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  1. Re:Wikipedia Editors on YouTube Is Looking for Volunteers To Improve Its Site (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Right now it's merely an alt-Left enabler site.

    Since I'd never heard of that, I searched for it. All I got was:

    The page "Alt-left" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered.

  2. Sounds like a good option to have for diagnostics but its not an option I would want to put in front of he average user.

    Stop doubting your fellow man. Give them the option, just don't make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

  3. In fact, as I think about it. If you phone->speaker underwater, you need a cord. Bluetooth can't make it through even pool water.

  4. Water prood iPod's w/ headphone jacks exist. My friend uses it when she swims. Something like this: http://www.underwateraudio.com...

  5. Re:Why not Python? on Interviews: Ask Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson a Question · · Score: 0

    Is it still a troll post if it's true?

    /me ducks

  6. Re:Encryption on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    That sentiment is fine for hanging out with friends, but in my line of work a cell phone is required. The company was then faced with a choice, take on a large cost of buying everyone phones, or split the cost with the employees. Since we all had out own phones anyways, the decision was unanimous: 1 phone, less to carry, cheaper for everyone, more money in my pocket and my companies pocket.

    Long story short, my "personal" cell phone is required on my work trips.

  7. They don't mind if you cancel either on Netflix Is The Least-Cancelled of All Major Streaming Services, Says Study (exstreamist.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Notice that a good service doesn't give a shit if you cancel. Unlike every other service I've have: Verizon, comcast, AT&T

  8. Re:f!rstPo$t on Password Autocorrect Without Compromising Security (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but to brute force my account it would take millions of tries not 3. The limit is off by MANY orders of magnitudes.

  9. Re:Married with kids. on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1

    My personal examples

    • Adult parties where we have kids and want adults to be able to talk and let the kids go gather (leave us alone for just a little)
    • Adult parties where we watch a movie (maybe a good movie, maybe an intentionally bad movie), but the gathering is longer than the movie, so we talk about it and other things before and after
    • Family gathering where we actually watch a movie or slide show, you are right that it isn't the most social. But we do it, and we like it. Balance and moderation and all that
    • things like cromecast enable, pick-your-favorite youtube video competitions (anyone can put a video on the queue ) ; basically like hanging out on the internet...but in person
  10. Re:Paranoia strikes deep on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess your unfamiliar with all of engineering? Where we use fairly advanced math to model and solve for real world problems.

  11. ...america is dying, if not already dead...

    Citation required, because I found it alive right about here: https://goo.gl/maps/Wfvjyku289...

  12. Re: What about Scientology, then? on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ? How so ? Joseph Smith is dead...

  13. prelink? even i remember doing ricer shit like that on gentoo years ago

    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/P...

  14. Re:so, the exact precision of double floating poin on How Many Digits of Pi Does NASA Use? (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    Only true to a point, While my personal Research never took me to relativistic speeds. The people who built the GPS network would beg to different if you are trying to say the problem isn't solvable.

  15. Re:Wait huh? on Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Re:so, the exact precision of double floating poin on How Many Digits of Pi Does NASA Use? (kottke.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When tracking something in space and time, the coordinate system should never matter (it just makes the mathematical model easier or harder). You should have instead time tagged the state information. Then when the other platform received the state information, it extrapolates the state information to current time before using [displaying] it. The only requirement here is that your two platforms agree on the time to a high [enough] precision. While this is not a simple problem, it is well understood. Search for Kalman filtering and Sensor fusion for more information (advanced knowledge of signal processing is typically a perquisite).

    In sensor fusion you typical track in ECEF or LLA even though you will most commonly detect/search in LTP.

  17. so, the exact precision of double floating points on How Many Digits of Pi Does NASA Use? (kottke.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format

    "This gives 15–17 significant decimal digits precision. If a decimal string with at most 15 significant digits is converted to IEEE 754 double precision representation and then converted back to a string with the same number of significant digits, then the final string should match the original. If an IEEE 754 double precision is converted to a decimal string with at least 17 significant digits and then converted back to double, then the final number must match the original.[1]"

  18. Re:The caped crusader on Pow! With Supreme Court Rebuff, DC Comics Wins Batmobile Copyright Case (newsoxy.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is this being singled out by Slashdot?

    Because [we] secretly want a Bat-Mobile. And anything that makes that harder makes [us] unhappy.

  19. Re:The Angry Mob on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called protecting our borders, and every country in the world other than the US does it!

    Citation required

  20. Re:I don't like this at all on Verizon Boosts Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans By $20 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    nabsltd's story makes a certain amount of sense. Any way you could share how you came by this situation?

  21. Re: Cannot be trusted on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 1

    Oh Lord Bitman. One person said ALL of google is shit based on shit The responder said, you must be too young to remember what google gave us, and how it was better than everything. How its search engine set the bar, and how its free email was a gift to many many people. And you say...non-sequitur in this case. My critical storage needs!!!

  22. Re:Could be argued differently... on FCC Fines Smart City $750K For Blocking Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    The better scenario here would be if you EM insulated ( Faraday cage) your establishment. But then went on to offer your own wifi...

  23. Re: Does indeed happen. on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    I would lose $50,000 if I sold my house due to the state of the market.

    I do't understand this. If you buy your house at 400K, and the market goes down a bit in your area then it is now worth 350. But the house your were going to buy has gone down by a similar proportion to. The housing market only matters if you have two houses or if you are changing housing markets.

  24. Re:How about adult subreddits? on Reddit CEO: Site Is 'Not a Bastion of Free Speech,' Change Coming · · Score: 1
    The person you responded to said two things which distracted you. The core problem is harassment. Saying "Fat people shouldn't be fat" is a general statement. Saying, "this bitch is ugly", is harassment.

    PS Of all the places on the internet you use "stealing", /. is pretty sensitized to understand the difference between stealing and copyright infringement.

  25. Re:I don't think it's enough, but I have doubts to on Vancouver Area Teen Sentenced To 16 Months For Swatting · · Score: 1