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  1. Humans and devices on Reporting To Executives · · Score: 1
    I assume you're providing the public web service, internal network services, and the product operation (irrigation management) services. So provide a summary of those three fields.

    The executive-level statistics for the public web service will be easy to choose: How good is the service and when is improvement necessary? As will the internal services... summarize the measurable bottlenecks, including network disk space usage. Provide a number (or rescale it to a 0-10 rating) and a sentence which explains its meaning and/or how to interpret it ("Smaller is better, and the goal is less than 1 second per request.")

    For the irrigation management service, because that is in almost direct support of the customers, you should learn how the process works from the customer's point of view (Are my sprinklers working? How much am I saving?) and from the company's point of view (server capacity, money saved by average customer, estimate of customers unable to connect to server, server requirements per customer). Some of the info may be of interest to different departments: IT, Irrigation Maintenance, Design, Sales, or Accounting. Then see what you can measure and decide what to report... and what to request in order to add more information.

  2. Re:Bill-writing checklist: on Congress May Require ISPs To Block Certain Fraud Sites · · Score: 1

    The parent comment is reported as pretending to be a member of the government-backed Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). All ISPs should now block Slashdot.

  3. HP laptop video pain on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, upgrading my HP laptop with Nvidia video caused it to display a flashing text console. I think the X startup was failing, and it kept restarting X. I had to reboot into Ubuntu's recovery mode, select the network start, and let apt-get get the latest updates. As I suspected, that took care of the problem. So whatever causes that problem has been solved, but it hadn't been pushed back into the release CD. The hard part was that apt-get kept asking for a CD which I didn't have, until I commented out that CD in the sources list.

  4. Re:"In a million years or so" on Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why so disparaging? You're not interested in breaking news?

  5. Re:Hmm... on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 1

    OK, I'll name the country Cömet. Now to find a landmass to park it on.

  6. Mutant sing-along on How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA · · Score: 1
    All mutants sing along...

    Tiny bubbles [tiny bubbles] Make me warm all over With a feeling that I'm gonna Love you till the end of time

  7. Perdire on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 2, Funny

    There go my plans for world domination through venividivici.vvv

  8. Motivational on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    I do look forward to the XKCD motivational posters.

  9. Re:Oh civ, how I love thee on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 1

    So should we welcome our entertainingly scientific overlords?

  10. Re:I always had the impression on When Software Leaks (and What Really Goes Down) · · Score: 4, Funny

    secrete leak

    Heh.

  11. DEAD.MP4 on What If They Turned Off the Internet? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Death of the Internet predicted.
    MPEG at 11.

  12. Re:Great... on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    You're actually describing a variant of the steering mechanism for old tanks and other dual-treaded vehicles. Did you happen to notice if you were driving a tank in the video game?

  13. Re:Power Steering failure? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    No problem, there's a little propeller that pops out to power a generator. Just don't let the speed drop below 160 miles an hour. Or was that on a different vehicle?

  14. I didn't expect that on Windows 7 Released Early In UK · · Score: 1

    Nobody expects the British Windows 7!

  15. iRobot, meet iRobot on iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot · · Score: 1

    They'll have to teach the Roomba to not ingest its blob brother.

  16. Re:Dark alley on MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Indoor Robocopter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you RTFA? The navigation problem was greatly simplified by sharpening the blades, eliminating the need to go around walls.

  17. The winner on Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Nobel Prize in Astrophysics goes to Yevgeniya Kanayeva, for championship ribbon gymnastics achievements.

  18. Re:isnt this on Scientists Write Memories Directly Into Fly Brains · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's like that car you owned last year which you didn't.

  19. Venus Equilateral on New Kind of Orbit Could Ease Mars Communications · · Score: 1

    This is a job for Venus Equilateral!

  20. Re:touchless and 3D on 3D Fingerprinting — Touchless, More Accurate, and Faster · · Score: 1

    Stop talking and come along quietly. We know you were at the crime scene because you didn't touch 3D objects.

  21. Label it on Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music · · Score: 1

    Obviously he needs to start a label called "Major".

  22. Re:Who told them? on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I really did a hatchet job in hacking that one out.

  23. Re:And why should they care? on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What you wrote in an essay's hardly going to influence what you do in a technical environment like that.

    Good point. Maybe they should have changed the requirement to an object of up to 1 kilogram.

  24. Who told them? on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who did they axe about this?

  25. Limited use on Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad it's of limited use. Day 175: No breadfruit.
    Day 176: No breadfruit.
    Day 177: Breadfruit.
    Day 178: No breadfruit.