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  1. spit-take on The Ethical Issues Surrounding OSU's Lab-Grown Brains · · Score: 1

    "that the ethical use of lab-grown human brains is nothing like a no-brainer."

    There goes my coffee.

  2. No. on Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? · · Score: 1

    And I am typing this on a Macbook Pro.

  3. Re:Same thing happened to me! on Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries · · Score: 1

    In management!

  4. Parent +1 on Ask Slashdot: New Employee System Access Tracking? · · Score: 1

    This is especially prevalent in the world of SSO, Directories and IDM. It can be done. But most companies are to cheap to pay someone to do it RIGHT.

  5. Sorry Larry. on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Dear Larry-

    I liked you, but you are pulling a Nader on the Democratic primary. Not cool.

  6. A good monitoring system helps on Ask Slashdot: Capacity Planning and Performance Management? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You should be using your monitoring system to gather performance data, and then analyzing that data.

    I am partial to check_mk right now, but I've done this kind of thing on nagios with pnp4nagios. When you have your monitoring system gathering network interface data, disk usage, cpu utilization, etc, and storing it in some kind of database like rrd, influxdb, or graphite, it isn't that much of a stretch to examine that data as an aggregate and graph trends. It really is amazing all the stuff you can figure out with this technique.

  7. I thought that too but.... on Pocket SCiO Spectrometer Sends Chemical Composition of Anything To Smartphones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But their cloud platform can immediately send your personal data to the DEA. This is one of those things where you look at the ToS very carefully.

  8. Re:Just rent it on Ask Slashdot: Best Bang-for-the-Buck HPC Solution? · · Score: 1

    The cloud is the last place you want to do CFD.

  9. Similar crimes in Humboldt. on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A couple years ago, there were a series of fiber cuts in Humboldt County (300 mi. north of SF). They only targeted fiber owned by Suddenlink. The authorities suspected a telecom professional. A reward was offered, but they never caught the person. The cuts stopped after a couple months.

  10. The Human Genome Project on Is This the Death of the Easter Egg? · · Score: 1

    Back in 2000 I was responsible for compressing the very first release of the human genome so that it could fit on CD. I put a secret message on the disk.

  11. Mozilla formulating a plan? on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 2

    This plan does not need to be formulated. Drop their root CA ASAP.

  12. Re:Long on dream, short on planning & engineer on Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC · · Score: 1

    Submerged Floating Tunnel. Eventually, this is how we are going to span long distances of water.

  13. I have an idea! on Verizon Posts Message In Morse Code To Mock FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I will pay my verizon bill in the 1930's equivalent. That should come out to be about $.08.

  14. Run Exchange on US State Department Can't Get Rid of Email Hackers · · Score: 1

    Pay the price.

  15. Re:80 Million? on US Health Insurer Anthem Suffers Massive Data Breach · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Might be a great excuse to replace SSNs with something better- like a key pair.

  16. Science by Democracy? on Science By Democracy Doesn't Work · · Score: 2

    I don't think that word means what you think it means.

    Try "Science by Oligarchy".

  17. Carbon Fiber on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    We should sequester our carbon in carbon fiber. If someone can come up with an efficient way to make carbon fiber out of CO2, we could have massive solar farms provide the energy to pump the stuff out and use it to build all kinds of things like bridges, skyscrapers, space elevators, and fake christmas trees.

  18. Slow moving Walter on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    The fire engine guy.

  19. Re: We use CAS as our web SSO on Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory? · · Score: 1

    2nd that

  20. HyperCard was a fantastic prototyping tool. on It's Time To Revive Hypercard · · Score: 1

    HyperCard was awesome. It was fairly easy to create a fully functional gui application that someone might pay money for- possibly without writing a line of code. My first serious application was in HyperCard. HyperCard was dog-ass slow though.

    I think Apple killed HyperCard because of the performance issues, and because it didn't fit into Jobs' vision. Once they settled on NeXT for OSX, the NeXTStep environment had a lot of cutting edge rapid development features but with the speed of compiled code. They didn't want to develop two separate environments, so HyperCard got the axe.

    It is too bad. I would love to see HyperCard alive again.

  21. Vehemently against. on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    DST is a fascist ploy to make more money from the proletariat. In the spring, they "borrow" an hour of our time, and then give it back in the fall. Time is money. Borrowed money earns interest. Do they pay us interest on the time they borrowed from us? Nope. For each of us individually this is a paltry sum each year, but year after year for all of us it really adds up.

    I also really hate waking up before the sun comes up.

  22. Re:I commented because I could not mod in good fai on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Hell yeah! Mod parent up!

  23. Re:One of the most overpaid execs in history on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 3, Informative

    They look great for hardware manufacturers! If Oracle were to go away, RAM manufacturers would go out of business.

  24. Re:Pick a different job. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    It could be worse. You could be a sysadmin.

  25. Re:Not so important anymore on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    Your best bet is with the sysadmin. They'll get pissed off and write your app for you using half the memory just to spite you, and then the project manager will take all credit like they would anyway.