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  1. Why it may not be as good as it's predecessor on China Says it Cloned a Police Dog To Speed Up Training (xinhuanet.com) · · Score: 1

    The cloned dog will be trained with the best, premier techniques thought to produce a great police dog. However, what experience had shown to be a great police dog (the DNA donor) might have been raised or trained in ways nobody documented because they did not follow the handbook. So the new dog, while genetically similar to the old one is trained in the officially mandated style of today - which won't necessarily give you another champion dog because the training is what they think is best, not necessarily what the great dog got.

  2. If you don't like comments... on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    ..or code submitted, feel free to provide "better" submissions with cleaner code or cleaner comments and if people like your version better, it gets in. This is Open Source, no one should be allowed to push out content (incl comments) the project agrees is good without providing a superior submission. Besides this criticism totally ignores the possibility that the thing being described was not so bad that profanity was the most accurate description.

  3. Dangers of faith in any weapons tech on Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2
  4. First linux on Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained GNU/Linux Distribution, Turns 25 · · Score: 2

    Installed from about 6 x 3.5" floppies onto a 386SX system with less than a meg of memory. Needless to say, no X and no GUI :-)

  5. Think how much grief Snowden could have avoided... on New NSA Leak Exposes Red Disk, the Army's Failed Intelligence System (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ... if he'd just put his info up anonymously this way. But instead he wanted to make sure there was journalistic curation by mejoro media orgs to limit info to stuff that proved his point about legal violations by NSA and other govt branches.
    Have to think he's bitter now.

  6. Re:No, really this time it's unlimited, we promise on Verizon Will Stop Throttling Video On Unlimited Plans If You Pay An Extra $10 Per Month (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Voting for Stein = Voting for Trump.
    Stein votes/Trump margin:
    MI: 51,463/10,704
    PA: 49,678/46,765
    WI: 31,006/22,177

  7. Ok. easy to fix but would you go along with it? on Facebook Employees Living in a Garage Hope Zuckerberg Will Learn What's Happening in His Own City (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is simple. FB needs to relocate the staff in their unit to some rural site in in North Dakota where those FB employees could no doubt afford palatial houses.
    What you don't want to live there, you want to live in a CA area with insanely high real estate prices? That's not Zukerberg's problem, it's yours.

  8. Why is this flamebait? Stein was complicit. on Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3

    Not relevant if you think he was denied some reason other than Trump's travel ban, but if Trump was the cause, Stein's involvement is documented. She was actively recruited by Flynn and Russians. Check the lovely photo

  9. Did I hear that correctly? on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a debate about hiring JAMES GOSLING because he's too old? Seriously?

  10. So, Microsoft and HP should have to support... on Slashdot Asks: In the Wake Of Ransomware Attacks, Should Tech Companies Change Policies To Support Older OSs Indefinitely? · · Score: 1

    Windows Workstation on old DEC Alpha systems against any attacks? Pretty sure some of the basic Windows vulnerabilities would apply.

  11. Re:Europe is the one that should be scared. on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And they're gaining much freer and better access to the markets of... Canada...

    Ironically, Canada just concluded CETA a free trade agreement with the EU and so Brexited UK will have no more than normal WTO trade status with Canada (which is what they'll start with after Brexit for all of those other nations you called out until they can negotiate some other agreements).
    But had the UK stayed in EU, they would have had a premium trade arrangement with Canada they won't get now.
    Even though Canada's head of state resides in UK. How is that for ironic?

  12. Are you aware that you simply unplug the old hard drive and plug in the new one? Soldering is unnecessary and not advisable.

    Many modern tablets and laptops have soldered down flash drives. How are you unplugging those again?

  13. Source of this idea, no doubt... on Indiana's Inmates Could Soon Have Access To Tablets (abc57.com) · · Score: 1

    ...is a tablet vendor account exec playing golf with some senior official at the state corrections office. Whether it's a good idea for the inmates or society is purely secondary.

  14. Always our new vs your old on AMD Offers Full Details and Performance of Zen-Based Naples Server Platform (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A proper comparison would be between AMD's 2017 cpu Naples against Intel's 2017 cpu E5 V5 not 2016 E5 V4, as is done here.

  15. Instead why not offer SpaceX The Money... on NASA Is Studying A Manned Trip Around The Moon On A $23 Billion Rocket (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For 23 Billion, Musk could probably build a Transit module for Crew Dragon and a Lander, put both up on a pair of Falcon Heavies - AND DO A REAL LUNAR MISSION. And by then the FH will already be crew rated, eliminating that first flight danger on SLS. Let's face it SLS is Sen Shelby's pure pork program to keep a bunch of shuttle worksrs employed building a dysfunctional system that's far too expensive to be useful

  16. Wow. I'm surprised the total value of all Zerocoin is worth that much in $USD

  17. I understand the best counterfeits are often so good they pass 'expert' monitors. Does that mean if you're sufficiently good at it, your stuff is now ok?

  18. "signal" is a leading word on Astronomers Detect Mysterious Radio Signals Coming From Outside Our Galaxy (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 2

    Calling the emission a "signal" immediately suggests it the artifact of some intelligence rather than an natural phenomena - and that has definately not been established yet.
    Following is Googled definition of signal and I can't see any version of meaning which could imply something coming from a natural source:
    signal
    noun
    1. a gesture, action, or sound that is used to convey information or instructions, typically by prearrangement between the parties concerned.
    "the firing of the gun was the signal for a chain of beacons to be lit"
    synonyms: gesture, sign, wave, gesticulation, cue, indication, warning, motion
    "a signal to stop"
    2. an electrical impulse or radio wave transmitted or received.
    "equipment for receiving TV signals"
    verb
    1. transmit information or instructions by means of a gesture, action, or sound.
    "hold your fire until I signal"

  19. The only secure method... on Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ..for video/audio calls and other similar communications is heavily encrypted endpoint-to-endpoint VPN traveling though ports that won't get blocked.

  20. Re:3D X Point has no transistors,10X as dense as D on Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore's Law Roadmap Predicts (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    3DXpoint is not NAND flash. Its leakage characteristics (unpublished) would be likely different than flash or RAM.

  21. You turn my firebreathing killer gaming PC... on Microsoft Could Turn Every PC Into an Xbox (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...into a cheezy three hundred dollar X-Box and you're asking for trouble

  22. Thunderbolt 3 dubious for external GPU on Apple Reportedly Developing 5K Retina Thunderbolt Display With Integrated GPU (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    T3 has only 4 x lanes (x4) of PCIe gen 3.0 ( and 2 slower lanes ), given that most discrete GPU adapters want to be in a x16 slot, it suggests to me that external GPUs will be crippled in PCIe connection bandwidth. However, I assume the beautiful monitor will accept the 4K DP over T3 to give you great performance for on-system GPUs.

  23. Thunderbolt 3 USB-C Port =... on ASUS' ZenBook 3 Is Thinner, Lighter and Faster Than the MacBook (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the following connectors embedded/extensible and accessible with dongles - power, 2 X Display Port 4K , multiple 10GE connections, as many USB 3 as you might want as well as extension of the system PCIe to even allow external graphics adapters (Although I think the internal Core i7 Skylake graphics will be pretty good) and huge amount of direct connect NVMe (direct to processor cache) external SSD drive support. That little USB-C port is why you don't need any other ports.
     

  24. A kidnapper's dream... on Google Patents Self-Driving Car That Glues Pedestrians To The Hood In A Crash (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    ...you don't even have to slow up to grab someone off the street, just jump the sidewalk, glue them on and haul them away to a secluded point for hiding.

  25. WTF are you comparing against NetBursts for? on $5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "The Pi Zero had an average power consumption of 2.7 Watts and the Raspberry Pi 2 was at 3.5 Watts";
    Ok then compare that with a 3W Intel Atom E3805 if you want a modern performance per watt metric. Guess what the outcome will be?