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  1. Re:Samsung employs the footgun ! on Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update · · Score: 2

    Exposed as a 720p device over HDMI. The borders are for ads. Idiocracy style.

    If they really get desperate, they degrade your device further and show more ads.

  2. Re:Too close to "decimate" on Intel Launches Its First 10-Core Desktop CPU With Broadwell-E · · Score: 1

    Beaten to death with the bare hands of his fellow soldiers.

    Drawing lots would likely produce a better outcome vs. letting the PHB pick (stacked ranking). The Roman legions couldn't have worked with 50% of effort devoted to gaming rank and rate.

  3. Re:Multi-threaded applications on Intel Launches Its First 10-Core Desktop CPU With Broadwell-E · · Score: 1

    Edit the make script to pipe to separate logs.

    The autogenerated make isn't multithread aware enough, but there should be a project setting to use a custom make. Of course you will have to futz with each one. Once you get it down to a routine, you will have a really good bug report for the devs.

    The OS is doing backflips to mix those errors up like that, I bet fixing it speeds up compiles a tiny bit.

  4. Re:Canada gets screwed by the AGW scam on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Follow the links in that.

    Supposed manufacturer is 404.

    Supposed engine manufacturer appears to be one guy in Mexico.

  5. Re:Hockey-based renewable energy on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    None of those disadvantages would outweigh the cheating advantages for the home team.

  6. Re:Canada gets screwed by the AGW scam on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I think you should cook up some high concentration hydrogen peroxide. Just to prove how safe it is.

  7. Re:Man does not live by code alone on Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? · · Score: 1

    An 'aspiring coder' isn't ready to work on real projects. I feel sorry for the developers of any project someone with so little experience tries to help. The best they can do is just drive him away.

    He needs toy projects and he needs to live with his own mistakes.

  8. Re:Man does not live by code alone on Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? · · Score: 1

    So what? It's his first project. If he can't bring a toy project to 'completion', coding is not for him. The sooner he learns that, the better.

  9. Read less, code more. on Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? · · Score: 0

    Coders code. It's what we do.

    Write something. Anything.

    Create a screensaver, a simple unity game, it doesn't matter. Just code something up.

  10. Re:Irrational? on Feinstein-Burr Encryption Legislation Is Dead In The Water (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    What past service? She's always been useless.

  11. Are we on the hook for Greece's debt?

    Ha ha on you euro boy.

  12. Re:How about on California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The bay area as a whole is a little nuts.

    But SF is off the hook, batshit insane, loony left. The further you get away, the more sanity returns. (In general and Locally, LA has plenty of it's own insanity.)

    The computer revolution _could not_ have happened in SF proper.

  13. Re:Corporate lies... on Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    They expected to grow but were wrong. MS has nothing to do with the larger Nokia.

    Face facts. Nokia was eating shit before MS came into the picture. Stuck at feature phones.

    If Nokia was so healthy and growing before MS bought them, why did they sell so cheap?

  14. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Small pieces of sheet metal welded together, fasteners, parts of upholstery stitched together (there are more parts in a seat than a 4 banger engine), resistors, capacitors, transistors, ICs.

    People have posted exploded views of transmissions for you. About 100 parts. Engines are in the same ballpark.

    False dichotomy. Either someone who has rebuilt multiple engines is right or someone who simply says 'the engine must be at least 1/30 th of the total part count' is right. Toyota hasn't said there are thousands of parts in a motor, you did.

  15. Re:SO? You don't know COBOL!!! on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    30+ years ago, I learned a little COBOL (thinking it would get my 15 year old ass a tiny bit of respect from the mainframers). I would never admit it IRL.

    In college (decades ago) I listed the languages I could code in for a prof. It tailed off with me looking at the ground and mumbling 'cobol'. The professor noted at the time that everybody who can code in COBOL is embarrassed by that fact.

  16. Re:Finland, Microsoft on Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly there should be NO more loans to Greece. After all the EU is just making things worse, right?

    That's not what you want? You want more loans with no conditions? Expand the government to be 90% of the Greek economy? Lower the full pension age to 40? Good luck.

    The only answer is to kick the greeks to the curb. Let them borrow Drachma.

  17. Re:Corporate lies... on Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    How long is their product pipeline?

    20%/year isn't already a rapid decline?

  18. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    My point was be that electrical connections etc. wouldn't normally be counted as *moving* parts.

    Obviously never owned a ford or mazda.

  19. The wealthy elite are money grubbers, politicians are power grubbers. You know the difference, you said it yourself.

    At the crazy wealth edges money grubbers might turn into power grubbers, usually in old age. All the god damn politicians start and end with lust for power.

  20. Even commies know better than expropriating failed ventures.

  21. Re:Corporate lies... on Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Euthanasia is an ugly word. Call it a 75th trimester abortion.

  22. Re:Corporate lies... on Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    From upthread. Nokia net sales:
    2008 : 50.71
    2009 : 40.98
    2010 : 42.45
    2011 : 38.66
    2012 : 30.18
    2013 : 12.71

    MS bought them in 2014. You are apparently using an interesting definition of 'expanding'. Care to share? We can use a laugh.

  23. Re:Corporate lies... on Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure their checks cleared.

  24. In America, if you have a written contract it _all_ has to be in writing. Verbal contracts are a thing, but verbal additions to written contracts have no force.

  25. Re:Slut/Whore. on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Humor and dark truth are not mutually exclusive. I'd call them codependent partners.