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  1. Just invade Canada on Global Warming Predictions May Now Be a Lot Less Uncertain (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Why bother with addressing global warming, the US could just invade Canada. http://nationalinterest.org/bl...

  2. Re:Bricked!!?!?! Oh wow! on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Those responsible for sacking those have been sacked have been sacked.

  3. Re:You can not tax your way out of wasteful spendi on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Those U-haul figures have a lot more to do with the higher demand and overhead (rents, higher wages, etc.) of running a franchise in a larger, high cost area with many more locations vs. a low cost area with much less complex coordination requirements than they do with how many people are leaving.

    The rental costs are largely set by the originating franchisee, not the central corporate entity.

    Yes and there is NO DEMAND to move to New Jersey. I am one of those people leaving New Jersey due to the taxes. I am moving to Florida at the end of the month. What do you think happens to rental truck prices after they have all been used one way leaving the state. The prices have to be much cheaper to entice someone to drive it back.

  4. Had one recognize cancer in an X-Ray on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Some chiropractors definitely are quacks, but the training they are provided is not Bullshit. Many years ago, my grandmother was known to have osteoporosis and was complaining of back pain. The chiropractor refused to even touch her back without an X-Ray. After looking at her X-Ray, he highly suspected her to have lung cancer (which was correct) and referred her to a cancer specialist. Now it wasn't caught early enough, but it was caught a lot earlier than it would have been had she not gone to the chiropractor at all.

  5. Squirrels have brought down Nasdaq at least twice on Are Squirrels A Bigger Threat To Our Critical Infrastructure? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  6. make the extra monitors detachable on Razer Built a Laptop With Three Screens Because Why Not? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I travel on vacation with not only my laptop, but a usb displaylink monitor. https://www.asus.com/us/Monito... Most times I don't need to troubleshoot anything with the servers at work, but sometimes the extra real estate comes in handy. I wouldnt mind having a way of detaching an extra monitor for day to day use, that way im not lugging aroung the extra weight, but also be able to reattach it and carry around as part of the laptop, without lugging around a completely separate piece of equipment.

  7. obligatory star wars reference on XPrize's New Challenge: Turn Air Into Water, Make More Than a Million Dollars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Why choose mysql? JetProfiler on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    and PostgreSQL has pgFouine http://pgfoundry.org/projects/...

  9. Re:can we make the interval real short? on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 1

    man i wish i could type, lets make the interview real short.

  10. can we make the interval real short? on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 2, Informative

    are any of your answers different than the last 3 times?
    http://interviews.slashdot.org...
    http://features.slashdot.org/s...
    http://interviews.slashdot.org...
    It's not like his position is going to change significantly on anything...
    I don't see the point.

  11. Re:The author is easily distracted on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 1

    What? Somebody actually reads the articles around here?

  12. Re:missing from the list on The World's Best Living Programmers · · Score: 1

    oops, missed James Gosling as well

  13. missing from the list on The World's Best Living Programmers · · Score: 1

    In no particular order

    Steven Bourne
    Larry Wall
    Guido van Rossum
    Yukihiro Matsumoto
    John Chambers

  14. Using SWIFT in a contract with the US Navy... on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 0

    Do you get Swift Boating? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

  15. Terminology on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 3, Informative

    I used to work as a trader for a major wall street firm. Slight correction in the terminology. If you are bidding the stock you are a buyer, If you are offering the stock you are a seller, regardless if the price you want to buy/sell at is on the bid or ask. If the bid/ask is $1.00/$1.01 and you offer $1.01, you are offering to sell at $1.01, and become part of the offered volume at $1.01. I know, I know, I sound like a bit of a prick pointing out the nuances. But you'd be in for a world of trouble in a pit or on a phone order offering a ton of stock if you were a buyer.

  16. I can live without all of it on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Things I can't live without: Air, Food, Water, Shelter

  17. Re:Why is "forgetting" such a problem apparently? on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 1

    There once was a man from Peru, who fell asleep in his canoe....

  18. Howard Deanonymizes on Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters · · Score: 1

    At first glance this immediately came to mind...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDwODbl3muE

  19. IPython Notebook + Python Data Analysis Library on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Install these 2 and you'll be good to go
    http://ipython.org/notebook.html
    http://pandas.pydata.org/

  20. Re:Reminds me of the Intellivision controller on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 1

    My neighbor had one, I played it while over his house regularly, hated the controller. Only thing worse was the NES controller. Games were still fun though.

  21. Reminds me of the Intellivision controller on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Brings back distant memories of the Intellivision controller. I hope its an improvement over that godawful thing.

  22. Re:So shit tech then on Cell Phone Powered By Urine · · Score: 1

    I think your talking the wrong side. Its a charger powered by urine, not feces.

  23. Re:XBL? on The Forgotten Macro Language of HTML: XBL 2.0 · · Score: 1

    XBL stands for XML Binding Language
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBL

    XBRL stands for Extensible Business Reporting Language
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL
    http://www.xbrl.org/

  24. Who's the boss? on Ask Slashdot: Interviewing Your Boss? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ask him who's the boss? If he says you, give him a big thumbs up!

  25. Let Them Die on Google Launches Endangered Languages Project · · Score: 1

    I look forward to eating Soylent Green in our dying world monoculture!