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  1. Moderators, please upvote this AC's post ^^^^^^^^^

  2. Finally Ajit Pai does something for consumers on FCC Chairman Warns of 'Regulatory Intervention' as He Criticizes Carriers' Anti-Robocall Plans (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Finally the FCC does something for consumers. I get as many as five robocalls a day with spoofed caller id on the T-Mobile network. The telcos need to secure their networks to stop devaluing the money I pay them. Since consumer complaints haven't gotten any action, at least the FCC is finally doing something. BTW: I got another robocall with spoofed caller ID while typing this ... I wonder if the vmail will be in mandarin, which has been a new development.

  3. Re: Well, why do modern aircraft allow pilots to c on New Satellite Network Will Make It Impossible For a Commercial Airplane To Vanish (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Who wrote the code the computer runs to make decisions? A human! Why do you trust human written code to recover in an emergency more than a human pilot trained to respond to emergency situations?

  4. I wonder how much design or testing they've done to prevent Rowhammer flaws. The smaller the geometry the less charge is held.

  5. Not bullshit (Re:Press the panic button) on Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit? Look at the table in this from ARM listing all the affected ARM architecture processors from ARM.

  6. It is about $$$ on Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    The cheapest Chromebook is twice the price of a low cost brand name Android tablet. But why anyone would pay Chromebook prices for one of the so-called "premium" Android tablet is beyond me.

  7. He wasn't jailed for refusing to give police his passcode, he was jailed for refusing a court order from a judge. That is vastly different than a police officer on the street demanding access to your phone, which the headline makes it sound like.

  8. Re:Yes callback hell is a thing on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    MOD UP PLEASE!

  9. Wayland is about embedded on Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support · · Score: 1

    I understand the sentiment that on the desktop X11 doesn't need replacing. But in embedded systems, X does nothing but get in the way of performance. It is the embedded community that has asked for a better way, and wayland is the "way" embedded Linux GUIs are moving.

  10. Terrible link on Intel Processor Could Be In Next-Gen Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Why does the /. article link to the Venture Beat page? It is completely content free except for the WSJ link, which is what this post should have had.

  11. Santa Barbara isn't like the rest of CA on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 2

    The majority of water in Santa Barbara is derived from local sources. While there is a lot of local agriculture, it is primarily on coastal planes, not in classic desert areas like Imperial Country. In our current year we've had less than half our typical rainfall, and it has has been going on like this for three years now. Our last drought, when the desal plant was first built, took seven years to set in, we've reached the crisis point in this drought much more quickly. My point is I don't think we're quite as dumb as the rest of the state where they can't ever manage on local sources in normal years, we can. But when things go dry quickly like they have, we get caught out. Of course building a desal plant in an emergency is actually a rain dance. It worked perfectly last time, and given the predictions of an El Nino for next year, it should work this time as well.

  12. Re:C++ admits it is too complex with "auto" for ty on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    By why would you do that typing? Your IDE should be doing that typing for you. Java isn't verbose when you have Eclipse to do your typing for you.

  13. Re:You need a C to VHDL translator on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 1

    How did this get modded up to "Informative"? This is misinformation. If you believe what an FPGA vendor tells you about their tools then I have some land in Florida you might be interested in. There is NO push button path from C to hardware, unless you consider compiling the C into object code that is burned into ROM as a hardware solution. Yes, there are tools like Cynthesizer from Forte and the cited tool from Xilinx that use C as an input language, but it is gerrymandered C geared toward synthesis, not "dusty deck" C. As stated above, there are too many tradeoffs in time and space to provide a simple answer to your interested party. You should hire someone who can find a couple of points in the solution space and give your interested party an educated answer like "At xx mm^2 it runs this fast with this latency, while at yy mm^2 it runs this fast at this latency with 50% better power".

  14. Perhaps Drs could use a tool like this similar to how weather predictions are done. Run the model(s), and use human analysis to weigh the data.

  15. Re:Javascript == annoying on Gnome Goes JavaScript · · Score: 1

    You haven't found it to be a problem because you haven't tested your code well enough. That is the problem with loosely typed languages, you don't know what is lurking out there until you find it. Strongly typed languages do not guarantee bug free code, but give you a fighting chance.

  16. Re:What's the problem? on Gnome Goes JavaScript · · Score: 2

    Like languages (pick one) with strong typing so you know at compile time of trivial bugs that you'll never discover with JavaScript until you have exercised every path of execution that can reach your function.

  17. Re:The feds promoting 'hacking'? on US Government Announces National Day of Civic Hacking · · Score: 1

    I'm right there with you. So glad to hear 'hacker' and 'hacking' used in the original positive context.

  18. Re:Seems alright to me on Fedora 18 Installer: Counterintuitive and Confusing? · · Score: 1

    You must have installed on a bare disk and/or didn't care about the disk layout. That to me is the most atrocious part of the installer. Trying doing a resinstall without out wiping out your /home ... be sure to cross your fingers when you hit go because you'll have no idea whether it is going to preserve that partition or not.

  19. Re:two quick points... on Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement · · Score: 1

    It isn't the programming, it is the adds. Sugary drinks, sugary cereal, processed snacks, and plastic toys from China that will be discarded in a couple of weeks.

  20. Re:The answer is in your question. on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 0

    Mod this up. Please. KISS.

  21. Re:Intruiged on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 2

    1) You can't disconnect the keyboard from a notebook. This makes my Transformer lighter and more comfortable when sitting on the couch websurfing or watching Netflix.
    2) You can't use a touch interface on a (cheaper) notebook. I've hurt my finger poking the screen on my work laptop because I've become so used to and happy with having a touch interface.

  22. Re:Intruiged on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 1

    A Thinkpad x220 starts at more than $850!

  23. Re:What? on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    I sure hope the funding body reconsiders giving money to these n00bs.

  24. Re:Been done #2 on Cornell's Creative Machines Lab Lets Chatbots Interact · · Score: 1

    Mod up, please.

  25. Re:Finally! on CentOS Linux 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Um, yes Ubuntu has has serious issues with old software, even in LTS. I got burned by this with just last month with Apache 2.2.14 on 10.04 LTS. That version has bad memcpy bug, that we hit after changing our config, but it hadn't been updated in 10.04 LTS. I had to tweak my repo settings to get 2.2.16 from maverick, and was lucky it worked. Where's the LTS in this? It was hardly an obscure bug.