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  1. Re:So kids know how to swim, and parents swim? on Child Drownings In Germany Linked To Parents' Obsession With Mobile Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is possibly related to immigration. Theres been a few problems in the UK where immigrants from countries that don't have a culture of public swimming get into difficulty. UK seas have rip tides, soft sandbanks, large tidal ranges, and cold water that don't occur in their home countries.

  2. Re:Could it possibly be age? on Women Die More From Heart Attacks Than Men -- Unless the ER Doc Is Female (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    It could be age related, in that the age profiles of male/female doctors are different, and there is a larger ratio of male doctors in their declining years making more "old person" mistakes than the women.

    But my pet theory is that women are better doctors.

  3. Re: Political tax on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't plastics in the ocean environment one of the worst?

  4. Re:Didn't consider miniaturization? Moore's Law? on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So a car could run for most of the journey on autopilot, and hand over to the self driving system for short periods?

  5. Re:security doesn't necessarily matter on French Company Plans To Heat Homes, Offices With AMD Ryzen Pro Processors · · Score: 1
  6. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does the immobilizer have builtin GPS? If so, then calling it a "GPS device" is correct, and the company die use this GPS device to disable the car.

    Yes, the term "immobilizer" may be more precise. But that does not make "GPS device" incorrect.

    You could shove one in soft fruit and claim it was immobilized by bananas. Its inaccurate and misleading to refer to features of the device that had nothing to do with how it was used to immobilize the car.

  7. Computer Monitor on Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I use a computer monitor with speakers, connected to a PVR.

    Speakers are a pair of USB powered 3.5mm jack cheapo jobbies. Volume is controlled through the PVR,

    The only "Smarts" are in the PVR, which the manufacturer has stopped shipping updates for, cos thier next all singing all dancing model was android based, and they seem to have moved the entire team across to develop craplets for that.

  8. Re:Solar powered parking meters on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... has no moving parts, no coin slot to clog up. One somewhere where plants won't swamp it, but no too exposed that the weather gets it.

  9. Re:...Wikipedia has "atrophied" since 2007... on How Many Hoaxes Are On Wikipedia? No One Knows · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Technical subjects on wikipedia are never clear. They are jargonated, use obscure notation and never have a simple illuminating example.

  10. First post I've seen that starts getting close.

    Maybe try expanding the requirements a bit..

    • Offsite. At least one copy offsite, hold onsite copies too.
    • Encrypted. In case things go missing. But where do you write down the passwords?
    • Sanity Tested. Did you even look at the backup in case its just a big empty file.
    • Recovery Tested. Have you actually tried restoring the data? Without corrupting your current system of course!
    • Corruption proof. What happens if your system goes wrong slowly and starts backing up corrupt files and you don't notice till last years tax returns are random noise?
    • Legal. What happens if the police or criminals get hold of the data. Would you be in trouble?
    • Future proof. Umm... Can I borrow a Zip drive... Anyone?
  11. OpenSCAD on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming? · · Score: 1
    I think OpenSCAD might be a pretty useful jump off from MineCraft. Its still building things, but with the possibility of 3D printing them.

    It has variables, loops, functions, etc.

  12. Re:Read the summary a couple times on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that even English? Seems more like some dystopian futurespeak loosely based on a form of English which has been coopted by media and communications majors.

    Not only is it English, it is British English from English Britain, the original and still the best English since 1066.

    Accept no substitutes.

  13. Re:Bullying on Xbox One Reputation System Penalizes Gamers Who Behave Badly · · Score: 1

    Its not bullying, its just the meta-game.

  14. Re:dangerous assumption on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 0

    She is also saying that if they taxed companies more, schools could be less efficient with their spending.

  15. Re:Give the technical leads assistants. on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 1

    If your company has an adversarial internal structure, then clearly you need advocate (aka manager) to play the politics.

    If that's the company structure, then you are stuck with political decisions being made without reference to the engineering reality. That's how you get big failures like RBS and the continual cycle of outsourcing->collapse->insourcing.

  16. Give the technical leads assistants. on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 1

    Give the technical leads assistants to manage the scheduling, report writing and staff management. That way you get the same work but without the managers salary. You can also try using the right tools. Too many managers use spreadsheets to do project management.

  17. Re:Government funds for clean ups? on Oil Companies Secretly Got Paid Twice For Cleaning Up Toxic Fuel Leaks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because there is no reward for good behaviour.

    In BP's case, they made a decision to fund the cleanup and compensate people and businesses. And every fraud and shyster crawled out of the woodwork and started demanding compensation. They get no credit for putting their hands up, while US companies Transocean and Haliburton were busy hiding behind lawyers and shredding the evidence and getting away with it.

  18. Re:Bike helmet? on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 1
    I remember my own university trumpeting one helmet design

    I suspect they had a financial interest, which is sadly what most of this debate is about.

  19. Re:Who are the best? on Annual "Worst CEO" List Released · · Score: 1

    Warren East at ARM, António Horta-Osório at Lloyds. Dunno about the US, don't generally follow US stocks. I guess Ellison and Larry Page have overseen some good moves recently.

  20. Re:Oh dear ? on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: -1, Troll

    The UK has different freedoms from the US. You have freedom of speech, we have freedom from harassment. Your system hasn't been around long enough to tell which one is better.

  21. Re:Oh dear ? on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: -1

    What is the Great Britain trying to prove?

    That when you do the electronic equivalent of going up to the victims relatives and saying "Ha Ha, He raped and killed your daughter last week", you can expect the authorities to step in and put an end to your attempted breach of the peace.

  22. But... on .xxx Registrar To Launch Pr0n Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Isnt fumbling about trying to find it supposed to be part of the experience?

  23. Re:Contempt of Court? on Witness In Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury Hearing Posts Transcript of Questioning · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He is not transcribing recorded testimony, as in converting the recorders recording into another form.

  24. Re:none on Internet Explorer Market Share Drops To Almost 15% · · Score: 1

    I'm currently playing Mass Effect 2 on wine on Linux, I've played plenty of other games with minimal problems.

  25. Re:Scorpion and the Frog on Microsoft's Surface Caught Windows OEMs By Surprise · · Score: 1

    I doubt it is in Mocrosoft's interest to kill the ecosystem. It will leave every MS dependant hardware or software vendor looking for a transition strategy to Apple/Linux/Nintendo/Sony/Android. I guess many will already have woken up and decided "No more purposefully buggy DSDT tables, no more half-hearted Linux support", though I guess Asus and Adobe will snooze a while longer.