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  1. Hmmm. And how there's a a secret Nazi UFO base there.

    Oh, wait. That's the History Channel.

  2. Re: It's just science fiction on Military Documents Reveal How the US Army Plans To Deploy AI In Future Wars (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Doesn't EMP hardening require making things bigger and/or adding bulky shielding? I knew a guy who worked on navy stuff, they had EMP proof Z80s the size of bricks.

    I was under the impression that nukes can be tuned to give a greater EMP effect, and by detonating them high in the stratosphere they could cover half a continent.

    But perhaps if anyone knows they wouldn't tâ|_..%^$
    no carrier

  3. Re:Grindr isn't about coffee dates with hipsters? on Gay Dating App Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status, Location Data (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Odd, isn't it? That must be why they never have big moustaches and wear lots of leather.

  4. I saw that on the news. IIRC the knock-off factory isn't even in another city like GP said - it's just round the corner.

    Pretty convenient. If they run out of parts they can just get their mole to chuck some over the fence.

  5. Re:It makes total sense... on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you get the raw material in and the finished product out without any ports?

  6. Re:Nothing to be afraid of on Military Documents Reveal How the US Army Plans To Deploy AI In Future Wars (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Can a relatively large drone carry a nuclear weapon? Yes, but it's going to be much easier to defend against given its slow speed and limited range.

    Isn't a cruise missile a single-use drone?

  7. Re:improvements on Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you're advocating tools that do one thing and do it well.

    It'll never catch on.

  8. Re:improvements on Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    You could say that about anything. Ask yourself why there isn't only one car manufacturer or one brewery.

    The answer, for the hard of understanding, is that some things suit some people and other things suit others. On top of that there's ego (NIH syndrome).

    However all the other competing init systems have one thing in common; you can pick and choose them at will. They aren't forcefully bundled by building in an arbitrary dependency with other random components.

  9. Re:Exactly. Stupid idea for many reasons. on Ask Slashdot: Should CPU, GPU Name-Numbering Indicate Real World Performance? · · Score: 1

    To prevent that you could obligate that the numbers have to be proportional to some arbitrary metric. First problem, what metric? Second, in four years time the latest version would have to be called GTX+47000000 or something.

    Frankly, the question's retarded in the first place.

  10. Re: It's just science fiction on Military Documents Reveal How the US Army Plans To Deploy AI In Future Wars (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    These things are going to have mechanical CPUs, are they? Because if they have electronics the EMP will likely fry them too.

  11. Re:Obligatory conspiracy theory on Google is Equipping More Rural School Buses With Wi-Fi and Chromebooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Give it ten years and if Wikipedia goes down civilisation will grind to a halt.

  12. Re:we kind of have on Move Over Moore's Law, Make Way For Huang's Law (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean armatures?

    Some people are just wierd up wrong.

  13. Re: But hes CHINESE on Move Over Moore's Law, Make Way For Huang's Law (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    AmiMoJo forgot his password again.

  14. I think there was a minor tremor. But it's where the plates push together and/or move laterally that you get the sudden release of built up energy when it finally overcomes friction.

    Not a geologist either. Sometimes wish I was.

  15. Re:what about on Red Hat CEO Talks About State Of Open Source (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't fire him - fire at him!

  16. Their parents are, you slack bastard.

  17. Re:Obligatory conspiracy theory on Google is Equipping More Rural School Buses With Wi-Fi and Chromebooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried that but I never solved the problem of the ink bottle tipping over when the driver swerved to avoid a mammoth.

  18. Re:Obligatory conspiracy theory on Google is Equipping More Rural School Buses With Wi-Fi and Chromebooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    that extra time spent on the bus eats into the time kids spend on homework.

    Umm, how so? Do they have window blinds that make it too dark to read or something?

    Wait, you surely weren't suggesting that internet access is a necessary condition for doing homework, were you?

  19. Re:It makes total sense... on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Apple userbase is often designers, musicians, artists, film people and basically people working within the creative industry.

    I think it used to be. Now it's people pretending to be those things.

  20. Nothing say "the future" like software that comes on 3.5" inch floppy disks...

    Claim they give more visceral transients and an artisanal soundstage and the hipsters will be all over them.

  21. Hotspot in the mantle, according to "Rise of the Continents". Pretty good, it was on BBC a while back.

    Nova probably has something similar but with more pictures and fewer long words.

  22. If it's done entirely by a formula, it's hardly one person's decision. If the formula can output a "maybe" then it totally is some random employee's decision, at least in the grey area. And frankly if he doesn't like the shape of your nose he's not going to say that.

    But of course you knew I was really talking about judges and sentencing.

  23. Re:Full Stack is not necessarily a benefit on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    What's Kotlin?

    I think it's the Kardassian that became a Kardassienne.

  24. Re:There are worse job listings on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he's master of some precisely because he didn't spread himself too thin trying to know everything?

    Ultimately the limit's defined by a constant, and its value is 168.

  25. Re:Sure on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    I'd never heard that expression before, which is rather remiss of me.

    Though there are woolly pigs - you find them in Hungary - and being mammals I suppose they produce at least some milk...