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  1. Swimming pool vs. cycling race on Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Worst. Analogy. Ever.

  2. Re:Don't evolve your business model on Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean evolve to a paid subscription model or such?
    Because that would be completely novel for a newspaper!
    Also; they're still using that business model.

    Any ideas as to the direction in which they should evolve?

  3. Re: Unbelievable on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    The exact opposite.
    It's about a pro-female-education teacher who fight anti-female-education people.
    The production values of this thing are actually very good.

  4. Re:Is a JPEG at 0% compression a RAW image? on Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    I can make you a JPEG file that is -90% smaller.
    Detailed instructions and all necessary code will be embedded in the IPTC comment tag.

  5. Re:You did Something vs. You didn't do Anything on Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format (petapixel.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't even need to post-process anything to make a fake photo.
    Just choose the right position to hide context from the photo, the right angle for emotional effect or simply ask people to do something or rearrange some objects.
    One could say that by even merely being present, a photographer influences the content of his photos.

  6. Minecraft has emerged as the sandbox game of the d on Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops (sdtimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Minecraft has emerged as the sandbox game of the decade

    ... for 10 year olds.

  7. Re:Computers against "prosecutorial discretion" on Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets · · Score: 1

    The complaints against the particularly-effective enforcement techniques are misguided and stupid — the laws need to change instead.

    Yeah, if we could just change the laws to a zero mph speed limit everywhere, all the time, then all speeding tickets would be valid and nobody would complain about that.

  8. Re:Follow the money on Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm actually surprised you don't hear this kind of thing more often.

    The vast majority of startups fail.

    Read https://s3.amazonaws.com/start..., especially chapter D.
    The vast majority of startups fail. This report claims 74% of startups fail due to premature scaling alone.

    Premature scaling seems to be exactly what has happened here; a company finding itself in a situation where it has to produce far more than it knows how to.

  9. I get airports (though the 5 mile radius may be debateable), but national parks... surely that's just commercial interrests?

  10. Re:PYPL shows C language share @ only 7.5% on Python Is On the Rise, While PHP Falls (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    They used the term "tutorial", which will by definition give higher scores to languages that were invented while the internet existed.
    Many active C developers will have learned their skill from tutorials in books.

  11. Re:Speechless on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    What? You mean you DON'T want everything in your live to be pink and fluffy and frilly and sweet and cudly and girly all the f**king time?

  12. Re:Reward networks for not upgrading on An Algorithm To Facilitate Uber-Style Dynamic Phone Tariffs (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Yey perfectly idealized capitalism!
    The customers will just go to a competitor who did invest in their network.
    Except that those competitor won't exist because it's far more profitable for all of them to stick together in not upgrading.

  13. 3000mAh vs. 600mAh on Huawei Battery Upgrade Means Dramatically Faster Charging For Mobile Devices · · Score: 0

    How is this a fair comparison?

    I can sell you a 0mAh battery that'll reach 100% of capacity in zero seconds.

  14. unannounced signature tutorial on Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? · · Score: 2

    another as yet unannounced signature tutorial that it teased would be "just as HUGE" as the Star Wars one. Any guesses on what that might be?

    No idea what it could be.
    I'm never going to get this.
    I'll get this when hell's FROZEN over.

  15. Re:Crocodiles should be easy to bribe ... on Head of Indonesia's Anti-Drug Agency Proposes Using Crocodiles To Guard Prisons · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or, just use an aligator repellent: http://www.wildlifeanimalcontr...
    Ammonia and human urine. I'm sure those will be VERY hard to find in a prison.

  16. Why? on With Respect To Gaming, Android Still Lags Behind iOS (bgr.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is iOS simply more profitable?
    Is Android harder to program or support?
    Is code easily portable?
    Do iOS devices have more hardware resources?

  17. Math uses ">" instead of "GT" and when we use that operator, we're doing math.
    End of discussion.

  18. I think the implication was to go the other way; give a score a lower rating due to bugs.
    Frankly, if a game is truly buggy, it should get two ratings; one for the game as-is and an extra one for the game as it would be without bugs.

  19. Re:Never mix business and ideology on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Back-Up Tool For Business? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is as much abandoned OSS as abandoned closed commercial software.
    The entire point of OSS licenses is that all software will be abandoned at some point.
    OSS guarentees that you have a fighting chance to keep it working yourself or atleast migrate.

  20. Re: short the stock on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    The world isn't binary.
    There are middle grounds between corporate capitalism and communism.

  21. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just make it go on long enough for "fundamental right" to mean "something the government gives you" and pretty soon they'll take some of the old ones back.

  22. Re:Business is different on Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix (coglib.com) · · Score: 1

    You took about 30 seconds to explain the goals, why do you think other people would be unable to do the same?

  23. Re:Ignorants on The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just remove all road signs for cities unless you get explicit written permission of all it's inhabitants.

  24. Sigh on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If in construction engineering, a single misplaced screw could the demolishion of an entire building, we'd still be living in caves.
    If, however, in software engineering a single misplaces screw causes minor inconvenience, all of a sudden we shouldn't be allowed to call it engineering.

  25. But it's not. AQ can be both above and below average.