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  1. Hang them on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Hang them by their arm-pits!

  2. Time for tar and feathers? on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone?

  3. Re:Man the Brits are LUCKY on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Must have been the same design as the Grenfell Tower, then

  4. But current research indicates that humans burn appr. the same amount of calories doing nothing or performing intensive ways of obtaining food. This was tested in current hunter/gatherer societies. So, yes, it is worthwhile doing this.

  5. Re:The barcode conspiracy nuts will have a field d on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Which country is this? Never heard of this practice.

  6. Re:It would have been for an elite on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    When I started working in 1990 my boss had a cell phone (yes, GSM technology from Ericsson) in his car. A device as large as a battery. I wonder how big it would have been built with pure transistors, built with tubes?

  7. Re:Betteridge says: on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 2

    Steel Bank Common Lisp has the best Common Lisp compiler. With the right optimisations you can build code that is as fast as C.

  8. If you don't understand it, then you have a lot of reading to do.

  9. Re:Gallons in a Dutch city ... on Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in Europe, with the euro, yes. All fuels are priced up to 1/1000 of a euro.

  10. Reminds me of someone I was in school with. We were learning Pascal, and the program he wrote was actually written like one would write Basic, i.e. one chunk and global variables. So you can write Basic in any language.

  11. Actually, the first Lisp compiler was already written in 1962 (Wikipedia Lisp history.

    And some modern script languages do compile first to an intermediate language before starting to run, like Perl and Python (which even saves it to disk). That was always puzzling to me: Java actually used the same kind of mechanism, but is considered a compiled language.

  12. Re:The mass migration to Europe from Syria is noth on Wikipedia Is Being Blocked In Turkey (turkeyblocks.org) · · Score: 1

    I also imagine that the Turks coming here from Turkey, will be in cahoots with the Turks who already lived here for years, in better circumstances, and more free than in Turkey, but who voted for Erdogan.

  13. Clipper (no, not the chip) on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    My first encounter with both OO and functional programming was Clipper 5.0, the dBase compiler. It incorporated parts of OO and parts of functional programming, lambdas actually, called code blocks. Both have their uses.

  14. If he wasn't aware of the possible consequences of his actions, then he isn't an engineer.

  15. 8080 Assembler on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 1

    In 1980, as there was only the course "Microprocessors" from A.J. Dirksen here available (Belgium/Holland). I was 14.

  16. Claude Shannon? on Cellphones As a Fifth-Order Elaboration of Maxwell's Theory (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Without his work on the information theory, it seems that this feat would also not be possible (got my master in electronics a couple of years ago, and information theory was more important than both other points).

  17. Like Terry Pratchett said on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's sometimes better to light up a flame thrower than to silently curse in the dark"

  18. Tasp

  19. Re:A Tale of Two Cities on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    Haha, that's for me to know and for you to guess :-p

  20. A Tale of Two Cities on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 2

    I only read good books, but Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" impressed me this year. Are there any good books left after the death of Terry Pratchett and Jack Vance? Luckily that Gaiman is still alive.

  21. Re:Show Me the Data on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And you forgot "Gott mitt Uns"

  22. The invention of the com-laser on NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication In Deep Space (space.com) · · Score: 2

    also usable as a weapon when you are really desperate

  23. Re:Oh NOW they want to talk to him on US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    So, he is playing "The Apprentice" then?

  24. Re:Islam is the problem, not encryption on France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You could start with a much smaller number by removing the clergy first.

  25. So, yeah, how long until they come up with "Soylent Green"?