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  1. Re:Google on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 0

    Steve Jobs had pancreas cancer.
    Which is uncurable with "modern medicine".
    So when/if he chooses to live his life in dignity and die on his own will, it is his choice,

  2. Re:Google on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Homeopathic treatments cost close to nothing ... that is why they are covered by health insurance.
    "Trying on" costs nothing at all. However relying on one when surgery is the optimal way to go is dumb.

  3. Re:Tether keeps 1 US dollar for each tether on US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the shop around my corner where I buy my flour to bake my pancakes from, has an extra pound of flour for every pound I buy to bacck my baking. And if I really need some flour I can trade in my flour for some flour from the bbaccking to bake more pancakes!

  4. Re:âoeCryptoâ is not a synonym for on US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I as well will apreciate the time when we all say: uug! hug! ogg! ogg huug, uug! And everyone knows what we are talking about.

  5. Re:Faster Colsole would have messed up NTSC Output on Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years (polygon.com) · · Score: 0

    I pointed out that there is plenty of tollerance.
    So, in which way am I wrong?

  6. Re: Full Facebook machines? on Apple Could Use ARM Coprocessors for Three Updated Mac Models (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, look at it this way:
    American immigration officers ask you for your social media account passwords.
    Would they want your /. password, too, or not?

  7. Re:Faster Colsole would have messed up NTSC Output on Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years (polygon.com) · · Score: 0

    Analog TVs don't need to ccalculate anything from sycfh signals.
    That is why they are called that way, the signal iself is the synch.

    Old analog TVs work like a oscilloscope, they simply use the signal to drive the electron beam.
    Unless you are so far out of specc that your TV physically can not handle it (filters), it does not care if you have a 24 half picture or any other 'frequenccy', most certainly it is completely immune to shifts in frequency ...

    Heck, how do you think fast forward on a video recorder is displayed on a TV?

  8. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the ccountry.
    In mine by courts.
    In Somalia or South Sudan by guns.

    Why that stupid question?

    Obviously the word 'backed' has different meanings in different contexts like 'law' and 'money'.

    Most certainly law is not 'backed' by a secure storage of a commodity, like a 'backed currency' would be.

  9. Re:The same as on earth. Perhaps a little calmer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    If I hit parent parent parent to ccome to my original post, the only awnser to my post is yours.
    Treshhold has nothing to do with that ... tiger!
    Or what is the opposite of a clown ... confused.

  10. Re:Indian ... not hebrew on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    citations are easy found via google, or other search engines.

  11. Re:Indian ... not hebrew on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot history ... just search it.
    Or google ...

  12. Re:When did Americans become so INSANELY afraid?? on False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said 'This Is Not A Drill' (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The only thing you could do is getting into an underground parking space. Or a real anti missile/anti nuclear shelter. A standard basement would help if you are far away enough from ground zero.

    However if you nock at the door of a random house, showing the missile alert, I wonder if the inhabitants would let you hide in thier basement :)

  13. Indian ... not hebrew on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: -1

    The manuscript was 'decoded' long ago, probably nearly two deades ago.
    It is written in an americcan indian language.

    No idea why people who have the internet ready to 'google' a bit waste time to build an 'AI' for text processing ... and then come to the wrong result.

  14. Re: Full Facebook machines? on Apple Could Use ARM Coprocessors for Three Updated Mac Models (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I have absolutely ZERO social media accounts.
    You are mistaken. You have an account on /.
    And I would not wonder if there is one or two more Wiki/Forum/Discussion sites where you have an account. An old delicious account perhaps, or on reddit?

  15. Re:There goes Hackintosh on Apple Could Use ARM Coprocessors for Three Updated Mac Models (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    And the remaining use a Mac and write for CentOS or SUSE or Red Hat in Java ...

  16. Re:Faster Colsole would have messed up NTSC Output on Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years (polygon.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Old time TV sets were fully analogue.
    There is no 'tolarance' for frequencies, everything that goes through the capacitors ends up on the screen.
    As long as all the signals are coherent in relation to each other (the electron beam jumps to the next line at the end of the line and not in between) a TV will render a screen or a sequence of screens just fine in a HUGE soectrum of frequencies.

    I had a NEC myltisynch 3D and an Arcon Archimedes, we run that combo in any thinkable weird screen set up the NEC could handle.

  17. How do you figure that?
    And how did he file for the record?
    I mean if you write it by hand, my hand written 5.51 would read 5.57 for an american.

  18. Re: how do you figure out who's hot or not? on One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I once met the former minister of foreig affairs, Kinkel, in the streets of Karlsruhe, when I was on my way to a club, late night.
    Took me a few hundret yards after I passed him to recognizze who it was. If he had not laughed at me, when I passed him with my bike, he would have been out of my mind 5 yards later, and I never had known who I just had passed.

  19. Re: how do you figure out who's hot or not? on One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is easier to reccognize random 'famous' people (you probably see daily in the news) than people you are actually aquinted with when you meet them at the wrong time at the wrong spot.

    I have a new coworker. Or more precisely, he has a new coworker, namely me. The first time we met at work, I sit besides him in the same room, he greeted me like an old fellow and proclaimed to our boss that he knew me since years.

    I had sworn I never had seen him before. He even knew my first name. Turned out we frequent the same Irish pub and he knew me since years, but I never 'memorized' him as 'a regular'.

    A few days ago I went to a different Irish Pub, on the way to the toilett, I passed him in a distancce of less than a yard, looking at his face: I did nit recognize him. Because I expected no one sitting there which I 'should recognize'.

  20. Re:Static typing; sharing server logic with browse on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    most assembler programmers 'in the old time' invented their own 'business high level assembler' languages that they interpreted with a relatively small interpreter.
    Besides that we basically we only had two crowds, language wise: the FORTRAN / COBOL crowed that from different points of views wanted to write compilers; and the LISP / Smalltalk crowd that were in the early steps of working with OO concepts, IDEs and other unique things, like the Smalltalk images.
    Then again suddenly the C crowed popped up, but I would put them into the operation systems crowd. They basically only invented C and its predecessor to easy port their toy operation systems to new processors, untill they suddenly where no longer toy operation systems :) and C evolved into a more mature language and had then its offsprings like C++.
    I guess in all crowds they made retarded stuff ... but also in most of them they fixed it a good deal over time.

  21. Re:Static typing; sharing server logic with browse on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The other important things, like dynamic dispatch (calling methods that don't exist and provide runtime glue to 'interpret the call') is only possible because the languages are dynamic typed.
    The typesystem (and meta type system, and meta object protocol) is the most important part of SmallTalk and OO LISP variations.

  22. Re:Javascript isn't the problem. It's the browsers on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they worked with SmallTalk.
    The GoF guys are not the unit testing guys ...
    The GoF actually did work mostly with C++, however they analyzed code in other languages, too, to find patterns.

  23. Re:Language choice is complex on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously I was talking about new projects.
    Yes, usually the developers _make the decission_
    Management only formally signs it, because they have no clue about technology and languages but usually trust the team somehow.

    Anyway, I understand your suffering, shudder :)

  24. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When do you finally get it?
    The are enforced by law..

    There is no force in it nor any backing.

    If currencies would be 'backed' by 'force', I could exchage money for 'force' at the central bank.
    However I can't exchange them for anything, because they are not backed by anything.

    If I would print my own currency I would be free to back it by anything I wanted ... if I and the users would accept the osts of backing e.g.

  25. Re:The same as on earth. Perhaps a little calmer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately no one else replied :)
    And fortunately I passed all my physics exams :P