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  1. Facebook's Next Defensive Purchase... on Facebook To Buy WhatsApp · · Score: 1

    The new and exciting "Smoke Signal" app. 1 puff signals "danger", 2 puffs for the "all clear" and of course 3 puffs for "party at my place".

  2. Facts Folks on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    US has traditionally had a much lower fraud rate than the UK so there was no motivation.

    The UK fraud rate was much higher but chip and pin has helped bring it down to match US levels (in 2010 US cc fraud rate=.085, UK=.070, first time UK was lower)

  3. SlashDot Beta on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    The only thing missing are Live Tiles

  4. My experiences on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My experiences: each of my 3 kids encountered two completely ineffective/incompetent teachers in junior high and zero in elementary and high school (although we were aware of 1 in elementary that we fortunately did not have to deal with).

    It wasn't that many but the level of incompetence was astounding and nothing could be done.

  5. Would Chip and Pin Have Prevented This? on Michaels Stores Investigating Possible Data Breach · · Score: 1

    The data was stolen from the POS device's ram during the brief amount of time it was there. Would Chip and Pin prevent using any of that data later on? Seems like the pin would have to be in mem at some point also, but I don't really know.

  6. Re:The problem is in the subtext on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    Ya, it's pretty weird. In our DC we have people running around doing this work and some of the orders are mail order/ecom and some are wholesale and some are for our retail stores...but they have no freaking idea which is which, they are performing the exact same tasks, filling a tote full of goods from the pick bin and placing the tote onto the conveyor.

  7. Re:Robots on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    They've already done the calcs (so has everyone managing a dc), human labor is expensive and so there is a lot of money available to pay for automation.

    For an average sized DC of about 250,000 sq ft and using 1,000 robots to replace 100 to 200 pickers/putaway people (still need packers and others), it would pay for itself after a few years.

  8. Nokia retained rights - could make phones on Nokia Still Experimenting With Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Nokia retained rights to their brand and logo, only restricted from using logo for 2 years (until 2015). Nokia could introduce an android phone in the near future if they want to.

  9. Mine are safe on Bitcoin Thefts Surge, DDoS Hackers Take Millions · · Score: 4, Funny

    in the couch

  10. I'm confused by your comment. Why wouldn't Oracle or any company do whatever they want with a company they just purchased?

  11. It's not 500m LOC on Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Why anyone would believe that number from the NY Times is beyond me.

    If you have any experience with even medium sized software projects, you will realize it's a typo. They started coding this spring, of 2013, I doubt they even have 5 million lines. Maybe 500,000.

  12. Re:Rearrange the deck chairs. on How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That site isn't that complicated and there's nothing new and innovative on it. If they brought in the right people and busted ass for a few weeks they could have an open source alternative built and tested.

    Oh, ok, a few weeks? My largest project was orders of magnitude smaller than this project and you couldn't even complete testing in a "few weeks". I don't think you have any clue the complexity of this project or time required for large/complex projects.

  13. It was SEQUEL first on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    Yes, people sometimes mispronounced it, but that is due to ignorance

    Actually, the ignorance is people that aren't aware that it was originally called SEQUEL and then renamed to SQL. There have been various products over the years on various platforms with the SEQUEL name (80's and early 90's). The pronunciation has been both ways, although as time goes on there are many people like yourself that just aren't aware of the history and other pronunciation and so it continues to fade.

  14. "regular property" on IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million · · Score: 1

    Ownership of "regular property" is just as pretend as anything else. It's based on laws we created with the protection of our legal/justice system. Without that anyone could take your home that wants to and has the physical power to do it.

  15. Re:Back out the last upgrade on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like the new design more...than AOL...but just barely

  16. Beeks? on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 3, Funny

    What if there was a guy named Beeks that had the report in his briefcase and traveled to the exchange in advance of the public announcement, and there were 2 men and a woman that intercepted the report and used it to their advantage while swapping it with a fake report which was given to the original people?

  17. Re:Amusing on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1

    Ok, pretend you're a car sitting on an oil tanker...

  18. Re:wrong wrong wrong on Amazon Angling For Same-Day Delivery Beyond Groceries · · Score: 1

    I don't think you are up on current events. Amazon currently has about 60 facilities in the US and is planning on building more in every single state to achieve the same day delivery model.

  19. Edward, is that you? on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 4, Funny

    I once lived there. I've been a tourist there a couple of times. I don't think I'll ever set mu foot there again. Good luck.

    There's a great Piroshky stand in the East terminal of the airport, you should try it.

  20. Re:double versus long double on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 1

    IBM 360 and 370 mainframes have had 128 bit floating point since the 60's

  21. An Idea (dumb?, good? you decide) on Ask Slashdot: How To Deliver a Print Magazine Online, While Avoiding Piracy? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Make the advertisements and credits for your web site part of your content in a way that it's too much work to remove so the copied versions retain this stuff. Like watermarks in images, maybe an article delivered as an image with advertising and credits, etc. Then embed tracking links so you can demonstrate to advertisers the total "viewage".

  22. Junk DNA Research on Carnivorous Plant Ejects Junk DNA · · Score: 2

    Recent research showing how junk DNA is involved in brain development:
    http://machineslikeus.com/news/brain-development-guided-junk-dna-isnt-really-junk-0

  23. Re:Neural networks revisited on The New AI: Where Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Meet · · Score: 1

    I'm curious why you characterized nn's as linear? They are universal function approximators and their power comes from approximating non-linear functions.

  24. Exactly right: he's naive on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Products don't sell themselves. Companies that aren't aggressive with getting their message out/marketing and paying top dollars to good salespeople are called bankrupt.

  25. Car Analogy on LHCb Experiment Observes New Matter-Antimatter Difference · · Score: 1

    It's normal to find coins under the seat, this time they found coins inside the seat.