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  1. A.k.a shell scripts on Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    grep EVENT log*.txt | sort | uniq | awk '{print $2}' | ssh reportserver "gzip > results.txt.gz"

    Flow based, side effect free, distributed computing on one line. There is a reason shell scripts refuse to die in the face of python, perl or anything else.

  2. Supervision is a myth on Most Parents Allow Unsupervised Internet Access To Children At Age 8 · · Score: 1

    By the time children are able to get in trouble online, they are smart enough to bypass your best efforts. A 7 year old will see naked people "wrestling" and go off looking for my little pony videos. A 13 year old will go a public library on a way back from school and login to a secret facebook account with fake birthday.

    The trick is to start presenting realistic, unembelished facts at 7 so that a 13 year old finds you credible enough to consider your warnings seriously.

  3. We should also discuss what's gained on What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    Like all the new people who were able to attend because they could still care for those children you were going to ask about. I think the solution is BETTER, multi camera, high resolution video conferencing tools, not crawling back into a cave.

  4. Surface has its purpose on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    I would guess Google is also not making enormous money on various Nexus devices, but they give developers an up to date platform without third party tweaks and provides licensees with some guidance on how the OS vendor envisions its product being used. There are tons of non-Microsoft Win8 tablets that are inspired of Surface, including its collection of touch/type covers.

    As for WinRT, well maybe the time will come when Intel catches in mobile to the degree that ARM can be ignored, but till then its wise to have at least some chips in ARM game as an answer to Android and iOS.

  5. Re: Why? on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    The more global UI options there are, the more likely it is your mission critical app will be broken under some combination they didn't test for.

  6. How do I middle click my trackpad? on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Touch/tap is clearly winning over click these days and default UI metaphors should follow. I hope a middle click can be bound to an action just like any other key for those who do have a desktop style mouse.

    But worse, select/middle click DOESN'T use the same clipboard as Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V. Plus, there is no way to replace existing text with paste, since selecting it nukes your clipboard. All these things put together make me wish gnome didn't chicken out and addressed this now.

  7. Depends on your hardware of course! on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt iOS7 is slow on iPhone 5s/5c. Now on iPhone 4, you should only be upgrading if you really need new features or must have consistency with your other devices, not with expectations of great performance. I the later case, you should probably have stuck with iOS5.

    It's perfectly fine for me on iPhone 5 or iPad 2.

  8. Re:One Problem though. on To Boldly Go Nowhere, For Now · · Score: 1

    Dude, I am pretty sure we are not planning on human presence in black holes, but its still fascinating stuff I am willing to pay some taxes to explore. And this whole argument that we should spend more money on killing people (defense department) then learning stuff is kind of weak.

  9. Re:$40,000 a year on Ask Slashdot: Attracting Developers To Abandonware? · · Score: 2

    That's extreme, do you anticipate there really be enough work to maintain IceWM every single working day? I think asking for $4000/year and taking on 30 low-volume projects would be a better strategy. Next, expand and hire employees. Some of low use projects got to be commercially important for the one org that is using them.

  10. Nope, just boil water and burn most other matter on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 1

    Doesn't take gigajoules, just what is commonly done in crematoriums, but done at much faster speed for cinematic effect. I am sure most people will not mind a small puddle of calcium-based ashes, but if they do we can focus on sublimating that and still save lots of juice. For even more savings, add corrosive acid that would produce residue with lower sublimation point.

  11. Next up on Nintendo Announces 2DS Handheld — Plays 3DS Games In 2-D · · Score: 2

    Toyota Prius non-hybrid edition
    Desktop iPad
    Non-instant polaroid camera
    And, of course, slashdot for non-technical readers

    Why kill the only unique feature of your product and name the new one for what it's lacking. If it was a radically different name, design and form factor, it could have had a chance.

  12. I wish on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the world deserve a modern OS after 50 years of legacy? All the files can be memory mapped, pipes can transmit objects with rich behavior rather than just bytes, /bin/sh is overdue for a state of the art replacement with optional GUI, GPU-based computing should be deeply integrated into everything.

    And of course legacy stuff can be still made available with high degree of standards compatibility, but discouraged for new projects.

  13. Bad example on More Encryption Is Not the Solution · · Score: 1

    SSL is for security between user and the site. Of course the site can reveal your data to anyone who wishes. End to end encryption with open source software between two users, is a whole other story

  14. To putin on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Poshel na hui! Idi ebyai svou mat!

  15. Windows CE all over again on Microsoft's Surface RT Was Doomed From Day One · · Score: 1

    Microsoft needs to learn that they need to give people SOME reason to buy a particular product rather than another one from them or competition.

  16. Re:Lol, can't wait for the advertising disclaimers on Italian Team Cures Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome With the Help of HIV · · Score: 1

    Hmm, for diseases we are talking about AIDS is wastly preferable to the original condition.

  17. Re:Practicality? on Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that more than half of tea partiers have brains to get prenatal treatment rather than just letting Jesus take care of them and their fetuses.

  18. Re:Fuses on When Space Weather Attacks Earth · · Score: 1

    Not if they have internal breakers that can split up coils into multiple regions if damaging current is detected.

  19. Linux after Linus on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 0

    I think its obvious that while Linus has been a capable programmer and perhaps an effective leader of a small hoard of hackers in initial stages of the project, he is not the best person to leverage productivity of hundreds of thousands of great developers that would love to contribute if they were not being bullied down. If he wants his brain child to truly succeed, he should step down as a final decision maker on the project. Then he can still have opinions, but they will not be the only ones ever heard.

  20. There is a real difference on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    If DDG doesn't store data persistently or share cookies with other sites, NSA would have to dedicate a data center bigger than DDGs own one to store all searches and subsequent clicks if they are needed later. They would then only have IP addresses which would be hard to resolve to identities of foreign users they are most interested in. They would never be able to scale this to EVERY popular site in existence.

  21. Fuses on When Space Weather Attacks Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or we could start protecting our central power infrastructure the same way most homes are protected - by having it switch off rather than blow up when overloaded for any reason.

  22. We should also celebrate on Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication · · Score: 1
    • Forced 300 baud Internet connections to take a break of silly graphics
    • E-mail that has to be printed out to be read, to revive good old paper letter feeling
    • GPS-free cars to get people to know their neighborhoods and make accidental discoveries of new eateries and stuff

    Or not. Snapchat artificially restricts capabilities of my own smartphone. Perhaps the problem with fac ebook is not permanence per se, but the fact that its a free service and makes money by selling your data. If people were wise enough to pay even a couple of bucks per month for a similar service, it would be far more respectful towards their privacy.

  23. Re:Not the only reason on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    Whatever makes you think "them" will be forthcoming on why they haven't hired you? There is no requirement for prospective employers to give a reason for rejection, or keep documentation internally. Successful lawsuits are mostly based on unfair layoffs, pay or promotions when you actually worked in the place and have a paper trail of performance reviews.

  24. Re: Doesn't really matter on Data Center Managers Weary of Whittling Cooling Costs · · Score: 1

    Because these powerplants cost money to operate and you could be selling excess capacity if you decrease consumption of your own datacenter

  25. Just tax electricity to account for environmental on Data Center Managers Weary of Whittling Cooling Costs · · Score: 1

    And if it still doesn't come to the top of some company's balance sheet, it' perfectly fine. Chances are it will for heaviest electricity users and in the meantime taxes can be used for pro-encironment R&D.