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  1. Re:Defeated by power saving on Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You · · Score: 1

    I don't think my phone is ever "Idle" when I have the "Sync" setting turned on and Gmail accounts set up.

  2. ...aaaaaand on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    this is EXACTLY the sort of reason I always have thrown my chips in with FreeBSD, not Linux.

  3. Re:Anybody using Ada? on Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO · · Score: 1

    Government projects like that tend NOT to use libraries and so not get benefit from a more popular language either.

  4. Re:Novice programmers overwhelmed on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 1

    I use both, regularly, depending on the language.

  5. Re:lemme guess on IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says · · Score: 1

    *insert joke here about 228 and weight*

  6. Re: Gotta love on Spider Discovered That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys · · Score: 1

    I would say it's more like the decoy is a crowd-control summon.

  7. Re:Duct tape of the web on Perl Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, what? How does a web application framework like Ruby on Rails try to automate nearly everything for the developer? Are you basing your opinion on it on trade materials?

  8. Re:Why physically damage the drive? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 2

    What a retarded waste of resources. A media circus helps no one. The for-profit medical industry in this country isn't meant to help anyone get better if more profit could be squeezed out by keeping them just barely happy and not ever getting better. This is most especially true for mental healthcare.

  9. Re:Reallocate and re-prioritize. on FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% · · Score: 1

    You've never attended a conference, apparently.

  10. Re:Never met anyone who uses it. on FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% · · Score: 1

    I work at NASA. All bureaucracies are the same. Trust me. The standards are for tunnel vision.

  11. Re:Never met anyone who uses it. on FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you got told you should either add it yourself or pay a bounty if you're too lazy.

  12. Re: Obligatory on FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% · · Score: 0

    You are clueless. OS X contains a LOT of BSD code. Linux contains a lot of code that was rewritten because it was "not invented here" -- maintaining architectural similarity with Unix. OS X is not BSD-derived. OS X is a BSD. Linux is Unix-derived, though, because it was not meant to be original.

  13. Re:People just doesn't get it on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    Are you serious?

    unsigned int line = 1;
    while (!done) {
    try {
    while (!done)
    dostuff(i++);
    } catch (excepion &whatever) {
    logstuff();
    }

  14. Re:Robot? on Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy · · Score: 1

    It autonomously drives itself home to charge.

  15. Awesome! on Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy · · Score: 1

    I would love to integrate a Kinect sensor into this design and change the control scheme a bunch....

  16. Re:Not a fractal of bad design on Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox · · Score: 1

    I've been using Ruby for a decade and yet to find much suck. I love working with the language. Where should I be looking, pray tell?

  17. Re:Shouldn't the question be... on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Need a Phone At Your Desk? · · Score: 1

    What phone do you have to unlock to dial the emergency number? That's not normal.

  18. Re:First confirmation? Really? on First Direct Image of DNA Double Helix · · Score: 2

    No, you are confusing it with the Caduceus (which is itself confused with the Rod of Asclepius). The double-helix is stacked/offset, not intertwined.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius
    http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/illustrations/dnastructure.jpg

  19. Unix on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1

    Where do you see all of the common free Unixes in a decade from now?

  20. Re:i don't understand... on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    I suspect that most corporations use revision control and implement backups.

  21. Re:What's the clear advantage of LLVM? on FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that you can make a claim like that if you do not have experience in the incremental parser code of an IDE.

  22. Good job, guys! on FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM · · Score: 2

    I have been happily using clang++ at work for a while now and am thankful for the efforts in creating a real world-class open-source compiler suite! Glad to see FreeBSD become ever-freer!

  23. Re:Have you considered a combination of on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    An artist isn't going to Slashdot to ask for advice, dude.

  24. Re:Simple: respect on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    The only place I think least-common-denominator language needs to be used is official communications: government-provided signs or legal notices and that sort of thing. Other than that, I cannot support the over-simplification of the English language. It really does only serve to limit the means of expression and therefore emotional breadth of discourse.

  25. Re:drugs can help on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    If you're a neuroscientist then why are you claiming that MDMA is habit-forming? Every possible action or inaction in the world is habit-forming given the right user and mindset. There must be some research to back up your claim, right? I keep up with modern medicine quite a bit and it seems that as soon as politics are out of the picture, the demons of "illegal" drugs mysteriously up and vanish. I can't possibly recommend listening to the advice of a faction that censors itself for political and not medical reasons. Big pharma has long ago lost my trust by approving a number of terrible medicines and never trying to fight for a lot of wonderful ones -- because it is not profitable enough. The bottom line, helping the individual, is not important enough. Sad.