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  1. Stability... on Japanese Engineer Develops 'WalkCar,' a Mini-Segway · · Score: 1

    I'd rather ride a motorized skateboard than this. With both toes pointed forward and you're already leaning into it, wouldn't a little bump give you a nice face-plant?

    At least on a skateboard your feet are apart and you're sideways for maximum stability.

  2. Re:At $363/month per person, not sustainable on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    I've seen worse. Knew a guy who'd hit up Starbucks on the way to work in the morning, then again at morning break, lunch, afternoon and usually one or 2 in the evening. Always with an extra shot or two added. This is EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK.

    I figured out he had to be spending $600-900 a month on his insane coffee habit.

  3. Re:Shields are for cows. on NVIDIA Recalls Shield Tablets Over Heat Risk · · Score: 2

    MOOOOOO! Is the sound of the universe telling you to stop browsing comments at -1.

  4. Re:Interesting on Ex-TEPCO Officials To Be Indicted Over Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Sweet, in addition I nominate going after bosses who shush security holes in their products and insist on adding new features instead.

  5. Re:Physics and economics don't care on Why Micron/Intel's New Cross Point Memory Could Virtually Last Forever · · Score: 2

    Now why should he have to pay $500 to fix his power problems when he can demand Intel and Micron spend $500M to fix it for him?

  6. Re:Editors : WTF on Britain Shuts Off 750,000 Streetlights With No Impact On Crime Or Crashes · · Score: 2

    It's actually supposed to be "dolls up cuts" describing the way that budget cuts have been dressed up and beautified in order to reduce public resistance. It also makes budget cuts much more attractive dinner dates.

  7. Re:Does not really matter. on Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip · · Score: 1

    I keep mine in my front pocket... consider it free birth control.

  8. Homebrew makes a lot of sense on Calculating the Truck-Factor of Popular Open Source Projects · · Score: 1

    At first I wasn't sure if it was the OS X package manager or the Vagrant VM... okay it's the package manager.

    That makes a LOT of sense. Many of those package install scripts are handled by someone dedicated to that project who wants it working on their Mac. So there's hundreds of different build scripts with a large variety of project maintainers. In this case they'd probably be better off separating the build script authors from the main project authors, that would probably drop the track factor of Homebrew by a lot. Being able to make a build script for top for example doesn't mean you can maintain the homebrew project itself.

  9. Chickens on Chinese Zoo Animals Monitored For Earthquake Prediction · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming those 2,000 chickens are for feeding to carnivores and not part of the exhibit. Chickens, pigs and fish... Oh my!

  10. Re:Does Ultima Online help with burnout? on 18 Years On, Ultima Online Is Still Going · · Score: 1

    For me, what helps is messing around with "side projects" that are not perhaps officially sanctioned, but are tangentially related to my job. You'll want to be careful with these, some bosses may not appreciate it, but perhaps it's not programming that's the problem but the company you're working for...

    So for example, hacking into our software to expose security flaws. Spent a day screwing around and turning a "theoretical" problem into a real one and upping the priority of security in general.

    Reading up on SQL... on a paper book, out in the sun by a pool.

    Setting up a testing framework and getting coverage up from 0%. (Sad I know)

    Refactoring code that just bugs me.

    Learning about password cracking and *ahem* verifying the suitability of our hashing algorithm.

    Playing with VMs and setting up a proper dev environment.

    Googling around for hacks and cracks for our stuff.

    Okay so most of these are perfectly normal software development tasks, but the trick is, I didn't get permission to do them. They're far enough away from my usual work that I can switch over to them instead when I'm tired of the long haul project that never seems to end.

    It's not making a NES emulator on my spare time or anything, but taking breaks and switching around can keep you from total burnout.

  11. Re:Why force her to do something she doesn't want on Ask Slashdot: Getting My Wife Back Into Programming After Long Maternity Leave? · · Score: 1

    And when you are the SAHP

    I'm still trying to understand what the heck Slow afterhyperpolarization is and how it affects parenting... but it sounds difficult! My condolences.

  12. Why can't it auto-update? on Emergency Adobe Flash Patch Fixes Zero-Day Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Drives me nuts ever week or so asking me to install updates. It's a stupid pop-up updated app that gets triggered when a page with flash is loaded.

    Yes I understand that running a browser non-stop for weeks goes against their updating philosophy. Too bad. The constant "Update now!" alerts just make their users more likely to fall for phishing scams.

    Instead, if you can't update your plugin on already loaded pages... Refactor your app.

    Make the bit loaded by the browser a wrapper that can allow its back end to update when convenient. Otherwise everyone who uses tabs is going to hate you. (Those who don't already)

  13. Re:Please fix slashdot on Linux 4.1 Kernel Released With EXT4 Encryption, Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    I just click the Article title. But I use classic. That and I mostly use RSS to get the articles so I've largely ignored the new interface for years.

  14. Re:Slashdot drama on Secunia Drops Public Listing of Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    So the editor essentially lied to us by leaving that part out?

  15. Divide by zero != zero on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    Easiest way to see this is by graphing 1/x
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

    Notice from the negative side y is approaching - infinity as x nears 0, but from the positive side, when x approaches 0 y is becoming + infinity.

    So it's not the same as multiplying by 0 where everything results in 0. It's really and truly undefined. You can't average +/- infinity and get 0, it's the gap between them. It doesn't exist.

    If you ignore a divide by zero, your results will be unpredictable and often nonsensical. For example:
    The classic algebra trick to "prove" 1 = 2

  16. Re:If Sourceforge is any example on GitHub Seeks Funding At $2 Billion Valuation · · Score: 2

    It's a cash out. This is how web apps make money, by selling themselves to others. Will THEY then make any money? Who cares!

  17. Re:Reasons why I don't like Musk's hyper loop on SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track · · Score: 1

    You forgot:
    0. Time to notice failure as the sensor didn't go off as expected and nobody was notified until the tubes were late to arrive. Then when people started calling, nobody answered the phones. Whoops.
    (These kinds of things happen with trains)

  18. Re:Please explain a passage from the article on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    I don't see how there couldn't. Sure OUR perception of time is connected to gravity and matter, but something outside that would be unaffected. Unless you want the nothing became something and instantly blew up idea. To me that argument always felt like something intended to shut up the religious. "No there was NO TIME and NOTHING was before the universe, not even your God". To me time having no beginning makes more sense than it simply starting up one day. Would it be more correct to say "Spacetime began with the Big Bang"?

  19. Closer than I expected on Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 · · Score: 3

    It's been interesting how ARM has been gradually getting closer to desktop performance, while Intel has been getting their TPD down. The real metric however is cost. For Apple or even MS, being able to shave another $200 off their price by ditching Intel for ARM is tempting. Now MS, having its bad experience with ARM is less likely to for it, whereas Apple is definitely at least internally testing desktop ARM chips. With their LLVM work and now Metal on Mac the change is a lot easier than their PPC--> Intel was. Now a quad core A8X or whatever their A9 is going to be should nudge it up past that last 25% or so and it would cost them way less.

    It looks like MS dropped ARM too soon. That and they totally botched their transition. Looks like Apple is gonna pull it off and regular users may not even notice the switch. Just gradually converge from both ends til one day your laptop also runs iPad apps.

  20. NSFW on Adam Nimoy "For the Love of Spock" Documentary On KickStarter · · Score: 0

    The "Full Body Project" is a collection of nudes. Specifically "Full bodied" women. But that's besides the point, it's an NSFW link and should have a warning.

  21. Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

  22. Re:A day? on Chinese Doctor Performs Head Transplants On Mice · · Score: 1

    It's possible that larger bodies can handle the strain better and heal from the surgery with greater survival times. More and larger blood vessels to work with as well as larger nerve clusters to try and connect would be easier to work with.

  23. I think you mean
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  24. When you start with lower pay with a promised raise in X amount of time... It's not going to happen. They'll stall and say they can't afford it as long as possible.

  25. Too soon? on Mystery Woman Recycles $200,000 Apple I Computer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I may have found her.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...