared to Safari and Chrome.

  17. Re:$300M on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Ok. I had estimated the code base more than an order of magnitude lower. Even 1 million lines seems quite a lot for a browser; 10 million hurts the brain. But you're right, that takes a long time to write.

  18. Re:brighter? on Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams · · Score: 2

    Seriously, if you're going to get mad because that points about which there is uncertainty get discussed on a web forum, you should find another way of life.

    And you don't respond to the problem either. You only say: trust these people. They know what they are doing.

    So, let's start with a simple example. I'm sure that the engineers know how to design a system that raises and lowers electric windows. How come there are bugs in these systems? How come people can't close their windows after battery upgrades? How come people got locked in their expensive BMWs? How come there's still no answer on the Toyota cruise control? It can't be that hard, can it?

  19. $300M on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    I read that Mozilla received $300M from Google, and that that money stops, so they're looking for other sources of income. But that makes me think: $300M? What on earth did they spend it on? Certainly not on a 2000 programmer years.

  20. Re:brighter? on Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, indeed, but you've already mentioned the main problem: "quite powerful". If the light is more concentrated, it will also be more concentrated when it hits the eye of the driver in the other direction.

  21. Re:!Subtropical. on How Russia Transformed a Subtropical Beach Resort To Host the Winter Olympics · · Score: 2

    But 43.5 degrees C is!

  22. Generic? on First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nobody knew about GTLD? Perhaps that's because .bike isn't really "generic", is it? And it's pretty Anglo-centric too.

  23. Re:Reminds me of an old saying on It's Not Memory Loss - Older Minds May Just Be Fuller of Information · · Score: 2

    You know that that idea dates back to Plato, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

  24. It's not a fact, it's a correlation on It's Not Memory Loss - Older Minds May Just Be Fuller of Information · · Score: 1

    Note that it is not a fact. It's only that some activation model that is sensitive to the number of items in word memory is compatible with slowing down with age. That's interesting, but the paper does not present a working model of human lexical memory, as it basically selects words based on trigrams and some mysterious weight parameter. This does not seem to be compatible with the literature on priming, interference, or multilingualism without heavy modification (which will undoubtedly change the outcome of these simulations). The model also presupposes that you never lose words from memory, which (AFAIK) is not an established fact.

    Note that even if this model would be right, it is only for lexical memory, and doesn't necessarily generalize to other memory. Actually, the effect should be different in episodic memory.

  25. Re:amsynth is an analog modeling synthesizer on Ask Slashdot: An Open Source PC Music Studio? · · Score: 1

    Thanks. It looks simple, but I'll try to get it running and find out what it sounds like.

    However, the site linuxmusician.com says "This domain is for sale".