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  1. Re:Imagine That... on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 1

    The Saturn V first stage.

  2. Re:Imagine That... on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 1

    Yes it did and any company that pushes the envelope will have failures. The list of Intel failures is very long but no one seems to remember any but the last.
    They still have a lot of experience and a lot of successes.

  3. Re:Imagine That... on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 1

    The KC-135 that is still in server underdelivered for the money?
    You sir are just nuts.

  4. And this is news? on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 2

    First of all is anyone shocked by this? Really people you think this is news? I mean next you tell me that Sun is hot.
    Second this needs to be put under the politics category.

    I hide Politics on Slashdot so I do not have too see this kind of story.
    It is not that I am not interested in political news, the reason is that the quality of comments and editing on anything political on Slashdot is so bad.

    If you disagree on the quality that is fine but Slashdot let's the users hide categories for a reason. Helpful hint editors while it does not apply to this story if the word Republican or Democrat are in the title it is politics.

  5. Re:Let's see your portfolio. on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    I often make the mistake that people are as smart and as sensible as I am.

    The original question was "If I want to be a developer is a Liberal Arts degree better than a CS degree.

    The simple truth is even if someone has worked on a FOSS project you just don't know if they actually understand Computer Science. They might be completely self taught and know as much as someone with a CS degree or they may just know how to hack code.
    A good code hacker might do fine but struggle with a race condition in multi threaded code or may not even know what a hash table is. Someone with a degree should know how to deal with both as would someone that did a good job at self educating.
    So yes experience can trump a degree but I did say "Two people fresh out of college." So yea that is what I said.

    BTW in College I did take class in critical thinking. I did very well in the class. In fact I got an A.

  6. Re:High reliability? on New Release of MINIX 3 For x86 and ARM Is NetBSD Compatible · · Score: 1

    I wish that they had ported the FreeBSD userland. I am think FreeNAS with ZFS on Minix as a killer NAS solution.

  7. Re:However on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 2

    But In Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and even parts of Washington, Oregon, and California lakes and the sea can be a good distance from the fires or rare.
    Also in the western parts of the US salt in the soil is a real issue.
    Like I said, they can scoop on the sea but they prefer to use lakes. They have to spend a lot of time and fresh water to wash down after they scoop from a salt water source.
    Of course in the Med you also tend to have calmer sea states than the west coast of the US.

  8. Re:However on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    That works great where you have a lake near the fire. ALso they really avoid using sea water. Salt water can cause issues. The planes are designed to do it but it is avoided when possible. Not only that but dumping salt water on the land in the west is also not the best thing for post fire recovery.

  9. Re:Let's see your portfolio. on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    You do realise that it is an all things being equal is assumed.

    Yes someone with an English Lit degree from Yale that has written several FOSS apps and contributed to the Linux Kernel will win over someone from the University of Guam that with a CS degree and nothing else.
    I also question the very concept that a Liberal Arts education will give you better critical thinking skills than ta CS degree from the same University.

  10. Gee I do not know. on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have two people interviewing for a programming job right out of college.
    1. Has a degree in CS.
    2. Has a degree in English Lit.
    Hummm.......
    Yea right.
    Or turn it around.
    You are looking for a fiction book editor.
    1. Has a degree in CS.
    2. Has a degree in English Lit.
    Yes still works.

  11. Re:Translation... on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 1

    Not Bribes but jobs. The simple truth is that a government program like this is often driven by requirements and job creation. If you have two systems and one is going to make more jobs in the area that you happen to represent than the other a senator will support the one from his area. That is just common sense.
    I do believe that the Boeing proposal had two advantages over the SpaceX and DreamChaser.
    Lower risk and more political clout. Not bribes but congress people that will support it for job creation in their areas.

  12. Re:High reliability? on New Release of MINIX 3 For x86 and ARM Is NetBSD Compatible · · Score: 1

    Are the drivers reneterent? If so you could in theory clear the data pages and restart the code instead of any type of reload.
    Over all I am very excited by this news. Minix 3.0 has been very interesting but lacked apps. Being BSD compatible really helps with that issue.

  13. Re:One of those strange rules of war. on How Governments Are Getting Around the UN's Ban On Blinding Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    Ahh the pro drug supporter.... Simple work to change the law it has happened in a few states so far. The self loathing pity and show of emotion is now even more into the range of ridiculous.

  14. Re:Imagine That... on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 1

    The KC-135 from the 1950s and still in service?
    The F-22 is from Lockheed Martin btw not Boeing and while it did go over budget it did not under deliever as far as anyone can tell.

  15. Re:One of those strange rules of war. on How Governments Are Getting Around the UN's Ban On Blinding Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    Yet you are not in jail for refusing to pay your taxes or protesting.....
    So you parade you self loathing for all to see to try feel morally superior yet will not risk anything much less your physical life to stop it.
    Please keep your emotional self loathing, self righteousness, and your facade of moral superiority to yourself or put yourself on the line and do something about it.

    Frankly I have studied enough history that I believe that the way to security and frankly the least suffering it to fight the small war before you have no choice but to fight the big, morally clear cut war. That is my take on history.

    Sorry but the "Peace" movement lost any legitimacy when they protested at the former republican vice presidents home after President Obama got elected. Their silence on the bombing of ISIL and the moving of troops to Iraq and the future bombing of Syria, the bombing of Libya, and drone strikes in Somalia just proves that they are nothing but a PR arm for the Democratic party wrapped in false morality. In fact I have seen almost no peace protests for a few years now.

  16. Re:Imagine That... on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Long-time government contractor with a history of blowing budgets and under-delivering gets new"
    ???
    Long-time government contractor with a history of delivering working system.
    B-B2, E-3, KC,RC,C-135, P-8, and on and on.

  17. Re:Translation... on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 5, Informative

    The new powered landing Dragon is a "high risk" design. The Dreamchaser is also a "high risk" design plus you have all the "Shuttle was flawed" group that wants nothing to do with wings in space.
    Boeing vs SpaceX? without doing all the number crunching it is hard to make an educated judgment.
    As to the Politics SpaceX is in Ca, Tx, and FL. Boeing in in Ca, Tx, Fl, Washington, and Ks but the killer is that there headquarters is in... Chicago.

  18. Re:It's not your phone on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    So delete it. The rest is just posturing even if I got the vile rappers album I would just delete it. Sure offering it for free might have been the best option but to be honest the amount of time wasted and frankly chest pounding is to the point of silliness. Probably 99.9% of Apple users will be happy with getting the free album or just not care while a tiny minority will jump up and down and pound their chest over the purity of their iTunes library. Do people show off their library to show how cool and hard core and or indie they are?
    Implying that you made a choice... It is an album not a vote in an election ,a religious affiliation, or political party, it is not a big thing and if you feel that it is you need to put it in perspective.
     

  19. Re:One of those strange rules of war. on How Governments Are Getting Around the UN's Ban On Blinding Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    That actually makes sense.

  20. Re:One of those strange rules of war. on How Governments Are Getting Around the UN's Ban On Blinding Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    "We might stop worshiping veterans and start questioning if all the wars we're in are necessary "
    1. It is respecting veterans. They do not decide which wars are just and which are not the voters and elected officials do.

    Maybe but isn't a great thing that we have a peace loving president in the Whitehouse.....

  21. One of those strange rules of war. on How Governments Are Getting Around the UN's Ban On Blinding Laser Weapons · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can shoot you in the head and kill you but I can not just intentionally blind you?

    Actually it seems like a simple enough technical problem. When you go to fire the first burst is a range finder burst and then you set the power for the range. Of course this would all be done by the weapon and not the user.

  22. Re:It's not your phone on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    "ad hominem" is not always a logical fallacy if the person expressing the opinion is some how has value added to because of position or expertise and is applicable when issues involving morality or ethics.
    Musician that posts material that is offensive to a large segment of the population complains about the , tastefulness, morality and or ethics of getting a free album from popular band. That does seem to fit a valid use for an ad hominem based reply.
     

  23. Re:It's not your phone on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    What negative social actions has U2 done?
    It would be more like what if George Strait album showed up on my phone. A musical act that I do not really like but has done nothing extremely annoying or offensive.
    I would just delete it and by on my way.

  24. YouTube on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 0

    Put them on YouTube, DropBox and so on.

  25. Re:Apple KNOWS what its users want on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are still hip and cool because.
    1. They still have lots of fans.
    2. They still get lots of airplay.
    3. All the social causes that Bono and the other members of the band are involved in like Amnesty International.

    Sure they are not cool and hip like Tyler The Creator with content and actions that push for social change like Homophobia and Violence towards women but they still have some fans.