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  1. this is the answer on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 1

    if you value your craft. the bespoke solution is not for everyone, but there is something to be said for the perfect fit. i am able to confirm that it worked well for me, and remains the second most useful thing i ever developed.

  2. Re:please read the reply on AirAsia QZ8501 Black Box Found · · Score: 1

    thank you for clarifying. my opinion is that, since we have the ability, it makes a lot more sense to record both streams on both devices, as this gives a better chance of recovery, should either or both be compromised. i wonder what the truth is...

  3. wtf is an adaption? on Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon · · Score: 1

    the word is adaptation, surely?

    only the bbc, so far, has shown the ability to adapt anything with any degree of responsibility.

    perhaps i do not understand merkin manglish - maybe adaption means "convert to a drug"?

  4. i am not responding to the OP at all on AirAsia QZ8501 Black Box Found · · Score: 1

    please read the reply (currently scored 5, informative) to which i am responding. according to that, they are not different devices, they are redundant units - there are two, and BOTH record BOTH cockpit voice AND flight data, i presume on the same media. at last word the bbc is reporting that the cockpit voice is still missing, but this does not make sense, if the AC i am replying to is correct.

  5. please read the reply on AirAsia QZ8501 Black Box Found · · Score: 1

    (currently scored 5, informative) to which i am responding. according to that, they are not different devices, they are redundant units - there are two, and BOTH record BOTH cockpit voice AND flight data, i presume on the same media. at last word the bbc is reporting that the cockpit voice is still missing, but this does not make sense, if the AC i am replying to is correct.

  6. mandatory open source on AI Experts Sign Open Letter Pledging To Protect Mankind From Machines · · Score: 1

    look at the damage that closed source has done to us, in the virtual world, and project this onto the physical world.

    you must not give machines the same private autonomy you allow microsoft (for example) to take.

    it is bad enough we permit closed source to handle our data, and the lessons from this are obvious.

    a closed source AI operating in the physical world is a golem and should be considered evil by definition.

  7. something does not add up on AirAsia QZ8501 Black Box Found · · Score: 1

    from bbc - "Divers retrieved one of the flight data recorders of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501, says officials, but the voice recorder is still missing"

    if you are right, then the report is a lie.

    can you support your statement?

  8. they can NOT hear on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    evolution has it's dead ends also - say goodnight, petrolheads.

  9. hark at the disappointed... on Short-Term Exposure To Diesel Fumes Causes Changes In Gene Expression · · Score: 1

    another gas pedal gone spongy on you, sorry.

    you ARE killing us.

    park it.

  10. use an emulator on UK Government Department Still Runs VME Operating System Installed In 1974 · · Score: 1

    should be simple.

    am willing to bet they will make it complicated, for profit.

  11. mod parent down on Ringing In 2015 With 40 Linux-Friendly Hacker SBCs · · Score: 2

    is the right expression?

    cubietruck has SATA also.

    http://cubieboard.org/2013/09/...

  12. sad on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    you're one of those metal beetle people, aren't you?

  13. bad design on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 0

    it's not the cold, it's the things you do to escape it, that make you sick. your buildings and carriages are sealed up like tupperware, into which you blow hot air, usually loaded with moisture. convection heating is cheap and easy, a very low budget way of making people feel warm. proper radiant heating and healthy fresh air are expensive and difficult to maintain. of course, you could just dress for the weather, but most of you don't.

    i can't breathe in your world, i drown in my own perspiration every time i get on a bus, go shopping for groceries.

    it was minus two here, and dropping, the last i looked, and my windows are open wide, as they always are, year round.

    the air tastes like fresh water.

  14. adult working hours on Boston Elementary, Middle Schools To Get a Longer Day · · Score: 1

    are less than this already, on average.
    this discrepancy can only grow.

  15. rubbish, as usual, who is this poster? on Jackie Chan Discs Help Boost Solar Panel Efficiency · · Score: 1

    blueray is compressed, therefore the bit pattern has practically nothing to do with the actual content, is simply random distribution.

  16. my share must remain in the ground on Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court · · Score: 1

    i gave up burning fossil fuels (to every extent possible) well over a decade ago.

    you/they have collectively burned far more than your fair share already.

    my share - the oil i am not burning - stays in the ground, and this should be law.

    haha, and also god is alive and well, and working on a much less ambitious project.

  17. Re:Fork ! on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    yea, with a brick.

  18. binary logs?? on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    you cut all the tall trees down
    you poisoned the sky and the sea
    you've taken what's good from the ground...

    (midnight oil)

    and now this.

    it's the end of the world
    as we know it.

    (r.e.m)

    it's like climate change - either we get smart, or we get wiped out - debian, clearly, are not getting smart.

    fork it.

  19. nonsense on Location of Spilled Oil From 2010 Deepwater Horizon Event Found · · Score: 1

    crude became what it is under very different conditions.

    this will now get eaten and otherwide gradually decay into the biosphere.

    laugh it up, people, zoom zoom zoom.

  20. down with chrome, down with chrome, down with chrome.

    now, please.

  21. Re:Unicomp on The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made · · Score: 1

    i break model Ms regularly. the pins inside the case cannot take a great deal of lateral shock - the plastic feels nice, but it's not very strong, and it degrades.

    unicomps do not feel quite as nice, i admit, but the important bits are there, and i can type without killing myself on it, and as far as i can tell it's a better plastic, as in more flexible, better impact resistance, less likely to degrade.

    unfortunately only time will tell...

  22. closure on Xen Cloud Fix Shows the Right Way To Patch Open-Source Flaws · · Score: 1

    can we find and name that idiot?

  23. how is this new? on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    is this not the same thing as using "guilds" in permaculture?

  24. format C: on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    (nt)

  25. would the "is fixed because i use something else" on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    clowns please pipe down.

    this seems a simple error to actually fix, so why is everybody fapping off about this thing, and not fixing it?

    or did i miss the patch?

    i'm actually hoping for a reply here, sorry if i missed the meeting, otherwise will be applying my own patch, very quickly.

    i rely on bash and it's isms, it's a good thing, and ought to be more of a standard.