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  1. Apotheker's dream come true. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 2

    A few years from now, HP will no longer sell hardware.

  2. Re:Short answer: Run. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Do If You're Given a Broken Project? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rather then going and asking the original developer why it sucks, explain to the developer that you have been assigned his project.
    If he is a "rockstar " then he will lord it over you and you know to run.
    If he knows that it sucks and tells you, then you likely have an ally in your quest to fix the app.

  3. Re:1984 on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    Say what?

    Can you sayApple App Store and iTunes?

  4. Re:Why is a pipeline needed? on Environmental Report Raises Pressure On Obama To Approve Keystone Pipeline · · Score: 1

    Do you think that the Obama government is going to grant the permits to allow such refineries to be built?

  5. Re:ouch! on Google Sells Motorola Mobility To Lenovo For $2.91 Billion · · Score: 1

    I remember when that was what Microsoft did on a regular basis.

    *Cough* Nokia *Cough*

  6. Re:Linux keeps the GPL alive. on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    You mean like Google?

  7. Re:But it is horribly wrong anyway. on Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes' · · Score: 1

    Relativity is far from even remotely correct. It spits out infinities all over the place. Infinities don't exist in reality.

    Actually relativity does not spit out infinities all over the place, is spits out a few infinities in some very extreme cases. If you want to see infinities spit out all over the place, look at QFT and google renormalization group.

    They have to constantly resync GPS even WHILE USING it.

    This is true of any technology using basic scientific models. The devices have inaccuracies of measurement, they have impurities in their tools, Often when designing these things, they add little tweaks called fudge factors to equations. THis whole process is called ENGINEERING, and it has very little to do with the correctness of science.

  8. The big question on Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes' · · Score: 1

    What happens to cosmic censorship?

  9. Re:What is the big deal? on Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store · · Score: 1

    You can also go to Amazon or Opera they both have Android stores.

  10. How cheap! on Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store · · Score: 2

    $0.75 cents for what is essentially a collection of apps. Wow!

  11. Re:Hierarchy of perceived victimhood on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    Lewandowski is a slavic name. Not a jewish name.

  12. Re:Thugocracy in Action on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    In Chicago,. when a large business is in an area that is remote, the CTA/RTA provide busses to get there. So in this case instead of the government paying for the transportation, Google is. How evil!

  13. Re:Or transparent phones and tablets! on MIT Develops Inexpensive Transparent Display Using Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    Plus when you watch pr0n, everyone else will be watching too.

  14. Obvious on More Details About Mars Mystery Rock · · Score: 1

    I'll put my money on it's being a discus lost in the last Olympics when a female Russian threw one so hard it left the stadium.

  15. Re:Show me a climate model for the past 16 years on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gee I wonder what their "carbon footprint" is.

  16. Plugin developers on Nagios-Plugins Web Site Taken Over By Nagios · · Score: 2

    In the future plugin developers should make their plugins compatible with alternatives but incompatible with Nagios. Then Naagios can either live with the old plugins or hire people to port the new plugins. Then Nagios can see what the community meant to them. This is a typical business approach which says that the enemy is not your competitors but your user community and the community of people who add value to your product. Time these users got a clue.

  17. It seems fairly obvious. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    TIme is your friend here. The longer the object using the code exists the better. It helps if your code survives across several models. This means a piece of code which is fundamental, simple to write and error free that gets saved for the next version. It should be associated with a product/service that is ubiquitous., but also provided by a monopoly so the service is not seperated among several code bases. Everything said so far means it is very likely C, definitely preANSI but maybe even preK&R. So very likey it is something in a 5ESS SM especially if the code goes back to 4ESS or further[1], the two most obvious -- in the code that scans for open lines the function which detects whether or not a line is open. If there is no such scanning code, then something in the database call that looks up a number when a digit is pressed. [1] It would be given a big boost if it were siomething that was written before switch code was split into US/International veersions.

  18. Windows stack traceback code used to show BSOD on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    Which is probably used by several other windows program to display their stack traces too.

  19. Re: Oh yes on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 3, Informative

    So then why didn't the Dvorak keyboard take hold? QWERTY was designed to keep keys on mechanical typewriters from jamming,

    When will people get their facts straight? QWERTYdid not prevent jamming by making people type slower. They prevented jamming by arranging keys in a way that you are very rarely pressing keys next to each other. Which means the strikers are less likely to collide.

  20. Re:Why is everyone claiming Bitcoin is anonymous? on Porn Will Be Bitcoin's Killer App · · Score: 1

    Until people start shaming people for buying porn. Can you imagine some fundamentalist group posting the names of buyers of porn?

  21. Pay for pr0n on Porn Will Be Bitcoin's Killer App · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Heaven forbid. Hell, they are giving it away.

  22. Re:Killed because of the message on Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal · · Score: 1

    Actually String Theory is more mathematics then physics. The only reason they don't make it a branch of math is that mathematicians would force them to make it more rigorous. This is not surprising because QFT itself is very adhoc.

  23. Re:Killed because of the message on Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal · · Score: 0

    Yes. The anomoulous magnetic moment of the electron has been predicted to 11 decimals, and measure to match. I high point in the proving of QED, and one of the most accurate predictions in science. Where is there a prediction of climate scientists that is accurate to 3 decimals?

  24. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 2

    But I'd rather prefer being properly hung.

    Mustn't do it, musn't do it. Can't fight the urge. Am giving in.

    All men prefer to be properly hung, so do their women.

    There done. Ahhh catharsis.

  25. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    false equivilancy. This man might be a monster, but we are not. We are civilized.

    As a society we may be civilized but there are law abiding good citizens who are not. Many of who would be happy to do the job. So just hand it over to them. As for "civilized" I find that as with other traits held to a high ideal, it is a trait that we abide by only when convenient. So let's just stop pretending.