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  1. I used GEOS! And I don't remember Pete. He must have not been in the cool crowd.

  2. Re:Get this off my Slashdot! on 'Fortnite' May be a Virtual Game, But It's Having Real-life, Dangerous Effects (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    You get off MY lawn, whippersnapper!

  3. Re:Dead Programming Language? on America's Cities Are Running on Software From the '80s (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That still doesn't mean you couldn't put a web based front end that talks back to the cobol running on the AS/400 (iSeries). We do this all of the time. The cobol is probably very fast and efficient. It just needs a better user interface.

  4. Crusoe to the rescue? on Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space (realworldtech.com) · · Score: 2

    Why not just build a system around a Crusoe processor at home and let it emulate anything you want to eventually run the software being developed on?

    Seems pretty cut and dry to me.

  5. Re:There were NO offsite backups????? on Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It's all in their private cloud, of course!

  6. New York Slashdotters, how do they make rent? on The Last of Manhattan's Original Video Arcades (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Dear New York Slashdotters,

    This question has bothered me for years. How do places like this along with the numerous I heart NY t-shirt shops make enough money to pay Manhattan rents? It seems like their margins would be so tight that just staying open would be a miracle.

  7. 5,000 Corporate jobs in Nashville on Amazon Picks New York, Northern Virginia For HQ2 [Update: Confirmed] (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    "In addition, Amazon announced that it has selected Nashville for a new Center of Excellence for its Operations business, which is responsible for the companyâ(TM)s customer fulfillment, transportation, supply chain, and other similar activities. The Operations Center of Excellence in Nashville will create more than 5,000 jobs with an average wage of over $150,000."

  8. Re:Hard No on Uber CEO: We're Going After Groceries Next (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a big night out for some of us!

  9. Re:Memories on Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator (hardocp.com) · · Score: 1

    Never heard of it.

  10. Re:What typical 9-5? on Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And this is why there needs to be choice. Different work styles work for different people. I'd rather come into the office and get my work done. I am just as productive in four hours as I am in eight hours. If I were just sitting around churning out code or reports that may be different, but the actual intellectual part of what I do doesn't get better because I'm expected to be "at work" for eight hours in a day.

  11. Re:Answer: The Koch Brothers on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    No. Not really. Other things she had started like the Major League Soccer team have gone through. If you look at the results it was obvious that if the "non-traditional" voters hadn't have shown up that it would have passed with no issue.

  12. Re:Answer: The Koch Brothers on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    We had a pretty forward looking transit plan up for a vote here in Nashville recently. It really was quite innovative and had good support.

    The Koch Brothers came in and spent millions on anti-transportation ads. They rallied the residents in lower income areas behind the idea that they were going to be stuck with old buses when the more affluent areas would get the new infrastructure.

    The proposal was voted down with more votes from those precincts casting ballots than for almost any other election.

    Sad.

  13. Re:A simpler explanation on Amazon's Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    So if the goods, in this case book, never actually change hands, then why not advertise it as something that could plausibly be worth that amount of money to reduce suspicion?

  14. Re:How about SCUBA and a winch? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They said it would take about five hours for them to get out. And some of that is in very confined passageways filled with murky water.

    Most of these kids don't even know how to swim. Imagine the panic attacks and resultant thrashing that could happen. They could kill themselves and the rescuers.

  15. Re: Hard to beat cat videos on America's Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I ran a BBS on a 300 baud modem!

  16. Re:The Navy Has Been Doing This for Decades on Boeing's Folding Wingtips Get the FAA Green Light (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone thought they should dumb down the application linked in the summary so that members of Congress could understand it, so much so that it ended up in the official document.

    This is how accidents happen. The PowerPoint axiom.

    Commenter 3
    One commenter expressed concern that the special conditions may be confusing to the
    United States Congress. The FAA responds that special conditions are part of the Executive
    Branch rulemaking process, which is independent of the United States Congress lawmaking
    process. Special conditions are unique to aircraft certification and, therefore, are written with the
    aerospace-industry audience in mind. The special conditions remain adopted as proposed

  17. Some good ones on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 1

    Pegasus or Eudora.

  18. Re:Fashion or need? on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's counting the extra height of his hairpiece?

  19. Revenue stream? on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So what is there revenue stream that allows them to serve up this much content? It seems like most folks streaming free videos wouldn't make the best customers for their advertisers, not to mention adblocking software.

  20. I find it amusing that "A prominent attorney for cybersecurity issues," is named Tor. Great name for it!

  21. Re:Save coins. on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    Just wait until all of our cars are electric only. Can you imagine Florida after a hurricane or California after the next big earthquake? Are the California legislators going to allow exemptions to the electric only car mandate to government agencies?

  22. Until you don't have access to the internet on Traditional Radio Faces a Grim Future, New Study Says (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just wait until they're stuck in a hurricane with no internet access. That little battery/wind-up radio would be a godsend.

  23. AOL has web developers? AOL has employees?

  24. I heard the dev team is primarily from Columbia.

  25. An acquaintance of mine has been sitting in County for five months so far for this with no trial, just a two minute pleading of not guilty in front of a judge.

    He selected all of the top downloads on emule or something like that and one video happened to be a plant.

    No other priors, no evidence of actively searching this out. He said he didn't even know he had downloaded it because he hadn't gone through the files yet.

    I do believe him, and what we've heard from the public defender corroborates his explanation.

    Scary.