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  1. Re:Stop messing with Slashdot on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 1

    Relax, it's SlashdotBeta at Work. "You can get more stuff that matters done with SlashdotBeta than any other tool that nerds know of" so we're bringing it to work.

  2. Alternative to Systemd on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 1

    "You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of"

    Sounds like a candidate. Let's use Facebook at Work for Linux startup management.

    Kind of like how we all use the Lifestreams interface for our OS's http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html with much improved workflow.

  3. Found in Van with Stinger Missile on The Mystery of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved · · Score: 1

    It's distinguishable from other plutonium, because it got here from 1985.

  4. Car Analogy on Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lets say you're a traveling auto salesman, and you would like to sell your cars to different stores around the state. You could either drive each car, one at a time, to each assigned destination and hitchhike back to your starting point (always with a towel). Or you could come up with an algorithm for taking all the cars, putting them into a truck, and finding the shortest path that visits each auto store, saving gas and giving you the street credibility to comment on the appropriateness of OOP vs procedural languages. Then, after having spent a more fulfilling life than most people by being so efficient, you can watch as people invoke your name, and come up with a poor analogy which doesn't really explain OOP vs procedural languages that shows up on Slashdot.

  5. Answering the question on Why Aren't We Using SSH For Everything? · · Score: 1

    Why aren't we? Because using ssh doesn't prevent people from posting their private keys to github and being shocked, outraged even, that their entire infrastructure is now compromised?

  6. Yeah, well im going for 950 on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    got 2x2 of every animal in my ship, global warming making the oceans rise. growing a beard. still my discussions with the architect of intelligent design were insistent that since I still see rainbows after it rains, the age covenant is still in effect. I need to find a lawyer, but there aren't any in libertarian fantasy land. otherwise I think I have it all figured out.

  7. Hack or crack? on Economist: US Congress Should Hack Digital Millennium Copyright Act · · Score: 1

    Without the government nanny state looking over our shoulders, we can crack open an egg and heat it in two seconds in our modified micrOMG it burns!!! Big brother, where art thou?

  8. Re:Big Mistake on With Eyes on China, Intel Invests Billions In Mobile Ambitions · · Score: 2

    RTFA? Our ewe knew hear?

  9. and car manufacturers. and tire makers. and big oil. and movies like fast and furious. doubly so when leaked early.

    but only you, darkain, can prevent forest fires.

  10. right to be forgotten on UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea · · Score: 1

    just tell Google to forget about these files. problem solved, right?

  11. would you pay 1100.00 for a refrigerator without IoT or 900.00 with? how about car insurance for 800.00 a year without IoT or 500.00 a year with? and hey, how come himmy32's fridge never tells NYPD ^H^H^H^H aunt may what he's having for dinner? maybe he's storing something other than food, probable cause and defending society from malnourishment what not.

    I wish I were so wrong.

  12. right to be forgotten on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    not that you can actually search for these embarrassing photos
    you'd have to be a follower to the UK police twitter feed, and who wants to admit to that?

  13. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 3, Funny

    the reels on the tapes go
    click clack clink
    click clack clank
    click clack clunk
    the reels on the tape go
    snip snap break
    all through the head

    The real backups go
    to the cloud
    to the cloud
    to the cloud
    The real backups go
    to the cloud
    all through the tubes ... or in iTunes

    Right? Barbara Streisand... do do do do do do

  14. Re:Corrected headline: on Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing no other computers or cell phones are made in totalitarian communist countries! I knew that Lemote Yeelong was a trojan horse, so I telnet to SELinux on my PDP-11 and use a dumb terminal for all my American computer needs. And I never compile anything, cause Ken Thompson and whatever.

  15. Re: Don't wear a watch... on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    Not that it would ever happen, but the idea of Tim Cook going to WWDC and pulling out the obvious pocketwatch plus a flip out Keyboard that does exactly the same thing as an iphone while still requiring an iphone to actually communicate makes me laugh. Bonus if it actually looks exactly like the Nokia twist.

    I guess I'm laughing now, but the genius would be how the old school chain is replaced by some carbon fiber shape memory wire that makes yo-yoing more accessible for everyone.

  16. Re:Damn on The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe · · Score: 1

    You forgot a towel. *shakes his head at noobs*

  17. Re:Predictable on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    But this inadvertently prevents people from renting very small apartments (i.e. the size of an antenna is too small to be an apartment). Apparently an apartment must be over a certain size to be allowed to watch TV without violating copyright. The next loophole would be to rent cheap apartments in the cheap areas in town (an apartment that fits a bed and a TV and a DVR). I'm not sure if this could be done for $8/month, but maybe it could. If I rent an apartment in some city for $8/month that happens to receive OTA broadcasts and I have a DVR and set it up, would I be in trouble then? If not, does that outlaw renting apartments? I can rent apartments, but I can't provide a DVR or cable TV as terms of the rent?

  18. Dice Trolls Slashdot User Community Again on The Sci-Fi Myth of Killer Machines · · Score: 1

    Clearly this summary is trolling for posts. Robots have killed, and there is a compelling reason to be wary.
    http://www.wired.com/2007/10/r...

    Not because robots are going to gain self-awareness and kill mercilessly, but because the human beings using robots for killing are way less careful than they should be. To the fighters in Yemen and Afghanistan, whether the drones are self-aware or not doesn't make a difference to the fact that they are targeted for termination. This is the life they are born in. They are fighting robots which are trying to wipe out their albeit misguided way of living.

    Right now people are making the decisions, but what if people lose the stomach? What if the President had the capability to deploy drones which could discern on their own which people are likely to be a threat to US interests? This is almost too close to reality. In fact, the false positive rates of the robots are likely to be lower than people who may be impacted by seeing firsthand what has happened to their fellow soldiers. But does that make it any less worrisome?

  19. Re:Remember pay toilets? on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    I think pay toilets are bad and am thankful of groups which did away with them. However, even though I avoid using WIFI at the airport because I'm cheap and/or have a hotspot, I don't see a competitive reason not to charge for the wifi at the airport. People are not there that long, it's not like we need a bunch of hipsters hanging out at an airport to use the free wifi. I'm not annoyed by hipsters at the neighborhood starbucks, but bringing more people to the busiest airport in the world who might not be flying seems like a bad idea. I guess they'll make up the difference in price gouging foods, but I have no doubt that Uber will soon have food trucks pulling up at airports for hipsters and everyone up in arms. Not that I don't aim to be a hipster.

  20. Shark on US Secret Service Wants To Identify Snark · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person who saw the title and wondered what shark had been roaming around recently and scarfing world leaders?

  21. Bubble Car Tautology on Is Google CEO's "Tiny Bubble Car" Yahoo CEO's "Little Bubble Car"? · · Score: 1

    Google's car reminded me of Steve Urkel's car, which is in fact a BMW Isetta, so maybe this is BMW's Isetta revisited?

  22. Petition from George Santayana on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    I'd like this quote to be removed from its association to me.
    "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

    I didn't quite say it that way and it seems irrelevant now.
    -- George Santayana

  23. Re:even former criminals have rights on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    How are you going search for the sites which right now are publishing untrue criminal accusations about Slashdot user Tom (822) and sue them for libel and/or defamation? Thanks to the so-called "right to be forgotten", you can't use google. So how will you find those sites?

  24. R Julia beats both R and Julia on R Throwdown Challenge · · Score: 1

    We all know Raul Julia as M Bison beats them both. And Raul Julia's reading of "Mystery on the Docks" on Double "R" (Reading Rainbow) lives on in my mind as one of the great renditions.

  25. Slashdot on Victoria Livshitz, Cloud Pioneer and Serial Entrepreneur (Video) · · Score: 2

    Slashdot has been called the "mother(*&^%$ of editing". For good reason. Her last name is Livschitz.