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  1. Gee really? on Former Equifax CIO Charged With Insider Trading (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

  2. Ice VII?! on Pockets of Water May Lay Deep Below Earth's Surface (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    But that's only two ices away from Ice-Nine!!

  3. Self-hosted Dynalist or Workflowy? on Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I would love to have a version of Dynalist or Workflowy that I could host locally, for similar use - tracking tasks and task information, but not out there on the Intertoobz. Anyone know of such a tool?

  4. Re:They also have much more specific destinations on Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    In Vegas you have a situation where people want to go all over the place. Some may want to go to the convention center, but they also want to go where they are staying - which could be anywhere.

    But the Vegas monorail isn't even useful if you just want to go up and down the Strip - because it doesn't actually run up and down the Strip, it runs up and down the back sides of the casinos, meaning the stops are actually like a quarter-mile away from the Strip. Walking or taxis end up being easier.

  5. I wonder how well the degreed developers do vs. the non-degreed ones, when it comes to career longevity, opportunities for advancement to lead or management positions, more deeply technical positions involving system architecture, etc. Computer science isn't all about coding JavaScript.

  6. Forget AI, it's time for time travel! on Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says We Need To Start Over (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In 1986, Geoffrey Hinton co-authored a paper that, four decades later,

    I'm not ready for 2026 yet!

  7. IF YES CLICK HERE!

  8. Aw, 26 functions oughta be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates

  9. Re:Mine: on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Paul. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have a chemistry that works.

    They certainly do, but Paul isn't my favorite Pegg/Frost film. That would probably be Hot Fuzz.

  10. Re: Golden age of remakes maybe on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the question was about favorite movies.

  11. Re: Golden age of remakes maybe on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Space Odyssey was based on a book

    Who said they couldn't be adaptations of books? Does that mean we're supposed to throw out all the Philip K. Dick adaptations, for instance?

  12. Re: Golden age of remakes maybe on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Interstellar, maybe - but I think The Martian will hold up well.

  13. Re:Norway switching off FM ? on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    On the one hand I agree with your argument. On the other, it's the reason why a lot of the US has poor internet speeds. Maybe "a company can continue to be profitable" isn't sufficient. I think the consumer impact/benefit needs to be considered as well. I wouldn't argue turning off FM provides much consumer benefit though.

    In market economies, consumer impact/benefit is generally what determines whether a company can continue to be profitable. If there's no benefit, customers won't pay, so there's no profit. The thing to remember, however, when it comes to commercial radio, is who the "customer" actually is (hint: it's not the person listening to the radio, unless it's a subscription service like SiriusXM).

  14. Re: This is interesting on Leaked NASA Paper Suggests The 'Impossible' EM Drive Really Does Work (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    How many Libraries of Congress is that?

  15. No, really? on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    A company founded by Steve Jobs would be intransigent and controlling? The hell you say.

  16. Re:aggression inevitable? on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    You should begin that with: The Nazi bomb (threat) begat the US bomb. They were working on one, then put it aside because you cant occupy countries that you've turned into glass, and the Nazis were all about conquest. But Szilard (via Einstein) warned Roosevelt that, once the basic science was known, any of a number of players could develop the actual bomb, and that we should have it first.

  17. Re: aggression inevitable? on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, on the plus side, the grapes could be strung together to make anal beads.

    That's a lotta anal grape juice.

  18. Re #2: Where do you live that you have to "wait on line" at gas stations? This isn't 1973...?

  19. I never floss... on Dental Floss May Have No Medical Benefits, Says AP Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...and every six months when I go the dentist for a checkup and cleaning, they tell me "whatever you're doing, keep it up!". So I keep not flossing...

  20. Re:aparently do don't on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Their parents did; why doesn't that count?

  21. Re: The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Less libertarian that our current mess of a welfare system?

  22. Re:Putin isn't dumb or totally ignorant on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure, the next step will be that any ISP or Internet-connected data provider will be required to assist in providing these "encryption keys". Which is also impossible, but gives the government a lot (more) of control and legal justification for raiding facilities, interrogating people, etc.

  23. Re:Workflowy on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 1

    I second Workflowy - extremely easy to use, Web interface works well on smartphones and tablets as well as PC, and it's free. Not as feature-rich as Keep or OneNote (which are also nice), but sometimes that's a plus, really.

  24. Re:Canada gets screwed by the AGW scam on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    This is like one of those Facebook posts that starts "I'll bet you won't share/like this..." A cheap, disappointing ploy, which is bad, and you should feel bad.

  25. Re:China is a big country on China Creates World's First Graphene Electronic Paper (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Guangzhou OED Technologies in partnership with another company in the Chongqing Province" isn't good enough for you?