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  1. This is terrifying! on Humans Are Now Monitoring Animals With Facial Recognition Technology (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    When did animals develop facial recognition technology? Shouldn't we have started monitoring long before they got this advanced?

  2. Assembly Language on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 1

    I can still remember spending many days reading and re-reading parts of "The Scelbi/Byte Primer", trying to understand the source listings. When I finally understood how a processor actually works, everything suddenly snapped into focus.

  3. Re:Some people need to get a life on What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    The irony is that if you imagine all the negative comments about the show as being spoken by Sheldon, they are actually a pretty spot-on representation of his character.

    *That* is really funny.

  4. Re:Language wars joy on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 1

    Bah! Real programmers don't need fancy crap like assemblers! They program directly in machine language ;-)

  5. Re:Have you ever heard the phrase "off-site backup on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    But what if a comet hits the bank? ...

    I believe that's called an "Extinction Level Event". I wouldn't worry about IDs after that...

  6. Keep it simple. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Just use the same password everywhere. "monkey" is always a good choice.

  7. Re:NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT! on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    ... Profit!

  8. Re:Yea. So? on US Forces Coursera To Ban Students From Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

    Encryption export restrictions were incredibly effective because no other country has mathematicians.

    I mean, it's not as if VPN technology is freely available right now. Even if it wasn't, there are no programmers skilled enough to implement that sort of thing anywhere else in the world.

  9. It's a fake! on Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander · · Score: 1

    There are no stars! ... and the shadows are wrong somehow! ... and the wave pattern proves something something something! ... and ... and ... there is no Moon!

  10. Re:Speaking for German language, yes on Ask Slashdot: Do Most Programmers Understand the English Language? · · Score: 2

    So what would they say for "octet?"

    An octet is not necessarily the same as a byte.

  11. Re:Robots? on Syfy Reality Show Will Feature Giant Boxing Robots · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course, they are all robots.

    The point is that, until the robots are making their own moment-by-moment tactical decisions, it's just not that interesting to watch.

  12. Re:Add Support for Visual Studio on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Calling the Windows API simple and elegant is the funniest thing I've heard all day.

  13. Re:US Government Does it Too on Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' · · Score: 1

    >> It has been called the Persian Gulf since around 550 BC.

    Good point. Maybe Google should go back to the original owners and name it the "Gulf of Mesopotamia."

  14. Re:What's missing? on Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' · · Score: 2

    It should be labelled the Exxon Gulf.

  15. Re:Reading List on Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From 'Hacker' To 'Engineer'? · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. But I would add one caveat: Beware of developers who really know the debugger. They usually seem to be the ones introducing most of the bugs into the code.

  16. Re:What language for business logic? on Objective-C Enters Top Ten In Language Popularity · · Score: 1

    You could express the business logic in C++, which is compatible with Objective-C++ (yes, there is such a language) and C++/CLR.

  17. Re:TFA is full of flaws itself on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    I had assumed that the mountains were in one of the LaGrange points between Pandora and its primary, but this makes more sense.

  18. Re:People! Punctuation is IMPORTANT! on Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" · · Score: 1

    I thought it was pronounced Go Factorial since after "Hello World", the second program written in a new language is usually a factorial calculator.

  19. Re:Steve's Diet on Steve Jobs Issues Update On His Health · · Score: 1

    he's a fruits, vegetables, and grains guy

    No wonder he looks sick! Give the man a cheeseburger. He'll be fine.

  20. Re:Scheme on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    Does this mean Yoda was a Schemer? It all makes sense now!

  21. Re:He didn't say Ubuntu is unlicensed. on Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu Netbook Remix · · Score: 1

    I thought the GPL was based on copyright law. If copyright law suddenly disappeared, the GPL would not be legally binding anymore, would it?

  22. Re:Pixels Are Your Friend on The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I used to do that too. Until I realized that my functions were getting longer and longer. Now, I'm back to landscape mode and nice, short functions.
    It *is* nice to read PDFs in portrait mode though...

  23. Re:Great Blazing Colors on What Font Color Is Best For Eyes? · · Score: 1

    I'd have to disagree. The first computer I used had a white on black terminal. When I got to use a terminal with green phosphors, it was a lot easier on my eyes.
    Amber was marginally better than green.

  24. What about upload speed? on Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds · · Score: 1

    Will upload speed still be limited to 33.6k bps? ;-)

  25. Re:Small problem for Mr. Hu on Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net · · Score: 1

    If Dr. Hu had said this, then I would be concerned...