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  1. Traffic cams, Red light cams on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    While we are at it, let's put red light cams on every intersection with a red light.
    And speeding cams on every road--especially highways.

    Hey, you dig into the statistics and the percentage of people running red lights and/or speeding is greater then the percentage of police abusing their power.
    Hell on some highways I've driven, everyone is doing at least 10 mph over the speed limit.

    Hey turnabout is fair play

  2. Re:SBCs: total waste of time and money on 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding of the Pogoplug is that it can only handle 2.5" drives.

    Is that just the form factor of the case? Or can't the device power a 3.5"?

  3. If you think women have troubles... on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    contributing to open source projects, try being a dog!

  4. Re:Thank you. on Scott Meyers Retires From Involvement With C++ (blogspot.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Right. Like C and Perl don't have more landmines.

  5. Is there an Android ROM for it?

  6. Re:SBCs: total waste of time and money on 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you add a HDD though? I've got several SATA drives lying around, but SoC with SATA seem to be expensive.

  7. So recommendations? on 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of getting a couple of boards with my Christmas excess. I was going to post here but decided to askl in redit.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniP...

    Basically the usage. One a email server, and used occasionally for watching videos.
    The other for experimentation/learning OSs. LFS, anyone got Haiku running on any of these? BSD. Learning ARM programming.
    Also when I need to do secure computing switch out with a special SD card which I take pains to make sure is clean.

    So recommendations?

  8. Re:last refuge for security? on 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking of one for myself for secure computing for a reason.
    Create an image.modify it for your interactions while having perfect opsec. Backup your image.
    Only use the image when you want to do unsecure computing. Either use another computer, or use a different SD card.
    Monthly restore the old ( signed image ).

  9. Re:SBCs: total waste of time and money on 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got three x86 PC in my closet. I've refrained from using them for one reason. Noise. Those things were very loud, and I have no idea how to make them quiet.

  10. Re:Don't worry on List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 (narod.ru) · · Score: 1

    Until they realize that systemD has become a major vector for malware.

  11. Re:Good for them on Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You cannot affect the rich with the interest rate, and that's where the money is concentrated today. They have various other means of stashing money available, none of them being in any way directly influenced by the interest rate.

    Oh and what ways are those pray tell?
    The most common way to save massive amounts of wealth are trust funds, hedge funds, etc. all highly dependent on interest rates. You can invest in commodities -- wine, paintings, houses etc. Those are more hobbies then investment, and not only do you to some degree consume them, the part that you do not consume, you must spend money on to keep intact-- wine cellars, controled rooms for paintings, maintenance for houses.

  12. Just 4 million ... on Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    more morons in the world than previous believed to be.

  13. Re:"very sucessful line of surface" on Microsoft CMO Confirms Development of 'Spiritual Equivalent' of Surface Phone (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the big outlay tio equip the NFL with free surfaces.
    It does raise a question though. Do players get to keep their old devices and use them wherever they did before?

  14. Don't forget the NFL.
    As a Bears fan and a Packer hater, Ioved when Rodgers the that Surface at the end of the Panthers game.

    Pissed off two foes at once.

  15. Re:Only if you Exclude Technological Limits on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhh.
    The holographic principle comes from string theory the strongest indications of it, AdS/CFT is a part staring theory.

  16. There is no string theory. on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    First, there is no string theory. There are a bunch of theories we call string theory. There are a bunch of theories that we call string theory, abut no basic priciples that are clearly laid out yet.

    Second, even if we had a specific theory, we still do not know how to make calculations.

    Third, general relativity was in the same situation. For a long time all it predicted was Mercury's perihelion precession and that could be done with alternate theories of gravitation or even extra planets. It wasn't until Eddington that relativity was really tested.

    The reason that general relativy was largely untested was basically the same reason string theory is untested. The calculations are hard to do and the experiments are difficult to preform. It is conceivable that a race with an average IQ of 1000 and sufficiently advanced technology could in test string theory.

    So we say string theory is not a physical theory because of our shortcomings?

    That being said, string theorists have brought it on them selves. I think they spend too much time chasing their own tail and are crowding out other avenues of research.

  17. Reporters are biased idiots. on Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    They will report any study no matter how flawed or inapplicable. to justify their position.

    Plus they are idiots who can't tell a black hole from the hole in their ass.

  18. Re:This is so ridiculous on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be the least of the technical problems.

    If you live in small individual caves, then yes. But caves large enough to contain entire cities would have parks, plus waterfalls are replaced by things like very nice caves.

    Even then. Iamgine a junior level lawyer or investor living in NY. They live in a studio apartment, work in a cramped office and spend the rest of their time in cramped restaurants and clubs. They think they are living the good life. How would Mars be differenbt, except probably being less cramped?

  19. Has no one heard of Fourier transforms? on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    When it comes down to it, the basic argument is that the phenomena is aeroelastic flutter not resonance, because the driving force is nearly constant.

    However, I suspect if you work it all out the change in amplitude of the rotation is proportional to the Fourier transform of the driving force at the natural frequency of the bridge.

    Why is that? The nearly constant driving force is not nearly constant.
    It is a composition of oscillating forces spanning a range of frequencies. Of all those forces, only the force oscillating at the natural frequency contributes--hence it is proportional to the Fourier transform.

  20. Shame Alan Turing didn't think this way about Enigma.

  21. Re:This will work! on Paris Climate Deal Adopted · · Score: 1

    Look at this way. They are going to sequester lots and lots of carbon in the form of paper thanks to this!

  22. Re:10 Years on Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? (cheney.net) · · Score: 1

    And here I thought it would be Chartreuse. Thinking about it , the color would be too close to Razer/Kailth green. Maybe Cherry transparent greens.

    With fully programmable million+ color backlighting.

  23. Re:single-climate planets on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but the Genesis device was a terraforming device, not a planet creating device.

    It was used on an existing planet.

  24. Re:More important question: does it have systemd? on Linux Mint 17.3 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It took Lennart ten years to make pulseaduio workable.
    From some people who are more focused on doing things with audio, I hear that it still doesn't work right.

  25. A question about the BSD's. on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 2

    How hardware friendly are they?

    The only thing keeping me on linux is the thought of going back to the days of having to check if hardware worked before buying it ( plus all the hardware I have now ).