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  1. A glass darkly on Swiss Historical Maps Allow Journey Through Time In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    EOM

  2. Why on Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US · · Score: 1

    The cellphone is less of the cost than the service.

  3. Re:Teachers / Salesman on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    WTF - don't link your soci(opathic)-political rants to my post!

    "hands-off" jack

  4. Teachers / Salesman on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    Makes sense why sales pitches given in the context of "hands-on" training work so well...

    (they are evil I tell you)

  5. Instant of Time on Record Setting 500 Trillion-Watt Laser Shot Achieved · · Score: 1

    ... what the hell is an instant of time? Is it as t approaches zero?

  6. One Ring on LHC Discovers New Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    Then LHC (the ring) along with HB can truly be the one ring that binds us and in the darkness finds us!

    Oh no, here we go again...

  7. Ponderings on San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you were able to slow the playback of the audiences ooooohhhhhhs and aaaaaaahhhhhhhs, counted them, would they have been perfectly synchronized and in lock step with each burst?

  8. Staff vs. Contract on Ask Slashdot: How Long Should Devs Support Software Written For Clients? · · Score: 1

    If you want support for any product you have to pay for it; either by contract agreement (low risk to business), pay as you go (low risk to contractor), or having someone on staff to maintain it.

  9. Mission Impossible Style on RunCore Introduces Self-Destructable SSD · · Score: 1

    Brilliant, disposable (very expensive) hardware! Your mission Dan, is to ... this disk will self-destruct in five seconds.

  10. Re:Thats rich, coming from Bloomberg on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 1

    Actually, they have one of the greatest large scale software architects (IMHO) John Lakos on staff not too mention some of the most advanced Quants and data informatics groups in the country. Considering they control most of the media (catalog / archive / mine) I believe they are ripe for the big data age. And, no I don't work for them, I'm too old!

  11. Brilliant (or not so much) on Facebook Purchases 650 AOL Patents From Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Facebook, it's the new AOL!

  12. Re:Greek Academia on Coursera: Dozens of Free, Massive, and Open Online Courses · · Score: 1

    I believe you misunderstood my words (as most do in the absence of a true dialogue). I have attended both a university course in Machine Learning and taken Andrew Ng course. The online one was a great refresher but didn't dive as deep as the former. Great for an overview, but it won't make you a Computer Scientist or Quant. Unfortunately it makes some people feel like they are, only to be brutally disappointed when trying to communicate with "peers".

    Anyhow, I am not condoning social class, gender, or race discrimination. Quite the opposite, I believe it is the lack of public funding that dilutes our educational system. I, for one, donate my time as a mentor both at work and at school. Apprenticeship does still happen, for free! At work, in our communities, and (hopefully) at our schools.

  13. Greek Academia on Coursera: Dozens of Free, Massive, and Open Online Courses · · Score: 1

    Every time we loosen up the dynamic interaction that happens between pupil / teacher or apprentice / master we loss the very thing that keeps us creative and innovative. It isn't just a one-way transaction people, it is what keeps us all learning. I believe the printing press lessened the quality of knowledge transfer, so I see this as again another form of dilution.

  14. Thanks on Game Theory, Antivirus Improvements Explain Rise In Mac Malware · · Score: 2

    Now even you can quote Game Theory thanks to Stanford Engineering online course offerings!

  15. Programming in the Large on Ask Slashdot: Best Programs To Learn From? · · Score: 1

    Since the 90s I have been a proponent of reuse, not only internally to an organization, but as interface libraries with a low bar to entry. I found this book to be seminal in identifying issues that show up in large programming efforts and general dependency decoupling for interfacing:

    Large Scale C++ Software Design by Lakos

  16. Server Names on The Computer Labs That Created the Digital World · · Score: 1

    I bet the server names were Socrates, Plato, and Cicero at all six computer labs!

  17. Every Student? on Raspberry Pi $25 PC Goes Into Alpha Production · · Score: 1

    Do students nowadays all have a HD television with an HDMI port?

  18. Using Kinect Now on What Kinect Could Be, But Probably Won't · · Score: 1

    Kinect is already available for programming against (see http://www.ideum.com/blog/category/kinect/)

  19. I Do on Who Owns Software? · · Score: 1

    ... no really, I do.

  20. The Planet That Shall Be Not Named on Hubble Space Telescope Detects Ring of Dark Matter · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This is another Uranus joke, is it?

  21. Re:UltraSPARK? on Where are the Boundaries to Open Source? · · Score: 1

    This is the term that people use who haven't been around long enough to know better...

    This would be the Scalable Processor ARK that Noah used.

  22. Size of a floppy on Secure Data Storage... On Your Fingernails · · Score: 1

    This is only 625K, less than that of a low density 3.5" floppy disk and this is exciting news? Sure, technically it is cool but functionally?

  23. Re:Not enough money on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    And you equate this with charity?

    RTFC

  24. Not enough money on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: -1, Troll

    As if they haven't made enough from the movies (half of which weren't worth the cost of admission), they are still looking to rob us blind. How about donating these proceeds to people in need (like the out of work studio blue collars, shown during trailers at your local theatre, from all of the DVD riping... yeah right)?

  25. Anyone notice... on Google Releases Maps API for External Use · · Score: 1
    this disclaimer:

    The Maps API is a free beta service, available or any web site that is free to consumers. Google retains the right to put advertising on the map in the future. Please see the terms of use for more information.

    and all of the verbage in terms. Like this one which blows my idea out the water: remove, distort or alter any element of a Google Brand Feature (this includes squeezing, stretching, inverting, discoloring, etc.)