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  1. Take some leave some on Ask Slashdot: Joining a Startup As an Older Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Pick your parties and go to them once in a while. You might be able to show the young kids how it's done once in a while. I go out with the "kids" and teach them how to ride snowmobiles and trek for more than a night. I also horse ball, that made them think twice before trying to tackle me.

  2. Start an openaid program ? on Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? · · Score: 1

    Gather people who care and get cracking, visual aid, mobility aid, hearing aid etc etc... Include CNC/3D printer plans, BOM and software for all of them. Buy it ready, friend build it or build it yourself...

    Individual projects in each field might not be big enough, but a human aid project going from head to toe might have enough co sharing of information and ressources to be viable ?

  3. Interesting as this is the Finnish word for friend. Finnish cooperation here ?

  4. CPU to GPU to GCPU on Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU · · Score: 1

    Interesting how in the 80's the CPU was doing most of the graphical heavy lifting, it then moved to the GPU in the 90's, and now the kernel is moving there too... When will we see a booter straight to the GPU ? I think some projects are already thinking about it.

  5. In a following century... on Finding Lost Recording From the 1880s · · Score: 1

    Found on an old mechanical magnetic device, this information has been restored for the last 60 years but only now our quantum analysis have been able to decifer the information, probably due to some form or content protection. This is probably the earliest form of audio binary storage known to humans.

  6. Constitution on Device Addresses Healthcare Language Barrier · · Score: 0

    If I remember right, the English language is not part of the constitution. So no one can force you to speak it.

  7. Re:Need a lot more than that ! on UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours · · Score: 1

    Changing time is so confusing I forgot to log in.

  8. Position name translator on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    CEO : The real boss
    COO : Over paid secretary Really I've seen secretaries who made the companies go much better than their COO
    CTO : I used to know what I talk about Technology
    Technical manager : I am the guy everyone ask funny questions to
    Sales manager : I take the credit for the income and also the guy who is responsible for the color of the it dude.
    System Engineer: I just got my paper so I know how to do it and don't need to read the docs
    Sr System Engineer : I've done this long enough to know it won't work anyway
    Sales monkey: I really know that I am just a sales dude with a commission and I might have a clue of what I sell actually does
    Tech monkey: I make the thing, I know how it works but can't document it.
    It dude : the pale guy in that corner who worked all night to get our delivery done.

  9. Re:innovation starts now on China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain · · Score: 2, Funny

    how about ipods made of lead?

    Improvement to bricked ipods used as door stop ?

  10. It is always a question of priority on Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs · · Score: 1

    Is it more important to keep the mass media machine and keep everyone afraid or helping people in real need.

  11. Barcelona vs Itanium in single and double float ? on AMD's Showcases Quad-Core Barcelona CPU · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What really interest me is how does it compare with single and double precision calculations. If AMD gets in the range of Itanium performaces will Intel follow and kill their own Itanium by boosting core 2 FP ?

  12. Re:This is so not serious on Weakness In Linux Kernel's Binary Format · · Score: 1

    You need either...

    -Root Access
    -Physical access

    One involve breaking and entry... not something that easy. My servers are behind some serious locks. No one logged root for the last 2 years. Sudo is the only access allowed for root things and is only allowed on the local console.

  13. Why not a universal heat generator ? on Self-Heating Coffee Cans Recalled · · Score: 1

    Just make a heater unit, put in the bottom of a Thermos bottle or cup, put coffee / tea / soup / meal on top, That's it... You could even buy the heating elements with different temp rating. Oh why patent these simple things in complicated single use cups ?

  14. Tomography on Three-Dimensional Structure of HIV Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    It would be nice to know what methods they used for tomography. With the latest methods it can be possible to get better Tomography resolution than the measurment device has by itself. The geometry of the measurement itself would be great to know too.

    Also it is today possible to solve many million unknowns by using stocastic inversion, something that was taking ages and truly huge amount of memory not so long ago, can now be done on a deskside.

    For example it is possible to reconstruct the shape of an asteroid using only a single value like light intensity or radio signal intensity over a period of time. That would be like a 1x1 sensor size with multiple projection and arbitrary geometry.

  15. Try this with Digital on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Northern lights are at about -3 to -6EV. Let's say we have a good lense F1.4 24mm

    Consider that northern lights are mainly at 557.7nm and 690.0nm, so using color film for the picture is maybe not as needed, might as well use filters and reconstruct it later digitally.

    To keep a very sharp image of the Nortern lights when they are moving a lot, you have to do it at about 1sec, 1/2s being better, I never needed faster than 1/8s.

    For -3EV that's about 3200ASA
    For -6EV that's about 12500ASA

    For slow moving thing the digital cameras are nowaday good enough and need about 15-30 seconds @ 400ASA.

    Too high ASA didgital settings give a lot of thermal noise, already at 400 it is noisy.

  16. Re:Do no harm? on Guidelines for GPLv3 Process Released · · Score: 1

    Does that mean you need to provide the source code to the target ?

  17. To be properly done ... on eBay Accused of Price Gouging Scheme · · Score: 2, Insightful

    here is something that might stop the last minute frenzy bidding ...

    Each time a new bid is entered the auction will last at least another 5 minutes. That in my opinion will be more auction like, more sport like and also fair.

  18. Re:Old news on Plant a Seed, Get Sued? · · Score: 1

    10 years ago...
    Milk came from cows, eggs from chicken, meat from dead cow, chicken, horse, pig ...

    Now...
    Milk comes from bag or card box, eggs from card box, meat from plastic wrapper ...

    How many of you still call their milk jar the moo ?

  19. Re:For statisticians... on Open Source Math Software For Education? · · Score: 1

    I use it for signal processing, it uses Blas-atlas lapack atlas, so it is as fast as anyone would like it for big problems.

  20. Unfolded cabling is the best ... on The Art of Cable Folding · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since I always compile everything with -funroll-loops I can't roll and fold my wires. Electrons do miss the curve if cables are bent too much you know !!!!

    Then, my office near the stairs, and I see NO point in preventing natural accidents like an IT manager falling down.

    BOFH

  21. Same as IBM 325 ??? on The Return of the Sun Workstation, With AMD's Help · · Score: 1

    I know this is a little late but after looking at pictures in this article, I find it interesting to see (IMO) and identical motherboard than in My IBM 325...

  22. They are a bit late on MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice · · Score: 2

    Valdgring is on freshmeat since "Sat, Mar 9th 2002 07:03 PDT" probably existed much long before... film came out in 2003 ?

    Twisted has a mailing list going since February 2001... the film came out in 2004 ...

    That's after 5 minutes of quick looking around ...

  23. Re:Too Far? on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 1

    A "user" cannot be allowed to do that on a properly setuped system.

  24. Re:2 choices ... on Using Debian in Commercial Environments? · · Score: 1

    and the tool you look for was:
    emerge gentoolkit
    glsa-check

  25. Re:2 choices ... on Using Debian in Commercial Environments? · · Score: 1

    I read the GLSA http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml then follow the instructions... I'll forward that idea to Gentoo folks ... if it doesn't already exist.