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  1. TESTS! TESTS! TESTS! TESTS! on Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year · · Score: 1

    oh, what the hell, just get together and figure out the 4 fellow students you want to kick off the tail of the curve, and the rest get As.

    can anybody here rebound? extra credit!

  2. "ogle" in "Google", violates my rights on Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    so take your homepage down. that's how silly it's getting. geez

  3. ah, come on... on Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's basketball. REBOUND, REBOUND, REBOUND!! (tosses chair. another chair. water jug. wig. money. case full of Surface II tablets, one at a time. tosses T-shirt cannon ....)

  4. "OK, Mr. Googlebot... on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    "We have you for no drivers license, old title and insurance, no learners permit, failure to submit for blood test, failure to take field sobriety tests, 11 miles over the limit, and an open oil can. Son, you is in a HEAP of trouble, you hear me? BIG trouble. why, you haven't even posted your code online in open forum. we are going to haul you in, toss your butt in the scrapyard, and impound the vehicle for forfeiture. you have the right to remain silent, you have the right to a hardcopy of the indictment, and a translator if we can find out your toolset. you only have the right to one message from confinement, less than 140 characters...."

  5. the guy who screams loudest about (insert issue here) is hiding their own little sin pad of the same.

  6. no need for the "B" either on Blackberry Moves Non-Handset Divisions Into New Business Unit · · Score: 1

    just rename the company Canadian Reliability And Progress, and use the obvious ticker acronym in the markets.

  7. if the death penalty is waived, he could be sent on WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" · · Score: 1

    the big issue with EU countries is the federal death penalty is possible for treason and espionage. waive that and he could have a G-III all to himself, with just a few "friends" for a little chit-chat, for the ride to the US.

    if it is up to Great Britain, Assange only leaves the embassy in a coffin. they're going to be standing there at the doors until the end of time. waiting. on alert. with cuffs. forever.

  8. vegetable section: IT offices on Supervalu Becomes Another Hacking Victim · · Score: 1

    fact is, it's a pretty soft underbelly, this electronic commerce thing. it's the system that's rotten, and the top bananas are way green in this stuff. going to be a lot of meat robots canned before electronic payments make the cut.

  9. distance, please on Groundwork Laid For Superfast Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ALU's "10 gig copper" technology is something like 10 meters length. that's way out on the tail of the straight line of speed vs distance that's been pretty much unchanged since the days of ADSL 7 meg. if you can't get out of the shadow of the field cabinet, what good is it?

    show me 150 mbps at 7000 wire feet, and I will pester my engineers to buy a trainload of it. it's got to be pretty clever to beat what appear to be the laws of physics.

  10. even better to blackhole those sites. on Google Expands Safe Browsing To Block Unwanted Downloads · · Score: 1

    or maybe use those sites to DOS themselves

  11. bunch of bad gas on Gas Cooled Reactors Shut Down In UK · · Score: 1

    I am really surprised that Britain continued to use graphite moderators in their power reactors. the Wigner effect of neutron poisoning in the moderator was very well known going into the 50s, making those reactors somewhat unpredictable. after Windscale, they should have known better.

  12. mitigation and education on Ask Slashdot: Can Tech Help Monitor or Mitigate a Mine-Flooded Ecosystem? · · Score: 1

    specifically, use reverse osmosis and other separation methods to get all the pollution out of the huge lake... and drop it in the living rooms of the board of directors of the company that caused the spill.

  13. new advertising paradigm... we suck, you're safe on Silent Circle's Blackphone Exploited at Def Con · · Score: 1

    they've tried everything else, why not that?

  14. Ay, Vinnie, they gots the Connecticut bodies! on Man-Made "Dead Zone" In Gulf of Mexico the Size of Connecticut · · Score: 1

    buncha guys found out dead zone. who's gonna tell da Boss? we could both be sleepin wit da fishes...

  15. sounds like a damn funny party trick on Researchers Make Fruit Flies Perform Aerobatics Like Spitfire Pilots · · Score: 1

    that got funded as research. well played!

  16. Real programmers use assembly on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 2

    and the Godheads sling opcodes. THIS is memory management, making all of your 1K count.

  17. Perhaps they can do security right? on Hack an Oscilloscope, Get a DMCA Take-Down Notice From Tektronix · · Score: 1

    Tek has had period-great products for half a century and more, and many are still usable from that period. I have a used dual-trace with digital that is probably 20 years old, and works great on a ham testbench.

    so whether the rumors floating around that portions of the line are rebadged Anritsu scopes are true or not, there should be enough intelligence at the company(-ies) to do a proper init check with a little math involved, not just a string match, of feature modules.

    next time around, perhaps they could even forget the freakin' magic, and just use software keys to enable already-loaded features? that's worked for telco companies since the second digital voice switch.

  18. considering the virus resivoir... on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 2

    who can blame me for saying this is batshit insane? and isn't the level-4 biohazard lab at the CDC still closed because they can't read the freakin' instructions?

  19. nah, it's an easy fix on "BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" · · Score: 1

    sledgehammer the sumbuck into dust and buy a new computer. no problem.

  20. yah, it's all unicorns and rainbows. on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 2

    and we don't keep logfiles, so we don't have to worry about checking for breakins and cooptions. hey, we don't comment or document our code, either, it's just us two guys. that way, we get to keep all the millions.

    hang on, the phone just started melting and my screens went blue...

  21. uh, get rid of the "top X" ranking? on Is the App Store Broken? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that thing gets in my way as a user all the time anyway. I do NOT want to see the stacks of pre-teen games, I am looking for a specific app almost all the time. just blow the sucker away, and if somebody wants to see downloads by counts, sell them an app to pull in the data.

  22. recipe for fires here on Bad "Buss Duct" Causes Week-long Closure of 5,000 Employee Federal Complex · · Score: 1

    you have multiple electric entrance points, you have circulating currents among the grounds. every neutral/ground has to be bonded to the capacity of ALL the building current sourcing to prevent this. last one I visited with a camera, a paint store almost burned down. last one I visited on a data equipment field trip, the staff electrician almost got killed with a hand on one building wall and a hand on the next building's wall.

    requires very careful engineering. you're better off to have a standby generator plant and screw trying to get multiple feeds in the first place. that kind of thing requires you to be in very precise locations between serving companies.

  23. no doubter here, I watched the launch on Apollo 11 Moon Landing Turns 45 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    our family drove down to Florida, hauling our new 17' trailer, partly to see the launch and partly to visit Grandmother. up at 4 am to drive down Cocoa and park on the side of the road. when that Saturn came up over the rise, the noise was monstrous, quiet as a churchmouse until that first lick of yellow-orange showed.

    a stunning achievement. from that effort came chips, medical telemetry, Lord only knows what.

    our driver of innovation today? cat pictures and dashcam video of accidents.

  24. headed in the wrong direction on EPA Mulling Relaxed Radiation Protections For Nuclear Power · · Score: 1, Insightful

    it is the common view of medical and general science during the century-odd that we have discovered and been able to document radiation and its effects... that no amount is "generally recognized as safe" and standards need to be tightened. that radiation damage is cumulative. and that normal diagnostic x-rays and so forth approach the line of cellular damage over a lifetime.

    so a comprehensive review based on science would move the decimal point to the left, at least to .025 mS/year, and perhaps .0025 mS.

    certainly, radon exposure in homes has been trending that way, much to the chagrin of some homeowners who would also pass off arcwelder power panels because they haven't had a fire yet.

  25. here's where to start... on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 1

    everybody who thinks it's a great idea to make the desktop function like a cheap-ass $99 phone with 8 gig of memory... OUT! OUT ON A RAIL! INTO THE FLAMING PIT!!!

    not that I'm biased or anything, but HULK HATE 8!!!!!!