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  1. Re:6 Months? on Oracle Releases Java 10, Promises Much Faster Release Schedule (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    'var' is an item for lazy coders.
    Please explain ...

  2. In order to use phages you need to be able to easily identify the infecting bacteria.
    Which is actually super easy ...

    IOW this isn' some dumbbass western consipracy.
    No, it is dumbass western lazyness ...

  3. With western world you mean the USA.
    In Europe we have strict laws how to handle antibiotics, e.g. you can not by them in a drug store.
    On the other hand people are stupid, because they can not buy them, they think it is smart to only use half the package and keep the rest in reserve for "self treatment".
    The answer to that is now antibiotics with depot effect, you only get 3 pills, to take one each day. The effect of the pills lasts for 8 - 10 days.
    But likely just a matter of time till people again only take one pill and "safe" the others for "emergencies".

  4. Re:We can develop new antibiotics... on Can We Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria With Non-Antibiotic Drugs? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    If developing antibiotics would be so easy we had not a million death per year world wide to antibiotic resistent bacteria.

    Actually: we don't know at all how antibiotics work, we only have like 3 classes of antibiotica, and in each class less than a hand full of substances. Bottom line we have around 20 antibiotics at the moment. And thats it!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re:AI as commander ? on EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Biggest online game with concurrent players online in the same world (not split into multiple "worlds" or "shards" or "servers")
    Unfortunately much to many "unintuitive" game mechanics.

  6. Re:Good on Apple To Unveil a Cheaper iPad Next Week At Its Educational Event · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sure.
    There are even Apps that let you use your iPhone as touch bluetooth mouse for your iPad or Mac ...

  7. The topic is not about emergencies but about managers that assign extra work during the off time of their employees via email etc.

    Thats during an emergency situation angel'o'sphere and why very good communications networks got supported all over the USA for many decades.
    Well, I read /. often enough to know that the USA networks are barely better than 3rd world countries ...

    So what is your point?

  8. It is more south east, 5000km you can walk in 100 days ... even while gathering and hunting on the way.
    If it is super plausible I don't know. It was a BBC movie about Neanderthal humans, perhaps I can find it on youtube again :D

  9. Re:Good on Apple To Unveil a Cheaper iPad Next Week At Its Educational Event · · Score: 1

    We've seen several well-publicized, failed attempts at merging mouse and touch paradigms.
    You have some links for that?

    AFAICT mouse and touch works exactly the same ...

  10. Re:Good on Apple To Unveil a Cheaper iPad Next Week At Its Educational Event · · Score: 2

    BlueTooth mice work perfectly fine on iOS.

  11. Re:Who does that? on New York Councilman Proposes Bill That Would Grant NYC Workers 'Right To Disconnect' (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some jobs need that. Nuclear, chemical, medical, computer experts.
    Actually: NO!

    For safety reasons I prefer fresh workers taking over the work of the previous shift instead letting the previous shift work over time ... nuclear ... are you insane?

  12. Re:Worst possible message on the transporter on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but shields are regularly down and they send boarding teams.

  13. Re:Pretty sure this was a mythbusters episode. on Britain's Plan To Build a 2,000 Foot Aircraft Carrier Almost Entirely From Ice (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you read the article you link?

    Basically, they tried to build a boat with 'pykrete' in the arctic and found that it fell apart PDQ.
    Actually, it did not.

  14. Re:Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 0

    Well,
    a "friend" of mine is an USA military officer stationed in Germany.
    When he joined the forces 35 years ago, he was assigned to a "recconessence squad".
    They did 6h per day experiments about "out of body" traveling and viewing.

    No idea what you mean with "astral" ... that implies stars ... it has obviously nothing to do with out of body experiences or traveling.

  15. Re:Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    What is an OBE, shared OBE, or NDE?

  16. Re:The Mirror Universe. on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Because the evil guys use the razor to cut other peoples throats!
    So they can/dare not use it anymore for shaving themselves.

    Sigh, that was easy again.

  17. Re:An extreme metaphysical position on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Buddha himself.

    Did you meet him lately? How is the old chap?

  18. Re:Ya, well ... on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    And Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle has nothing to do with it anyway. We simply can not transport matter ...

  19. Re:Worst possible message on the transporter on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Actually they did.
    I don't remember if it was Deep Space Nine or which offspring of Star Trek, but they did medical stuff with transporter technology.
    Anyway, those SFs suffer from the fact that they don't use their own tech in a rational way.

    Want to kill a ship, transport a nuke inside. No need to torp it from outside.

    Want to conquer a ship, transport sleep gas inside ... etc. (not granades, the gas, directly where you want and need it).

    It is a bit complicated to make up a magic/science universe and make it work in itself. IMHO Star Trek failed greatly with that.

  20. Re:AI as commander ? on EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to play Eve Online.
    A good commander is more worth than a hundred troops, or thousand even. The biggest battles I have been in where about 3000 of our own forces, no idea about the enemy.
    You would be surprised how many of the "good commanders" are Russians. I only remember one American, but he was a Russian immigrate, Makala or something was his name (fleet commander of tripple A).

    Ha ... could now write a long rant about the different ways of how "typical americans" versus "typical russians" versus "typical british" do their commanding ... but I guess it would bore most of the people.

    But I miss the voice of Ekatarina, Titan pilot, most female angel like voice I ever have heard, a Russian Lady ofc.

  21. Re:The answer? on EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Most old school games don't need aim bots, well people used them anyway.

    E.g. the size of all humans in the game are the same.

    So if you hear one coming around the corner, you exactly know where his head will be. If he is crouching you hear that too, and again you know exactly where his head will be when he comes around the corner.

    You just have to practice a bit for your preferred distance to the corner and you can intuitively head shot everyone coming around it. No aim bot needed at all ... but you likely get kicked from the game by the other players because they accuse you to use an aim bot.

  22. Somewhat yes.
    Somewhat not :D

    Use your own judgement.

    BTW the most recent reconstructions depict most "humans" as more or less hairless, while the "original Neanderthal models" depicted them as kind of apes with hair all over the body.

  23. Re:To Be on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    That is a funny movie/animation!
    And insightful, too!

  24. Then look at pictures of them?

    They look as different as a chimp versus a bonobo versus an orang versus a gorilla.

  25. Re:No, COMPULAB Switched on Linux Mint Ditches AMD For Intel With New Mintbox Mini 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nitpicking very much?
    The terms microcomputer and minicomputer are no longer in use, in their original sense, since ... 30 years? 40 years? Ah, perhaps only 25 years ...
    Anyway, my university time I spend with PC (Macs and Windows), Workstations, mainframes and supercomputers ... there where no minis or micros ...