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  1. Re:Okay, so... on Congressmen Propose a New Military Branch: The 'US Space Corps' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually if you dig into the proposal there's already a lot of duplicated bureaucracy all over the armed forces regarding space. This would pull them under a single umbrella and actually reduce bureaucracy.

  2. Re:They're going to fast-track this on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe the original quote was "I don't need to outrun the Ogre, I just need to outrun you."

    I wish I could remember where I first read it though.

  3. Re:Sounds like they already answered this on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? · · Score: 1

    iotop

  4. Only if he's salary. If he's contract then he's hourly and he got paid for every single one of those hours.

  5. OK, now try doing it without a compiler or assembler.

    Machines have been writing most of our code for decades now.

  6. Re:Elon Musk: What's this guy smoking? on Elon Musk: Humans Need To Merge With Machines Else They Will Become Irrelevant in AI Age (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know that this is the experiments where 'always mount a scratch monkey' came from right?

  7. Seems to me like you've never worked on anything large enough that one person can't do it all.

    ... or anything with libraries.

  8. > most of the critical passwords at my enterprise are already shared

    ... You do realize that this means that anyone who has the shared admin passwords can, and likely will, do untold damage on the way out?

  9. Re:eating less on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Good luck living on protein alone. You still need fat and carbs but playing with the ratios between them does yield some interesting results.

  10. Re: eating less on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 2

    Paleo is the vegan to low-carb's vegetarian. You don't have to go full on paleo to take advantage of a low-carb diet.

  11. Re:futurist on Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's some caveats to this. We cannot continue our growth based society for more than about 200 more years. This is because energy usage is directly tied to growth and in about 200 years we'll boil the oceans just with the amount of power we use. If we can transition from a growth based society to a stable society then we could continue on Earth but that society doesn't look a whole lot like the one we have now. Likewise climate change is already on track to radically alter our planet from what we've known for the entirety of human existence. Yes the human race will adapt and survive but what kind of society (and technological level) we will have after that period of adaptation is completely unknown. All we know is that it will look nothing like what we have now.

  12. Re:How's this gonna work? on Millimeter-wave 5G Modem Coming Mid-2018 With 5Gbps Peak Download (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As compared to what's normally used for communication? An order of magnitude is 'damn near'.

  13. Re:If people only knew... on Netflix Pushes FCC To Crack Down On Data Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    The way it's going right now traditional cable will die out and you'll just subscribe to each channel that you want to watch. Right now you can subscribe to HBO, Netflix, Hulu and a few others. I expect Disney will follow with ESPN and their other offerings at some point.

  14. Re:In other words on Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Which makes me wonder why not US Netflix? I'd watch it on Netflix if it simucast it.

  15. Re:Not a camera, a lens system on Micro-Camera Can Be Injected With A Syringe -- May Pose Surveillance Concerns (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    The article mentioned (and shows a picture of) them also printing them directly onto CMOS sensors. IMHO that's far more valuable than putting them on the end of fibre.

  16. ... I hope you're kidding. Don't reinvent the wheel - if someone else has already written the code then there's no reason to re-write it. That's a huge waste of man hours. Instead you should package all dependencies in such a way that they can be retrieved without requiring the other guy to still be offering it. Yes, that means a snapshot of the version you rely of should be in your repository because you also can't guarantee that a given version will be available as long as your own project is.

  17. I think I agree that we need a breakthrough. Grid scale storage would unleash renewables to the point where we could start to phase out the base-load plants. Barring that we're going to need Fusion or something completely outside current physics if we're going to stay out of a Dark Age sometime in the next few hundred years.

  18. Re:Will she pardon here self and him once she gets on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Class information should never be transmitted on an unsecured medium of any kind. Big difference.

  19. Re:Will she pardon here self and him once she gets on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone pointed out to me recently that DoD and State have very different sets of rules regarding classified information.

  20. Re:Trust the jury ... on TPP Change Means Drastically Higher Penalties For Copyright "Infringement" (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    See I was wondering when everyone looked at me funny when I mentioned nullification. Now I know why. I was educated in New Hampshire where it's commonly taught in school.

  21. Re: Hoax on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No one has ever won a presidential election by write-in. There are enough straight ticket voters alone that this can't happen under our current election system.

  22. Re: Performance Hits? on Nvidia GPUs Can Leak Data From Google Chrome's Incognito Mode (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The performance hit is real - and without custom silicon it's quite expensive. This bit me on the ass recently on a GPGPU project I was working because the amount of time taken to clear the buffer before use was about 10x the amount of time to actually do the computation.

  23. Re:the main legit use i can see on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how you add to the federal geofencing database since drones are required to obey it.

  24. Re:Duh on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So why can't there be other systems that do the various parts that aren't init but systemd is doing?

  25. Re:Yeah it's called being self-insured on App Companies Propose New Model For Worker Benefits (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    My father has two full pensions and social security. He still has to work as a night shift security guard to make ends meet.