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  1. Paper Clips on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    We use paper clips all the time to reset stuff.

  2. Less McDonalds, more hospitalizations? on Study: Living Near Fracking Correlates With Increased Hospital Visits · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Note that during that study period sales at McDonalds across the nation were dropping. We thus can conclude that reduced sales at McDonalds leads to higher number of hospital visits.

  3. Parking? Nope on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "But one of the biggest factor is how easy it is to find parking. Cities use a huge amount of their space just to store cars during the day. The more expensive and hard to find parking becomes, the more people will use free public transit."

    Well no, that's not really a big factor. If you can't park at your destination of choice and public transit won't get you there, you won't go.

  4. FTA: EUV changes are larger on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1

    "Of particular importance is the sun's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, which peaks during the years around solar maximum. Within the relatively narrow band of EUV wavelengths, the sun’s output varies not by a minuscule 0.1%, but by whopping factors of 10 or more. This can strongly affect the chemistry and thermal structure of the upper atmosphere."

  5. Why no spy sats? on A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit · · Score: 1

    Funny that none of the recon birds are there.

  6. Not nonsense: coolers. on Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers · · Score: 1

    I know someone who had an IBM PC Jr, a Coleco Adam, and a bunch of other things that died quickly.

    Just like it's hard to consistently pick winners, it's hard to consistently pick losers. It's not about liking one or two bad products, it's about consistently picking products that will fail in the marketplace. And that picking is done via actual purchases, not the "talking out of your ass" picking.

    I'm sure at some point he bought an Aztek as well.

  7. nyc rubber rooms on How the Next US Nuclear Accident Might Happen · · Score: 1

    google nyc teachers and rubber rooms

  8. One bogus comparison on How the Next US Nuclear Accident Might Happen · · Score: 2

    "The United States loves to use statistical metrics and audit procedures to decide which teachers and principals at public schools should be fired or retained"

    Which "United States" is he talking about, the other one that doesn't have teacher's unions?

  9. Backups for Mac: Time Machine + offsite on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 4, Informative

    For Mac users, time machine is a complete no-brainer. RAID won't protect you against data corruption...but time machine will. Stick it on a NAS and you'll be fine. Then use BackBlaze or CrashPlan to back that NAS up offsite. Heck, there are crashplan clients for synology systems, so there's no excuse. And it's cheap! Would you rather rebuild your whole music library from scratch, or pay $60/year for some insurance? Hello!

    Note that you probably don't want to back up your TM folder.

  10. Re:Not a bad price on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    $9m is cheap, and it might have been paid by EDS or whomever their IT contractor is now. The navy spends that much on ketchup every day.

  11. straw man alert on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 1

    It's the process, not the tool.

    Why did I click on this dumb article?

  12. How do you find and cut fiber? on FBI Investigating Series of Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Bay Area · · Score: 1

    This article shows that there's a major problem, because: how do you find the fiber to cut? And how do you cut it?

    It's not like a backhoe, that cuts the fiber "by accident." You have to go into a manhole, find the line you're looking for, then cut it. That takes work, planning, and intelligence. You can't just wander around in a manhole, looking for stuff...can you?

  13. Classic irony on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    College professor without specific skills says you don't need to know specific skills while standing on the backs of adjunct professors with no skills.

  14. Good luck with that on US Tech Giants Ask Obama Not To Compromise Encryption · · Score: 0

    Obama will take your money, and he'll do what the security agencies want.

  15. Re:Linux Support on Reactions To Apple's Plans To Open Source Swift · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Gnustep? It's 2015, not 1993. If you want gnustep support write it yourself.

  16. Metric makes your penis bigger! on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    When you measure in centimeters, the numbers get bigger!

    A vote for metric is a vote for a bigger penis, numerically speaking!

  17. Structured transactions are illegal on Why Is It a Crime For Dennis Hastert To Evade Government Scrutiny? · · Score: 2

    From what I understand, any form of structuring is illegal.

    Structuring is manipulating the amount of cash to evade detection by authorities. $10k USD requires a mandatory report by FinCen, but that's on deposits. I'm not sure there's any mandatory reporting on withdrawals, so I'm not sure why the FBI would be interested. It's not money laundering if you're withdrawing money from your bank account.

    It sounds like he got caught lying about a crime he didn't commit, which is one of the more ridiculous aspects of the US judicial system.

  18. Networking is like plumbing: mostly boring on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 2

    Just to warn you, networking is ultra-boring. Do you think software engineering is bad? Networking is worse. You don't really make everything - you spend most of your time trying to get configurations to work, working around bugs in firmware, or figuring out how some numbskull screwed up the various configs.

    It is, basically, plumbing.

    That's not to say it isn't important, but if you're actually good at software engineering you'll probably find networking ultra-tedious. Do you really want to learn the ins and outs of the OSI stack? All the weird things about hooking Cisco gear to other gear? Troubleshooting connectivity issues due to someone plugging a switch into itself?

    Just writing about it makes me want to lobotomize myself.

  19. RF only works if it's controlled on Why Detecting Drones Is a Tough Gig · · Score: 2

    These days you'd set a waypoint, send your drone off, and drive away. There's no RF to speak of, unless you're live-streaming it over LTE.

  20. How to read f*ucked up code on How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The biggest skill in C++ is how to read code that's got templates, generics, overloaded operators, and custom keywords.

    "What do you mean they overloaded '+' to merge objects?"

    "This doesn't look like C++, it looks like some foreign language."

    "Oh, we reversed the meaning of + and - because the senior guy thought that the original semantics were incorrect. But only for some objects."

  21. The bear is white! on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    On a treadmill using an oculus!

  22. Tech skills? Sequencing and integration on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Really, the main mental skills you need in tech are pretty simple: understanding the goal/problem, breaking a problem down into steps, then putting everything together at the end.

    If someone can figure out how to take a meal, make a recipe that makes the meal, then follow the recipe to make a meal, they'll be mostly fine.

  23. Shouldn't that be PEO-ENIS? on US Navy Abandons Cloud and Data Center Plans In Favor of New Strategy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Program Executive Office-ENterprise Information Systems (PEO-ENIS). You know, for those Southern folks.

  24. How does this help with collisions? on Using Satellites To Monitor Bridge Safety · · Score: 1

    Lately, bridges seem to fall over because someone hits them, not because they're "crumbling infrastructure."

    Do the authors really think satellites will help with collisions or crumbling? How about an annual or semi-annual inspection instead?

  25. FCC and states: why? on North Carolina Still Wants To Block Municipal Broadband · · Score: 0

    So, the voters of a state don't care enough about an issue to allow A to happen. The FCC claims authority over A and allows A. Why is this a good thing?