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  1. Re:Patents on The Story of Starlite, the 'Blast Proof' Material (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Tank armor is layers of steal and depleted uranium. It takes special weaponry to penetrate it. See for example.

  2. Re: USPTO asleep on the job on Vigilante Engineer Stops Waymo From Patenting Key Lidar Technology (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No one wants to give the patent office enough money to do the job well.

  3. Re: Have anyone actually used it for navigati on An Open Source Resistance Takes Shape as Tech Giants Race To Map the World (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Annoying.

  4. Re: Have anyone actually used it for navigation on An Open Source Resistance Takes Shape as Tech Giants Race To Map the World (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Farmland floods, too.

  5. Re: Have anyone actually used it for navigation? on An Open Source Resistance Takes Shape as Tech Giants Race To Map the World (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    20 years isn't very long in terms of floods and earthquakes.

  6. I think the character processing is all done in regular expressions, and there is no one left working at Slashdot who understands regular expressions. They should really just open source Slashcode and let people make improvements.

  7. Re:Show, don't tell. Less hype, more details. on Tim Berners-Lee Announces Solid, an Open Source Project Which Would Aim To Decentralize the Web (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    But a lot of that data will consist of links to other people's data, and be rather useless without it.

    That's true but the entire premise of the web is links to other data.

  8. Re:Show, don't tell. Less hype, more details. on Tim Berners-Lee Announces Solid, an Open Source Project Which Would Aim To Decentralize the Web (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Can anyone explain exactly how it changes anything at all? Or is it merely another rehash?

    Imagine you want to move all your data to a Facebook competitor. All your profile and data is stored locally (or wherever you want) so it's easy to port your data to a different website.

  9. Re:Show, don't tell. Less hype, more details. on Tim Berners-Lee Announces Solid, an Open Source Project Which Would Aim To Decentralize the Web (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It's WebID. You have your profile on your own server, or on a WebID server, and it can be accessed via a Rest API.

  10. Re: How? on How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The answer in the article is that they wanted to and looked for a reason until they found one. The more interesting part is that is shows how deep the Windows development process is within Microsoft. I thought they would have learned their lesson with Vista, but nope. That's what stack ranking gets you, I guess.

  11. Re: Security Time on What Will Happen When Killer Robots Get Hijacked? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    Security is so far from a priority for most companies that it's not even an afterthought. Talk to administrators and you'll hear people say, "we're just not a big enough target for hackers." They will keep that attitude even when the company is a big enough target. No one cares if their system gets hacked, even credit agencies. They just put a vague fix in and move on. No questions about whether their problem is more systemic, and how to avoid those problems in the future.

  12. Re:That was one expensive tweet on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 1

    Reportedly Musk was already under investigation before that tweet.

    The summary for the rest of us is that his twitter feed is going to become a lot less entertaining now.

  13. I protest! on Open Source BeOS Successor Haiku Releases R1/beta 1 (haiku-os.org) · · Score: 1

    My biggest complaint about Haiku OS is that there are no haikus anywhere. Not in the comments, not in the name. Talk about a missed opportunity! I refuse to use any OS that so seriously misrepresents itself.

  14. Re:Modifing to target wasps instead on Roundup Weed Killer Could Be Linked To Widespread Bee Deaths, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    This summer was especially bad. I had two wasp traps... just the little green cups they fly into and cannot get out again. In one weeks, there was AT LEAST 400 wasps. Both cups were nearly full. I have no idea where they all came from.

    Please tell me where you live so I never accidentally move there.

  15. Re: God Blasph America, Land that I Lube... on Uber Wins Key Ruling In Its Fight Against Treating Drivers As Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of Americans are not Republicans.

  16. Re: I dont like it cuz it doesn't work on Google is Giving up Some Control of the AMP Format (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a nice theory, but in practice both of them are wrong.

  17. Re: What typical 9-5? on Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I would argue that French unemployment is not high because there are no jobs, but rather because French people enjoy talking long breaks between jobs. The latter is certainly true whether or not it causes the former.

  18. Re:Can't be examined in isolation on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    That's a good way to analyze the situation (and confuse anyone who hasn't really thought about it deeply).

  19. Re:Going to invent wormholes or so? on Game Streaming's Latency Problems Will Be Over in a Few Years, CEO Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Once input latency goes over 100mS it starts being noticeable

    And that's extremely generous.

  20. Re:Um... NodeJS is doing just fine on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't know about Kubernetes, never heard of it

    Everyone uses it these days to deploy into the cloud.

  21. Re:Read the Article Yesterday on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Clusters can actually be a by-product of the way the tests are designed.

  22. Re:I dont like it cuz it doesn't work on Google is Giving up Some Control of the AMP Format (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically, Google search results are broken for some sites. I think they should be concerned about that!

    Lately Google has been less and less interested about the quality of their search results. At one time, that was their #1 concern, but it must be that some key people have retired. They keep using their power as a monopoly to push reform in.....the world. To give two examples, AMP can affect how high your site is ranked in results, and https can affect how high your site is ranked.

    Now, you might say that pushing everyone to use https is a "good" thing, and maybe it is, but the change of focus to things besides search quality is a harbinger of ominous portent.

  23. Re:Code of Conduct - Exact Text on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    Linus will end up regretting this. He'll be forced off the project by some bullshit made-up claim.

    Is this something that commonly happens after maintainers adopt a code of conduct? Is it something that's ever happened?

  24. Re:Can't be examined in isolation on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The argument against meritocracy is this: Merit cannot be measured. How do you answer that claim? Do you disagree? It seems like you must have an argument against it.

  25. Re:fun game out of context, totally apropos: on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    In context, those posts are unusually tame and restrained. If you trust Linus, the Intel guy lied about what the patches were doing (or the Intel guy didn't understand what they were doing and someone had lied to him, one of those two).