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  1. Re:Remember the year of Linux ? on The Year In Robotics · · Score: 2

    Was Google pushing LInux that year? They flog it now as Android and last I heard Android had over 50% of the mobile market. You may also be interested to hear that Andy Rubin who headed up Android is now heading up Google's robotics division.

    Google has some serious technical and financial assets they can bring to bear and for you to just dismiss that out of hand reflects poorly on your intellect.

  2. It's a slippery slope on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    Soon tere will be biomarkers for other types of behaviour and then employers are going to want blood tests from perspective employees. Before you know it if you have marker xyz you'll be virtually unemployable.
    Walk into any AA meeting and ask the members if they can exercise choice over their impuses.

  3. Man up on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle a Colleague's Sloppy Work? · · Score: 1

    KInd of obvious isn't it?
    Quit being a wus and address him about it or start circulating your resume and run away.

  4. Mine on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    I've probably loaded everything at one time or another but for my main installation best as I can recall I've got:
    1996 - 1998 Slackware
    1998 - 2002 Mandrake
    2002 - 2012 Ubuntu
    Currently Mint I'm glad Ubuntu went with Unity or I never would have discovered how nice Mint was.

  5. Re:Not a surprise on Private Key Found Embedded In Major SCADA Equipment · · Score: 2

    Lame excuse.
    If you're a professional engineer tasked with utilizing private / public key encryption you should have known enough to secure the private key.
    If you didn't know better your incompetent, if you did know better your as negligent as the management team that let it happen.

  6. WTF Slashdot? on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy · · Score: 1

    What's next? Discussing the validity of Hitler's final solution?

    Some dip shit politician makes an ignorant offensive comment which is fine to report in the news but by discussing it's validity Slashdot adds credence to it.

    Here's the facts. Some people have reproductive issues so there's an industry to help them. Evolution happens to favor procreation so for most of us if you combine 3 healthy specimens consisting of an egg, woman, & sperm guess what happens?

    It's an insult to every rape victim that ever got pregnant to imply that it was anything less than rape and shame on this whole damn site for providing the opportunity to debate that maybe the victim wasn't "truly" raped.

  7. A novel idea on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Give your staff the benefit of the doubt and assume that they might be able to act like professionals. If you have a problem later you can deal with it appropriately.
    Trying to figure out how to grind your staff under your heel before there's a problem is an insult to your employees. If you're convinced there is going to be a problem it demonstrates incompetence in your interview & hiring policies.

  8. Does anyone know on Scientists Create World's First Atomic X-Ray Laser · · Score: 2

    Where I can get a few fricken sharks?

  9. I can beat that on Drupal 8 Development Begins — 15 Bugs At a Time · · Score: 1

    Let there be no critical bugs. That was easy!

  10. Tatooine? on Astronomers Find Planets Around Weird Binary Star · · Score: 1

    A binary system with planets? That gives me A New Hope for my sci-fi fantasies.

  11. I remember my introduction.... on How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? · · Score: 1

    #include int main(char * argv[], int argc) { fprintf(stdout, "Hello World!\n"); return 0; }

  12. It's about perception. on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 1

    It's for marketing not for actual sale. It allows M$ to stand up and say what a wonderful product windows is starting at only $50 (or whatever). It doesn't matter if they never sell the $50 version.

  13. Re:Mixed Blessings on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I can't even begin to speculate what the fallout of this...

    Dan Aris

    It's called competition, don't be scared, it's a good thing

  14. Re:Screwed economy but cheaper Macs?! on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Canada being damaged by the high dollar is a myth.

    We are a nation of exporters but what are we exporting? Natural resources. China can't just decide to produce copper, aluminum, or oil. You have to buy that stuff from the nations that have it and most of these things have static prices anyway. An ounce of gold or a barrel of oil pretty much cost the same anywhere in the world no matter what currency you are using.

  15. Slashdot news for Americans, Stuff from the U.S. on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yawn.

  16. fp on Simple, Bare-Bones Motherboards? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hah!

  17. Like the first episode of the original Star Trek on Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can't remember the original captains name but he was a quadrapalegic and could control 3 lights with using only his mind for communication. Life imitates art

  18. D'oh on Finding Yourself With Photo Recognition · · Score: 2, Funny

    And to think I've been using street signs when I could of just photographed a building.

  19. Re:please clarify on Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux · · Score: 1

    Free Speech: Someone's number came up and they got drafted into the Army, flown to some pit-of-the-world country and got their legs blown to bits by a land mine so you can keep being as obnoxious as you want in public. Name one war your country had in some "pit-of-the-world country" that defended your right to free speech. I hate to be the one to tell you but you've fallen victim to your countries propaganda engine.