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  1. lower your phone bill on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    by using PC Pursuit to call BBSes.

    Or just use the modem at work and lie about it when the phone bill comes in.

    Getting annoyed when some salesrep starts sending a fax when you're in the middle of an important zmodem download on the same phoneline.

  2. Re:Always on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Use the -d flag with pkunzip, otherwise, you might end up with a big stinking mess.

    Why was this not the default?

    Probably because CP/M didn't have directories, and PKZIP had a definite familial relationship with LBR, which came from CP/M and therefore had no directories; and with ARC, which was cross-platform, including a CP/M port.

  3. concat(x,y) = x * 10^(ceil(log_10(y+1))) + y

    for x, y real and >0

  4. Re:Multitasking on Ask Slashdot: Why Did 3D TVs and Stereoscopic 3D Television Broadcasting Fail? · · Score: 1

    You're really going to watch 3d commercials?

    While commercials do work, they rely on a tiny fraction of the viewing audience noticing what was advertised. Nobody is fascinated by commercials' content; nobody is going to keep their 3d glasses on when the commercials come on; and no advertiser is going to shoot 3d commercials. Except as a gimmick.

    Doing other stuff during commercials is only sensible.

  5. What the FUCK? on 2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition (ifcomp.org) · · Score: 2

    They have completely abandoned rec.[arts|games].int-fiction. THEY DIDN'T EVEN POST THAT THERE WAS A COMPETITION THERE THIS YEAR. I am extremely angry. Ok, I'm not angry. But I'm hurt. A little bit. Ah, fuck it.

  6. Google should use the USPS Change Of Address db. on Android User Locked Out Of Google Accounts After Moving To A New City (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Tens of thousands of large businesses subscribe to this database and can follow their customers when they move. If Google simply checked this, then they'd be able to validate that the customer really did move.

  7. Apple reaches its final form: Hot Topic. on Apple Releases $300 Book Containing 450 Photos of Apple Products (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Burn down, burn down Hot Topic

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  8. Invitation on Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question · · Score: 1

    Do you know the difference between a ham sandwich and being stuffed facefirst into a mound of elephant dung?

    Followup: Wanna have lunch at the zoo?

  9. More bullshit on Ubuntu Torrent Removed From Google Due To DMCA Complaint (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    KIND OF WORK:Unspecified
    DESCRIPTION Without a Paddle (Original Movie)
    ORIGINAL URLS:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...
    ALLEGEDLY INFRINGING URLS:
    http://bittorrent.am/download-...

    Yeah, I'm SURE that "Rebel Without a Cock" is the same movie as "Without a Paddle".

  10. I for one welcome our new sex toy overlords.

    Seriously though. If they had only gotten consent, this'd be some seriously publishable data.

  11. Re:Of course he'd say nonsense like that. on Hamilton Producer Jeffrey Seller: Live Theater Is the Antidote To Digital Overload (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    His frickin' name is SELLER. Of course he's pimping it.

  12. Live Theater is the antidote for insomnia on Hamilton Producer Jeffrey Seller: Live Theater Is the Antidote To Digital Overload (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I've seldom been to any play that didn't put me to sleep

  13. Re:So how do we miss a 300 foot object that has be on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    See this for a good explanation.

    Delta-v from low earth orbit to the sun requires shedding 24km/s. Delta-v from earth orbit to pluto only requires 8.4km/s.

    Actually you can get to the sun with far less -- something like 8.8km/s -- but it would take fantastically longer. In effect you would escape the entire solar system first, then kill your angular momentum completely.

    Or you could take advantage of moon or other planet flybys, again reducing the energy required by trading it for massive amounts of time.

  14. Re:So how do we miss a 300 foot object that has be on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    sphere area is 4 pi r^2.

  15. Re:To put it into perspective on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    And incidentally, KSP cannot model quasisatellites, because the orbit is not just an ellipse -- it's an ellipse that shifts, due to gravitational effects from Earth and other bodies, after a given (large) number of orbits. KSP only uses true ellipses for planets and moons, and patched conics for ships and (maybe) asteroids. It doesn't use real 3-body mechanics at all.

  16. Re:To put it into perspective on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    This asteroid is *not* in orbit around the earth. It is a quasisatellite, like Cruithne, in a true orbit around the sun ... but in such an orbit that its distance from Earth never exceeds 19 million miles.

    To reach a quasisatellite, you *will* need to leave true Earth orbit and obtain a solar orbit. Your transfer orbit will then intersect the quasisatellite's orbit, and when you get close, you will match orbits so you can land.

  17. Re:Fuck that... on Executive Says Facebook Will Be All Video, No Text In 5 Years (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    Still a better love story than Twilight, er, a better communication method than FB Messenger:
    * Email.
    * SMS.
    * Skype IM.
    * Telephone call.
    * Tin cans and string.
    * Smoke signals.
    * Cutting off a finger and painting the wall with your blood.

  18. Re:Fuck that... on Executive Says Facebook Will Be All Video, No Text In 5 Years (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    More like two orders of magnitude.

  19. Re:Just don't do it on Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Men who focused on sports as children and as adults:
        O.J. Simpson, murderer
        Brock Turner, rapist
        Mike Tyson, thwarted cannibal
        Mark "Gator" Rogowski, murderer
        Tom Payne, repeat rapist
        Tony Ayala, Jr., burglar and rapist

       

  20. Re:Remember when others started this? on Facebook Nixes Access To Chats Outside Of Messenger Walled Garden (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I only want Messenger for short TEXT messages with people I have friended. I do not want notifications, video calls, bots, suggestions about what to eat or which movies to see, permanently tracking my every step and possibly recording my microphone and camera ....

    I just want short text messages with my friends.

    The website has always been sufficient for that. Unfortunately for Facebook, it doesn't make them much money.

    I'm not sure why you added "completely divided the user base" to the end of your comment, unless it was just to increase the good feeling you get from licking Mark Zuckerberg's balls.

  21. Why would it need to download your entire contacts list, when it can just make web API requests as you search?

  22. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I note now that you have a fixed idea, to which you do not seem to consider worthy of discussing alternatives, that people who grow up without the arts are less well-rounded, less happy, worse coders and probably less smart. I'm going to note that you have provided absolutely no evidence for your assertions; that you are being a judgmental pig; and that were I in your presence, a pile of mud would be shoved up your nose within seconds of my recognizing you. And I am going to stop talking to you, because while you do not care to evaluate the worth of people, I have evaluated the worth of talking to you at zero.

  23. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    And "mud" is a euphemism.

  24. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Learning art or music may be quite enjoyable for some people.

    Never learning art or music does not make that person less of a worthwhile person. If you judge people who have never learned music or art as having unworthwhile lives, you are a snob and deserve to have mud smeared in your nose.

  25. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    "Billions of people have grown up without touching a paint brush" is not the same as "Billions of people now alive have grown up without touching a paint brush."