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  1. Re:5 year lag pretty good on Russian Company Unveils Homegrown PC Chips · · Score: 1

    This thing operates at around 50 gigaflops which puts it around the level of a top of the line 2008 i7. Not bad if it weren't for the $2000 price tag for the desktop model.
    Source: https://meduza.io/en/lion/2015...

  2. Re:Simple: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Engage 5th-8th Graders In Computing? · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, use Minecraft to teach them the basics of logic and programming.

    Mod parent up - I've used computercraft to teach elementary school kids, and many of them loved it. It is a great way to teach kids how to use Lua, and by the end of the summer they were doing logic statements, bubble sorts, etc.

  3. Re:Hmmm ... on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    My friends and I actually found this OS to be hilarious. We even created a fan club at my high school for the One True OS

  4. Solaris on New Trial Brings Skype to (Some) Browsers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this means Skype can run on Solaris in Firefox...

  5. Re:As a BlackBerry user on BlackBerry Launches Square-Screened Passport Phone · · Score: 1

    Honestly, it feels as if BlackBerry is just trying to bankrupt themselves. This new phone is a joke

  6. Re: No surprise on Study: Chimpanzees Have Evolved To Kill Each Other · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I feel as if the whole queen bee syndrome is more or a cultural trait rather than an evolutionary trait so the point is moot.

  7. Science and Faith on Canada Tops List of Most Science-Literate Countries · · Score: 1

    Though not many are willing to admit it, science is based on faith, and if anyone would say otherwise, they would be lying. Hume's problem of induction really shows this faith we hold well - If I hit an billiard ball and it moves, how do I really know whether it was my hitting the ball that caused it to move? Though it SEEMS to be moving due to my touching it, how are we really sure? We use faith in our senses and assume that the hitting caused the motion. All research is done in this fashion, based on faith in science. I'm not sure how I would have answered the question in it's current form, since it is ambiguous about whether it is speaking about religious faith or faith in action. If it where less vague, and asked that we should depend on religious faith more, though, I would have definitely answered no.

  8. Re:Google seems kind of serious about this on Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara · · Score: 2

    It's nice to see Google kind of pushing the envelope on this

    If any of you RTFA, then you could tell that Google isn't (really) pushing the envelope on this. It's a budget application processor. Nothing new here. Move along.

  9. Re:Stone on C++14 Is Set In Stone · · Score: 1

    As opposed to soggy construction paper

  10. Re: $200MM on Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure MM stands for Monopoly Money. IoT obviously doesn't deserve REAL money so this is what they get...

  11. Correct me if I'm wrong on Harvesting Wi-Fi Backscatter To Power Internet of Things Sensors · · Score: 0

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Tesla say wireless charging like this was impossible?

  12. Spy agency certifying anti-spying program on UK Spy Agency Certifies Master's Degrees In Cyber Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny that the GCHQ would certify programs that *in theory* should help companies protect themselves from the spying of the GCHQ.

  13. Re: Mozilla... on Mozilla Dumps Info of 76,000 Developers To Public Web Server · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, in Mozillas defense, at least they admitted their mistake rather than ignoring it like many companies we have seen on Slashdot do.

  14. Re:Pfft on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Off his lawn?!?!?

    He said nano -- the bastard child of pico.

    I use vim. ...so the GP can get off MY lawn.

    Please, don't get your diapers in a bunch

  15. Pfft on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can do all of this in Emacs and Nano. No need for some shiny new text editor...

  16. Re:And GNOME 3 is still a HEAP OF SHIT. on KDE Releases Frameworks 5 · · Score: 1

    GNOME 3 sure as fuck isn't getting any better

    I'm not sure which version of GNOME you used, but beginning with GNOME 3.14, the experience has become very refined and much quicker partially based on its switch from X11 to Wayland

  17. Re: Good luck with that on Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors · · Score: 2

    The Russian government has already helped to creat a fairly successful corporation that specializes in Sparc processors named ÐoeЦÐÐ, or Moscow Center for SPARC Technology (wiki link in Russian here: http://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...ÐoeЦÐÐ) I don't see any reason they would have difficulty doing the same with ARM

  18. Great Author on HUGO Winning Author Daniel Keyes Has Died · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember reading this book in 8th grade. In all honesty, this is the only book I remember reading middle school. This may have been the first book to physically effect an emotion in me, and I loved it. And now, I feel an emotion again, a feeling of sadness because the author has passed away. Daniel Keyes will truly be missed, may he Rest in Peace.

  19. It's things like this.... on US Wants To Build 'Internet of Postal Things' · · Score: 1

    That make me go postal

  20. Re:It's the chemicals.. on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find this really offensive. I love to use film because of the imperfection that's so natural, not the chemicals. Not all high schoolers are druggies

  21. Re: Ingredients for water? on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, well if several hundred kilometers is just half a mile, I'm sure we'll have no difficulty reaching the mantle

  22. Marcel Proust on Lose Sleep, Fail To Form Memory · · Score: 1

    Marcel Proust was obsessed with all of the tiniest memories possible, as well as sleep. I guess now there is an explanation for the correlation

  23. Well on Study Finds Porn Exposure Associated With Smaller Brain Region · · Score: 1

    Well shit

  24. Plan 9 on Tiniest Linux COM Yet? · · Score: 1

    I was curious what sort of OSes could run on this thing beyond OpenWRT. Surprisingly, the minimum requirement for RAM is pretty large for OpenBSD, making it incompatible with this SOC, though I did find out that this fits within the system requirements of Plan9.

  25. Re: Accuracy on Foam-Spraying Quadcopter Becomes a Flying 3D Printer · · Score: 1