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  1. Steaming music service? on PSA: Spotify Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess it's pretty hot :p

  2. Back to the Future! on A Book Recommendation for Bill Gates: The Story of PLATO · · Score: 1

    I was a PLATO author and user in the mid-80s, starting at the University of Arizona. I worked on physics lessons. Tutor was a pretty straightforward language and pretty powerful, really. We did not have the kinds of tools programmers expect to have now - not even a real version control system. Still, we accomplished quite a lot. And yes, the chat and notesfile functions were easy to use and powerful (and popular).

  3. Re:The smell of ancient keyboards on A Book Recommendation for Bill Gates: The Story of PLATO · · Score: 1

    While it's true the CDC processors weren't that powerful, they were designed for a lot of I/O throughput so it's not a good comparison.

  4. Re:No more pedistrains? on Fully Driverless Cars Could Be Months Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed but you would then need to say 120 days...

  5. Re:No more pedistrains? on Fully Driverless Cars Could Be Months Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Agreed. I live in Chandler and the Waymo cars are everywhere. I mean, I see them several times a day. And the article is right, we have wide streets, good weather and few pedestrians.

  6. Re:He will be missed. on Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini Dies At 66 (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Agreed. I always liked him, though not pushing into mobile was a grievous mistake. Still, he was the CEO for most of my time at Intel (he left about a year before I did) and it looked like things were going to get nastier under BK (and indeed they have).

  7. Reaching the "unbanked" on Amazon Launches Amazon Cash, a Way To Shop Its Site Without a Bank Card (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An easy way to reach the large # of Americans that don't actually have bank accounts or credit. Smart.

  8. Re:Code Complete is 24 years old on The Most Mentioned Books On StackOverflow (dev-books.com) · · Score: 1

    That and netnews.alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die

    FTFY

  9. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Read down in the article. The building was actually completed as a shell in 2014. So there would be plenty of reasons to finish it (buying equipment is hella expensive) and very little incentive to abandon it and move elsewhere.

  10. Re:Are there more or do we just find more? on Asteroid Whizzing By Earth 6 Times Closer Than the Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We are finding more. http://tucson.com/news/local/e...

  11. Re:Bizarro World on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Reagan was governor of California. Compared to Trump, he was uber-qualified.

  12. Re:I don't think UBI would work out because... on Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not stagflation. Were you even alive then? This is very different. Stagnation, yes, but inflation is very very low, which is totally not like the Carter years.

  13. July 20, 1969 on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    The US landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. I'm not sure what you are referring to.

  14. Re:Mass transit isn't the only poorly planned thin on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Governments are not supposed to sit on large amounts of cash. For large capital expenses they borrow the money (bond measures) so that the people getting the benefits of the expense are the ones paying for it. Otherwise you have today's people paying extra for something they may never get the benefit of, which is not very easy to sell.

  15. TECO on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    The text editor TECO that ran on... TOPS-10, I think, before most of you were born had a fun Easter egg. To create a file once you started TECO, you'd type "make ". If you typed: >make love TECO responded: ?not war?

  16. And if Apple's engineers refuse to comply? What then?

  17. Not all all. Apple can make firmware so that it only works on this particular phone, and they can modify future phones to prevent this method altogether.

    You know this how?

  18. TUCSON on Comet Catalina Coming To a Night Sky Near You (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    For {deity}'s sake, it's TUCSON not "Tuscon".

  19. Another boondoggle? on Intel Establishes Automotive Security Review Board · · Score: 1

    First post? It'll be interesting to see who else gets on board with this.

  20. If abortions are such a small part of what PP does then why did those clinics close? Couldn't they just not do abortions ("such a small part") and keep doing the other stuff?

  21. Re: Surprise? on Experiment: Installing Windows 10 On a 7-Year-Old Acer Aspire One · · Score: 1

    Hey be careful. He's the "baron" of bad news after all!

  22. Re:6502 orgasms on Turning the Arduino Uno Into an Apple ][ · · Score: 1

    YES. 6809 was a truly elegant design that deserved to have far more success than it did.

  23. Re:Keep track of what you eat on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1
    You can enter your own recipes in MyFitnessPal. All you have to do is figure it out once and save it.

    For example I have a bleu cheese salad that I make a couple of times a week. Figure out the ingredients and weigh them (I bought a cheap food scale at NewEgg) and it's not that hard. It also has the side effect of making you aware of where your calories are coming from.

    I guess I'm a little surprised that someone who is patient enough to actually cook from scratch would then be too lazy to weigh a few items.

  24. Do we really need this? on LibraryBox is an Open Source Server That Runs on Low-Cost Hardware (Video) · · Score: 0

    First post? Do we really need yet another file server distro?

  25. Re:personally, i like this method better... on US Post Office Increases Secret Tracking of Mail · · Score: 3, Informative

    Funny, except for all those sex crimes that he left uninvestigated. http://www.azcentral.com/news/... He is big on every hot-button issue that can get him elected whether it's part of his role (actual crime) or not (immigration). He is a grandstander with an ego the size of Montana.