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  1. Re:Sick on Unreal Engine Will Soon Allow Developers To Build Games Inside of VR (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Watching someone else' head motions is never anything like it matching your own. Unless you've worn one, you can't speak to that with any basis in reality.

  2. Re:Law or morality? on Kentucky Bill: Wait an Hour Before Posting Injuries To Social Media (kentucky.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of it as a massive site filled with their own little slashdots that are, more or less, self moderated.

  3. Re:Does it still have Pocket? on Firefox 43 Arrives With 64-bit Version For Windows, Android Tab Audio Indicators (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't flipping "about:config?filter=browser.pocket.enabled" enough?

  4. Start with "about:config?filter=browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete" - also consider "about:config?filter=xpinstall.signatures.required" if you need to use unsigned addons.

  5. Just stop. on The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    looks a bit like Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, towed in for repairs after a run-in with the Imperial fleet.

    Sure, in the same way a croissant does.

    Meaning, not at all.

  6. Re:Git manual on Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team · · Score: 1

    git pull [URL]
    [do stuff]
    git add [modified files/dirs] (might not be necessary, probably mixing up git and hg)
    git commit -m "message"
    git push

    WOW, That was so incredibly complicated! Seriously, I'm not seeing a difference (to the user) for basic use between svn and git. I'm speaking from the perspective of a user who has a few local repos for random things he's created.

  7. Re:CVS or Subversion on Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team · · Score: 1

    Serious question, as I'm not really a coder... what makes Git harder on newcomers than svn, cvs, and so on? I've touched git, hg, svn, and cvs, and of them, git/hg seem to be MUCH easier to work with than subversion or cvs (especially cvs - I hate more than is healthy).

    From my layman experience I'd consider git and mercurial more or less equivalent. The only downside I could see is how clients effectively get the whole branch history locally, which can grow to be pretty large if people aren't disciplined about avoiding large binary files and such.

  8. Re:Bad in any case on Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with the rear, where I presume the DC terminals are located? You should have little access holes in your rack so you can feed cables between racks if necessary. Doesn't take much, an inch of clearance is way more than you need - but it's enough to shove a console cable through if you need to access it from the wrong side,

  9. Re:Easy way.... on Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline · · Score: 2

    "Average" anyones don't buy datacenter equipment.

  10. it's not your damn job! on Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem' · · Score: 1

    "I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was so much work to be done. We had so many problems around the world. I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be."

    ... and you shouldn't have. It's not your damn job. There's IT people who are supposed to do that, not you. You created this problem by trying to run the chef's kitchen for him.

  11. Re:So, we need to scuttle the TPP. on TPP Scuttles Attempts To Fix Orphan Works · · Score: 1

    The TPP itself isn't a bad idea, the problem is the bullshit they're weaving into it that, really, doesn't have anything to do with it.

  12. Re:It's cars on Dirty Farm Air May Ward Off Asthma In Children · · Score: 1

    In Maine... where you hide indoors 85% of the year because it's either cold as hell outside or the mosquito swarms are like to murder you.

  13. Still pushing videos, eh? on More From Tim O'Reilly about the 'WTF?!' Economy (Videos) · · Score: 1

    I keep coming back to see if you've stopped shooting yourself in the foot.

    It appears that you have not.

  14. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    Just be sure to reinforce the frames and the walls as well. A steel door doesn't mean anything if the frame is rotting apart, or the wall is paper thin.

  15. Re:Impossible with #6 or lesser shotgun shot on New Telemetry Suggests Shot-Down Drone Was Higher Than Alleged · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go grab a model aircraft. Spin up the prop, and drop a piece of shot into the prop.

    You'll probably end up with a broken prop, without any appreciable ballistic energy being involved.

  16. Re:Really? on New Telemetry Suggests Shot-Down Drone Was Higher Than Alleged · · Score: 1

    The shot doesn't have to have much more than potential energy to break the thing. A prop hitting a stationary metal ball is destructive enough (to the prop)

  17. Re:Really? on New Telemetry Suggests Shot-Down Drone Was Higher Than Alleged · · Score: 1

    That's 200 feet, not 200 meters. HUGE difference.

  18. Re:As it was designed to be used... on Google Will Block Access To Its Autocomplete API On August 10 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, you just failed at formatting.

  19. Re:Curious on Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    My favorite are all the fucking goomoji in the subjects these days. "||mail.google.com/mail/e/" made a welcome addition to my uBlock filters...

  20. Re:Rings Around Uranus? on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    The supplier who gave them bad or subgrade steel should be, they're about to get reamed...

  21. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 5, Informative

    Heard on NPR this morning that they think it's an inside job, and has all the hallmarks of it being so.

    Apparently someone got tired of the all unethical behavior. Something about an account being free to create, but $20 to delete (and then not really being removed, or something like that)

  22. Re:Tidal? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Oh. To answer your question - I've recorded at 96khz and played it back at 1/4 speed, and I don't recall seeing a dead zone on the resulting audible spectrum. So I couldn't say anything about 48khz and beyond, and I'll also caution I was hardly being scientific about it.

  23. Re:Tidal? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    If I had anything that could reliably produce a sweep up there, I'd work on creating a graph for you. Sadly, I don't :|

    Not bad for a cheap recorder, though. Even the battery life is nice. The -only- problem I have with it is the chassis is 'noisy' - I have a bit of paper towel wedged between the battery and the battery access panel, to keep it from rattling. If you're not handling it actively, it's quiet.

  24. Re:Tidal? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    My $100 recorder picks up bird songs well beyond 20kHz. Doesn't seem to be aliasing either, as the pitch changes move harmonically and in the same direction as the stuff lower down that we can hear.

  25. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    Don't forget... They didn't build the A-10 and decide to put the GAU-8 in it - they took the GAU-8 and gave it wings. It's hard to beat that kind of focused purpose.