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  1. Re:Stay Put on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Being an "old guy" (43) now, I'm tempted to throw myself into learning COBOL. I imagine I could make a shit load of money consulting helping move COBOL legacy systems into the modern world...

  2. Re:Infinite control on How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    No, one thing that makes a FPS better is a GUN!

  3. Re:Macs on Apple Now Offering Free Recycling For PCs · · Score: 1

    The 12" Powerbook I've been thinking of selling is a 'Zero dollar value item', while Craigslist seems to value it > $100. Not a great deal if you ask me...

  4. Re:ooo ooo! on Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps · · Score: 1

    In the short term, gasoline use is inelastic, but over longer time scales, it's more elastic with purchasers of new vehicles opting for higher mileage.

  5. Re:Wait, what? on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 1

    At least they didn't put you in charge of Geography. Stanford is in California.

  6. Re:That's going to be cheaper... on Raspberry Pi $25 PC Goes Into Alpha Production · · Score: 1

    After a bit of searching (as opposed to talking out of my ass), suggestion withdrawn :-)

  7. Re:That's going to be cheaper... on Raspberry Pi $25 PC Goes Into Alpha Production · · Score: 1

    Likely, an HDMI port sporting TV will be cheaper than a "monitor" for a given size. The trouble is finding one small enough to be cheaper than the small monitor you were thinking of...

    BTW, does it seem funny that the HDTV this thing plugs into probably runs linux or a similar os, and probably has more compute power as well?

  8. Code Churn... on Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013 · · Score: 1

    Our product is going to require huge amounts of code churn to get IPV6 working. That's going to be ugly work on nasty legacy code...

  9. Re:Tax dollars on Share Links, Become Extradited To the US · · Score: 1

    I definitely am not defending the stupidity of extradition over this, and do not support the over-reaching of my US govt., but was specifically responding to the assertion that it was "tax dollars tossed to the trash to protect the interests of a few companies".

    Intelectual Property (for better or worse) is now a large part of the US economy and our exports, and we need to find a way to optimize not only our (the US) success with that, but humanities. (Yeah, I've been watching too many TED talks lately... :-)

  10. Re:Tax dollars on Share Links, Become Extradited To the US · · Score: 1

    Further, I wonder how many Slashdotters would change their tune about this if his link farm wasn't to entertainment media, but rather to expensive software developed in the US which added significantly to our GDP & exports...

  11. Re:Of course they are on Apple Adopts Bluetooth 4.0. Could It Reject NFC? · · Score: 1

    Apple's new monitor is the reason for Thunderbolt. I can 'dock' my laptop by connecting the Magsafe power connector and the 'data' connector (Thunderbolt), and all the other cords run into my monitor, including FW800, 1000Base-T Ethernet, USB, and possibly another monitor.

  12. Re:Lack of polish on Build Your Own Time Capsule Work-Alike For $200 · · Score: 1

    Not of directories. The trouble with hard-linking of directories is you can have filesystem loops that are more difficult to detect than with symlinks.

  13. Re:Facebook is a good tool on More Users Are Shunning Facebook · · Score: 4, Informative

    RAIW does not exist, as there is no such thing as an inexpensive wife.

  14. Not "from scratch"... on The 8-Bit Computer That's Been Built By Hand · · Score: 1

    He wired up a bunch of ICs. For "From Scratch", google 'toaster from scratch...

  15. Re:mugging on Trojan Goes After Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Heh, I just hacked it over your wifi link you forgot to turn off... Oh and there's a flaw in your bluetooth stack and I've got a good antenna, so I managed to hack it from your front yard. And it turns out that that CD with the new game you bought has a virus I wrote on it, and it re-enabled your wifi without displaying that it did so and is sending "all your base" to me.

  16. Re:And of course... on Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to know (and it may be known, but what I know about this is from following it on Slashdot :-) is whether there exists (in theory at least) a disconfirming experiment for the Higgs Boson. Or is the only way to "prove" it doesn't exist is just to never find it.

  17. Re:Some activities warrant excessive caution ... on Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics · · Score: 1

    Picture one person on the plane with a device designed to interfere with the avionics. The device looks like a cell phone, but when turned "off", it really goes into "interfere mode". This is why I see it as idiotic that the avionics aren't hardened well enough to deal with unintentional interference from devices designed to minimize interference...

  18. Re:Specific technical reason its not supported? on Want iCloud With Windows? Ditch the XP · · Score: 1

    Working in software, I have to believe that you're correct about the cost/benefit analysis, and that it's very often about QA/Testing costs for older releases rather than changed interfaces. Though on MacOS (both the older and OSX), I think the pace of API change is much higher than windows, so supporting older releases will be more onerous on the development side, rather than just the testing side.

  19. Re:what about harmony on Dispute Damages Would Exceed Android Revenues · · Score: 1

    Clean room matters in copyright, not in patents.

  20. Re:Remember this is an initial report on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    Isn't this plane fly by wire? If so, the stick should have been recorded as nose down, but the control surface as not responding...

  21. Re:Umm, no... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um no. The washer will hang in the direction opposing the acceleration you are undergoing. If you are upside down in the plane, diving toward the ground at 2G's, it'll feel like one G toward the floor of the plane (up).

  22. Re:Umm, no... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 2

    The articles I read stated that the nose was up, not down, and that was the problem, the plane was stalled, nose-up, flying too slow and falling out of the sky.

    Then again, having read stuff I know something about in the media, I know not to believe anything I read in the media.

  23. Re:Am I the only one on Fedora 16 Will Number UIDs From 1000 · · Score: 1

    This should use -print0 and -0 on the find and xargs, otherwise it fails on silly paths with spaces or other weird crap in them.
    Also, this only solves the issue of who owns the files, not issues related to stupid software with UIDs hard-coded in them...
    Really, it's a big problem, but not because the issue is complex, but because people (developers) do stupid stuff and tracking down all the implications and sources of the problems can be difficult.

  24. Obligatory... on Algorithm Glitch Voids Outcome of US Green Card Lottery · · Score: 1
  25. Re:No Surprise--Facebook is apparently not for new on Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media · · Score: 1

    You've got the wrong group of FB friends... At least for that content.