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  1. Re:Civility shouldn't have borders on Linus On Diversity and Niceness In Open Source · · Score: 1

    Whoosh

  2. Hey NASA... on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: -1, Troll

    instead of making questionable measurements of the planet, why don't you figure out how to build a decent space vehicle? Which is your raison d'etre.

  3. Re: Easy solution on Study: Belief That Some Fields Require "Brilliance" May Keep Women Out · · Score: 1

    It's much the same in Chicago, except that is not the reason for three/four man crews.

    It's called labor unions.

  4. Re:Good thing... on Virgin Galactic To Launch 2,400 Comm. Satellites To Offer Ubiquitous Broadband · · Score: 1

    Maybe he is doing a Sheldon Cooper impersonation.

  5. Improved? on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    From the article:
    "With the most recent work that has landed, the networkd component has been improved with new features. "

    What are jones_supa amd samzenpus smoking?

  6. Re:I've got one on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Very likely they were crowded out by sparrows. A nonindiginous species.

  7. Re:And distinctive radio/tv voices on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    WLS ( as a rock station )

  8. Chimes on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    The sound of a cookoo clock, grandfather clock or steeple clocks. Especially the quarterhourly chimes.

  9. Indexing for regular expressions. on Interviews: Ask Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose a Question · · Score: 1

    Often times I search for something and I want to search for a regular expression. Is there any technique that allows for indices on such?

  10. Re:Search seemingly getting worse over time on Interviews: Ask Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose a Question · · Score: 1

    I was wondering something similar. Often times recent news tends to overshadow search results.

    Let me give a practical example. Grand Jury. proceedings have undergone serious reform since the 70s. In some states a target can demand to appear before the Grand Jury. In some states a No Bill precludes the State from representing the case. In others there must be clear new evidence before a case can be represented. I know one state has a three striges rules for GJ proceedings ( sorry don't remember which).

    The day before the Michael Brown shooting, a search on Grand Jury Missouri would have found several articles on the specific laws to Grand Jury proceedings in Missouri.

    The day the DA announced he would present the case to a Grand Jury, the same search gets hundreds of articles on news story about Michael Brown and Grand Jury proceedings, but it becomes impossible to find those same scholarly articles about the peculiarity of Missouri Grand Jury proceedings. Not even the relevant statutes from the state website.

    What can be done to mitigate this effect?

  11. Re:Drones for avalanche rescues? on Project Ryptide Drone Flies Life-Rings To Distressed Swimmers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An IR camera spotting a warm object in the snow?

  12. An example of where tech does not improve life. on Project Ryptide Drone Flies Life-Rings To Distressed Swimmers · · Score: 3, Funny

    The image of three buxom ( female ) lifeguards running on the beach in skintight swimsuits with their assets bouncing up and down is so much more appealing then a minature helicopter flying over the beach.

  13. Re:Seriously? on US CTO Tries To Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Well, I was using floppies well into the 90's. CD-ROMs were nice for large chunks of data but until I had broadband, sneakernet+floppies was usually a lot more efficient. Really the modern replacement is USB sticks, although they're not quite cheap enough to give away as floppies were.

    CD's always seemed impractical. Probably because they are in a way more fragile.

    I still use ZIP drives for some backups ( say my password manager ).

    USB sticks are OK but I really don't like their form factor.

    microSD cards in an SD card adaptor ( if needed ), seem best. and most easily stored. I just wish they had binder inserts similar to the ones they had for floppies.

  14. Re:Which is best for a Granny Box? on Ringing In 2015 With 40 Linux-Friendly Hacker SBCs · · Score: 1

    You know that sounds really obscene and really really weird..

  15. So how many have SATA ports? on Ringing In 2015 With 40 Linux-Friendly Hacker SBCs · · Score: 1

    SATA
    and
    USB.

    I gfigure USB is common but SATA is hard to find.

  16. Check out processors for signs/scoreboards. on Ask Slashdot: Best Wireless LED Light Setup for 2015? · · Score: 1

    Since the Corsair RGB keyboard came out I have discovered that there are processors dedicated to managing signs.

    You should look into those.

  17. Seems to me that the high tech women CEOs on Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford · · Score: 4, Insightful

    have all been massive failures.Well Virginia Rometty hasn't been a massive failure, but she hasn't been a success either.

  18. I don't care what people say we will never see ... on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 2

    an end to the 10am to 3pm work week

  19. This assumes some sort of causal relationship. on Cause and Effect: How a Revolutionary New Statistical Test Can Tease Them Apart · · Score: 1

    It implicitly presumes that there is some relatively direct casual relationship between the two events.

    Fundamental flaw.

  20. Re:Decision made by spineless bean counters/lawyer on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1

    Very likely Sony decided that even if all North Korea could do is 3 attacks of theaters like that Joker wannabe a couple of years ago, it would be enough to cost Sony a billion in lawsuits.

  21. What time it is it? on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's time to do the Chicken Little Dance

    Bwak bwak

    The sky is falling.

    Bwak bwak

    The ground is burning.

    Bwak bwak

    The North Pole is melting.

    Bwak bwak

    Al Gore is coming.

    Bwak bwak

    ( OK the last one is really scary. )

  22. Re:You're Doing It Wrong on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 2

    Yes.
    That's why TV's had screen in screen for thirty years.

  23. And the title of the nature channel special on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 1

    will be When the oceans fart.

  24. Re:not enthuisastic about this on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    The first place to be looted was the QT. It was also the only place ( it was certainly the first place ) to be torched in the first rounds of riots. The word is that there were rumors around that Mike Brown robbed a convienence store and that store called the cops. The QT was mistaken for the convienence store.

    One thing is certain, on the side of the QT someone spray painted the phrase "Snitches Get Stiches".

  25. Wow you have to give 10cc a lot of credit. on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    They foresaw the extensive used of rubber bullets forty years ago.