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  1. Re: Reminds me of the B ship on Mars One: Final 100 Candidates Selected · · Score: 1

    Perfect quote. Thanks for that

  2. single use devices sold at premium in future? on Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video · · Score: 1

    Wonder how long it will be before tv's amp's speakers etc will be sold at premium because they have no 'smart features'?

  3. Re: Looks really sketchy... on Art Project Causes Atlanta Police To Close Highway and Call Bomb Squad · · Score: 1

    Thanks for picture ( box duct-taped to bridge ). If no notification was given to bridge authorities and permission granted then taping that to bridge was nuts. uni should be sued

  4. more reason for https as default for all sites on Fixing Verizon's Supercookie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Adding cookie headers into isp traffic only possible for http. If ISP terminating https traffic that is a bit GCHQ/NRA level.

  5. so we have a 1 generation solution on FDA Wants To Release Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Florida · · Score: 1

    Consequence of evolution is genes in organisms which fail to breed mean others that adapt to change will produce the next generation. Am I missing something?

  6. Re: Why Sell, they should Rent on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 2

    Now that is an interesting idea. Create a marketplace for leasing spectrum to commercial market on bandwidth range,duration and Locality.

    Far better than mass block allocation in perpituaty.

  7. who is this idiot writing article? on Your High School Wants You To Install Snapchat · · Score: 1

    Doesn't make any sense.

  8. Re: Or just practicing for an actual job on Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Well said. The whole point of education is to build core principals which requires hard work.

  9. Re:Why isn't the U.S. doing things like this? on Japan To Offer $20,000 Subsidy For Fuel-Cell Cars · · Score: 1

    well informed comments like this is why I keep reading Slashdot comments. thanks

  10. Re:Often we do this to ourselves. on Fixing the Pain of Programming · · Score: 1

    "Most programmers think something should be a certain level of difficulty. And when a project turns out to be easier than they think it should be, they add artificial complexity until it reaches the expected level of difficulty"

    I like this. seen it a lot never seen it expressed so clearly. mind if I re-use?

  11. Re: I think people just won't own these cars on Nissan Leaf Prototype Becomes First Autonomous Car On Japanese Highways · · Score: 1

    shared insurance liability could be a great way of getting over what are likely to be a small number of high profile law suits in early days of adoption. as you say works great for vacination.

    on side note people always quote the deaths from auto accidents. don't forget to multiply the figure by about 3 for accidents resulting in serious injury where long term care and support needed.

  12. same rule i always apply on 20-Somethings Think It's OK To Text and Answer Calls In Business Meetings · · Score: 1

    1) I call meeting in which case have screen up and lasts no more than 30 min to get clarity
    2) big 'status meeting' leave when last action with my name on comes on.
    3) get bored or have something to do so walk out.

    got called out on 3 loads of times never actually harmed career.

  13. this is brilliant on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 1

    don't hide from our data collection overlords just confuse the hell out of them.

  14. biggest worry is consistency on Futuristic Highway Will Glow In the Dark For Icy Conditions · · Score: 1

    you are on a glow I dark, ice warning, lots of warning for bends road and get used to it; then you hit one without expecting then to be there.

  15. keep it simple on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media? · · Score: 1

    a 2tbytes attached to router costs about $200. I then mount desktop and my documents on pc we have to it.

    the Mac can also mount drive but sadly not as fluidly as above.

    for pads and phones use ' es file explorer' folk can decide which video ,music files they want offline.

    I have separate 2tbyte attached to nas via usb so backup using rsync every month ( then pop into loft ).

    in home use cabling around house so heavy duty editing of video and raw photos don' t suffer lag.

    key principal is everything on nas is ' safe' ( but see loft thing) everything local is copy.

    figured out how to share music playlists between devices with a partial view of all content available. cannot recommend vlc for desktop and poweramp for android enough.

  16. There is a lot more to realism rendering on 2000x GPU Performance Needed To Reach Anatomical Graphics Limits For Gaming? · · Score: 2

    I think main challenge is the interaction between player and environment. On something like MW3 that is limited to blowing up the odd chicken, window or set piece designed into game.

    I want to swish my ( virtual ) hand through a river and see ( and feel ) the water flow around it.

    Any true physics model would require awesome cpu capacity. We have at one end mindcraft ( where the atoms are decidely blocky ) and second life ( where behavioural programs can be attached to objects).

    My dream would be a virtual universe with atoms large enough to fit 1000 times current cpu capacity but behaves like a 'real' experience.

    By 'atom' i mean the simplist construct in this universe which satisfies greatest potential complexity but still cpu possible.

    In conclusion future 'games' will not be about fps or polygons per sec but model calculations.

  17. Re:Why not lossy-compress 24bit/192kHz? on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    Agree with above. Why not record at max available then downgrade to 48/16 bit for delivery?

    Every generation wishes the one before had recorded in format which at time was useless but adds oodles of additional data for future 'high fidelity'

  18. Why any coding metric is futile on The Futility of Developer Productivity Metrics · · Score: 1

    I got first job doing COBOL back in 1995. Second code change I did I got called into managers office.

    He asked how I felt about change. I stated it was easy being only 2 line change to 1 module.

    That change saves us 2 million ukp a year he says.

    Ever since tried to write as little as possible . Amazing what you can do when you understand the problem , understand the code and find the one change that does it.

    Not sure my method of wandering through code, chatting to everyone and then submitting a 4 line commit would fit with IBM

  19. BBC takes great care of user data on BBC Crowdsources 3G Coverage Map · · Score: 1

    As an ex-employee with no direct experience of this project but experience of this culture they will take great care of this data.

    But mistakes are possible so any security flaws etc make sure they know quickly to correct.

    If they haven't already they are probably more than happy to provide info on exactly what data points they are recording

  20. Https? on Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet · · Score: 2

    Internet last time I checked was just a commonly recogised way of routing ip packets.

    I think they security is whatever protocol you choose to use on top of that.

    I hear that ssl Is a popular choice these days. Does suffer from being 'open source' rather than a nice secure private protocol you can buy but seems to be quite popular.

  21. Re:Not exactly -- there are engineering reasons to on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    Never got my head around river silting before so thanks for above as makes perfect sense ( particularly bit about the race between higher levees and silt level ). Can you point me to dummies guide to river and flood plain management from engineering perspective?

  22. Definition of a 'data centre' on US Gov't To Close 137 Data Centers In 2011, More By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Google have ones needing a hydro-electric plant to power.

    Our it team call the locked cabinet downstairs as another

  23. tis called https on Deep Packet Inspection Set To Return · · Score: 1

    quite effective at deep packet inspection and other man in middle attacks.

  24. This could work in one of 3 ways none very good on Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App · · Score: 1

    1) a true swf to html5/JavaScript engine on the fly - believe that when I see it running

    2) slurps out any rtmp url's it finds doing dynamic conversion to h.264 - won't work with sites using dynamic logic inside swf to assemble resource URL

    3) virtual machine on server running flash which then streams result to iPhone - huge expense for app owner

    Plus not sure sites using rtmpe like hulu would work

  25. 50cents per gbyte per month on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    Is worst case for redundant secure two site storage for volumes over 2tbytes