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  1. And a multiplayer tank battle game.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re: Guess who's getting a big contribution on Arizona Prosecutor Says Uber Not Criminally Liable In Fatal Self-Driving Crash (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How did she get the twitter @AOC name? It sees like it's as valuable as a 3 character domain. Did she pay for it? If not then is it a gift? Is it reported? There is no way I can get a 2 character twitter name.

  3. Re:Trump would gladly sign legislation on US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown (huffingtonpost.com.au) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank you for providing a comment with truth and common sense. This whole shutdown is based on Trump hate and Democrat illegal votes.

  4. Too expensive on Google To Open Project Fi To iPhone, Samsung, and OnePlus (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Project Fi is too expensive for a family plan. Four of us get unlimited data for $40 / line. And believe me, teenage kids know how to use data. If it was just me then it would be ok.

  5. 4.6 billion on Nearby Star Is Sun's Long-Lost Sibling (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    What happened 4.6 billion years ago?

  6. So do I need to get my appendix removed?

  7. Abolish Timezones while you are at it. on EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't care if I go to work at 0600 hours or 1700 hours. Timezones are stupid. The military figured this out years ago.

  8. Don't even try to bring your lunch, especially if you bring a straw. WTF is wrong with SF?

  9. Slashdot has been broken for months due to the add on the right side. I can't possibly be only me due to using different browsers causes the same effect. The ads make it unscrollable. Fix the site.

  10. Is it a chromecast receiver or can it only cast to a chromecast device? A receiver would be more interesting.

  11. Yeah... on Facebook Is Testing a Dislike Button (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I Dislike Facebook...

  12. How is this different than an ATM? It serves the same function of replacing a person with a kiosk.

  13. Re:Originally ran on Apache/FreeBSD on How Hotmail Changed Microsoft (and Email) Forever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft actually has a case study up describing their Hotmail migration from FreeBSD to Windows 2000

    Your link is a somewhat sanitized version of what happened, and ignores the first three years of fiascos.

    Prior to the acquisition, Hotmail worked closely with the FreeBSD devs to optimize their servers. This led to things like the "sendfile" system call, where a program could pass a filename and an open socket to the kernel, and the kernel would write the file to the socket with none of the bytes touching userspace. So when Microsoft took over, they got a lean, optimized, and efficient system, and tried to replace it with one of the worst server operating systems ever. Each FreeBSD system (a $200 motherboard sitting on a piece of cardboard), needed 20 Win-NT servers to replace it, each costing ten times as much as the FreeBSD boards. Since this was clearly unworkable, they waited another 3 years to do the transition, while both hardware and software improved. All of this was further complicated by many of the original Hotmail people quitting to go elsewhere (this was the height of the boom), leaving the remaining employees just treading water with little time to work on the transition.

    Microsoft actually has a case study up describing their Hotmail migration from FreeBSD to Windows 2000

    Your link is a somewhat sanitized version of what happened, and ignores the first three years of fiascos.

    Prior to the acquisition, Hotmail worked closely with the FreeBSD devs to optimize their servers. This led to things like the "sendfile" system call, where a program could pass a filename and an open socket to the kernel, and the kernel would write the file to the socket with none of the bytes touching userspace. So when Microsoft took over, they got a lean, optimized, and efficient system, and tried to replace it with one of the worst server operating systems ever. Each FreeBSD system (a $200 motherboard sitting on a piece of cardboard), needed 20 Win-NT servers to replace it, each costing ten times as much as the FreeBSD boards. Since this was clearly unworkable, they waited another 3 years to do the transition, while both hardware and software improved. All of this was further complicated by many of the original Hotmail people quitting to go elsewhere (this was the height of the boom), leaving the remaining employees just treading water with little time to work on the transition.

    Thanks for posting this. It seems that Slashdot forgot their own news history yet again.

  14. This is what slashdot has come to ... I'm pretty sure that slashdots best moment was the 9-11 coverage. It actually showed what community/social media could do. Oh well... get off my lawn!

  15. Yeah, Twitter has a bot policy.

    https://help.twitter.com/en/ru...

  16. Trash it all you want ..... on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I spent many many many days at Radio Shack on saturdays programming a TRS-80 model 1. There was a whole group of us doing this. The TRS-80 was a huge part of the revolution.

  17. Déjà vu on Intel: Steer Clear Of Our Patents (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Where have I seen this before? Oh yeah, Slashdot this morning.....
    https://games.slashdot.org/sto...

  18. What a shit post... on Many Nations Pin Climate Hopes On China, India As Hopes For Trump Fade (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The amount of pollution is negligible compared to China. Have you been to China? They are in no way trying to fix this. The air is thick and metallic tasting. The only time they fix it is when they shut the factories down for the celebration of one of their communist holidays.

  19. Re: How many Chromebook buys are accidental? on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re: Not a dumb terminal - Linux with locked down U on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Chromebooks are perfect from many situations. I recently replaced my dad's Windows PC with a chromebox and it's made both of our lives much better. Twice a year his PC would be a bogged down mess even with malware / anti virus software. No longer an issue. It's been 6 months and all is good.

  21. Re:But can it run Linux?! on Wine 2.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that you run virtualbox on wine and you are good to go.

  22. Lack of understanding on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like 100+ (is that all? really) companies that really don't get Brexit. I'm guessing that they will get it soon enough in a sad way.

  23. Yes! Here's a facebook group I started years ago about this topic.

    https://www.facebook.com/Aboli...

    This was after having to write a scheduling app and dealing with timezones/area codes/zip codes. It was a nightmare.

  24. Re:Linux Torvalds sends his regards on Linus Torvalds Officially Announces the Release of Linux Kernel 4.8 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    Linux is a punk.