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  1. Re:And the hardware? on Nvidia To Cease Producing New Drivers For 32-Bit Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Protected mode, in this case, means that virtual memory is activated, so your processes aren't all sharing a single memory space where everyone can see everyone else's data.

  2. This isn't Anything New on Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just a continuation of what has been existing federal government policy for the last six years:

    Federal Cloud Computing Strategy

  3. The Comments of August on Thirty Countries Use 'Armies of Opinion Shapers' To Manipulate Democracy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If nothing is done to stop the nations of the earth from talking, we're but a single crisis away from World Argument I. Imagine an entire generation of youth lost to the comment sections of the Western Front.

  4. Re:Tizen? on Slashdot Asks: Does the World Need a Third Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    Hates static typing, even.

  5. Re:Tizen? on Slashdot Asks: Does the World Need a Third Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    From what I hear, big chunks of Tizen were developed by someone who hates dynamic typing so they're passing everything around via typedef'ed void pointers.

  6. Weird But True... on Scientists Race To Create Synthetic Blood in the Wake of Mass Tragedies (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    A decade ago, the president of the California Medical Association was Dr. Richard S. Frankenstein:

    http://www.cmanet.org/news/pre...

  7. What about the process... on Scientists Race To Create Synthetic Blood in the Wake of Mass Tragedies (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    ...specifically requires mass tragedy to create the synthetic blood? Is it some Fullmetal Alchemist "Law of Equivalent Exchange" type thing?

  8. "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman on Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From 1962, the Pulitzer Prize winning account of how World War I started.

  9. Re:Great! on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Or watch this much shorter video on why the anti-Strarfordian argument is bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. Well, eventually the fact that all of Uber's cars are stuck at one spot will assure someone comes to do something about the branch.

  11. Feel free to leave. No one will miss you.

  12. Re:"While this is exciting news" on New Work Suggests That P Is Not Equal To NP (arxiv.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    or one is a subset of the other

    P is already known to be a subset of NP. The question is whether it is a proper subset (P != NP) or not (P = NP).

    Evidence that P = NP means all cryptography is doomed to fail.

    Exciting news is obviously not always good news.

  13. "While this is exciting news" on New Work Suggests That P Is Not Equal To NP (arxiv.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since P != NP is the expected answer, is this news really that exciting? Evidence that P = NP is the one that would actually be exciting, since it would suggest the existence of an unknown algorithm that handles certain problems far more efficiently than the currently known alternatives.

  14. Thanks UC Berkeley... on Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad Can Make You Feel Worse (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    Now I feel bad about feeling bad about feeling bad!

  15. Let's Look at the One Example on Astrophysicist Believes Technologically-Advanced Species Extinguish Themselves (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Why hasn't our species heard from other intelligent civilizations elsewhere in the universe?

    Our ability to detect civilizations is currently based on them producing high power omnidirectional radio signals.

    Our own species, after a little more than a century of use, we are already increasingly abandoning that technology in favor of things like fiber optics and low power spread spectrum radio. It could be that intelligent civilizations aren't silent, they've just stopped using telecommunications we can easily detect.

  16. Re:Canceled. on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is something I've noticed at my own company. The senior management comes up with a plan that has obvious flaws to it, and then when the easily foreseeable results of those flaws occur, seem completely mystified at how these events came to pass.

    But I keep getting told they deserve to be making multiple times what I do because they're just so much more talented than me.

  17. It's Really About Control on Young Men Are Working Less. Some Economists Think It's Because They're Home Playing Video Games. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The people like these researchers see young men not as people, but merely as tools that exist to serve their ends.

    Thus the researchers see any time young men spend on things that interest them rather than "being productive" as time being "stolen" from the society that owns them.

  18. Rudyard Kipling on Hacker Behind Massive Ransomware Outbreak Can't Get Emails From Victims Who Paid (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
        To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
    "We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
        Unless you pay us cash to go away."

    And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
        And the people who ask it explain
    That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
        And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

    It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
        To puff and look important and to say: --
    "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
        We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

    And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
        But we've proved it again and again,
    That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
        You never get rid of the Dane.

    It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
        For fear they should succumb and go astray;
    So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
        You will find it better policy to say: --

    "We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
        No matter how trifling the cost;
    For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
        And the nation that pays it is lost!"

  19. Re:Illegal speech? on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 2

    The classic yelling fire in a crowded theater is a good example.

    You do realize this quote was the Supreme Court's justification of why it's okay for the government to jail anti-war protesters?

  20. I think they mean to change meal times before you leave on the trip.

  21. Re:Not defending Walmart but... on Hundreds of Walmart Employees Say They've Been Punished For Taking Sick Days (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do sick days even exist as a concept.

    Because the type of employees most companies want like them. If you don't offer sick days, you're stuck with the leftovers that they companies who did offer sick days passed on.

  22. Re:Points? on Hundreds of Walmart Employees Say They've Been Punished For Taking Sick Days (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    On a separate note, as an entrepreneur, I don't get paid when I don't work.

    If your business is earning a profit you do.

  23. Re:Don't allow blocking or spoofing of CallerID on After Bomb Threats, FCC Proposes Letting Police Unveil Anonymous Callers (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see why commercial interests should be able to spoof their CallerID even after verification.

    Because the number I'm being called from (TechCo minion #2683's extension) is not the number I would want to use to call them back (Tech Co customer service number).

  24. Reversing Cause and Effect on The Older the Doctor, the Higher the Patient Mortality Rate, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Older doctors who saw high volumes of patients didn't see their patients' mortality rates increase.

    I think they're reversing cause and effect here. Doctors whose patients keep dying have fewer customers left.

  25. Doesn't Know What He's Talking About on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You will have to pay to dispose of your old vehicle.

    A car contains more than a ton of steel. Even if personally owned cars are all banned, people will still pay your for them just for the scrap metal they contain.