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  1. Hogwash on How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World · · Score: 1

    The efficient way to tackle a problem is to tackle it directly. If you want to save the world get people to stop gaming and actually work to a solution. Creating an escape for people from the real world and then claiming we'll recover some of the lost work in the game so it's a net positive is just silly. It's almost like justifying that i's perfectly ok for kids to skip school on the first day the new COD is released because they have to read the instruction booklet.

  2. Not quite on Royal Navy Deployed Laser Weapons During the Falklands War · · Score: 2

    Circa 1982 what they really meant was that they had covert plans to bedazzle Argentine pilots denim jackets, thus reducing combat efficiency as they marveled at their new designer clothes at retail prices.

  3. Sound advice from the Breakfast Club on Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured · · Score: 1

    Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

    It's all fun and games until they get annoyed enough to start having people disappear. Then it's no longer a fun internet game. And the big money players won't tolerate loss of finances for long.

  4. Errrr.... on First Laptop With Full-Sized Solar Panels Will Run On Ubuntu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pretty sure that Ubuntu will run on the laptop. The laptop will run on the Sun.

  5. Blah blah blah on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 2

    Low latency is not measured in the millisecond, but in the microsecond. I'm so tired of hearing about how special the HFT think they are.

  6. Re:Huh. on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 2

    How does a manufacturing error in an Apple knockoff have anything to do with Android chargers? If in fact true, Apple is doing what they should be doing in telling people there are potentially dangerous products out there. Anything that plugs into a 110/220V outlet has the potential to kill you. You are going on faith that it won't.

  7. I'm all for people being mean on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    If they are willing to receive a punch in the nose for being so.

  8. Unless of course on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 2

    it triggers an actual war somewhere. Stranger things have happened in history.

  9. But still... on Casting a Jaundiced Eye On AnTuTu Benchmark Claims Favoring Intel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is the suite of tools, not just the processor. If intel offers a better processor/compiler package than is available for arm why shouldn't they tout it? I'm not saying they are presenting it in the correct way, but I do think they have a valid point they want to make. That with Intel you get more than a CPU, you get a heck of a lot of tool expertise. And for some people that is worth something.

  10. Re:How would that be different... on Iris Scans Are the New School IDs · · Score: 1

    The ADA just means you have to accomodate work arounds, not make sure they can use the means. For example, you don't have to replace steps with ramps, just have ramps in addition, etc.

  11. Conveniently missing... on Ikea Foundation Introduces Better Refugee Shelter · · Score: 1

    Is the cost comparison. Refugees almost always outnumber housing capabilities. The fact that this is an article about their merits and this info is missing raises some concern.

  12. Re:Throwing hardware at problems.. on Making Your Datacenter Into Less of a Rabid Zombie Power Hog · · Score: 1

    Compared to the labor rates to do such a thing? Electricity is cheap and you seldom have to justify it being budgeted for.

  13. So basically... on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Cloud Privacy Risks To K-12 Teachers? · · Score: 2

    You have this belief of a boogieman in the closet, but have nothing that actually backs it up. But because you think you are so smart you can't possibly imagine that your beliefs aren't true and you are over reacting you expect us to back you up as surely everyone with half a brain must believe what you do.

  14. Whatever on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 1

    Unless they aren't teaching assembly anywhere anymore there is nothing special about PDP-11 assembly. In the late 80s it's what we learned it on, and I'd venture that it's pretty simple in comparison to anything modern.

  15. I love the 'not another reboot' crowd. on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 2

    They seem to think that only their childhoods deserved to see these characters on the big screen. I took my son and he enjoyed it as much as I remember enjoying the original in 1978. And from the consumers side that is kinda the whole point.

  16. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    Kind of odd that when I go there it says I've already signed it. Even though I haven't.

  17. And yet on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 2

    There would be no problem swabbing and taking blood and other things to get his DNA if it were a physical crime.

  18. Actually... on Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ideas? · · Score: 1

    It's more a change in the definition of what a smart person is so that it includes anyone who can get rich off creatingly silly things for the internet.

  19. Ha ha on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who's the pyramidiots now.

  20. This won't be popular... on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But I see some sense in this. The way I see it is Facebook has made billions, and more than one billionaire. With that comes certain responsibilities. Just like a bartender that keeps serving drinks. Facebook knows that it is used for bullying, pedo, and other nefarious things. And they turn as much of an eye on it as they can get away with to save face so they can maximize a profit. That is reality. The fact is people have been bullied, killed themselves, or been killed to an extent in some part thanks to Facebook. What can be done? I don't know, maybe nothing. But I do believe Facebook does very little because they are afraid it would hurt overall revenues. And that I take issue with when dealing with people under the age of 18. I'm not one of those 'think of the children people', but I'm also not one who believes profits trump all else.

  21. Re:Narrow margins on Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float · · Score: 1

    I can tell you on recent designs that isn't nearly the case. We supply several key systems from the LA class and on and they like heavy. To your point though Spanish sub design is probably about as experienced as USN was in the 60s, nobody will contest that the US reigns supreme here. So your comparison may be fairly accurate. We've come a long long way since then and with useful life being as long as they are US designs are very forward looking.

  22. Re:How can this even be true? on How the Smartphone Killed the Three-day Weekend · · Score: 1

    Because my suspicion is they are pulling some sort of BS metric that were gathered and actually includes all the automatic pings that a typical cell phone does on it's own.

  23. Re:tell the customers you are off on How the Smartphone Killed the Three-day Weekend · · Score: 1

    You assume it's their problem when there's a pretty good chance it's actually yours. See, they pay you to provide a service. If that service sucks on the weekend that's not on them.

  24. A bit confusing on Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just a pourly written article. But it seems to imply it floats just fine until it's submerged. That doesn't make much sense as you simply purge the ballast.

  25. Re:WWII is over on Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float · · Score: 1

    They plan on exporting it.