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  1. Re:Just learn to program on Go R, Young Man · · Score: 1

    In that case, R wouldn't help them either. You really need to understand how you're solving the problem before you throw some R at it and suddenly get an answer.

  2. Re:Obligatory on Robocops Being Used As Traffic Police In Democratic Republic of Congo · · Score: 1

    And the Earth Stood Still.....today.

  3. Gin & Tonic on Drug-Resistant Malaria May Pose Major Threat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it resistant to gin & tonic?

  4. Re:"Difficult to install" == "Difficult to compete on Google Faces Anti-Trust Probe In Russia Over Android · · Score: 1

    I think one of the reasons Amazon's phone failed was because it was tightly coupled with the amazon echosystem and not the google echosystem---the same exact phone sold by "google" [e.g. marketed as "nexus" line] (even at the same price) would've done MUCH better in the market. It's not just "uh oh, you're bundling your services with the apps"... it's that people actually *want* those apps and services and often wouldn't buy the device otherwise.

    Also, plenty of manufacturers roll their own Android, so what are they complaining about? If you don't like it, recompile your own and convince folks to use it.

  5. Re: Who cares what RMS wants? on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    It's not 'using', it's quite bit of updating (e.g. greenplum was essentially postgresql updated to work on multiple nodes).

    I don't think anyone is raising up the "using" part as being inherently bad---even stuff compiled with GCC is "OK" by most standards... It's taking open source and recompiling it into your closed source product that GPL is objecting to (and it's perfectly fine with some open source licenses... just not GPL).

  6. Re: Who cares what RMS wants? on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

    It's a multi-billion dollar industry out there, built on open source... that's currently completely closed source. (they're not the only one---just about all commercial closed source software is built on top of something).

  7. Re:Kinetic has problems with indirect fire ... on The US Navy Wants More Railguns and Lasers, Less Gunpowder · · Score: 1

    current depleted uranium ordinances aren't railgun-line-of-sight deals and yet still cause enormous damage... It doesn't have to be going *that* fast to do damage (e.g. take a few pounds of aluminum and send it at a ship at say 2x the speed of sound, and it will do lots of damage even without any explosives---and yet still be traveling in a parabolic curve).

  8. Re:Perl lets me do what I want on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 2

    I'm a huge fan of Perl... Perl5 that is.... I'm just hoping they don't screw up the language with 6. Perl5 works great for me---the few bits of Perl6 that I've seen look akward :-/

  9. Re:What makes a company a "US company?" on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Owning shares of a foreign corporation isn't as simple as owning shares of a US corporation... so they'd likely lose a lot of shareholders who wouldn't want to deal with non-US corporations.

  10. Re:Double Irish on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    There's also the issue of shares... would those be converted to ADRs? Would US funds care to own ADRs instead of shares? How compatible would their foreign reporting be to the US format? Their market cap might just drop just due to this conversion.

  11. Re:Not going to disappear quickly.... on US Air Force Selects Boeing 747-8 To Replace Air Force One · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it will take them 45 years to fill those 39 orders?

  12. Re: Alternate Link on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    Urgh!

  13. Re:what's wrong with the process on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    Because big data...

    Just like big data can determine that someone's pregnant due to their shopping patterns, perhaps big data can determine that someone's a terrorist due to their behavior.

  14. Re:...and... on Ancient Planes and Other Claims Spark Controversy at Indian Science Congress · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and the best part is they have Nukes!

    Which according to The History Channel were also invented in India thousands of years ago!

  15. Re:They haven't done it yet. on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Business is about profit, and being "wasteful" is often more profitable... For example, the infrastructure investment into the self sufficient factory might have been better used by building TWO conventionally powered factories. Then again, the publicity from this Reno plant will pay for the construction :-)

  16. Re:Not just Reno on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    Well... d0h, Germany has much more sun than America! [ ref http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... ]

  17. Re:Why gravity is treated as a force? on The First Particle Physics Evidence of Physics Beyond the Standard Model? · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as "force" (well, Jedi might disagree). The famous F=ma, doesn't show up in relativity nor quantum mechanics.

  18. Re:Who didn't see this coming? on How Google Handles 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    Oh, I never claimed that my solution would actually work (and yes, it is stupid). But if you have an issue with say New York Times publishing something about you, approach New York Times and complain that it's wrong, etc., whatever, not that it will get you far in most situations, but who knows.

    Approaching Google and asking them to drop the New York Times article about you from their index is just wrong. (and in those situations, New York Times is well within their rights to ping google, notice that the article is gone, and republish it in a way to be re-indexed).

  19. Re:400 Millimeter Dollars on How Many Members of Congress Does It Take To Pass a $400MM CS Bill? · · Score: 1

    It's MegaMillions.

  20. Re:Who didn't see this coming? on How Google Handles 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the end result will be publishers pinging google every day to see if any of the stories they published are still google-able...

    This is a stupid regulation. If someone doesn't want to have their story "out there" , they should just approach the publisher directly. Google isn't the one publishing or storing (for public consumption) this data... so they're a wrong target for this regulation.

  21. Re:Zaphod? on NASA Tests Microwave Space Drive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ``anything not explicitly forbidden, is mandatory!'' ---someone commenting on quantum mechanics.

  22. Re:Disengenous on Amazon's eBook Math · · Score: 1

    hopefully agreements with authors won't be exclusive... so authors can offer their books on amazon for a 30% cut of a 9.99 book, and still sell the same book for 9.99 on author's own website for the 100% of the revenue going to themselves.

  23. Re:Advertised on YouTube? on Nasty Business: How To Drain Competitors' Google AdWords Budgets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You've just stumbled on one of google's business models: there are millions of new ideas every day, those turn into many thousands of startups, majority of those think that google advertising is the way to get the word out... each of them spends a few hundred dollars (at best...at worst, some of them spend many thousands of dollars) on Google... and shortly afterwards they go out of business. And this repeats every day.

    The winner in all this? Google. Heck, they don't even have to care about repeat customers to make moneh every day.

  24. Re:Or, maybe there's no paradox at all. on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 1

    why information should collapse to a single state inside of a black hole?

    Information does not want to be free, after all?

  25. Re:What a name! on Google Forks OpenSSL, Announces BoringSSL · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's hard to get excited about BoringSSL.