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  1. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Great.

    Now train every PHB to not use their emotions as first pass filters.

  2. Bullshit. on Least Secure Cars Revealed At Black Hat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "But... the radio can always talk to the brakes" because both are on the same network.

    Bullshit.

    They might be on the same network, but that doesn't mean they can talk to each other.

  3. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 0

    Linus is already taken seriously by a more than sufficient number of people, so he couldn't care less how seriously you take him.

    That's a strawman.

    Naming your kernel SLZ doesn't inspire confidence in the product or the people behind it.

  4. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 0

    Then we disagree.

    "People in technology" today got to read this story, the one where they discovered the children in charge of naming picked Shuffling Zombie Juror.

    It does not inspire confidence in the people behind the product.

  5. Re:Nothing changed on Ask Slashdot: Should I Fight Against Online Voting In Our Municipality? · · Score: 1

    That's great, until the same guy walks into the voting booth with 100 different people.

    "Sorry, I have a lot of senile relatives to help today..."

  6. Re:T.A.H.I.T.I. on "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola · · Score: 1

    And Sloan.

    ...or did it? [Evil Laugh]

  7. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's you that's missing my point.

    Even people in technology will take something less seriously if you call it Shuffling Zombie Juror. Right or wrong, the name tells people that it's not something to be taken seriously. It might be a case of judging a book by its cover, but "SZJ" hurts more than it helps.

  8. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 0

    Google turned "Jelly Bean" and "Kit-Kat" into marketing strategies and brands. Mainstream news covering technology refers to Android by those names.

    Picking version names like Shuffling Zombie Juror is a turnoff for anyone that hears it who isn't living in their parent's basement.

  9. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I get the idea of catch codenames for internal development, but for public release...I echo your sentiment.

    If you want to be taken seriously, dial down the comedy a bit.

    Google's "dessert" naming strategy is probably about as far as I'm willing to accept without some serious reservations about the seriousness of your project.

  10. Re:Why not build next to the factory? on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who finds irony in suggesting that the employees of an auto manufacturer take the train to work?

  11. Re:Not that hard IMO on Satya Nadella At Six Months: Grading Microsoft's New CEO · · Score: 1

    I'm an MCE users as well (on Win7), and I wouldn't hold my breath.

    The decision to not include a Media Center Extender in the XBox One makes that pretty clear to me. At least the Media Center remote is functional from the XB1, so it works well pass-through, but it's an obvious glaring omission.

  12. Re:There's this thing called a on Want To Work Without Prying Eyes? Try Wearing a Body Sock · · Score: 3, Funny
  13. Re:Super Sodomy Brothers on Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength · · Score: 0

    handle the load.

    Ba dum, tish!

  14. Re: Only geeks... on Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength · · Score: 1

    It ignores the option of, "constantly moving stuff of exactly that weight" for which the suit seems fairly useful.

    Also, it's a prototype.

  15. Re:How do you say... on Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength · · Score: 3, Funny

    geunyeo hanteseo tteol-eojyeo, dangsin-eun nappeun!

    I'm only posting this so that someone corrects me.

  16. Re:One more reason to not watch NFL on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what games you watch, but I see receives, ends and backs holding a dozen or so faxes stapled into a book after nearly every change of possession.

    Maybe the camera crews on the B-game just like the sidelines more, or maybe you're just watching RedZone, I dunno - but skill players holding those packets of faxes is damned common.

  17. Re:NFL team near you seeks "techie" on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 1

    Your mom is a fax machine? ...because that's how they send down the photos.

  18. Re:American football on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 1

    The other side of the argument is that if you put pads and helmets on people, they can hit each other harder.

    The number of superficial injuries drop, but the debilitating injuries rise.

  19. Re:Can't wait on Elon Musk Promises 100,000 Electric Cars Per Year · · Score: 1

    Except, it doesn't.

    Canvas seats and plastic trim, plus the same $650 "programming fee" to upgrade to satellite radio as on their other new cars. Every other "feature" is available in the Leaf (e.g. nav with range "bubble" superimposed).

  20. Re:Nothing changed on Ask Slashdot: Should I Fight Against Online Voting In Our Municipality? · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure vote selling is possible with in-person voting too...

  21. Re:Good Thing on Inside BitFury's 20 Megawatt Bitcoin Mine · · Score: 1

    During spring run off, hydro electric power can often have a wholesale price less than zero. It can damage the turbines to allow the water to flow without resistance, so they have to run them, and the surplus electricity has to go somewhere, so they pay people to take it.

    Three words:

    Giant
    Tesla
    Coils

  22. Re:Can't wait on Elon Musk Promises 100,000 Electric Cars Per Year · · Score: 2

    Oddly, for the price, it's got almost nothing on the Leaf other than the letters BMW on the side of it.

    The Ford Fusion electric only gets about 90% the miles/kWh that the Leaf does (with the same size battery) with considerably greater style*.

    Depending on your driving habits, the Fusion Energi and it's 7kWh battery (and 20+ mile range before cutting over to 40+ mpg gas) might make more sense.

    *Style subject to opinion. YMMV.

  23. Re:gigafactory location on Elon Musk Promises 100,000 Electric Cars Per Year · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Speculation is that the Reno groundbreaking might simply be a ploy to cause some other states to provide a greater incentive for them to relocate -- and that lacking that, Reno is their fallback.

  24. Re:Vaccine is coming on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the timeline of vaccine research, "available in a year" sounds entirely like it's a solved problem with a pile of paperwork to be done...

  25. Re:Yes, let's do this. on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 1, Funny

    I believe it's Jawjah.