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  1. Slashdotted.. on DuinoKit Helps Teach Students About Electronics (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Good job, guys. You broke it. At least I was able to load one page before the DB rolled over and died.

    Google Cache

  2. Re:"It took significant resources" on Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming · · Score: 1

    Um, I'm that guy too. These days there are more Linux games out there than I have time to spend playing them. Plus, my two biggest gaming time sinks got ported: Civilization 5 and Mount & Blade: Warband.

    Gone are the days of fussing around with Wine or going through the hassle of discarding my workspace to boot Windows. Hence I don't bother considering buying games that are Windows exclusive.

  3. Re:Never mind that Steve Jobs was not gay on Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out · · Score: 1

    Mr. President, we must not allow a gay gap!

  4. Re:it ain't just the food on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 1

    That's only true underwater where they can't talk.

  5. Insecurity questions on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    These are to be known as "insecurity questions" and their answers should always be nonsense that you save in your password manager.

  6. Re:Great idea at the concept stage. on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    But I want to see a video stream from my sprinkler showing the grass being watered. In 1080p. Otherwise, I'd have to get up and look out the window or something.

  7. Re:Why do so many have a boner for Plan 9? on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    One could have said the same for Linux and now look at Android..

  8. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 2

    1000 soldiers is hardly an army. A battalion to brigade at best. 100 tanks are crewed by about 300 soldiers. So, if there are 1000 soldiers, then you have up to 700 available as support (this number would almost certainly include other types of combat troops such as motorized infantry). Furthermore, such a force would have up to 50000 km to disperse in as the current situation certainly does not call for concentrating in one place.

    That means if there are 1000 additional Russian soldiers rolling around in Ukraine, then they would be very hard to pinpoint.

  9. Re:Apple's Culture works against them. on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Obviously Apple's infallible security is worth the cost. Oh wait.

  10. Re:what? on Transatomic Power Receives Seed Funding From Founders Fund Science · · Score: 1

    Flying cars aside, the fact that it is 2014 and there is a great deal of communication going on in arbitrary 140 character chunks is ridiculous and shortsighted.

  11. Who cares? on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    The "From:" header has been spoofable in ASCII since the beginning of e-mail. Given its unreliability, you are foolish if you put much stock into it.

  12. Servers on strike? on LinkedIn Busted In Wage Theft Investigation · · Score: 1

    So, if we have a union and we go on strike, can we put the servers on strike too?

    "HTTP Error 525: Host is on strike"

  13. Re:A Progression of Complaints on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    ..they'd be spending most of their time in the left-most (slowest) lane.

    You mean the right lane, pal. No wonder you're getting driverless cars so soon. UK drivers don't know the correct side of the road to drive on!

  14. The truth of the matter on An Accidental Wikipedia Hoax · · Score: 1

    Nothing you read should ever be assumed to be true. It does not matter whether it is written on Wikipedia, on a dead tree, or some other website. Critical thinking and fact checking are paramount. Does it smell like BS? It probably is.[1]

    [1] This statement was retrieved verbatim from a 6,000 year old marble tablet in the hills of Shangri La. So it must be true.

  15. Re:Bear Attacks on An Accidental Wikipedia Hoax · · Score: 1

    According to my ex-coworker, he received a one-year edit ban once discovered, which was increased to a lifetime edit ban when he appealed.

    Now that's the kind of justice we need in the real court system!

    "Bitch! I already told you you were guilty!"

  16. Re:So it's like all other information? on An Accidental Wikipedia Hoax · · Score: 1

    This is a fantastic snippet to take out of context: "inaccurate posts aren't edited by moderators or community and are often supported by a circle jerk of clueless idiots". It's going to be my forum sig for every forum I belong to!

  17. Re:Who couldn't see this coming? on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 1

    And people said it was daft to build a corporation on a swamp! But we built it anyway!

  18. Re:Github Followers on The World's Best Living Programmers · · Score: 1

    Managing patches requires quite a different skillset from managing people.

  19. I find it amusing that articles such as these that push the envelope of technology appear on Slashdot and then the luddites come out of the woodwork. Particularly amusing is the fact that we all entrust our lives to technology and computers on a regular basis, including in the airplanes that we have been flying in for years. The sad part is that the vast majority of you will meet your end in a dreadfully boring fashion or possibly in an automobile collision with a drunken slack-jawed yokel, but hardly any one of you will go down in a glorious, flaming plane crash.

  20. Re:Class conflict on No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say · · Score: 1

    I guess the joke will be on her when she finds herself on the "B Ark". ;)

  21. Re:Annoying. on Hundreds of Cities Wired With Fiber, But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unusable · · Score: 1

    And yes, Xmission is awesome.

  22. Re:Annoying. on Hundreds of Cities Wired With Fiber, But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unusable · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately Comcast and US West/Qwest/Century Link have been quite successful in keeping it out of some of the more major cities, namely Salt Lake City. I used to find this very aggravating but then I moved out of state. I still don't have fiber though.

  23. Re:Now Monty Python Makes Sense on Plastic Trash Forming Into "Plastiglomerate" Rocks · · Score: 1

    More witches!

  24. LibReSSL on New OpenSSL Man-in-the-Middle Flaw Affects All Clients · · Score: 1

    The project name is written as LibReSSL. Clever, clever..

  25. Re:This is a great idea on Group Demonstrates 3,000 Km Electric Car Battery · · Score: 1

    Presumeably you will be able to buy a reliable, used EV for $10K in a few years. Probably add a couple $Ks for some fresh batteries, but that shouldn't be bad considering the money saved over gasoline.