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  1. Re:US education policy... on Kindergarteners Today Get Little Time To Play, and It's Stunting Their Development (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    let's just teach kids with teachers who are masters of their subject.

    How many could Stephen Hawking teach?

    Like the man from IBM said, about half a dozen physicists should be enough.

  2. I sometimes wonder whether he only watches Fox News, or whether he's one of their writers.

  3. Re:We need to take action on Kindergarteners Today Get Little Time To Play, and It's Stunting Their Development (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly. They'll introduce a military equivalent of the H1-B.

    Hey, it worked for Rome. A bit.

  4. Re:Improvements on Firefox 49 Arrives With Improvements (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Don't be so fucking retarded.

    XP FTW.

  5. That guy's given the Scottish musician a load of money, and he never plays my favourites. Jings, and also crivens!

  6. Re:My recollection of Kindergarten, circa 1986 on Kindergarteners Today Get Little Time To Play, and It's Stunting Their Development (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A higher education is no gaurentee of of a job either

    Do I hear the voice of experience?

  7. I'll make America gross again!

  8. Re:The more efficient a system gets ... on More Gig Economy Workers Can Now Get Paid On Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I heard about this a few days back, but there's been surprisingly little about it in the mainstream news. Either they've come up with a workaround or it's just not as sexy as when the banks all go tits up. and the dominoes start a-fallin'.

  9. Improvements on Firefox 49 Arrives With Improvements (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Improvements? They put the UI back to how it was in version 38?

  10. No doubt roman_mir will be along soon to share his wisdom with us. Until then, here's a taster: bla bla gold yadda yadda taxes.

  11. Re:This the same godaddy on GoDaddy Proposes New DNS Configuration Standard (programmableweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Io is trendy? I thought we weren't allowed to land there?

  12. Turn the light off before you go, you jaapie shit.

  13. Re: It's "Strassenfeger" on SciFi TV Series 'Space Patrol Orion' Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 0

    Achtung Schweinhund! Ich habe kein Polenüberfallenversicherung für meinem Strassenbahnhalestellemittelstoff.

  14. Re:This is complete crap, and should not be possib on EU Finance Ministers Line Up Behind $21B Tax Ruling Against Apple (herald-dispatch.com) · · Score: 0

    They aren't that different. They're all full of smelly foreigners who drive on the wrong side of the road.

  15. Re:Doll. Fin. on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    No idea what the origin is. Probably involves being difficult to carve a comma outside the quotes on a block of wood if you're right handed or something like that.

    I know that I always used to do it correctly, whatever that was, until I started programming.

    P.S. No space before a question mark.

  16. Re:Most from the least on Steve Wozniak May Swap His Tesla For A Chevy Bolt (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't make a difference if it's on a vertical axis. In fact it would reduce body roll in a sharp turn.

    Not convinced. It'll turn easier with the spin rather than away from it.

    And you'll always get precession. What you avoid on turns you'll have as you go over a humpbacked bridge or up a ramp.

    Maybe smart power steering could compensate, but at first glance I prefer the contra-rotation idea.

  17. Re:Not a nice way to die on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't bring many because either they didn't think they'd need them based on prior experience (they'd invaded other species - two, both reptilian IIRC - and it worked then) or because of resource constraints. Oh, and they kept most of them in one landship that the Germans twatted with a railway gun, für deh lülzenmittelstoff.

    One day I'll acquire all the books in the series and read them in sequence, along with his alternate WW1 set.

  18. Re:Smeg on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My point was that they've neither modernised it (like they did with Porridge, where Fletch is a 733t h4x0r) nor left it where it was. Like remaking Sharpe in the Crimea or something. Falling between two stools.

    Won't say it's my favourite either, though I have a few of the best episodes somewhere. Don't know how old you are, but there are certain things - like the class/hierarchy/brown-coated-union-man stuff - that I totally missed as a kid. Of course if you said it was mostly cheap poofter/knickers/boobs/baldy jokes I wouldn't disagree.

  19. If you was a DeVry grad at science like what me is you'd know how to copy the missing bits from a frog.

  20. Re:Follow the money on IoT Devices With Default Telnet Passwords Used As Botnet (securityaffairs.co) · · Score: 1

    Probably. Telnet is text, and systemduh hates text.

  21. Re:How do you like those apples?! on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not just a lawyer. A lawyer who works for Trump.

  22. Oracle's defense largely seemed to be that they don't know how to make software, therefor it was not their fault that their software did not work.

    Can fugu chefs use that defense?

  23. Re:like what? on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    dramatically reduce the delays caused by traffic lights

    Autonomous vehicles are able to leap?

  24. Fred Brooks said that half of the work is debugging the spec. If a school CS course just gets that across it'd be valuable for people who don't become programmers but have to work with them.

    It's amazing how utterly shite some people are at describing a problem they want solved.

  25. Re:As the rest of the screen... on iPhone 7 Home Button Now Requires Skin Contact To Work (todaysiphone.com) · · Score: 1

    I tend to wear builders'gloves - the kind with rubber/plastic dots on them. Just dug them out to test them. On some they only work with the tip (where there's no dots) - on others there are pads on the tips that work.

    I guess if it's important you should test them before you buy.