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  1. Whatever happened to Free Trade? on Microsoft Dumps 1,500 Apps From Its Windows Store · · Score: 1

    Quality Control may sound like a good idea....and Microsoft should apply it to their own products or maybe even their own app store, but allow competitor's software to run on their wares.

  2. Re:finishing an OS on A New Homegrown OS For China Could Arrive By October · · Score: 1

    If it's supposed to be available in October, that sort of implies that they've been beta testing for a year, now.

  3. Re:Cook's Long Term View/Actions on 3 Years In, a "B" For Tim Cook's Performance at Apple · · Score: 2

    I guess he'll just continue Apple on its present course, just like Steve Ballmer did at Microsoft.

  4. The dark lord on Do Dark Matter and Dark Energy Cast Doubt On the Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    The ingredients for creating your own univerel:
    - 26 % dark matter
    - 69 % dark energy
    - 5 % dark magic

  5. Not as novel as it sounds on Wiring Programmers To Prevent Buggy Code · · Score: 1

    The procedure is just a variant of letting the programmer write a piece of code and then hook him/her up to a polygraph and interrogate her/him if the code has any bugs, and if it does, in which source file and line number....

  6. Re:You're welcome to them. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Well, you have a choice of vi and emacs on Unix, with pico being for beginners. There are other editors, and learning their names is a good way to train your memory.

  7. Democracy is separation of powers on CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress · · Score: 1

    Agents do the spying.
    Politicians do the lying.

  8. Re:Dark? on The Milky Way Is Much Less Massive Than Previous Thought · · Score: 1

    Now if the amount of normal steller mattter is known and the galaxy has only half the mass estimated earlier, that should make the amount of unexplained 'dark' matter a whole lot smaller....

  9. What is the point of a firewall? on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 1

    Take a good look at your exposed host. Install only the software that the clients will need and make sure only the essential ports have services listening on them.

    Now there is no traffic left for your firewall to filter (except connections to your internal network going through a different interface).

  10. Save the trees! on Researchers Print Electronic Memory On Paper · · Score: 1

    Say goodbye to our forests if this tech should ever become widespread.

  11. Re: Why would I need to understand algorithms? on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 1

    Not everybody needs to understand computers. Almost nobody needs to 'use' a computer.

    Some arts colleges have courses where you can study 'User eXperience Design'. No computing required - just bring some crayons and paper and study old paintings for inspiration.

  12. It's actually the other way around. on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 1

    A more fruitful question to ask is how many classes in informatics subjects a mathematics student should take to warrant a degree in Computer Science (instead of general or applied mathematics).

    Informatics consists mostly of GÃdel's incompleteness theorem and Turings halting problem with a bit of propositional logic and lamda calculus thrown in; the rest of computer science is really electronics. A few experiments in electronics and programming may help students to visualise the theory a bit.

  13. The answer is 99.999 on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 1

    Any more than that would make it Megasoft.

  14. Soldier on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Join the army for a job for the rest of your natural life.

  15. Re:Stop throwing good money after bad. on The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane To Nowhere · · Score: 1

    The F-35 is an export product for other NATO countries and Australia, so it will make money flow into the U.S. and create some jobs there (gettng allied politicians to buy the JSF is not too hard).

  16. Move on, nothing to see here! on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    Application programming hasn't changed that much, nor has systems programming. OK, so the web was broken from the start. The answer is to stay away from the web and build something that actually works.

  17. Yes, but who will succeed us? on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    Will Americans in 2045 elect a canine asTop Dog into the White House or do they choose a monkey? Will Artificial Intelligence prevail over Military Intelligence or Business Intelligence?

  18. Hacker jargon on Human Language Is Biased Towards Happiness, Say Computational Linguists · · Score: 1

    How come the hacker's jargon contains so many negative words for misbehaving hard- and software?

  19. Rapid rogramming language? Yes we can! on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    Visual Basic is nice for quickly making a prototype GUI.

    Then you can use C to build a working program.

  20. But who will succeed Steve Jobs? on How Tim Cook Is Filling Steve Jobs's Shoes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Apple could make a comeback under Scott McNealy, former head of SUN Microsystems.

  21. I'm Popeye the ethical sailor man on US Navy Wants Smart Robots With Morals, Ethics · · Score: 1

    Does the Navy want sailors with ethics and morals?

  22. Age is an important factor, but competence does not seem to correlate with your chance of getting a job.

  23. Fair is fair on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 1

    Now please give me my $ 200 and you get your book back.

  24. Re:Managing dependencies is a key skill... on Ask Slashdot: Beginner To Intermediate Programming Projects? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it isn't.

    If you work on an RPM-based Linux system, then you get to install all the dependencies in one fell swoop. Dependencies are not hard, but they can be tedious.

  25. Re:ah, those were the daze;-) on One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 · · Score: 1

    The good thing was that while the terminals were occupied most of the time, but the card punch was mostly free, so you could keep working on your program. The downside was the enormous amount of paper printed.