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  1. Re:Relationships? on Autism Associated With Shorter Lifespan, According To UK Charity Study · · Score: 2

    "The only way to meaningfully improve the healthcare of aspies is to empower them to take direct control"

    Looking at your account, induced comma probably would also work.

    Note that, lumbar punctuation does carry a risk of infection, known as serial comma.

  2. Thanks summary on Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for answering the question "What's UbuntuBSD?" seeing as this is Slashdot it would have been more useful to explain "What's a human being?". You insensitive clod.

  3. Re:Lack of friends on Autism Associated With Shorter Lifespan, According To UK Charity Study · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but OTOH, if you don't want companionship, do you still suffer without it?

    That would depend on what the void is filled with. For me, nothing works better than Boggle. I sure hope there's Boggle wherever I'll be when I'm dead.

    And all my cats, too. Well.. almost all.

  4. Where is Solaren's 2016 installation?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Oh, not even a single bolt in orbit yet? Oh I guess it'll just magically happen in the next nine months?

    These space fantasies always follow the same pattern:

    1) Uncritical support from people raised on sci-fi and proficient in software, but with no knowledge of the physical sciences and engineering 2) Failure to deliver anything 3) Upping the ante to ever more ridiculous concepts

    Well, those three reasons sum up exactly why I keep coming back to Slashdot. And hey, if it's good enough for me...

    You see, I did actually manage to just magically happen in nine months once! That was a long while ago though.

  5. Re: Wait...what? on Infamous French Hacker Calls Internet a "Digital Shantytown" (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Just set up a server and you become a rancher [and a Peer in the UK]. My internet possessions are so vast that I am called Duke.

    Oh yeah? MY internet possessions are so fast that I have been named Chief of Apache! Attempts at emulation will fail as no one can beat the speed of my native code.

  6. Re:Don't assume the NSA is well-managed. on Snowden: What Happened In 2013 Couldn't Have Happened Without Free Software (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The NSA has a very bad reputation. Most people who have the technical ability to find bugs in code would not work for the NSA. Someone works for the NSA. He's at a party. Someone else asks what he does for a living. He says NSA. The other person shows distaste and walks away.

    Listen, you choose to wheel out a Matt Damon quote, and that's cool, that's fine. I don't have a problem with that. But do at least try to get the quote right, would ya?

  7. Yup, the jig's now up. Anyone who disagrees simply can't see the forest for all the straw, man.

  8. Re:Did they correct for wage stagnation? on Research Suggests 'CS For All' May Mean Lower Pay For All · · Score: 1

    Teachers complain about their gross pay, but they forget to mention it's for five hours a day, 9 months of the year.

    Exactly right. These weaseling teachers somehow always seem to neglect that fact.. it's time to make them go to Law School, not High School, to learn something about honesty and the consequences of gross negligence.

  9. Re:OT: Learning OpenGL? on AMD Publishes Preview Linux Hybrid Driver With Vulkan, OpenGL 4.5 Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    With Vulkan out, is there any point in learning OpenGL right now? I'd like to accelerate my iterative art (see sig) with something like render to texture, and the higher-level tools don't seem too helpful for such tasks.

    For offline GPU rendering you might as well look at OpenCL right now, perhaps with a python wrapper (pyOpenCL) or some such so that it's easier to handle, as OpenCL can be a bit of a handful if you don't have much experience with GPU/shader programming or numerical linear algebra. I've read that the Processing language has (some) OpenCL support, that may be up your alley?

  10. Re:M_PI on How Many Digits of Pi Does NASA Use? (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I could count those people with one hand.

    I mean, I could if I'd count on my phone's FPU to do the aritmethic, he knows IEEE754 like the back of his hand.

  11. Re:Stupid analogy. on Uber Seeking To Buy Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, there's no need for a car analogy. Let's just call it a race condition.

  12. Re:Barack "Executive Order" Obama... on The Law Is Clear: the FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite Its OS (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    You sound like one of those fine legal minders. It's an undisputed fact that Obama has ruined his "fine legal mind" many moons ago, with illegal marijuana smoke. He has chopped that fine legal mind up by hitting the trees like a lumberjack does lumber and so your whole country is stuck in the stoned age still.

  13. I have seen junior students do this, with ease, and we all know they have trouble with anything of slight-to-moderate difficulty such cooking a passable meal or forming a proper sentence.

    Hmm, there to be missing a word in there. Yep.. still a student.

  14. Leverage X to harness Y in order to delight ZzZz.. on HPE's Haven OnDemand Offers 'Machine Learning As a Service' (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    One does NOT have to be a "high end, highly trained data scientist" to hook up some scripts and offload their processing to EC2/Azure/Beowulf-of-the-Month. I have seen junior students do this, with ease, and we all know they have trouble with anything of slight-to-moderate difficulty such cooking a passable meal or forming a proper sentence.

    Oh well, I thought this would be about High-Pressure Electrolysis. :(

  15. I know nothing, but doesn't The Official Tor Browser have NoScript enabled by default?

  16. WHAT'S THAT on Biometric Tech Uses Sound To Distinguish Ear Cavity Shape · · Score: 1

    Now if they can use this tech for good, like fixing my hearing, I'm ll for it.

    I DIDN'T CATCH THAT PART COULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT IT MORE LOUDERER THANKS

  17. HRTFs on Biometric Tech Uses Sound To Distinguish Ear Cavity Shape · · Score: 1

    Impressive precision!

    This method may also be useful in a field such as spatial audio, where the ability to "biometrically compute" a person's head-related transfer function (HRTF) is considered to be somewhat of a holy grail.

  18. Re:Can anyone explain that speed in football field on Seagate Debuts World's Fastest NVMe SSD With 10GBps Throughput (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    TFA clearly states that it is damn fast:

    Do note that "damn fast" is NOT equal to "ramadan fast".

    There's differences: it takes less long than ramadan fast, to start with, and the cache-miss penalty is less severe per byte.

  19. Re:Can anyone explain that speed in football field on Seagate Debuts World's Fastest NVMe SSD With 10GBps Throughput (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    TFA clearly states that it is damn fast:

    The company is also working on a second, lower-performing variant that works in 8-lane PCIe slots and has a throughput of 6.7GB/sec (which is still damn fast).

    Crucially, does anyone know whether I can safely use this with my "System D" system? It molested my cat last month, twice, so I want to make sure all is safe before slotting this sucker in.

  20. Re: If obesity ever becomes a protected class on Dutch Companies Not Allowed To Fitness-Track Their Employees (www.nu.nl) · · Score: 0

    Not to mention the pickup trucks: in Texlahoma, safari Jeeps you!

    PS. I'm Dutch and you should see the police force here. It's amazing how they move their bodies considering there's no donut shops here (yet). There used to be men on duty who could outsmart Callahan any day PLUS bolt past any Usains barefooted.

    Sadly, the mandatory fitness tests were scrapped since the casualty rate was too high. See, there's trouble attracting recruits and we need simply need meat on the street..

  21. Re:Seriously on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    RMS has taken a shower. Mozilla is not killing Thunderbird. The judge used the All Writs Act to issue the order to Apple, it is not a warrant. Copyright is not trademark. Trademarks are not patents. You can not get a copyright on your pet frog.

    My pet frog got malignant copyright and died, you insensitive clod! :-(

    I toad them to go fr*g themselves but, man, lawyers don't ever listen do they? My little darling Zillsy just copped flies, she never copped any pleas.. why her!? Lord knows her spirit is set free now, right? It's what they claimed in the shop where I bought her, they even had a sign hanging on the door "Pet Heaven is OPEN"..

  22. Re:Naughty cannabis on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    True, but you are talking politics now.

    I have had a cannabis prescription for over 3 years now (in the Netherlands) and it's far from optimal as analgesic medicine, especially in crude form when vaporizing or even smoking the flower or concentrated "oil". Distilling the good bits and selectively hitting the relevant receptors sounds promising to me, and I appreciate that the development of such a distillate takes time because there is a lot of unknown terrain involved.

  23. BIA 10-2474 on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The drug in question appears to be a FAAH inhibitor named BIA 10-2474.

  24. The drug concerned on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You are right, it's not about eslicarbazepine (BIA 02-093).

    Instead, this appears to be a FAAH inhibitor named BIA 10-2474.

  25. Re:Naughty cannabis on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Endocannabinoid system is modulated by more than just THC, CBD and the regular ol' cannabinoids in ganja. It's a rather complex system whose functional mappings and tructure-activity relationships are not very well understood.. yet. It offers incredible potential for modulation, far beyond what cannabis can do, and I for one welcome our Pharma Overlords to throw their resources at these problems.. provided that they don't botch things up like this, for fucks sake.