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  1. Re:haven't watched it... on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    Curiosity is definitely a possible cause...time to let it go.

  2. Re:Suppression on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    I don't understand your argument. Care to give it a second shot, please?

  3. haven't watched it... on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would anyone actually want to watch it?

  4. Re:Teach CS with Math classes on Average HS Student Given Little Chance of AP CS Success · · Score: 1

    I disagree, on the grounds that math ought to be studied for itself. If you try to do everything in math through CS then you'll get a poor grasp of what math is really all about.

  5. Re:AP is what exactly? on Average HS Student Given Little Chance of AP CS Success · · Score: 1

    They're not anywhere near college level. I've tutored the calculus variants and they do not cover anywhere near the full material for calc 1 let alone 2. At best it's a crappy outline of things to come in college. I would not want someone passing over calculus in college because of those classes.

  6. migraine, lortabs, and early morning on a futon on Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? · · Score: 1

    The weirdest has to be last year. I was suffering from a severe (10/10 pain level) migraine. It took two lortabs to ameliorate the pain. I was still in bed, which happened to be a futon, around 3 am. I just pulled out my laptop and coded some. Believe it or not, but through all the pain and everything my brain just really wanted to program and thinking about the problem helped get me through the misery.

  7. Re:WHAT ABOUT THE MAC MINI?! on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    I think the most likely update candidates are the Mac Mini and their display line. I'm guessing they'll finally pull their non-retina macbook pros as well.

    I'm really hoping for a beastly mac mini. Something fitting as the smaller sibling to the Mac Pro.

  8. Re:All maximized all the time on HP (Re-)Announces a 14" Android Laptop · · Score: 1

    Developers would need to target it...and as a developer I'm not likely to target it since it's only one android device.

    Apps meant for 10" screens will probably function well enough on it, though. So it'll be useful if you've already migrated your workflow to a 10" tablet but want more screen/keyboard estate (I'm throwing out entertainment value since it's a laptop form factor)

  9. Re:HP Is Being Cheap = LOSER segment on HP (Re-)Announces a 14" Android Laptop · · Score: 1

    call us when your dell is 6 years old

  10. what's wrong with economic profit? on 30-Day Status Update On LibreSSL · · Score: 1

    There have always been security bugs, but it seems like it's only in the last couple when it's actually cost enough people enough money for people to invest in it.

  11. Re:OT rant on You Can Now Run Beta Versions of OS X—For Free · · Score: 1

    whoa, so why are they doing it? That sounds like a way to make taxes spread out and increase.

  12. move over on Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 0

    No, please retire so I can have a job, thanks, bye.

  13. Re:Anything that isn't C on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1

    You keep saying that, but it is 100% valid to write C within Objective-C. The trouble is you'll wind up working with objective-c at the UI level. i.e. You'd be interacting with the user in Objective-C and doing model/class stuff in C/C++/Obj-C - whatever you choose.

  14. Re:Anything that isn't C on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Have you considered Objective-C for mobile development...

  15. Re:Too complex on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 2

    It's definitely costly to business, and that's one added expense no one (government nor business nor employees) really benefits from having.

  16. sounds like poor engineering? on World's First Magma-Based Geothermal Energy System · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one thinking an entire plant should be more redundant and resilient than the failure of a single valve?

  17. Re:8 hours a day on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 1

    Do you know what lawyers do if they spend time thinking about your case? They charge you.

  18. Re:Because the Titanic really wrecked ocean travel on Regulations Could Delay or Prevent Space Tourism · · Score: 1

    Private enterprise can (and did) build the stuff but funding it is a different story - something without an obvious financial return is not the role of private enterprise.

    Again, the cost to get up there is too high with current technology and energy supplies. Yes, private and public sectors can get up there if they have a desire to be up there...and if it were cheaper to get up there, it would be done more often.

    I'm thinking of something like a space sling or an elevator. I don't know which of those are feasible at the moment, if either. But...the NM desert would probably be a great place for either!

  19. Re:Because the Titanic really wrecked ocean travel on Regulations Could Delay or Prevent Space Tourism · · Score: 1

    The Hindenburg. But I don't buy it. If anything's holding up space tourism, it's cheaper ways of leaving the surface.

  20. Re:Is this a cuteness thing? on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    I wonder about that. Would it change things if we could communicate with dolphins as easily as humans?

    I'm curious if you have a link on your discussion of dolphin intelligence. Their communication interests me, almost academically.

  21. Re:I wish FreeBSD had a decent VM server/hyperviso on FreeBSD 10.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I agree...FreeBSD seems like a great Xen host.

  22. Re:Quality vs OpenBSD? on FreeBSD 10.0 Released · · Score: 2

    With the recent OpenBSD news many people claim OpenBSD has much cleaner code and can be kept more secure as a result. Is this just FUD or is there some evidence that FreeBSD accepts horrible performance patches and so on?

    They're different projects with different emphasis. I think it's just a "us and them" type thing.

  23. Re:comes with any Mac on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 1

    Your mom is mean.

  24. Thunderbolt on Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Methinks if you can afford the new Mac Pro that you're not at all concerned about Thunderbolt vs SATA.

  25. Re:Cats, domesticated ?? on First Hard Evidence for the Process of Cat Domestication · · Score: 1

    My dad's cat was really misbehaving. But I've spent a lot of time with her and she's calmed down quite a bit. Playing with them regularly helps keep them in line. If they're properly entertained they seem, to me, to be all around easier on you/your things. There's other stuff, etc