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  1. It's a beacon on Dawn Spacecraft Gets a Better Look At Ceres' Bizarre 'White Spots' · · Score: 1

    Nothing natural can do that on that scale. Wonder what it's trying to tell us?

  2. Spirits on Mysterious Sounds Recorded During Near Space Balloon Flight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obviously it's all those souls trapped in the vault of heaven.

  3. How do you pee? on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you pee if this is attached to you? Do you keep a bunch of one-gallon jugs next to your desk?

  4. Battery life non-issue on Apple Watch's Hidden Diagnostic Port To Allow Battery Straps, Innovative Add-Ons · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Apple Watch's battery-life isn't what most people would consider impressive"

    This is yet another bullshit clickbait statement. Never gotten below 30% on mine, even when my phone has run dry.

  5. Flying to work? on New Study Suggests Flying Is Greener Than Driving · · Score: 1

    Flying to work isn't really a very practical commuting method, because my 747 won't fit in any of the spaces. Plus, what would I do with the crew?

  6. That wasn't an Inquisition on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    As a note, the indian thing in the US wasn't an inquisition, it was a land grab. There's a difference.

    The Jews are that way all over the world, so singling out the USA is a bit unfair. Today Jews run the country, so there you go.

    Blacks were sold and enslaved by other blacks in Africa before they came to the US, and their old gods were obviously pretty pathetic. However, today there's nothing to prevent them from practicing Santeria or whatever they want.

  7. People of the book! on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 1

    Jews are people of the book, as said by Muhammad. Why should he be afraid to walk among Muslims?

  8. Chimps are corporations? on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 2

    People mocked the idea that corporations are essentially people. And yet here we are, giving the same rights to chimps.

  9. Re:What is wrong with SCTP and DCCP? on Google To Propose QUIC As IETF Standard · · Score: 1

    Did SCTP have horrible behavior, or the tested implementation? The QUIC doc says nothing about that. QUIC vs SCTP is on page 8.

    https://docs.google.com/docume...

  10. Maybe it'll beat Plan 9 someday. on GNU Hurd 0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Even Plan 9 was being used commercially years ago. It's disturbing to think that plan 9 is being used more than HURD.

  11. Re:Microkernal Boner on GNU Hurd 0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    From what I remember, microkernels were just too slow.

  12. Caveat Emptor on How Many Hoaxes Are On Wikipedia? No One Knows · · Score: 1

    With wikipedia, you get what you pay for.

    What good is a source of truth if it's not accurate?

    Wikipedia was not meant as an existential discussion on the meaning of truth; it was meant as a crowdsourced source of truth. What details do you consider important or unimportant? Why would one detail be not worth correcting?

    The last thing I read about faking information on wikipedia was some life detail about an author - that even her relatives believed! It wasn't important, except that it was.

    If Wikipedia cared, it would put this banner across the top instead of their fundraising banner: "The information presented may or may not be accurate. All the information here should be verified by other sources before used."

  13. Re:ASCAP and BMI on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those are licenses, not royalties. If you want an example of how to make licensing so complicated that it's incomprehensible, read up on music licensing and royalties. Licensing to ASCAP/BMI is not a royalty - it's a license. I would think that BMI/ASCAP would pay royalties as part of the license fee, but it sounds like they don't.

    Someone needs to come out with a diagram of how, what, and who gets paid in the music business.

  14. The internet has just become Ma Bell on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: -1

    The numbskulls on teh Interwebs just want more bandwidth, faster, for less. They supported the FCC action because they're idiots, just like gruber said they were.

  15. Re:Only 30 meters on Bell Labs Fighting To Get More Bandwidth Out of Copper · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is exactly what it's for: apartment buildings. There are lots of places around the US where DSL is on-prem, and it's supposedly cheaper than fiber or running ethernet.

  16. Make sure they know what they're supposed to do on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 2

    Make sure that everyone knows what they're supposed to do, what's expected, and when it's due. It's really not that hard, except that apparently it's really hard.

  17. Iran, friend to none? on Why the Framework Nuclear Agreement With Iran Is Good For Both Sides · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "no other nation has a right to tell them what to do."

    Nobody is telling Iran what to do. Iran has violated multiple agreements, agreements that it signed. That said, I'm not sure why the Obama administration believes they will honor this agreement. Fifth time is a charm?

  18. No wireless. Less space than the nomad. Lame on If You Want To Buy an Apple Watch In-Store, You'll Need a Reservation · · Score: 1

    obligatory

  19. Bad code is slower than disk write caching on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    What they're saying is if you write bad code, it performs like shit. Did someone get a PhD from this?

  20. "As price of RAM drops" on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    The price of ECC ram doesn't drop for years and years.

  21. Signs of the apocalypse! on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard · · Score: 1

    The signs of the apocalypse have been around for thousands of years. What makes these signs any more relevant than the other signs?

  22. JetProfiler is why you should use MySQL on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Chances are, you don't know anything about databases. JetProfiler will show you the crappy queries you're using in an easy-to-understand way so you can fix your stuff and make everything faster.

    AFAIK, no such tool exists for Postgresql.

    As a bonus you don't have to deal with the annoying psql/pgsql crap, which for some reason drives me bonkers. I mean come on, make it psql or pgsql, not both. WTF?

  23. No, they aren't on Austin Declared a Drone-Free Zone During SXSW · · Score: 2

    Austin, as usual, is full of shit.

  24. UNCLASS emails on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 3

    Clinton said she never sent classified emails from her server. However, she never said that she didn't receive classified emails on her server. As anyone in the government industry knows, when you get classified emails on an unclass system you have to "sterilize" your servers.

    Did she do that? Probably not.

    I guess that's why she was such a crappy SecState - everyone's intelligence services were reading her emails.

  25. Republicans are now the behavioral bar! on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    One funny thing about the Obama White House is that past Republican behavior has become the new bar by which Democrats are judged - even by Democrats.

    "But - but - Dick Cheney did the same thing!"

    Democrats have already lost.