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  1. Re:How do you plan on fighting... on Interview: Ask CEO Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Online Education · · Score: 1

    Maybe by the time (if any) that you make it out of high school you'll understand that the delivery method and the content are orthogonal things.

  2. Re:I guess it's easier... on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It does, but the simple fact is if you're fat and trending towards obese you're eating too much for your particular configuration.

    I think people latch on to "too much" and treat it as moralising and judgemental; it'd be better to think of it from a statistical process control POV.

  3. Re:Radio-controlled racing... on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A damn site is where you're posting.

  4. Or you could just shoot one down. The answer will be on CNN within half an hour or so.

    BRB, door.

  5. Do I win £5? on Collecting Private Flight Data On the World Economic Forum Attendees With RTL-SDR (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Top Tips:
    Become invisible to police officers by sticking your hands in your pockets and looking up at the sky while whistling.

    GZ0275 HMP Broadmoor.

  6. Re:I'm not surprised at all on Collecting Private Flight Data On the World Economic Forum Attendees With RTL-SDR (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Use Business Class and make sure that the clothing is not standing out. If you have a security team - make them look like a mix of tourists, business men and airport service personnel. (Who actually cares about the person pushing the airport wheelchair around?)

    I was going to say that you read too many spy novels, but maybe you write them?

    And never, ever, trust anyone dressed as a priest. At best he's probably an assassin in disguise.

  7. First against the wall when the revolution comes on Interview: Ask CEO Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Online Education · · Score: 1

    Pearson are a bunch of price gouging douchebuckets.

  8. Re:coursera context on Interview: Ask CEO Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Online Education · · Score: 1

    Never trust a barber who says you should wear spurs. Or something like that.

  9. If there isn't a short story (by like, Heinlein or that other guy) based on that then there jolly well should should be.

  10. Re: Fools think this is horrible. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Landing in court makes people do stupid things?

  11. New? on Consciousness May Be the Product of Carefully Balanced Chaos (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought it was pretty much established that anything interesting happens on the border between chaos and stagnation. Had an old book about it once.

  12. Because some fat bastard sat on it on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because some fat bastard sat on it?

    Of course it's not their fault. Metabolism or something.

  13. Re:If they know they are 9000... on CERN Engineers Have To Identify and Disconnect 9,000 Obsolete Cables (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If they know they are 9000, that would suggest they have already identified them.

    Not necessarily. You could know how many cables there are in total (just count them), and how many devices there are (because you track your assets). That'll tell you roughly how many without giving even a hint which is which.

  14. Indeed. If you let it get much above 1000 you're just a slob.

  15. That problem is usually due to connecting them the wrong way round.

  16. Re:Seperation of duty on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that it's written in a clean, modular way. Or that the task isn't to rewrite it so that it is.

  17. Re: U.S. could lower carbon emissions 100% on US Could Lower Carbon Emissions 78% With New National Transmission Network (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point. And why do the Arabs bother having all those oil wells? It's not like they have that many cars. *eyeroll*

  18. Re:News at 11 on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that you know of. But then if it looks realistic you wouldn't know, would you?

    Assuming you actually know what the inside of, say, a nuclear detonation looks like.

  19. Re:Seems like freedom of speech to me on German Court: "Sharing" Your Amazon Purchases Is Spamming (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But presumably it only goes to your acolytes, or whatever they're called?

    Don't want to know every time Quim Cardassian buys some new knickers? Don't sign up to her list.

  20. Re:I can understand the point. on Stephen Wolfram: No Need To Teach With 'Toy Programming Languages' Like Scratch (wolfram.com) · · Score: 1

    No you didn't. You wittered on irrelevantly in a vain attempt to look smart.

    You didn't even understand the question.

  21. Re:I can understand the point. on Stephen Wolfram: No Need To Teach With 'Toy Programming Languages' Like Scratch (wolfram.com) · · Score: 1

    Post I was replying to, by Z00L00K:

    "Ever tried to describe to someone below the age of 10 why you need to declare variables?"

  22. Re:News at 11 on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It smacks more of hipster-retroism to me.

  23. Re:I don't understand on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Experiences With Online IDEs For Web Development? · · Score: 1

    If it works for Slashdot ...

  24. This is Sanjay from Microsoft on Ransomware Hits Three Indian Banks, Causes Millions In Damages (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    And now those jackasses will have to call tech support in India

    It was probably them who installed it.

  25. Has anyone checked on Finally Calculated: All the Legal Positions In a 19x19 Game of Go (github.io) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Has anyone checked the sky? I hope that overhead the stars aren't, without any fuss, going out.