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  1. Where did the US leave off? It has missions to the Kuiper Belt, several planets, and many in Earth orbit today. The decision to reduce or eliminate manned spaceflight makes perfect sense now that semi-autonomous satellites and landers are available.

  2. Re:Yknow what else is male dominated? on Fullstack Launches Coding School For Women (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Grade school teacher seems more like a caretaking job

    Unfortunately, many grade school teachers think that. But it shouldn't be.

  3. Re:another idea on Going To Mars Via the Moon (mit.edu) · · Score: 0

    Energy efficient perhaps, but silly. It is so much easier to manufacture the fuel on Earth and launch it even if it does require a bigger booster.

  4. Re:Can't comb? on IBM Permits China To Review Source Code (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why would the Chinese find value in these reviews?

    Per an old Chinese saying: "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".

    This is a start for them getting the source code for everything without having to hack into servers.

  5. IBM already has China's Source Code on IBM Permits China To Review Source Code (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    How much of IBM's code development has already been outsourced to China? I don't think they employ very many programmers in the US anymore.

  6. Only movies ratings? on Why You Should Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Is any rating on the internet not suspect? I sure don't trust any, especially if there's money involved.

  7. Re:These happen every day on New Concerns Over Earthquakes In Oklahoma Near Vast Oil-Storage Facility (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    You are the one spreading FUD. Earthquake swarms like the one OK is having now have occurred many times in the past, long before gas well drilling started. There's no reason other than FUD to associate the tremors with human activity.

  8. It is the cause when your gas turbines are being used to supply base load instead of topping off at peak.

  9. Does Elon Musk own Dice? on Orange County Developer To Install Tesla Batteries In Two Dozen Buildings (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems we get a slashvertisement every day pimping one or another of his businesses - Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity.

  10. Family fun - kudos to the parents on Teaching Kids Engineering By Building Cartoon Tech (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like great family time together. Kids working with their parents on any project, be it gardening, making same kind of art work, working on the car, whatever, is how children should spend a lot of their time. Far better than plopping them in front of a TV or game console.

  11. 1996 was the year of Linux on the desktop on KDE Turns 19 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dang, I missed it.

  12. Tomato Soup Can on "Are Games Art?" and the Intellectual Value of Design (timconkling.com) · · Score: 1

    A painting of a soup can is art. Rap is considered music (by some, not me).

  13. election year on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like Dice and slashdot are gearing up for the election year - with all the usual liberal talking points. The only question is who's paying for it?

  14. Re:Reasonable Doubt on Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case (post-gazette.com) · · Score: 1

    They already have an expert witness - the author of the program. He is willing to testify how his program reached the conclusion it did. At some point you need to accept whether or not an expert is indeed an expert, otherwise you get into an infinite loop of "my expert needs to verify your expert's expertise"

    In this case the defense is on a fishing trip to find a bug or two in the code, which they will then use to discredit the entire program even if the bug has nothing to do with the conclusion.

    All that said, I agree that the source should be made available.

  15. It's unlikely he'll serve that much time.

    But the punishment might be appropriate, depending on how much it cost the company to recover from the hack. Typically something like that ends up costing the victim tens of thousands of dollars; it's the same as if he stole that much money or torched someone's car.

  16. Re:I know someone who did far better. on University of Cape Town Team Breaks World Water Rocketry Record (uct.ac.za) · · Score: 1

    That would seem to violate several of the rules of the competition. But it's a pretty cool idea as long as you don't get killed launching it.

  17. Re:That girl in school is looking just a bit smart on A Remarkable Number of People Think 'The Martian' Is Based On a True Story (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    That movie was made in 1915, about 50 years after the Civil War ended. Her question wasn't really that absurd - she was just off a few decades on when the first movies were made.

  18. Re:Good for them on Prison Debate Team Beats Harvard's National Title Winners · · Score: 1

    The point (which I agree with) is that inmates who want to improve their lives enough to get a degree are the ones who won't be back. Trying to force others to get a degree in hopes of them not returning to the 'hood is a pipe dream.

  19. and even when they do on Wealth of Personal Data Found On Used Electronics Purchased Online · · Score: 1

    And when they do "wipe" a device they still could leave thousands of emails behind. Some of them might even be classified.

  20. Re:still blowing smoke on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1

    Remind me again how much oil do we get from Afghanistan?

  21. still blowing smoke on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wind power, including U.S. subsidies, became the cheapest electricity in the U.S. for the first time last year4, according to BNEF.

    Why include subsidies? They don't lower the cost, they only chage who pays the bill.

    However, in locations where wind is a good option the combination of wind, hydro, and natural gas makes a lot of sense. Especially if you have a few good nuclear plants to handle the load that wind and hydro can't supply at their peak.

  22. Re:What he didn't say on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 2

    He also didn't say it would be the default on "Linux" (whatever that is). Just Ubuntu.

  23. Re:One of the last real news outlets remaining on NY Times Passes 1M Digital Subscribers · · Score: 1

    with the only real "news" being the USA Today insert.

    You're kidding, right? USAToday is among the most biased out there.

  24. Re:Wow! on NY Times Passes 1M Digital Subscribers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I suspect it's more like supporting their own view of the world. People who subscribe to NYT or WSJ want news with the editorial spin from those sources to be widely distributed. Same with people who donate to and support congressional funding for NPR.

  25. Re:Divide-and-conquer is an art on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To a certain degree, you can optimize a process by splitting tasks in independent subtasks, preferably assigned to one person each.
    However, there are several major problems:
    1) some tasks are not as independent as you may imagine
    2) some tasks require that people with multiple domains work on them
    3) some tasks are so long that it slows down the entire process. It is well known in Supply Chain that a single bottlenecks reduce your output.
    4) splitted tasks become boring as hell
    5) working alone doesn't improve your knowledge

    In my experience, your first point is where most attempts at microservices fail. Someone designs a monolithic application - then management chops it up into little pieces and thinks they have microservices. But they don't have microservices because all the same interdependencies are still there. All they have are chunks of a bigger program.