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  1. The tipping point on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB In New Round of Tests · · Score: 2

    My understanding is that it's easy to spread READ ONLY postgres load accross multiple servers. WRITING is a bottleneck with postgresql though because it enforces consistency, while other DBs like couch kick the consistency can down the road to the application. But I haven't seriously looked into it in years.

  2. the zombie apocalypse on Study: Multimedia Multitasking May Be Shrinking Human Brains · · Score: 2

    Hurrrr! Get off my lawn!

  3. Re: Stop using Facebook on Mark Zuckerberg Throws Pal Joe Green Under the Tech Immigration Bus · · Score: 1

    That's the point. Guillotine don't care. Guillotine doesn't give a shit.

  4. Re:All my circuits on Robot Dramas: Autonomous Machines In the Limelight On Stage and In Society · · Score: 1

    Can you really say that Keanu Reaves is an actor?

  5. Re:does this mean.... on New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster · · Score: 2

    Images are normally loaded even before the HTML

    I think I may have misunderstood but how the hell does a browser load images before loading the html that tells it what images to load?

  6. Re:Maybe your logic is wrong...Like insanely wrong on $33 Firefox Phone Launched In India · · Score: 1

    The ignorance of people is astonishing.

    FIFY. I've been around the world and in my experience people from other countries know as little about the USA as people from the USA know about other countries. Also America is a pair of continents, not a country. Canada, Mexica, and Brazil are all in "America".

  7. Re:Cyber is easy, EMP is possible on Securing the US Electrical Grid · · Score: 1

    Because Canada is tilted more towards the sun than we are, they are more susceptible.

    O_o

    Canada is tilted about as far away from the sun as populated areas on earth get. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

    Canada is more susceptible because they are closer to the north pole where charged solar particles are drawn in by the earth's magnetic field. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  8. Re:The Real question then is... on Dramatic Shifts In Manufacturing Costs Are Driving Companies To US, Mexico · · Score: 1

    Last 6 years? The economy has been stagnated long before that. We had declining job growth since roughly 2005 and wages haven't kept pace for nearly 2 decades.

    2 decades? More like four. Wages flatlined in the early 70's.

  9. Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike on Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read? · · Score: 1

    Word for word this short essay served to improve my coding more than any other document, and not just in C. Most of the essay is applicable to any language. Pike elegently and concisely explains the most important principles of good code style and software architecture. The sections "Programming with data" and "Function pointers" are particularly sailent. The section "Complexity", also known as "Rob's Rules", is outstanding and ought to be burned into the brain of every software developer. It's a free online classic and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pi...

  10. Re:How about a string? on Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Loses Deep Sea Vehicle · · Score: 2

    A typical oceanographic trawl winch will part 9/16" steel rope like it was nothing, which requires a force of about 27,000 lbs, and the ship doesn't even notice.

  11. foo

  12. Re:PIC on A 32-bit Development System For $2 · · Score: 1

    Yeah you could shoot yourself in the foot and use PICs or you could come to the light of AVR with it's higher speed and full support for doing dev with the GNU toolchain on Linux from 8 to 32 bits.

  13. Re:well on Actual Results of Crimean Secession Vote Leaked · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One last thing that just about no one knows about. All of the major news outlets proclaimed Florida to Gore before voting was finished in Florida. Florida resides in two time zones and the northwest "handle" of Florida is heavily Republican. Many voters left lines while voting was open once Florida was called for Gore. IF that hadn't have happened, the recount wouldn't have been close at all.

    If that's really true, well, those folks who walked out have nobody to blame but themselves.

  14. Re:Eh. There are worse things... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    I see a business opportunity in installing aftermarket ignition kill switches.

  15. Re:A switch is a switch on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    The main thing I like about an actual IGNITION SWITCH vs. some sort of software controlled engine start/stop button is the ability to actually turn the engine off without any software in the loop. Guess that's something I'll have to retrofit into my future cars.

  16. Re:Their business model sucked on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was BEGGING for this service a few years back when I was spending extended periods at sea. I'm sure anybody who goes on extended overseas trips would love it.

  17. One question on After a Long wait, GNU Screen Gets Refreshed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does it finally have vsplit?

  18. Why, God, why? on E.T. Found In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 5, Funny

    Put 'em back in the landfill where they belong. Or better yet in an incincerator.

  19. Re:Best/worst part is on Anonymous' Airchat Aim: Communication Without Need For Phone Or Internet · · Score: 2

    You've heard of radio direction finding, right? Just stay out of the ham bands.

  20. Re:Uh... on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 4, Informative

    This. The NPR article seems misleading. They stopped him based on the 911 call. Which seems reasonable to me. If some moron is driving like a fool I'd really like to cops to stop him. The probable cause for the SEARCH was due to the marijuana smell. I don't think this ruling is a broad as it's being made out to be.

  21. Re:Since when is every search engine Google? on New 'Google' For the Dark Web Makes Buying Dope and Guns Easy · · Score: 1

    What does that have to do with search engines?

  22. Re:IBM 3720 terminal on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    "If you wanted to get a free IBM 3270 terminal then you should have been there 20 years ago when the hospital threw away a dumpster-full." --Captain Hindsight

  23. Re:Since when is every search engine Google? on New 'Google' For the Dark Web Makes Buying Dope and Guns Easy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I remember Archie. And Veronica. And I just got the references after all these years.

  24. Re:IBM Model M Keyboard on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    I bought one. A week later my wife spilled soda on it. Turned out it was pretty much impossible to salvage. I was disappointed by it's lack of servicability vs. a real Model M. You spend that kind of money on a keyboard you might expect it to survive a soda or at least be repairable.

  25. IBM 3720 terminal on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    I can confirm from experience that an IBM 3270 terminal is practically indestructable. Standing on a loading dock I picked one up over my head and threw it as hard as I could down into an empty metal dumpster at ground level. The result? A small crack in the housing.