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  1. Emacs and bash on Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? (cheney.net) · · Score: 1

    Yep, I finally bit the bullet and migrated my config. from Xemacs to Emacs.

  2. Scilly Islands? on Parts of Falcon 9 Launcher Wash Ashore In England (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Peter Pedant calling: there is no such location as "Scilly Islands" - you probably mean "The Isles of Scilly"? (per the linked to page!).

  3. Re: I loved all three! on Now We Know Why the Hobbit Movies Were So Awful (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I put off watching the Hobbit for ages, expecting it to be crap, then I watched it on 3 consecutive nights and loved it, maybe more than LOTR!

  4. Re: DNA testing of waste? on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 1

    Sorry: should have clarified: the sandpit in question is in the shared area of the apartment block gardens so we can not stop the cats being there, but would like to stop them leaving anything behind !
    (We have an ultrasonic/movement detector type device covering our small, private area, and that seems to mostly work !)
    Also sounds like you have a good neighbour there !

  5. Re: So... on Samsung Unveils Gear S2, Gear S2 Classic Smartwatches Running Tizen · · Score: 2

    My RSS feed (over NewsBlur) shows the title first without then with the OS reference, so you look correct.

  6. Re: DNA testing of waste? on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the cats where we live bury it in the kids sandpit. Thanks.
      And, yes, the cat owning residents have been advised, and, no, nothing has happened.

  7. Dupe ? on NASA Launches Satellite To Observe Soil Moisture · · Score: 1

    Sounds like ESAs SMOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... ?

  8. Sponsored by Apple ? on Researchers Use Siri To Steal Data From iPhones · · Score: 1

    Any chance the research was sponsored by Apple to make people more afraid of jail breaking ?

  9. Lots here... on Boeing Readies For First Ever Conjoined Satellite Launch · · Score: 2

    Do none of these count as "conjoined" http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...? Does SMART1 not count as electric propulsion? Or is that all too European ;-)

  10. Re: There is some history here on German Intelligence Employee Arrested On Suspicion of Spying For US On Bundestag · · Score: 1

    Your final statement is not supported by your proceeding data. In neither case did "Germany" offer to surrender - it was a single man/group of man. High ranking maybe, but not speaking for either the nation or the leadership.

  11. Re:Unfortunate.... on WRT54G Successor Falls Flat On Promises · · Score: 1

    > But I think ASUS has one too.

    Asus RT-N66U ? (I specifically bought this model based on it's TomatoUSB support)

  12. fine toothcomb ? on UK To Finally Legalize Ripping CDs and DVDs · · Score: 1

    Sorry if I sound too cynical but has anyone gone over this with a fine toothcomb ? Seems strange to be given new freedoms without something being taken away ?

  13. Re:I have a better idea. on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1
  14. Pot, kettle ? on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA · · Score: 1

    Would it not be surprising if they did not try ?

  15. Please wake up the Guardian sub-editor on Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets · · Score: 1

    Since she announced it the Guardian has respected Chelsea Manning's wishes to be referred to by her new forename: the cited article seems to have slipped through the net !
    (The Slashdot summary sits on the fence by quietly dropping her old forename from it's quote of the linked article !)

  16. Re:Declining? on Google Reader Being Retired · · Score: 1

    I would go a step further: most people have no idea what a "feed" is, never mind what to do with it ! (present company excepted !)

  17. Sticking it to the man on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    In further news a group of motorists worked out how to avoid getting fined for speeding: they always drove through the village under the posted speed limit. One driver, wishing to remain anonymous, commented "this will show city hall that they can not get money out of me without a fight".

  18. Re:Hmmmmm..... on San Diego Drops Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    Did your girlfriend confess to the police ? Would that have got you off ?

  19. The Cuckoo's Egg on Chinese Hack New York Times · · Score: 1

    First thing I thought of as I read TFA was: The Cuckoo's Egg

  20. Re:64-bit computers DO NOT solve this problem on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: 1

    Then my goal is to thwart your retirement plan. I will contract a low-wage programmer from a yet-to-be-determined developing country...

    Your plan-to-thwart contains a potential bug.
    If, say, the US and Chinese economies continue for the next 25 years on their current trajectories it is quite possible that the "low-wage programmer" you speak of will live in the US, and hence the GP may get your contract !

  21. Arhh: the irony !! on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 1

    You are selling an Ad-blocker, so you circumvent ad-blockers (including your own !) by posting a Slashvertisement !! Sweet !!

  22. Re:Countermeasures Deployed on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 1

    > does anybody know is there any reason people set $X.95 price sometime instead of "usual" $X.99?

    Because people are getting wise to the fact that $X.99 is near enough $X+1, whereas $X.95 is closer to $X ? Not !

  23. Re:IP already delay tolerant? on NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works · · Score: 2

    I am running a test: still waiting on a result:

    ping -W 118000 voyager1.nasa.gov

  24. Re:Repeater/router stations on NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works · · Score: 1

    Would this count as a start ? Artemis (SKDR S/Ka band Data Relay).

  25. Re:Could we hear some Germans tell this story? on Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    (Anglo-German family in central Germany.) I am not sure they *have* to buy a proportion, but the do buy all the electricity we can produce from our community solar project on the apartment building roof, and they pay over the odds for it (it is better for us to sell to the grid and buy it "back" through a green tariff then to wire it directly into our homes !)