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  1. Re:If public transport were free in the US... on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    It apparently has already been tried in the US decades ago. It turned out that homeless people simply rode the busses 24/7.

  2. Re:Why not lisp on ELIoT, Distributed Programming For the Internet of Things · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Lisp failed because 1) it's hard (different thoughts/mentality to program) and 2) flexibility = unsupportable by another developer."

    That will never "compile". Here, try this:

    (((((Lisp) ((failed) because) ((1))) (it(')s hard) ((different) (thoughts/mentality) ((t)o) program) and 2)) flexibility) (= unsuppor)(table) (by another developer.)))))))))))))))))))))

  3. "Upgrade" to Hangouts on Google Hangouts and SMS Integration: A Mess, For Now · · Score: 2

    After much haranguing and cajoling I made the mistake of "upgrading" my Google Voice to Hangouts on my desktop. Now I have to type the phone number each and every time I make a call. There isn't even a redial, the phone dialer box disappears after the call. I had some contacts in old Voice but those didn't get transferred over (hello?) There are instructions for how to go back to the old style, export the contacts and then import them into hangouts, but so far it hasn't worked, Back in the 1970's we had these things called error messages if some action failed. I guess that is old-fashioned now.

  4. Re:Who watches this crap? on Watching People Code Is Becoming an (Even Bigger) Thing · · Score: 1

    I haven't watched the video but I would imagine it's like when a film-maker tells the actors to ad lib.

    They get really loud and say "Fuck!" a lot.

  5. Re:I don't mean to be a grump, but... on University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the real thing sounds like a huge rail gun.

  6. Re:Well, I'm torn. on Baton Bob Receives $20,000 Settlement For Coerced Facebook Post · · Score: 3

    What's that, about $4-5,000 per amendment?

  7. My two on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    My car keyring has three items: key, lock/unlock device and anti-theft device (with button for when the proximity thing doesn't work).

    My other key chain has my house key and five others keys that I no longer use and have long since forgotten what they are for. One looks like it is for a piece of luggage or briefcase.

  8. FCC issues on Santa Clara County Opts Against Buying Stingray Due To Excessive Secrecy · · Score: 1

    So how do Stingray users get around the FCC transmitter license?

  9. Re:Would anyone have ever seen this on The Upsides of a Surveillance Society · · Score: 1

    Kinda gives a new slant to "As Seen On TV".

  10. Oh dear, did someone say fault prediction? on How Machine Learning Ate Microsoft · · Score: 1

    HAL: I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours.

  11. Dark matter only interacts gravitationally? on Supermassive Diet: Black Holes Bulk-Up On Dark Matter · · Score: 2

    So where are all the dark matter black holes?

  12. Re:Such potential on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    C++, Rust, etc. Are there Fifty Shades of C++ yet?

  13. Re:Probably not... on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Web Development Linux Distro? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, Improv's answer wasn't "it can't be done" but more like "it could be done but it doesn't make sense".

    He (or she) probably wouldn't want to work for you if your reading comprehension is that low.

  14. Re:I don't think it's hard to guess on US Government Fights To Not Explain No-Fly List Selection Process · · Score: 1

    6. Has the subject ever posted anything on the Internet that casts us in a negative light? If yes add to list. Also send a SWAT team to their house.

  15. Re:Nothing is Free.... on Microsoft Is Paying Brazilian Users In Skype Credit To Switch to Bing · · Score: 1

    Then there is the Surface business plan: Sell below cost but make it up in volume.

  16. Re:It's the right tool for the job on Why Scientists Are Still Using FORTRAN in 2014 · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the Haskell code in the article be

      fib 0 = 0 ...

  17. Re:Meh on Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    "Seriously, think about that. What happens when this mentality involuntarily leads society to continue to shrink their ability to be attentive to anything?"

    Someone made a documentary film on this subject a few years ago. IIRC it was called "Idiocracy".

  18. Re:for school, either programming or foreign langu on The Neuroscience of Computer Programming · · Score: 1

    Backin the early 1970's the college I went to allowed FORTRAN to satisfy one of the two language requirements.

  19. We used to call it p-mail on Pneumatic Tube Communication In Hospitals · · Score: 1

    in the olden days.

    Not to be confused with pee-mail, messages that dogs leave for each other on trees and stuff.

  20. And what about Plan 9? on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    You know, the OS from the people who created Unix.

    They also had an associated embedded OS called Inferno. Philips actually used Inferno in an Internet telephone. Funny that it wasn't a success. It cost something like $600 or $800 10 years ago, and took literally minutes to load a web page at modem speeds.

  21. What has anyone Hird of the Hurd? on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it still being developed?

    IIRC Linux was supposed to be a temporary stand-in until the Hurd was ready to go.

  22. Re:Encryption plan on Making Cesium Atoms Do a Quantum Walk · · Score: 2, Funny

    It could just be a lot of quantum talk.

  23. Re:Open Source Flash? on Why Is Adobe Flash On Linux Still Broken? · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought - tell the owner.

    But what about strictly online websites? I went to a real estate foreclosure site recently (realtytrac.com IIRC). When I clicked a location I got "your browser and OS are not supported". I sent an email to the admin but never got a reply.

  24. Paper cars? on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1
  25. But is it biodegradable? on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 1

    Or will shopping bags made of this stuff outlast plastic ones in the landfill?