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  1. Never mind.

  2. Gratuitous Star Trek: First Contact link on Why the Raspberry Pi Zero Isn't a Practical Tool For Teaching Students (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, about 0.68 seconds. Why? Was it supposed to be complicated?

    For an android, that is nearly an eternity.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Re:What second paragraph? on Why the Raspberry Pi Zero Isn't a Practical Tool For Teaching Students (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe punishing programmers for copy/paste is a feature, not a bug.

  4. Let's try it. I will insert such a tag.

    Did that work?(another tag)

    I believe it did.

  5. Psychotic weapons? on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    What are psychotic weapons? Or did you mean "psychic"?

  6. Re:So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    If you send information faster than light, then the information is going backwards in time wwith respect to some reference frame.

  7. Re:The Invisible Hand on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhap the OP meant "exorbitant"?

  8. Re:How can there be? on No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that you still need gas (or used to). Gas taxes aren't unlimited in the same way.

  9. What kind of idiot would set a zip code to 12345? With apologies to Spaceballs

  10. If Clerks were programmers on Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security · · Score: 1

    This software would be great if it weren't for the f#@king users!

  11. Re:What about solar power? on Proposed Lapcat II Hypersonic Airliner: Brussels to Sydney in Less Than 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    The sun doesn't burn hydrogen (how much oxygen is in the sun?); it fuses it.

  12. Re:Is that big? on Million-Square-Foot Data Center Being Built In Dallas · · Score: 1

    A square kilometer is 1,000,000 square meters, which is 10,000 ares or 100 hectares. A million square feet about 9.3 hectares.

  13. Re:Is that big? on Million-Square-Foot Data Center Being Built In Dallas · · Score: 1

    No. a million square feet is the area of 1000 feet by 1000 feet. A square kilometer is almost 11 times the area (3281 by 3281 feet).

  14. Re:That'll make everyone a programmer on Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding · · Score: 1

    I distinctly remember a TA in my C+ class

    You only got a C+? Maybe you should study harder.

  15. Re:Someone chose PostgreSQL for their use case on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 2

    no use cases in which we all go into armchair mode and have endless debates already hashed out a million times over.

    Yes, this is slashdot.

  16. Can they do it? on BlackBerry's Survival Plan: the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    How hard is it to reposition a company?

  17. Re:Science vs Faith on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    Lead has very high density and very little hardness.

    Isn't that what the the "inversely" in the GP's post means?

  18. Re:they will defeat themselves on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    When did Rome ever ban teaching math? Also, I suspect that Rome was already an imperial power, a state that ISIS hasn't yet reached.

  19. Re:OR on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    What? No Enos Slaughter?

  20. Re:Tradition on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    Typing is more work? I'd rather type LaTeX than use a GUI math editor.

  21. Two numbers are relative prime if they lack a common prime factor. For example, 14 and 15 are relatively prime. How this corresponds to the GP's post is not so clear.

  22. Re:Not today though - America has no honour left on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer that American soldiers and spies misuse the word "honor".

  23. Re:Nice try cloud guys on The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes · · Score: 1

    I would guess that "agnostic" means "not bound by assumptions about the clients connecting to our servers".

  24. Ballmer and Allen on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    What happens when the Clippers play the Trailblazers?

  25. Re:What a punishment on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, Blake Griffin! It looks like you're attempting a slam dunk. Would you like some help?